Pixlriffs – Superpowered Soul Fire Mob Farm! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 316]

Hello everyone my name is pics riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day a little bit of a close-up on my face there welcome back folks today we are not over at founders forge in fact we are five thousand blocks away at my

Mob spawner that I built near the ski resort project and the reason for that is because this is now my best source of gunpowder even though we did a little bit of a modification to the creeper farm just to make sure it could still work with wither roses I thought this

Farm was probably still the most efficient shot I had at getting gunpowder it still generates some spiders here and there but a lot of the time it will spawn creepers now that I’ve replaced all of the roofs here with trapdoors and make sure they’re only creepers and that spiders can spawn in

There as part from a section over there that I missed I only have like 12 trapdoors left so don’t think I could cover it even if I did just needed to go and get more wood I guess but yeah we are getting a little bit of gunpowder as

You can see from my inventory I’ve gotten a few stacks of it now probably enough to make two stacks of TNT and TNT is of course the reason I am farming gunpowder in the first place and it all has to do with the 1.16 update and ancient debris ancient debris is

Obviously a lot of people’s focus right now it’s the goal for a lot of people and in my case even though I have a full set of nether right stuff at this point I still want to be collecting ancient debris in order to make myself a nether

Right beacon or just play around with more nether right blocks for building I think ancient debris is also gonna have a lot of interesting functionality considering it is a blast-proof block that is also pushing also we could end up using that to great advantage in tree

Farms and stuff like that how do I get back onto that by the way that was like a really weird hitbox maneuver there I’m not quite sure what happened anyway what I want to do is make a more efficient version of this farm because this farm

As you can see isn’t spawning a huge amount of stuff at a time it gets a few big drops occasionally but we could definitely do more to improve the amount of spawns we get and one way in which we could do that is to basically multiply this design outwards so instead of just

One set of spawning platforms we end up with about four or five because the mob cap per player the amount of mobs that will generate if you have an area where hostile mobs can spawn is I think somewhere around the 70 to 90 range I forget what the number is exactly

Without looking it up on the Minecraft Wiki but it is a larger number than you will get in an average spawn cycle on these platforms and that I think is partly due to the fact that the game makes multiple spawning attempts checks for the amount of mobs that are already

In a chunk wide area and also has less time to spawn stuff considering these platforms are flushing out with water every few seconds so what I’m thinking we should do is we should multiply the spawning pads of these so we get even more and make them all into these

Creeper spawning pads so that we just get string and gunpowder out to the farm plus I guess occasional skeleton drops for when a spider jockey spawns in here but the update has more to give than that and we can actually improve the killing mechanism which let’s face it if

We were to multiply this farm outwards we would need an extraordinary amount of hoppers with our current system but with a new system that I think we are going to take advantage of now that the update has come into effect we are going to be getting a lot more drops a lot faster

With a lot fewer hoppers and the secret to that is soul fire soul fire is a brand new phenomenon that can be found occurring naturally in soul sand valleys in the nether although the effect is not exclusive to this biome in fact any material made of soul anything whether

It is soul sand or soul soil will burn with a bright blue flame now and that includes player placed flames but it also includes flames set by things like gassed fire balls and bed explosions when a player steps in to soul fire you still get set on fire with one of these

You know yellow orange array the kind of flames it doesn’t burn blue on the player itself but you’ll notice that soul fire actually deals a little bit more damage when you are standing in the block itself it is more dangerous to the player than regular fire is still not as

Dangerous as lava of course but otherwise pretty darn dangerous and the cool thing about this is that it applies to mobs as well not only that but with a little bit of soul soil gathered we can start to use soul fire for a couple of different things

We covered this briefly in our episode about pig limbs because it was worth noting that soul fire actually drives pig limbs away but there are a couple of other things we can use it for some of which are simply aesthetic purposes let’s make a bunch of Sol torches here

Using the crafting recipe of one block of soul soil one stick and one coal basically the torch crafting recipe but with a soul soil block underneath it can only be made in a 3×3 crafting table grid so let’s grab a bunch of those we get four torches each meaning that we

