Mining Gold & Automatic Bartering! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Lets Play) [S2 E69]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode we are going to go out in search of some gold because i would like to set up a piglet bartering facility i want to set up an

Area where i can barter with piglens pretty much non-stop to get all of the useful stuff that they provide and in order to do that we need to acquire a reasonable quantity of gold there are ways to farm gold infinitely in minecraft using zombified piglens but

We’re not going to get to that quite yet because having mined out that whole chunk of the world over at the mountain that we’ve done in the last little while i decided that we should go and take a look at where in the world to find gold gold is something that we found

Relatively scarcely in that one chunk and there are places in the world if you’ve seen that or distribution graphic i was talking about so much in the last episode where you can get hold of gold in much larger quantities we’ve got a reasonable amount of it right now we’ve

Got blocks of gold some of which were scavenged from nether portals some of which were just acquired from all of the gold that we’ve managed to smelt but gold doesn’t occur in huge veins in the same way that copper and iron do instead a good quantity of it can be found in

One very specific biome and no i’m not talking about the nether although you can still get nether gold ore at the risk of angering the local piglens no instead i’m talking about badlands i guess it’s more accurate to call this a family of biomes than just one biome

Since there are a few different types of badlands that can form throughout the world there are eroded badlands as well as these wooded mesa plateaus with you know trees on the hilltop and that kind of thing and madlands are kind of unique in the sense that they have very

Specific ore spawning the only other place that has a unique approach to all spawning really is mountain biomes with emeralds but in badlands you will find gold spawning as commonly as iron does this badlands biome here may not be the best example because it has a couple of

Like surface caves that lead down below the surface here we might be able to dig a couple of gold veins out of this but naturally it’s a relatively small area so the area that we have in order to find gold ore down here is fairly reduced swimming down through this

Aquifer though we come out into a cave that’s got a lot of action in it okay we need to be here on our guard a little bit here but as we explore the caves underneath this badlands we should start to find a decent quantity of gold we’re underneath the wooded badlands area

Right now and gold should start generating from y-32 on down but here we are standing at y-31 and above us in the ceiling is a pretty decent vein of gold but underground it’s kind of difficult to tell exactly where we’re in the badlands biome without having the f3

Debug information up on the screen the entire time so i think i’m gonna go in search of a larger badlands which will hopefully have some gold generating on the surface we can see we do have a section over here on the edge of the desert and this is the eroded badlands i

Was talking about which forms larger spikes of terracotta reaching up in more jagged formations like this as far as surface gold and caving prospects go though this one looks a little bit similar to the others in that we don’t see a huge amount of stone generation

Higher up so we’re not going to see as much gold generating in this area finally after flying around for about an hour i find a badlands that i can sink my teeth into this thing is pretty large actually we’ve got some eroded badlands around the outside and some pretty hefty

Plateaus around here from which we could get plenty of terracotta but of course that is not what we’re here for we’re here to check out the caving opportunities and boy does this place have a few of those we’re going to try and swing around to one i spotted

Earlier yes over here by the desert of course the desert divot here is not going to have the gold generation that the badlands does but just a few blocks inside of here as i was flying over i did see that there were a couple of veins of gold just sat around on the

Surface i mean there’s an example right there we’re at what why 50 right now and the gold is clearly just sat up there we’re also going to find that potentially if we get into higher elevations in badlands the gold is going to generate in a big block of linear

Generation in the same way that coal does in mountain biomes elsewhere in the world of course i would prefer if it were slightly more accessible than this and came with fewer hostile mobs so i’m going to take another look around here refresh my fireworks from my ender chest

And hopefully we should find a nice bit of surface gold generation and here is another great opportunity for that badlands biomes have a chance for an abandoned mine shaft to generate as part of the biome itself they generate higher up than they typically do in the other

Regions of the world and that’s because these can open out to the surface allowing for easy access for mining opportunities especially if you want to go mining for terracotta but as you get deeper into the badlands plateaus you’ll often find areas of stone generation inside the plateaus themselves and these

