Minecraft: 1.13 Aquatic Update Building Tricks and Tips

It’s a puffer fish rave this is the best update ever hello my name is green and welcome back to another minecraft video today i’m going to be showing you some building tricks and tips with the new blocks that are brought in with the aquatic update 1.13 to minecraft now this is a snapshot

Normally i wait for the full release to come out but i think there’s more than enough here to do a video on and trust me buckle yourself in because there is a lot of stuff and i found some pretty cool glitches having said that i can’t

Guarantee that all of these will make it to the full release as i’m pretty sure i’ve found some interesting bugs okay so i’m going to assume that none of you know anything about this update although i’m guessing a lot of you already know all of the new stuff so i’m going to

Briefly go over everything new nothing nothing too slow i’m just going to go whiz over everything okay so let’s get started shall we well the first thing is we get these like faceless pumpkins nothing much to say we finally get some slabs for the prismarine dark prismarine

And the brick slabs it’s amazing all of the things that we need to be able to use these blocks more efficiently has been given to us absolutely fantastic and a personal favorite of mine for this update is the trapdoor variations the pressure plates and the buttons that will come in

Later to show that it is a huge thing for us builders especially the spruce okay so moving on we have basically blocks that existed before but they have now been made available in the inventory itself so if we look here smooth sandstone smooth stone have all been added to the

Creative inventory i actually mentioned that in a previous video that it didn’t make sense that these blocks existed in the game but we didn’t have access to them in the normal inventory way so thank you moyang for putting that in and same with these log blocks here they’re six sided they’re

All the same again these were available but only through commands and we got a surprise new block that i wasn’t expecting at all is the stripped logs these are absolutely fantastic i’m going to show you a few examples using these blocks later on but i absolutely love

Them and then of course we’ve got some new water mechanics so as you can see there’s water surrounding that fence post there instead of having air around it same with the iron bar and there’s so many more there’s so many tricks that i want to show involving the new water

Mechanics and then we’ve got the coral and we got this random dried kelp block which did surprise me somewhat but it’s it’s very useful and we’ll see that later and then we’ve got all the corals all of these are very pretty blocks the only downside of course is that they

Have to be adjacent to some water to retain their color if not they become these dead coral blocks here so even if i select this red coral if it’s not next to a water source it is dead and it’s gray but these gray blocks are just as useful as the colored

Ones as we’ll see later on and then we’ve got some more plants actual corals that need to be placed under water we’ve got kelp which is this brand new animated plant along with seagrass small and large all three of these are fantastic it’s the first time that something truly

Animated in this fashion has made it into the game which i think is a really big step for the game’s style which is really cool we’ve got a couple of new mechanics the magma here actually draws down people when they’re in water so as you can see i’m sinking

At uh it’s all slow right and it can be hard to swim out of that and this is more like a bubble bath it’s just pushing me upwards we also got turtle eggs which were a bit of a challenge to find a use for but they are very pretty

And very unique so i’m sure something will come out of that later on so that was a brief overview of all of the new stuff right so let’s get into it the first thing and probably very obvious thing using the trapdoors is that you can actually make yourself

Some actual barrels of water now instead of having a fake crate where you just place it around like this you can now use these trapdoors which which have no holes in them at all and then you can actually place some water inside so that it actually has

Some aesthetic use same with the dark oak trap doors and you can take it one step further by making some like animal troughs of course the animals in minecraft don’t actually need to drink water but it’s nice to sort of include all that kind of stuff in farms anyway

So by wrapping around these spruce stairs like so you can make a little chair and then section it off by placing some trapdoors and then putting the water on the staircase itself and it won’t go anywhere and even if you do that but it will flow if you break one of the truck

Doors moving on this may have crossed your mind but basically i made a couple of sewage pipes which you may want in a larger build or in a cityscape or something like that these could be extra useful for those large scale projects like i just put a big pipe here with

Some iron bars and then the water itself actually looks like it’s flowing out of it which is really really cool and you can even make a small one by just making a square using the cobblestone stairs however there’s a weird glitch with water underneath the staircase which is

Is really strange so i’m guessing that is just a bug and that will be taken care of but you can do the same on here with fences and stuff you just there you go it’s a very easy thing to do to have the water flowing out of the

Pipe it’s a very cool technique that i suppose you could do before but it’s because you’re able to place the water in these staircases that allows you to make it look even better next up i wanted to show you something that doesn’t look particularly good how i’ve

