Insane Hardcore Minecraft: Nether to Ocean Transformation

If you’ve played Minecraft you’d know the nether can be a terrifying place there is just so much that can kill you from magma cubes to brutes wither skeletons and everything in between oh and the fact that it’s a fiery death trap you name it it’s dangerous well

Maybe not these guys they seem pretty harmless but anyway what if you could turn the nether from a place like this to a place like this completely spawn prooof and safe this is how I transformed the nether in my 10,000 day hardcore World from a dark and scary Wasteland into a

Beautiful and vibrant ocean themed Oasis and I call it the nether ending Oasis this project was an absolute grind that took me over 1 and 1/2 years to complete so I’d super appreciate it if you could like And subscribe now here’s how I did it I’ve had my hardcore world for three

Years now and one of my goals in this world is to build every automatic farm in the game it sounds crazy but just bear with me at around 6,000 days in this hardcore world I realized I needed to start playing safer and something I knew that would help with this was

Beacons because beacons can give you extra effects such as regeneration and resistance so I thought why not put these beacons everywhere as a chance to further help my odds of survival but there’s a catch they are not cheap for every Beacon you need three wither sculls and then you have to fight a

Wither getting wither skulls manually is super tedious so I had a better idea I needed to build a wither skeleton Farm but this wasn’t going to be just any Wither Skeleton Farm because if you know me you’ll know that I love doing huge builds and transformation projects so

When I set out to make this Farm I knew that it had to be grand so I started brainstorming I hated being in the nether because well I’ve had a few too many close calls here stop hitting me where I got to low Health numerous amounts of times oh that just hit

Me one heart one heart one heart oh my God so my first goal was to make it safe meaning the whole thing had to be rid of lava and completely spawn prooof I figured if I hated the nether that much what would make me love it what would

Make it a place where I’d want to be light bulb moment on a tropical island totally carefree and that’s how I came up with my theme which leads me to my second goal of transforming the nether enough to make you completely to get where you are and most importantly the

Build had to be practical as this was a wither skeleton Farm after all so my third goal to fit as many farms inside as I can now that I had my goals in place we were ready to begin the first thing I did was get started on a nether

Highway as a safe way to get in and out not only to this project but to the ocean Monument as well I wanted the materials that I use for this highway to act as a hint as to what was on the other side of the portal so prismarine

Just made sense after I had roughly laid out my nether Highway and created a small safe area the digging could commence I didn’t want to use any type of TNT duping or machine to clear this place out so I got to actually mine it all by hand which led to some awesome

Milestones we mined 1 million Netherrack and then 2 million and we finished the dig at over 3 million blocks although I did try to use a bed at one point but uh that didn’t go so well I feel like it’d be faster just to like to mine this out I was using

Diamond Enchanted pickaxes with efficiency 3 and silk touch that I would buy from my toolsmith villagers for one Emerald each because they were so inexpensive I could buy a bunch of them and break them without any issues that way I didn’t have to worry about losing a ton of durability on my netherite

Pickaxes I’m terrible at staying focused on one thing at a time I also didn’t want to lose my mind over how much digging I needed to do so I didn’t get the whole thing dug out at once as you can see I started building some test

Pieces inside to get a feel for exactly what I was going to build here because here’s the catch I didn’t plan any of this beforehand I mostly just decided on things as I went I mean I did have some basic ideas but funny enough those didn’t end up happening anyway I wanted

Everything at first to be blue really hitting hard on the custom biome theme so I started placing a foundation of warped W block and laying out some of where my ocean was going to go I tried some little random lighting design but also soon realized that spawn proofing

This material was going to be impossible so scratch that I needed to find another way to design the land I left the remains here for a while as I continued digging I thought maybe it would give me some inspiration just kidding I couldn’t be bothered to remove it I continued

Grinding away until I had a large open area to start prototyping what the ocean would look like because we can’t have real water in the nether so I would have to think outside of the box similar to my my slime farm I had an idea to do a

Foggy glass effect but this time I would use light blue glass to act as water I knew I would be placing thousands of light sources for the bottom layer so I needed to find one that was lag free the easiest option would be torches but torches give off particle effects which

In the long run would be so laggy so at the time I used one of the only LaGree light blocks a jackal Landon and my goodness did that take a long time I sheared so many pumpkins and also had to C a bunch of torches to combine with the

Pumpkins to make the Jackal lanters so again to keep my sanity I had to do little by little once I knew roughly where I was going to build the skeleton Farm I started thinking of how I wanted to decorate the farm first I thought of a castle but

