Nether Exploration + Basic Potion Brewing! | Minecraft Hardcore Guide Series Ep.5 1.16 Lets Play

What’s going on my dudes welcome to the channel i’m cody bags and welcome back to the minecraft hardcore guide series so today is episode 5 and today is deep dark and scary we are going to the dether and uh i’m pretty excited because uh this is really gonna get this world

Launched and this series start so if you guys are excited for this episode make sure to smash that like button before we get started also if you’re new to the channel and you want to become one of the dudes smash that sub button to become one of the dudes all right let’s get

Started and embark on this big journey so we’re gonna go to the deep dark nether uh before we do that i’m actually gonna go ahead and we’re gonna go feed the cows because why not and also i did build this big farm here i’m not sure if i showed this off last episode

But i think i built it a lot after last episode i uh modified the farm made it a lot bigger um that way we just got you know more stongs right it’s just a bigger area and uh oh look this grass finally grew awesome so we’re gonna go all the way to

The nether i’m gonna be showing you guys some tactics some survival uh expertise um surviving the nether in hardcore because it can definitely be pretty sketchy let’s feed these cows and then i’m gonna show you guys what we’re gonna bring all right we’ve had the cows we fed the

Sheep now it’s time to go over all the things we’re going to be bringing also we are on day 28 that’s pretty good honestly we’re moving in this series all right so what we’re going to bring to the nether um just basically we last episode we got

Kitted up with full diamond armor so we’re going to be bringing all those um also we’re gonna get rid of that diamond because we don’t want to bring that i’m gonna break three stacks of cobblestone that way we have lots of building blocks when we get down there

Because when you’re actually raiding and looking for the actual uh fortress it’s very essential to remember your path and also there’s a tactic i use using some blocks to block off wither skeletons and all kinds of other stuff also we’re going to be bringing gold boots gold boots going to keep us

From getting killed by piglins and uh yeah it’s going to keep them happy also we’re gonna be bringing a ton of pickaxes as you guys can see a shovel an axe as our main weapon and a big stack of food plus some bread and that’s basically it i’m gonna bring

A bucket just to bring some lava home uh because why not you could always use it to smell down stuff and uh yeah it’s very handy so let’s embark on this journey and uh we already built our nether portal so i’m gonna actually show you guys our portal here

If you guys didn’t watch any previous episodes make sure to go check those out before continuing but here you go as you guys can see this is our portal we’ve got um 10 pieces of obsidian built into a portal lit it up with flint and steel it’s good to go

We actually used this for last episode to get lots of xp to enchant all of our pickaxes so it was pretty handy so let’s head to the nether all right so we’re in the nether and you might be wondering cody you never really even told us why we go into the nether well

We’re gonna go kill some blades blaze basically drop this thing called a blaze rod and a blaze rod can actually make it so we can actually start brewing potions potions come in handy and also blaze rods actually help you beat the game because you also need

Blaze rods plus blaze you got to turn the blazer out into blaze powder to actually mix with ender pearls to make ender eyes to find a stronghold so that is why we are going to go find this fortress today now i haven’t found one yet now i’m

Going to give you guys a little tip here if you go on details and you turn fog off under optifine it’ll make it so you can see a lot farther here i’ll even show you like literally look at that fog fast you can’t see nothing in the nether

You turn it on fog off boom you can see everything so make sure you turn fog off all right so let’s just start looking around and i’ll keep you guys updated with everything i find now we did go this way last time as you guys can see

Um we went this way so i’m not sure if we’re gonna go this way there is a big bastion over there as well if you guys didn’t see now before i move too too far i’m just gonna turn my video setting uh my render distance all the way up and

We’re just gonna see if we can spot anything i i don’t think we could spot anything no not nothing yet dudes but uh i i don’t know that way it looks promising that way over there it looks promising but it would take a little while to get around it

