Let’s Play Minecraft Hardcore – Lucky Stronghold Cave

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of hardcore minecraft i have decided that today looks like a wonderful day for a bit of exploration so let me describe to you today’s mission we have been slowly gathering up these ender pearls and these blaze rods with the intention of eventually going

To the end now don’t worry we’re not going to the end today however i feel like we can finally go ahead and at very least locate where the stronghold is once we locate it we can explore it and potentially build a good maybe nether pathway if it’s possible there i think

That would be really beneficial so uh that’s the mission we’re gonna do it villagers we’re gonna defeat a dragon we’re gonna do it first things first better buy some food um who is anybody selling at a discounted rate oh carl is perfect thank you very much thank you thank you i’m

Gonna go ahead and head down in the mines to gather a little bit more obsidian we don’t need a ton i think we need like 10 pieces to build a portal so that is all i’m gonna grab just so that we can potentially build a portal down

At the stronghold and look at that there’s some sitting right here this will do just nicely okay this should be about all that i need to start off on our mission we won’t even need all of these eyes of ender but i’m gonna take

What i can get um let’s stand up on our wall and see which direction the eye of ender goes through one oh okay this way hey that’s easy it’s straight towards the docks and we got the under eye back perfect i think my trusty cow milky ought to

Stay home today this is going to be a long adventure and i would best do it alone okay but for real the kingdom in the background just looks fantastic i love it it looks like a true settlement once we get those docks in place maybe a ship or something it’s

Going to be quite the epic hardcore base i don’t know how far i should really go in this direction before i throw another one of these but i think right around this turn will probably be good um please stand up oh hi dolphin let me

Stand up on land and see if we’re still going the right way we are right on track please don’t explode please ah rude it’s fine it’s fine we have lots of them we have a double blade spawner and we can trade pearls with the villager so we’re okay on isabender these are some

Really strange little islands this scenery is so beautiful what an amazing world seat look at the cows just peacefully grazing by the ocean i love it i’m going insane it’s but it’s been a long journey so far i i’m fine radio land ahoy i will take my boat with

Me thank you very much okay and now that i’m on land let’s just try to get up in a tree and shoot off another one of these just to make sure we were heading in this direction um oh backwards and it exploded this is getting to be a bit much what

Honestly okay we’re going back this way i didn’t expect to be looping back so soon not gonna lie that’s a bit of a shock to me um we’ll go up on this bit of land right here and see what it does we’re literally only like 1500 blocks

Out that’s not far at all in the nether that’s like nothing okay let’s get a good vantage point up on these trees yep thank you thank you perfect okay it was going this way it’s still going this way this is back towards home what is this

You want me to go back towards home i could do that okay i went too far it’s fine no taken um didn’t expect it but that’s cool hey this is a shipwreck i’m not sure if i’ve explored this one let me head down and see i haven’t

Oh look at me i was needing clocks anything in here okay uh you know i think i’m good at carrots thank you though and of course we gotta get the treasure chest oh my goodness i actually had never been in here interesting all right well learn something new every day

Well explore something new every day i suppose hello turtle how are you doing today some weird sand okay i mean not judging but that seems a little dangerous okay let’s see if it’s still going no back this way what and it wha it’s in between that hill and this hill somewhere

So maybe i just dig down one more for good measure aha and now it’s going back towards the desert and it broke i i already hear zombies which i’m interested in if there’s a cave it’d be cool to see it oh here we are oh my goodness this is the stronghold

And i hear silverfish wait oh this is the room oh my gosh what what this has never happened to me before what the heck i’m here that’s so exciting oh my goodness okay um i am probably gonna go ahead and just destroy this spawner because it’s a lot to handle to be

Honest whoa i cannot believe my luck this is epic this is making me so excited for the dragon fight actually i’m not gonna do it today the dragon fight in this world is a bit of a side quest for us which i know is a bit strange oh hello my main goal is

Obviously surrounding our hardcore base um more so than anything else so yeah this is just a fun side quest not gonna stress about it but it is still cool to explore hello was there anybody else oh my bad oh dear oh okay silver fish cool and a zombie

Nice can you come down please thank you another chest some redstone dust i don’t know that i’ve ever seen that before and i think if we just go over here yeah there we go there’s the other room and a cool gold these strongholds are so cool to explore

