Minecraft 1.17 – Cave Base Transformation! (Caves and Cliffs Update | New Cave Generation)

The first look at the new 1.17 cave generation is now out in the latest snapshot 21w06a and i think i speak for most people when i say that it is absolutely amazing it’s going to make caving in this game so very exciting and i for one cannot wait to delve underground and go

Mining throughout these huge caverns but today there shall be no mining we will instead be transforming one of these caves or at least a section of one into an awesome survival base so of course the first thing we have to do is scout out a location that we can start building in

Whilst this is a pretty cool cave i think it has a little bit too much lather for my liking this is really cool but also really big i think a little bit too big actually it does however have two amethyst geodes right here which is pretty sweet has the frequency of fossils been

Increased in this latest snapshot or is this a super rare find let me know in the comments i believe this is one of the spaghetti type caves as they’re currently being called i do really like them however i’m not sure it’s exactly what i’m looking for

It’s not what i’m going to be doing today but here’s a cool idea connecting up all of these different mine shaft pathways and making a great big custom one in the center of this room you might need to block off that lava first of all though maybe something underwater it would

Definitely be fun and certainly different i’m just not sure how practical it would actually be in survival i gotta say though these tiered water pools definitely one of my favorite things in this new snapshot i’m thinking i want to set up in an area similar to this

With these structures here from the roof of the cave to the base i’m not exactly sure what they’re called but i really like the look of them so wherever we end up picking as a location i definitely want these nearby something just like this how cool does that look i absolutely love it

We’ve also got some geodes nearby which is sweet we’ve got all of these waterfalls over here but this is a huge cave and obviously we can’t possibly transform this entire thing in a single video that would take far too long i’m thinking we just cordoned off a

Small area in this cave and make that into the base possibly around this waterfall here that is filled with tropical fish falling down from the ocean perhaps this water is a bit lighter colored so i’m guessing we’re actually in a lukewarm ocean as you can see over there on the left hand side

So that’s why we’ve got all the fish but where are you guys coming from because you are non-stop falling on my head okay so where does this lead as you can see it connects up to this waterfall here going past the abandoned mine shaft that’s pretty cool we’ve got

One source over there but continues higher up here but doesn’t reach all the way to the surface to my knowledge i’m guessing they’re just spawning here okay well we’re gonna have an automatic fish farm in our base i guess that’s pretty cool food source sorted okay this is crazy look how many fish

There are come on get back in the water we’re trying to keep you guys alive it may get really annoying and be super inconvenient if this were actually to be in survival but it’s kind of funny and i’ve already got the idea in mind so we’re just gonna roll with the punches

This is definitely the only time that i’ve witnessed a sunset underground in a cave very strange but it is the snapshots and bugs are expected to be buggy so i’m not really surprised to be seeing something like this probably just the world hasn’t loaded in back there but anyway

Let’s begin with the building now i think starting off with that wall that i mentioned so i lost that clip where we talked about said wall but not to worry because it’ll probably make sense when you see what we’re building next how does this seem size wise going around here

I think that should be enough room but we could always expand it off that way a little bit if need be and nothing is permanent in minecraft we can always make changes but for now that’s pretty good so what i’m gonna have to do with this is make it so that

Mobs can’t jump over it with the exception of spiders of course they can climb walls but the other ones they’ll just need a block to walk over so as long as we don’t have anything that’s just a one block gap and we always keep it at two or one and a half we

Should be all good and i’m just going to use full block slabs and then stairs to try and change up the shape of this and make it look a little bit more interesting than obviously what we have here so this is what we’ve got and i think it’s a pretty good defense system

I’ve gone around a couple of times and just checked that there’s no way for mobs to get into it everything is at least one and a half blocks tall meaning mob shouldn’t be able to climb in with the exception of spiders as i said but you as the player are gifted with

The ability of jumping meaning you can access this place from basically any direction as long as you can make a very simple parkour jump so say you’re being chased by a group of creepers all you’ve got to do is be able to jump a couple of blocks and

You can actually access the inside and same goes from getting from the inside to the outside i have made a couple of nicer sort of staircases here but generally you can get in or out through any of these directions now i may come back to this later on and add in some texture

Using some cobblestone and andersite but i think for right now this is gonna be good i would actually like to start work on the inside here and i think the first thing we’re gonna do is turn our fish waterfall into a water source for a crop farm