Are ideal locations to look for gold here we go got a little bit of gold all around here we’ll grab some of that that’s nice and easy to grab at yeah y64 so we’re at sea level right now we’ll even get a few abandoned mine shelf

Chests from in here oh a diamond very nice i’ll take that i’ll grab the coal as well because i need to make sure i keep torches on me as i go around here unlike the abandoned mine shafts that you’ll find elsewhere in the world these generate with dark oak supports instead

Of regular oaks so it’s kind of going to stand out against all of the bright colors of the terracotta around here they do still have cave spider spawners as well so you’ll need to watch yourself while you’re down here but if we go further up into the heart of these

Badlands plateaus if we take a look at our y coordinate right now we’re at 1.06 and right down there we can see it if we take a look through the spyglass we’ve got some gold generating that’s probably at about y80 yeah standing where we are

Right now i can see some gold in the wall we’re at y86 the yeah that’s actually a little bit lower down than i thought but once again gold in the walls over there plenty of gold dotted around this cave this cave literally is a gold

Mine we could go mining for gold in here for hours the main thing you’ve got to do is dig down through the layers of terracotta that will generate on the surface in order to find the areas where the world starts to generate a stone and once you’re there you’ll find ores like

This generating in larger numbers so we’re going to try and do a little bit more gold mining around here i’m going to grab a few of these easy veins in the walls and the floors and i think after that we’re gonna head back to spawn and we’re gonna discuss what we’re doing

With all this gold setting up a piglet bartering farm so after a bunch of time spent mining in the mesa i came away with two stacks of raw gold blocks a couple of gold ingots and stuff from the mineshaft chests even a little bit of diamond ore

And diamond for our trouble and i couldn’t resist picking up some glow ink to stash it up here i need to do something with this one of these days but anyway we’re going to smelt all of this stuff probably in one of the blast furnaces or something i’ve got around

And we’re going to substitute it with a reasonable amount of gold that i’ve already got inside of here just for the sake of this episode going a little bit faster yeah that’s close to 15 full stacks of gold ingots i think that’ll probably do us for now let’s head on

Through to the nether and this is where we get to take full advantage of the fact that the never spawn in this world is around a crimson forest because we have lots of piglens around here already and if we throw a gold ingot on the ground they’re going to get very excited

About that and one of them’s going to pick it up and they’re going to throw us something in exchange this is pigelin bartering it’s a mechanic that we explored briefly in a previous episode there we go lad gave us some nether brick what a lovely dude so naturally

One of the things we can do to make sure this bartering process works out pretty regularly is make sure there’s a hopper around for the piglens to throw the stuff into and maybe even a dispenser to dispense gold out for them so that they can keep retrieving the gold inspecting

It and giving us some new stuff so we’re gonna set up an area probably actually on the way out to one of our other builds and we’ll end up with row after row of piglens all the way down here who we can just chuck gold at whenever we

Want to we’re the chest somewhere that we can put all of the gold ingots into and a dispenser system that’s just going to chuck the gold ingots at them automatically and while a couple of blocks of nether break might not be everybody’s idea of what they want from

Piglet bartering there is a bunch of other stuff we can get i think there are about 16 to 18 items or something like that that you can get from piglet bartering it’s a lot of different stuff including some things that it isn’t possible to get renewably any other way

Like quartz not necessarily the quartz blocks which we can get from stone masons but the quartz items that we use to craft redstone components and i’ve been thinking it was probably about time to bulk craft some redstone components for circuitry and stuff that we could

Use a little bit later and we need some nether quartz in order to do that piglens will also barter gravel to you which is a really great way of getting hold of gravel if you don’t feel like going mining for it in the oceans or the mountains or anywhere underground

They’ll also throw us fire resistance potions and enchanted boots and books the boots aren’t necessarily going to be all that interesting to us but the books can be applied to our own boots and that’s the only way you can get hold of soul speed aside from getting it from a

Chest in a pickle in bastion which i believe we’ve done before the circuit we’re working with here is going to be relatively simple the piglet is just going to stand in a two block high booth and instead of a log in the floor here we can have a hopper like so this

