Mining for Diamonds – Minecraft 1.18 Let’s Play Survival #4

Excuse me excuse me yep that’s my grass block hello yeah if you don’t mind i just like that thank you hello everyone welcome to my let’s play welcome to the grove look at it in all its glory ah i’m excited to build in here aren’t

You b you have a home okay all right fair enough so everyone the time has come i think for us to start thinking about building up our base within this grove this is a beautiful place to build and if i’m being honest i’m a little nervous about it mostly because i don’t

Want to ruin all of the natural beauty but also because we’re not really prepared so dandy we got to get prepared at the moment as far as resources go well we don’t have a ton well we’ve got lots of cobble and we’ve got some food

But we have a few riches like we’re not doing horrible but in terms of building materials we mostly have spruce and cobble which i have used to my greatest ability i think i mean i enjoy this house it’s good house but we could do better and so today everyone we venture

Out into the unknown the main objective of today is to find new building materials things that we can bring back to the grove to increase the diversity of the blocks and things that we have around the main focus for me today is going to be all of the wood types

There’s an ocean right there and that seems like a great place to grab a boat and head off all right i got my trusty boat let’s see what the world has to offer oh i should do a sleep hold on sleeping at the bottom of the ocean as you do

That looks like a desert but unfortunately it’s just a beach that is a very cool biome i love it why look it’s an azalea tree so we’ve already found a lush cave but if we hadn’t found a lush cave before then this tree would mean that there’s one

Below and what you can do is you can actually follow the roots all the way down into the cave see how they keep going i don’t particularly need a lush cave though but i appreciate this hello turtles this is a big beach you got here i spy with my little eye shipwreck

Let’s give this thing a little peek shall we what’s in here oh a buried treasure map perfect this is our first buried treasure map of the world okay we’re getting closer look at that closer closer we should be on it right up here now we just line up

The butt of the arrow with the center and in theory we’re standing on it there it is okay this is what we needed perfect and we got a diamond cooked salmon heart of the sea it’s a good day this birch forest is really beautiful but i’m not seeing any other types of

Trees oh look at the water up ahead it’s turning into warm ocean that’s a good sign that’s where we need to go oh and look at that it’s an underwater temple and there’s little nemos it’s all coming together oh and look at that nope uh not that that’s cool though that oh

It’s a savannah biome look there’s a village there’s people who live here it looks really beautiful hello villagers lovely place you got here wow oh i’m interrupting uh i will actually take these saplings thank you thank you that saves me some time brand new wood type acquired since we

Have successfully found a warm biome i think i’ll try and stay around here and see if there’s anything else to see oh look at that and that’s what we like to see unfortunately i don’t see a desert of any kind around here so i guess we’re

Going to the jungle next so this i believe is the new biome they added in 1.18 yeah a sparse jungle and as you can see it is a lot more sparse oh and look at that there’s a bamboo forest over there this is perfect okay i’m up to nine saplings that should

Be pretty good i think whoa look at this i think i want nothing to do with it though i want that bamboo i need so much of this i have a spider spawner so i can have all the scaffolding in the world oh this will be perfect there’s huge cliffs

Over here that’s so pretty oh and a dark oak forest that just happens to be the last wood type we need for now there’s just a couple more things that i need from the jungle like melons for example i was also hoping to find a friend in this

Biome although it may be more difficult than i originally anticipated whoa i was not expecting to see that what i forgot things can spawn in the rain jeez that’s the first jump scare i’ve gotten in minecraft in a long time excuse me no thank you and right when i was losing

All hope of ever finding a friend in this biome at least it’s pretty oh look at that right there is it a bird i think it is let’s go get us a friend everyone hello friend hello you’re so pretty yes best friends forever i’ve gotten myself a friend

Everyone i love this parrot i think i’m gonna name it lucy lucy the parrot painting now lucy uh we’ve gotta go up there come on yeah that’s it stick with me you got it okay lucy here we are the dark oak forest this is one of my favorite wood types so

I really want to get some saplings from these i feel as though some people would probably consider this an inventory of junk but for me and lucy it’s just what we needed now come on lucy i think our home is actually this way some people wonder when i go on these expeditions

How i always manage to find my way home and well usually it’s just coordinates because i usually live near spawn in my let’s plays i’m usually near the coordinates 0 0 so as you can see i’m just going closer to 0 0 right now generally once i get close to where i

Live i can recognize the area and then easily find where i need to go i know that mountain shape anywhere that’s our home lucy that’s our home dandy’s going to be there waiting for us the process of resource gathering is going quite well so far and i’ve set up

A little area for a tree farm right down here now this is temporary of course but it’ll be a great start to getting a lot more diversity in the blocks that we have access to in this grove which will help a lot for building and while we’re

On the topic of resource gathering let’s gather some levels we’re level 30 just like that perfect okay so now as far as the next stage goes we need to enchant more things we have our fortune pickaxe right now which is going to be greatly helpful but we also have more diamonds do you

