Pixlriffs – End Cities, Shulkers, and Elytra! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let’s Play [Ep.51]

Hello everyone my name is pixel Rifts and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you’re all having a good day I am having an exceptional day in our last episode we defeated the Ender Dragon came out to the outer end islands for the first time and now a

Stones Throw from the Gateway that brought us here we are looking at an nend city of Fairly diminutive size but with one of the most important things an nend City can have one of these ships sailing out into the void now the Enderman have been trying to distract me

They’ve been trying to walk in front of me and dare me to have a staring contest with them but we are going to approach this nend city from ground level which is where you’ll be approaching most of them we could pillar up to this ship already but I think we’re probably going

To do this the quote unquote legit way to Prime you for other situations in which you might find a ship that is slightly less accessible they can generate over patches of the Void sometimes they can generate in some really weird places and it’s usually a

Good idea to know how to take on one of these cities head on so outside of the entrance to this you should find some unusual looking mobs these are shulkers which appear as blocks they appear as these little kind of cases and they will open up and fire these pellets at you

That cause you to levitate it is usually a good idea to have a water bucket on you when something like this happens because then you can place it underneath you to prevent a little extra fall damage or alternatively get yourself underneath the overhang of this end City

Once you broken line of sight with the shulkers they should no longer fire any pellets at you so you should be able to to hop on down and we can take out this shulker now you’ll deal a lot more damage to them when they are open so

It’s usually a good idea to wait for them to open up and when killed they will drop shulker shells it’s usually a good idea to have looting on your sword because they won’t drop them 100% of the time but the Chan is obviously going to be increased with looting and shulker

Shells are a really important thing to have they are one of the reasons I’m raiding this city at the ground level to begin with because if we convert some of the wood that we brought with us into a chest and combine that that with two shulker shells in a crafting interface

We end up crafting a shulker box which looks like the shell of the shulker mob itself but can be used as a chest we can stash a bunch of stuff in here and the most important part of this is that when we break the shulker Box its contents

Remain inside and can travel with us meaning that we can organize our inventory space a lot more effectively you can even shove a bunch of these into an Ender Chest the Only Rule for using them is that you cannot put a shulker box inside another shulker box but right

Now if I wanted to I could clear up a bunch more inventory space in my Ender Chest by simply taking a bunch of these items that I don’t use all that much and cramming them into one of these shulker boxes we’ll do a lot more organization

With these later but for now we can use our inventory space a lot more effectively once we’ve killed a couple more shulkers and obtained the shells for them I might even create a dedicated tools chest for all of these extra diamond and netherite tools that I have

Here in my Ender Chest for now though I’m going to make sure I’m using silk touch so I pick up the ender chest and we’re going to proceed up this Tower while we’re here let’s comment on the architecture a little bit these are purple blocks and I actually don’t want

To break out the roof of this building but we can obtain some from around the edge of the room right here these blocks are kind of pastel purple blocks that can be crafted by the player if you want to invest some chorus fruit into that once again you can pop the chorus fruit

That we get from Chorus plants that are growing outside and smelting those in a furnace will turn them into effectively building material that is used to make this family of blocks as you can see those are crafted into the stairs and slabs that make up the overhangs of the

Cities and the structure of the boats out there there are also these purple pillar blocks which are kind of a unique texture it’s kind of nice to have a few of those we’ll stash those in the shulker Box a little later as well but as we come up here you’ll notice there’s

A tower to climb with a bit of a parkour challenge inside of here if you want to use it that way you can kind of hop between these slabs which I’m doing a terrible job off to start off with because there’s a little bit of head

Room that you need to consider here but if you don’t want to do the parkour challenge you can simply bring some materials with you and place a full block or a slab on each one of these Corners there is a shulker attacking us from above and up here we end up hitting

A bit of a ledge so we should be able to circle around and attack that shulker and then immediately pick up the shulker shell that it has dropped and we get to the top of the tower here and we are faced with simply an opening there isn’t really anything that branches off of

This specific Tower and in some larger end cities we should find that there are multiple branching structures that we can explore but right now the only thing we need to explore is back down here where this opening leads out towards this boat now if you’re feeling confident and you have a handful of

