Insane Guardian Farm! Ultimate Minecraft Guide!

Hello everyone my name is pics Horace and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day today we’re gonna be working on the Guardian farm once again we are into Phase two of this build now and hopefully should be able to get it done today

So the next step in this process is to channel the Guardians away from the farm itself there are a couple of reasons for this first because the Guardians would contribute to the mob camp in this area if they were still in the vicinity of the farm and also so we as players can

Stand at least 24 blocks away from the farm in order to maximize these portable space of guardians I’ve got 16 blocks marked out here and I think I’m probably gonna drop the Guardians down there even though we would be closer to some of these chunks here in the farm that would

Allow full Guardians to spawn not they’re willing to afk for long because the guardians are going to spawn pretty quickly in this place but even so we will still be at least 24 blocks away from most of the farm enabling the Guardians to be directed up into here

And out so we’re gonna set this up I got a bucket of lava on me so I’m only working with one bucket right now which is a little bit awkward let me grab another water source from here fantastic and that should be okay here so we can

Just pop in some water sources on this bit this flows for eight blocks and then it comes down one level and we do the same thing here so the guardians are going to be channeled from this eight block wide section here into a full block wide channel which is then going

To take them down to the killing mechanism and I’ve just got these two short water streams here so that any guardians that fall in here are going to just drop straight down into the next water stream to be carried along and believe me they’re going to move a

Little bit faster than the player does so we don’t need to worry too much about that we’re also going to need to cap off and wall off some of this section here because Guardians tend to jump a little bit when they get out of water so if

They breach the surface at any point and realize that they’re out of water they’re gonna start flopping around a whole bunch and that’s not something we want to happen over here where we’ve got the drop into the kill mechanism we are actually going to cap it off quite low

To prevent them from jumping over the area where the lava goes I have been testing this off-camera in a creative world and the farm is a little bit intense and it’s obviously going to be the best thing to do to test it in a creative world because if we put wrong once

Wrong here then this could all go very badly and hours and hours of work will be wasted so it’s kind of in our best interests to get this right first try now I’m gonna dig this area down a whole bunch and I think the thing to do would

Be to make it roughly level with the seafloor because if we can open this out a little bit it’ll be really cool to look at the Guardian spawning space while the guardians are generating there so let’s take a quick look at the coordinates okay why thirty-two so we

Need to be digging down to about why thirty-two obviously there are some sections of this that we will need to clear out a little bit as we go and there’s gonna be a massive mountain of gravel to contend with shortly but aside from that this should be fairly simple

We’re out y55 right now so just a bit of straightforward digging to do there we go that’s now all dug out down to why thirty-two and the next step is going to be a little bit risky because it involves placing a whole lot of lava we’re going to be placing some fence

Gates about here in the hole I think about yeah this this sort of levels should be fine because we want to have basically three rows of lava sources above this this is something I actually looked up Cub fans video for because it’s something that is probably going to

Be a little bit precise so we can open up these fence gates so that the guardians can fall through but above that there’s going to be three rows of lava which damage the guardians on the way down softening them up for a one-hit kill with your sword which inevitably

Means a trip to the nether because that’s generally speaking the best source of lava we’re going to find and would you look at that there’s a whole bunch of it here what a surprise better check that my lighter isn’t broken again nope we’re good okay let’s

Grab as much of this as we possibly can I’ve cleared out my inventory so there’s plenty of space for the lava buckets and we’re not gonna accidentally hook one into the lava as we collect this and the trick to placing this lava is going to

Be to stay at one level above the fence gates here just dig down in a column and place them very carefully one at a time making sure that you don’t end up stepping forward into the lava by mistake oh there we go always a little bit nerve-wracking placing those first

Lava sources but I think we’re gonna get used to it Paul that felt sketchy okay very nice very nice so we have ourselves a lava collection mechanism setup here that’s all just going to pour Guardians into there they’re going to get significant amount of lava damage and

Then we will meet them at the bottom down here now I’ll probably dig down to that right next door digging straight down next to lava what could possibly go wrong but I think we’ll be at Y 32 soon we should be long past the lava at this point actually so

There we go and then we just dig into there and that is gonna be where the Guardians collect oh that’s a scary sight but something that the guardians should be able to fall through and then land on a platform er here now obviously we’re gonna have to block this off from

The Guardians escaping here which we’ll do with a few different blocks we could either put down some slabs or something over the top here and we’re gonna have a pad for them to fall on to right here which is going to actually be filled with water so that the Guardians don’t

