Pixlriffs – Automated Storage (With Glowing Labels!) ▫ The Hardcore Survival Guide [Ep.6] ▫ Minecraft 1.17

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the hardcore survival guide let’s fix this door i was tinkering around with the redstone in a creative test world and came upon a pretty simple fix for that though we will need a cleric or alternatively a piece of glowstone which

Clerics trade but it doesn’t seem like we have a cleric in this village so this village must have spawned without a brewing stand nearby i don’t recall seeing a cleric amongst the villagers here and there is no tall church building which means we do need to go back to the

Nether this time around though we are going to go to the nether the normal way which means first i need to gather some obsidian so that i can build myself a portal and since we didn’t have any lava lakes particularly close to the village i’m gonna staircase down here we might

End up hitting the abandoned mine shaft at some point but i’m fairly certain that down here yeah there we go we should be able to find ourselves a lava lake and if not a lava lake then potentially a ravine although ravines are pretty deadly in hardcore worlds you

Really don’t want to mess with ravines if you can help it on account of the dark spaces and ledges up here being spawning area for creepers which can drop on you and immediately detonate and with very little time to react and pull up your shield you are

Pretty much a goner at that point luckily for me this mineshaft has other sources of lava so i’m just going to create a few obsidian blocks from the lava sources in the walls here and we’ll see how much we end up with naturally a lava source is another of

The more deadly things you can find down here and we really don’t want to tangle with lava if we can possibly help it so i’m being a little bit conservative with what i’m doing down here and we’re also still in need of a decent food source incredibly this mineshaft also goes through a

Third geode which i had honestly thought was one of the geodes that we passed through before but no this is actually a completely different one so we are gonna have our work cut out for ourselves making a massive amethyst farm in this abandoned mine shaft i don’t think i’ve really seen three geodes

In such close proximity before once again not really what we’re here for though and you know what i’m gonna dig down a little bit further at the end of this part of the mine shaft because if we reach y11 which we should do if we keep going down

Here we’ll be pretty much guaranteed to run into a lava lake at that point and it turns out that this abandoned mine shaft goes in a bunch of different directions i think it’s really the second mineshaft overlapping with the first that has kind of caused this to go way further

Down but there’s a spot over here where we can drop down into a more natural cave and that seems like a more likely spot that we would find a giant lava lake so i think we’re probably going to take our chances down here with the meager supply of torches that i have i

Can probably craft a couple more from the wood planks and some coal from the surroundings and i need to be very careful here because we’re low on food so i’m going to try my best to not take damage in this next area we can always

Top up with rotten flesh if we need to oh and look at this so right down at the bottom of this section of the cave we found ourselves some diamonds clustered together with some coal and a redstone oil that’s a nice find we can eat a little bit of

Rotten flesh if we need to run flesh will give you that hunger debuff for 30 seconds but it doesn’t do it 100 of the time and in a pinch if you need to regenerate some health it’s better to just stand still let the hunger debuff happen and

Your saturation will go down but then your hunger won’t decrease any further if you are standing still now i’m pretty certain i heard the telltale pop of lava around here so i think we’re going to try digging a little bit further down once we get to y11 hopefully we will come across a

Lava lake there we go we broke through the wall into it and it was at y11 after all so what happens apparently in cave generation is that caves will still generate below y11 but they just get filled up with lava below a certain point so if this was meant to be a

Like tunnel-like cave it’s basically been filled up with lava when world generation happens and we’re gonna gather all of this obsidian the safest way i know how by standing in a water source because that will flow over the lava preventing any obsidian from falling into lava

Sources below it and also means that we don’t catch on fire if any lava happens to come in our direction on our way back we’re going to shoot a couple of pigs with a flame bow so that we can get hold of some pork chops and chances are we might run into

A hoglin or two once we’re in the nether so a little bit more cooked pork and maybe some cooked beef as well won’t go too far and miss i think once we’ve got the door fixed up here we are going to work on a storage system because right now this is