Um i just recommend you look around a little bit if you’re using my seed then obviously you’re gonna know where everything is and you’re gonna realize there’s nothing around us but if you’re if you’re on your own make sure to just look around a little bit before actually leaving your area

Well i’ve decided to go this way towards sebastian because i loaded my chunks over there and it actually just led to a wall so i think what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna head this way i think i think it looks the most promising out of all directions

Now uh watch out for those big guys they like to shoot fireballs at you just uh be very cautious all right so i decided i’m gonna bridge all the way over there and uh we’re gonna see if we can find anything over there all right so we bridged all the way over

Here but we got this angry boy here and uh we gotta be a little cautious because he could knock us right off the edge this is a boar and boars are very dangerous as you guys could probably tell they look pretty tough and they definitely are pretty tough so be cautious

Okay so let’s see no fortress yet okay so let’s just keep traveling now before you get too far you might want to mark your coordinates and uh it just helps with finding your way home so here’s our piglin friends as you guys could tell we have gold boots

On so they don’t care about us right now but uh if you don’t have gold on then you’re in for some trouble if you guys are wondering uh this sand on the ground this is called soul sand and uh it’s very slow to walk on

And then this is soul soil soul sand it just basically slows your movement down a lot so uh be careful you don’t get caught on it in a sticky situation where there’s mobs coming at you all right this is a dangerous situation there’s a lot of hogs coming at me

All right we got a ghast uh harassing us a little bit so i’m gonna try to kill him with a little bit of his own medicine here let’s see come on if you actually strike these just have the perfect timing you can oh that didn’t work you can actually knock them back out

But uh it’s definitely very dangerous as we can tell here there we go he’s dead he’s out of here all right there’s an advancement we got returned to the sender yeah the nether’s definitely not the friendliest place you want to be hanging out in all right we’re coming up to a pretty

Open area here i’m going to turn my field of view up in a few minutes i’m going to get to try to get up here now this is a pretty cool biome i’m in right now it’s called the basalt deltas but it’s actually very dangerous because you

Got a lot of magma cubes running around and uh these boys give you magma cream it’s very handy they give you fire resistance uh when you actually turn magma cream into potions but uh let’s turn our frame rate our uh chunks up here i don’t see anything again

Uh maybe who knows look how far that tree is we could head that way oh wait hold on a second oh my god look at that optifine zoom just saved us so as you guys can see that’s the top of a fortress right through there oh my

Gosh i’m glad i didn’t move for a minute all right let’s head that way oh gosh okay let’s go dudes all right this is gonna be a little dangerous hope you’re good at parkouring the basalt deltas are probably the sketchiest biome to parkour through all right we’re gonna have to build over there

I should have probably brought more blocks apparently because uh we’re running a little low here but don’t worry we got efficiency 4 on our pick we can grab some netherrack real quick all right cool so i’m i’m a little bit closer but as you can see it’s right

There so we’re just going to keep heading over there oh hello my friendly striders they’re kind of cool they’re like the horses of the nether all right here we go not bad oh oh my gosh what did i do that for all right so we’re at the fortress

Just don’t don’t don’t even ask what happened there okay just don’t ask okay so anyways there’s actually two fortresses here which is really really cool because that was the one that we saw but this is actually a different one right here so this is a good little spot

Here now i’m gonna try to make my way over there but i do see a skeleton and i didn’t oh i have a bow oh okay i must have killed a skeleton and he dropped it so we do have a bow but i’m not gonna risk building over there

Because uh sadly we’ll know what happens uh he’ll probably shoot us off the edge all right so the first thing i’m going to do is grab a ton of building blocks here before i do anything careful not to mine gold uh there might be any piglets around

Let’s get a ton of blocks here that way we have lots of building blocks to get out of any situations we don’t want to be in now the piglets look like the zombified piglets don’t look mad at me anymore oh okay that skelly boy wants some does he