Take lethal full damage so there we go there’s a pool for them to drop into and a very very rudimentary safety bar here so they’re not going to escape through this slab wide gap but we’ll probably be able to hit them pretty easily and the water is flowing from that back corner

Hopefully pushing them into this corner where we can just swipe at them I’ll probably refine the system as I go because I’ve seen that I’ve seen this done a lot more sophisticated than this this is just an initial setup as a proof-of-concept likewise if this is a place that we’re

Going to come back to often it’s going to be worth decorating and we’ll need to put in some sort of collection mechanism for all the drops of course so I think some hoppers underneath that crash pad where the Guardians will be collecting is probably gonna be a good idea and

We’ll need something to sort all the drops so some sort of auto sorting system will be in order as well but I think for the most part this is going to be all done which is both a good thing and a bad thing because the next step is

To take out the ocean monument and then fill the bottom of the ocean floor with soul sand and take away the underneath layer of stone right there and I’m really hoping that this works out okay time-consuming and ridiculous though it is I think probably the safest thing for

Us to do to make sure that there’s going to be solid water sources all the way up to the surface is gonna be to flood the temple back in and much like the area up there it shouldn’t take too long to do that it’s just gonna be a case of

Creating water sources along each of the large walls and the rest of the area should just fill itself in and it was worth trying this place out just to see it empty Bert oh gosh there’s there’s gonna be a lot of Guardians spawning in here in a minute I am kind of hoping

That the amount of guardians that have spawned outside will take up the mob caps we’ll get as few Guardians spawning him here as possible but yeah I feel like I’m gonna get lasered very very soon as an experiment I’m going to try breaking out the walls of the temple and see if

Any water sources start to reform in here once they’re flooding in from the outside you know they might do that might actually save us a little bit of time if I want to mine like this instead of worrying too much about the other thing so the next thing I want to do is

Relocate the beacon either so we have haste to in there so that we can mine a little bit faster or so that we can have the resistance and regeneration effects closer to where a lot of guardians are going to be in just a few seconds so I’m

Not entirely sure which ones to do I think what we’re gonna do is set it up with haste too and then if the combination of conduit power and haste to doesn’t let us instantly mine prismarine I’m probably just gonna set it back to resistance and regeneration because that’s that’s gonna be better if

The guardians come in and if we can’t instantly mine prismarine it’s not really gonna make a great deal of difference of course to build the beacon directly over the top of this thing seems like the best idea until you consider that the water streams might carry some of the blocks including the

Beacon down into this lava pit over here so you know what I think I’ll just build it as close to the collection mechanism as possible we’ll build a beacon out here and that will probably be as close as we can get okay that’s that is actually pretty

Close to insta mining that is pretty close to insta mining okay yeah heads let’s run along the walls like that fantastic I didn’t think that would be possible cuz haste to mining only typically applies to stone but with the additional boost of conduit power I think we’re actually mining really fast

Yeah there we go the ocean monument is filling back up again return to the ocean I think I think I am still gonna have to worry about the Guardians in a second or two which hopefully yeah I think if we had another beacon over here giving me resistance and regeneration as

Well I think that would be preferable but for now we’ll just have to do our best to avoid them where we can obviously the problem with this approach is it does require us to be able to stand on the ground I can’t insta mine while swimming so that’s a concern but

Aside from that this is all proceeding a lot smoother than I had hoped so this is this is very very good I think by moving around the monument taking out all of this presbury I’m constantly on the move means Guardians aren’t really planning on shooting me anytime soon but you can

Already tell how fast the spawning is going to be in here just by the little groups of them that appear as we travel around the room there’s a whole bunch of them just spawned in and now we know that this works it might even be better

To work from the top down as long as we can step around some of the outside of the ocean monument and avoid these guardians we’re going to be breaking a lot of kelp from this as well we are getting a whole lot of kelp right now

And the more of these blocks we break the more we leave us health exposed to attack from the guardians which is a problem every now and then I get on a good streak like this where I can kind of sprint and swim and because I’m making contact with the floor I can inst

Mine and it works so well and then one of these Guardians decides to laser me from a distance and messes the whole thing up for so far this has been difficult but not as difficult as I thought it would be if you look down here there are so many Guardians just

Kind of chillin at the bottom of the ocean they tend to sink down to the bottom when they’re not doing all that much and that is good for me because that means that I can get rid of the rest of the ruin here with very little