I’ve never properly taken the time to explore one of these before because i feel like every time i’m about to explore a stronghold it’s because i’m gonna go to the end so i’m so focused on the end that i don’t focus on the stronghold but today not today we are exploring this whole

Thing i’m determined we’re gonna do it i’m not gonna lie though i’m already a little bit lost um where do i go okay let’s block that off explored that entire rep whoa this looks so cool hello creeper another chest okay not too too much in

That one we do have this whole area down here that i can see um maybe i shouldn’t be exploring through the caves let me confuse myself oh here’s the library oh this is my favorite room ah somebody’s dying okay that kind of ruins the immersion not gonna lie

Look how cool this room is so epic we are gonna come back here and use some of these bookshelves for our own hardcore base of course um it’s so close to spawn though so i’m not going to stress about it oh fortune 3 and luck of the sea that’s kind of a

Good book not gonna lie um i uh don’t need those you know what this makes me want to build a library like this in the hardcore base like imagine it underground to put some of our books like i don’t know the restricted area from our library but like underground

And like in a vault that’d be so epic i love it i have discovered another doorway hello is anybody home okay this is this is large um this is making me think about the brand new update that is coming to minecraft i mean isn’t it gonna be oh is this a

Different library what isn’t it gonna be so cool when the cave update comes and you can find these strongholds in giant caves like that’s gonna be so cool this is another library by the way um completely different one what’s in this one mending book that’s so lucky what um what

Efficiency 4 is on it as well that’s literally perfect for like a tool what i’m so pleased with that um i’ve never found a mending book out in the wild how has got them from villagers and just paper in this one oh whoa look at this it goes through a ravine with diamonds

Oh my goodness there’s like a dungeon here wait i want to see it from the dungeon that’s a weird sentence look at this this is probably the most beautiful stronghold i’ve ever seen is that a mine shaft over there no way the seat is so lucky

I’m not even sure how to properly convey how absolutely gigantic this stronghold is like i’m cutting a lot and editing i’m sure but it’s huge like this is so far away from where that end portal was i just cannot even believe this look at these

I will take all the diamonds i can get yes please oh my gosh excuse me sorry didn’t mean to intrude um that’s my bad really it’s all on me somehow there’s still more not sure how what the heck it goes on forever oh there’s a mine shaft oh and a spawner

Oh my gosh i did not expect that look at that no thank you no thank you there’s literally a mine show going through this whoops it’s a skeleton with pants on why do you have pants on i suppose it’s rude of me to uh ask that huh

I don’t think i’ve ever seen a stronghold with this much going on genuinely look at this there’s literally a mine shaft directly through it this is so cool maybe i’m over hyping this but i don’t explore strongholds very often um excuse me if i’m just a little happy about it okay oh

That’s my bad whoops um hello no thank you uh there we go thank you very much okay i think i have nearly explored this entire thing i mean except the mine shaft i haven’t explored the mine shaft because gosh i don’t need oh my there’s a whole nother room like what oh

It’s a skeleton in jail i like that you could stay there you cannot though you’re interrupting no no oh old gold armor really that’s unnecessary come on not gonna lie i feel like i’ve done very well with this exploration and i found my way back to the portal so

Now i’m just gonna go ahead and dig a little hole right here hopefully place the portal here haven’t been carrying around these obsidian for nothing after all there we go and oh i just threw up my diamonds oh that’s that’s my bad oh dear oh god i’m back okay it’s fine crisis averted

Okay now here’s the hard part we have to go through there see where we spawn and see if it’s feasible to get back to our home portal from this portal let’s just go in for now and see where we end up please let this be not in a lava lake

Please not in a lava lake oh the assault okay um it’s not the end of the world but like that’s kind of dangerous do i have on me okay i’ve made myself a little safety bunker and now where am i um oh that’s the bastion which means we should

Be fairly close actually reasonably so to the is the fortress oh i almost fell in that hole okay careful easy does it easy we are on hardcore do i see the fortress no okay i’m gonna go home now through the staircase it was a quick boat ride so i’m i’m literally i’m gonna

I’m gonna go up to the surface what time is it it’s daytime it’s fine to go up to the surface go to my other portal and see if i can’t just locate that portal um and make a tunnel because you know tunnels are good um excuse me excuse me hello

