SwankyBox – What if Minecraft Took Over Area 3 in Super Mario 64?

Can you beat Super Mario 64’s third  area if Minecraft blocks fill the world?   How does Wet Dry World, Snowman’s Land,  Tiny Huge Island, and Tall Tall Mountain   change with hundreds of thousands of  blocks? Oh, it’s actually… a very slow,  

And grueling process. We’re mining all of  this by hand and tackling each level to   see what stars are obtainable. I hope you  enjoy this Mario 64 Minecraft adventure. So this is my third time around the block with  this challenge, pun intended. But this isn’t  

The only third we’re celebrating today, no…  Raid Shadow Legends, the RPG for mobile and   desktop has just turned 3 years old! RAID hasn’t  really slowed down since it was launched. They’ve   been pumping out new champions, the doom tower –  which is this 120 floor dungeon full of bosses,  

And the Hydra – quite possibly the most brutal  clan boss yet. All of these things added new   strategies and challenges to overcome in the  game. So whether you’re just playing casually   or diving in for a few hours, there’s always  something interesting to do. I think what I’ve  

Always enjoyed about RAID is just the sheer amount  of characters that you can organize on your team.   There’s so many ways to pair the champions up  and it really allows you to experiment and come   up with some crazy new combinations. And speaking  of new – for their 3rd anniversary RAID is giving  

Out lots of free gifts, adding new champions and  artifacts, and giving each player a look back   with a personalized video of their own journey  and how they’ve grown in the game. And with new   events and tournaments, there’s a ton of other  prizes up for grabs. So, want to join the fray?  

Use my link or scan my QR code on screen and  new players will get a starter pack worth $40.   Three free champions – Misericord, Tigersoul and  Romero, and 30 different XP brews. All new and   existing players get gifts worth $25 if you enter  the promo code 3YEARSRAID in-game. And of course,  

A big thanks to RAID for sponsoring this video  and supporting my channel over the years. Okay. It’s time to smash some blocks. So previously, clearing out the floors down  below we were able to get 35 total stars…. Which  

Honestly is not very promising because we’ve  already gone through 9 of the 15 total levels.   So doing some quick math we may have a  problem here. But regardless, we push on.   Bowser 2 is defeated and we have our key.  Heading to the upper floors, it’s a bit of  

A chore to make it through all the blocks on our  way up. Especially near doors that transition us   to other parts of the castle. We take our second  key upstairs but I keep getting instantly killed  

By the blocks in front of the door. They load  in right as I go to put the key in, so I have   to basically punch and kick while also loading  them to eventually clear the doorway. We then  

Unlock the door, make our way through the chaotic  staircase, and go straight for Wet Dry World. Of course, Wet Dry World is not something I’m  excited about. It’s a water level which spells   trouble for our Minecraft mode. But… Wet  Dry World is also oddly kind of convenient?  

I mean that because the level itself is  basically a square with walls on all sides.   This makes navigating easier because things are  located on a grid that isn’t difficult to follow   due to the visible, boxed in walls. We always  load the level in with the lowest water because we  

Can’t break blocks underwater, but upon starting  we just need to tunnel straight to our left.   We start reasonably high in the level since  the blocks caught our fall when we spawn in,   so going for the Shocking Arrow Lifts star is  super straightforward. I tunnel straight across  

And I’m essentially looking for the top of the  cannon pillar. Once I find the cannon entrance,   I just dig down to the block beneath it and break  open the star. Next up we’re doing things a bit  

Out of order… I hypothesized that Express Elevator  Hurry Up was going to be awful… And guess what? It   was. We need to basically carve out the elevator’s  inside and exterior in certain areas so we   can move properly. The elevator itself will move  through blocks, which means we’d either get pushed  

Off it while it moves down or crushed as it moves  up. This star honestly took me a while because   I had to make enough space so I could chase the  elevator downward fast enough while still giving   myself enough time to get on top. It’s only  difficult because you have to think about what  

Blocks to break so you can still climb back up to  try again if you fail. With my staircase in place   I eventually get the timing that I need and I get  my second star here after about about 24 minutes.  

Top O’ The Town might very well be my fastest star  yet. The blocks force you to spawn very close to   it in terms of height, so you only need to break  a handful of blocks and the star is right there.  

Secrets in the Shallows and Sky is a different  story though. It’s like a red coin challenge but   with less obtainables. I decide to go for the  secret on top of the cage first by building a   staircase upwards. After I grab that one, I know  I can tunnel outwards across the wooden bridge  

To locate the secret near the sign. Clearing  blocks allows me to see the level geometry I   need and I get my second secret. The third secret  is right below the second, so I just need to head  

Straight out and tunnel down. I run into some  trouble with a Heave Ho but luckily it doesn’t   glitch out and kill me. I push the large block  for my third secret and retreat down to the water   for the last two. I always found it odd that  these two secrets were basically tied together.  

