Pixlriffs – How To Blast-Proof Your Builds! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide [Part 210]

Hello everyone my name is pixel rifts and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day today we’re starting out here in town outside of the concrete automatic maker that we’ve got here and I really want to turn this thing into a

Build today because one of the things that really sticks out in the skyline of founders Forge no matter where you’re standing is this giant concrete maker contraption in the sky I kind of want to conceal that today and I want to look into a little bit of the theory of how

We go about blast proofing this building because as you will know if you’ve seen the video in which we make these concrete makers this one tends to drop a lot of TNT the problem with it decorating anything with TNT is that TNT has a bit of a random direction to it

And it has quite a wide radius in which the explosion will affect certain types of blocks and so in order to build something up around this structure we’re gonna want to make sure that this structure is adequately blast proofed so that if we end up using the concrete

Maker bits and pieces of it will not just start falling off I want massive holes in my build every time I end up using the concrete maker thankfully there are a couple of good solutions to this the first and most obvious one being of course obsidian because

Obsidian is one of the most blast resistant blocks in the game it has the longest time to break with a pickaxe and is generally speaking the toughest material that players can acquire in Minecraft there are of course tougher materials the which are only available to creative players like bedrock end

Portal frames cannot be blown up or really mind at all and there are barrier blocks which are basically invisible blocks designed to be invisible walls in maps and stuff like that which are of course only available to creative players and they are the strongest blocks in the game but

Bedrock and end portal frames and stuff like that all have a blast resistance of something like 18 million it’s a very very ludicrously high number and of course it’s designed so that even if you adjusted the mechanics of the game you would still not really be able to break

Them all that much obsidian by contrast has a blast resistance of 6,000 which is not all that much compared to 18 million but of course it’s still meant to be obtainable in survival and so it has a lower blast resistance and that means it also kind of calculates into

Stuff like how long it takes to break it with a pickaxe so we could coat the entire inside of the alchemists guild which is what I’m going to be building around the concrete maker in obsidian but of course that would be a bit of a pain and it also wouldn’t look very nice

Obsidian is one of those blocks that while obviously the texture has its purposes I don’t feel like filling up an entire interior of a building with this is really going to help all that much so I’m not going to use obsidian for this there are a couple of other things which

Do have a similar blast resistance to obsidian though and one of those things surprisingly is anvils if you try and explode an anvil with a block of TNT you will find that like obsidian it does not get destroyed by that explosion it is still a block and not an entity like an

Armor stand so it’s not going to be thrown a great distance it’s not gonna be like knocked back by the tnt but of course if the tnt broke the block underneath an anvil you would end up with a cascade of anvils you’d have them all falling down because they’re

Affected by gravity and if you stood underneath any of them it would probably drop on you and kill you so that’s not really something we want to happen and Bill’s are a little too inconvenient for this they’re also very costly in terms of iron and while the iron farm is now

Back up and running again they have a huge supply of blocks of iron here I don’t think handles are really the right thing for the job as far as actual physical blocks go though that leaves us with very few options remaining because outside obsidian there is nothing in the

Game which will not be affected by a TNT blast at point-blank range even end stone which is probably the toughest of the materials that you will be able to acquire outside of stuff like obsidian and anvils only has a blast resistance of 45 you see where we’re decreasing the

Blast resistance here by orders of magnitude and even though n stone does have a pretty high blast resistance compared to stuff like I don’t know dirt and grass it is still going to get destroyed if exploded by TNT a point-blank range the other thing about in stone is that once again like

Obsidian it’s not particularly pretty to build with I don’t want to coat the inside of the alchemists guild with n stone but luckily this being minecraft and there being a variety of materials available to us we need to look outside of blocks and we need to take a look at

Water because water being a fluid has a pretty high blast resistance or it is not really affected by tnt water cannot be destroyed by tnt it can only be destroyed by picking it up with a bucket or by another block being placed in the same spot as the water

Itself and as you may have seen at other points in this series water can be used to shield yourself from a variety of explosions and entities in that area will still take a little bit of damage but water will even prevent damage from stuff like end crystals and charged

Creepers so TNT at that point is going to be no problem at all and what I think we can do for the inside of the alchemists guild because we already have a basin of water here collecting all of the concrete drops what we can do is have columns of water dangling from the