I know i said we could use the fish as a food source but it’s primarily tropical fish that drop down here and that’s really not a great choice for a food source in survival they only heal you half a hunger bar i do believe as they cannot be cooked

So having a crop farm would probably be a good idea and basically what we’re gonna do is just stop the water flow around the source here and kind of build a crop farm around it and what i may even do is just for fun try and incorporate a

Fish farm at the same time so we’re gonna make a crop farm and a fish farm in one build that may be a first oh no i’ve blocked off the water and we have some dead fish i feel like a little bit of a monster right now but there’s

Not a whole lot i can do because i can’t really work with the flow and water sorry fishies there we go i’ve modified the waterfall up here so that it’s just a single shoot which should make it a bit of a cleaner farm at the bottom here

Once again i’m sorry fish but you’re really in the way well hello there it’s me from the future just quickly popping my head in to say if you are enjoying the video consider subscribing it’s free to do so and i’ve got lots more 1.17 videos on the way

Some in creative doing tutorials and the like and some in survival in my single player let’s play series all of which should be very fun so if you are enjoying the video consider subscribing i would love to welcome you with open arms to the channel the question is when a fish falls on

Farmland does it until the soil i guess it’s going to be a waiting game to find out because they have slowed down a lot since i’ve shortened the water source it in fact does not that’s wonderful otherwise it was probably going to ruin this entire base or at least the concept

Of the farm but there we go unplanted seeds but we have the fish farmer from running no collection system but hey you can just run around every now and again and pick up some free fish there we go the crop and the fish farm is all up and running as you can see

They are falling like crazy so that’s a good job done i think the next thing we’re gonna do is actually work on a storage area a place to hold all of the players items and i think we’re gonna do it over here in this little nook i’ll probably just

Flatten out this surface here so we don’t have the divot in the ground like the cave has generated but i’m thinking we just turned this wall into a nice little area filled with chests pretty simple but effective i would say we’ve got 20 double chests in total a

Nice little roof shape here and some pillows that have some glow item frames on that are new in 1.17 so we can easily see what items are actually on display going inside of all of these chests and yeah like i said it’s pretty simple but i do think it looks really nice

In that corner there the next thing we’re gonna do is get rid of a bunch of these blocks in the walls here i’m not really a big fan of the diorite and the gravel and all of the auras and the granite in the wall i may actually end up

Keeping these diamonds maybe display some more throughout the base just as a small flex but i think we’re just gonna go with a nice smooth stone so i’m gonna rip out all of these blocks and make it nice and neat Oh yes using diamond door for decorative purposes we love to see it it looks really cool kind of similar to ethos man cave that’s where i got the idea from he has diamond door plastered all over his walls here and it looks really cool just a fun little thing i would say oh

Sorry bats did not mean to punch you there but as you can see i did smooth out most of the walls here i haven’t gone too crazy otherwise i don’t really know where i’ll draw the line and i could end up having to make this all smooth stone

Which i don’t really want to do as you can imagine but i did also just in a couple of spots add in some more slabs and stairs just to try and smooth out and get away from the really blocky areas i haven’t gone too overboard but i’ve done a small amount once again

Just to try and smooth things out so what else do you need in a survival base we’ve got our storage we’ve got our diamonds in the walls of course and we have our food sources i guess so many fish down here also a little bit of bone milk that’s cool

Too but i think the next thing we’re gonna build is actually going to be a furnace array probably in this wall here and i may even try turn it into an automatic super smelter of sorts not entirely sure if that’s gonna work but i’ll give it a try

Well here’s the smelter and it’s all up and running the only trouble is i have no idea how i’m gonna cover this up and make it look good hmm yeah i don’t think that looks too bad let’s give it a test actually now that we’ve got it to a completed point i’ve

Got my diamonds in the chest ready to be smelted up let’s press the button and it should equally divide all of them up across the furnaces here uh it’s gone around twice there because obviously it’s just gone back around but they all have the same number

This actually will have to be a lever but we can always change that out super quickly there we go then the powered rail will stay on and our smelted diamonds should end up in this chest as they do wonderful so we’ve got our furnaces we’ve got our food and we’ve got our storage

