Pixlriffs – Curing Zombie Villagers! ▫ Minecraft 1.15 Skyblock (Tutorial Let’s Play) [Part 8]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the sky blocks Survival Guide hope you guys are having a good day today we’re back here in the sky block world and we got some fun stuff to take care of not least because in this chest

Down the end here as of the last episode we managed to get ourselves some splash potions of weakness meaning that all we’ll need to do now is find some zombie villages and we can hopefully cure them to get villages and then the rest of Skyblock opens up to us a little bit

More we have potion brewing now which is very exciting we have a fortress set up in the nether and I haven’t done any more to expand the farm they’re really all I’ve been doing off-camera between the last episode and this one is farming a little bit more cobble and even that

We don’t have a huge amount of I kind of need to gather a little bit more for what I want to do today but the fact remains that curing a zombie villager is even more possible so we’re gonna have to do something about this hostile mob spawner because it doesn’t really

Provide a great way of us to sort out these zombie villages from anything else that spawns inside of there a lot of it just falls and is close to death so I think what I want to do is set up a different and more efficient spawning platform with a few not necessarily to

Killing all of the mobs to get XP and drops and that kind of thing but to specifically try and sort out the zombies from the other mobs and that’s going to be a bit of a challenge with the resources we have available to us right now but I think we’re just gonna

Do it the low fly way we’re going to build a spawning platform down at the bottom of the world spawn a ton of stuff in there and try and take care of it manually either have it drop into the void or in the case of any zombie

Villagers that spawn we will try and lure them into an area where we can gather them up and cure them now building stuff down at the bottom of the world is going to make the most sense for spawn rates but ideally I want the villagers to be up here so how are we

Going to get them up here if we don’t really have it much in the way of transportation that problem has been solved by the fact that we are now able to farm soulsand and we have addiction amount of soul sent over here that is currently growing some of the nether

Walk for potion brewing but it’s also farmable from wither skeletons now which is very very useful indeed and soul sound of course can be used to make bubble column elevators which are going to be able to propel and that we have a down at the bottom of the

World here upwards which is going to be incredibly useful for some mechanics we’re going to try out in the near future but right now I want to show you guys how to get kelp in this Skyblock pack which is something I was informed of in the comments or perhaps in the

Chat on one of my live streams I can’t quite remember but it is actually possible to get kelp even though kelp naturally generates normally in the world I think you can also maybe buy it from the wandering trader but in this case a crafting recipe has been provided

In the form of crafting together four pieces of seagrass which is possible to obtain if you bonemeal any watery area and then share the results with some shears you put four pieces of seagrass together in a 2×2 crafting interface you get yourself some kelp and I’m pretty

Sure kelp can be grown with bone meal I don’t know for certain if it can or not right now we don’t have enough space to really check but I can always take that over to my fishing Island over here in the jungle biome and take a look at what

We can do there this pond is at least a couple of blocks deep so let’s see if we can do this let’s try it out nope does not look like we can a bone meal the kelp which makes a lot of sense but now at least that we can be over

Here bone Mealing this area and growing a whole lot more seagrass the two tall sea grass is going to give us two pieces per shear so that’s going to be slightly more efficient in terms of durability consumption and now we can make ourselves a couple more pieces of kelp

And we are on the way to creating a water column should we need it and personally I’m kind of tempted to replace any ladder based areas of you know vertical travel in our world with water drops and water columns it’s going to be a lot quicker to get around that

Way but yeah if you want to use the durability on your shears efficiently you should really be looking for tall areas of sea grass because they’ll only take one durability for two pieces of seagrass gathered and then we can turn all of that into kelp and just remove

The rest of this by punching it out bonemeal the ground underneath here and to repeat that process until we have as much kelp as I think we will need we’re also going to keep a little bit of the seagrass around though because I have a plan to recover that turtle egg that we

Used in our early mob spawner and I’m actually going to try and get the turtles to hatch in this episode so we’re going to have a couple of new friends today it’s either going to be a villager or a turtle or both and hope we’ll also be able to kill some slime

Down on that platform over there at the slime spawning platform we’re going to get ourselves a few slime balls from which we can start to craft magma cream allowing us to brew some potions of fire resistance which are going to make the nether a little bit more bearable but