Sides and ending up in this Basin here and that will allow us to have basically a wall of water around the outside blast proofing any of the exterior of the building from these TNT drops and just to demonstrate quite how good water is at blocking TNT explosions we’re going

To place some water in front of this grass block here we’re gonna set off some TNT on top of this I’m gonna place a few other grass blocks around the outside at an equivalent distance but without the shielding of water and watch what happens when we set off this TNT

And explode it boom all of the grass blocks around there are destroyed the obsidian actually blocks as some of the blocks that are a little bit further down here but as you can see all of those grass blocks around there were obliterated and this one here has

Remained in place because of that is the power of water water has a blast resistance of 500 which is enough to prevent any explosion damage from getting through a curtain of water and hitting glocks on the other site perfect for what we want to do here and I think

All we’ll need to do is dress up the alchemists guild building with a few columns of water on the inside of course with this being a redstone contraption we are going to have to be a little bit careful about where we place these columns of water but they don’t really

Need to start super far up as far as I can remember the tnt actually explodes towards the middle of this space here so I think we’ll probably only need maybe seven or eight blocks high of water perhaps a little higher just to make sure that we cover the

Top half of the radius of the the sphere of the explosion of the TNT but we all probably not have to fill this entire thing up with water which means we could take a few creative liberties with the top half of the building as well without having to worry about just filling the

Entire thing up with water but I think from here we should just need to Pillar up a few blocks make sure there are water sources placed around the outside with flowing water and as long as that doesn’t affect the flow of these water streams too much then we should be okay

Another cool thing we can do here is take advantage of water logging mechanics and I’m gonna do that using these stairs I’ll show you in just a second what I mean but we’re going to need to place rows of stairs around the outside of this tank here and this is

Going to prevent the water streams from falling into the center here because I realized it’s kind of dependent on each of these four sources of water in the corners here being the only sources of water if we ended up with water flowing down into here it’s gonna create a water

Stream of another seven or eight blocks and that’s gonna go directly over the hoppers and stop the items from collecting in there so what we want to do is trap the water on the outside here and we’re going to use these stairs to do that so by adding a block to the

Front of the stay block here after I’ve waterlogged it we’ve got a trap door here like we had in the villager breeder / carrot farm over there but any kind of block will do it could be you know stone brick block or something like that we can prevent the water from flowing out

Of here and this waterlogged stair block will actually act as a water source for the falling water to be collected in and so you can have these little waterlogged blocks around the outside almost like troughs to stop the water from flowing out to either side and I’m

Gonna give you a quick example of that we’re gonna peel her up here and we are going to have to surround a block up here say a water source in this spot here we’re gonna have to surround that with blocks to make sure that it doesn’t

Fall out on all sides but all we should really need to do is have blocks on this side and on this side because this entire row of stairs is going to be waterlogged but if I place a water source here and have it fall down into there like that you’ll notice it isn’t

Falling over the sides in either direction because it counts this block here as a block that the water can flow into and therefore it doesn’t create a mess by flowing over the site so we’re going to do this the entire way along and that’s why I put these

Blocks on the corners as well so that the waterlogged stairs will not leak water out of the site of course we could always reorient the stairs so they’re like that on the corners if we wanted to take those side corner blocks out but that’s not a huge issue here and in the

End there wasn’t quite as much running around as I thought because if you put water sources in two of these adjacent blocks they will actually fill in the second water source it’s really quite strange because you don’t expect these to work like regular water source blocks

Do and if you put a single source block on it’s only don’t tend to find it looking like it’s leaking over into the blocks next door if they are water laga ball but then you end up with water sources being created if you place them one block apart each time and so you

Don’t need to make a temporary infinite water source even it also has the weird side effect that because these blocks here are waterlogged the water is kind of pretending like it runs from those blocks up there even though the stairs themselves don’t actually have a way for

The water to leak out and so you’ll find these two blocks on the corners if you’re doing something like this they look like they are flowing water so for whatever reason it looks like it isn’t a proper water source trust me it is and that should all behave perfectly fine

Once we have water flowing down into this block okay I think this is about the height we want to be to drop the water streams down and we’re actually going to reverse this pattern of stairs and trap doors so that we have inverted stairs all kind of facing inwards and

