Skip the Tutorial – Every Way To Dig A Hole In Minecraft!

– [Skip The Tutorial] I’m Skip The Tutorial, and this is Almost Every Way to Dig a Hole In Minecraft, Digging a hole is a very basic skill, but today we’re covering every method we could think of for breaking blocks, from practical to just plain weird. But folks, We’ve got a problem here.

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Is the most basic way to dig a hole. And honestly, it’s a few steps away from just pure suffering. Sure, when you’re digging dirt and blocks that are instant mined, it works fine, But as soon as you start to hit the stone level, it’s completely pointless.

You’re just wasting your time, because as everyone knows, it’s best to just stop hurting your hand and put that effort somewhere else, such as crafting some new tools. And with those, we get ourselves a one way ticket to dig straight down and hey, as far as straightforward efficiency,

There’s not much that really rivals this. It’s simple. The fastest way to get from point a to point B is a straight line. So obviously it works the same in Minecraft. And although this might technically be one of the faster ways to get yourself down to bedrock, it’s not exactly the safest.

All it takes is a patch of lava or even a ravine to make that whole process not worthwhile. And overall, there’s just too many ways to turn this from a mining trip, into digging your own grave. If you want to sacrifice some speed for safety, then digging two wide straight down

Is definitely the way to go. By lining yourself up just right in between two different blocks, you are going to use double the durability that you would in a one by one hole. But, if you do have some love underneath you, then regardless of which one of those blocks you mine,

You’re going to be fine. And really that extra bit of hesitation is worthwhile, regardless of the situation. And while digging straight down is pretty reliable when you’re just starting out, or maybe if you’re off somewhere in the middle of nowhere, as soon as you get a proper mine set up,

Then obviously you’re going to be doing it with a beacon, and for good reason; mining with haste two and efficiency five on a diamond or netherite pickaxe, is insane. The level of speed that you do at this thing is damn near unmatched. And really, it doesn’t matter if you’re digging down, up, sideways;

Anything you do is gonna work fine with this. So long as you’re in the beacon’s range, you’ve got full reign to take out an entire chunk of blocks. And as far as a way to collect resources, and do a large scale mining project, there’s really nothing that rivals it.

Although, if you’re looking to shrink your mining footprint, then maybe even crawl mining’s a better option. In recent updates, we’ve been able to take a trap door, even a piston, flip it upside down, and all of a sudden we’re able to walk at one block high.

And besides that and even more claustrophobia to the caves, this is actually a really effective way to clear out some space in a mine. And as far as the math checks out, this is also a very effective way to do branch mining for diamonds.

Part of that with the same haste two and efficiency five that you’d use in your quarries, and you can really tear through some of the world with this. And better yet, you’re not even restricted to one level. If you make yourself a staircase using snow layers and half slabs,

You’re actually able to go down and have a multilevel base cleared out underneath the world. It’s pretty cool. Although maybe you’re not a fan of the quaint one block high style of mining, in which case doing it with creepers is an obvious choice.

I mean, look at these things, they dig the holes themselves. How can you beat that? Whether you’re using another mob, or Flint and steel to trigger them, or Hey, maybe you could just got too close to one of them, they’re going to do a fine job at clearing out that space.

Even if it looks a little ugly at first. Although, why would you go through all of that manpower to bring on creeper construction workers, when for that same effort, you could kill a couple, and get an even better blast source, because let me tell you, TNT is a versatile block.

And even in the most basic sense of lighting it up with a Flint and steel or Redstone signal, it’s still packs quite the punch. Plus it cooperates so much better than those creeper divas. As long as you take a couple steps back out of the blast zone,

This is definitely a solid operation to use. Although, maybe you’re trying to cover a bit more ground, in which case, no worries. Add five iron to the backside of that TNT, and all of a sudden you’ve got a pretty convincing mine cart to do the job.