Laid it out here but it’s just a proof of concept so basically you can put farmland adjacent to water sources even if they are inside a staircase or a slab meaning we can essentially make some very tiny water sources for our farms for example here is just a slab version but you will

Fall into it but then you won’t sink so much that you can’t walk out so essentially you can create irrigation systems within these staircases themselves and if you want to travel pretty fast along you can press down control and swim along which is much faster than walking it’s more fun as

Well or if you don’t want to step on it install instead of using lily pads on top of these water sources as we previously did you just put them inside a staircase and you can walk along and there’s no chance of you falling in whatsoever and the great thing is all of

Your farmland will become wet which is exactly what we want but we don’t want to fall in the water as we do it so that’s just a very brief proof of concept i really want to see someone make a massive farm using that system another small idea again using the new

Water mechanic technique is by creating actual sewers on the side of a road so imagine that this is a big cityscape and we’re walking along here is an actual sewer and you can’t really see it but there are some drains down there as well so you could really make something cool

Here and there are multiple designs that would work and then of course again using the water mechanics a big thing is you can make some pretty cool waterfalls now water is i wouldn’t say it doesn’t behave for you but you can manipulate it in ways that you couldn’t

Before so instead of just sitting on top of this staircase it actually sits on there and that’s the smallest we can get out of it and then it will flow more gently i suppose so it doesn’t just flow absolutely everywhere so we can create much nicer waterfalls for ponds and all

That kind of stuff and these dead corals actually make pretty good nice mix with all of these cobblestone and all of the other gray blocks we’ve got so many grey blocks in minecraft now it’s astounding right so that was just to do with the water mechanics those few there now i

Want to show you some of the things we can do with the new blocks themselves so first up i want to show you a bathroom not too exciting but there are some pretty cool tricks that you can do here is straight away some good use of the stripped logs and the trapdoors

Which look like shutters and windows and all that kind of stuff and you can actually make a proper bath now which is one of the big features of this example that i wanted to show you because you can make baths very easily using cobblestone you you can just place water in them and

It actually does look like a run bath which we couldn’t do before very effectively and the same with a sink you can put the water in the sink itself so there’s lots of cool things there and i want to point out that you can use trap doors for the roof particularly the

Dark oak trap door not only does it look like chocolate but it actually looks like a roof tile as well particularly with a pallet like this one another trick that i want to show you is the fact that pots for some strange reason you can now just place them

Anywhere yep i’m not just showing you all the new stuff i’m showing you some of the stuff that we’ve discovered while experimenting with everything in this game so if i remove the block the pot actually stays there but there’s this weird bug that i found and if you look from above

You can’t see through the pot at all but if i go underneath it’s you can see through it it’s you know you could see anything through there even if i place a block up here i can then see that block very very strange and i imagine that’s not

Intentional but i can then place as many pots as i like meaning we can do some pretty cool tricks we can put flower pots on top of levers on top of glass panes on top of end rods and there’s all sorts of things that could come from that in terms of interior

Decoration you probably expected me to mention this right at the start but we can make aquariums now we can put fish in aquariums we can decorate it with coral and grass and everything new in this update and it would be such a really nice decoration for any interior

House provided that you have enough space so this is just an example using some of the new blocks especially these spruce trap doors which are officially my new favorite thing about this update forget everything else this is my new favorite thing and the dark oak bark and all that

Kind of stuff but it’s just a proof of concept i will be doing an entire video on how to make some excellent looking aquariums so bear with me on that one we will get there eventually next up i wanted to show you these dead corals and

How they can be used in different ways because they are gray although they do have like a little bit of purple in them we can use them with our gray builds very easily they’ve got some very strange patterns and you could make some murals out of them if you want it could

Look a bit like artwork or wallpaper all very useful for that kind of build now i’ve shown this a million times but we can actually do it in vanilla now you can make trees with the six-sided bark block and you will not have to see any

Of the interior bits of the wood at all making it look very clean and more realistic because you wouldn’t normally see those in reality would you so that is a really cool feature that you can now do just by grabbing them from your inventory itself instead of having to

Use some sort of command so that’s really cool next up another interior design and another bathroom again just demonstrating that you can use the bricks as a bath and all that kind of stuff you can even make a shower sink instead of a bath if you have one

But the main thing about this one is the kelp block itself it’s a very very strange one because the pattern is offset it’s a very weird one like this isn’t equal to this side and it means that we can make a really really nice floor block out of this is honestly

