Mud Blocks & How To Farm Them! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let’s Play [Ep.37]

Hello everyone my name is pixorius and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day we are going to talk a lot about mud today and yes I know it seems like a strange thing to dedicate an entire episode to talking about mud but believe

Me there is a lot more to Mud below the surface and I don’t mean that literally I mean that entirely metaphorically because if you come to a mangrove swamp where all of the mud you’ll find in the world naturally generates you will find that under the surface there really is

Just the natural landscape that you’ll find anywhere else under the surface layers of a biome there’s just Stone and dirt and the various other minerals that you will find while we are here though I want to take a look at a couple of the inhabitants of a mangrove swamp because

This is actually our first encounter with frogs frogs appear here and in swamps they are adorable little critters they will hop around they will just kind of waddle like this and we’ll come back to talk about frogs at a later date because they are really fascinating creatures but for now we’re just going

To grab a few blocks of mud from the surface here where on flat areas it will be a few blocks deep so you can actually get quite a large quantity of it just from digging up open areas in Mangrove swamp biomes on hillsides like this one it’ll probably only be a couple of

Blocks thick before you get down to the stone layers but down here on the flat ground that is where all of the best mud can be found and you will also find that as it generates especially where mangrove trees have generated muddy Mangrove Roots also become available

They’re technically a variant of mud so to speak so we can grab a few of those as we go here but I would just bring a couple of stacks back with me so we’ve returned home with a couple of stacks of mud from that Mangrove swamp and don’t

Worry if you can’t find a mangrove swamp because they are relatively few and far between biomes out there in the world you can make some mud yourself in fact all you will need to do so is a water bottle and some dirt both of which

Should be pretty easy to get in any bio we’ll leave a water source nearby because our water bottle is going to be used up every time that we we do this but placing down a few dirt blocks and right clicking on them with a water bottle will convert them into mud and it

Makes a big splashing sound every time it does which if you’re doing a lot of this at once in my experience gets a little bit overwhelming but if you want to get a whole bunch of mud in a more manual way then there is really no

Better place to come to than either a river biome or an ocean that has dirt on the ocean floor some oceans wore motions in particular have a lot of sand so it might be less feasible to do it there but if we dive into this River biome

Right here we can simply start spamming right click to convert some of the dirt blocks on the riverbed into mud on every second click the water bottle will refill itself and by then we can be looking at another dirt block in order to convert it and I’ll be honest with

You mod fits in really nicely with the texture of blocks below the surface of the water it’s just got that nice riverbed quality to it although once again the sound effect is a little bit overwhelming but now that we have a little bit more peace and quiet let’s

Take a look at the properties of mud mud on its own does not really have any crafting recipes attached to it so you can see over here right now the only crafting recipes I have are for torches and blocks of coal and stuff that I can make with the other items in my

Inventory there are no mud slabs or stairs or anything like that we can’t make condensed blocks of mud this way but it is possible to craft mud with other things so if we can grab some wheat from our field over here we can start talking about packed mud by

Combining it together with wheat in a one-to-one crafting ratio we can end up with packed mud which is a building block not only that but it has a couple of crafting recipes and this is where the slabs and stairs start to come in ordinary packed mud on its own cannot be

Crafted into slabs and stairs it is just a fairly straightforward building block with some slightly tinny but honestly kind of cool sound effects but that can be transformed into mud bricks and mud bricks other ones which have variants like slabs stairs and walls so it becomes a much more versatile building

Block once you’re able to craft it into brick form and honestly I find the sound effect effects for mud bricks to be a lot more pleasant as a resource for Builders I think packed mud and mud bricks can fit in really well into an area that’s meant to be a dirt path of

Sorts we can dapple in a couple of the mud bricks to show that this path at some point had a little bit of organization to it so that maybe if we mix it in with stone bricks here and there it can look like a path that’s just been well trodden and not very

Frequently cleaned if we grab a little bit of dirt and some gravel from over here we can turn those into a block called coarse dirt which I think works really well with mud because it’s effectively dirt that can retain its texture as the name suggests it’s a