Ender pearls on you which I should have still in this shulker box here there we go we can always use an ender pearl to Traverse out to the boat we could throw it fairly high so it hopefully lands against the Mast let’s say about there

And let’s see if that hits and it does we have landed on the deck of the boat obviously that’s a little bit dangerous if the ender pearl collides with the side of a block down there you could end up falling into the void if you’re not

Careful so that may be an approach that some players will not want to take but in this case instead of bridging out slowly using blocks and getting attacked by the shulkers that are attached to the back of the boat I figured it was going to be a good idea to Ender pear over

Here directly avoid those and be able to make our way down into the ship now there is one shulker against the back of the boat here so we’re going to take this one out as well it’s kind of guarding the uh stern of the boat I think that’s the correct nautical term

There’s even a brewing stand in here which will come with two instant health potions which is really good to have if you’re running a little bit low on health out here but the real treasure is down here in this room where a shulka is guarding an item frame at the very prow

Of the boat once again I hope I’ve got the terminology right there once we take down this shulker and it stopped levitating us we should be free to obtain the item here in the frame there we go we’ve got the elytra and it looks like we’re being attacked by a shulka

From a different angle where is that guy maybe he’s outside one of these Port holes and can snipe us from that position or maybe that bullet just got lucky in its pathf finding making its way down here but either way we now have elytra which take the place of the chest

Plate in your armor so you’re actually making yourself a little more vulnerable by wearing elytra but if we open up these chests we should find some really valuable loot inside here as well we’ve got a couple of diamonds some gold bars some iron bars a lot of raw resources

But also some armor and some tools in this case the shovel is not really much to write home about and the iron armor is something that we’ve progressed past at this point but it’s actually really nice to see stuff with mending Enchanted on it already let’s check the other

Chest over here looks like we got another set of boots and a mending and Unbreaking iron shovel so the gear there is not exceptional but is still kind of cool that it’s there and if you don’t have a great deal of armor and you’ve already been to the end then chances are

You might want to give that stuff a look ah there’s the other shulker it’s right on the corner over here and it should be possible to take it down with a couple of arrows but projectiles will bounce off of a shulker once it is closed up so arrows aren’t especially

Effective against shulkers when you’re fighting them at range we didn’t get a shulker shell from that one but we’ve already obtained four from the other shelers we have fought so far so once again we can make a couple more of these shulker boxes and stash them in our

Ender Chest I’m going to break some planks down into wood we’ll make two chests which will allow us to make two more shulker boxes I’m going to throw down one of these we’re going to tuck our chest plate away in there along with some of the diamond tools that I’ve

Already made we’ll leave the diamonds and the other valuable stuff in here as well and maybe the other shelter box that we’ve already got can be used for these building blocks like perple and whatnot each of these can be collected up you got to make sure you pick them up

And that they don’t fall off the edge of a boat into the void cuz that would be kind of disastrous to lose all of that equipment but now we have one empty shulker box that we can take with us and our Ender Chest has the same contents

But a lot tidier before we leave the ship here there are a couple of other things I would like to point out there is a crow’s nest of sorts up there but that doesn’t really have anything up there so we don’t need to worry too much

About that I find the master is usually just a really good Target for ender pearl throws if you want to get onto the deck of the ship nice and easily along the edges of the ship we have the end rods which are a light source which can

Be crafted using popped chorus fruit and blaze rods so those are really nice modern looking light source you can use you can sort of use them as strip lighting there are a couple of these that generate naturally on the edges of boats and also around the edges of end

City buildings you’ll notice a couple up there along with these purple and black banners but one other really important treasure item that we can grab from these ships is up here right at the very front we have a dragon’s head attached to the front almost like a figure head

And if we’re careful and hold Crouch as we step out here we can place a block underneath the dragon’s head which means I can simply drop down onto that break the dragon’s head from the top and we have obtained that the first real mob head that we have got hold of in the

Game actually these are capable of a couple of fun little tricks let’s say for example you put one on your head it doesn’t create the pumpkin head effect the way that putting a Jacko Lantern on your head does but having a dragon’s head is pretty funny and as you walk

Around the mouth will actually open and close it can do that if it is fed a redstone signal as well so if you put this on a block of redstone the dragon’s head will constantly open and close when it is powered which is pretty funny but really it’s just a fun Trophy and