Very very strange but i really really like it especially when it comes to a kitchen or a bathroom tile design there’s nothing quite like it so it really does fit if you can be bothered to collect that much kelp so moving on another use of the kelp

Block is as wall art you can actually just put it inside instead of using a painting for example you could just put it inside a wall and it looks like modern art similarly you can put the turtle eggs on top of an end rod and it looks like

Either a lamp or modern art i think it’s up to you which one maybe maybe both i’m not sure modern art is you know eye of the beholder and all that but another use for that and i must admit i did struggle to find a use for

The turtle eggs especially as they break if you if you jump on them too much yeah there we go it makes a very satisfying sound though next up is another use for the trap doors these ones in particular because you can see through them with their transparency and they’ve got a really

Nice pattern you could put some colored blocks behind them and they look like paintings themselves as well i know it can get boring with the new with the old minecraft paintings themselves so you can find more interesting ways of decorating your house and you can make a really cool table using the new

Trapdoors especially with the spruce one because it just works so well with everything next up i want to show you a more complete design that you can use using various new things from this update so there’s as you can see quite a lot to take in but i’ll go through it rather

Slowly so that we can not miss anything at all so let’s start with the floor itself it’s raised off of the ground which is typical of an asian style particularly japanese in this case now these here stripped birch log and the oak log if you place them in a

Particular pattern sort of one two one two and alternate them you can imitate tatami which is sort of a map made out of straw in asian cultures and it’s a very very cool thing to be able to do which we weren’t able to do before we actually used these dark oak pressure

Plates as seats the only unfortunate thing is we made the table out of trapped doors and if you sit on them it does it does collapse through which it obviously isn’t ideal and we can now place pots on trapdoors which we weren’t able to do before so we can actually put

Cups on there as well so that’s two things that we actually did there and we used some more of these trapdoors as decorations it just offers us a lot more use because before we were limited to the single oak trap door now in this situation for example

It just doesn’t look as nice and as clean and it doesn’t match the whole style especially with these holes in them as well so by using the birch ones and the spruce ones which have no transparency whatsoever it fits a lot better you can also see that we use the

Dried kelp block in a similar fashion as we did over there and we created some japanese style doors that you know slide along obviously they don’t slide at all they just open up in sections but we can kind of imitate it by putting the trapdoors either side of this block just

By facing this way or by placing them here and we can sort of make it look like there are two sliding doors either side on the roof above we’ve got the stripped spruce log mixed in with some planks and there’s just various ways to use the new blocks

All here so if you do like building in japanese style or asian styles perhaps take in some of these blocks because they’re very modest coloring makes them perfect for this kind of build right moving on that took a while to get through this is a very simple one you

Are now able to put flower pots on top of fences as well and i thought it would look really cool as like a tiki torch especially if you’ve got some kind of beach build or you know island or whatever you could put some tiki torches there however you cannot light them on

Fire at this stage so it will just be decorative in that respect but i’m sure there will be lots of different ways that people use these pots being able to be placed anywhere thing so now i’ve got a couple of house designs to show you so these are again

Just using some of the new blocks in different ways so this is a very famous style that i’ve done lots of times which is sort of like a desert house and i just replaced the normal sandstone or sand with smooth sandstone and it works really well i replaced the normal

Log with stripped logs and i actually put some of the stripped birch lock as a base to this house which makes it look really nice with the contrast and i put in some buttons there for good measure as well and you can as you can see made

Some pretty nice shutters as well so overall i feel like that style of build has been improved by being able to use all of these new blocks next up you might have expected this one this is just a very simple log cabin but this time using stripped dark oak now let me try

And explain why this is important so previously if we made a log cabin it would be using these blocks here actual log blocks but you can see that there’s no differentiation between these two so when you when you stack them up you can’t really tell that they’re logs

The difference is with the stripped ones there’s a dark patch right here between the two so when they’re stacked on top of each other it really does look like logs are being stacked on top of each other which gives this build in particular a really nice look and then i

Just had them overlay each other and stick out slightly and it works really really well i also use the trapdoors to overhang some things to give it a bit more detail but again that’s kind of a preference thing more shutters and you you get the idea next up i just wanted

To show you the coral and how it could be used as a wallpaper we only got to see one block earlier on but if you put some water behind the wall itself imagine this in a bedroom you could use this as a really nice patterned wallpaper the same with all of these

Really they work really well as a patterned wallpaper maybe even more so than the terracotta blocks which i think can be a little bit over the top sometimes if i compare the yellow glaze terracotta that does look like a kitchen um it does look like a kitchen wallpaper to

