Mumbo Jumbo – Making the BEST MINE SHAFT in Minecraft 1.13!

I think it’s safe to say that mining is quite an important element of minecraft i mean you only have to listen to the name to get that impression but i realized the other day that i haven’t really put too much attention towards actually making cool mine shafts in

Minecraft so today that’s about to change oh ma i mean how did how did that squid even do that seriously now originally the entrance to this place was going to be a building on top of the ground and then the mine shaft drops downwards but then i thought

To myself you know what pretty much every single mine shaft that i think of in my head is kind of sat on the inside of a hill like it’s inset into the hill now i’m thinking that we have some form of piston door entrance and this is

Going to be slightly different to any form of piston door that i’ve really built before but i think it could look quite interesting now the idea behind this door is that we have oh hang on i’ve just what i was thinking is is that we almost have pistons going across like this so

We’d have piston arms being extended out all the way across so it’s kind of like bars pointing down and then all of the blocks get retracted but that means that we’re going to need so we’re going to need some regular pistons here and then we’ll also need a regular

Piston here and then these double piston extenders are going to take the blocks in this fashion so this will go down this way that one will go down that way and this one will go upwards things are going pretty well so far so i’ve got the top section so that is pushing those

Blocks down and then there is our retraction and then i’m just in the process of building up this bottom section right here so if i flick this lever okay so we need that to actually stay extended a tiny bit longer yeah so all of this is actually going to

Need to be based on redstone torches so maybe that will work okay and then we just need some form of observer circuit which actually we could probably do quite simply let’s have a look and see how well this works then so if we flick this lever

Well the answer is not very well by the look of things what has happened there we have infinite powering going on and i can’t tell where it’s actually coming from right that’s a little bit better so there is the closing and this is the opening and i have to say that looks

Pretty cool doesn’t it yeah that’s nice and this door is actually quite simple i like this thing next stage of the process is to actually get the access system sorted so i thought it’d be a good idea to have some form of mine access pass that we chuck

Into the system here and then when we hit the button that will actually activate the door now this system is actually working so if i tried to put any random item on the inside there you can see that that doesn’t actually go through whereas only the mine access pass does now this circuit

Is tiny like really really tiny and i like it a lot so let’s see this thing working then hit the button everything opens up and then everything closes pretty quickly okay we’ve got to do some work on the pulse extender but i would say that is the entrance completed

Now what i’m thinking is is that we have a kind of short little descent down into the main storage area which will then take us down into the main actual mine shaft so i mean do we want to do anything fancy with this i’m just trying to think what we could

Do that is fancy with this maybe something to do with minecarts that’s the only thing that i can think of yeah i mean i think this is a pretty good move and this is not going to be a pretty mine shaft i should add but it’s

Going to be a functional one but that’s going to take us down into this area here and then i guess i need to work out how big this storage system is actually going to be um i mean i guess storage for all the different precious items and then

Storage for things like cobblestone and stone hmm yeah that’s i’m gonna have to do some writing down here now i know this is going to sound really silly but i thought it’d be a cool idea to have a little minecart system where you can hit the button

And then that will request the minecart and then you hit the button and get back up to the top but i have just thought if the minecart is down at the bottom on this one yeah we’re not going to be able to send it back up okay so we need another

Redstone line running down from this button down into that powered rail this really impractical system where it would probably be faster to just walking up and down the stairs uh it’s not working so we can request our minecart from either end of the minecart rail i don’t

Know how useful that is but you know what i quite like it anyway now that that’s done it’s time for the very simple part which is our sorting system so one side which is this one is going to be used for all of the precious items

So if i just quickly fill all of this in with redstone that should do the trick if we pop down underneath you can see that we have got diamonds coal iron ore gold ore we’ve got redstone dust lapis and emeralds i think those are the only things you can

Get from mine shaft but i’m not 100 certain but then this side is going to be the bulk storage so that’ll be cobblestone that’ll be stone maybe dirt gravel all that sort of stuff now i’ve actually done a little bit of thinking and i think i’m going to swap that

Around so the idea is is that we’re going to have ourselves a little storage silo off in this section here if i can find redstone lamps so they’re going to run up across like this and then on the inside of this storage sino it’s actually going to be a big bulk storage

Shulker box storage system so you know those those systems where you can put the items into shulker boxes then once the shulker box gets filled then it gets put into a chest and then another shulker box gets dispensed and that fills up with items so you can essentially store hundreds upon

Thousands of items inside one chest that’s the move that we’re going to make i really am curious to see if this thing actually functions i haven’t built one of these bulk shulker box storage systems in forever so in theory it should work but i’m not 100 certain so if we grab ourselves a

Little bit of cobblestone here and we fill up with this shulker box so let’s fill it up to this point good okay nothing’s happened then if we do that i don’t know about you guys but that looked pretty positive and then that has flown down into there so that is one

Shulker box filled with cobblestone and then if we do the same thing again sweet that’s about as easy as it gets so i would say that is our storage system done now we don’t have to worry about it for a little while the next thing i want

