I Made a Nether Safe House in Minecraft 1.16

The nether’s pretty cool these days you know minecraft 1.16 has added a whole bunch of new features it’s added a bunch of new biomes and it’s added a bunch of new mobs which are rather interesting looking i mean look at that guy all in all it’s a pretty

Cool place to be so i thought it’d be interesting to build up some form of base in the nether and the perfect base to build another is of course a safe house because the whole point of a safe house is that it’s meant to be dangerous

For other players to try and access and then there’s already a dangerous place so we’ve kind of got a bit of a head start there so first things first i actually have to build up the base that we’re trying to protect here and where on earth

Are the crazy wood types all right i’m thinking we kind of build like a standard a standard wooden house but with another twist this could look interesting this is already starting to look really really cool i like these little light posts i mean i know the chains are meant to hang down

From the ceiling but having them coming up from the floor also looks quite good yep this is actually quite adorable in like an evilly kind of horrific fairy tale way it’s it’s actually quite sweet i wouldn’t mind living here let you get free underfloor heating that’s a bonus okay and

I mean is it a nice location i’m not sure that’s enough of me pretending to be some form of estate agent let’s actually start work on building up some of the defenses for this thing and the first thing that we need to build just like any safe house is a

Border wall and i’m thinking we just make use of obsidian maybe some of the new crying obsidian to add some texture into this thing and really just make like a sturdy solid fortification and i gotta say i think this looks absolutely nuts this looks so so cool it looks evil

But even in like a really really good way i’m loving the vibe here we do have to extend it down a tiny bit because this is currently level with the bottom of the house so i feel like we should probably bulk it out a little bit here

And then we’re going to start putting some defenses and land mines and things into this space i absolutely love building safe houses i don’t know why i don’t do it more often i really shouldn’t be spending so much time making this border wall look as cool as

It does but i just can’t help myself i i can’t help it right first offense is now going in place or i guess second offense because a wall is kind of a form of defense but this is the first redstone defense i want to make a floor that falls

When a player lands on it now i plan on doing this with trip wires string and also signs it’s a bit of an old-school method but sometimes the old-school methods are the best this has really worked out to be incredibly simple i had just enough space to fit a redstone line

Back there which means yep that’s working so whenever a player lands in this area here they’re actually going to activate the pistons which is going to kickstart everything i may have spoken a little bit too soon you see the problem is when i activate this tripwire here these pistons can’t actually extend because

Despite the fact that they would break the sign if they did try to extend they see that they’ve got more than 12 blocks in front of them and they don’t even try hmm that is actually thrown a bit of a spanner in the works will it work instead with scaffolding blocks almost

I think it actually would it’s just these attached to those but if those broke as well then everything breaks right let’s give it a while shall we so everything is connected up and that is massively positive that is fantastic i probably should have made a backup before doing that you know

But now i have to place all that scaffolding again i have definitely built this in the wrong order like this should have been the last redstone contraption that we did because think how many times i’m probably going to activate this string destroying all of our floor i’m gonna have to make constant backups

Now totally worth it though because this looks awesome i love the use of the cyan concrete powder i think that fits in really nicely with the block palette that we’ve got going on and it actually works really nicely blimey that how much did that take out

It’s taken out a full half of it that’s pretty ridiculous now the only space that i haven’t been able to remove are these ones right here so if you do see a build like this in the nether okay and you want to defeat this part of the

Trap then these are the blocks to land on i assume that pretty much every single player that’s coming to attack some form of nether base is probably using some form of fire resistance potion so i actually think that the player should drop on to wither roses because clearly they’re quite powerful

So with that element of the build all done and dusted let’s move on to our next defense which is going to be gas turrets now how difficult is it to get a gas to go into a minecart apparently surprisingly easy that has gone ridiculously smooth i mean he’s actually in there

I can’t push the minecart anymore so i guess he’s he’s just there right we need to give this ghast a name so that it doesn’t despawn so i think sure wow sure shot shot geez why could i not say that sure shot sally the name tags always look ridiculously

Small above the enormous heads of these casts after a little bit of trial and error i’ve managed to get this design working well it works works well it clearly clearly functions nicely i really hope i remember the coordinates where that base is i think instead of having four gas on

Every single corner of it i thought instead we would just have two ghasts up in their little turrets up here oh that looks evil so on the left we’ve repurposed sure one day i’ll be able to say it correctly on the left we have got good old shoreshot shalley

It’s good enough and on the right we’ve got barry big fireballs yeah there’s a fire in there our next redstone contraption is going to be a bit of an interesting one i really want to be able to detect players that are trying to make their way into the base