Be fair but this one’s just a bit more mellow mellow yellow okay so next up is another aquarium design but again utilizing all of the new blocks and stuff that we’ve already seen this is actually a turtle aquarium and i only put two in here because if

You put three they breed like mad and it’s just full of them so you could create some really cool aquarium designs and like i said we will get back to that it doesn’t have to be fish you can have a couple of turtles if you can coax them

Into your aquarium itself we are coming towards the end now and here is another kitchen design again using some of the blocks there are so many ways that you can use these blocks that they can’t all be shown in one example so this is just another one

So we got a lot of our normal techniques you know fridge and cabinets and stove and all that kind of stuff but we actually put an aquarium inside the kitchen itself used some kelp blocks to decorate the walls and put some water on the actual table itself to try and

Give it a little bit of a different touch and you can use all of these trapdoors in many different ways as you can see here sort of laced them over the top but the one trick that i really wanted to point out here are these hanging quote lights

So this is a very strange thing to to do but it worked quite well if you take a flower pot and you place it in the air floating and you put a cactus on it and then place end rods underneath it connects up so perfectly it’s so

Flush yes it’s green and weird but it really does look like a system of modern lights that are shining down now it’s weird because the cactus does vanish if you look upwards but i think that’s all the better makes it all quirkier if you ask me but that is a really weird but

Cool design that has come out of the changes to the flower pots so hopefully you’re getting a bit of inspiration from how you could use all of these different blocks moving on of course you can now make a swimming pool and we’ve just made it out

Of the prismarine stuff to show how that can be used and of course you get the new swimming animation which is absolutely fabulous i really like this this is this is a real step in in a direction that looks a bit more modded for minecraft but i’m not complaining i

Think it’s really cool i think the ocean and water mechanics are seriously outdated and you can make a hot tub by putting soul sand which of course pushes bubbles up you can sit in here with a couple of your friends and talk about the weather which is always really nice

You can make some pretty cool chairs as well just using the trapdoors and anything that you could use oak trap doors before you just replace it with a better color now and it will look even better so that’s an obvious one that you can make swimming pools

Next up is like an aquarium showcase itself so you can place water behind or encase water there’s no barrier blocks or anything here we’re just using trapdoors and you can place coral in the water itself and you can make like a little aquarium display so you could put fish in there

But i have a feeling that they might just eventually swim out of there and it could be a colossal waste of time however it seems to still work here but i just can’t guarantee if they if they’ll behave themselves or not but you can essentially make a pretty

Cool aquarium and there are different ways to demonstrate the trapdoor usage here all of them just simply block the water from flowing out and i’m sure there are many other ways to do that that will come to light later on moving on now this is really cool now i am like 90 sure

That this is a glitch because as you can see the water hits this sand block here and doesn’t fly off and drown everything and drench everything with water same with these corals meaning that if this stays in the game for the full release of this update you could decorate your house with corals

And kelp and whatever else now there’s a very specific way on how you do this so i’ll quickly demonstrate how to do this and you can try and experiment yourself as well to see how this works for you so i essentially placed a sand block put the trapdoors around it and then i

You have to make yourself a water source at the top but you need to make sure that it is all blocked up around the bottom sauce so that it flows down straight like that and then you place the kelp block and that happens that’s completely normal you then just block it up

And you can do this all the way up the top especially with kelp because it is it does go bigger so you can place them all the way up and yet that will happen completely normal but as you remove them the kelp will stay in place which is

Really really interesting now i also found a new secret that is kind of different here but for example on these ones i couldn’t find a way for this to work with the water source being gone so all i did was place the sand there and that

Happened with the sea grass but with the kelp it broke and it only destroyed the top layer so as long as the kelp is three high and you place a sand here it will then leave it so we’ve got this weird situation where it looks like

We’ve got this aquarium i mean we can delete this as well with it it’s completely cosmetic and you can do the same with any one of these if i take the yellow coral plant for example let’s give that a go shall we so if i put water in this box here i

Place the yellow coral plant i delete the sand and there we have a floating yellow coral and the weirdest thing you can delete the block underneath it as well and it just floats how bizarre is this this this is why i’m saying this is 90 sure that this will be a

Bug and get fixed because this is so strange so so strange and i don’t know oh i could have sworn that was too high when we left it there’s obviously a lot more experimenting that needs to be done here and i wonder what happens okay so that

