I’m Building An Underground Megabase in Minecraft Hardcore (#18)

I have a problem you see over 2 000 days ago I began constructing this massive underground base known as the undergrove at the time I called it a megabase because up to that point it was the biggest thing I had ever built in Minecraft but having just spent the last

Seven months working to improve my building skills I’m realizing now that this place feels kinda small so let’s change that today and give this base the title it truly deserves first thing this place needs is a proper entrance because uh right now it’s it’s this and that’s just awkward and clunky foreign There we go and now I think it would be really cool and also very fitting if we go ahead and build a massive custom tree right here to symbolize the entrance of the base oh I forgot that okay to start things off I think we’ll go ahead and

Grab some Oakwood here from the tree farm I have some And next up we need some leaves I think we’ll go ahead here and just use like some regular old-fashioned oak leaves those will be pretty good for an oak tree that is okay that should be enough to start off with the entrance to the base officially complete it was time to start expanding

Way down into the Earth and I think right through here is actually going to be a great place to start digging I made these like hallways ages ago and yeah I’ve never done anything with them so now it’s time to do that Another cave dude there are so many caves I have not explored in this world it’s actually crazy you think I would have found these at some point after getting sidetracked and maybe a little bit lost lighting up nearby caves I continued expanding the tunnel going through with a similar long twisting

Winding shape that I’ve used in the past okay and there we go I think the tunnel is pretty much dug out now it goes all the way down here wraps around like this all the way over to here ouch okay so to start things off and

Just make sure I have the shaping right I think we’ll go through here with some Spruce slabs just to ensure I can actually walk up and down this thing smoothly now we’ll go through and Dot in bits and pieces of oak logs and now we’ll go through here and Dot in

A little bit more Spruce Wood and finally we need some Moss so we’re gonna go over here to the Moss Farm it’s been over a year since I’ve used this thing uh what are the odds it even works anymore go ahead and turn this bad boy on okay yeah it doesn’t work

With the floor in place I spent the next morning going through and filling in the walls in the ceiling with the same pattern I also went through with some leaves and some glowberries which apart from adding some nice lighting they make the whole area feel very crammed and

Crowded which I really quite like and after a couple hours of work the tunnel is complete it’s so immersive in here dude I honestly just love The Vibes but we are just getting started because now I want to go ahead and start expanding this way into the actual underground

Base and I think we’ll go ahead and kind of turn this into a hobbit hole style entrance foreign I like that a lot a little extra layer in there oh that’s nice so the idea here is that we’re gonna make this into an underground Dwarven Kingdom and for that I need a really big hole and first I think it’d be good if we went through

And made this into a massive Circle just to get the shaping right so I went through and began outlining a circle of 50 diameter you see at this point I didn’t really know how big the final build would be but I wanted to make sure I had enough room to work with

Oh what you doing dude how you doing uh how’s your day going oh my God there’s a whole Army in here all right well that’s one way of doing things I continued digging until there was a very important distraction cute emergency on aisle couch got it

Yeah I think this is gonna work just great it’s also like way bigger than I realized it would be oh well can’t go back now and you literally could just like make it smaller dude first order of business I want to go ahead and clear

Out some more space in the ceiling so I can actually breathe and think in here I spent a while carving out the ceiling going in with smaller and smaller circles trying to create this Dome effect Okay there we go I could actually breathe in here now which is really good it is a little bit off center however so just just don’t tell anybody and it’ll be fine our little secret as far as materials go I want to go ahead and just

Keep it really simple with like all of the different wood types I can’t tell you how excited I am just to use like the regular woods again I now have an excuse to kill wandering Traders and you get out of here what are you doing I spent the next while

Chopping down various types of trees killing a bunch of mobs and getting ready to actually start building right now it just felt good to take a break from all the Automation and the farms and just chop trees going through here with this completely original gradient

That I made up and no one’s ever done before we’ll start things off here in the center with some birch wood followed by some oak wood And last up is the dark oak wood but I can’t really reach it so I guess firstly I need to go ahead and lower the floor by one and I have made a mob farm oh they’re attacking me look at them losers oh you guys suck and I need more wood

With the ceiling complete I spent one of my live streams clearing out more area trying to get the shape right I left the outside part elevated and then I dug out the middle some more now I want to go through here and actually start placing in this upper platform today

Going through here I want to keep the floor really simple with some Oak planks the overall block pilot in here is going to be very very busy so it’s important to keep the floor and other things very Bare Bones if possible Okay with that done I want to go through and add some lighting in the floor itself kind of below some trap doors so it’s hidden I think that would look really cool all right foreign oh my God it actually lines up perfectly that might be a first the last thing I

Want to do here is go through with some Spruce fences to act as a barrier uh yeah the goal here is to have villagers actually wandering through this upper part and uh we know they would just fall in the hole and die so yeah thinking about it they can actually yeah they can

Follow through that so I guess we gotta go through and fill in the corners now going through here I wanted to turn the upper area itself into its own mini Village filled with a bunch of these Hobbit holes around the big ring in the center at this point I was pretty much

Just freestyling everything I was building and it was pretty interesting to see what my brain was coming up with I was like Frodo Baggins out here just whipping up Hobbit holes like it was my job and I think something like this is actually going to work really well the

Idea is basically to cram as many of these as I can all the way around and then fill it up with villagers foreign I think we can make them work even along the edges here I mean this looks nice I would live here in the end I think I ended up making like 22 full Hobbit holes which was way more than I thought but honestly that’s a good thing because I want this whole