I think the next thing we’re going to add in is maybe an enchanting setup and i think i’m just gonna pick an open spot here and stick down some bookshelves and an enchanting table and everything else you would need to actually enchant an item and bills grindstones that sort of thing

I’ve built it just in front of the storage here we have this nice open spot that was perfect for a 5×5 area which is what we’ve got here with the 16 bookshelves that’s enough for 30 levels we also have some upside down barrels and some extra storage

And then our grindstone and anvil are on these two stone shelves which i think look pretty cool but whilst i was building that i had a great idea for something that could go inside of that little gap in the stone and that is a nether portal i love how

They look when you can’t really see the obsidian and they’re just hid behind some blocks and as you can see that’s exactly what this one is and we can actually access it pretty easily we just got this stone leading up to it and as you can see i’ve raised up by a bit

Because it was getting in the way of the chest so what i’ve done to solve that problem is you press this button and you do a little bit of parkour and you end up in the nether which uh maybe a little bit difficult to get to but

How often do you really go here i don’t think a little parkour every now and again hurts you okay this is not my base how have i ended up here of course you cannot forget all of these blocks the loom the crafting bench the cartography table and the smithing table they are very

Helpful in survival i’m not a huge fan of how they look when they’re just placed down sort of randomly by themselves so i’ve covered them up with spruce trap doors but you can still access them or completely shut them up if you wanted to the only other thing is the stone cutter

But i think that fits quite well with the grindstone and the anvil here so i’m just gonna stick it underneath the grindstone i’ve gone with gray and then cyan on the corners which i think just looks better than the oak plank texture that we have as

Top of the bookshelf so i would say that’s that little area done obviously we’ve got our super smelter over here the only other thing i can think to add at the moment is of course a place to sleep we’re gonna need a bed and the finishing touch

A flower pot with a blue orchid to go inside of it looking very cozy if i do say so myself another thing that’s really helpful in survival for some players is a brewing stand so i’ve made a little brewing set up over here kind of keeping with the same style as

Our bed frame i think looks pretty good and i’ve also added in a couple of armor stands with some of the new tinted glass that has been pushed with a piston to make these display cases which i think looks pretty cool and makes that section of the stone that

I felt like was missing something a bit more interesting now i may have forgotten some elements that would be really important in a survival base but for everything i can currently think of i’ve got it all added in and this is more so meant to be

An earlier game survival base as i say looking directly at a full suit of netherrite but this is just meant to have the necessities and not anything bigger than that that you would maybe have in a late game base and basically it’s got everything that i

Would want to have if i were to be playing in this world in survival there’s only a couple of things left to do before i’m happily cooling this place done one of which is to light it up it may seem very bright but that’s simply because i’ve had night vision on this

Entire video it’s actually got a ton of spawning spaces everywhere so i would like to place down some lanterns and maybe make use of some of the new candles possibly and the other thing that i’m gonna do is add in the texture with the underside and the cobblestone

Like i said earlier on in the video hoping to make the overall base just look a little bit better man it just got real gloomy in here and it’s also made obvious that the tinted glass really is tinted light does not get through this does it so i

Don’t really know why i put the redstone lamps behind them maybe i should change it out for another but as you can see i’ve got the candles down which do not provide as much light as i thought they would i know they kind of grouped together and the four

Give off more than the two for instance but still they’re not very bright at all so i’ve kind of made a couple of piles of them all bunched together around uh just a few sections of our base here and then the rest of it is just lanterns on poles or hanging from things

Like over there and we do have a couple of dark spots here with some mob spawning opportunities but look at all the spaces they have to spawn out there the likelihood is pretty low i have added in all of the texture and i am now happy to say that the base is done

So here is the before and here is the after and it is so very cool i am really happy with how this has turned out and i hope you guys do like it as well i think it’s got everything that we could need for a survival base and

Fingers crossed has given you guys some ideas those poor fish some ideas of what you could do when 1.17 drops for a survival base underground so that’s everybody is gonna be it for the video i really hope you did enjoy watching i certainly enjoyed putting it together for you guys

I’ve had a blast it’s been so much fun playing around with the new 1.17 stuff i am so very excited for the caves and cliffs update and i hope you guys are too it’s gonna be a ton of fun but thank you so much for watching the video

And i will see you next time bye for now You