One does get destroyed if you destroy the bottom block so i’m assuming that that will be the case with these ones they’re perhaps just not as up to date yet so that’s that’s interesting and i thought i’d share that with you just in case it does make it through because

This could be an excellent way to decorate your house with different plants that aren’t just in a pot or whatever so moving on another bathroom design can you believe it and i think there’s actually another bug here that i wanted to show you and trust me this

Sort of this last bit all of the bits here are just sort of bugs that i found that i really want to show you and i’ve got to show you the best one in a minute so this one here is a dispenser with a water bucket in it now if you press it

Switch it on it does dispense the water into the quartz stairs however now this is this is what i’m sure is a bug because dispensers as far as i’m aware don’t just make blocks vanish and this is just so strange now if i take this dispenser and i take this

Water bucket and i put it in here and i activate it it dispenses it right normal stuff but it also sucks the water back in now i don’t i don’t know if that’s normal or not but it all seems particularly fishy to me get it whatever whatever um so anyway back to

The bathroom itself there are actually a few more tricks in here that aren’t involving dispensers destroying things so this here is another use of the trapdoor i know trapdoors are just so good so if you place them in alternating fashion so if you go like so you can make yourself a pretty cool

Looking like wooden floor and i’m sure most of you will have seen these especially in like public swimming pools and stuff you can make a little walkway made out of wood that’s slightly raised and it’s like little platforms which is really cool and you can also use the

Flower pots here underneath some sea lanterns or glowstone and it actually does look like lights especially when you look up because from this angle you can’t actually see the top of the flowers it really does look like lighting that’s really cool you can also make a pretty cool shower as well

Again something that we could do before so yeah there’s all sorts of really cool things now on to my favorite discovery of this entire update and it’s something you can only really get away with in creative mode but i’ve got to show you so i’ve got a little square here i

Filled it with water and then i take my puff fish egg and i just spawn as many as i can now you could do this the long way with buckets full of puffer fish as long as you have many so i’m going to place as many as possible and you can see i’ve

Actually got the poison there now eventually there’ll be too many and they’ll start dying but watch this as soon as i take out this water it’s a puffer fish rave this is the best update ever [Laughter] but eventually all things all good things must come to an end and the

Puffer fish dance until they drop it’s just my favorite thing about this update it’s so stupid as well it’s not really a building trick or tip well well whatever there’s a lot of puffer fish friend there’s a lot of fun to be had by experimenting with all of these fish

And finally this may not look like much but this is another little glitch that i thought could potentially be used as a trap if you are willing to give it a bit of time now i was just experimenting with what would happen if i put a lot of fish

In the same place so what i did was i got the cobblestone slab and i made it only half a block full of water and then i spawned a lot of cod in this like a lot of cod and eventually the fish don’t really know what to do because the ai is pretty

Interesting and they sort of eventually clump up into the corners now i then introduced some tropical fish as well if i could right click them there we go just a few of them now these are a different size so they sort of hang around in the middle while these guys

Fill up the spaces in the corners and all you’ve got to do is trick someone to fall into this place and they get pushed around so much that in survival mode it is an absolute pain to get out of here imagine that this is made of obsidian this little box here i

Could not get out if you if you try if i tried i’d have to kill all of the fish to get out which could be it’s just a little bit a little bit of fun you can make some really interesting traps using these fish that that push you around for

Example what you could do is have this little trap here that you fall down you can’t get out of by any other means than killing the fish which is actually a lot harder than you would think to get rid of all of these and you could slowly

Have the lava like tipping down this hole and if you don’t kill the fish quick enough and get out you are gonna get got so that’s just a quick trap idea because that’s how my mind works in these things so i wanted to show you as

Much information as i could and all of our ingenuity and creativity and we definitely didn’t even scratch the surface with half of the stuff that is possible with this update i’ve got to admit this has been my favorite update in a very long time there’s just been so

Many good things added here and i really feel like mo yang have really perhaps listened to the community on this one because there’s a lot of really cool things and some very cool surprises and i absolutely love all of the textures that are added as well there’s some very fun

Glitches that i’m sure will get tweaked in the near future but hopefully all of this stuff will have given you a bit of inspiration using the new update in minecraft so there’s nothing else to say but thank you very much for watching thank you to pajazil and pearlescent

Moon for helping me put together all of these ideas and i look forward to experimenting more because i’ve got at least four videos that involve this new update so i look forward to showing you those thank you very much for watching and good bye