All over the place i kind of can’t stand it because seriously the chests aren’t in any kind of organized setup there’s one behind there that’s probably going to be covered up by the decor and here really this is all just a giant mess let’s go to the nether

Once again i’m going to put the portal a little bit away from the village and this time not necessarily for the villagers protection just because i find it kind of noisy but we’ll build up the sides three blocks tall on this side three blocks tall on that side

We’ll do four across the top and that’s our nether portal all fixed up but let’s see where this puts us out because i don’t think it’s going to connect to that portal in the tiger which means we could be in hot water pretty quickly but it looks like we are actually just

In a different part of the same ravine structure we are at why 66 this time though so we’re a little bit higher up but immediately over there i see what i came in here for in the first place we’re going to get hold of some glowstone we’re going to do that a little

Carefully because we are still in a crimson forest if you’ve got silk touch that’s a good idea to use on glowstone because it will drop the entire block but if you’ve got fortune the glowstone dust it drops is usually enough that you can reform the glowstone block and if you don’t have

Enough then you can always just break a couple more blocks in this case i got hold of eight blocks of glowstone all we need is one but we’re going to make a redstone lamp out of that and that’s what we’re gonna use to fix our hobbit hole door

And just like that we’re out of the nether and back to our little hobbit homestead so we’re gonna take out these blocks here and i think what we’re going to do is take out the redstone torch for now we’re going to remove that as well and i believe

Last time we went to the nether we did bring back a decent amount of quartz so we have enough of this to make an observer we’re also going to grab four redstone dust so we can craft a redstone lamp the observer needs two more redstone dust some cobblestone and

One quartz we’re going to place the lamp here we’re going to place the observer facing into the lamp in that direction and now when we press this block it pulses twice okay that’s perfect so what this is going to do is detach the block from the sticky

Piston because it’s going to receive a one tick pulse from the observer detecting an update to that lamp but the lamp switch is on for a second or two and because it’s a wooden button the pulse length is a little bit longer than a stone button

So our exit button can go next to this and it will still activate the redstone lamp here the block on the outside is also powering this redstone lamp when we press the button in the middle of the door and what that does is the observer detects the lamp going on

It doesn’t do anything for a second and then it detects the lamp going off again meaning we have adequate time to walk outside and the door closes behind us same deal when we go in we just hit that button we walk on through the door and then the door closes behind us again

That’s perfect i think that worked out pretty well if only it was made out of warped wood and yes i saw that people in the comments had left me at the location of a warped forest but i kind of prefer to explore that stuff myself even though

I’ve given out the seed for this world that’s really for you guys in the comments to discuss the location of stuff that you want to find or to just explore the world in your own time i’m really about exploring a world organically so i’m going to ignore anybody who’s left any

Coordinates for stuff in the comments just let me find that stuff on my own in this series and i’m going to spend a little bit more time digging out the area inside of here because i want to make a permanent storage system or at least a storage system that’s going to last us

For now because yeah we really need to get some permanent chests in here we can move all of our stuff over from the blacksmith’s house that i’ve been living out of and realistically we are going to need a lot of storage for stuff and the hobbit hole

Seems like an ideal place to do that because we can just dig into the hillside carve out whatever space we need and build the entire thing here i am also kind of considering getting rid of the iron golem because he is starting to annoy me and i don’t want to

Hit him and end up with him killing me by mistake anyway i’m going to spend a little bit of time digging we’re going to create effectively a central hallway with rooms branching off to either side and that’s going to form the foundation of our storage system hey folks welcome back so the interior

Of my hobbit hole is slowly coming together i’m really quite happy with the hallway area right now we’ve got that lovely curved feature that seems to be the inside of the hobbit holes at least from the movies of lord of the rings there’s a really nice detail in the ceiling here

We’ve got some moss with glowberries hanging down from it and these are all age 25 now so they won’t grow down any further than they already have and we just bone mealed a couple of those in formation so it looks like a nice little glowing lamp is hanging from the

