Minecraft Hardcore Let’s Play : Castle Tower and Full Netherite Armor

Hey folks whip here and welcome back to the hardcore survival world where we finally have this lovely little totem of undying in our hand and i’m so very excited for it last episode we took a little bit of a break from the castle right over there and since then holy cow

I’ve been doing a lot of work gathering up jungle wood like crazy because today my friends we’re going to be doing an absolute massive amount of building here on the castle if y’all are excited please be sure to click that like button down below and let’s get rocking we have to do a

Tiny bit of prep work here first and foremost so we can know what the heck we’re doing and that is going to involve getting ourselves all the way up to the top right up there but i want to make sure that whatever we have down here is going to be something that’ll be

Interesting to look at and i have a lot more variation to it it’s very easy inside of a minecraft world just to kind of be boring and just have everywhere being pretty flat so i want to make sure that we’re having a lot of additional height variation

Coming all the way up here with the final little bit of the slab action and then i think right about out here we can incorporate the full blocks and that’ll be a good point to bring a flattened out layer for ourselves up here what are we at right

Now we’re up at 84. that seems pretty dang good to me well it’s a lot of blocks in a weird little skinny line going all the way up there doesn’t feel like very much but it should be feeling pretty good later on that’s gonna be the bottom layer of

Where we start to build what i’m calling the castle bell tower today before we get to the big boy right over there we’ve gotta check out a little bit of building work that i’ve been doing in between episodes and that my friend has been the beachfront right over here i

Love this place last episode we added these two additional houses down here they look absolutely beautiful and i thought it was time to make the front area actually look pretty good out here too so we got a bunch of smooth sandstone and sand and dirt and all that a little

Bit of wheat that’s gonna be growing up around here we got some rocks on the shore but that does bring me over here where this this has to be fixed my friends in the last episode we didn’t build a field we didn’t add any more fields to this area so for sure

Today i want to expand the beetroot field i want to expand the netherwart field and i actually also would love to on top of creeper hill here bring ourselves a brand new potato field that will come in here shortly though because first we have 57 levels and i need to get my enchanted

Armor sorted this is protection 3 and feather falling 4 and what are we able to get on this guy protection 4 that is exactly what we want on the boots and on breaking three holy cow those are some really good boots right there what else would we

Need i guess we would need depth strider on them a very important one here is gonna be a brand new sword for ourselves because the current one we have is only sharpness two and that’s really not the best thing ever unbreaking three please give me something good

Knock back not not what i wanted we’ll take that just take that back but first the other item we also want to get some more enchants on is gonna be a new diamond helmet because i really want to have a better respiration on here and we also need aqua affinity i don’t remember

If that’s on the helmet or the boots though i think it’s the helmet okay you know that’s a pretty dang good diamond sword over here i guess we can hold on to that one for now i will have to find some way to get some more sharpness books that might be through

Villager trading though i’m seeing respiration three over here oh my gosh that is an amazing helmet holy cow but we need fire we need the blast protection on the helmet because that’s very important to surviving in hardcore we are down to 36 levels now so i should

Probably do the little bit of item combining that i can to make sure that we can actually get this pretty close to god armor as much as we can so if i want to make as crazy of boots as we can right now that’s going to be 26 levels i don’t

Think that is worth it so right now what we’re gonna be rocking instead is getting rid of fire protection and unfortunately losing depth strider but we’re getting feather falling four and protection four seems pretty worthwhile to me so we’re gonna throw those guys right back on

Here we did i did it i did it i’m down to two levels 57 to two in about two minutes lovely but we do know have a looting three sharpness three fire aspect two diamond sword as well which is really cool so i’m gonna leave this guy in here

And that’s gonna be absolutely awesome i’m sorry my cows i have looting three now it’s nothing personal i also have fire aspects so i get instant steak off you all close your eyes i guess steak really is for dinner for uh the foreseeable future at this point

Everybody but that was so worth it we’re just gonna leave those two stacks in there and this leather is coming with me because we need to go to mooshland and buy some more mending books by the way if you were curious where all those levels came from this