We’re gonna stash the kelp and the seagrass in one of our chests here for now I think I’ll probably leave them in this one where some of the other organic stuff is hanging out and I think we will keep that for the minute for now I think

I want to go after those slimes because that’s going to be a nice easy objective for the start of this episode I have a sword in here I have an X for damage as well and I think I’ll put the shears away because those are a little bit more

Precious likewise some of this food I’ll take a bow with me and we are going to do our best to take on some of these slimes without getting bounced off the platform back down here at the bottom of the world I have removed the barrier that was protecting us from the slimes

And all okay that was some gunpowder I was hoping that these zombie dropped another iron ingot there I’m kind of in need of a little bit more iron and I’m gonna have to wait until we get villagers on the go before I can really mess with any more iron stuff but yes

The slimes over here are out here and having our hid for a little while but I have had them blocked off for the most part thanks to a too high barrier that just prevented some of the largest slimes from bouncing their way towards me but for the most part they haven’t

Really bothered me too much it’s just that when they start to see you like this when this slime eventually path finds its way over it will potentially see the player and instead of jumping off the platform like that one is doing it will come after you so I’m gonna

Widen out the area towards this platform just so I can get this a little bit easier for these slimes to make their way towards us and I can be on slightly firmer ground when they decide to attack the big slimes will do a bit of damage

But the most dangerous aspect of them in this scenario is just them knocking you off the platform into the void so hopefully we can’t avoid that now we could always put a little walkway over to this if we want to but I’m not gonna do too much to this right now because we

Are going to convert this into a hostile mob spawning platform in a second or two first of all though I need to get a little bit further away and that’s going to allow the slimes to spawn in area probably take out some of these mobs as we go just to make sure that

There is less of a mob cap in the world and yet we have a tiny slime over there of course we have to be 23 blocks away from the platform for the slime to even spawn and there we go we’ve got ourselves an advancement for getting a

Slime ball great stuff that should in theory be all we need but we may as well farm some slimes over here while we can right the other thing about slimes is of course when they split apart if they’re too close to the edge then they’re just going to split apart into four slimes

Which will go their separate ways and then usually drop off the side of the island there but now we have ourselves four slime balls which is good going I think I’ll get enough to make a couple of slime blocks and then I will call it a day

There we go here’s a big lad let’s see if we can lure him over to my little mob farming area a little bit more there we go and let’s oh I just broke my sword on him let’s switch to the ax then it sounds like some of my armor is breaking

As well yeah one of the largest slimes did just drop off the edge and now we’ve got four of them which hopefully should yield us a few slime balls in loot drops there we go we’ve got eight slime now doubled our money and all it took was a

Broken sword and a little bit of broken armor never mind got some more leather armor here in the chest I’m ready for number two let’s bring him on oh it looks like he’s about to jump off the island let’s see if we can get him a little bit closer yeah we just broke

Tunic number two oh wow okay we got a lot more slimes this time around let’s see if we can take them all down one at a time the little ones won’t do all that much to hurt you once they are that size they are nice and easy to take out with

A single swing and there we go 18 once again doubling our money even better I think our 18 is probably a good place to wrap that up and I think the only thing we’re going to do to prevent slimes from spawning over here is to turn this into

A room that has a two block high ceiling just so if slimes try and spawn in here they won’t have enough space to spawn a large slime which basically means that they won’t try to spawn slimes here at all and the rest of the mobs in the game

Should be able to spawn in here obviously we don’t get any Enderman as well but I’m not really in need of Enderman now that I know that the end portal which we discovered in the last episode does not need eyes of ender in order to transport us to the end in fact

The end portal has already been lit and a couple of slimes have spawned while I was just the way making some slabs so maybe we’ll get a couple more slime balls out of these but yeah I think that will definitely do right let’s get the rest

Of this ceiling built on top of here I’m gonna leave this torch out in the center of the platform here that’s not quite reaching the edges so we are getting a couple of lower light levels around the sides there but hopefully that should not be enough space to spawn a huge

Amount of mobs it’s not gonna be an absolute army of stuff coming back at me yet I really need to bring some more slabs over here and the next thing I’m going to do is bring some trapdoors as well and lay some trapdoors in somewhere around the center of this walkway so