Although one of these by itself is not doing a lot of work. If you’re looking for true mayhem on the blast site, then stack up a couple of these on the same rail. And from there, all it takes is one simple push, (laughs) and your whole operation

Is gonna be looking a lot holier. And by that, I mean, it’s just a giant hole. (laughs) Enjoy. But if recklessly obliterating your world isn’t in your vision, than a TNT dispenser probably more in your catalog. You see with this, you don’t have to worry about setting it off yourself.

Really, all you need to do is to set up the clock fill up the dispenser, and your off for a good time. Plus, it keeps you separate from the explosions and your hands completely free (laughs) when the cops show up. And if you’re looking to distance yourself even more from the blast range,

Than a TNT cannon system is the pinnacle of that. It uses the same concepts of the TNT dispenser, except in this case, we’re using TNT to shoot off more TNT. Honestly, this is a perfect choice for your pirate ship and castle cannon needs. That is until your TNT runs out.

See, the problem with using dispensers is that we’re eating through so much TNT as we go. And unless you’ve got a killer gunpowder farm and sand in your storage, you’re not making a lot of that. In which case we’ve got to start talking about TNT duplication.

As one of the most useful glitches in Minecraft, this thing can do so much work for clearing out a landslide. All of a sudden resource management’s not an issue, which means we can completely automate this system without even having to worry about it. And better yet, using the same concepts

That we used in the TNT cannon system, We can actually drop these on a blast resistant platform, and then have it fan out by having TNT explode even more TNT. All of a sudden the range of holes that we can dig with TNT duping goes through the roof,

And that rocket ship reaches its peak when we start to talk about world eaters. To the technical players out there, this is a common site, and you’ve probably used them once or twice when trying to clear out a witch farm. But the idea here is that we’re using flying machines,

And TNT carpet bombing, to just completely eat away the world. And frankly, I don’t know if this packs more of a punch for the landscape, or your service computer. But when it comes to leveling through your world, there’s nothing that really comes close. And this carpet bombing monstrosity

Is definitely a top pick from this list. Although, if you’re a fan of flying machines, but not so much the whole destroying the whole landscape (TNT explodes) with carpet bombing, there is still an option for you. That’s right. We can actually use flying machines to extract blocks as we go.

And folks, I know this looks ridiculous, but (laughs) the fact that it even works cracks me up to no end. I mean, look at this thing. Clearly it’s not the fastest, but the fact that we’re able to take your diamonds out in this method, it’s just too good to pass up on.

Plus you can ride the thing. You got to build one of these right now, honestly. That said it does have some competition. We can’t talk about peeling apart the world, one block at a time, without talking about endermen. Granted, they’re not the most cooperative of workers, and even worse still,

They’re not gonna take any blocks that are below them. So you have to get them started by having them actually take blocks that are beside them. But as soon as you cage enough endermen and let them get started on that world, it’s gonna eat away pretty quick, and time lapses of this thing

Are both the most chaotic and satisfying things I’ve seen in the game. And while it might not be in your company’s mining budget to bring a whole bunch of endermen labor through the portal, it’s worth doing at least once. But as far as mob labor goes for different dimensions,

My pics got to go to ghasts, and yes, I’ll admit, they’re just as annoying to work with, if not more, than creepers. But honestly, just look at how one of these ghast fireballs can tear through the landscape. It’s pretty great to see. And unlike a creeper it’s multi-use.

So if you’ve got enough time, you can use that ghast to tear up through that entire bit of landscape you’ve been meaning to get rid of. Although I will admit they’re better suited for taking out blocks in the nether than they are on the overworld. Just like mining with your fist,

As soon as they hit that stone level, they’re completely useless. And if you’re going to go through all that time to bring one of them over to the overworld, you’re better off just focusing on getting the charged creeper. Now these creatures know how to dig a hole.