Little more coarse than regular dirt it has a higher contrast in the texture it looks a little bit more grainy but if you want to make something that looks like a worn country path a little bit of course dirt mixed in with some packed mud and some mud bricks it’s going to

Look really good if we also throw in some Stone and stone bricks around the outside it’ll look like sections of the path are still a little bit clean they are the bits that are slightly less well trodden and on this path if we leave a little bit of the natural grass growing

Up from the grass blocks in the middle here I think it can still look like the path is slightly overgrown might want to mix in a bit of mossy cobblestone here and there as well but that’s a lot of different textures all working towards the idea that this is a stone path that

Has become muddy over time and with that I basically used up all of the packed mud and mud bricks that I made so we’re gonna leave those over here maybe this is a pathway you’ll develop in future but for now we need to look at the more technical properties of mud and what

Else it can do for that we’re going to return to my storage system here and grab any drip stone that we’ve got on us unfortunately I only have 12 pointed drip Stone I’ve got a decent amount here in the item filter so I’m just going to grab 12 of

Those although I’m not actually certain it has to be drip stone blocks that we do this with but it seems like a nice thing to pair with the pointed drip Stone underneath that we’re going to hang at the pointed drip Stone to allow for water to be siphoned from the blocks

Above but we’re not going to do that with water we’re going to do that with some of these mud blocks we’re going to place these down on top of any blocks which have pointed drip Stone dangling from below and you’ll notice that the drip Stone immediately begins to drip a

Little now if we watch this little 4×3 area of mud that we’ve created up at the top here something is going to happen it will take a little while for it to happen but mud placed over the top of pointed drip Stone in this way can actually be converted from mud into clay

The kind of clay that you find on the beds of rivers and in Lush cave biomes there we go we just saw that one on the corner convert into a block of clay and after a couple of minutes a couple more blocks have converted into clay so if

You’re finding yourself short on Clay but you have an ample supply of dirt and a water bottle you can make clay yourself using this technique of course from that point the clay can be broken down into clay balls which you can smelt into bricks it can be used as a building

Block on its own or it can be smelted as a full Block in order to create terracotta in fact this can make for a really interesting number of Transformations that a single block can go through many of which can be made completely automatic for example if we

Bone meal some of this Moss we will end up with a few azaleas growing bone meal of the Azalea and the block below it turns into rooted dirt with a bottle of water which could be fired from a dispenser that rooted dirt transforms into mud the mud can be dried out on one

Of these drip Stone platforms to convert it into clay the clay can then be harvested with TNT to turn it in into clay balls those clay balls can end up going into a furnace and the furnace will fire them into bricks and then the bricks can be transformed by a player

Into a brick block alternatively a player can collect the full clay blocks by either breaking them with a regular shovel or silk touching them those clay blocks can be put into a furnace to be smelted into terracotta eight terracotta blocks can be dyed to turn them into a

Stained color of terracotta and then that can be smelted in a furnace in order to get glazed terracotta and a block of glazed terracotta is typically one quarter of a larger pattern which you can put together in these two by two areas if you want to these blocks are

Also rotational so you can try a variety of different pans with them give them a go they’re worth playing around with but the most amazing thing about this is we can get these incredibly detailed mosaic tile textures out of what was originally a block of moss or dirt and in this

Weird alchemical reaction mud is the bridge renewable Clay is a really interesting concept and it was possible before this but only if if you had the hero of the village effect and you would receive occasional clay blocks from stonemason Villages but we are not done

With mud not by a long shot there is going to be a bunch of stuff mud is useful for throughout the course of this series because one of mud’s most useful properties from a technical perspective is the fact that it is not a full block

Or at least the hitbox when it comes to entity interactions is not a full block if you take a look at these two it looks like they are of even Heights but if we step up onto the dirt block take a look our y value there in the coordinates and