Oh we got we got a couple enemies inbound here oh gosh all right all right everybody settle down here i i’m not ready for this okay there we go okay so what i just killed was a wither skeleton weather skeletons are very dangerous and uh they actually cause you to wither

Away so uh be very cautious around them if we get the withering effect later i’ll show you what i mean but uh they’re very dangerous and in hardcore they’re gonna kill you really quick i’m not gonna lie all right so let’s get this boy uh not this boy but this other wither skeleton

To come over here all right double critical oh my gosh okay well there’s the withering effect i’m talking about all right let’s uh let’s let’s get out of here and blaze hit me with some fire behind me all right so the withering effect basically takes hearts half a heart away

From you every like two seconds i think um and it’s very very dangerous so that’s all i gotta say all right so there is a blaze over here so these are the guys that drop the blaze rods and uh be very cautious when uh coming up to them

Because they shoot fireballs like crazy and uh they’re very strong now if you had fire resistance uh you wouldn’t take any damage from them at all unless you were touching them all right so i’m gonna drop down here and we’re gonna hope nothing is around this corner all right we’re good

So we just got the advancement a terrible fortress so now my this is my strat when i come into these on hardcore i always always block off the third high block and build a little wall now why i do this is because if you get like let’s say um

You you get like let’s say a wither skeleton whether their skeleton comes flying around this corner and you back up over here and you didn’t back yourself up behind your mother imagine there’s another wither skeleton over there so it’s just it’s just good to you know

Uh just cover cover yourself you know um so it just comes in handy now this is really good hey this is awesome so what we just found here is netherwort in other words really handy for brewing potions and it’s like essential for brewing potions but we’re gonna grab some nether

Wart and we’re also gonna grab the soul sand so then we can make a little farm at home and we’ll never run out of this stuff all right so i’m gonna grab the nether wart on this side as well and also the soul sand and then the next thing we’re going to

Do is look for a blaze spawner that’s all we’re really going to need from this place honestly nether wart and a blaze blaze spawners so then we can kill lots of blaze and get lots of blaze rocks we’re just going to explore this thing and see what we can actually find

Today as you guys can see there’s actually chess in these nether fortresses that are absolutely amazing sometimes they get you a ton of loot um this one wasn’t so good um but that’s okay and i hear blaze i hear a lot of blaze it sounds like there’s a spawner somewhere

But like i said make sure you just cover yourself and uh always put up some uh three three blocks here just to you know just to cover yourself in case any wither skeletons spawn hey here’s a magma cube let’s see if we get some magma cream from them

As you can see they bust down into little baby magma cubes after it’s just like a slime if you guys have ever killed a slime all right so far no magnitude come on all right he didn’t even give me any magma cream whatever all right so here we go here’s oh a

Saddle that’s cool and also a golden sword we don’t want sometimes you get some good loot sometimes he gets a bad right all right so you remember that little wither skeleton tactic i was talking about here is an example so uh right here as you guys

Can see he can’t touch us but boom we can hit him and we’re protected we’re gonna try to kill these blaze here i can’t get past them because they’re kind of they’re holding us off here all right there we go oh and there we go we got our first place rod

All right cool and we might have just got her second we just got our second blazer out too cool all right let’s get rid of these little guys all right so let’s keep continuing through this fortress we’re looking for a blaze spawner that actually spawned those guys

All right we just got another blazer out here oh here we go there’s probably another one here oh all right so we got three blaze rods we’re gonna try to get 16 but we’re looking for a actual spawner all right i think we found one that’s looking uh looking pretty packed over there

Oh yeah that’s a lot of them all right i’m moving back hold on a minute there’s wither skeletons there’s blaze there’s like everything here all right let’s kill this boy first oh my there is a quite a bit of mobs over there and there’s some up here too

Too many of them i say too many of them oh my gosh okay i blocked off the pathways kill this one all right there we go oh man there’s lots there is lots let’s cover this area so the spawners right here so uh the good thing is

