I Built a Floating Zoo in Minecraft Skyblock, but it’s Hardcore #10

This is Skyblock hardcore the series where we started floating on this little island above the void and I’m building up from there today we are taking on a huge challenge I want to collect passive mobs and start making my own floating zoo in a regular World collecting mobs

Is fairly easy they just wander around on the ground wherever they want however in Skyblock you have to build a specific platform for them to spawn on with very limited dirt available this could get tricky emotional support chicken it’s so lonely on this island isn’t it I mean

We’ve got our chicken we’ve got our cats and we’ve got our llama over here and of course we can’t forget the villagers but all in all this place is so lonely we don’t have any passive mobs I’ve genuinely done kind of a horrible job of spawning them we’ve got a little patch

Of grass here and then a little patchograss all the way down there oh of course it’s raining right now you know this really sets the mood for the episode though at least the glow squid are always here with us for a short while I built this little platform down here

Quite a while ago and at this point it’s kind of just a waste of dirt if we’re gonna go ahead and try to spawn a bunch of passive mobs we’re gonna do it right we need to get a planes biome which well this is actually a plane’s biome and

We’re going to want to expand out the platform a lot it just there we go so I’m thinking we build a passive Mob Zoo of sorts the path will start here and it’ll connect to our farming District that way we can walk all the way around and have lots more area to roam

Now at this point we’re still in a plane’s biome so I’m going to go ahead and expand this as much as I can and try to make a big platform for spawning all right this is gonna be the start of my spawning area I think I’m gonna need more dirt

Like way more luckily I have a little bit saved up but we should definitely go to the Nether and grab some more gravel and can’t forget the Torches not trying to make a second mob spawner let’s see how far a stack of dirt gets us well it’s almost a full platform I

Don’t think it’s even close to big enough thankfully heading to the nether is not too difficult first shot take that last episode we’re able to use the gold that we get from the piglands to craft into ingots that is then used in our bartering system which gives us

Gravel and therefore infinite dirt using the coarse dirt Trick definitely very important if we want any passive mops after going through one entire iron sword I only ended up with 14 gold ingots that’s not very efficient here you go piglens do your thing once I do have 59 levels I feel like the

Way that we need the production is to make a much better sword and we’re gonna do that through lots and lots of emeralds remind me I’m just coming to steal your beds and now we just give them the love carrots wonderful make a child please excuse me

Jeez another thing that we can do to help our passive mobs is to kill some chickens I am so sorry about this foreign just getting us down to the two chickens this will help make sure the passive mob cap does not get reached they made a child

Perfect okay I’ll give you some more carrots just in case but that is wonderful over here with the Villagers I’ve also been working on the Masons trying to desperately get a drip stone block we can’t Farm drip Stone without it oh pink glazed terracotta that’s so pretty I will take that absolutely thank

You sadly no drip Stone more colorful blocks though so the Builder is Happy luckily I did save some of my pointed drips on and I think we can use four of those to make a drip stone block then we can finally kick this Farm in here my

I’m sorry I flooded that’s my bad there we go yeah I should make a solid gypsum farm this is literally one of those episodes where we are really just waiting for grass to grow and for things to spawn so we’re gonna end up getting a lot of

Chores done I think for example let’s chop down our first ever Mangrove tree it’s always been a little intimidated by chopping this thing down but you know what I’ve got the time I haven’t really done a lot of paper trades with my villagers so maybe it’s time we finally upgrade some of the

Librarians this one wants paper this one can also do bookshelves impaling no thank you are there three children now I took up all the beds gosh those love carrots are a little too powerful sorry dude I’ve got to kind of keep the others out they’re a bit nosy

I want looting please come on you could do it take the job this is gonna take a while one eternity later oh that was easy oh it’s all going to plan I can’t get plan I don’t think I have an anvil in here perfect I do wish I had sweeping Edge but it’ll

Do for now we got more babies in there growing up I’ll figure it out eventually now that I have looting on my sword the rain at which we get gold should increase astronomically I can already tell this is so much more gold yes we’re gonna be rich normally I sit here

For like a half hour waiting to get gold with four iron swords this this time we’ve not even used very much of this diamond one and we’re already up to 54. with the gold Farm now reaching its full potential I decided to get to work bartering and make those final upgrades

To my sword okay three and a half stacks of gravel and that took like half the time of using four iron swords all the way through now let’s take our tiny bit of remaining dirt and make some coarse dirt [Applause] [Applause] now as always I always keep a little bit

Of dirt on reserve and my extra piece of gravel and I think for the rest of this we’re just gonna use it let’s go ahead and make a little iron hoe and we’ll go ahead and expand our grass platform now I’m definitely not a passive mob

Expert but I feel like this is a lot of space like like this is pretty good so I’ve had an idea just behind our chicken coop over here we have a pathway out to a very special Island not only does it look like a mushroom Island it actually

Is you can see the biome is Minecraft mushroom fields which means like the only thing that can spawn in this section is cows so don’t mind if I do just gonna take a couple of pieces of mycelium since we already have a bunch of grass up here at the top of the