One for locating and pushing the large block, and  then the other for normally using the large block   to make it up to the yellow one. All five secrets  are found and the star spawns. I then retreat  

Across the level looking for familiar geometry and  I eventually find the bridge and follow it to the   star. Four stars down and now our problems have  arrived. So… the remainder of this level’s stars   take place in the underwater town. The problem is  we can’t make it through water due to the blocks.  

Like always, I tried going out of bounds to  try to skip the water box but I got instantly   killed each time. So that means we only get 4  stars total here, bringing our count up to 39.

Next up is Snowman’s Land… And the mirror in  the lobby is looking a bit funky with blocks.   Our reflection is clipping through them, so that’s  not odd or anything. I was super worried at first   that I couldn’t make it into the level because  the wall was not letting me through. But, if we  

Time a kick right we can break the blocks behind  the wall that basically line up almost perfectly   with the normal wall collision. Heading into the  level, well, we’re heading to Snowman’s Big Head.   This star is practically right in front of us.  Mario’s starting position isn’t far from it and we  

Just have to tunnel up and to the right slightly.  When we make it to the surface we can see only one   part of the level… The top of the snowman head  with the tree sticking out. We can check this hill  

For the grey siding of the exposed rock that isn’t  covered in snow because that’s where the star is.   Once we locate that side we can just drill down  and around to find the star. I go outwards a bit  

Because I don’t want to get stuck sliding in place  forever against the slick snow, but it isn’t long   until I get my prize. Chill with the Bully is, uh,  interesting? The bully is located like 45 degrees  

To the right of Mario’s default level spawn  position. I use the snow hill and the edge of   the overhang with the tree to get my bearings, and  then I see the bully peeking through the blocks.  

But then… I just lose sight of him? I’m worried  because the bully might be capable of walking on   blocks which means he could leave the platform  and wander horizontally outward anywhere in the   level – at least in theory, but I don’t know  if that’s true.. But he ends up falling between  

The microscopic space between the blocks and  dies. Mario wins by doing absolutely nothing.   So I just shrug and grab the star. In the Deep  Freeze is another simple star. We immediately   tunnel to the left upon spawning and then climb  on top of the big ice block. We drill down inside  

Its smallest hole and grab the star. Now Whirl  From the Freezing Pond kind of gave me trouble?   I was being dumb and decided to go around  the level to get it instead of going topside.   Well silly old me got lost several times  and the star ended up taking way longer  

Than I would have liked. I eventually just got  frustrated and went topside. Using both the tree   at the top of the snowman’s head and the star  location, I aligned myself to those two objects   to understand what direction I was facing. I  then head out 45 degrees to my left and drill  

Down until I find the stone hill. It isn’t long  until I uncover the box then for my 43rd star. So at this point I’m not really thinking and I  begin digging my way to the igloo. I clip into  

The back of the igloo and get inside, but  then reality catches up with me. So while   going through the basement area before I  wasn’t able to get to the vanish cap stage   since the moat couldn’t be drained. So that  means I can’t grab the star here. And since  

I’m holding off on doing red coin stars as a  last resort, we’re pretty much done with this   stage. So I pop out of the level and head to  the next one on our list: Tall Tall Mountain.   But before I jump in I unearth Toad from his  tomb and grab ourselves another star. Nice.

What’s great about Tall Tall Mountain is that  everything basically stems off the giant mountain   except for a few objects. So that means when we’re  digging, if we locate a face of the mountain, we   can just either circle it or climb up against it  to always preserve where we are. That way we won’t  

Get turned around. Since three stars here revolve  around the waterfall it is a great focal point to   climb around. So for Scale the Mountain, we just  fumble around until we find the waterfall and   then follow it to the top. It basically leads us  straight to the star. Mystery of the Monkey Cage  

Is up next, which is essentially the same star we  just did. I wanted to be extra careful though so   I located the monkey cage first and cleared off  the blocks around it. I was kind of hoping we  

Could just clip through the cage and grab the star  but that’s not a thing. After uncovering the cage   and following the waterfall upwards I locate the  monkey we need to unlock it. But I’m a bit worried  

Because the monkey can’t walk through most blocks.  I have to clear the way for him and sometimes he   gets stuck spinning because he can’t touch the  ground or reach his next checkpoint in terms   of directions. It’s kind of odd. My biggest fear  was that he would jump for the cage and get stuck,  

Thus getting softlocked and preventing me from  getting the star. However, the monkey just kind of   flew through the blocks and the cage was broken.  I then drill straight down and collect the star.   Next up we’re going to go for Blast to the Lonely  Mushroom. I begin tunneling out from the start of  

The level and I make sure that I hug the edge of  the mountain. I carve my way to the first mushroom   and that positioning sets me up to keep drilling  forward until I can locate the second. Luckily by  

Peeking through the walls I can see the sky below  me, and thus I can use this to spot the stem of   the next mushroom. Honestly, it’s kind of weird  standing under these things. It just feels strange  