Dispenser will be activated on a timer dispensing a gold ingot every so often and that will dispense the gold and get to the piglet here before the golden gate has a chance to fall into the hopper the piglen’s gonna grab it in his hand inspect it for a second and chuck

Whatever he wants to barter into the hopper on the floor the hopper is going to pick it up and it’s going to be transported into a chest where we can sort all of the items that the piglens will trade us and when this lot are done hunting hoglands we’re going to try our

Best to lure them in now i’m thinking we need to build this a little way back from the path that i’ve laid out here but i kind of want it to be on this diagonal path down to our drip stone cave base and the savannah village and stuff like that so we’re

Going to build this into the floor here we’re going to have a chest here it’s going to have two hoppers facing into it one here and one here and that’s where the two piglens are going to be standing on either side of that this chest is

Probably just going to act as a buffer of sorts and that’s going to take all of the stuff that these piglens throw push it down into a filter system and we’re going to have a sorter that’s going to figure out what all of these items that

The piglens give us are and or where to stash them in a series of chests filtered the same way our storage system is in between these i think we’re going to go with a crimson stem aesthetic in fact crimson wood is probably going to be part of the decor for this entire

Thing and i think it’s a nice thing to have the tunnel through the crimson forest decorated with crimson wood we could put planks up in the back of here as well and then all we need to do is make sure there is something on the front of this maybe like glass or

Something like that that allows us to see inside where the piglens are our dispenser is going to face down over the top here we’ll probably have a hopper facing into the top of this and then we’ll have a redstone running along the side to activate both dispensers at once

Now naturally these piglens are gonna need to be made persistent by something because they would normally despawn if we got 128 blocks away from them so that’s where our faithful supply of name tags from fishing needs to come in handy and each one of these piglens is going

To be named bartleby now it’s going to be a little bit risky for me to do this because the piglens do get mad if you break a chest nearby but i need to power both of these hoppers at once and we’re going to try and lure the piglens into

This area you see of course when we lock the hopper the hopper won’t actually receive any items and so we can lure the piglets into this space by throwing a gold ingot onto each one of these and then we’ll put a glass block in front of them making sure they can’t get out

Preemptively i am going to put some glass in place here but now all we need to do is find and lure some piglets over and it can’t be the baby piglets because they’ll just pick up the gold and not do anything with it we need some adult

Piglens and if you want some piggling attention here is a foolproof way of getting it and then immediately losing their aggro again take off whatever gold armor you’re wearing and stand around somewhere near them and then put it back on when you’re ready for them to chill out

There we go as soon as i put my gold helmet back on this piglet was totally fine and as long as we can lure in another guy i think this guy with the sword seems like a willing contender come on down here buddy there you go looks like he doesn’t mind the full

Damage let’s see if we can get his attention by taking that off as well yes there we go okay we’ve got lots of piglens following us at this stage now where did that other guy go honestly they wander off when you’re not looking i guess i could throw a couple of gold

Ingots on the ground to make sure they’re following me and of course the little one immediately picks it up okay well we’ll deal with him later then come over here come on this way this way yes okay right well we’ve got three of them right here let’s see if we can trap two

Of them in these little trading booths that we’ve set up the problem right now is we’ve got three of them but we do seem to have the attention of the other one and oh the little one just keeps running in and picking up the golden curds come on all right the little

Piglen is proving to be a problem so i think i’ll probably just um yeah maybe dig him into a hole right there and then let’s see if we can get the others attention by throwing these in place there we go we’ve got one who’s going to

End up in that booth maybe the other guy is gonna see that gold ingot and give us a chance come on it’s only there in the hopper yes there we go we got them finally oh my goodness all right well two of our barterers are already in

Place and we can name these two by looking at their legs with the name tags can take out that lever which will actually allow the hoppers to push items out again and we can place the chest back here and then we can close that off with glass to make sure they don’t see

Us looking at the chest and they might actually see us if we end up opening this thing up ah no they’re good okay fine that’s that’s excellent actually now you can see if we put some gold in here and in here and we activate both of