Now we can actually start getting them um there’s a lot up there yeah there’s uh quite a few of them in there i don’t know if i’m gonna be able to get in there i got eight blazer on so far though oh my okay that’s that’s a lot of damage

That’s a lot of damage dude all right here we go it’s time it’s time there we go okay oh gosh let’s block this one off all right we’re in their spawning area here now if we can just control them we’ll be good so every time they spawn

We just got to kill them as fast as possible we got nine rods i gotta go for 16 today all right there we go 16 blades oh my gosh wow okay so i’m just spawned in right as i was trying oh my gosh they broke my gold boots

Okay so we’ve got everything we need from this fortress now we even got some levels while we’re here i didn’t manage to get any magma cream i’m gonna try to get some magma cream before we leave um the actual nether but uh we might not end up getting any because i would like

To show some potion brewing basics when we get home so what we need from the nether all we needed here was um 16 blaze rods and also we needed another wart to brew potions and that was really it and uh yeah you guys learned that these fortresses

Are horrifying and very dangerous as you guys could see skeletons spawn like crazy look at them all stuck in here this is exactly why i do this method this is so handy to kill and uh eventually we’ll be searching for those uh wither skeleton skulls

So i’m going to head home it’s going to be a long journey from home i’m not going to lie i think it’s like a thousand blocks away so uh i will see you guys when we find our portal and uh let’s get out of here pretty sure it’s just over here i kind

Of forget let’s see we’re getting close i know the cords were closed oh there it is okay i was gonna say i swear it’s around here somewhere it’s in the soul sand valley oh man that was a mission home dudes all right here we go finally home that took a while all right

Gamers here we are we are home let’s uh go to sleep and in the morning uh let’s talk some brewing and good morning gamers okay so let’s get into some brewing here let’s drop off some of this loot here and uh we’re gonna talk brewing all right my dude so

I got all of our supplies here the first thing we’re gonna do is actually build a brewing stand so you’re gonna need one blaze rod and three pieces of cobblestone make a brewing stand so we’re gonna place this brewing stand down right here now opening up the brewing stand

As you guys can see there’s all kinds of different um areas where we can put down items so right here is where you could actually put your blaze powder blaze powder is actually a blaze rod turned into powder once you put it in the crafting table

And you take it out there you go blaze powder blaze powder actually works as the fuel for the actual brewing stand so it actually fuels the potions here now up here is where you’re gonna put your main ingredient and then down here is where you’re gonna put your water bottles

Now we’re gonna go ahead and build some water bottles let me see if i have any glass if not uh oh no we got glass which is good all right so let’s put down our bottles in this v our piece of glass and this v shape and also

Now you get three bottles per v shape so we’re gonna get six in total so now we have six bottles of water so let’s go outside um and you know what we’re gonna actually do let’s go ahead and grab a bucket here oh i forgot to get lava from the nether no

Big deal though let’s grab a bucket of water and we’re gonna bring it home that way you have an unlimited source of water in the kitchen for brewing potions all right i’m gonna put this water bucket down here i’m gonna have to put a piece of wool there

All right there we go we can’t even tell the difference all right so we got some water here now which is good now we can fill up all these water bottles all you gotta do is right click to fill the water bottles next thing we do is put the water

Bottles inside of the brewing stand there and now so potions are pretty complicated in like at first when you’re looking at minecraft potions it looks complicated but it’s very easy is what i meant to say honestly potions are super easy now most potions majority of potions are gonna need

Nether board so the first thing we’re gonna do is put a piece of nether wart in there and this is gonna brew an awkward potion so we’re gonna wait for this to brew while we’re waiting for this to brew we’re gonna check do we have any sugar cane in here oh we

Do perfect all right one piece of sugar cane so today what we’re gonna do is actually build well we’re gonna brew a potion of speed and it’s actually called the potion of swiftness i believe now also we’re gonna need some redstone as well now redstone works as an ingredient for potions to actually