Then we step slightly to the left you’ll notice that our height decreases by 1 16 of a block much like the Soul Sand block mud blocks actually dip you down into them by a single Pixel of the texture we can also observe this without looking at

The F3 screen just by taking a look at my boots if you see how much of the boots texture sinks into this dirt block then I move over here and you’ll see that even more of it is sunken into the mud block so that’s a pretty clear sign

That when we step on mud we slightly sink into it what this means for mud’s technical interactions is that it can be used in tandem with Hoppers if we place a full block of Another Kind on top of a hopper let’s say we use this coarse dirt

For example any items we throw on the top of that block are not going to be pulled through this is how come we’ve used Hopper Minecart for a few different things around this world already because those are capable of pulling blocks through a full block on top of them

Where a hopper is not but if we place a mud block on top of that Hopper if we throw items on top of that they will end up going into the hopper they’ll end up passing through the mud block because it is not a full block at least not in

Terms of its hitbox and that can come in incredibly useful for things like sugarcane Farms because if we place a water bucket down here it still needs to grow next to water but it is possible for sugarcane to grow on top of mud blocks so by swapping all of the grass

Blocks in here out for mud we could just run a row of Hoppers underneath here to collect the sugar cane instead of having a hopper Minecart system that’s triggered by all of the Redstone mechanisms in here that would allow us to trigger each of these Pistons individually using the other method that

I introduced to you in the sugarcane farm episode which would increase the efficiency of our farm and mean that it no longer relied on The Observers triggering to trigger a collection mechanism We’re not gonna do that today because I’m pretty happy with how that sugarcane farm has been producing but it

Is a way in which we can make the sugarcane farm a little bit more efficient and less reliant on moving components we could do something similar with our sniffers since sniffers can dig seeds up from mud blocks because they consider mud to be basically a dirt variant and doing that would get around

The problem we’ve had with sniffers so far which is that we’ve had to jump in and gather the seeds from them manually whenever they have dug something up I’ve been doing that every so often when I can but I’ve only ever gotten about half a stack of seats but if I had enough

Iron to create effectively a 5×5 area of Hoppers and then we put a 5×5 of mud blocks over the top of that we’d be able to let a sniffer loose on this mud they’d be able to pick up all of the seeds and anytime they did that the

Seeds would go through the mud blocks into The Hoppers and be siphoned off into a collection chest so mud can have some technical uses as well as being a pretty diverse building block I also like to include mud as a darker Stone type when I’m building with a stone

Block palette because if you combine this with blocks like deep slate some of the darker blocks in the build palette it can sort of look like it’s meant to be the Deep Slate’s equivalent of Natural Stone where there isn’t too much texture going on there’s a little bit of

A subtle Ripple to it a little bit of color in there but realistically it could look like a stone type at a distance as long as you’re not hearing the noises that it makes so overall I think mud is quite important to have around and if you want to have some mud

In larger quantities and you don’t feel like going to a river biome and just spamming right click down there there are a couple of more technical ways we can get a large quantity of mud out of all of that dirt you’ve probably got lying around

So we’re going to set up a sort of mud Factory in this episode and to do that we need a pretty large open area I don’t want to build it too close to my storage system since I’m still working on what the outside of that is going to look

Like maybe over here yeah I would say over here it seems pretty good so we’re going to dig a hole here that oh it’s going to turn into a larger hole I guess there are some caves around and another trail of blocks left by an Enderman it

Looks like hmm interesting so we’re just going to build a very basic item filter and here we’re going to build the smaller more compact version that we can put as many items as we want to in the filter because the thing doesn’t need to tile so it doesn’t need any overflow

Protection we are of course going to have the hopper facing into the comparator here but we’re going to have another Hopper facing into a dropper on the side here droppers are basically like dispensers but instead of being able to use items they will always spit

Items out so we’re going to have a chain of those that actually leads up here on top of this Hopper we’re going to be placing a dispenser and we’re going to have a third Hopper facing into the top of the dispenser like so then on top of

