Pixlriffs – What Does Frost Walker Do? ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [Part 96]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide if you guys are having a good day we’re starting off today in the ice bomb that we made a few episodes ago had some great comments about this one thank you guys all so much for your

Thoughts and recommendations specifically the folks who said maybe you could line the ice farm with wood instead of stone just so that you didn’t accidentally like pickaxe through the walls down here like so I mean yeah it would certainly make sense to make it out of a material that didn’t instantly

Break when I mined it with an efficiency pickaxe so that was a great idea and I’m gonna gather a little bit of the ice here but then we’re gonna do an episode that is about ice in a different way because some of the folks in the comments suggested how about I use frost

Walker to create the ice instead of using this kind of ice farming mechanic and it occurred to me that a few of you folks might not know what frost Walker is or how it works I think I’ve mentioned it offhand in a few previous episodes of the Minecraft Survival Guide

But I have not yet covered it myself so I’m gonna finish gathering up this ice I’m going to gather a few resources I’m going to make myself some new boots try and track down a frost Walker enchantment for them and then I’m going to explain why frost Walker would not be a decent

Solution for this ice farm I’ve already gotten it over in the comments of that episode before but I feel like we may as well show this on video mostly because frost Walker is actually a really cool enchantment that you can do a lot of fun stuff with so with all this ice

Collected I’m gonna go and pack this away and then we’re going to try and go on a bit of an adventure now for that adventure we will need a new pair of diamond boots so I’m gonna break into this block of diamond waster a button in

Here how very strange all right I’ll put the button up in here and it will break into this new block of diamonds so that I can get myself some more boots so we’re gonna have some diamond boots and these are going to be our permanent frost Walker boots once we get the rest

Of the enchantments all set up on them we’ll look to get protection on Breaking and mending on them as well but frost Walker is kind of the thing I’m after first so let me see if any of these villages trade Frost Walker the problem with frost Walker is that it is one of

The two enchantments that you cannot get through the regular enchantment table you need to get it through trading or find it in a treasure chest and the to my knowledge we do not have a librarian who trades frost Walker this guy does channeling for six let’s see who else we’ve got we’ve got

Loyalty we’ve got infinity and fortune three there which is an amazing trade very useful I do not think we have all that many librarians in here and I think the ones that traded Frost Walker are elsewhere I think we may even have a frost Walker trading librarian over at

The village where we first found Mendelsohn our mending villager so I might head back over there and see if he’s still knocking around naturally it would help if I bring some trading supplies with me so I’ve got some emeralds I’ve got some paper we’ll probably bring a few books as well yeah

I’ve been doing a little bit of trading with mending villages because the mending trade might not be there for too much longer the upcoming updates let me just quickly check that I don’t have frost Walker in here already the upcoming updates seem to be changing the

Way trading works a little bit and we’ll go into that in a future episode once the update actually comes around but it seems like villages with certain trades may not keep those trades permanently anymore so it’ll be worth looking into that in future for the meantime though I

Think I’ve got everything I need to go over there and trade with a librarian as long as the guy is still there otherwise we might have a little bit of searching to do and it seems like the worst case scenario has happened here where our frost Walker trading friend might have

Kicked the bucket now this was the village if you remember that I came out to to wait for a thunderstorm to happen so a lot of day/night cycles happened while we were out here and I imagine he got eaten by zombies or something like that there are still a couple of

Villages around here so they are not like completely gone but unless he’s lurking on the edges of the village somewhere I don’t see our librarian friend there’s a couple of folks still here there’s a shepherd or two there’s a butcher and a farmer but we do not seem

To have the frost Walker trading librarian that I was hoping for oh well oh well let’s see if we can find one elsewhere then there are a whole bunch of small Plains villages in this area we’ve got Shepherds over here let’s see if there’s any white coats in the

Village I’m not certain there will be oh there’s a little meeting happening in here there’s a couple of white coat guys this looks promising but again frost Walker is one of those things that you have to hope that it’s out there somewhere sharpness 5 428 emeralds

That’s not a terrible trade and 26 for paper ain’t too bad either let’s see what you have my infinity for nine emeralds is also not too bad let me grab one of those books just in case I need a new beau in future because remember infinity and mending are mutually exclusive meaning they

Can’t both be put on the same bow so I only have infinity on this one I do not have mending eventually that will become too expensive to repair now our last book here is fire aspect basically the opposite of Frost Walker kind of not the

One I need it never mind let’s see if your other white-coated friend in here has any good trades where are you of course you’re a cartographer great okay let’s find a librarian this guy is a librarian has an impaling full trade for a lot of emeralds let’s see if he’s got

Anything slightly better or you might need to find find some shelter in a second yeah this guy’s run off to his little house to begin with and let’s see what else we can grab here let’s get a bookshelf or two this is probably not going to lead anywhere unless I’m very

Very lucky with the trades but three books per librarian there’s a decent chance that we might get something eventually and another infinity trade does everybody want me to have infinity yeah it seems like it and that’s fine I guess but Oh yep the village is being attacked