Ceiling kind of wreathed in leaves i guess i wasn’t sure quite how much light this was going to provide for the interior though so i did sneak in a few glowstone blocks underneath the carpet carpet will let light through where blocks like slabs and stuff won’t

At least on java edition they won’t so it was kind of important to me to make sure that we had some light at floor level because obviously light in the ceiling is going to decay as it gets closer to the floor so by the time a light level of 12 reaches

The floor it’s traveled three blocks and is a light level of nine and as it travels further outwards it’s going to decrease until it hits seven and then seven is when mobs start to spawn so we need to make sure that we at least had some lighting around the floor to

Make sure this area stayed well lit enough that i’m not going to be surprised by creepers in my own house now we have started on a storage system here and i thought i would show you some of the redstone that’s going to go into the left-hand side of it the uh

North wing i guess of the hobbit hole here because this is where we’re going to start storing bulk items basically the kind of stuff that i’m going to acquire in large quantities we could expand this as far as we wanted to that way so we can expand it

As we start to acquire some more stuff but to start with we’re gonna be going with the basic kind of stuff like wood types on this side and stone types on that side we’re using a lot of wood in our buildings right now we’ve got a lot of different

Wood types going on here and at the very least i want storage for dark oak oak and spruce logs to basically all go in here on the right hand side of course we’re gonna have things like natural stone cobblestone andesite diorite and so forth and so forth basically all of the

Stuff that we’re going to be getting on a regular basis if we go caving or if we go chopping some wood which i tend to do quite frequently and then on the right hand side we’re going to have manual storage laid out in a similar fashion

So for every chest over here that has you know a type of wood in it like oak or whatever we’re going to have one on this side that has all of the different things you can craft with oak and that’s all going to be manually sorted mostly to save a

Little bit of time but i can give you some tips and tricks on how to organize that stuff a little faster but since i’ve started on the storage filters here i’ve already built two of them already just to check i remembered how to do it

I figured i would get you guys on camera for this part and we could go through the storage filter circuit and why it works the way it does and why i build it a certain way because there are a few different ways you can change up this circuit if you’ve built it in

Certain places but it makes the most sense to me to build it this way so we’re going to start off by placing our storage chest there that’s resting on top of a hopper which is taking all of the contents of this chest and just bringing it into a chest which

Is going to be either at ground level or maybe we’ll make the walkway here out of slabs so that we’ll be at kind of like halfway buried into the ground for the chest that you actually take the items out of above that we’re going to be placing

One hopper right there and then we’re going to be building this framework which i’ll break the wall away a little bit here so you can see we want three blocks of netherrack along the top diagonally to the right we want one block there we need to make sure there’s a block to

Place the repeaters on and then a block in front of that for this redstone torch to go on you can find all of these recipes in the crafting recipe book if you don’t know how to make them already i better sleep because the villagers might get attacked by zombies just did a

Quick check outside everybody seems to be fine so anyway back to this netherrack shape the whole reason i’m building it out of netherrack in the first place is so that it’s an obviously different block to the surrounding environments you can of course place these components on any blocks but

It makes sense to build it out of something that you’ve got a lot of like netherrack in this case having been to the nether and done a lot of tunneling and also something that’s going to stand out so that when you’re breaking blocks around it you don’t accidentally break

The blocks to have your redstone components on so to start the circuit off up here we’re going to be placing a redstone comparator comparators do a number of things but one of their main functions is to detect the contents of a hopper or any kind of container anything that’s got a

An inventory of sorts and to output a redstone signal based on how full that inventory is so if i was to fill up this hopper completely with items then that would mean the comparator outputted the strongest possible redstone signal strength which is a strength of 15.