That idea didn’t last long so I started Googling castles with Moes and I came across this image and because I knew I wanted this whole thing to be completely surrounded by water this reference image was just so fitting it was quite a unique design and I was excited to get started this

Was the biggest building that I was ever going to create so I knew it would probably be a learning curve and that’s how the idea of the nether Resort came to be I started placing down the platform that the building would sit upon I didn’t have a set size yet but I

Tried to center it around the Wither Skeleton Farm which also uh wasn’t totally built yet using a palette of clean quartz blocks for the walls and prismarine for the detailing to go with the blue theme it started shaping up time to move on to something else I made

A small storage area inside of the nether fortress with no organization at all but used this as a place to dump my materials from digging as well as keep some things that I’d be needing for the build I also began adding some of the ground and laying out where the water

Would go it’s fine this is like going to be a little river it’s going to bring us down the river into another like little Inlet it’s going to be over here I wanted one main area with a few rivers that ran around the sides like a moat to

Connect them whilst I got on with that next I needed to start working on the Wither Skeleton Farm to stop wither skeletons potentially spawning in the Fortress and attacking me at any chance they got I added a bunch of pressure plates for spawn proofing in the hopes

That they would only spawn in the dedicated Farm area this did help a little but the Fortress was huge oh I actually got up oh my God hello friend that was scary we should probably do something about that so I was still running into some trouble I wanted to

Continue building so that anyone who came across the streams got more of an idea about the theming of this place from a first glance I filled in more the water using five layers of light blue glass on top of the Jackal Lantern and light blue carpet the sides were made of

Light blue concrete powder to make it look a little more believable to really sink in the idea that this was water I built a small yacht that would also hold some more storage for the time being so I had made a pretty good start on most of the basic landscaping and the Water

Area was expanding I wanted to make sure the water had some sort of a source that was creating the giant ocean so I built a waterfall it’s not exactly Niagara Falls but I think it adds a little extra Dimension and again it was cool to push myself using only spawn prooof blocks I

Decorated the inside of this area to look like a little Lush cave and I was loving that it was starting to feel less like the nether another feature that needed to be figured out to make the nether Oasis more immersive was the sky I decided to do the whole thing in light

Blue concrete as a base and again this is something that was going to take forever to grind out I created a concrete maker over my creeper Farm in the Overworld where was able to turn concrete powder into concrete quite easily this does terrify me having to

Take my totem out of my hand though but it’s pretty safe up here so I think it’s worth it I also added some glass as sort of a transparent Cloud to give it a little more detail but knew a bit more would have to be done to the sky to give

It depth to work on making progress on our third goal it was time to build a farm the kis Nether fortresses usually contain a couple of Blaze Spawners I thought transforming one of these could be super cool I found one in a decent position that would soon become the

Lighthouse I was really nervous about trying to build this due to the potential danger factor of getting trapped inside with all of the lava and Blazers but it ended up working out and the blaze farm surprisingly worked well all of my three goals were now underway

And I was getting a pretty good Vision about how I wanted this overall area to look I was excited to push forward as just the small areas I had started blocking in were already giving me so much inspiration I began to build upon the resort adding more of a structure

And also working on the side areas to emulate our inspiration image the front yard of the resort was still pretty empty so I thought I could texture the grass as well as build a mini wooden dock and nature area whilst doing this I had also started laying out I’m working

On building mountains that I thought could surround almost the entire project that way I could merch the sky down and give it a dimensional background the whole cloud is covered with the blue now behind it kind of look like it’s like the sky I hope so in front of the dock I

Built a small boat that also contained a first pet parrot and a villager to drive it of course uhoh wait oh it’s on me I was like dude is that par actually going to fall straight into the fire right now like that would be so bad most of the time he

Actually stays standing on the ship which does help the illusion I then faced a slight dilemma Above This grassy area was the nether Highway and on top here was the Dome the original Dome was uneven and it was bothering my audience so they convinced me to rebuild it I

Attempted to do math correctly this time and after that was complete I could shift Focus back to the mountains as I added some color and texture spawn proofing again was very very annoying every single block had to have some sort of Spawn prooof element I pretty much

Added everything I could think of such as pressure plates trap doors buttons slabs walls stairs even fences and which although this took so long to actually build it did help out a lot lot of detail at this point I had put almost 400 hours into this project and it was