Fuss now I’ve got the f3 debug screen open because I’m keeping the closest eye on where it says targeted fluid on the right hand side it says water falling false that is good because falling water means it cannot hold a bubble column if the falling water is true that means

That we have a problem thankfully all of the water sources in here seem to have reformed okay it’s an absolute miracle as far as I’m concerned because I honestly didn’t think water physics in Minecraft were gonna be reliable enough to be counted on like that but I think I

Think we’re actually doing this which is incredible and so far I’ve managed to do it fingers crossed don’t want to jinx it without dying once to these guys as you can probably tell though I am chewing through steak like nobody’s business and even if we did have some falling water

Around here even if the falling water value was true for a few of these all we would have to do would be to throw down some of this enormous amount of kelp to turn some of the water sources into solid ones much the same as we’ve done

In previous episodes when we’ve set up some salts and bubble columns I’m amazed and I am delighted that we’re actually going to be able to pull this off I can’t believe it’s taken this long but we are almost finished folks we have the entire monument apart from these pillars

Taken care of and those pillars are to be honest the easiest part because all we need to do is just dodge around them to avoid getting shot by the Guardians but man the conduit hey Stu thing really came through for us that was that was pretty incredible I was so happy I was

Able to just insturment most of this thing out it would have taken ages otherwise and let me remind you still only one death still undefeated except by my own doing I guess right one thing I I meant to do and it’s something that people reminded me of in the comments of yesterday’s episode

Actually that’s just gone out so now I’m being able to read the comments is that the XP stored in these furnaces could actually go some way to mending the tools and weapons and stuff that we have there I think it was mainly because I had that crisis where my alight rope

Broke and I needed to kill a couple of Guardians the XP stored in the furnaces is going to help us mend the armor which has taken an absolute beating thanks to the Guardians I’m surprised it’s only come down this much but oh boy yeah we really needed to have this armor on us

Um let’s see how much this does there we go a little bit of extra XP as some of that will have gone to the armor some of it will have gone to the pickaxe I haven’t smelted like tons and tons of stuff in this but yet having eight

Furnaces all smelting XP from glass and storing that XP in there means that hopefully we will be able to restore some of my tools I’ve actually just been back to amend my fortune pickaxe and now we’re working on the silk touch one as well but having a little bit of extra XP on

This stuff is going to heal it up nicely I think and I shouldn’t leave these furnaces for anything else at now so we can probably just take those down in the long run but maybe we’ll need I think we’ll add a little bit more glass down

Here to make it look a little bit more fancy in the long term but now we’ve just got to get rid of these pillars the pillars are the final obstacle in the way of us placing all of the soul sand down here the problem with that now is

That the entire ocean floor is made out of gravel so I’m probably going to take off the top layer of gravel and then find a way to replace the sole sand area that we’re going to mark out from below instead of from above so we can just go

Down there into a cave break a block at a time place a soul sand at a time it’s going to be tedious but it means we basically avoid doing anything involving these Guardians because I want them out of my life at this point I want them into a killing mechanism so that I

Can fry them and get all the lovely drops without having to worry about messing with them on the surface here the cool thing is the mob camp for this area means that if a bunch of them generate over in this corner because that’s kind of near to where I’m hanging

Out as I swim around it’s going to mean fewer generate in the opposite corner so I should be able to sneak over here and get rid of some of these without having too much hassle from the other guardians and oh boy is it nice to have that haste and conduit combination when we’re

Taking care of these pillars because all I need to do is just call them like apples and we’ll be good to go here and just like that the temple is gone well I say just like that it’s actually taken me hours to get that thing done but it’s done amazing

I’m so happy with this and now all we need to do is take out this stone floor and put in the soul sand and everything should be more or less good to go it’s amazing to think that we I’ve spent so much time on this project and it is

Almost at an end now we need to do the same thing with a stone floor and here take it out completely and make sure that the water in there is not falling water anymore which it shouldn’t be if we’ve opened out the corners like that

Yeah okay you got to make sure that you take out the block on the corner so that water sources can start to form again but this should be relatively straightforward compared to the temple itself because the guardians aren’t up here yet a few of them might start to

Spot me as we continue this process but it really shouldn’t take all that long and let’s take out that corner block as well that guy there yeah oh just to make sure that the water sources can form up where they need to but look at this this