Have a couple of stacks here to work with or stack and a half more or less and by grabbing some iron nuggets of course that we can now turn these into solar lanterns which will allow us to hang these things up and I’ve already got one of those here in the storage

Unit building now I’m gonna head out here and try and find a cave I have not yet explored because one of the major differences between soul fire and a regular fire is a difference in light level and we can demonstrate that if I can find a dark enough space this seems

Like it will do now at this point we’re all pretty familiar with the light level provided by regular torches if I place a torch in this cave here stand in it and open at the f3 debug information you will see that this is giving off a light

Level of 14 blocks basically 14 blocks in a straight line in that direction will be provided light with the number diminishing by one each time until you get far enough away that you’re not receiving any light from this torch at all but the light here is pretty evident

And it’s nice and easy to navigate if you’re using it in caves now if we place a soul torch the effect is slightly different you will notice that there is a little bit of a dimmer light given off by these things if I compare it to a torch here for example you’ll notice

That when I place that down the environment does get noticeably brighter and that indicates this soul torch has a different light level if I press f3 once again you’ll see that we have a light level of 10 instead of the 14 provided by a regular torch so soul torches

Already give off a light level that is 4 light levels lower than a standard torch this has a couple of really interesting applications one of which is that where a normal torch might melt the snow layers around it because snow melts in a light level of 11 or higher Sol torches

Will not they will of course it replaced the snow layer that you place them on a but of course outside of that you will not see the snow starting to melt whereas over here Torche has already started to melt some of the snow layers immediately around it

The ones it is providing light to this Sol torch on the other hand preserves the snow around it and so I’m thinking about maybe taking a bunch of these back to my Mountain project and to a certain extent we could mob proof that area without worrying about any of the snow

Melting not to mention that the Sol fire does burn with a really nice blue light that I personally think would look really really nice over in the snow biome kind of give that cold atmosphere to everything the light itself is not a different color because minecraft a lighting engine only really provides a

General purpose of white light to everything so it’s not gonna cast a blue light up around the walls but it is going to provide a certain amount of atmosphere let’s head down into another test cave before test number two do Sol lanterns provide a similar light level I

Can basically just tell from the surroundings that they do but if we stand on the Seoul Lantern you’ll see that this also gives off a block light of 10 when you’re standing directly on it so solar lanterns give off exactly the same light level as Sol torches

Meaning that they can also be used in areas where you don’t feel like torches are really the best thing but there is a third way we can use these new Sol fire mechanics to craft something pretty special and that is a Sol camp fire making these is pretty much the same as

The standard camp fire recipe except instead of using coal we instead put some Sol soil there you don’t need the Sol torches for that you just need some Sol soil three logs and three sticks arranged like so and aesthetically speaking aside from the blue flame Sol

Camp fires do basically the same thing a regular camp fire will do they will emit smoke particles if you place a hay bale underneath them they will emit a higher train of smoke particles because the particles won’t disperse until a little bit higher up you need silk touch to

Pick them up if you pick them up without silk touch then you will end up needing to reassemble it from its component parts they can be extinguished by right-clicking with a shovel and if you relight them they do burn blue again so this block is saved as a sul fire camp

Fire it’s not like if you extinguish it and then you light it again it becomes a regular camp fire this is a sul fire camp fire but the most important thing for our mob farming operation is that Sol fire once again does double the amount of damage that regular fire does

And that extends to camp as well so potentially we can use this thing to kill mobs basically twice as fast as a regular campfires would and campfires much like magma blocks have been used in mob farms over the last little while so that they can provide a

Passive way of damaging mobs and killing them nice and quickly and that is where the redesigned mob farm comes in because if we use a three by three area of these above some hoppers we can definitely cut down on the amount of hoppers we’re using to collect mob drops and hopefully

The mobs will end up dying pretty fast if they’re just channeled into these campfires using water streams so I reckon we’re gonna pick a brand new place in the world to set up a mob farm because even though we have the balloon mob farm over here I think we need

Something a little bit more efficient and a few more platforms in there and we’re not gonna do that all the way over at the ski resort again because it’s a long way to travel when I just want a bunch of gunpowder that I can afk for so