These at once let’s do the same trick that we did to lock the hoppers let’s put a block up there and let’s just flick the lever once it dispenses a gold ingot to both of them and both of them should now drop those items into the

Hovers and that ends up in the chest below fantastic stuff i am feeling a touch paranoid that i didn’t name tag that guy but no i did okay excellent stuff so now we should just need to load these up with hoppers that will transmit the goals to each of these and we should

Be good to go they do still notice through blocks when you break a chest though so we do need to keep an eye on that but we can open these chests totally fine and now we just need to lock off these two hoppers over here and do exactly the same thing tricking two

Piglets into walking in there with gold ingots one option we have if we don’t get too many spawns over there is simply to fly away a little way until some of the other stuff around there despawns and then fly back when hopefully we should start to find a few more piglets

Spawning around here yes a family a family appears to have spawned well this guy with the gold armor looks like he’s got all the gold he could possibly want but piglens are a little greedy and they’re always gonna want more so let’s throw a gold ingot on the ground over

Here and of course the junior goes to pick it up again well that’s uh probably the end of you all right we’ll see you later it’s nice and easy to lure them over here at least it’s just a matter of keeping them going in the right direction because once one picks up the

Gold ingot the other one needs something to pay attention to otherwise it’s going to run off yes we got them in we’ve got them both in fantastic and now once again we can disable this switch so that the chest can go back in place and all

Of the stuff that they’ve dumped in the hoppers will go into that chest perfect stuff it does take a little bit of finagling i did have to go back and get a bit more gold and i think we can probably refine this process somewhat i also maybe want to swap out the glass

For something that looks a little bit more stylish i think the clear glass looks a little bit out of place here in the nether we can certainly help the whole thing fit in with a few more of these planks around the place and i think maybe we need to refine our method

For getting the piglens into these cells but all we need to do is make sure there’s a row of hoppers along the top here and because it’s diagonal that makes things a little awkward but all we need to do is throw a few blocks alongside this and a minecart rail could

Deliver all of the gold ingots to each of these hoppers then along the back row all we need is a redstone wire running to these two blocks like so and if we give that a redstone signal using one of these blackstone buttons tossing an ingot into each of these dispensers we

Just have to press this it dispenses four ingots all at once and all four piglets give us something that they want to barter looks like we got a bit of black stone and some spectral arrows from our guy over here and looks like we got some black stone and obsidian from these guys

So that’s that’s pretty good we’re also getting ender pearls from these we’re getting soul sand so that we can make more soul campfires or even use that once we get soul speed obsidian and crying obsidian that’s a pretty decent way of farming both of those blocks actually so honestly i think this is

Going to be a really good setup for the foreseeable future oh and before i forget we need to name tag these two newcomers to the system because we haven’t given them name tags yet welcome bartleby and bartleby in the interest of making this whole process a little bit

Easier on myself i’m going to try a different approach this time around we’re going to try and lure the piglens in through the top of this and we are still going to lock the hoppers to make sure that nothing goes into them in the meantime but we can do that by means of

A lever down here which will conceal underneath that and we’ll have the chest in place already so that we don’t have to break and replace these blocks in front now we’ve got a couple of candidates one over here and it looks like he’s on the way and one over here

As well he’ll probably take an interest if i throw a gold ingot within you know eight blocks and now can we throw one golden get into the hole down there yes okay that one’s now in we’re gonna have to find a way of placing the dispensers

A little bit later if i put this gold ingot up there then yep he’s gonna try and climb that we should be able to nudge him in slightly and yeah this is definitely better than trying to ambush them with a glass block shortly afterwards welcome once again bartleby

And bartleby now we do need to make sure that the dispensers go upside down over their heads so we’re just gonna place a few blocks back here we’ll put a block there to make sure this guy can’t just walk out we’ll replace this glass block

Here in a second we just got to place a dispenser facing downwards okay that’s a a much easier way of doing things than how i was doing it before so one block on top of the glass here remove this glass block grab the dispenser place that facing downwards lovely okay that’s

