Mogswamp – Minecraft Superflat FAQ

[Applause] What is up guys welcome to another video today i wanted to do a little bit of an faq on some of the questions i’ve been receiving about super flat in general and also a few more specific to my super flat world here and so i’ve recruited the help of my whoa

Little cow on my shoulder you know most people have a angel and a devil on their shoulder i just have a cow anyways i recruited the help of my friend dallas here hi dallas happy mog so he’s gonna be asking the questions dallas are you ready to get into it you

Betcha all right let’s get started hit me with your first question man How old is your world my world was created on may 7th 2012 which means we’re going to be coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the flat world this may which is pretty crazy but the first episode of flat world didn’t come out until june 9th 2012 over a

Month later and that was just because i was brand new to youtube at the time i had to figure out how to edit it create an intro all that good stuff and the version uh that i started on was 1.2.5 which was just a little patch to

The 1.2 update that released on march 30th the full 1.2 update introduced iron golems believe it or not jungle biomes jungle wood wasn’t even in the game until that update and then you know cats and ocelots as well and redstone lamps were also a new addition in the 1.2 update and fun fact

When i created my world you still couldn’t even trade with villagers uh until the 1.3 update which was in august 1st uh 2012 which basically allowed me to get redstone glass all sorts of essentials so it’s safe to say that without the 1.3 update i probably wouldn’t still be playing super flat today

How many minecraft days have you played so i get this question a lot and it always kind of makes me laugh because the whole trend of measuring time played in minecraft days is relatively new usually in the past people would use the playtime statistic that is in your save

File but unfortunately there’s a lot of reasons that i don’t have an accurate number in 1.7.2 they changed the way statistics were saved and that ended up resetting my statistics and then in addition to that over the years there have been several times where my file

Corrupted or i had to do some sort of weirdness to get my save file back so long story short my statistics have reset many times before but currently they say that i’ve played for 84.29 days the other reason this isn’t a super accurate number is because i’m afking

All the time while i’m at work while i’m sleeping um so a lot of that is not me actually playing the game it’s just my player being in the game with the game running but if i had to put it into minecraft days i’d say the absolute

Minimum would be 10 000 minecraft days it’s likely much much much more than that let’s just say if you counted afking my accumulated play time would probably be over 365. real life days uh which kind of makes me want to throw up next question How did you get all that water so this question always kind of makes me chuckle a little bit because i don’t think people realize just how easy it actually is to spread water one deep on a flat surface in minecraft so just to demonstrate to you i’m gonna boot up a

Brand new flat world set a one minute timer and we’re gonna see how far i can spread the water in just one minute ready set go so as you can see in just one minute we were able to get a pretty good area covered and

The longer you do it the faster it kind of goes because you’re expanding on two different sides of that square at once just by walking diagonally placing water buckets so hopefully that answers your question i did place the water by hand but it didn’t take long How did you get to the nether so this one is really easy to answer you can get water from the farms at the villages lava from the blacksmiths of the villages and then iron from the iron golems craft some buckets up and use the water and lava to create obsidian and

You also might find iron and obsidian in the blacksmith chests so back when i started my world i got my flint and steel from the gravel that was on the village pathways nowadays if you start a new world post 1.14 you’ll need to find flint in the village fletcher

Chest and there’s a 55.8 percent chance of getting one to three flint How did you get nine to sight granite and all right yeah so these blocks have actually been craftable since they were introduced to the game as far as i know but i just think a lot of people don’t know that because they’ve never had to craft them it’s basically just

Cobblestone and quartz will get you all those blocks how did you get to the end so this one’s a bit of an interesting story the typical default flat world does not spawn with strongholds generating but one of the community members javi actually found a bug in 1.16.1 where strongholds were actually

Generating on super flat worlds it’s weird though because the ender eyes don’t work to locate them so you just kind of have to come across them and so when that update came around i went into my world file and deleted the part of the game that tells minecraft whether or

Not to generate structures then i went ahead and made a 1.16.1 version of my world same seed and everything and just copied that one little part of the file into the existing file it’s one of the more cheaty things i’ve done in my world but i think it was worth it because elytra

And shulker boxes have completely revolutionized the super flat world and so if you’re ever going to start your own super flat world i really really recommend you start the world in version 1.16.1 and then upgrade it from there How did you get sand so the 1.14 update was maybe one of the most important updates for the flat world since they first introduced villager trading in 1.3 the reason why was because the wandering trader uh introduced so many different things that we never had access to including all the different wood types

All different flowers sea pickles and then sugar cane and cactus which unlock a whole bunch of stuff so i’ve actually built a giant platform just for afk and spawning wandering traders because that’s how important they are to my world and the most important trade of

All was the sand trade once i got my hands on a little bit of sand it was as easy as building a sand duplicator over the end portal and uh yeah now i can duplicate as much sand as i need and by the way sand is the only thing that i

Duplicate on my world there’s just no other way to get it so i you know it’s either that or just not have sand how did you get everything else if you have a question specifically on how i got anything else in my super flat world please feel free to leave a

Comment and ask me i do reply to all the comments i read all of them but in general if you’re confused about how i got something it’s usually through villager trading the wandering trader or rarely through you know village loot chests nether loot chests and loot chests