Honestly a pretty good way of determining whether or not you have raided one of these nend City ships before if you leave the ship intact but you have stolen the dragon’s head from the very front the figure head is gone that’s the way you can tell that you’ve

Raided that ship before and that there’s not going to be an elytra waiting for you inside speaking of elytra it’s time for us to spread our wings and Learn to Fly we have a set of elytra on our back and they will open up a little bit if

You crouch but that’s not actually how you use them instead you use them by jumping or falling off of something and pressing space while you’re in midair pressing the jump button a second time while you’re in midair will open the wings out and allow you to Glide you

Can’t flap the wings to gain any additional height but those of you who are more experienced will know that you can actually craft firework rockets that allow you to boost yourself in the air and fly around I haven’t brought any of those with me to the end this first time

Because we are going to use the elytra Fairly sparingly for our first exploration of the end the reason for that is because elytra use a durability point for every second that you are in flight and without mending and Unbreaking on these eventually the elytra will break they won’t disappear

From your inventory like other items do when they lose their durability but you will drop out of the air if you’re currently flying the wings will become tattered and you’ll be unable to use them to Glide so it’s important that we use them relatively frugally as we

Explore the end for the first time alternatively if you’re well prepared you can bring an Unbreaking and mending book an anvil and some rockets and use them to explore at a greater Pace but since we got lucky finding this n city ship so close I figured we would do a

Bit more exploration on foot because not everybody is going to find an n city ship right on their doorstep and it’s going to take a little more exploration of these islands in order to find a slightly larger nend City that might have some other loot more shelers and

Other things I want to demonstrate in this video so we’re going to glide on down to the surface here also make sure that you don’t tilt yourself directly down at the ground when you land that’s another very important lesson to learn with elytra is that your speed is going

To determine how fast you make impact with the ground or even walls you can can take kinetic energy damage from colliding directly with a wall and that can sometimes prove fatal so once again make sure that you have feather falling with you and make sure that you Glide

Gracefully down you can turn in order to kill your speed a little bit and that will make sure that you don’t hit the ground traveling too fast since the elytra are so valuable to us right now and since I want to do a bit more exploration on foot I’m actually going

To swap my chest plate back in for the elytra and we’re going to put the elytra inside the shulker Box along with the dragon’s head and the end rods and a couple of other valuable things that we’ve gathered we can leave that back in the ender chest and that way at least if

We end up falling into the void and losing all of our items we have the elytra the one thing that we cannot replace whilst we’re in the Overworld and we’re going to Branch out in search of more end cities now as far as I’m aware what I recall hearing about these

Cities is that they actually occur in a sort of loose grid throughout the void so if we found one like we have here it’s often a good idea to explore in a direct line either north south east or west from the first n city that you find now looking at our coordinates going

Southeast from here takes us further back towards the 0 coordinate which is where the central end island is and there’s going to be a ring of void inside of these outer Islands separating them from the central end Islands so in that case we don’t want to be exploring

South and east if we can help it if we travel north and west our coordinates will increase and we’ll be getting further away from 0 0 and out into the thicker parts of of these outer Islands unfortunately to the north of here we have a pretty large gap of the Void in

Between this island and the next Island over so I’m going to try heading west if we head out in this direction there might be a slightly closer landm bridge to we use fewer resources in the process of bridging and we might be able to find

An nend City along the same axis as this one in fact that seems to have paid off pretty immediately because I am only a few steps away from this city already another one is loading into the render distance over there and I only have a 16 chunk render distance running on this

World so it’s not like I’d be able to see them from miles and miles away this is another very very small City though by the looks of things it seems like it is just a single Tower although this tower widens out which is something I was hoping would happen because these

Central Towers form the structure of a lot of the larger end cities they have a bunch of shelers inside the body of that Tower and at the top of that Tower we should also find additional loot chests unfortunately it looks like one way or the other we are going to have to bridge

Out over the void in order to reach that island but that’s totally fine we should be able to craft a few more slabs and if you run low on materials as long as you have a decently durable pickaxe on you you can always break down some of these

Endstone blocks into endstone bricks and from there those can be crafted into endstone brick slabs and you can multiply your building material that way so we’re actually surround Ed by a decent source of bridging material although wood planks are going to take up a lot less space in your inventory so