This is where they all came from 64 blocks of emeralds worth of trading pumpkins and melons to these farmer villagers and just like that we are almost up to level 30 again i’ve just got one more of the dudes to stop by thank you very much for the multiple

Stacks of emeralds my friends ooh they’re up to two emeralds now come on you are you’re killing me over here bud you’re killing me two emeralds for a mending buck how outrageous and done i remember that i can actually trade for a bunch of the polished goods with these stone masons

Over here so that’s gonna be super nice because i need quite a few of these for the new build that we’re gonna be working with today i’m so excited to show it all to you here you go nova i know you’ve been keeping all these guys in line making

Sure they’re working hard for us so you can have a stake before we head back on over to get some work going on i’m gonna repair the shovel here real quick at the spider farm which has been working so well so just finished sharing all of our woolly

Friends over there and i’ll tell you what folks i owe it to you all from the last episode because we forgot to get the fields planted down it is time for yet another field planted montage [Applause] And there we have it my friends we’ve got the beetroot field expanded over here i added two additional trees on top we’ve got a giant potato field right over there on the end it and even the nether waters being expanded as well unfortunately ran out of salsa and i do want to eventually

Have it coming down basically to the river’s edge but it is looking so good for now i’m really really wanting to put like a lighthouse or something out here and take down that little island it could be so fun in this area we have to have some buildings out here

We put a road after all so let me know what ideas you all have i’ll tell you what though folks i’ve gotta get the grind on gathering a bunch more blocks to get moving forward with that castle build and i also would love to actually get some netherride armor today so i think

I’m gonna grind here for a little while break a bunch of blocks and then you know after we get really burnt out on that it’ll be time to go into the nether and explode a bunch of beds because that’ll be fun now i’ve got like 99 problems but birchwood

It ain’t one of them anymore folks but what is the problem is we need to dive into the nether and hopefully not explode ourselves when we go looking for some ancient debris and i really gotta remove this pumpkin and melon patch here so we can actually get a

Pathway going through there because i’ve been uh parkouring across the tops of pumpkins for uh part far too long in my lovely ender chest i’ve got stacks of wool and i’ve got a bunch of spruce wood but i think i might go get a little bit more

White wall first just one more super quick round of shearing an auto wolf farm would be super nice here uh but we’ll get to that here soon i feel like the otto wolf arm is something that isn’t quite essential to us right now it’s nice but it’s not essential i don’t

Have viruses potions but if we need it we do have the golden apples and then i have a fire as this gold helmet over here that we can throw on but i think the blast protection is the most important seeing as we’re actually going to be exploding the beds in a sniper gas

Sniper gas sniper aiming aiming oh please don’t hit a piggy first try definitely and another one oh nailed it i’m not putting the gold armor on right now actually you know what until we get down there do the exploding probably worthwhile to wear it because uh there’s a lot of piglens and endermen

Around here now i know mining through a basalt delta is not the best typically for finding ancient debris because there’s so much basalt and blackstone underneath them it’s impossible to actually blow things up so we’re probably going to be headed off what is that direction east we just need

To get all the way down this i think is actually where our original portal was and that’s lava that’s not going to work to get us down okay new path needed there we are y level 12. that’s what you’re supposed to do this on right i’m gonna make a little

Bit of a tunnel right over here so going off in this direction and then another little one going off in this direction gonna do double torch right there so we can remember where the exit is and now my friends we get to the fun part of let’s explode a bunch of stuff

In the nether and hopefully not kill ourselves so blast protection for helmet you’re going right back on there i will not be using my glorious magenta bed and i should probably make a double chest or two just so we can have a little bit of storage down here

Now let’s start going straight up this direction over here moving ourselves forwards a few blocks do you say right there and the farthest we can click on the bed is from all the way back in here and what i like to do is just step right back in here we’ve got the blast

Production on so we’re going to be safe from the explosion let’s do that oh perfect okay did we get anything first one appears to be unsuccessful but moving on to right over here another one right at the end and go we’ve got our first one from the mining