This dropper pipe we’re going to have a second dispenser and that is what is going to provide a water bottles to this dispenser of course we need to have a redstone torch attached to this block which is going to lock the Hoppers above when the circuit is not in use and we’re

Going to fill up this top Hopper with a bunch of Netherrack once again we want to have five items in each slot with a sixth item there and the filter is actually going to be filtering out empty glass bottles from this dispenser we’re going to need a lot of empty glass

Bottles I’ll start off with 30 here just for the sake of demonstration but really we want to get several stacks of those so we might need to go and smelt some more glass or trade with some Librarians for it the whole premise we are working with here is that a dispenser when

Activated can use a water bottle on a dirt block in front of it so let me grab a button real quick so that we can activate this we can actually activate it through the dirt block itself and that’s going to convert the dirt block into mud you’ll notice now that the

Water bottle in the dispenser has vanished but the bottle hasn’t been used instead it’s been recycled by this system going through the item filter and into the hopper below where it will be fed into these droppers and if they’re activated with redstone power these droppers will actually push their

Contents upwards into the next dropper and so on and so forth until they return to this dispenser at the top here this dispenser is what’s going to be full of glass bottles and it’s going to be creating bottles of water to be fed into this Hopper because dispensers don’t

Just use bottles of water they can actually create bottles of water from a water source and typically when you use a dispenser full of empty bottles it will retract that water bottle that it’s just created back into the dispenser we’re going to fill the dispenser up

With empty glass bottles so that when it creates the bottle of water the bottle of water has nowhere to go it will be spat out of the dispenser and a immediately gets picked up by this Hopper which puts it in the dispenser below now we are of course gonna have to

Make sure that this water source up here is contained and one way of doing that is to waterlog a block you can actually waterlog a leaf block or a mangrove root block up here and that will completely contain the water source so you don’t need to surround it with any other

Blocks but personally I find that that makes the Collision a little bit dodgy and sometimes water bottles end up flying out the sides instead of going into the hopper so we’re gonna have to deal with this slightly unwieldy barrier for the water of source block up there a

Couple of blocks to the side here we’re going to add some Redstone Dust which is going to power these droppers and the dispenser at the top that’s creating the water bottles we’ll put two Redstone Dust going into this dropper and if this dropper is directly powered it will provide power to the components

Immediately above and below it it will also very briefly lock this Hopper but then once the Redstone current goes away again the hopper should be able to still filter items through like normal we’re going to come up one block here and we’re actually going to staircase up so

We can provide power to the dispenser at the top in order to do that we need to split this Redstone Wire by having a glass block here in the center that way we can end up with a redstone wire that runs down underneath this glass block and towards this whilst also staircasing

Up so it enters the dispenser right here next to this Redstone Dust we’re going to place a torch there and we’re going to place another block up here and attach to the side of that block we’re going to place a piston this is what’s known as a smart piston circuit because

When we place a block in front of the piston this block receives power from the redstone torch will power this line of redstone dust and that powers the block next to the Piston which activates the Piston meaning that the block is pushed away and the Piston immediately

Ejects whatever is placed in front of it you might also have heard a click at that time that was all of these dispensers and droppers activating and that should mean the system is primed we actually now have two bottles of water here in the dispenser CERN as we place a

Couple more of those you’re going to find that there are now four water bottles here in the dispenser I’m just gonna drink the contents of a couple of these so we can have some glass bottles to put back in the top dispenser because the dispenser will use items from a

Random slot in the dispenser each time but then when it receives items from the droppers below they will usually end up in the top left slot so sooner or later all of your glass bottles are going to end up up here and then that breaks the system because the water bottles can no

Longer be fed into this dispenser instead they get picked up by the dispenser up here I’ve gathered up a couple more components because we need this dispenser to activate every time a block of dirt ends up in front of it so that it will use the water bottles to

Convert these into mud but placing a redstone torch underneath this while it does technically work is going to lock the output Hopper so that the glass bottles the empties will end up staying in the dispenser so instead what we’re going to do is place a redstone repeater