Not even halfway done stay tuned to the end so you can find out exactly how many hours the finished product took so now I’m curious what’s the most hours you’ve ever put into a Minecraft Project let me know in the comments the main Resort building stayed empty for a while so I

Started adding slabs to spawn proof but I noticed I was constantly running out of smooth quartz so in one of the front rooms I built a smelting area where I could throw all the quartz I mind and have it smelt into smooth quartz I was getting a lot of coal from killing

Wither Skeleton so coal Blocks made an easy fuel source to run the smelter as you can see I was jumping around a lot which not only kept things interesting and fresh but in doing this helped avoid burnout whenever I was getting sick of one thing I moved on and it was a really

Nice process that worked for me I then started expanding the back of the nether Resort making the building a reflection of the front and the backyard was more of a larger entrance that way regardless of what side you viewed it on it still looked

Grand I also felt I was at a good enough point with my water placement that I could bring in some Wildlife Turtles actually don’t need water to breathe just air so I bred a bunch at my guardian farm and really easily brought them into the project one important

Thing that I wanted to do throughout this project was reward my viewers who stuck around for hundreds of hours watching me build this thing so I came up with the idea to build over-the-water Bungalows similar to those you’d find on a real tropical island and I made them

Available for viewers to rent I started I started laying out um where my Bungalows are going to go this helped add a little bit of LW to the project and I did build quite a few of these so it took a while and you’ll see them come

Together as we carry on as I was working on so many different elements for this project my storage situation got quickly overrun I definitely needed to create a more permanent solution so I started building a full order sort for all of my nether themed blocks how many skulls I’m

Getting holy cow beacons for days every nether brick variant all of the quartz variants and all the other random things you’d find in the nether now had a home this was integral in helping me stay organized and knowing where things were moving forward I also Auto sorted the

Drops from the Wither Skeleton Farm I had the swords burn and everything else had a dedicated spot this is actually one of my favorite storage spots in my entire world it’s just so simple but so clean so much more of the sky was getting done as tedious as the process

Was and now that I knew where most of the boundaries were I worked on the mountains and bringing the sky down I came up with a cloud design using a bunch of white and light gray blocks which added more light and shading to the sky and it also helped break up some

Of the solid blue background I continued working back and forth on a series of the mountains Sky water land formations and the nether Resort and it was actually looking really cool seeing the contrast between what was left off the Nether and what I I had created and

Although only a 256x 256 area was needed to be spawn proofed around the Wither Skeleton Farm I wanted to expand it in some places to make it feel larger and more unique to add a little more detail to the sky I decided to add a sun to the

Back wall sort of nestled in behind some of the mountains it was a little hard to figure out what blocks I wanted to use but I went with mostly yellows and some frog lights to make it shine I was pretty happy with it until someone said

It res a hard boiled egg and now I can never unsee it well there goes that I’m like I’ve accepted it I’ve accepted it but I’m like not ready to change it yet the progress was now looking awesome and the texturing of the mountains was going well meaning our goal to spawn prooof

Every block was making a serious Dent with most of the water down and land slabbed over less and less mobs were able to spawn now that I had been on this project for 700 hours remember that warped warp block idea I had at the very restart of this project I decided to

Finally get rid of it literally 700 hours later this is very sad taking this all away cuz this is the first thing I ever built why am I like this after blocking in the land I had this huge open space I planed to add a building of

Some sort so I tossed up a few ideas I thought a nice outdoor Restaurant and Tiki Bar could be a great addition for all the resort residence to enjoy I had a quick gaze over some Lego inspiration and found this which I thought would fit really well building it out of wood was

Probably a mistake and yes I learned that the hard way but after fixing it up a few times I was loving how it turned out just to reiterate exactly what this building was I wanted to make some banners with letters on it to spell it out I had never actually made custom

Banners before and they quickly became one of my favorite ways to add detail I was finally on to the last wall of the project the mountain in the basalt Delta took up a lot of space so I didn’t have much to do here I wanted some sort of

Indication that it was still the nether as well as have an easy way out if I ever needed it I definitely did not want the opening to be huge and I also needed a way for the Blue Sky to not look awkward so I decided to connect a

Rainbow which created a nice Dynamic shape and opening although gas could still wander in I actually didn’t run into that issue too much and any gas that did make their way into the project I took care of those and by took care of those I meant caught them and trap them

Here for all eternity look after all the damage they caused here they had it coming behind the Ticky bar I still had a lot of room and I wanted to make more progress on our Farm building task bees work consistently in the nether so I thought it would be an awesome idea to