Is the technique I’ve been using to get rid of all of the prism rain blocks from the temple and all you really need to do is get down into a swimming position like this so you’re sprinting but make sure you’re making contact with the floor you shouldn’t return to the

Upright position even if you stop swimming in Java I think it works a little bit differently in bedrock then all we need to do is hold down left-click strafe left and absolutely trash all the terrain in front of us and you can do that more or less three

Blocks at a time in a row like that I think if you go to four then you occasionally miss blocks but that’s a very very quick way of getting rid of all of this and we’re done just look at the amount of cobblestone floating around here I’m collecting a little bit

Of it as I go but the rest of it despawn it’s fine stone comes out of the ground it’s nice and easy to collect the last thing we want to do is take down the conduit itself and yet there’s occasionally a bit of a glitch that happens when your speed mining this

Stuff with the conduit power as well but the conduit we need to pack up and we definitely need to make sure that we take this with us cuz it’s a pretty expensive block don’t want to be losing this one there we go did we pick that up

Nope it floated up to the surface okay we got it good I’ve really wanted to make sure that that one didn’t end up in the water streams although most of the stuff is just floating up to the surface it’s not actually hitting the water streams at all because it would have to

Have enough momentum to go through those fence gates which the guardians will have once we install the soul sand which is going to be the next step of this whole venture and potentially one of the trickier parts since it like I said Guardians do tend to come to rest on the

Bottom of the ocean floor so what we’re gonna do is dive down here actually might set up the conduit in a different place just slightly out of the way so we still have that water breathing effect or maybe just take a water breathing potion but we’re gonna need to dig out

The entire ocean floor in that kind of perimeter remove all of the gravel and see if we can get the soul sand in from below to avoid contact with the guardians as much as possible okay the conduit has been servicable let’s dig some gravel shall we

This is gonna be a bit of an experience but I think we should be able to get through it okay and yes underneath the ocean floor we have a layer of other stone types that aren’t gravel that won’t be affected by gravity therefore should be nice and easy for us to remove

From below that’s the perimeter border dug out and before we go ahead and place at some of the soul sand I am going to install a bit of a fail-safe in the kill mechanism see if we drop them through lava they’ll all end up at the bottom of

This shaft here and then once we’ve started placing the soul sand tons of Guardians are gonna be coming through the system constantly and I don’t want to like lag out or crash my client dealing with these guys so I’m probably going to put in some lava that we can

Activate using a dispenser meaning that whenever we want to switch the system off the Guardians will just die in the lava instead of hanging around waiting to be killed in the kill mechanism so I think we need to go and grab a few extra things because I will need two

Dispensers for this okay down here in the kill mechanism chamber we have a dispenser we can put in this wall here and that’s going to control whether or not the water is flowing out of here and there we go with a button attached to that block we can power the dispenser

Anytime you want having it dispense the water and then we just need to hit that button again to retract the water back into the dispenser we’re going to do that on the opposite side here with larvae in this dispenser and the reason I want to have it controlled manually

Like this instead of on a redstone circuit is because lava and water flowing at different speeds means that sometimes they might form either obsidian or cobblestone in here and we kind of want to avoid both instances of that so there we go we have the lava

Spilling out right now we just hit that button again to retract the lava back into the bucket and then we can wait for the lava to disappear when the light goes off activate the water and that’s when the guardians can come down so we have a bit of a fail-safe going on here

For now I think I will probably leave it with the lava out before the moment just to make sure that the Guardians anyone any guardians that come down here will just fall straight into this lava and die thinking about it while we’re here we probably better set up the hoppers

Underneath this to catch any of the drops once we start killing them because it’s gonna be a bit difficult to do that when there are Guardians raining down on our heads okay we’ve now got a floor of hoppers underneath there so when the water is on and we’re killing guardians

With our sword it’s just going to drop them right into this chest which will then come through into that one thanks to the hopper underneath we’re gonna install a big storage system here eventually but that’s just getting the output from this chest nice and early so

That we don’t have to worry about that once the system is up and running and now would that failsafe installed I think it is time to begin operation sol san and to give this a test this is the moment of truth this is the moment where we determine whether or not this farm

Will succeed or fail I probably still need to add a roof on top of this thing actually thinking about it because there are going to be a lot of Guardians popping up in the water streams and we want to make sure that they don’t go any

Higher in addition to that I believe the way Guardian spawning mechanics work is that if they are exposed to the sky which they kind of are their offense gates in between but those aren’t the type of block that will block skylight there is less of a chance for guardians