Facing in towards the space in front of the display enter which is currently occupied by this mud block and using whatever blocks we’ve got to hand because I’m running out of the cyan terracotta I’m using as a building block we’ll put a redstone torch there any Redstone power source will do you could

Use a full redstone block if you wanted to but that is the first part of our mud Factory done and if we faced in towards this piston and click a couple of times once we turn around we’ll find we have a strip of mud poking out in this

Direction and the system has failed to fire once but that shouldn’t be a concern once we get things up and running the main problem now is that we have reached the limit that a piston can push Pistons can only push 12 blocks and then once the 13th block gets added

Unfortunately the Piston can no longer push anything so we’re going to set up a way for the system to clear these mud blocks out and push them away so that another line of dirt blocks can be coming through here and converting into mud for that we’re gonna Place eight

Pistons starting next to the dispenser right here and forming a line along the mud blocks we’ve already created then at the end of this line of mud blocks we’re going to place a wall of any kind it can be a stone brick Cobblestone whatever you’ve got handy we’re going to place an

Observer facing into that wall and along the back here using Oak planks since I have those handy we’re going to run a line of redstone dust starting here on the end behind this Observer and going all the way along the side of these Pistons what this does is when the

Observer detects the wall changing shape which it will do once this final block arrives here and connects it will send a redstone pulse which will activate all of these Pistons pushing the entire platform of mud forward I should be able to just stand on this row of dirt and

Hold down at the right click button and behind me a whole square of mud will be created it’s missing the occasional block here because the dispenser Billow isn’t receiving water bottles at the dispenser above is taking them which is why we will need to have glass bottles

To fill up every slot here in this dispenser but as you can see our set of Pistons here has started to push out this square of mud blocks meaning that more mud blocks can come in behind and we fill up a large area which we can

Then Harvest with a shovel once we have a bunch more glass bottles the system should become a little bit more reliable and so I’m gonna go over to the Village trade with them a whole bunch and see if I can get enough glass to do what we need to do here

So after a little bit of trading we at least have enough glass bottles to fill up more than half of this dispenser and we can spread the rest around the available slots until it’s at least going to be reliable for a little bit longer in theory with enough use the

Glass bottles will all stack up in the first available slots in the dispenser So eventually this is going to run out but we should be able to create a lot of mud before it does and now the dispenser is a lot more reliable so if I turn

Around there will probably only be one or two yes there we go one or two early mud blocks where the dispenser didn’t quite work out and you’ll notice there’s a water bottle here on the surface I think that’s probably jumped out of the top here where this dispenser can

Sometimes fire things out at an odd angle so I’m just going to use this water bottle on there we’ll Chuck that back into the system where it’s going to be collected I’ll put a block over the top of this just for the sake of having something there to prevent the bottles

Escaping and we should be able to continue producing mud the only problem with the system now is going to be when this set of Pistons reaches their push limit once again so we should end up with 12 blocks of mud out here and on the 13th block of mud the system is

Going to lock up so we’ve got room for three more blocks to come out over here before the system completely locks and I’m wondering maybe we can set up some kind of signal to indicate when the system has reached its capacity I’m thinking what we do is we get an emerald

Block an observer and a note block then once the platform of mud has reached this point an observer is going to detect that mud has been pushed in front of this it’s going to activate the note block which by default would make a piano sound but with a block of emerald underneath it

It actually makes a kind of chip tuny sound if we tune that up a little bit we’re going to listen out for that chip tuny chime and there we go we hear the note block play and we know to stop placing dirt blocks until we’ve cleared

Up the remainder of the mud from here it’s quite a neat little system and it’s all possible thanks to a dispenser mechanics and being able to convert dirt into mud blocks now all of the dirt that I have and I have a couple of double chests of it at this point can be

Converted into mud which can then be turned into a whole bunch of other blocks and that is where we’re going to leave this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide hopefully you’ve now realized that mud is a little bit more useful than you might have initially thought thank you so much for watching

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