And while sure, lightning isn’t exactly easy to come by, If you’ve got yourself a channeling Trident, and a thunderstorm overhead, you’re able to get so many blocks cleared out with one of these things. And who knows, maybe you’ll even get some mob heads thrown in the mix,

Making it an even better way to tear through that mountain. Yes, they do still have the same issues that creepers do, if not tenfold more from all the damage they pack, but hey, you can still set them off with a flint and steel. And if you’re out of that blast radius,

They do clear out plenty of blocks if you need them to. Really, there’s only one thing that’s on par with them. And unfortunately for the charged creepers, it’s a lot easier to come by, because if we find ourselves in the nether or the end,

Then a bed is going to do so much more for clearing through the blocks, with obvious upsides, such as the fact that we get to choose when it explodes, this is definitely a better pick. And while there are obvious reasons to worry about the damage of this thing, we can see in 1.16,

There’s plenty of safe ways to get mileage out of this thing. Like make yourself a five block tunnel, place one at the end, and boom, you’re going to be finding yourself some ancient debris. As long as you take the proper precautions, this is probably my favorite way of branch mining in any version.

And if you want that same kind of explosion chaos in the overworld, albeit a bit more expensive to get, a respawn anchor’s a one way ticket to do such. If you got the crying obsidian and glowstone to spare, this is a pretty great way to clear through some of your blocks,

Be that in the overworld or the end. But remember to keep in mind the same restrictions we had for the bed. Otherwise the operation’s going to go somewhere south, but maybe that’s not enough to you. Maybe you want to cause damage to not only yourself, but all the other mobs around you.

Well, throw together three black skulls and some soul sand, and that wither boss is going to do so much work to the terrain, even just spawning in the thing is sure to clear out plenty of blocks around you. And then of course you’ll have to deal with the added bonus

Of getting fired at, from the wither. But if you’re a bit more enterprising, you can actually put the wither to good use this way. You see when the wither takes damage, it breaks blocks around it. So if you get it suffocating, you’re actually able to get it to break blocks

In a nearby vicinity. And this kind of madness can be used for not only tunnel systems, but also for making fully functional obsidian farms. But the question is, with all this block breaking, what about if the blocks want to break you? And curiously enough, there’s an answer for that.

By getting ourselves a heaping number of silver fish, such as with the spawner that you find next to the portal, you can have them infest all of these different stone blocks. And while it might sound like a death wish, this is a fully functional way to have them dig a hole for you.

All you gotta do is wait for them to infest every piece of stone, damage one of their brothers, and then let the whole world crumble around you. This is definitely the creepiest way to dig a hole, and honestly, I’m going to be seeing all these silver fish in my nightmares. Oh God.

So after you’ve quit the game after that nightmare scape, don’t log in just yet, because there’s actually a way to dig holes in Minecraft, without even playing Minecraft. If you’re able to run an instance of Minecraft on a nearly filled hard drive, which we can emulate by using a flash drive,

Interesting things start to occur. You’ll particularly see this in older versions of the game, but when you log into the world, and you’re trying to generate without space, it doesn’t know what to do with certain chunks. So what will start to happen is when you log in and back out,

Chunks will just randomly be taken out of the world and placed somewhere else, giving us a newly functioned hole in the side of the landscape. Now I’m not expecting this to become a common way to dig holes in Minecraft. But what is cool though, is when you free up that drive,

You can actually keep that same copy of the world you just destroyed. But folks, we haven’t even thrown creative mode commands into the mix. For that matter, I gotta cover one before the comments eat me alive. And that is, if you type in a field command like such,

You can just have the world be replaced with air. Boom. Now you’ve got an instant hole. Although I gotta say, if you’re using commands in Minecraft, this has to be one of the most boring ways to use your creative mode privileges. It’s quick, it’s painless, It’s easy. But hey,

Some people just want to watch the world burn. And for that matter, you can actually do that. Fill up that exact place of the world with some form of flammable block, we can use wood, we can use wool, whatever, and then just set it ablaze as quick as you want.

