Self Building Nether Tunnels in Minecraft 1.16

Self-building bridges are awesome there’s just something so satisfying about watching a redstone machine travel across a lava lake leaving a perfectly formed bridge behind it now in the first video that i did on self building basalt bridges i did a decently fancy design i mean it was okay it looked pretty nice

It had some kind of decoration on the sides it was cool you guys really liked it but i definitely feel like i can take things a step further i really really want to just build up a super over the top fancy version that is going to be ridiculously

Complicated but end up looking really really cool so first i have to actually work out how i want this thing to look now i kind of have this design in mind which now looking at it i’m a tiny bit terrified that i now have to reconstruct this making use of slime blocks and

Things but if we look at it look we’ve got we’ve got light sources coming through we’re pretty well protected from ghasts because normally they’re floating around somewhere up there no gas can actually spawn in this area which is a bonus i mean it seems like quite a cool tunnel

And now that i’ve dropped it down by one extra block it’s got a lot easier to build and also i think it looks a little cooler i mean look at this from the outside that’s a nice design so i guess now we actually have to build the thing

And the first thing that i have to do is kind of work out where these blocks are going to be coming from so you can see i’ve laid out some basalt here this is basically this laid out flat so these three blocks here make up this wall and

Then these two blocks make up these two blocks right here for the roof and then in this section we have a block that goes there this block goes here and then this block goes up at the top right there so we have to fold these blocks basically upwards from down at the

Bottom here up into these positions making use of flying machines i am very curious as to what’s about to happen here so if i update this observer everything should kick into gear we’ve got two sets of flying machines one above the lava one below the lava and this machine actually works

This machine actually works it’s like a gigantic steamroller okay okay that’s a hugely hugely positive start but there is something important that we have to do we need to make sure that we cut out this block and cut out this block on each one of these things

So we kind of need to go across like this and that will allow us to create that shape and we need to do that on both sides because if we don’t do that then we’re going to have a surplus of blocks and that’s going to be a problem now

I’ll be honest i am not quite 100 certain how i’m going to do this just yet i actually think after being sat here for about 20 minutes making zero progress instead of doing the punctures i think i can actually reduce the size of this thing and then just move the blocks around

Maybe i mean i’ve got my fingers and my toes crossed right now so if we are going to go down this path then this would be the first logical step okay it’s pushing the things down and pulling certain things up all right okay okay it’s actually quite a good step so then

Next up i guess we pull each one of these upwards hang on a minute have i built this wrong no no no no that’s exactly right so i need to pull each one of those upwards yeah because i can’t fall into that gap and then we move this one from back here

And that kind of creates this solid wall all right now at first i thought this would look really bad because the lava is being taken up around it but actually i think it looks way cooler like the fact that this kind of has like a lava

Dip going all next to it i think it looks awesome trying to make this alternating system is proving to be a tiny bit difficult so as i say i need to do intervals and that means that on every other block that these pistons move they need to pick up the block

Trying to find ways to do that is challenging but i think with some honey block action and a little bit of wizardry we might be on to something i mean honestly this is a bit of a shot in the dark here oh but that totally looks like that works oh look at this

I love it when things just work that is fantastic that is a really really smart little system that we’ve created here okay we can use that multiple times throughout the circuit so this is incredibly handy this build is starting to look like a strange slime block and

Honey block stick figure now i’ve been looking at this thing a little bit more and i think it might actually be smart for me to pull this block right here all the way up to the top yeah go all the way up to the top and

Then this area here we can actually pull up in a full section and then just kind of punch it in and then we only have to worry about these sections at the end which are actually going to be quite simple he says it’s probably not going to be

Simple to be fair though everything has actually gone quite smoothly so far like so far we actually haven’t had any major hitches or anything that’s been totally impossible anyway i’ve now built up the circuit that is going to build up the roofs and if this is working this is

Going to be one of the most satisfying things in the world you ready pull up pull up pull up push across that’s it i love watching these things work check this out that is fantastic the only thing that we do have to be slightly concerned about

Now is the fact that i cannot build any part of the flying machine now that will interact with this area here so i can do no redstone in this space anymore because obviously those blocks are in the way and we don’t want to crash into them so that could potentially

Add some complexity into the machine i guess we’ll see if and how that affects us in a little bit i really don’t want to find out that actually this thing is impossible because of that sort of thing anyway i’m now working on the system that is going to pull the blocks from

This area here into the walls and it should be simple ish so i think that gets pushed across that will then make huh that doesn’t need to be okay so then we need this and then this here and that should create yeah that should create a too high basalt wall like this

And that is the correct height my brain is firing on all cylinders as you can see i do however think that this piston setup right here should potentially do the trick i mean it seems like a lot but yeah that’s what we have to do to get

The blocks from out here into position i’ve actually over achieved i’ve over achieved my system i’ve pushed these blocks one block too far in but it’s promising things are going well i have a huge gigantic smile on my face there’s just something about block conveyor belts and especially blocks