That we can stand far enough away to assess what spawns in here and then if stuff starts pathfinding towards us like creepers and zombies and so forth we can open up those trapdoors and let them fall into the void once we see a zombie villager however we will let it track

Out towards us and then we’re going to try and find a place to coop it up I’m gonna leave the sides open because much like our husk farm I want this to be a night activated a mob spawner meaning that it’s only really going to produce

Mobs at night when light levels are a little bit lower and this right here is going to be our mechanism to ensure that nothing it gets beyond this point but already it looks like we have a zombie villager spawned over there and he is holding a shovel which I’m not certain

Means that he won’t despawn but hopefully it means that he will be a little bit more interested in following us and he just walked off the platform into the void so of course we are gonna have to deal with some of the stuff that is spawning over there we did get a

Skeleton that spawned on the top level of the farm there as well but with those at least we have a decent amount of arrows and bows in here that I can use to snipe stuff off the top of that platform in the mean time and you’ll find that this platform over here is

Actually a lot more productive at than the platform we built up there for the simple reason that this platform is down at the void level so we’re going to get a lot of stuff spawning over here hopefully we should be able to get some of these to track us over here and some

Of them will just end up fighting each other the creepers should just fall harmlessly into the void like so and at the skeletons we can pick off from a distance eventually once we have some more sophisticated ways of taking care of the mobs inside of here we are going

To decommission this old mob spawner completely and that we should hopefully be able to set up a system that will collect drops automatically all of that is going to require a little bit of iron though so here is hoping that we can get some villagers set up so

We have an iron farm on the go nice and quickly but in the meantime well they’re not quite far enough away for us to get the sniper dual advancement at least we can get rid of some of the mobs over here from a distance and a leave the

Platform open for more hostiles to spawn in the meantime taking out that torch in the center as well and running back over here we should find that plenty of mobs end up spawning in here as soon as we are away look at that there are so many

Mobs starting to spawn over there right now and this little spawner over here is still active too looks like we’ve got a lot of zombies walking towards us but none of them are zombie villages as of yet so hopefully we’ll start to get a couple of those spawning in the spawner

In at the fullness of time in the meantime though I’m gonna cut away since this is just gonna be a lot of waiting around for the most part and I will see you guys on the other side when hopefully a zombie villager will have caught our attention

Okay folks nice and early we got a very good set of spawns here we have one zombie and one zombie villager who looks like he’s a librarian for now but that is gonna change I have these two little cells set up over here with a quick trap door trap which should hopefully be

Enough to get the zombie and the zombie villager into a single pen of fantastic now I just broken my ax on him so I’m gonna have to be very very careful surgical and look at that he picked up the rotten flesh incredible okay that means we have our first zombie villager

Trapped in there and absolutely primed to be cured I can’t believe that went so smoothly okay let’s close up or rather open up these trap doors so that the rest of the zombies in here can deplete night one a success I can’t believe it so it’s so good and that was pure luck

Based on the fact that this zombie villager spawned with a nice early pack when there are very few other mobs in there in the first place hopefully we will get a couple more spawns like that I’m prepared to wait to be honest if that’s gonna be the case because

Otherwise there’s a lot of mobs in there to deal with at a time and in the meantime I guess I can always just keep farming these guys hopefully to get some more iron or at the very least some more chain armor the advantage to this setup though is that zombies have a much

Longer tracking range towards the player than skeletons or creepers do meaning that they are effectively separating themselves out of this pack whenever they spawn inside of there for now though oh wow okay I think I think the slime chunk may extend a little way onto the platform there but yeah I think we

Can probably start taking out some of these folks at a distance and loosening up the pack in here so that more zombies can spawn okay so we got one zombie villager down there resting in his crate another zombie villager will hopefully pop up out of the spawner but it is

Daytime and I want to use my time wisely so I think what I’m gonna do is actually start to take down this mob spawner we’re not going to need it for the foreseeable future especially with a spawning platform like that and potentially some better designs on the

Horizon so the first thing I’m going to do is take out the spiders that are in here and check that yes the turtle egg has remained intact that is very very good news this area here probably can opened up and I’m gonna be a little bit safe just in case there are still