Have you lost your llamas oh that’s tragic you’re selling a bucket of puffer fish no i’m good actually thank you though that’s a tempting offer oh hang on let me build up a little tower here so that i know where i am in the future there we go shouldn’t be able to miss

That perfect all right i’m back in the village now and i wanted to show you all what i have been working on in the nether and we’re gonna work on it a little bit on camera because this is something i’ve never really done before and honestly for a long time when i was

Newer to minecraft i didn’t understand how this worked so let’s go in the nether when i was brand new to playing minecraft one of my favorite youtubers to watch was etho who is a fellow canadian and is still one of my favorites absolutely incredible and i

Always saw how in his world he tended to connect stuff together through these hubs in the nether so that is what we have here today this is obviously our nether fortress is where we normally leave but i have extended a tunnel that now is going to

Be able to go directly to the other portal but i’m gonna use the coordinates which i have placed in chat there i’m gonna use those coordinates to kind of connect it up on a different y level so y level is like up and down and that doesn’t matter as much in

Another especially since i’m not on multiplayer i don’t need to be super specific with this i just need to go to those coordinates at this y level and place a portal there as you can see i’ve kind of bridged all along here we’re gonna have to close

This in because it is a little dangerous and we’re on hardcore but this is the staircase this is a staircase that goes all the way up i don’t want this staircase here i want to be able to just completely go to the correct location on this one y

Level that way we can ice it over and use boats to get around fast obviously this is easier said than done but i’m going to try my best to be paying attention to my coordinates and i need to go to negative 162 negative 177 also the straighter i can make this the

Easier it’ll be so rather than going on a diagonal and heading towards both i’m going to negative 162 first which is right here about and then i’m going to turn this way and go to the other coordinates just very there’s a magma above my head which i’m

A little worried about i’m not gonna lie okay despite the immense amount of panic i am feeling um i think uh yeah that is just it’s making me so nervous this is where we need to be roughly our portal is directly above my head somewhere so basically i’m just gonna take it down

And bring it down here build it on this layer and hopefully we won’t have any problems with that oh giant magma please have mercy okay that’s the mission let’s go get the portal i’m literally gonna break down the one that i already built hopefully that’ll be fine okay here’s the portal

Basically all i have to do is break this and rebuild it and hope that a magma does not kill me in the process and i’m just gonna expand this platform a little bit so that we have some space to build oh big magma incoming oh dear

Okay all right no no no we’re not gonna do that we’re not gonna do that no thank you okay now all we need is a portal right here okay and finally there is the portal um i think this will be fine shouldn’t be able to be pushed off can

Walk in here safely and this should connect up to the stronghold in theory please yes okay perfect so this is now a really easy way for us to get back and forth to this location yeah brilliant okay i love that that was easy we can use the

Nether more often now it kind of gives our portals more purpose this is great we could decorate this tunnel make it look beautiful we could do some sort of like glass pathway along here maybe so we can see the view the beautiful bastion is over there

I have so many ideas this is lovely i’m pretty sure this is one of the first times that i’ve had a world where i’ve actually connected up the stronghold normally i don’t yeah yes the world is at peace once again i love it okay back into the overworld

Let’s get to work on the village that is enough adventuring for one day i feel really good about what we got done though honestly so accomplished look at us go i have so much basalt that it has in fact warranted having a chest just for basalt um but that’s fine that’s better

Now back on the topic of these villagers i have a few emeralds to my name as you can see i’ve been doing some trading and i’ve actually decided who are you you’re new i we’ve never met how did you get it what i only have three lecterns one two three but i have

So many librarians you’re my mending librarian i i understand why you exist you’re kind of a random i didn’t re-roll this one i think you were an accident um okay that makes three in this building but then we have the name tag one somewhere and a sharpness one and we have like six

Librarians and three lecterns how has this happened also where did that librarian go hello excuse me oh you two are friends that’s fun hey can i can i can i come in yes this is our master librarian who sells name tags we are gonna go ahead and do some name tag

Trading today very exciting very exciting that means we’re gonna name three more of these villagers i love pierre and barbara and carl and i feel like more of our villagers deserve names i’m not gonna lie okay my name tags are prepared now i just have to find the

Villagers that they’re meant to go on i’m gonna try to name the librarians today you two are i don’t know how you exist but it’s fine um you are my mending villager so a bunch of you suggested that i name the mending villager athena which is a beautiful