Then we can add trapdoors to the outsides of these like so and that will mean that the water stream that comes out of these stairs can only flow downwards so if I had a bucket of water on me that would be perfect it wouldn’t it to be able to demonstrate this so I

Think from the top here all we should need to do is place a bucket of water shift-click it so it gets water logged in this block and that should just send a column of water straight down which will not fall to either side that’s absolutely perfect and we’ll just need

To repeat this pattern all the way along having a stair block facing in this way and a trapdoor attached to the front of it and we get perfect flowing columns of water that are going to blast-proof this whole building without the need to add obsidian unfortunately with these downwards facing blocks because the

Water is flowing downwards it’s not going to create a water source in between the two of them so I don’t get a free water source there for me I have thought ahead a little bit and brought a whole bunch of buckets of water so I guess the only thing we can

Do really here is just go along the whole row filling in every single block here with a bucket of water until we have the entire thing waterlogged in columns and there we go and this whole thing looks really really quite cool it’s it’s a giant cube of water which

Does not flow outside of its boundaries and the fact that we’ve got that made out of stone brick stairs kind of hides the fact that these are all waterlogged blocks it’s a quite a neat illusion but hopefully everything that we build around the outside of this now should be

Blast proof from any TNT explosions which means we can get on and decorate this thing finally and get this unsightly mess out of the sky and into a really nice looking building and so I feel like now we’ve spent enough of this episode blabbering on about blast

Protection we could do that in the form of a time-lapse [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Welcome back folks I hope you enjoyed the time-lapse and this building is not entirely finished but I’m really happy with the results so far it’s very much one of our feature buildings here doesn’t look as much like the other houses we’ve got different uses of materials and kind of a different style

– I really like the slope of the roof here and now the roof is a little bit messy I do need to tidy it up a little bit off-camera because there are some slopes on some sides which don’t match the others exactly and the back of the

Building is a little bit different to the way the front is built they look kind of similar but there are some subtle differences which made building the back half of the roof a little bit of a challenge but overall what we’ve got here is a nice surround for the

Building which should hopefully be safe from any TNT explosions that occur inside and I feel like that glass pane at the front there and the same one on the back is probably the test that we want to take here although the one on the back is actually significantly

Further away from the tank than the one on the front is the tank is actually several blocks away which is possibly why some of this miss measurement stuff occurred in the first place but I’m gonna hop up here the idea is that hopefully I’ll be able to actually be

Able to walk up a ladder or something like that to get inside of here now that we actually have a building around the the alchemists guild and the plan is I wanted this build to be more eccentric than it currently looks but we want to have stuff like you know projected

Towers and possibly even an observatory a dome or something like that sticking out of the top of this building and making it look a little bit more kind of thrown together than it is right now right now it’s very symmetrical very organized I want it to feel a little bit

More chaotic but right now what I want to do is test out the concrete maker if I can actually get into the right position for it and make sure that the TNT explosions are not gonna blow out the front there proving once and for all that this building is going to be blast

Proof so we’re gonna activate the lever here that’s immediately gonna set a TNT off and hopefully we can take a look at this as it falls it goes boom and nothing around the outside breaks and I’m going to prove that a little bit more hereby by making some of the

Concrete is I have a lot of concrete here that I’m planning on using for the spaceships that were going to be building in our end hub spaceport and that is kind of where I want to be I want to have a ton of concrete to use for that project

Before we kick it off so I’m gonna be using this building quite regularly in the next little while and we’re gonna need to have those TNT’s falling well there we go folks all the concrete has been converted we have a little bit left in the machine waiting for that final

Piece of tnt to fall and to break the rest of it I’m not sure if it’s going to because I’m not sure if the hopper clock is still ticking over if it has a one more boat note to play here yep there we go looks like we should get one more TNT

Falling down here boom there we go and this has had ample opportunities to blow up anything that I built in today’s episode and as we come around to the front you can see that it has not so this thing is entirely blast proof no blocks are left on the ground around

Here everything is all taken care of and looking pretty good I really like how this build came together and I’m really happy that we now have a ton of green concrete trickling into the machine here ready to be used so that is gonna be it for this episode of the Minecraft

Survival Guide thank you so much for watching I do hope you enjoyed this episode if you did don’t forget to leave a like on it subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now You