Trip so far check that out right there look at that ancient debris right in the room oh a second one and a third one now i believe we already have three back at home so that’s pretty sweet that’s a good find to get ourselves started We’ve only got two pieces of wool left which means it’s pretty much done zone that up to 19 ancient debris now and i think i would like to try and get a little bit more so i was thinking well i’ve got these pickaxes because we can repair them

And this guy well actually both of them will be able to instant mind everything i might as well just do a little bit of roaring action around here and see if i can’t find any the old manual way of just so we can break as many blocks as you can oh

My gosh it actually worked well for one i’ve got one very dead flippy picky at this point in time my friends because i have been breaking things like crazy all the way around here just going absolutely insane just different directions all the way somehow even ended up down there

But check this out we have 36 blocks of ancient debris that is absolutely amazing i also went back and gathered up a lot of the nether gold ore so we can smelt that down too but oh it’s an ancient another right now they have been down here too long and listening to

Re-worrying so much that i don’t even know words anymore but it’s ancient netherright debris armory times of diamondy goodness back home in the overworld now feeling good and oh my gosh am i ready let’s head back over here and i’ve got all the furnaces ready to go at this point in time i’m

Gonna smelt down all of the nether gold as well so it goes directly into some ingots for us and i think what i’m gonna do in here is um we’re just gonna go with those guys in there and we’ll do these ones in here and they’ll start smelting down and then from there

Half stack and now i wait oh my gosh i had two more that need to be smelted down inside of here oh 39 another right scraps for ourselves that feels good and oh my gosh we finally got some gold back i used all of the gold to make a bunch more golden

Apples over here kind of forgot that uh you know we need to actually use that stuff to make these netherette ingots which we’re getting nine of them all right so that’s good let me make sure the door is closed nothing can get in here taking off all of the armor because

First and foremost we are doing full another right arm right there’s the helmet there’s the chest the legs and the boots oh that feels so good cover me in debris oh oh it’s so good so good i feel so much stronger now already oh boy now we have five of them left

That is perfect i also put sharpness five on the nether right sword recently and sweeping edge three got some more villager stuff sorted out in between working all this stuff and then we got the pickaxe right in here i’m gonna do this shovel i still want to

Get up to efficiency 4 but we’ll use it for now that guy is ready to rock there too and the final one which is going to be great is i want to put it on our fortune pickaxe i know it’s going to take it down just a touch

But it’ll increase the durability on it so you know that’s great it’s also got mending can repair that later but oh this one little bit right here like took like two and a half hours something like that and oh we are so much stronger already full nether right tools full nether at

Armor i’m ready i’m ready creepers i’m gonna come get you just kidding please stay away i will tell y’all what though folks it is time to keep the hype a roll in here let’s go ahead and kick this off in a good old-fashioned time-lapse mode and build up the castle bell tower There it is my friends the castle bell tower i am in love with this build from down here it looks absolutely amazing i can’t wait to get the rest of the structures in around here and i’m so glad that i built this central piece first you can see i

Started adding a few extra buildings around it being this white diorite structure right over there we got a chimney popping up to the top there and then we’ve got this little archway right here that’s going to be leading into another building reason being that it’s important to

Build the central one right over here is we run into a few issues like the archway right here needs to go into a building right but then that building is going to be roughly as tall as this central guard tower on the gatehouse so building this really sets the scale for

Everything else so i should have put that stuff down the terrain a few blocks but it’s okay we’ll make it work out we’ve got access to get up to the top which will go up to here soon but i think for now i’m actually going to be taking that down i started adding

In a little bit of foliage around here with these leaf blocks on the wall and i was thinking we could do a little bit of something right in here that could be kind of cool to add into something right like this and then i got the puzzle in here as

Well so we’ve got ourselves a little bit of a plant potter and then i did bring some dark oak fences with over here with me too so we can throw these guys in and i want to build one of those little spruce trees we’ve been doing around the area i absolutely

Love including foliage and trees and just life in little plant potters and things like that all over the castles that i build so we can quickly come all the way up here and i think i’m gonna remove this little warp trap door since i was mostly used