What this circuit does is fill it up with enough items to create a fairly low signal strength and then lock the hopper underneath it so that items cannot travel through to do that we place two redstone dust there and one more on this lower block then we’re gonna

Come down here place the redstone repeater facing in that direction and have a redstone torch on this block here the redstone torch while it is on and all three of these redstone torches currently are powers the block above it and powering that block actually locks this hopper which is the one that inputs

The items into the chest making sure that nothing can be taken from this hopper above now it’s quite important that the hoppers are facing towards the comparators here see the output of this hopper is facing in towards the comparator because hoppers can both pull and push when you

Lock a hopper you are locking its pull function but not its push function and if it’s able to push those items downward it will so the circuit isn’t effective what we do is re-route the output towards the comparator here which it can’t push items into and what that

Means is the hopper underneath has to pull the items out and while it is locked it cannot do that freezing the items in place in this hopper up here what this circuit does when we put enough items in this hopper is increase the signal strength coming out of this comparator to three

Meaning it powers this block here with the signal from this line of redstone dust the power from this block gets detected by the repeater which powers the block in front of it which switches off the redstone torch and what that does is unlock the hopper and allow items to flow through once the

Signal strength drops low enough because the items have emptied out of this top hopper the circuit will turn off and the redstone torch will turn back on locking the hopper again so for example if i put 53 redstone torches in here we can watch those drain away into the hopper

Once they reach 41 they will stop because 45 items in this hopper is exactly the amount at which the comparator stops outputting a signal strength of 3 and the signal strength drops back down to 2. in the meantime all of the redstone torches have drained into the

Chest below and there might still be one stored in this hopper and what this means is we have 42 of the item in question basically locked up in the system so people might be wondering why do you not put more items in this top hopper why for example do you not feel

The netherrack portion of this hopper up with a bunch more items allowing the rest of the redstone torches to drain on through for example if there are 11 items in each of those spaces and the item that we want to filter in that first space it

Does drain down to one that means there are 52 redstone torches here in the output chest and surely that’s better than having them all locked up in the system well not exactly because each of these circuits is built next to each other and the redstone dust

All connects here at the back this is what’s called a tileable redstone circuit you can basically build a bunch of them all in a row and the fact that the redstone dust connects to the back here is a problem if you start to put more items into the hopper let’s say i

Input a bunch of redstone torches at once and those start draining through you’ll notice now that the redstone wire has lit up to the point where it’s activating this circuit next to this hopper so the items are draining out of this hopper but if we hop down here

It’s also deactivated the redstone torch in the circuit next to it for the sake of example let’s say that this circuit is filtering diorite and i put a bunch of cobblestone in there as a filler item if we now put a bunch of redstone torches in here and this

First item slot gets up to a stack plus all of the extra netherrack in here what that’s going to do is start draining all of the items out of the hopper next door and unfortunately what that means is it breaks our item filter circuit whatever items are being transferred in through a

Feed line or a hopper minecart or a water stream items that come in start getting collected in this hopper until sooner or later that hopper is just filtering all of the random junk that gets thrown into your storage system and the whole thing breaks meaning that miscellaneous items end up in this chest

Instead of the resource you’re trying to filter now let’s do this properly because i intend to keep the filter circuits the same way after this we’re actually going to rename a bunch of netherrack items here and we’re going to call this filler material the reason we rename

These items is so that if i accidentally put some netherrack into the system it doesn’t get filtered down because it doesn’t stack with the rest of the netherrack that’s in here if i try and stack some of these other netherrack items in that first space it won’t

Occupy the same stack as the netherrack that was already there because this one is renamed and minecraft sees that as a different item so now finally we get to add oak logs to this first filter slice and that is where we’re going to be storing our oak logs i’m probably going to

Make some sort of system on the floor here or label this area to show exactly what’s being stored in each chest but now with that filter slice active we’ve got a bunch of oak logs starting to come into the system and of course the netherrack that i just

Took out of the chest there we’re gonna be making multiple modules of this we’re probably gonna start with at least six on each side potentially eight because there are eight different types of wood in minecraft so i think maybe we’ll start there and sooner or later we’ll be able to fill up

One of those with warped wood but i hope that explainer on filter circuits has proved somewhat useful to some of you and if you’ve got any questions of course leave them in the comments because i’ll be happy to answer them all right so the storage is coming along