Much smoother except i kind of feel like i’ve messed up the pattern here by not having these two one block further back yeah i’m never gonna unsee that we’re gonna have to redo this yeah it turns out working with piglens in a crimson forest is not always the easiest thing

To do because they can sometimes get a little distracted by the fact that they have hugglings to hunt every so often we should be able to lure at least one of these piglens up here and into the remaining cell of our bartering station it looks like this

One’s actually gonna push another one in with him if we’re not careful hey buddy go and go in here if you can please yes there we go all right didn’t even have to uh didn’t have to toss something in there after him fantastic well this is bartleby number eight and i think that’s

Where we were gonna call it for this setup although we’ll probably end up adding a couple more to it as we go here and we’ll try and make sure we have an open block above each of these so that we can add in those dispensers now let’s

Break out the glass here a dispenser there perfect that’s all in place all of these are name tags so they will not despawn and we have a pretty well set up row of piglet now we have to set up a clock that’s going to dispense gold

Ingots to each set of piglens in turn and each of these two sections of redstone wire simply five pieces of redstone wire once it receives power should transmit power to all of those dispensers just gonna try and make the farm design a little bit more symmetrical yeah there we go that’s got

It more or less covered we’ll do a little bit more decorative work on this later i think now the way i would like this to work is so we have a minecart loading station over here basically we’re going to put all of our goods all of the gold ingots

Into a chest minecart and that’s going to go off down this line of hoppers now that’s going to require a powered rail down this end and then the rails are going to alternate side to side like this they’ll come to a stop at the other side over here and hopefully they should

Keep momentum all the way down here if we give it enough of a boost at the start with our powered rate once it hits the other side it’s going to hit another powered rail this one’s going to be more permanently powered and that’s going to send the minecart all the way back down

So if we attach a lever to this block and pull it hopefully that sends the minecart all the way down to the end and it sends it all the way back again perfect so that should deliver all of the gold ingots to every single hopper in this line hopefully and wow okay just

Got lifted by this hogland all right let’s uh let’s recover from that let’s recover from that and we’ll chuck the gold ingot into here and we’ll check each of these dispensers just to make sure that they receive the gold ingots but it looks like the chest minecart

Should roll over the top of all of these hoppers yep it’s delivered all of the contents all right and it seems like all of these piglets should now but yo hello i forgot about that the piglens aren’t too happy about me opening the chest minecart either so we will have to

Be a little bit more diligent about fencing this area off from piglens from the outside because any loose piglens in here are going to be bad news but yes it looks like each of these dispensers now has five gold ingots in it which is perfect we got six down there at the end

Because it managed to deliver the last ingot there on its way back this one here only has three which is curious i wonder if it’s just not dispensing them into these hoppers yeah i’m thinking maybe we’ll need to extend this around a corner just to make sure it has a little

Bit more of a straight line to follow over the top of these hoppers either way we’ll put the chest minecart back down there we’re not going to touch that for the foreseeable future we probably just want to check that these piglens can all receive gold ingots at roughly the same

Time and we’re going to time this out using our old favorite the etho hopper clock an observer is going to detect the output from our etho hopper clock it’s going to face into this piece of redstone dust which is going to connect in this kind of w shape all of the

Dispensers here in this setup we’re going to build this clock slightly differently to the one we built before we’re going to have the two hoppers facing into each other in the middle as before with the comparators either side of those and a dot of redstone dust on

Top of these blocks on either side but this time the sticky pistons that are going to be pushing the redstone block back and forth are going to be on top of the contraption instead of to one side of it the clock works exactly the same it’s just oriented vertically

Instead of horizontally and now we’re going to try and time this out so that we get a decent amount of ingots delivered to these piglens so we’re going to start off with 32 sticks contraption should activate we’ll get one pulse to the circuit here in just a second

There we go one pulse all of the ingots should have been delivered to the piglens and they’re all going to throw them now and now we wait because it looks like we probably need a lot fewer sticks in there to time this out yep there we go they all got delivered

Another gold ingot though so it’s working pretty well from the looks of things i’d say we need less than half the amount of sticks in there so i’m going to remove 16 and hopefully the idea is that as soon as they throw the items on the ground onto those hoppers they’re gonna get