To do is i actually want to create the elevator which is going to take us down into the proper mine shaft so i’m thinking i mean all all mine shafts i’ve ever seen and i haven’t seen that many of them i’ll be totally honest but all of them i’ve seen in the movies

Have got one of those clinkety elevators that you hit the button then the shutters close and then it kind of goes and then you drop down into the mine so i feel like we definitely need something like that going on i’m just trying to

Work out how i want to do it i mean so do we use slime blocks i feel like slime blocks is probably the way to go but this is a three by three area and that is gonna be tricky i guess so hang on let me just grab myself some sticky

Pistons if we if we got some sticky pistons and then some slime blocks i don’t really know how i’m going to do it i mean i thought that we could use slime block so if we have a slime block elevator let’s just quickly make a little flying machine

Here we might have to it’s been so long since i’ve made any form of flying machine i’m actually forgetting how to do it so something like that and then we’re going to need an immovable object up at the top there we’re going to need an observer facing upwards there and an

Observer facing across there i think that will do the trick and then if we okay so we can place that observer going across like that and then we can have i guess just blocks like this and then slabs would that do it i feel like that would do it maybe except of

Course that was way too many blocks to push so i’ve slimmed it down a little bit and now we only have a one block wide elevator which i actually feel is a little bit more fitting because you’re kind of squished in like this and then the elevator shaft itself

Is going to make its way down like this if i was in survival mode right now i’d be feeling very happy with myself if there’s one thing that i really don’t like about minecraft 1.13 it’s the lack of mcedit the ability to just do boring jobs like this with a handful of clicks

Of a button ah that was yeah those were the days good news is the system is actually working though it is pitch black so you probably can’t see anything but that has just made its way to the bottom and then if we update that it can also

Make its way to the top now i’ve just thought there is absolutely nothing to stop this thing so i’ll make sure that it doesn’t hit the roof now i am very curious here this should send it and it does now the reason that we have

To retract this block out of the way is because this is the only thing that can actually stop the system so once that gets down to the bottom i’m actually going to try sending it back up and hopefully this yellow block right here stops it so that it doesn’t hit the

Ceiling and it should stop in the correct place that does appear to be working by the look of things that is actually being stored up there now i’ve actually done the bottom circuitry as well but we need to put in a little redstone circuit that will allow us to request

The elevator to come down because the idea is much like all mine shafts i’ve seen in the movies is you have to request the elevator to come down to then take you back up to the top so i guess i don’t know a block of underside with a

Button and then a redstone line going right the way up to the top is the only way really to do it and go well that looks promising we’re going to be waiting here for quite some time but that’s looking good is that still on its way

I think it is on its way and you know what it’s not actually that slow so here we go down here comes and stops we hop on and then eventually we should be sent back up to the top there it is now this this is pretty sweet you have to admit elevator aside

It’s now time to actually work on the mine shaft itself now in the center here we’ve got ourselves a hopper system which runs right the way through the middle and that’s going to be transporting our items upwards into our automatic sorting system now should i do

That now or should i start work on the actual mine shafts themselves i feel like i should start work on the actual mine shafts and i’ve had an interesting idea for what i can do with this now i actually used well i used this concept and also this concept in my automatic

Mining systems that i did ages upon ages ago but i thought it’d be cool to actually automate this so if i if i get myself a pressure plate so we can pop through that door now after we’ve mined a certain number of blocks i want to make it so that this redstone

Lamp switches on so the system knows that hey the player has kind of mined this maybe it might be a better idea to go down a different mine shaft right so let’s give this a go so we go through here and then we start mining we start

Mining and then the system goes you know what this one has clearly been mined like this someone is clearly has gone down this route so the redstone lamp switches on now it only happens fairly early on just because if you’ve mined that far there’s a pretty high likelihood that you’re going

To continue mining so that means that this shaft is now done people shouldn’t worry about going down there anymore and they should go down the next one along the line yeah i quite like that idea all of those have now been installed so now i’m creating the circuit that is going

To be sending our items upwards now i’ve just had a thought so if i place soul sand at the bottom here i’m assuming the items will go through the soul sand because that should be expected and then this should all be water bubbles because i want to use water just because

I think it’s cool so here it goes one stack of diamonds has been mined and that has now made its way into the system now we see whoa nobody told me that the item elevators were that fast i was not expecting that but all the items are making their way in

And they are dropping down into this the enlightened item area here dude that is the most ridiculous item elevator i’ve ever seen in my life i did not realize that items traveled that fast in it oh my word that is spectacular so there we have it ladies and gents we

Have created ourselves a pretty sweet little mining system we have got a mining system that we can only access using a mine access pass so that will take us through we then have this tiny little minecart system which i personally think is quite cool that takes us down into the main little

Storage area we’ve got storage for all of the precious items we then have bulk storage in the form of the shulker boxes with a storage silo lamp indicator system and that’s going to be storing up all of our cobblestone our stone our diorite our dirt all of the stuff that

We don’t really need to be in separate chests but it’s handy to have in bulk storage we then have a wicked elevator which takes us down into the bottom that works perfectly we then have automatic item collection