I’m gonna pick a low-lying area around here somewhere that’s got a nice flat area with few enough mountains around that I’m not gonna spawn stuff if I a of case somewhere up in the sky and we’re going to build ourselves a new mob farm [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Hey folks welcome back I hope you enjoyed the time-lapse and looking at this up in the sky it really does look kind of majestic at this point I mean the process of wiring up each of these platforms so that they can alternate dispensing water and I’ve decided I’m

Gonna keep these all as regular mobs spawning platforms instead of dedicating them entirely to creeper spawning because I would like to have an extra supply of bone meal as well which means we’re probably gonna keep these platforms open without the trapdoors also means a little bit less work

Putting all of those trapdoors in and if we want to we could specialize a couple of these so they are more likely to spawn the creepers and spiders and then leave a couple of them more open we could you know balance out the yield of each of the different items that way but

First of all I think I would like to make this a general mob farm we can always trade off the rotten flesh and everything else to my clerics and so forth so the next steps are already underway I have set up several platforms of hoppers underneath here that I you a

3×3 of hoppers with a 3×3 of soul campfires on top of it and that is going to deliver twice the amount of damage to a mob that a regular campfire or a magma block would so it should be a pretty efficient swift killing mechanism and that will allow the mobs to respawn the

Platform’s much more quickly once the other mobs are cleared out of the mob camp as you can see from each of these I’ve also given this a couple of blocks worth of height in here so the mobs can fall down because I’ve noticed in similar mechanisms if the farm is

Especially productive which hopefully each of these spawning pads should be once the mobs get towards the center there if they hang around in the corners they can potentially block other mobs from falling in and we basically want to make sure the mobs go in as quickly as

Possible so I’ve made sure that they’re hip boxes won’t interfere with more mobs falling in there thanks to the water we may occasionally get spiders crawling out of there but at that point they don’t really have anywhere to go they’ll just fall back in eventually and die in

The camp fires anyway and the next stage is setting up each of these platforms with dispensers and observers and the orientation of those is actually quite important so I’m going to run through that with you on this next set of platforms first of all I’m gonna put the

Dispensers in my off hand adjust for this first platform here because I want to be able to break and replaced the center block very quickly like so just to make sure that no water falls through and ends up affecting the campfires below we do not want those flames to be doused and it

Seems like they are still blazing merrily away in there and we don’t want to fall in there right now because that could be a pretty swift death if I’m not too careful but then back on the platform above the dispenser in the middle I need to place an observer

Facing downwards like so and every time the activity of the dispenser above it is detected by this observer it will power this air block here which does actually power the dispenser another quasi connectivity thing for you here but it’s actually very very useful for this farm in particular we’re going to

Put a a bucket in there so that the dispenser can retract the water and we just need to do that on every platform going upwards which is why having towers of scaffolding here is going to come in very very useful it’s also worth noting the rest of this area around here is a

Bottom half slab making sure that nothing will be able to spawn on there and this cross brace that I’ve kept in the center here is also slabbed off we will have the rest of this covered with hoppers which may also themselves end up being covered up by

Slabs or something so that no items fall in from above if we break the scaffolding here or something like that just want to make sure that all of this stuff is spawn proof so that the only supportable spaces remain inside the farm itself and I think we are going to

Have these platforms alternating because that should hopefully result in more frequent mob spawns especially if we have four sets of platforms like this having one platform be full of water one platform not means that we will always have stuff spawning even when the other platforms are flushing out and I’ve

Already done that with a single set of platforms that we’ve got over by the ski area but I think this is going to be a little bit more productive and therefore it’s essential that we make sure some of the platforms can do their thing while the other platforms are flushing out and

With that last dispenser and observer in place at the observers facing up into this block that I’ve left up here at the top of the platforms and this is looking at pretty good so far I do need to make sure that I got the platform’s oriented

The way I want them with water on some of them and not on others but then it’s just a matter of putting a giant roof on this entire thing and then wiring up each of these observers so they all trigger in unison they don’t have to do

It that way but I feel like it’s kind of neat doing it that way and we can switch all of the farm on and off at once if we don’t want to use it so the task that is left to me at this point is to finish off at these last two spawning