It’s probably a good idea to stick with the wood it’s also a lot more visible out here in the void so it’ll be easier to tell which way we traveled and which way to return now once again I’m going to crouch as though my life depends on

It because it really does and we’re going to bridge out over the void using the spruce slabs we just crafted this is a point at which going into the accessibility or control settings and switching on toggle sneak might be a good idea just to save your hands a

Little bit of extra work but personally I find that I can’t get used to those controls and I would end up accidentally just from muscle memory holding down shift and constantly crouching and standing which would not be a good idea whilst we’re bridging over the void like

This anyway we’ve made it to the other side we can now approach this second City and there should be a couple of shulkers waiting for us at the entrance but it looks like the way this city has generated those have been replaced with End Stone and the shelers might have

Been teleported somewhere inside the structure there we go there’s a couple of them waiting for us at the top of the stairwell and you’ll notice that every so often when you deal some extra damage to them they can teleport away so they are kind of similar to Enderman that way

Now if we break down this wall here we should be able to attack the one that has positioned itself on the side of the building and if we hover in this window frame for just a second I should be able to collect that shulker shell one other

Thing to know about shulkers is that they can actually reproduce if one of them hits another one with a shulker bullet or alternatively if one of them hits itself with its own shulker bullet they can kind of reproduce without really breeding in the conventional sense now we’ve reached the top of the

Staircase and the shelers have already hit me with levitation but in my mind that’s a good thing because as long as I’m able to levitate my way up this Tower I can find a place to hide at the top and we should be able to shoot down

On the open shulkers from a distance making sure that we don’t have any more bullets chasing us up the tower and if these shulker pellets flying at you gets a little bit too intense it is also possible to attack them in order to destroy them you don’t need to worry too

Much about dodging all of them if you hit them with an arrow or swing at them with a sword chances are you can destroy them before they hit you now I’ve hopped on down to grab the shulker shell that fell down here and we should take a

Quick look around in case there are any more shulker shells that came to rest on any of these slabs having a water bucket is a really handy way to Traverse these areas when you don’t have levitation but it looks like we just got the one shell

From that and we might end up getting another one by killing the shulker that’s now attached to the outside of the tower somewhere for now we have two chests at the top of this Tower one of which has oh some depth Strider protection for diamond boots those are

Actually really good let’s grab the diamonds and the gold that are in here as well and we’ve got some more gold ingots a couple of beetroot seeds this was the only place you could get beatroot when it was first introduced before they added it to Villages and a saddle which is technically speaking

Loot although it’s not the kind of loot that I prefer the valuable stuff once again we can tuck away in the shulker Box including some of the shulker shells that we have started to acquire since shulker boxes themselves are going to be very valuable to our gameplay from now

On if you wanted to you could always break down these chests so that you can use them to craft more shulker boxes as well that’s always an option and we’re going to try and find this last shulker that teleported away there it is on the edge of the tower hopefully we should be

Able to get a couple of shots in there we go and unfortunately it doesn’t look like it ended up dropping any shulker shells I’m going to ender pearl down here just to make sure and to collect up the XP but nope it looks like we didn’t get any shulker shells from that one

Well that’s a little unfortunate but hey not to worry we can break back down into the end City here leave via the front entrance and I’m going to continue to explore these end islands in the direction that we’ve already been traveling because West seems to have been fairly fortunate for us so far

Every time we’ve gone this direction we have found another n city so I’m hoping that we’ll find at least one more hopefully there’ll be a larger one out here in the void and we can loot that before we wrap up the episode okay now you’re talking now

We’re starting to get somewhere at least a smaller Tower at least a slightly larger n city we’re just getting progressively larger end cities as we travel now I’ve been doing a little bit of moving we are at -400 on the xaxis and we’re roughly on the same Z axis I

Had to deviate a little bit because there were some very large gaps between these areas of the Void but if we bridge out across this last Gap we should be able to see what this other end city that is appearing in the distance has to offer I will say that I’ve been fairly

Fortunate in how quickly these have appeared because the first time you visit the end Islands you can sometimes take a little while to run into an end City it’s really just a matter of Randomness in how they generate and unfortunately it can take a couple of