Area and to do that once again i’m going to be making use of tripwires they’re going to go right the way upwards so that even people flying in will be detected and it’s going to be pretty catastrophic when these things get activated so our little signal sending towers are all in

Place and they all seem to be working quite nicely no bulky redstone going on up here now it’s time to start running at the big guns i apologize barry big fireballs i mean you are a big gun but this might be a bigger gun it is a tnt duplicator

Heavy artillery where does that explo that explodes quite far down doesn’t it we might have to build might have to build a little obsidian platform there that the tnt lands on with all of that in place and also all of our tnt duplicators in place and also all the

Redstone lines that connect up our tnt duplicators with just a few more pieces of redstone this thing is now ready to go and i’m going to make about 15 backups because this could explode everything 15 backups later let’s give this thing a while then all right

That wasn’t so hot let’s try that again then hopefully this time we’re just a tiny bit more successful i have good feelings about this that looks painful nice that’s also going to deploy more tnt due to the tripwires breaking so that’s extra specially lethal you know because of course this does actually

Destroy the tripwires i feel like this should be more of a hail mary give me a second the issue is we’re never going to be able to detect the player again so we need to make sure that the player just never exists again by activating the tnt duplicators

Repeatedly and just kind of creating a reign of explosions i mean this is surprisingly effective because it’s not destroying anything else i’m up in the air i’m in the love this is so lethal but amazingly quite precise and well targeted I’m so surprised nothing else is broken yet and the best thing is because these are tnt duplicators it’s not even costing us anything to do this like what’s the point in doing a single fire of a tnt duplicator when you could just activate them forever we might as well just leave these things

Running we didn’t even need to do the tripwires we could just have a reign of tnt in front of this thing the whole time in fact why don’t we do that yeah let’s do that as someone who has spent the past you know eight years working on redstone contraptions in minecraft

There are a few things that make me happier than seeing linespot lines of tnt duplicators and i tell you what 14 year old me is incredibly happy right now because all i used to do back when i was 14 13 was just blow things up in minecraft and do anything productive so

This this is gonna feel good because these are sort of productive explosions i mean they’re for the build that is productive isn’t it i have made all the backups here so i mean we should be safe to just start exploding things levers coming on here that’s wonderful levers coming on here that’s wonderful

And lever is on here as well this is the best thing i’ve ever built this is so silly i mean there’s no way that nothing’s gonna get destroyed from this this is so cool ridiculous but so cool so noisy you probably can’t even hear me

Come on i mean that is a safe house that’s about as safe as it gets would you mess with someone who has tnt constantly falling around their base be honest would you if you approached this if you flew into this you would turn around 180 degrees immediately and be straight out of there

But we are not done just yet we probably should be we definitely should be at this point you know we have more than enough but i’m in one of those moves today i just want to keep going so instead i’m going to build up a mob wall

This is going to be a little area here where we are just going to have a bunch of deadly mobs with the skeletons and all that business that the player is going to have to try and get through now i’m assuming these guys will be okay from the tnt right because i’ve just

Spent a lot of time building up this wall and it does look cool i mean even even if all the mobs die it’s still an improvement to the base because that looks wild i’ve got a handful of the wither skeletons in place let’s give this thing a tester

If they do explode i’m gonna be quite upset but then again i mean look how close the tnt is oh gosh no i mean how i didn’t expect that i don’t know so here’s the solution this wall acts as a tnt buffer stops any damage from getting through but then

We’ve also added in some extra distance so now there’s no chance of these guys getting hit now that is the ticket and that is looking ridiculously mean this looks insane okay right we need to do more redstone stuff now this house that we have in the center here is kind

Of a bit of a dummy like we want people to think that there’s actually stuff in here but obviously the main base is going to be underneath it there will be access to the main base through this thing but i mean opening the doors probably

Isn’t going to end too well i really am curious as to whether or not this is gonna work have we got away scot-free there that is ridiculous as you can tell from the tone of my voice that doesn’t often happen right this new system should be a tiny bit more deadly whoa That made loads more noise than i was expecting it to thanks to the ghast my both my arms just went straight up in the air that seriously caught me off guard anyway i’m now down underneath the nether this is where our base is going to be going you can see we’ve got this

Drop shoot here and if somehow someone manages to survive all of that when they drop through the drop shaft i want to make it so that if they have actually come through there they will be dropped into a pit of minecarts you see for those who don’t know minecarts are actually the most