Platforms and potentially build a giant roof over this thing as well because we want to make sure it is dark inside the farm even during the day so that we can maximize the potential for mobs to spawn here the other thing we are gonna need here is one heck of a sorting system

Because when this thing is up and running I don’t want to be sorting through chests of miscellaneous stuff or picking out the rotten flesh from the Gunpowder from the string from the everything else I want to make sure everything is coming in two slices of an automatic sorting system therefore every

Time I come here and I want to get gunpowder I just have to go to one set of chests and all the Gunpowder will be there for me so I think underneath one of these probably this one kind of facing outwards from the farm I think we’re gonna set up a an automatic

Sorting system here I’ve given myself a little bit of headroom for that and all of the hoppers from each of these areas can just all flow into the same system and hopefully that’s gonna work without too much redstone spaghetti we could have these hoppers outputs to a set of

Dropper clocks and have the entire thing spat into water streams for slightly faster transmission but I honestly think this system is going to be enough and if it’s not we can always adjust it later so that it is so I think yeah the next step is gotta be setting up this sorting

System around here will channel the hoppers into that now I’m gonna build that off-camera because to be honest I think I’ve shown that these sorting systems on camera enough you guys know the drill by now let’s just get this thing done well I said I wasn’t gonna do it and

Then I went ahead and did it we have a bunch of water streams now carrying items from the dropper clocks all around the outside here they’re actually dispenser clocks actually and there’s a reason for that because there is one item that we’re gonna get from these mob farms which I

Genuinely do not want any more of in my life and that is arrows from skeletons so the dispensers are actually going to fire those arrows every time and I could replace them with droppers if that becomes a problem I have a feeling that maybe entity lag or something like that

Might cause these dispensers firing arrows to cause a little bit of a problem here which maybe I should curb later by collecting the arrows and dumping them out into lava so they safely get despawn that way but arrows will still be spawn after a few minutes

And it’s kind of funny to have them just fired out indiscriminately it’s certainly not gonna block any of the items from leaving the dispensers and hopefully that should all be fine so each of these dropper clocks is a little bit of a different design from the usual

One just had to loop the comparator signal back around to this block here and make sure it was looping back around into the comparator itself I don’t think that locks the hopper behind it at any point hopefully it doesn’t and if it does it’s very brief I still have a roof

On this thing right now what you’re seeing is mobs that have spawned on the empty platforms where the water hasn’t activated I still need to go in and make sure that the timer circuit is all set up but each of these water streams now it directs the drops into this line here

Which the honey blocks align the items along the side of these hoppers making sure they’ll be able to make it all the way to the end without getting caught in the hoppers hitboxes and I do still need to decide exactly what is going in each of these filters but right now yet there

We go I think we saw some rotten flesh coming through the system perfect example it just ended up going along the edge of the hopper and then into the hopper right here and once we fill these up with filler items and I probably want to have two for the Gunpowder two for

The bones two for the rotten flesh and string and everything else can go in these last three with everything that doesn’t get filtered just any up in the last set of chests and since our killing mechanism here is based on fire I do not believe witches will give us all that

Many drops because witches will typically drink a potion of fire resistance and then just stand there not taking any damage so chances are we’re just gonna handle it by having them despawn in much the same way as mobs that will despawn if you end up

Outside of a 32 block range of them they should be spawn pretty easily am I gonna be standing at least thirty two blocks away from where the killing mechanisms in the fire are they’re not gonna do spawn instantly but they will be spawn occasionally allowing more mobs to spawn

In the farm and making sure we don’t get the entire system gummed up with witches but these sul fire camp fires are going to be the MVP of this a particular system I think they’re going to be a really good addition to this farm and if

We want to cover up the water streams here with a little bit of extra glass I have some in my inventory but I think we’re probably just gonna put a roof on this thing sort out the timing for all of the dispensers and then let’s see how

Well this thing runs whoa that took a lot of work that took a lot of work there’s a lot of slabs that’s probably about a full double Chester plus a little extra of the slabs but look at this thing at crank out loves this is so