Hours it has taken me a couple of hours in previous attempts to find my first end City and start the search from there but oh before we do that before we go and attack this one and it doesn’t look like this has anything that our previous

N city didn’t have maybe a couple more shelers but not much in the way of rooms that can contain loot over here in the distance I spotted a purple Beacon shining into the sky and as you take a look through the chorus plant over in this direction you might just be able to

See that there is the silhouette of another Bedrock end Gateway over there I don’t have a spy glass on me right now unfortunately so I’ll zoom in using the field of view slider there you go you can see it just behind that bunch of chorus plants in front of us there’s

Another Bedrock return Gateway since there really isn’t a way to fast travel around the end there aren’t really any portals that we can use Nether Portals don’t work here so we can’t use those to travel quickly between areas of the end you will occasionally find these end return gateways dotted around some of

The further islands like this and the reason that those are there is to return you to the central end Island once you are done raiding this area they don’t connect back to this area from the central end Island though so unfortunately the only way we have of

Accessing the end islands is to go back through those gateways on the inner ring of these outer Islands but that one there can be a great shortcut so we don’t have to go all the way back in the direction that we came we can go and visit that one once we’re done raiding

The city it will take us back to the obsidian platform that we used to enter the end and we’ll be able to return home let’s fight a couple more of these shulkers at the entrance to this end City we should be able to get a couple more shulker shells from this structure

Since they’re going to be a couple of shulkers further up one of those teleported away but I have absolutely no idea where it went it doesn’t seem to be attached to the inside of the structure and maybe it just ended up hitting itself with one of the pellets I don’t

Know either way looks like we got two shulker shells already let’s make our way up into the center of this structure and and see how many shelers await Us in the tower Yep this Tower looked twice as tall as the last one so I had a feeling

There were going to be a few more they are lining the walls around here so we’re going to have to be a little bit careful about how many times we get hit here since the shulker pellets can deal a little bit of damage but they can also

Be blocked with a shield so if you’re worried about how much damage you’re taking just angle your shield down get hit by one occasionally if you want to levitate but it does seem like a lot of these shulkers are hitting each other and causing themselves to teleport way

We’ll get that one last burst of levitation we’ll end up at the top of this Tower here and we’ll take out any shulkers that have managed to teleport into this vicinity there we go one of them got hit by another Ellet once we are back down to earth we should be able

To come over here and take out this one we got another shell from that as well and it might be a case of firing down on the remaining shelers further down here if we want to get the rest of these oh some nice pickaxes and shovels in here

And some again some decent boots with depth Strider okay we got a fortune like a fully Enchanted iron pickaxe there that’s really not bad even though it’s made of iron but remember that projectiles are going to bounce off these shulkers whilst they are closed so you really want them to be open and

Attempting to attack you so that you can deal any damage to them I’m going to hop down here try and grab any shulker shells that I have missed so far which is going to be easier said than done with all of them levitating me but at

Least we can hide here underneath one of these overhangs and wait for all of the pellets outside to disperse before dropping down a little bit further grabbing the shells from here and there’s a couple more further down that I want to get a hold of as well on each

Side of the n city there seem to be arms that lead out to these individual rooms which don’t really contain a great deal unfortunately every so often it doesn’t look like we’re going to find one in today’s episode but you will find a city that has these larger multiple layered

Versions of these side rooms which can also contain additional chest loot much like the loot that we find at the top of the tower here and even a spare Ender Chest which you can grab if you got a silk touch pickaxe and use to stash anything that you haven’t already

Already stashed in your inventory now one dangerous aspect of these cities is that occasionally when the shulker bullets hit you multiple times you are in danger of flying up pretty high and so we want to make sure that we are close to somewhere like this where we

Can make an easy water bucket fall and catch there we go we can manage to avoid any fall damage that way alternatively keep an ender pearl or two on you and switch to those when you need to make it down from Greater Heights so for example

If we uh ender pearl into this building so we should be able to avoid taking any further fall damage one other noteworthy thing about shelers actually is that they need to be attached to a block so if you end up breaking the block that they are attached to they will often

Teleport away without taking any real damage but there’s a couple of them that have ended up perched pretty high up on this building so I’m going to try my best to take out these guys looks like they’ve been hitting each other with the shulker pellets hence why this one had a