Know what the efficiency four is actually quite tempting to make a second pickaxe is that dumb do i need two pickaxes i think it’s our best bet lucy i’m gonna do it second pickaxe please be good please be good oh if i had an anvil

I could make a very good pickaxe is this all the iron i have to my name i believe it is but uh it is enough to make an anvil so i just do that and then we do this we’ll be able to get fortune 3 on this pickaxe

I feel like that’s worth it okay i’m doing it i’ve decided yeah and i put the rest of those diamonds away before i do something dumb now as for the rest of my gear i think we can just give it some like level one enchants like this when

We go down in the mud it’s a dreary rainy day in my grove so i think we ought to hit the mines on episode one we were lucky enough to discover this cave right here but i never went down it so i’m manifesting my richness and we are

Going to see if this takes us down towards diamond level it’s looking pretty promising i think oh it’s a very spiky cave look at that it’s a mine shaft down there and a lot of baddies i used all of my iron in that anvil so i’m happy to be able to fortune

Some iron and get some back hi creeper hello hello spider hello everybody yeah i’m just gonna wiggle on past all of you if you don’t mind thank you wonderful honestly i feel like that’s the way to handle mobs in this update you just just run past them just girl boss your way

Through it really doesn’t matter that much now that is a spawner unfortunately we can’t girl boss spawners excuse me sorry yeah okay i can light them up to the best of my abilities excuse me sorry yeah okay oh you know i might be in danger oh i was

In fact in danger luckily though i respawn right here so i can just grab some food and be on my way this is why i’m not in hardcore mode by the way it allows me to be a little more silly than i would be if i was in that mode ah

Two endermen sitting under a cliff in the rain that’s cute i like that i’ve gotten some emergency supplies from my house i think i have about three minutes to go get my stuff before it despawns uh we’ll see if i can do that you see it do you see it oh boy

Oh please be there please be there please be there oh it’s there it’s there okay oh perfect perfect hello enderman got it okay brilliant look at this cave that looks pretty cool i’m not really interested in any more deaths in here though so i ought to be very careful oh look a chest

What do we got oh diamonds perfect just what i needed and a name tag we can name dandy okay this is turned around nicely if i do say so myself hello two spider spawners with both having creepers in them okay you know what that’s a nope corner that’s a nope

Corner we’re gonna nope on out of there came down here for diamonds so i suppose we ought to get quite a lot deeper huh whoop hello okay this is a huge cavern but i don’t see any diamonds these drip stone caves feel super dangerous to be honest it’s kind of fun

Ouch come on dude this is rude yep that’s definitely a spiky cave okay um if i just wiggle my way through here three skeletons oh and oh that’s really that’s not ideal is it i’ll just be a second hold on time out i’m not a wimp this is called tactical digging yourself

In a hole very important and very smart okay we continue on brave as ever no worries creeper this is so beautiful i’m fine that was just that reaction time that was good reaction time i knew i knew gosh this place is scary it’s a child as a child it’s childish child oh

Gosh it’s a child okay i’m just uh running by all of my problems pretending they don’t exist so far it’s going well oh whoa look at this a spawner a zombie one this time oh and we got diamond horse armor that’s what i like to see and gold horse armor and i’m

Gonna screenshot those coordinates just in case i want to come back here oh here we go look at that diamonds oh and more right there it’s taken me like 20 minutes of caving to get here but i think it’s worth it let’s go first diamonds now we’re up to eight

What i am gonna be rich that’s a really good lock on the fortune look oh my goodness there’s more right there i haven’t even gotten those ones yet okay these types of caves are so good for this actually i don’t know what they are but they’re the ones that aren’t the

Really big ones i think they were called noodle caves or something like that the actual formation but they’re proving to be very good look at this oh my gosh this is 16. this is perfect i’m gonna have diamond armor in no time and another just a

Single one by the looks of it but that’s okay now we’re up to 17. okay we’re in the good black caves now i think let’s follow this one as far as we can whoa there we go found a path that goes deep hey look diamonds oh and some lava

And it’s at least two that’s pretty good there we go we’re up to 23 diamonds this is definitely the most diamonds i’ve ever gotten keeping i mean normally i would just strip mine for these but caving is so fun now and it’s so easy to get what you need just

Coal i actually really need coal to be honest oop goodbye bat another diamond and projectile protection the game knows i’ve been struggling huh another chest ooh iron coal a pickaxe jeez these are pretty good whoa this goes to bedrock what i’ve never seen this before this is so

Cool i’m gonna do a little strip mining right off of this mine right here on level negative 58 just to see if it’s any good for diamond oh here we go diamonds okay our first strip mine diamonds that honestly didn’t take too long at all and

It’s a group of three which brings us up to 27 total diamonds oh i got more look at this oh um okay didn’t expect that but look at this it’s another big vein of diamonds so those were really close to each other the last vein was right here

That’s actually really interesting so so far strip mining was really fast as you can see i didn’t actually go that far at the end of the tunnel is literally right here but we’re up to 36 diamonds now which means we’ve got more than enough for a set of armor let’s

Return to the surface everyone if i can figure out how exactly to do that uh that’d be great oh real quick found some more diamonds first well i was gonna go to the surface but i mean if you’re gonna give me more diamonds i’ll stay oh my goodness we’re up to 51.