Name i love it thank you for the suggestion athena you will do a wonderful job supplying the mending books for this entire village you are named after the goddess of wisdom though so i’m not uh you’re gonna struggle to live up to that i’m not gonna lie um hi hello

Uh you don’t get a name today i have been inspired by the love story that is going on over here um i don’t know why i just love it so this is gonna be clarence and this is gonna be florence i just really like those names they seem

To live together in the stonemasons house even though this is our master librarian and this is our snow mason which to be fair was one of the first villagers i ever traded with they’re both master professions i think it’s perfect clarence and florence i love it okay you two will live happily

Ever after down here in the stonemason’s house the other thing that i’ve been working on today is a little tiny bit of the docks i i know i haven’t really mentioned it to any of you but i’ve been sort of working on just thinking out how i want to do this area

And this is what i have so far so we have this little staircase area that comes down and then we end up with this little kind of wharf area let me um just go out here so this is not much obviously right now it’s just sort of a

Sketch but i’m envisioning this sort of wall along here with wharves on the lower part and then maybe some sort of more rural more poor houses sort of on the outside that nobody really lives in because i want my villagers on the inside obviously um but yeah i think that’ll kind of work

For what we want it’s kind of cute i like it now in terms of actual building projects for today i actually do have one for us to sort of end off the episode because i want to see if any of you like this um we haven’t done a whole lot of adding

Banners flags that sort of thing to the castle yet and i feel like it’s really important so we have a bunch of stone in here and just in general just so with so much why we have so much all the time never ends um we’re gonna use a whole

Bunch of this now and i’m gonna turn some of it into stone brick i’m gonna go ahead and build a castle tower specifically we are going to work on the tower that is right over here so the one um hang on can i find it oh we’re

Getting a little packed in here i’m not gonna lie i’m gonna work on this tower right here this tower and this tower over here are going to kind of match um they’re not quite the same shape but this one is actually bigger but they’re gonna kind of match and have big flags

On them because this is the entrance from the dock area like if anybody was coming to trade with our kingdom which they’re not but we’re pretending if anybody was coming on ship to trade with our kingdom this is what they would see so i want

These towers to be big and epic and have sort of a flag on top so i’m gonna go ahead and get to work on that um what do you say we got to a time lapse huh that kind of mix it up a bit let’s do it Mission accomplished i think what do you think clarence it’s good right it’s something honestly i do like the flag on it i think that the red works really well kind of tying in that original red color that we had at the library that i haven’t really tied in since i went with

A terracotta roof i think it’ll add a little bit of a contrast from all the granite that we have going on overall kind of like it could use a couple more roof details i think and maybe a little bit more texturing you can see i’ve just

Got some andesite in there at the moment could definitely use a bit more on that side of things but in general it’s not bad overall i’m really excited to see this entire area come together this is a big part of that i think this is a big deal

I’m happy of course a bigger test will be seeing it from out on the water so let’s go test out this view big reveal okay you know what it’s not bad picture one of those there and then one here as well i think that’ll work out we’ll have the

Flags flying the same way because obviously the wind is going one way and i think overall that’s gonna be really nice for a pop of color in the sky we’ll get some banners hanging off the wall and spots too to help a little bit more

With that color but in general i like it also very pleased with this dock it’s so good it’s so nice you know what we need to show milky the dock this is like perfect for milky milky look you’ll never believe it i’ve started building in your area i know

It’s gonna be great don’t even worry look at this milky isn’t it fantastic melky for now you are going to be our sailor out here keeping an eye on the dock keep those drowned at bay thank you very much milky all right perfect i like it i especially like it

From this view this is so cool it’s gonna be so epic to be able to look up and see the big towers ah i just love it it’s not possible to walk along these walls perfectly yet but eventually this will all connect together and we’ll have some supplies inside the towers but

For now this will have to do and with that everyone i do think that that is going to be all for me today thank you so much for watching this video i hope that you’ve enjoyed it i certainly had a lot of fun exploring today and even doing a little bit of

Building i’m very proud of our little nether project that we have going and i’m so happy that we found the stronghold and can now take on the dragon whenever we decide is fit thank you so much for watching and supporting the series i hope i’ll see you in the next episode goodbye everyone