Island I’m gonna try to do this one down in the void I don’t know if this actually causes higher spawn rates anymore because since the last time I played Skyblock they changed a lot of things about spawning but I’m gonna try is going to require a lot of slabs

Scary now we just have to make it to the underside of that Island myself in a bit of a pickle yeah no thank you no thank you now that I’m no longer trapped by a spider we gotta go destroy the island up above this pretty sure

Passive mobs need to be able to see the sky hopefully there’s not actually too much to get rid of out here okay back away from the old Island any luck some mushrooms will come down there as soon as the mycelium spreads okay just like that our two spawning

Platforms are completely set up waiting for the mycelium to grow on one of them and then the other one we’re just waiting for some spawns this could take hours so we’re gonna have to think of something to do in the meantime I have taken my entire lunch break and not

Logged off of this world once and yet there are no cows I did come down here and check on it a couple times and kind of move my AFK spot but I’m just not very lucky at least the glow squid are here for me oh

So we’re about six hours of game play in between having a grass patch and a mycelium patch with absolutely nothing spawning I’m sure that’s partially because I’m not always in range but like I feel like I could have gotten lucky by now you know so I guess that means we’re

Gonna have to find something to do in the meantime procrastinating I’m good at procrastinating I probably do I’d probably do this luckily I’ve saved up a ton of blocks and I think we’ll be optimistic and we’ll build a little area with all of these blocks where I can

Build an eventual Zoo for all my passive mops that I’m sure I’m gonna have they’re gonna spawn right behind me one of these days now I will admit things on this island are getting a little bit full so placing an entire zoo somewhere is a little intimidating but

I’m definitely leaning towards this side I’m gonna do our very first Zoo platform right here and it’s gonna start with a circle in order to do a circle we’re gonna do a big X so we can do seven and then two three four five six oh yeah I could

Totally see it already the animals are definitely gonna want to spawn after I after I built these platforms Honestly I did an AFK for very long because well I did the nerdy thing and I looked up the Minecraft Wiki I’m passive mob spawning specifically I learned a couple of things mostly that passive mob spawns are in fact extremely rare so that’s valid for us and also that

There’s a cap of ten ten it’s very easy to get to the number 10 so to combat this I’m gonna name tag my current passive mobs because while 10 is low I have learned that if you name tag a passive mob it no longer counts towards that so

That seems like the life hack first up the chickens over here we have nuggets and Patty worm jelly emotional support chicken and Stanley just as an extra precaution I’m gonna also get rid of our void bees it’s unfortunate but they are glitched I’m sorry this is the worst thing I’ve ever had to

Do I have also confirmed that glow squid they don’t affect the passive mob cap I think that’s most of the bees let’s uh let’s try this again oh my gosh yes okay looking up the nerdy stuff about the mob cap was definitely an important thing to do oh my gosh I

Just have to figure out how to get the cows up there okay now there’s a couple of Skyblock life hacks that we’re gonna need in order to do this one of those is kelp as you could tell by the extreme lack of ocean or well anything in this

World wait that we don’t have kelp we do however have seagrass and with that we can use this custom crafting recipe for this map to get some cap you know what I’ll leave a bit of grass it was good decoration next up lots of Bones piece of Soul Sand

Bucket of water and a bunch of whatever blocks I’ve got yep this seems about good you know it doesn’t actually look as ugly as I thought it would glow squid in it for goodness sake okay okay kelp the grill there bubbles all right oh the bubbles

Are in Okay who wants to be the first lucky cow for this experiment gosh there are a lot of you aren’t there I Choose You easy does it that’s it see that flying City above we’re going there yeah oh yes okay first cow down probably just one more to go

Two cows are quiet now this is a little bit like Noah’s Ark we really only need two of each so uh this is awkward no idea where all those cows went really weird honestly all right mushrooms I’m gonna make you a beautiful home since our first residence

Here really seemed to like mushrooms I think I’m gonna grow them a bunch oh yeah this is gonna be good I could tell already for each enclosure in the zoo I want it to look like the animals actually live there and are at home there so we’re gonna try to decorate

Things accordingly for example for the mushrooms I’m gonna put down a bunch of mushrooms and also a bunch more mycelium this first cow enclosure is looking pretty good I think now if we want even more passive mobs to spawn we’re gonna have to name tag these two I’ve got the

Perfect names fungi and cottage core girly they’re perfect now that we have cows we have two more platforms currently set up that I still want to fill up with another type of animal hopefully we’ll get lucky in the meantime I have something else I’m gonna work on of course I didn’t forget about

The bees these are definitely going to make fantastic additions to the zoo I think we’ll use this platform in the center here for our bees and for now they’re just gonna go in here so they don’t affect the mob cap luckily our Librarians over here are really coming

In clutch because we are going to be able to buy glass from them and I think this glass is going to be the secret to being able to keep beads oh look at three villagers that sell glass that’s fantastic this might be weird but I think I’m gonna turn the

Glass into white glass then all I gotta do is free hands a little glass Dome now it’s a little flat I’m gonna try again And although this did take me about 30 minutes to build there’s nothing spawning over there oh well I did not expect you don’t scare me like that oh my God my God best and fish okay you know what I’m gonna get the rest of my emeralds buy out all