So cool I’ve never built one with this much spawning capacity before and it looks like it is going to pay dividends let’s hop down into this little area and you can see all of the drops that come in in everything is gliding through the system as planned I will just a pillar

Up here just to make sure that there aren’t any kind of blockages anywhere look at in the water stream you can see where the dispense has been firing our arrows but that is not obstructing at the items in any way the arrow should despawn as planned meaning one fewer

Thing to store in the chest here and look at the Gunpowder roll in this has just happened while I’ve been building the roof we already have six stacks of gunpowder and we’re getting a little bit more and any excess is gonna go into this system of chests here we already

Have a bunch of bones as well bones will go into that one too we’ve got two chests for rotten flesh one for string one for whatever else happens to roll on through here I don’t think I’ve assigned this one yet have I well that one seems to have accepted a

String as well the filter fish are doing their job though I reckon two four string and then one last one for anything else that makes its way through the system hopefully that should all be good and I can leave this thing on for a few hours while it runs and

While I get some sleep or edit this video one or the other and while we’re up here I may as well show you the mechanism this is your standard etho hopper clock with about 32 items in one of the hoppers shuttling back and forth in there with an observer detecting when

That changes and every time it does that it sends a signal out to each of these at four note blocks which is being detected by the observer and that is what sends the signal down the chain of dispensers the topmost spawning platform in this thing is at about Y 206 so add

24 to that to make sure we are in range we need to be roughly at Y 234 all of these spawning pads to start spawning stuff of course that is in a spherical radius around the player so realistically we only need to be maybe about 20 blocks up for basically all of

This portable space in here to pee basically spawn abort o for us to be far enough away that mobs are going to spawn there so I think I’ll just add a little bit of scaffolding to the top of this observer here which I’ve lit up because otherwise that some stuff can spawn on

The very few solid blocks so we still have up here the redstone block and the observer could potentially spawn some stuff I’m gonna scaffold up we’re gonna leave this thing on for a little while and we’ll see how many drops we end up with at the end of that [Applause] Okay folks morning the moment of truth is here I’ve left this thing on for about I would say six hours total and it’s time to see how many drops we have in the sorting system I’m very excited to see this it looks like it has been working just fine overnight haven’t

Noticed any issues with it left the world logged in and yep yeah that’s that’s looking pretty solid too that is okay that’s the first four chests in the slice all filled up with gunpowder that is TNT by the bucketload very nice even a little bit of gunpowder has made it

Into the next chest over we I assume would have the same amount of bones just about yes same amount of bones there a few in the next chest over as well lots and lots of rotten flesh no surprises there a lot of zombies cranking out of

This machine once again we have an extra chest at filling up there all the string I could ever ask for if we wanted to turn this into wall to make beds to blow up more stuff in the nether we could do that of course and this final chest does

Not have anything in at all which is a good thing because this one is completely unfiltered which means that anything that made its way through the rest of the system would end up there and it looks like what we have here is a nice solid overflow chest with no arrows

To worry about and probably no which drops coming into the system either it looks like everything is running as expected which is absolutely perfect the whole purpose of this really being to get as much gunpowder and as many bones as possible and to show how effective it can be

Using sulfa campfires in these mechanisms now because they really are killing the mobs pretty quickly as far as I can see I mean you’ve just got to look at the amount of mobs that are making their way down here now and all the skeletons are really trying to have

A crack at me it seems like but there is a cauldron of mobs in there now which is slowly taking damage and they all die pretty quickly a faster than they should with magma blocks faster than they shoot with regular campfires I think that’s all going incredibly well get down there

Spider and I think he’s just tracking towards me and therefore takes a little bit longer to get in there but yes yes we have ourselves a really powerful mob spawner now and I think the amount of drops we can get for just a few hours afk really speaks for

Self I’m gonna have a super fun time crafting all of this into TNT later probably going out and harvesting some sand from a desert and then my friends are then that we can really get to searching for ancient debris with some TNT on our side err that is where we are

Gonna leave it for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide I do hope you enjoyed this look at soul fire and a brand new a mob spawner design don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon

Take care bye for now You