Only been mining for an hour and i’ve gotten 51 diamonds just to make things a little easier on myself i think i’m gonna try to mine upwards i’m at negative 44 so uh this may take a while my bad hello well i i broke out into a new cave so

I gotta look at it i mean you can’t break out into a new cave and not look at it can you oh and we got some bonus diamonds see it’s all worth it all worth it excuse me you explode real quick yeah perfect and it’s only one oh no never mind

Two bonus diamonds perfect oh never mind three bonus diamonds oh it’s a slime hello is this a slime chunk that’s kind of handy i’m gonna screenshot these coordinates because we just found out that this is a slime chunk so uh that’s big news oh more diamonds

I know i said i’d stop but i’m literally addicted i can’t stop it’s so i’m i’m rich i’m becoming rich how can you ask me to stop i’m at 61 diamonds for real though i uh i will stop now i’ll i’ll stop let’s go to the surface come on

Home sweet home dandy we’re rich i’ve done it look now as for my supply of riches as you can see we’re doing quite well i think so let’s fire up the old smelter and let’s put some of these diamonds to use shall we i think we’ll finally be able

To get our very first set of full diamond armor look at this i think that’s the first time i’ve ever been able to do that and of course we also want the diamond tools i always make a second pickaxe to be honest we’ll need a work one and that leaves us with

Still 37 diamonds over half a stack after we’ve made all of this i’m not gonna lie i’m very impressed with myself here i think i’ve done quite a good job that’s quite the improvement on my usual survival skills now dandy i only have 21 levels and i have quite a lot to enchant

So i figure we have to spend a little bit more time over here at the spider grinder hello i’m not gonna lie this thing looked like a whole other player i was like am i on multi did somebody hack into my world all right i’m recording this right now the day

Before mcc and i’m already a little anxious because of that competition so that just like uh sort of like freaked me out a little extra anyways let’s farm some spiders oh and also i feel like i should finally finish this room since we’re going to be

Spending a lot of time in here so i think i’ll dig a tunnel over to my little secret tunnel that i have and see if we can’t get something better sort of situated here i think right through here i should be able to connect in towards

The spawner yeah there we go so now i can just take out this whole room and i won’t have to climb over the mountain whenever i want to come here to grind some xp i am officially level 30 which means we can go enchant our very first piece of

Gear basically my plan is to just put all of the items in and see what the best one is like i’m hoping for feather falling on the shoes efficiency 4 is quite good for the tools and breaking three is something i’m probably not going to go for an

Efficiency x seems like a really good deal after all of the wood chopping that i’m gonna need to do down below so yes we got the perfect work axe i like that okay upgrade number one is done let’s go get some more levels there we go level 30. okay let’s see

Which enchantment we get to go for this time um it’s looking like it’s gonna be either a pickaxe or a shovel for efficiency and i think i’m gonna do the pickaxe just efficiency okay well that’ll be an okay work fix so that we can save our fortune one in here

This should hopefully get me back to level 30. yep perfect it’s nothing quite like the early grind of getting things enchanted for the very first time in the world let’s see what’s it gonna be this time it looks like this time we’re going to get to do a piece of

Armor so i think i’m going to do a chest plate um i don’t love doing unbreaking ones but let’s try it please please please okay do you know what at least we got some protection on that that is a lovely piece of armor i think for now though let’s put away the iron

Gear don our beautiful diamond armor lucy i match you we look good this is perfect it’s not all enchanted yet but it’ll do the job i want a little break from all this xp grinding it’s time for build andy i have a vision for this grove things that i want to happen

All around here and i have so many different ideas and things that could work but first we need to do a few things that can make our process of living here quite a lot easier one of those things is an entrance to the grove like an actual big entrance not like our

Secret cave only problem is there’s a giant mountain over on this side so i think we dig through it going to start i think with just a fairly small hole going through here like a three by three and then we’ll kind of be able to expand

And see what we want from there just a tunnel basically hey there’s a cave here ah here we go the other side hello you’re getting to test my diamond sword thank you a quick sleep okay so that’s the length of the tunnel which is not bad who died who’s who’s doing a death

Hold on excuse me thank you so now we just gotta widen the thing imagining a very epic entrance here but for now just a tunnel and after just a little bit of effort the tunnel is partially cut through you can kind of see the path that goes all the way and

Underneath the mountain and we’ve got so much space for activities in here we’ll be able to bring villagers in and out and i imagine when you step through this doorway it’ll be a big moving piston doorway and you’ll step through into our grove which would be built up in this

Fantasy way maybe a big tree maybe a big castle maybe a dragon who knows but i’ve got tons of ideas and i’m so excited for them i believe that’s all the time that i have for today though everyone thank you so much for watching me as i work in

This world and i hope i’ll see you all in the next episode goodbye everyone