Because I’ve never been able to look up and see  the bottoms of them before. I spend a moment   just staring up at the giant shroom and then I  collect the star. For Mysterious Mountainside   I turn around immediately upon spawning and  make my way to the cliff with the 1-up. We’re  

Going to skip the slide entirely because slides  filled with blocks are a nightmare and I’d rather   preserve what sanity I have left. Besides,  with the ability to make block staircases,   we can kinda go wherever we want. I hitch a ride  on the wind just because I’m curious to see how it  

Works with blocks and we blast upwards through  the ceiling. I then drop down below the ledge   and carve out the alcove that holds the star  nabbing our 4th for the level. All that’s left   is Breathtaking View from the Bridge, and for that  we climb up the waterfall again and then jump kick  

To open up the cave with the star. This brings  our total up to 49 stars… which is worrisome. Next we’re off to Tiny Huge Island! We carve our  way into the large painting for Pluck the Piranha  

Flower. We don’t actually have to go too far for  this one, so I immediately start digging a tunnel   outward over the water. What’s kind of creepy  is I can see the giant fish trying to jump up  

And eat me through the blocks, so I definitely  don’t want to go down too low. Eventually I run   into the dirt wall I was looking for and I climb  up top. I quickly realize that fighting these  

Piranha plants at ground level is a bad idea.  Their fire can move through blocks and I can’t   avoid it easily due to being in a small space.  So I put my 10000 IQ thinking cap on and realize   I’m going to attack from the sky instead.  Piranha Plants are just over 2 blocks tall,  

And while standing above them I can see their  heads pop up to attack. They can’t hit me but I   can time my ground pound so that I kill them as  they spring up. This method keeps me safe and I  

Just have to wander around until I eventually  locate all the plants. The star is mine soon   after. Jumping back into the big painting we’re  going for The Tip Top of the Huge Island. This   star is rather quick since we just have to locate  the center of the island and climb alongside its  

Walls. Once I find the upper grass area I can  just follow it along and then break open the   block for the star. But now it’s time for some  trouble. Rematch with Koopa the Quick is next,  

And if you remember my first race with him in  block land, you’ll know that we have to do this   carefully. So I make my way up to Koopa the Quick  and carve out the immediate area around him.  

I then hypothesize that the simplest route for me  since I can basically create a sky bridge is to   carve a tunnel in the opposite direction he runs.  I will snake around the backside of the island and  

Then drop down below on the flag. This keeps me  from having to deal with the wind on the bridge,   which quite frankly, would probably be an annoying  obstacle with blocks. I eventually locate the   edge of the island and this allows me to then  drill down to find the flag. I spend some time  

Clearing out this area as well because this star  isn’t just about us making our way here first.   We have to ensure Koopa the Quick actually  survives the race. If he falls off the cliff…   then the star is a lost cause. So I want him  to be able to land down here without trouble.  

I’m basically praying that he behaves the same  way he does in Bob-omb Battlefield. If he does,   he should climb up and through the blocks to the  top layer and then drop down below when he gets  

Near the flag. I don’t know why he can do this,  but it’s kinda insane. So I start the race and   take off down my tunnel. I was nervous the dude  wasn’t going to make it to the end but honestly  

I think I beat him by a fraction of a second. He  came flying through the flag and almost fell off   the stage, but somehow I still got the win. We  grab our star and move onto the next. Okay… Five  

Itty Bitty Secrets. So I really underestimated how  big the small island truly was in this challenge.   When seeking out the five secrets I overshot  my estimates by a ton. This led me to getting   lost and ending up in places I didn’t want to  be. I eventually got all the secrets though.  

I knew the star spawned to the right of the  grass slope that led to the water pool on top   of the mountain. So I hopped on down and dug  out into the sky until I claimed another star.

That puts us at 53 stars. We have Wiggler  to tackle next and I’m really curious about   the boss fight, but our star count is looking  pretty bad. With only two more levels to go,   that means we will have to revisit places  during Area 4 to make sure we can get to Bowser.  

Red coin stars might have to happen…  And I’m not looking forward to it. So Wiggler is a boss I was kind of worried  about? They move pretty fast and I was   concerned that they might clip out of bounds due  to all the block geometry. I was also worried the  

Game would crash when I swapped from big to small,  but luckily it didn’t. So I drained the water,   swapped on over, and entered the fight. I could  hear Wiggler moving around but couldn’t see them   for the longest time. My strategy was similar  to the one I used with the Piranha plants.  

I was going to position myself above the enemy so  I could bonk their head without risking damage.   The last thing I want is to get trampled over  and over again if I get stuck on a block.  

Eventually Wiggler pops his head out into the  opening and I am able to get all of my hits in.   He shrivels up and falls into the  blocks and I get our 54th star. With this Area 3 is clear… I’m  concerned about my star count,  

But I suppose we’ll have to see  how this run ends next time. Subscribe now if you’d like  to watch that when it comes   out. Thanks for watching everyone,  and I’ll see you all soon. Cheers!