Even cat gifts can get you a few items you can get copper from converting zombies to drowned like i said if there’s anything else that you’re not sure of just feel free to ask what was the first thing you did in your flat world i spawned in we’re in the middle of nowhere

All right let’s get going i killed some sheep to get a bed usually in superfly you don’t get a bed and the mobs destroy you at night so i found a village oh found the village then i used the water and lava to go to the nether

And then i dug a big round hole i have created a big circle which is going to be a tower going way up tall in the sky and turned it into the tower that we know and love today What motivates you to keep going so it’s definitely safe to say that if i had never started the let’s play or the youtube channel i wouldn’t still be playing on this world what really motivates me is the comments i get and especially as of late the comments have

Been so encouraging so fun to read so thank you so much to all the new people joining the channel but i also draw a lot of inspiration from other youtubers you know the hermitcraft game lobos garage wpc builds is one i’ve been getting into lately and a lot of my

Inspiration from builds just comes from instagram i like to sort my favorites into folders and that way i can just look in there and have so much inspiration anytime i’m not sure what to do for a build How do you set goals for your world so it might sound a little crazy but my favorite way to set goals in this game is to literally come up with an insane idea that i don’t think i can ever finish and the reason i like that strategy is

Because then i always have something to work on also i feel like when you get to a certain point with your world uh the goals just sort of come naturally my suggestion would be to come up with a huge idea and then focus on chipping

Away at it by focusing on the farms and the infrastructure you need to make your life easier and then after that set rules for yourself a couple examples are ethos no torches rule which i use on my own world as well as you know one of the challenges is to not use any

Torches when this is all all finished right so we want to hide the lighting as best as possible any finished part of my world i really strive to have no ugly torches sitting around and all hidden lighting one of my personal goals is trying to disguise all of my

Technical farms as beautiful buildings which i have a whole separate video about so basically i have this huge goal of building this entire city around my base and i’m always needing to get materials to reach this goal for example pretty soon i’m going to need a really

Nice copper farm and that’ll give me a whole project to work on where not only do i have to build the copper farm but then i have to figure out a way to make it look nice and you know make it fit into my world hopefully that makes sense

Why did you start a super flat world in the first place so super flat worlds were announced a tweet by jeb on january 4th 2012 and then added to a snapshot for the 1.1 version of the game and shortly after they were released i just became curious whether or not you could

Actually survive on a super flat world so i started a world i made a basic wheat farm and i was having a lot of fun with it i then started another world with my friend jason and we played on there for a while and we had a lot of

Huge ideas of what we could do with the super flat world and eventually i just had so many ideas and it became so big and fun for me that i was like man i should really be recording this so i i basically started over from scratch started recording and the rest is

History if you want to know more about it i’ve got a video called super flat is the best mode in minecraft on my channel go check that out What is your favorite part of your world this is another tough one to answer because i tend to be one of those people who is very self-confident in the things that i make i studied art in college and it was definitely a learning experience for me to be able to critique my own

Work with sort of a neutral eye usually whatever i built last or whatever i made last is like my favorite thing in the world so just as an example some of the recent things i built on my world are the wood farm the lighthouse right now i

Just i love those builds so much but there are a few areas in my world that i keep coming back to just because they feel so cozy to me i would say this one little mountain area right here is definitely one of those areas and the beach near salacia and the new bridge

That we built uh would also make that list but if i have to pick one singular spot in the world that i love to stand the most it would definitely be right here at the end of this road because you get an amazing view of salacia and if my uh

Render distance is high enough you can see the mountain in the background the beach oh it’s just such an amazing view what upcoming project are you most excited for right now what i’m most excited about doing is the harbor project where we’re going to finish removing all the bedrock

And get a nice shoreline in there and start building ships the last time i tried to build a ship in minecraft was probably like 2012 so i’m really excited to give that another shot what music do you use in your videos so a lot of my music comes from the

Classic the og the goat kevin macleod or incompetech music whatever it’s called some of my other music that i use in my videos comes from an artist called phantom nk he’s a really cool swedish chiptune producer who i dm’d years and years ago on soundcloud or something

And he gave me permission to use some of his songs in my videos super cool dude i also did this pixel art for him forever ago by hand i might add um and if i use any other music i always make sure to list it in the description of the video

Most of the questions i’ve gotten are actually about my own music because i do use a lot of my own music in my videos so if there’s ever a song in the video that you can’t find in the description it’s probably just something i made because

Making your own music is the easiest way to avoid copyright and if there’s enough demand for it maybe i’ll upload uh some of the songs that i made for my videos so you guys can listen to them whenever you want i am starting a super flat world what should i know

The one thing i would recommend to anyone interested in starting a flat world is to start in the 1.16.1 update the reason being if you start in this update strongholds should generate in your world the only issue is that eyes of ender and the locate command will not help you

Find the stronghold so you’re gonna have to search it out manually by just looking around but i can’t stress enough how much the end has made the flat world meta so much more fun for me so if you’re gonna do it yourself i really do recommend doing it with strongholds the

Only other thing to keep in mind is that the only biome in super flat is the plains biome so there’s a lot of fun creatures and critters that you’re not gonna ever see on the super flat world well guys that is gonna have to be it for today this took a surprisingly long

Time to edit but i hope it was helpful hope it answered some of your questions and i hope you enjoyed if you did feel free to give the video a rating maybe a subscribe whatever you please and i’ll see you next time better [Applause] You