Creepers lurking in the corners down there I’m just gonna pop a torch in there and hopefully that should disable this spawner completely what that means is that we can disable this thing so that that mob spawning platform becomes all the more efficient and we can also

Open this up to get at the turtle egg which is in dire need of hatching at this point so what I am proposing we do is to turn this area here into a turtle sanctuary of sorts because as people have noted without silk touch we cannot

Pick up and move that turtle egg but there’s nothing to stop us from hatching it here along with the other turtle egg and turning this area into a turtle breeding operation while we have an effective mob spawner down there and ways of dealing with those mobs plus all

The mob drops we could ever want for the time being at least I think it’ll be fun to turn this into a custom islands that’s going to have water there’s going to be some sand around here now we are farming sand from husks over on that island and that is what turtle eggs

Require in order to hatch so I’m going to head back up to this island and grab a few resources that we can use to turn this into a little artificial island as long as the perimeter is secure and the turtles cannot escape we will hopefully be able to breed turtles there and then

Get ourselves some more turtle eggs that we can use in more advanced farms further down the line so to start with I’ve got a bunch of natural stones from cobble stone and some slabs here I brought some sand and I’ve made myself some jungle fences with the supplies to

Make a few more because what we all need here is an area where the turtles cannot escape off the edge of the island because I have a feeling turtle AI is probably not the brightest and is potentially going to have them falling off into the void if they try and swim

Around too much attempting as it is to use these bats for target practice they actually constitute a threat to the turtle egg if they accidentally drop onto it from above then they can sort of count as crushing the turtle egg so I’m gonna try and dispose of as many of

Those as I can but the others do just seem to be flying around in the open sky at this point so hopefully we don’t have to worry too much about them I’m gonna flatten everything out to the level of this mob spawning floor where instead of spawning mobs now this is hopefully

Going to be spawning a few more baby turtles and we will need a solid floor on which to place all of the sand that the turtle eggs are going to be hatching on and yes that does include this turtle egg in here where my initial thought was that we would have

To kind of indianajones it a little bit and push the block four out from underneath that with a piston to swap it with a block of sand but it turns out the turtle eggs are actually a little bit cooler than that and they will stay hovering in the air even if the block

Underneath them is removed so all I have to do is break that cobblestone block there and the turtle egg remains I’m gonna pop some sand underneath that and then on subsequent nights it should start to go through the stages of the hatching process the main thing of

Course is to make sure that absolutely nothing it can spawn in this area when the turtle egg is exposed to the open air because if a zombie comes in here and jumps off and down on that turtle egg it is unfortunately in game over not the sky block in general of course but

For the turtle egg definitely so let’s break away a few of these blocks hopefully nothing ends up landing on the turtle egg I’m not even sure if the trapdoor item entities when we break them ending up on the turtle egg might cause a problem but in this case I’m

Just gonna try and break them carefully pick them up as I can and that should be okay we could even enclose this a little bit more and not certain they need access to the open sky in order to hatch so we don’t need to worry too much about

That we just need to light up this platform as best we can and then bring the other turtle egg down here so the two turtles can meet once they are old enough to start breeding working a little bit on this island here to make sure that there is a little bit of a

Stretch of sand that we could plant future turtle eggs on but it does seem like night is falling once again it this means a couple of things are one that our turtle egg might potentially go through another phase of the hatching process if we start to see some cracks

Forming in that turtle egg we will know that it is working as intended but it also means that we can get down to the spawner and see if we can get ourselves another zombie villager so I’m going to leave this well enough alone for now I

Will do my best to wall it off to make sure that if a turtle did somehow hatch in a single night which I don’t think is possible but if it does I’ll make sure that the walls here are high enough that it cannot go anywhere and escape and for

Now we’re gonna do our best to get ourselves another zombie villager excellent news my friends out from the horde of zombies crossing the bridge comes this absolute legend let’s see if we can get him into our other zombie corralling pen let’s close up the trapdoor once we’re in here and yes he

And another zombie have made their way in it looks like they are trying to get me from around the outside but if we close them in like so we can take care of this other zombie and hopefully close up the bridge as swiftly as possible making sure we take care of these guys