To spawn so believe it or not this right here is minimal spawning will he’ll see what it’s like when this thing is cranked up to the max but for that we will need to put a roof on this thing and likewise we’ll need to put a roof on

Top of here as well because I feel like anything that gets caught in these streams and wants to swim around a bit might it’s way out of here by flopping around somewhat so we will do our best to get rid of that element as well by covering

This over but I think this should all work I think I’ve set this thing up okay and at this point we should be turning particles to minimal because that is one of the ways we’re in animations yet this is one of the ways that it is possible

To reduce the frame drops that you get from looking at a lot of bubble columns and we are going to be placing a lot of bubble columns like I said this is probably going to be in the region of about 3,000 soul sand or possibly even more we’re doing the maximum area we

Possibly can for this farm so yeah it’s gonna be a bit of a pain to deal with all the particles and I’m occasionally squishing these guardians down underneath here which I find quite amusing and when we come up to the surface for air we can actually see the

Farms starting to work now it’s not gonna work a hundred percent until we have water columns going all the way up to the surface because part of what makes this farm so great is the bubbles bounce the guardians up into the water streams constantly having this entire area floored with bubble columns is

Basically the only way it’s going to work otherwise they will just swim back down but we’ve got the perimeter done now so now it’s just a matter of doing all of the stuff in the middle it’s gonna be tricky but it’s gonna be worth it and after all that time the payoff is

Sweet look at this the guardians are coming in they are bottlenecking a little bit over there but that’s actually not too bad because once we get a roof on this thing the spawn rates are going to be pretty impressive I gotta say now let’s hop down here and actually

Kill some of these guys for once because they have been wrecking my tools my armor I actually went back to the XP farm and repaired my armor earlier but we’re gonna have to do something about them being able to hit me down here that’s not gonna be ideal and of course

Thanks to the way Guardians work they actually have that Thorne’s ability which means killing them like this is not going to be like super great for our armor still but the amount of XP we’re gonna get from this and the amount of drops we’re gonna get from this will be

A reward enough I think now let’s stand here and repair my shovel oh yes there we go the armors already healed the shovel is going right up as well fantastic the XP just keeps flowing and that’s awesome that’s so so good and we need to improve this

So the XP can flow out somewhere other than just the site and having the regeneration beacon here might actually be a requirement so we might need to get another beacon because you take you take so much damage with this it’s gonna be nice having an actual regeneration

Effect here constantly so we’d have to worry too much about this but they’re spawning in and falling down here faster than I can kill them at times which is fantastic that’s so so good to have this kind of XP farm this kind of loot drop farm and yeah we’re gonna Ness we’re

Gonna need to implement some kind of better storage system for all of this I think well that’s gonna have to wait until the next episode I expect in the meantime I’m gonna make a couple of changes to this off-camera probably do something about that bottleneck where the Guardians were having trouble

Getting through the system just to make things a little bit more efficient a little bit faster yeah this thing this thing is really cranking let’s take a quick look at the stat and see quite how many soulsand I had to place let’s see times dropped times used here we go

Soulsand must be pretty high up the list at this point there we go three thousand three hundred and forty-one soulsand that’s probably not the exact number but it’s pretty close that’s kind of absurd we have mined 9,000 prismarine bricks 7,000 regular prism marine probably some dark prison marine and some sea lanterns

Quite high up on this list there you go 473 dark prism arene sea lanterns must be down here somewhere as well we’ve done a whole lot to this ocean monuments the conduit is still set up here as well and the guardians have actually been dying whenever they get close which is

Why we have a couple of prismarine shards and stuff around here now the next stage of this farm is I mean there are a couple of stages we’ve got to do something about the the collection mechanism for all of the drops we should probably put some kind of case around

The outside to make sure that Guardians don’t fly out from the bubble columns and just end up outside here like they seem to be doing around the conduit right now and yeah I think that’s probably it there might be a couple that still spawn outside of the bounding box

Because I’m pretty sure the bounding box of an ocean monument is still a few blocks wider than what we have here but even so it seems like the majority of them are ending up in the system which is fantastic and thanks again to compound 135 for a fantastic Guardian farmed

Design I’m gonna put a roof on this thing I think off-camera we’re gonna do a few adjustments to it but that is gonna be it for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide thank you so much for watching this guardian farm two-parter I hope you enjoyed it don’t

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