Of the tropical fish so that we can also make an aquarium and I want your llamas I’m so sorry they’re my llamas now I’m doing it I’m putting silk touch on a shovel okay you’ve been very useful thank you so much I’ll uh I’ll never forget you

Oh I’m so sorry okay you didn’t see that don’t worry about it okay llama you get to hang out in the boat you shouldn’t despawn now love me yet but I already have Stanley over there so I’m gonna just let Judy spawn all right now that we officially have two llamas

Some Moss for by the way infinite dirt I feel like we could definitely make our own llama area maybe combined with the Sheep area for now this little grass platform over here is clearly not working it has been up and running for about 10 hours of gameplay now and not

Spawned a single thing if we want to do this the most efficiently we’re gonna have to name our new llama and since we already have Stanley this one will be Stuart anyways back down to the void this time we need a planes biome and we already have the

Elevator so just a plane spot I’m pretty sure there is one just over here stop bouncing my goodness since we’re down here in the void this probably won’t even take that much grass to be honest excuse me cows yeah we’ve got new friends now new friends coming

Update from my AFK box we appear to have pigs and a horse exactly what I was looking for but it is interesting all right you’re just gonna fit right in there right you’re the same as a cow you’ll fit you are not a one by one are you all

Right well you’re cute but you’re gonna have to live down here come on lovelies up up yeah perfect easy does it I’ve got a nice little elevator right here I pick up thank you since this is working so well I’m gonna keep an eye on the spawns and try and

Get some sheep my little spy Hut over here is my little Hut yes two sheep and a chicken oh perfect hello my lovelies oh come on come on I’ve got a zoo for you and we’re just gonna push you into the elevator yep nailed it I’m

Gonna use this block over here for the sheeps and the llamas we’re gonna have a little Oasis for this sheep a meadow of sorts where they can graze as much as they want oh and I just remembered now that we have Moss we’ve also unlocked another leaf type the Azalea

We go and just like that a nice azalea bush I love Moss this will look so good in our greenhouse and our Meadows for the Sheep I think my sheep would also really appreciate some treats I’m gonna do an oak and also a birch it’s pretty

Simple but I think I like it a lot hopefully the sheep and the llamas will all appreciate it oh we can also go ahead and dye one of the sheep and finally start getting wool and we’ll have to probably set up an official farm for that but not until we have the rest

Of the passive mobs for now though Stuart you get a fancy carpet beautiful welcome home everybody well we’ve got mushrooms about a future bee area and now we’ve got sheeps and llamas it appears we’re going to need three more platforms like at least for now we’ll start expanding this way I think

There we go just like that the three brand new platforms I think probably the best number of platforms is going to be to do three more but right now we don’t have the animals to fill that so we’ll start with these and more specifically we’ll start with these the pigs I have

Some very cute plans for our little pigs but first I need to turn this mycelium into mud look at this cleric I’m gonna turn dirt into mud hahaha mad and we can also make some muddy Mangrove Roots if we wanted luckily just today we’ve gotten access to this new

Pink glazed terracotta and pigs are pink so well you’ll probably see where I’m going with this okay I think I got everything I need let’s start decorating pigs it’s time to show you your brand new home there it is a nice little muddy hole on one side some carpets some yummy

Food and a pink tree they went straight for the mud okay that’s three enclosures fully complete two to go our next our next two friends are still sitting in this chest we have four bees nests and four buckets of tropical fish for the fish it’s gonna

Be a little tricky in zoos fish are normally in aquariums does this seem like appropriate size for an aquarium for four fish probably right Okay listen it’s very green because well I don’t have any Coral yet but at the very least it’s all lit up and it looks like it could be a fish habitat let’s get the fish welcome to your new home now there’s only one animal left the

Bees I’ve been using their home as a temporary little workstation and to be honest I think I’ll keep the elevator that was useful the rest of these things however gotta go and we need to decorate this place and make it safe for the bees first things first though this Dome

Could definitely use some nice supports oh yeah this is already looking way better with just the inside supports in now I’m gonna cover up a lot of this kind of weird looking Dome with some more leaves and of course all of the best greenhouses have little spaces

Where you can display some potted plants now this this is looking cool there’s just a couple more things that I need but oh it looks so good we should probably do the outside as well oh it looks epic let’s replace all of these gates with some Spruce

Doors and finally I’m gonna move the cocoa bean Farm in here the inside is done and I love it now let’s do the outside before we did any bees in here yep leaves on the outside are everything oh my gosh hahaha I could already tell this might

Be my favorite place in the zoo this platform here has lots of room to expand as we add more and more passive mobs and now that we know how they can spawn we can probably spawn lots of cool ones like maybe some in the desert or in the

Jungle biome there’s tons of options let me know down in the comments which passive mobs you’d love to see me do in this Zoo next oh this was such a fun episode to film thank you all for watching and leave some names for the mobs that don’t have names yet down in

The comments down below I’ve got lots of name tags left and some of the sheep and also the pigs and the bees don’t have names I’ll see you next time everybody