Thankfully that guy could be knocked back nice and easily and all we’ll need to do is close up this area and what this has served its purpose I cannot believe that we’ve been able to do that that easily but thankfully we had the right methods on our side there we go

Thank you so much sir and if we close this up let’s see if this guy will hold any items it looks like he can’t because he is not actually accepting the rotten flesh or the stone that I’ve thrown down there so it might not be possible to

Cure this guy that was a bit of an oversight on my part I should have brought the curing supplies down here right now the problem is though if we end up curing these villages they immediately become a target for any other zombies in the area not that

That’s going to be a problem right here but I should have been a little bit better prepared let’s light this area of the platform up and hopefully we will be okay just to dash up the ladder and come back with a splash potion remember of course that the de-spawn distance is

Anywhere outside of 32 blocks and we are definitely about 64 blocks up in the air on our island I’m hoping that the zombie villager won’t despawn in the time that we are away if he does not a big deal because I guess we can always trap

Another one but it would be really nice to get those two villages cured and out of the way so that we can focus on other things set up a villager breeder and all kinds of stuff so let’s bring down to splash potions even though we should

Only need one I’m gonna try my best to rush down there although I don’t want to accidentally fall into the void because that would be a nightmare at this point and it looks like we are in luck wow there are a ton of bats in there oh my

Gosh I was not expecting that okay I need to put torches in there with them to make sure that the zombies don’t have anything else spawning in there while they are curing and man those bats are a little bit crazy inside of there that is wild okay and now we should be

Able to splash them both with a potion of weakness like so cure one cure too and we all need to stay around here so that this villager can cure and he doesn’t despawn but it looks like we might have our two zombie villages it always helps to have a backup though and

If another zombie villager happens to spawn over here during the night which it looks like he won’t the Sun is now rising but I have a third cell now set up over here allowing us to hop up onto this wall and potentially drag in another zombie villager but note looks

Like we might be out of luck for tonight but I think we’ve had enough luck to last us a little while in the form of these two guys who should hopefully be done curing sometime in the next three or four minutes there it is we have one

Of them cured and it’s this guy here on the right the one on the left has just cured as well amazing stuff and naturally they have immediately reverted to being unemployed regular villagers ready to receive their workstations and we will have to choose their occupations quite carefully we have a couple of

Village at workstations already present up there on my island we have a composter and we have a brewing stand that would be a farmer and a cleric now we probably want to choose professions that will allow us to trade emeralds with these guys but ultimately they are

Going to be the start of a villager breeder so I think one of them being a farmer would be a good idea one of them being some other profession it doesn’t really matter all that much and we have some crops that we could trade with a farmer already we have some rotten flesh

That we could trade with a cleric it seems like we’d be fairly safe picking those occupations as long as we could breed these two and then their offspring could give us all of the other villager professions right now I’m most interested in getting things like an armored ax and a tool

Smith because those would give us access to tools and armor that we do not have the resources to make right now but unfortunately if we go into the uncorruptible stuff the tool smith would need a blast furnace which requires five iron in order to make it and a smithing

Table even I think requires two iron for the top level there so we are gonna have to find a way of getting some iron some other way in the meantime which might setting up an iron golem farm it might mean just farming a few more zombies if

We can I don’t quite know at this stage but I’m so happy that we have two villages in our Skyblock world finally that is massive progress right here with this little setup I’ve given them with torches inside of their trapdoors on the blocks in front of them and fences

Around the outside none of the other zombies and so forth that might sport around here should be able to get to them even baby zombies will not be able to make it up onto this trapdoor or through the gap in front of the villages

So they are as safe as can be for now and I am probably going to go and continue working on my little turtle sanctuary making sure that is spawn proof and hopefully the turtle eggs will have gone through at least one of the progression of hatching yeah it looks

Like it has gone through one of the hatching stages so we have a slightly cracked turtle egg the hatch level has gone up to one and the cool thing about this is we can just leave this one turtle egg here for now and then when it reaches the next hatching stage or the

Third and final hatching stage we can plant the other turtle egg with it both turtles will hatch at the same time and they should hopefully hatch and grow up together once they both grown up of course we’ll be able to breed them and that will give us more turtle eggs that