That are being formed out of the floor that weren’t there before like self-building stuff all of those things combined just makes me so happy to be working on this redstone contraption that is a little bit more like it but this piston is actually a dud

So it needs to go on the end and this is not something that i’d realized i’ve also put it in the wrong place ah now it’s left the piston behind what were we doing with that system up at the front there that allowed that to work because that is so strange that it’s

Working in one example and not in another i think it could be the fact that the observer face is actually facing the piston let’s see if we can do something with that there it is i think that’s the key okay it’s out of order it’s the wrong

Order but that is spot on that is exactly what we need guys we’re on the home street right now seriously all i have to do is take the blocks that are on this last layer right here i need to get it so they’re next to one another

Which is actually going to be a little bit more tricky than i guess i was expecting because i haven’t actually pulled something along just yet in this build so that would be interesting to see how i can do that and then i need to move them from here

All the way up to here so they need to go from down there up to there lots of piston action happening one hour later we really haven’t made much progress and it’s because of this getting the blocks to go from here to go to here this

For some reason i just can’t make it work in my head now let me quickly explain why it’s confusing because i’m sure some of you are just sat here thinking it seems really simple so i have to pull out every other block like this i then need to push those blocks

Along somehow now i can’t do this making use of pistons or sticky pistons dragging or anything like that because well it’s a flying machine they’re just going to get pushed or pulled along the entire length of it so instead i have to drag them along making use of slime

Blocks and things so then each one of these would make their way into this position like this but they’d have a slime block on top of them i then need to detach that block from the slime block and to do that i’m making use of a piston that is pushing across like this

So that needs to fire but it needs to fire every other block because otherwise everything is going to break but then eventually that is going to pull the blocks like this and then i need to pull those blocks up from there so they’re next to one another and then from there

It’s kind of simple but the problem is is that currently i’m having pretty serious issues with doing the every other piston pullers for some reason mine just aren’t working i can’t make it work in design nothing i do with these downwards facing pistons is working nothing i do even if i replicate what

I’ve got going on up at the top here another hour later i am totally lost here because look this circuit here is exactly the same as this circuit they’re both identical why is this circuit this piston is working and this circuit the piston isn’t why why i don’t know i’ve made some further

Adjustments yes yes yes yes okay ah that’s so good so for some reason it’s to do with the the order of where the slime blocks are originally i had the slime blocks on the other side now i have them on this side this actually functions and it’s doing

The right thing yes that may have taken two hours for me to reach that point for me to be able to do that but i don’t even care because now we are on the home straight one hour later this is huge news i have been stressing out over this okay but this

Back section here so now i can drag a block oh gosh oh gosh i can drag a block and then i can push it yes look at that look at that they’re next to one another we’ve got blocks next to one another we’ve done it now it’s plain sailing

Oh that is such such a huge huge jump in progress and it’s a smart system too i’m gonna be totally honest i mean i knew this machine was going to be decently big i kind of wasn’t expecting it to be quite this big though there’s there’s quite a

Lot going on here and it’s gone from looking like a stick figure to looking like an ear wig do you know what earwig is it’s like one of those bugs with the pincers out the back i’ve just thought that could be a really british name for

It i’m sure there’s an actual name for it but we call them ear wigs because they they go into your ears or they don’t but that was always the fear i’m sure all of you will let me know down in the comment section once again i’m over

Achieving i’m lifting my blocks far too high i don’t know why i always do this but now finally it’s all fully completed or at least so i thought i i thought it was finally done the build is finished the build is all completed it is now working

And i think you can all sense a sentence coming inbound i mean i i think i think you can all tell what i’m about to say this might just be one of my favorite redstone contraptions i’ve ever made and i know i keep saying that okay but it’s because i keep

Building a bunch of cool stuff lately i don’t even know what the best angle to watch this is maybe here i do quite like watching all the blocks move i mean look at this look at this so here come the walls walls are now being pushed in

It’s just so satisfying to watch so now we basically have a roof but the roof is the complicated part the actual top of the roof is all gradually being constructed so now the blocks are side by side they’re now being pulled upwards and now here we go they’re being pushed into position

And there it is another tunnel all fully covered over we’ve got ourselves some lighting from the sides but the most part it’s it’s protected from ghasts and this is just a cool looking tunnel this is just a really cool looking tunnel and it’s been built from nothing this started as nothing

It started it’s just lava the lava has been removed and we now just have basalts and just a a fully protected tunnel i’m so impressed this is the coolest i’m super proud of myself on this one i honestly i wasn’t sure if we were going to be able to

Build this but we have managed to build it and it looks nuts definitely yeah it’s it’s probably my favorite redstone contraption ever and i need to stop saying that but i mean it this time all right i seriously mean it all right hope you enjoyed the

Video catch you in the next one see ya that’s honestly not only is it my favorite redstone contraption ever it’s also just one of the most fun redstone problems that i’ve had to solve in a long time there was all sorts of unique problems that cause my my brain to

Actually have to work really hard it’s fun i love the redstone problem solving i love it god i want to do more of that sort of stuff i really do