Delivered another ingot pretty much instantaneously and that seems to have worked across the board as soon as they throw ah did they just run out of ingots i think they did just run out of ingots okay well a few of them didn’t get any gold there and it got me a little bit

Worried but now all we need is a master switch for this clock a way to shut the farm off once it’s done running and we also need a lot more gold to put in the farm so these piglens can continue trading so i’m gonna throw all of the

Other miscellaneous bits and pieces that we shouldn’t need any more of into here we’re gonna craft another lever that i’m going to use maybe temporarily to turn this thing on and off once this whole thing is closed off we can probably just have the lever somewhere

Down here and have it run a redstone line out to the clock to disable it whenever we want to but i’ll shut the lever off there for now that should activate one half of the clock permanently and prevent it from running in the meantime as long as there aren’t

Any more piglins around who are going to get annoyed at me for doing this i’m gonna fill this minecart chest up with gold and send it on its merry way hopefully it should reach the other end of there turn around come on back and at this point hopefully it should be

Delivering an equal amount of gold ingots to every dispenser in the row yep that’s looking promising it looks like it’s delivering as many as it can perfect and of course we could put this into a similar setup to our auto smelter we could have this be a hopper minecart

Since the piglens are okay with us checking redstone components like hoppers and dispensers we could even have the gold input to the farm be a dispenser with a hopper underneath and you could load nine stacks in at a time without the piglens worrying about you directly opening a minecart chest and

Then of course the hopper could deliver the gold to the minecart chest and the minecart chest could just do its thing but once again i’m planning on spawn proofing this entire area so we shouldn’t have any random piglets wandering around here inside my nether hub area anyway okay and now it looks

Like there is no more gold going into the dispensers and hopefully all of them should have been topped up with a healthy amount of gold it’s time to start the farm going and let’s see how much equipment we can get out of this how much interesting stuff that these

Piglens are gonna barter to us it looks like the gold is flowing through and as soon as they throw everything there we go they immediately get delivered another ingot so 16 items in the hopper clock seems like the ideal amount for their bartering cycle they’ll all throw

The items on the ground pretty quickly thereafter and it looks like this guy for whatever reason isn’t getting the items and i wonder why that is i’ll take a quick peek in this chest and it does look like a couple of gold ingots have come through but

Oh i think some of the gold ingots might actually be delivered to the guys on either side that’s that’s kind of unfortunate actually it’s being picked up by the ones next door and so there should be a couple of gold ingots going into one of these chests somewhere yeah

Oh well that’s unfortunate because i guess they can pick stuff up on the diagonal meaning that this guy here is unfortunately going to have to move because the piglet next to him is greedy and keeps stealing his stuff oh well and it looks like we’ve got a couple of

Golden gates here coming into one of these because the same thing is happening but if you take a look at the overall yield of this farm i’ve turned the clock off around the back for now so we don’t have to worry too much about this look at what we’ve got here there’s

A bit of glass in there that was just left in there from the build process but we’ve got some obsidian some ender pearls a bunch of fire resist potions some nether quartz a couple of these even have the enchanted books in here that i was talking about we’ve got some

Soul speed in there soul speed one and two we might even get a soul speed three book from these folks and perhaps most importantly for me they’re trading us at things like quartz gravel blackstone which makes blackstone a perfectly renewable resource as well as abundant elsewhere in the nether we’re even

Getting renewable spectral arrows and stuff out of this deal as well so i think this is pretty fantastic we are unfortunately gonna have to rebuild this farm and that’s something that i don’t have time for today but this is the essence of the bartering setup and maybe

We should just not build this thing on the diagonal it was a little bit ambitious to try that out in the first place i’ll put it somewhere else in my nether hub though somewhere nice and prominent that these piglens are gonna be able to barter as soon as we step out

Into our nether hub folks that’s what we’re gonna leave it for today thank you so much for watching this episode of the minecraft survival guide i do hope you’ve enjoyed this look at gold and bartering with piglens don’t forget to leave a like on this video if you

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