I still haven’t quite figured out what i want to do with this right-hander wing so i’m going to leave that one for this episode however our automated side of things is looking splendid and i still need to run the hopper feed line along the top but honestly

I’m waiting for some iron to smelt i spent a little while running around trying to find some iron realized i had some raw iron in here but hoppers are expensive and even fortunately all of this iron in the early game we still have

A heck of a lot of iron to get hold of so for now i thought i would show you guys this this is the brand new addition to sign readability in a 1.17 and that comes in the form of glow ink which i actually thankfully have some of

Around here and yes my inventory is still a mess even though i’m working on a storage system it’s okay so i’ve already done this once and that already got me an advancement glow and behold for making the text of a sign glow but basically how this works is you

Right click a written sign with glow ink it makes a very squelchy noise i like glowing sex splotches it says in the subtitles and then that outlines the text now so no longer does text have to be this single you know fairly thin font it actually gets

A solid white outline which makes it much more readable not only that but if we come out here and grab some dye i’ll grab some blue and yellow here for example and then we use those dies on the sign it changes the color not only does it

Change the color of the text itself but it also colors the outline so we could color code these if we wanted to wow that is that is luminous that is certainly a decision now my question is if we then dye this black does it make the border

White again is the default text black or is it something else do i have any black dye anywhere well it turns out i don’t but luckily i have a squid in the river and i also have a librarian in the river what what are you what are you doing in the river

Going for a swim i guess all right now the work day has started he seems to be wandering back in the direction of his workstation hope you had a good swim buddy sorry if you got your robes a bit wet but we got a bit of that squid ink which we can

Turn into black dye and yes it does okay so obviously the black on black border would make things a little bit unreadable so clearly the default text is this dark text with a white border i like that a lot and now we get to color all of these in a very very

Readable font and that’s going to look great if we end up doing more fun stuff with that in future and i’ve seen some really creative uses of the different colors as well so we’ve got all of the different wood types here all eight of the wood types

Obviously i haven’t even seen a jungle yet we haven’t been to a savannah to get acacia and we still are missing the warped stem but on the other side i figured we would add a few of the more commonly acquired materials from the natural world so we’ve got

Cobblestone naturally we’re going to be getting a lot of that when we go mining with a pick that doesn’t have silk touch of course natural stone is going to be in there as well because i get a lot of that later and then we can craft that into stone brick and

Whatever else andesite diorite and granite sort of deserved to be here because you will acquire a lot of them while you’re mining and then i figured dirt we could put the dirt variants up here in these barrels which are not linked to the automated hopper fed system in any way we also got

One for moss and one for netherrack because of course we’ll be tunneling a lot in the nether acquiring a lot of netherrack and i think we’re going to be doing a fair amount with moss this season as well i expect moss is going to feature heavily and

It’s already made for some lovely accent walls and carpet features and all kinds of stuff here in the hobbit hole i’ve even tucked a couple of azalea shrubs around here and i think moss and glowstone go really nicely together as well so i’m learning a few color combinations here

Learning what i like about the moss in builds like this rather than just as a you know decorative organic block how it can fit into interior landscapes as well there is obviously still a lot left to do here in the hobbit hole i haven’t really renovated the library or

This is probably going to be the parlor and i’ll have to wall that off from all of the storage system stuff but i think we have made a really good start here and i’m very excited that we have a little bit of automated storage up and running now once again a hopper feed

Line going all the way around this or maybe even a hopper minecart feeding in from a chest that we’re actually going to drop into the roof of the hobbit hole we’ll do that another time though because i’ll be farming lots of trees up there but for now that is going to be

It for this episode of the hardcore survival guide i’m going to turn away from back here because every now and then when i do my outro i do this little like flick thing where i i tap the left click button occasionally and i’m worried that if i hit the iron

Golem he is going to kill me so once again i have a feeling we’re going to have to watch out for him but thank you so much for watching this episode of the hardcore survival guide my name has been pixelriffs don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it

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