For spawn proofing i love this a little bit we did these pressure plates and warp trap doors right in there and it looks so good but bringing this stuff all the way right up here and then sure let’s just go like another two blocks up and bam little tree in the

Corner i know it blocks the window that we have for the diorite build right over here but i think that’s totally okay to have uh we still got to get the whole inside of this thing sorted out but it’s going to be very cool in here i’ve set it up

To put two thick walls on it seeing as i popped all the glass back here so we could give it a recessed feeling when you’re looking at these windows from the front i think it looks so much better with it pushed back just a touch there

Next up however is i want to finish up the roadway so we can get at least a little bit wider along here seeing as it’s kind of dangerous to walk up right now so i need to get a bunch of slabs of that stuff and i also need to see if we

Have any andesite left and i’m not feeling too hopeful right now oh just kidding we have plenty perfect now the plan is to roughly have about five blocks wide going up this entire section so we can have a lot of that stuff working out but the original idea was

All of these building outlines as where the road would be going over to so i think for now what i’m going to focus on is actually this upper section because again building from the middle going outwards and then we can easily push these buildings back in but like bringing

The cobblestone area that we have up top all the way out to line up with this cobblestone outline that we originally made here i think it’s gonna help me out personally a lot with being able to see how much space we have to work with with detailing and whatnot

Upper section is now finished up for this main plaza area and these dudes will not leave me alone it looks like a few of them are starting to walk away so i’m curious if we take these guys out you know we’ve had a few problems with them so far inside this world

Yes it looks like we’ve split the crew and uh i apparently can’t hit any of them no wonder i had problems and goodbye okay but got a big old flat sheet of cobblestone up here and now it’s time to start incorporating a lot of the andeside i’m leaving this road down

There because uh one i’m starting to run out a little bit of cobblestone i only got 39 left realizing the way i like to do texture variation recently instead of just having a splatter of where it’s randomized all over the place i like to create little blobs or different shapes throughout i really

Like to avoid these checker patterns that we have right in here so i think what that means is i can start moving off this way a little bit more there is a little bit of extra stuff we’ll be adding around this place to make the road a bit more detailed and

Things like that that will eventually add to the other structures as well but for now we’re just getting the base pallet down the front roadway is shaped out here as well now too i’ve got enough cobblestone back from breaking everything up there that i was able to

Throw all this stuff in i’ve got to finish up this bit of the section red in there too so we can have a nice little front entrance point and ooh this is going to be a great sunset right over the tower through our brand new gateway

Dang does that look good yep it’s a good world everybody it’s a good hardcore world ran back over to the storage room to grab some smooth smooth stone over here and i use even more pillagers what the heck why are there so many in this world but anyways i was gonna

Say this building looks amazing i am so happy with this but what i wanted to show y’all is there’s a cool way that you can just add a little bit of detail to your castle area super super easily and that is by coming along these points and we’re gonna

Actually give it a little bit of a rounded edge along here and then bringing this out and then we’ll do it right along here because all you need to do is take a bit of a block and turn it into a border it can easily make your road look a lot fancier

Especially when you start to do this on both sides so we have it over here then we also eventually are going to put it over on this side whenever that building is built out but you follow the shape of the building that you’ve created and then just do that all the way along

And i think it looks amazing also one thing i forgot to point out is we have this back little staircase here and a very cool little balcony it didn’t show up too well in the time lapse but i love this thing i can’t wait to get it

In here and actually have some stuff you know inside this big old building of emptiness right now that’ll be uh something we deal with later but i love having these little staircases around the area eventually that land’s gonna come down here we’ve got a bridge probably on this same layer i’m standing

On right now i’m thinking we’ll just take it across from here what are we on 82 yeah 82 is a good height because then we only need to bring everything up there about like 15 blocks yeah totally fine this is looking really good but i think we can do a few things like

Adding some plant potters with some bushes coming up out of them right along there which we’ll get to in just a second but one final detail we can add into the road to help smooth this area out a little bit further is if we come in here and just start adding

In some stair blocks like these guys we can really help to smooth out the shape that we had whereas before it was feeling a bit harsh and now we can use it just a few of the stairs like that it can help to smooth that little bit of the lip going