Area to feel very alive the next morning I went back through and edited more moss and Spruce Wood and some leaves to kind of bring the undergrowth Vibe into this area I guess it just felt a little bit too plain right now I guess the only

Thing it really needs now is some actual villagers and I think we should have some right through here at our villager breeder well you guys have not been making babies this whole time it turns out a while ago I actually turned off the Villager breeder in an attempt to stop

Lag and prevent another villager Massacre like the one we had in episode nine if you know you know but once the breeder was back online I rerouted the water streams to line up directly above the Hobbit Village from there it was just a matter of digging straight down

You shouldn’t do that until eventually things lined up come on now come on now please work I feel so bad if they die actually works that was so easy that was so easy oh no they can escape I have a new problem we are officially on deep slate levels which means I can

Say goodbye to my haste too I don’t really know why but I always seem to run into this problem and just forget that this even exists and that I can’t mine it very fast so it’s off to the creeper Farm Oh yeah I’m gonna be here a while since I’ve made this creeper Farm I’ve actually been very reluctant to come back here and use it and I think it’s because I never actually decorated the interior I didn’t really have much of a design in mind but I just went through

And added in some simple wood accents on the walls and floor while chopping away at the creepers There we go that’s looking better still gotta kill a lot more of these guys though stacks of TNT later I’m feeling pretty good about this all right well here goes nothing Okay I’m gonna run I’m gonna run now oh well this is gonna take a while looking back it’s actually funny how much easier I thought this process would be I know we’re moving 64 layers of deep slate isn’t easy per se but I didn’t realize that one piece of TNT only blows

Up like nine deep slate that’s it Excuse me do I know you so I’ve already used all six stacks of that TNT I gathered and I’m down to here I think I’m down like seven levels or so only 55 more to go as it turns out using these water streams to transfer the creepers around really slows down the

Rates of this farm and I think it’d be best if we actually turn this thing into a portal based Farm alright so the first thing to do is going to be to actually turn off the farm for right now starting things off here at the bottom I

Cleared out some room to work with and built these water streams leading to a central nether portal this is where the creepers will enter the nether next up was the top section which involved making another nether portal but this time way up in the sky above the Kill

Chamber this is where the creepers will re-enter back into the Overworld so I could kill them and after taking some time to expand our decorations to the new Kill Chamber it was time to head into the nether taking careful note of the portal locations in the Overworld I

Went to those locations in the Nether and began constructing a platform the design that I’m going with here is Loosely based off of enxo4’s Wither Skeleton Farm basically creepers enter in the first portal and then they slowly push each other along this platform into the second portal which puts them back

Into the Overworld which means it’s finally time to remove the Torches and turn on the farm foreign there we go oh my God I forgot something I guess now it’s time to wait and see if I just wasted an hour of my life or if I was actually productive it’s actually

Working really good it’s like raining creepers right now hey how you guys doing Neil’s doing good having a good day by now my TNT production had doubled I mean I was like a machine right now and for a while here I actually thought there was a chance I would be able to

Blow up all of this by hand but I soon realized uh yeah this is taking way too long even with the upgraded creeper Farm I I just I can’t do it like this but I think I have a better plan I really can’t believe that I didn’t

Think of this sooner this is gonna make things so much easier it works we have technology dang it we have a water cave man I cannot avoid these things it’s been so long since I’ve had to do this and I did not miss it You know I actually kind of forgot how fun this can be in smaller doses I’m actually enjoying this all right I think this should work I I really hope this works oh yeah oh yeah we’re cooking so I think I’m two hours in clearing out this space with the dupers and the

Progress is coming along pretty nicely as you can see here we have these like massive trenches dug out but yeah there’s still an absolute ton of work to do The old double-sided action here oh yeah it works baby I’m adapting I’m evolving okay so I think we’re like five hours into this process I’m definitely getting a little bit burnt out from this however I think we’re about a halfway done destroying this whole give or take maybe a little

Bit less I don’t even know why I’m talking to you I should probably just keep on exploding some things foreign ly the hole is pretty much done now I want to go through here along the sides and just basically spam torches to spawn proof this thing

Starting here with the floor I want to turn this place into a custom biome of sorts and I think I want to take some inspiration from this green foggy River we built up here firstly we’ll go through here with some glowstone and begin outlining a series of small flowing Rivers

Okay yeah I think that looks pretty good After that I went through with a layer of lime carpets followed by the extremely tall side walls and eventually seven layers of glass and finally layer number seven is complete this took way longer than I want to admit and even more so it doesn’t even look that cool

Yet because the surrounding area isn’t filled in but it does look pretty sweet I guess firstly here we’ll need some more Spruce Wood I feel like I never have enough of this stuff to be honest with you all right so to start things off here we’re gonna go through with a layer of

Melons now bear with me it’s not a melon biome but they’re just part of the block palette here next up we’ll need some green concrete powder we’re gonna raise this up one block like so oh And then we’ll go through with the green concrete powder next up we have some lime terracotta followed up with the Spruce Wood which I am going to strip and finally some coarse dirt there we go what do you guys think I I think it looks a little bit weird in small

Quantities like this but I feel like as we build more of these land masses it’ll start to actually look cohesive and there you have it folks the custom biome is officially complete I think it looks pretty good and you know what that’s where we’re actually going to

Leave things for today I’m trying out this new thing this year where I actually upload videos but yeah let me know what ideas you guys have for the Dwarven Kingdom we’re going to build in here and I will see you in the next one