Get started on our third Farm a honeycomb farm this Farm worked a little too well and I really quickly had to adjust the storage I made the outside of the building look like a Surf Shack as there’s so much ocean space in here for water activities speaking of lots of of

Water the turtles were being annoying and kept grouping up in one space so I wanted another mob that could roam freely around and this is where I introduced some Guardians who also surprisingly don’t need water to breathe these guys were super energetic and brought so much life and animation to

The space who would have thought Guardians could thrive in the nether up on the hill the basal Delta I mentioned earlier had this Giant mountain and Only magmas Could spawn in this biome so that called for another Farm a Frog Light Farm the frogs eat up the magma cubes

And in return give me a ton of frog lights frog lights are actually another source that is lag free so I tend to use these everywhere in my hardcore world the mountain space sort of reminded me of Greece with all those Villas hanging over the edge so that was my inspiration

To decorate this Farm I felt like it also kept the modern theme and matched with the nether Resort now you’re probably wondering if I was planning on building one of the most popular nether Farms a gold Farm I do actually have a separate perimeter plan to do a giant

One because I don’t use the nether roof but I did want to add a mini one in here just to give me a couple of materials here and there I built a piglin rain cloud high in the sky where piglins would fall down and into this hot air

Balloon and I could collect gold nuggets and rotten flesh it gives me like three gold nuggets an hour but hey at least I have one I did love how the design of the hot air balloon looked on the ground but I wanted to build a few in the sky

To add another pop of color getting the Villager up into this one was difficult but it did add a cool Easter egg after placing 140,000 pieces of blue concrete the sky finally got finished three 2 1 there it is we have officially officially this time completed the sky

Like for the third time but it’s actually done now obviously there was still a lot of stuff in here that was incomplete so I made sure some of those things that I started early on in this project project got finalized one being the interior of the lighthouse this

Stayed empty for way too long so I wanted to pretend that this was the Lighthouse Keeper room I added a bed some decor and a nice spawn prooof staircase to get all the way up to the blaze farm Not only was the lighthouse empty for ages but some wings in the

Nether Resort as well because I loved the way that the outdoor bar turned out I added an indoor bar and a check-in area and then on the opposite side I built two terrariums one with baby magmas and the other with the spare frogs left over from the Frog Light Farm

Some more of the exterior detailing got done and I eventually built a marketplace with different themed stalls to fill the space behind the Tiki Bar although there was still a few things left to complete I was pushing closer to hitting 10,000 Days in my hardcore world

I finished up what I could and then we did it before I had spent over 2 years working on this project now which was insane I had a nice fireworks show to celebrate but it wasn’t over yet I wanted to add one final Farm to this project and that was a pigin bartering

Farm I had this cave area that I hadn’t really done anything with so I made a small opening and expanded it out I used dark blue glass for the water this time to add a more mysterious Vibe the color was actually super pretty I set up

Another waterfall and a small boat and I made it piglin pirate themed the building only currently holds two piglins so I hope to have more in the future future but basically I give them gold and in return they give me some items I did make an order sort of here

Just to make things easier after I completed that I actually felt satisfied with everything that I had done at this point the project ended up turning out better than I could have ever imagined and I also successfully completed all three of my goals spawn proofing check build a bunch of farms check complete

Transformation check the Wither Skeleton farm that I initially built this whole perimeter metaphor in the first place works so well I killed thousands of wither skeletons hundreds of Withers and my base is filled with beacons making it a lot safer I was able to turn a place I

Once felt immense anxiety every time I stepped in into a place where I now don’t have to worry about getting killed by anything I felt completely safe I did all of this using no Mods or Texture Packs except connected textures otherwise the water would look a little

Like this and I only used block that were in the vanilla game so I had to push myself to be creative and find alternate solutions to things because I only play on this hardcore world when I stream I was able to easily keep track of the hours and after over a whopping

1,000 hours of stream time I had finally finished this project coming in at a 300X 400 diameter space I hope that in sharing my process it makes you comfortable to know that there really isn’t a right or wrong way to do things I wanted to show how a mega build could

Be be completed from a realistic point of view especially from someone who has big dreams and goals but struggles to stay on task although it might take you a little longer don’t be afraid to try something new so go out there and create some awesome things because really

Anything is possible in this game I hope you enjoyed watching me transform the scary nether into The Nether ending Oasis don’t forget to like And subscribe to follow along with my Hardcore Minecraft Journey thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next one