Deadly block in minecraft thanks to entitygramming that is the craziest sound it sounds like some horrendous malfunction but yeah anyone who falls in there isn’t going to do too well if i was on the hermitcraft server right now i’d be incredibly happy because i’ve just chanced upon some ancient debris

Anyway i thought it would probably be smart to actually put some work into the base that we’re trying to protect because it makes no sense that you would have all of these crazy defenses my goodness yeah it makes no sense you would have all of these crazy defenses for

A stone a smooth stone hole you know so let’s let’s build up a small little base here it doesn’t have to be award-winning okay it just has to be nice i don’t know if i’d put this down as being nice this definitely feels like an evil place actually

Like a lot of the things that we’ve built so far in this video but it does feel pretty cool doesn’t it and it feels so secure these blocks these load stones are honestly some of my favorite new blocks they’re really really cool for top and bottom they’re wicked as far as tiny

Nether bases go i’d say we can’t get much better than this we’ve got shulker boxes in the walls that’s sort of our storage system we’ve got furnaces we’ve got our respawn anchor we’ve got ourselves an ender chest i guess if we get ourselves some form of anvil and then one of those

Stone things the grindstones that is basically all of the essentials covered apart from a crafting bench which i’ll be honest is kind of ruining the vibe a little bit isn’t it look look at this this gorgeous kind of dark dingy vibe and then you’ve got these anyway there is one thing that we

Do desperately need in this area here and that is a toggleable nether portal you see the way that we’re going to be getting out of this place i’ve got in covered and i’ll get to that in a second but the way that we’re going to get out

Of this place is by toggling a nether portal on that is going to toggle off as soon as we leave so that no one can pop through another portal in the overworld and just appear in here because that kind of defeats the object of all our defenses now i’ve just tried out the

System and it works but i forget when you leave the nether obviously the nether totally unloads so that means that when we pop back through the portal the timings are still kind of we pop back through and then the nether portal gets deactivated afterwards ah that’s a problem now the only

Potential solution that i have is maybe throwing stuff through or maybe even putting something like a chicken through i mean i’ve just i’m going to try it out with the item no that hahahaha what no no that defeats the i can’t believe it the only other portal

Location it could find was in my base it’s generated another ball in my base that worked so when we go through the portal we throw an item that’s fine we can even have a dropper that does it all right but this isn’t good i think i have it sussed

Out though so we activate the nether portal we pop on through we are now in another portal on the overworld i’m going to chuck an item through that nether portal there to load up the nether so that that nether water that we just popped through will then be

Deactivated making use of the redstone devices that should now all be done and there we go we have now popped out up here and our nether portal that is down here is off we did it we managed to make that work excellent okay entrance and for this one we’re going to

Get a little bit old school because as previously mentioned old school is occasionally best so here we have a little drop shoot right here and i’m now about to conceal it so we’ve got lava lava lava and i need to remember where this is because otherwise i’m going to be quite upset there

All right so now we just need to drop in from a great height it goes without saying that you would do a far better job at hiding this hole than i have done here but obviously this is just an example if i walk forwards hold down the space bar

Boom drop through the lava and i’ve landed down at the bottom without even taking any damage we’ve got fire resistance on everything’s good so i can walk down this rather gorgeous looking tunnel here activate my piston door at the end and pop through into my base and when i want

To leave all i have to do is just hit the button that will activate my nether portal i’ll be able to pop through into the overworld and then i can make sure that my base cannot be accessed by chucking an item through that nether portal but most importantly the base itself is

Absolutely defended from the knife we’ve got with the skeletons walking around the perimeter obviously we’ve got plenty of lava dotted around we’ve got tnt dropping down from the sky we’ve got a floor surrounding this house that you cannot stand on because otherwise it will drop and you’ll land

In an area of wither roses you have doors that you can’t possibly open because if you do you’re going to be sent into the sky i mean this this place is manic all right we’ve got death traps down at the bottom here where if you fall through you are going to drop into

Tundra but everything’s so loud you get the picture right this is the safest of safe houses okay you just you wouldn’t want to come across this okay you wouldn’t want to try and gain access to this sort of thing this has been a really fun video to make i really

Do hope that you’ve enjoyed it and i’ll catch you in the next one see ya you know sometimes you make a redstone video that is just it’s a little bit daft okay it happens occasionally this one i didn’t expect to be as daft as it was

But it got gradually dafter and after as time went on looking back we didn’t even really do that many redstone contraptions but they’re mainly just it’s just ridiculous stuff thrown into a build i don’t even know what to say