Will allow us to do more stuff with turtles and turtle eggs in the near future I’m hoping for potentially enough scoots to make myself a turtle shell helmet which would be kind of fun to have here in a Skyblock world I know the water breathing isn’t really gonna be

That beneficial but as a an additional source of armor it is not to be overlooked let’s think a little bit more about what the villages will need to breed because they need professions they will need beds also and we will need to make enough beds that both the villagers

Can sleep in and any of their offspring can sleep in villager breeding is triggered by a bunch of beds which do not have any occupants not to mention having enough carrots potatoes or bread in their inventory in order for them to be well-fed enough to breed I think

We’re going to try and isolate them from my farm area though because if a farmer gets up here and decides to start working the field it means I won’t be able to harvest the crops myself he will just take them all into his inventory and pass them around to other villages

So instead what we’ll probably do is set up a separate area for the two villagers to breed which has maybe its own crop farm so he can keep the rest of the villagers inside they’re well fed for now though I’m actually going to take the composter and the

Brewing stand down there and get trading with them because I kind of want to have some emeralds on deck next time a wandering trader shows up believe me wandering traders are actually super useful in this game compared to how useless I normally find them in my vanilla Survival Guide series the

Wandering trade will actually have a bunch of resources that it’s going to be difficult to get outside of just a little bit of intense farming and not to mention the fact that they will be able to sell us some more dark oak saplings which means I can start producing dark

Oak wood again so before I set up a water stream to get the villages up to the island I think I’m gonna do a little bit of trading with them first and potentially lock in the trades that they have keeping these trap doors here in front of them so they can’t go anywhere

I’m gonna break out that piece of cobblestone and place a composter in front of this guy and he is going to be our farmer and look at that so we even have a little bit of a trading discount thanks to the fact that we cured them from zombie villagers making both of

These farmers might be a good idea if we want to explore the full set of trades but I think this one being a cleric is going to be incredibly useful for the fact that he will be able to trade us for rotten flesh which I have a bunch of

Here in the chest which means we’ll be able to start getting emeralds from him and with that we can buy redstone oh yes now the full extent of Skyblock has opened up to us a little bit more and we have the access to redstone we

Can sell gold to him for Amaral’s we can get lapis from him as well which we couldn’t get before this is fantastic I’m so happy we have these guys in our world at long last and after just a couple of trades with our cleric I have 10 emeralds that’s enough for an emerald

Block that’s so good okay we have an emerald block we have another emerald that we can trade with this guy we’ll need to lock those in before they change although if I go away and come back he might have decided to trade me something different so we might have to replace

The composter a few more times but being able to buy redstone is a massive step up from what we were going to have to do before which was effectively farm witches and a witch hut could be transplanted into this world from a newer version of the map but right now a

Witch hut does not exist so he wouldn’t be able to set up a witch farm in this world until we may be copied and pasted a region from sky block a 4.0 7 into my sky block 4.0 6 world buying redstone from that cleric combined with the courts that we’re now getting from

Blazes might allow me to set up a slightly more advanced clock on our husk farm that we have over there provided that I could get a couple of hoppers but even then I could set up a redstone repeater clock and just activate it with a lever or something like that we could

Do a lot more now that we have access to that redstone let me grab a handful of carrots and potatoes we can always harvest some more from the farm if we need to let’s get those traded with the farmer while we can hopefully his trades have remained the same while I was away

Yes ok we have a carrot and a potato trade absolutely perfect let’s trade all of those with him and see what he gives us next that is pumpkin pie for pumpkin pie for an emerald our food supplies are through the roof right now but I’m more interested in trading the crops with him

So that we can get a heftier supply of emeralds gentlemen welcome to your new homes here in Skyblock and hopefully we’ll be able to set up a bunch more villager trades once we can get these two up and in an area where they can breed but as the Sun sets in the

Distance I think we are going to call it a day for this episode of the skyblock survival guide we have our traders we have some turtles hatching we have a little bit of slime that we can use to make magma cream if we want to go back

To the nether and fight some more blazes it’s been a great episode and I hope you guys have enjoyed it please don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now