Couple of potion particles still have that levitation effect we don’t have to take out every shulker in this entire place but naturally that’s that’s going to maximize our opportunities to get shulker shells and one of the most irritating things about coming out n city raiding like this is when you walk

Away with an uneven number of shulka shells and we got 11 so far so I would really like one more before we call it a day and make our way home here well there’s one more for us we should be able to drop into this little opening

Make our way down via a series of fall damage and where did that shell drop yes there it is down here at the bottom of these ladders fantastic since there really aren’t any other loot opportunity right here at this end City I think we’re probably going to call it a day

There we could always grab a couple more shulkers from these exterior buildings there are a couple attached to the underside or the side of these towers which makes them a little bit awkward to get to so I think I might cut my losses there and make our way to the exit we’re

Going to reunite this shulker shell with the pile that we already have in our shulka box we’ve got loads of loot here already our first elytra a bunch of shulker shells and some shulker boxes we have already crafted I can be happy with that for now but but once we have

Unbreaking and mending on our elytra and we can use that to fly around we could travel back here to get a bunch more of these cities taken care of and in future episodes I’m sure we will come back and raid the end for even more loot if

You’re a cautious kind of player you might even want to risk traveling further into the end to find another city with an end ship so that you have two elytra and that way you have a backup just in case something happens to the first set in my case I’m not going

To do that today but we’ll probably come back and do it in future and I think we’ve been very fortunate with our n city findes I hope you folks have as much luck as I have but I have honestly done enough bridging over the void for one day it’s always a little bit

Nerve-wracking doing that stuff but here we have our end return Gateway and as I mentioned we can simply throw an ender pearl through this I’ll just make sure I can pill her up a little bit make sure that I’m not going to throw this at a weird angle and have to fight another

Enderman for an ender pearl we should be able to throw it in through there and as I mentioned we find ourselves back here on the obsidian plat platform where we enter the end dimension for the first time and now we’re back on the central island all we need to do is hop through

The Bedrock Gateway back home to the Overworld it doesn’t play the end poem and the ending credits every single time you hop through this portal instead it will just load us back here in the Overworld where it is daytime and we can unpack all the stuff we got from those

End cities and oh my goodness look at the loot that we got in this chest and this isn’t even the richest n city hall that I’ve had and some of these honestly were Enchanted items that I had before so I maybe shouldn’t be looking at these with too much satisfaction but

Everything from the second row onwards is loot that we discovered in the N cities including two very good honestly in my opinion very very good sets of boots so really worth keeping those handy just in case we need a backup set of depth Strider and protection boots

These ones have Unbreaking on as well and we got a decent Unbreaking three efficiency 4 diamond pickaxe that was pulled straight out of an n city loot chest so that’s very nice along with a few extra diamonds we didn’t end up finding any of the armor trims in any of

The nend cities and armor trim does generate there there is a special Spire armor trim that you can get in nend cities so it’s a real shame we didn’t acquire that today but we can go back and look for that in future we got ourselves a dragon head we got ourselves

The end rods a bunch of shulker shells that we can use to craft more shulker boxes and of course our pride and joy the elytra now I’m not going to do too much flying around today and honestly I’m really happy that we waited this long to get hold of the elytra because

If you’re flying around in a Minecraft world it really changes your perspective on things we’re going to be looking at our builds from the top down a lot more now we’re going to be seeing the roofs of builds and we’re going to be seeing how small our settlement here really

Feels even though the storage room we’ve built feels quite gigantic from ground level we’ve also brought home a bunch of other things including our first chorus flowers which if we want to grow them now we can plant them on endstone here in the Overworld and they will grow

Quite naturally as they do in the end Islands we brought home some chorus fruit which we can smelt and turn into more of these purple blocks and we’re going to add the purple blocks to my item filters over here in the storage building there we go the purple blocks

Can go in there we’ll swap that out for a filter material and I think that’s where we’re going to wrap up this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide it’s been an adventurous one we have traveled through the void we have braved the dangers of the end and we have made

It back with some of the most important loot in the game some stuff that is really going to change the way that we play and I’m excited to explore that in future episodes but that’s where we’re going to leave this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide folks I hope

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