By zombies oh well I think we all probably try it further afield there’s another village out here on the water there’s a guy trapped down here in our hole au of frost waka trader you are it was a different village the whole time Oh fantastic I’m so glad I saved this

Guy and it looks like we might just about have enough emeralds to trade for a single frost Walker one book I’m glad I came out here might have missed that otherwise fantastic stuff frost Walker one okay I’m actually going to go ahead and grab another book from this guy but

I will need to run back to the farmhouse and get some more emeralds to trade with but at least I made I took some of the steps to secure that guy in there to make sure that he wasn’t going to get killed by zombies good stuff all right

At least that’s gonna cut down the amount of time it’ll take me to make this episode and luckily thanks to the mammoth trading sessions I’ve done from my melon and pumpkin farms along with other things I do have a decent supply of emeralds so that should be enough to

Get us a second frost Walker book and the maximum amount you can have with frost Walker is frost Walker – that is the highest tier the enchantment goes to so all you will need is two books we’ll grab a couple of others from the villages

Here and I think we’ve got a few in the chest that we can apply to these this new set of boots and then I’ll be able to show you what Frost Walker does yeah the village where I found and trapped the frost Walker guys basically directly north I think that’s north

Anyway oh no it’s West is directly west of the village that we actually found the mending villager at so that’s quite convenient in the grand scheme of things and there we go a second frost Walker book fantastic what other trades does this guy have just out of interest cuz I

I wonder if this guy has any other nice trades lurking at me the depths of the inventory power three trade not very good there’s still probably another trade left to unlock after this but I’m running out of stuff that I can trade where they don’t have that many emeralds

And stuff left so back to the house and yeah we can I think we’ll start by putting frost Walker one on these boots and then I can show you the difference that happens when you upgrade it it’s subtle but it’s worthwhile so let’s stash the infinity book in here and

Let’s grab a mending let’s see if I have it an unbreaking in here we have unbreaking one there’s on breaking three fantastic we will use that and then I wonder if we have protection for perfect okay good I have been doing a little bit of enchanting as you can tell from the

Fact that my levels have dipped by about half since the last episode but we can put these books together and they will make an excellent combination to apply to the boots let’s add protection and I’m braking together we’ll probably try and do this with the least amount of

Levels spent there we go I’m breaking three protection for we can add mending into the mix like so and I think what we’ll do is we’ll add frost Walker one now and then we’ll add frost Walker to to the boots later so with that that is gonna cost eighteen levels taking us

Down to 29 unpacked below the 30 level threshold for once now let’s see that’s gonna cost nineteen levels to upgrade it to frost Walker – so we’ll demonstrate frost Walker one first now bear in mind that frost Walker and depth Strider are mutually exclusive you’ll notice I used

That phrase a little bit earlier to describe how mending and infinity cannot be put on the same bow depth Strider and frost Walker cannot be put on the same pair of boots and the reason for that is quite simple really depth Strider allows you to move more easily through water

You can swim through water a little bit faster and you can walk through water at a normal pace instead of the water slowing you down a great deal what frost Walker does is eliminate that by basically turning all of the water around you into ice if I can yeah there we go

Sometimes it takes a moment or two to kick in but any water that you step out on to from an adjacent solid block will start turning into this ice and there is something quite special about this ice because it starts to break after a while when it is exposed to sunlight most ice

Won’t do that most ice will break after it’s exposed to block light from a torch or some other kind of light source frosted ice works differently it starts to develop cracks once you’re a little way away from it and that it’s no longer like in the radius of effect of the

Frost Walker boots and most of the time you’ll be safe to stand on it for a little while but once you get a little bit further away and the time starts to tick down the ice will eventually break so you can’t just stand out there on a river forever eventually the ice

Underneath you will start to crack if you’re not moving around and the ice will break and you’ll fall into the water but as you can see I’m freezing sections of this River as I go and even at a running pace it allows me to move along the river like this very very

Easily it is going to have problems freezing blocks that contain other things already such as mobs like the fish that we just saw swimming are there or the squid if they don’t end up just dying on the banks of the river anyway and stuff like sea grass and kelp aren’t

Going to be frozen over they can’t occupy the same block because they are technically speaking blocks themselves so there you go as you saw there the ice didn’t form around where those fish were swimming so frost Walker has its limits but is actually quite a powerful enchantment to have in your collection

You can use it to get around very easily I just used it to pick up some ink from her squid that’s very cool and of course the ice will disappear after you meaning that you can make your escape across an ocean if you’re being chased by mobs and

The frost Walker effect will kind of like disappear after you and it means they won’t be able to follow you now as regards the ice farm that we made in a previous episode you might think oh great this is going to be an infinitely renewable source of ice all I need to do

Is dance around on the surface of this river and I can mine it with my silk touch pickaxe however frosted ice the ice biz breaking in sunlight right now is special and if you break it with a silt touch pickaxe you’ll notice that even with efficiency