Um increase the duration of a potion so now we have awkward potions as you guys can see they’re no more no longer water bottles they’re awkward potions so the next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to put our sugar in the ingredient part of the brewing stand

And now let’s wait for this to brew all right here we go we have potions of swiftness now this is every time you drink these you’re going gonna gain 20 of speed which is pretty cool now if i add redstone dust to it you’re gonna see it’s gonna increase the duration see how

It only says three minutes right now it’s gonna actually change so let’s uh let’s see it once it’s done brewing here all right so it finished brewing and now we have potion of swiftness for eight minutes because we put redstone in isn’t that insane now if you put glowstone in it

I believe you’d actually get a 40 increase in the speed but you’d get a less time so you wouldn’t you wouldn’t get as long as a duration using redstone instead of glowstone but you would actually get increased speed so it would be up to 40

Speed so you’d be able to move faster in general though so the next thing you can actually do this potion if you want you can actually add gun powder to it and this is actually going to turn it into a splash potion of swiftness what’s this guy’s problem

Why you keep coming up over here so let’s wait for this potion to brew and then i’m going to show you guys it actually we’re going to take one out here and we just got local brewery all right here we go we got the splash potion of

Swiftness now if you guys notice the splash potions look a little bit different compared to the normal potions because they’re on like a bit of an angle there so it means it’s a splash potion now the only difference between a splash potion and a regular potion is i believe splash potions you lose

Some of the time out of it let’s go test it out here so it’s supposed to be an eight minute potion and let’s throw it at our feet and it lost one minute now i think you lose it depending on how close you are to the effects

Of the potion for example if you’re farther away you probably won’t gain as much of the effect like if it was like over there and you just kind of ran into it you wouldn’t get as much effect from it maybe none at all but anyways now we have actually increased speed as you

Guys can see we have like these little bubbles coming off of us showing that we actually gained the effects of the potion which is really cool and uh we’re a lot faster now at running so say you’re trying to avoid something well this is this is a good way to do it

Or if you just want to travel on foot for a little while and you just want to be a little faster this is a good way to do it as well now there is so so many different potions to experiment with and all kinds of altercations you can make to them

Um just for example i’m looking at the chart here there’s potion of slowness if you took your potion of swiftness and put a fermented spider eye inside the ingredients it actually turns into potion of slowness which is very cool um a rabbit’s foot can get you potion of leaping to jump higher

Uh blaze powder actually using a blaze powder here you can actually make a potion of strength so say you want to kill something faster it’ll give you a better attack damage a glistening melon gives you potion of healing spider eye gives you potion of poison there’s so many potions and i’m gonna

Put a link down in the description to a picture actually on the minecraft wikipedia that actually is a potion brewing guide chart so you guys can see all the different potions to brew it’s really really cool i’m not even kidding there’s so many cool ones out there

One of my favorites is potion of slow falling so you know phantoms when you don’t sleep for three or four days uh phantoms come down if you get the phantom membrane you can actually get potion of slow falling and it actually helps a ton while battling the dragon in the future

Now once you actually have this netherboard don’t forget to plant this stuff because you’re gonna want some of this stuff for later so go ahead and plant it in your home or anywhere else and make sure to harvest that once in a while just so that you know you got lots of it

In stock because you will run out eventually all right so i’m going to keep all of my ingredients for potions um in this actual uh cupboard above here and then we’ll put brewed potions down here that way we can keep track of them pretty good

All right my dude so that’s gonna be it for this episode i hope you dudes enjoyed it going all the way to the deep dark nether and getting ourselves some blaze rods and also some nether wart um it’s really scary and hardcore i’m not gonna lie it’s a it’s a very

Scary journey but it was definitely worth it because now we’re that much closer to beating that dragon all right my dudes if you guys enjoyed this episode make sure to smash that like button for me on your way out and also if you’re new to the channel don’t

Forget to hit that sub button alright my dudes i will see you in the next minecraft video peace out my dudes