Up to the next half slab level the goal of this is to just simply make it feel a little bit smoother as we’re going so say we may be doing right there and then we do one right here it helps this feel a little bit more rounded

Then we could do another one right back in here and perfect went over to grab some composters and some more leaves and it’s finally time it’s time everybody we got to take this melon and pumpkin farm out of here it’s been here for way too

Long i’m not even using it more so it’s just a parkour course to get across so that i can actually get over to the castle and it needs to just turn into a roadway one thing i really want to stress as we’re working throughout this world is i’ve

Really got to figure out a way that we can just not have a functional minecraft world that if we’re using pathways to get around i want to turn to something that we’re actually going to use and walk on and make it look like we’ve been walking

On it which means we need to come right down over here and start working some path blocks right back up here it’s gonna feel so much better just having this roadway connected but i definitely need to wait for all these things to die out in the

Grass to grow back so it might be a little bit of a project that we tackle every now and then but for now we can expand the enchanting tower staircase over a little bit i’m so not used to having these now the right tools it’s just like whew

So much stuff is broken maybe we don’t need efficiency for all right as soon as that stuff all grows back in here that’ll be totally fine we can get the slabs in and that’ll be working out as the night is setting this is what i was talking about for the

Plant potters make sure not to right click on the composter but i want to bring in composters with a little bit of the acacia leaf action on top of them i think something like that will work out really nicely we could maybe i might try moving this one here to the

Front no i like it on the sidebar something we can do on the front here instead though is these little guys which i love also added a lantern up there and a few lanterns over and that way as well and i’ve got to find a good way to light this stuff

Up do we think light gray carpets with light sources hidden under them is the way to go i’m trying to think of something because i don’t want to just have torch spam everywhere let me know what ideas you have but i am very impatient and i want to

See this map updated over here so i think if i take oh please tell me it’s it’s going to be exactly no no no it’s not yes yep it’s going to be exactly split on these two okay well what are we gonna get a giant cobblestone square it looks like oh boy

And what is behind map number three more cobblestone map number four more cobblestone oh it’s looking good oh i also need to update these though we added a bunch of big fields over here and you know i guess some houses on the beach too that kind of did happen

I love watching maps develop as you explore them again i love that oh that looks so good i know mooshland is taking a little bit of a hold as we originally were going to go hard on that project but i’m so excited working in this area so far i hope you

All are enjoying this one next thing i wanted to work on as a final little bit here is i need to start getting some more coarse dirt and some slabs actually on these pathways so i don’t have to jump up every single block so i’m gonna go get a bunch of spruce

Slabby boys for ourselves and see if i can’t uh find some coarse dirt here too coarse dirt has been added to the entire front roadway and i started working on a little bit of a retaining wall over here too which i really like we got some lanterns on the front and of course

Incorporate a little bit of granite so it ties back into the build itself but oh my gosh it’s so nice having all of these pathways finished up as i’m jumping just for the speed here we don’t have to jump at all to get back home one thing i am absolutely

Loving though is the amount of vines that are hanging down here so it’s making me want to build like a big old tree right in this area those kind of block the line of sight for the castle so you can almost barely see it when you’re down

Here and then when you come up you lose a lot of it due to a tree being in your face and i think that’s kind of a fun way we could play around with this so i might throw an oak tree or more of a willowy tree up there

But then we need a pond too with it oh build ideas build ideas everywhere i couldn’t help myself here folks i had to come out here with nacho or is this are you quesadilla i don’t remember what your name is sorry buddy but anyways i had to come all the way

Out here because i wanted to see this build one more time slap on some fancy shmancy shaders over here and i think the part that i’m loving so much right now is because i haven’t looked out of shaders is the little village right over here that we’ve been working on

And i love the transition from little village to giant castle on the hill in the distance and it is looking absolutely magical oh i’m so excited for this we got the sun setting so we’re getting the great picture right now oh it’s looking so good i

Can’t wait to keep working on this stuff let me know what you think we should be tackling next as far as the castle build goes i’m thinking we should do the stables but if you have any other ideas please be sure to let me know down in the

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