It’s taking a little while for that to break it doesn’t turn into an item that you can drop it doesn’t drop as an item it just disappears and it disappears completely you’ll notice it doesn’t break into a water source either and it’s only when the water sources in the

River around it start to reform you’ll actually see that filling back up in with water so yeah it’s it’s a different enchantment and you cannot use frost Walker to farm ice at least not on Java edition from what I understand it might have been possible on bedrock edition at

Some point although now I think there has been patched with a more recent update so this is what Frost Walker does and having a second frost Walker and charm and having frost Walker to apply to these boots instead of one will increase the power of the enchantment and therefore increase the radius around

You where ice generates so right now I can sprint run down this river and the ice is pretty much keeping up with me but in frost Walker – I think it extends another blocks worth in each direction meaning that you can almost sprint jump with the amount of ice that you generate

And that will allow you to travel even faster although it’s not a guaranteed thing and obviously once you jump into the water like that if you’re no longer standing on a solid block you can’t generate ice around you even if you are kind of under water like this and you’re

Walking off a solid block that’s currently submerged it won’t form ice underneath you so you have to start on the banks of some sort of body of water whether that’s a river or an ocean or a lake or anything and yeah you have to be a little bit aware of the other things

Swimming around you but this is quite a fun enchantment to play with I’ll show you it in third person this is the radius of frost Walker one so it’s about two blocks in every direction in a radius around the player and now if I go into the anvil and upgrade it to frost

Walker to taking me down to ten levels for the first time in goodness knows how long you’ll see that there is now a radius of three blocks around the player not only that but it is now nighttime and you’ll notice that with the sunlight gone the frosted ice is actually

Sticking around and like I said even with this it is still not possible to actually break and obtain the ice with the silk touch pick I am using a silk touch pick here just so you guys are aware but you’ll notice that the frosted ice forms over and this stuff around

Here is melting because it’s in close proximity to block light from this torch but at night time the frosted ice will not disappear it’ll only disappear when the Sun comes up so this can be used for a lot of fun stuff if you want to go ice skating at night

Down a river you can do this if you want to run across an ocean you can do that with frost Walker and at night the whole thing is going to make it possible for people to follow you mobs to follow you and for you to blaze a path across a

Weave just the aid of your frost Walker boots it is worth noting that this can have its downsides though you’ll notice the farmland around here is starting to lose its hydration and irrigation because I’ve removed effectively the water sources all around the wheat here and it’s no longer getting water meaning

That if this wheat were to be broken if there was farmland around here that Hank got crops planted in it already that would all start to revert back to dirt so it’s important to be a little careful where you have frost Walker and where you use it the same applies to farms

That use water sources like the sugar cane farm I have up there there’s a water source at one end of a tunnel underneath there that actually hydrates all of the land that the sugarcane is planted on and if that were to be turned into ice the rest of the water source

Would dry up because it’s not flowing water and then if the Machine activated it would pop all of the sugar cane off updating the block that the sugar cane is resting on and because it wasn’t receiving any more water you wouldn’t have any more sugarcane growing there so

That would permanently break my sugar cane farm if I walk up to it wearing frost Walker that’s that’s a problem that’s not something you want to happen so it is quite important to be very careful where you’re using frost Walker and to use it if you’re traveling long

Distances long journeys over sea and you don’t have a boat with you but you happen to have access to your frost Walker boots or if you just feel like running around like this it’s a lot of fun to do and in the cases of farms like that if you’re worried about frost

Walker damaging them you can always make sure that a light source is placed nearby any water sources because if you’ve just put like a glowstone block or a sea lantern in there it’s still going to be able to block the water but well it will allow you to have the

Frosted ice basically immediately melt lessening the likelihood that it’s going to break your farm there’s still a possibility that it might it might dry up the water source fast enough and the farm would trigger right away but it’s something to bear in mind if you put a

Glowstone block or a sea lantern or something in there it’s much less likely to happen now I’m going to get some sleep and then when I wake up you’ll notice all of the frosted ice in the river out here starts to melt because it’s now being exposed to sunlight again

And while I can still generate more of it running on the river with frost Walker it’s back to disappearing and behind me as it goes now you can tell the difference between frosted ice and regular ice because of the cracks that start to form but also if we take a look

At this with the f3 screen you’ll notice that what we are looking at on the right hand side there are says targeted block is frosted ice and that is different to regular ice packed ice and blue ice this is its own kettle of fish that’s why

When you break it with a silk touch you’re not able to obtain it and that is why it is not the right choice for farming ice but it was a good thing to explore and I’m kind of glad people brought it up because I had sort of

Forgotten about frost Walker in a way it’s not an enchantment I use very often because I do a little bit of technical project here and there and I don’t want to have my water sources break in my farms but it’s nice to have it’s good for the sense of adventure and magic and

Fun in Minecraft and I hope you guys will enjoy using it if you happen to get lucky and find a frost Walker book in your worlds but that’s all we gonna cover for this episode of the Minecraft Survival Guide thank you guys so much for watching my name is Ben pixel rifts

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