And if you’ve got fire tick enabled in a high enough difficulty, that fire’s going to eat through the world ASAP. And better yet, it’s not likely to leave any scraps around. So as long as you don’t put out at fire, it’s going to clean the whole plate for you,

Give you quite the hole, and quite the light show to watch with it. But if you really want a show, while you’re digging that hole, then don’t burn those leaves just yet. Instead, open up your menu and spawn in a couple of raid ravagers, because let me tell you,

Those things are a favorite to eat through every bit of greenery placed before them. Granted, like endermen, they can’t do this with blocks below them, so you have to get them same level, but once they’re on that, they’re going to destroy through it. And better yet, unlike some of the other mobs,

They’ll create these really cool cavern systems as they work their way through the hole. Only bad news is, as soon as they eat through all that foliage, your place is going to be looking deserted, and if you want to crank your desert levels up to the max,

Then why don’t you fill that exact same spot with sand, and then let it block update. This one’s sure to cause some pain to your computer. But when you watch these gravity blocks just fall down through the void, It’s different level of satisfying. With that said, it doesn’t have to be sand,

It could be any form of gravity block. So if you want to stand on top of a shipment of anvils, sending themselves straight down to the void, full send, but also here, don’t make the same mistake that I did, and think that you could fill it up turtle eggs

To do some kind of science project egg drop. For some reason, it doesn’t work that way. It’s not gravity effected. But, with that said, there is a pretty great way to break these eggs. You see, certain hostile mobs will try to break through the eggs.

So if you get some zombie pigmen on deck, and enough for them to do the job, you can actually watch as they eat their way through these eggs and fall themselves down into the void. They won’t stop. They will just take these eggs out into their own demise.

They hate turtles that much, I guess. And while it’s a pretty burning hatred, it’s pretty fun to watch. But we don’t have to dig holes just by filling in blocks. We could also edit the mobs we used to do it. You see, if you take a creeper summon tag like this,

And then beef up the explosion power, you can do so much more damage than that regular thing does in your world. And for all you chaos chasers out there, you can beef up this tag all the way to 127 explosion power. Might I add use this with caution?

When you set one of these off in your world, you’re going to see so many blocks destroyed. And if you want the extra style points, you can also hit it with a lightning bolt to get yourself that charged creeper explosion, which is equal parts disturbing, and oddly symmetrical? Who knew.

Or you don’t get that same kind of geometric beauties with a ghast. Because like the creepers, we can beef up the explosion power on one of these. And when you’re using a super ghast like this, you’re in for a lot more damage to your world, and a lot more fire too.

But for better or worse with the ghast, we don’t have to stop at 127 for explosion power. No, for some reason, this goes up to two billion, one hundred and forty-seven million, four hundred and eighty-three thousand, and six hundred and forty seven explosion power.

I don’t know why it goes even near that high, but when you let one of those loosen your world, yeah, say goodbye to the instance of Minecraft, you’re in for a crash, no questions asked. But if you don’t want to work with a ghast, because, I don’t know,

It just blew up your whole world and then some, you don’t actually have to use one of them to get a fireball. You see, using this summon tag, we’re able to spawn in a fireball, without the ghast, and best part yet, we can choose the direction to launch that off in.

So if you want more versatility and discretion than a ghast would give you, this is the best way to do it. And I’m sure you guessed, but we can beef up that explosion power to the exact same numbers as the ghast. Which again, we might as well just call the computer killer,

Because there’s no way my PC’s surviving through one of these again. and better for us, and our computer’s RAM, we actually are able to do even more explosive projectiles. While they’re not in the base game, turning on this command allows us to enable explosive arrows. Which means that every single arrow

That we shoot off in this world, whether it’s us, or a skeleton trying to hit us, as soon as it makes impact with the ground, it’s going to explode like a primed TNT. And if you want to see the mayhem hit sky high, then try doing this with a multi-shot crossbow.

Because with each one of those arrow rounds you shoot off, you’re gonna get your world begging for mercy. And last but certainly not – why do I hear boss music? That’s because the ender dragon is the surefire way to clear through any blocks you hate in the world.

Whether it’s a mountain ready to be caved, or your friends base, the ender dragon does not care. Put some blocks in its path, and it’s going to eat through them without a problem. What I will say is when you spawn one of these in the overworld,

It’s not always the most reliable in how it attacks. So if you really want to see some blocks get destroyed, and better yet, holes get dug, you got to watch it do its work in the home turf. Sit back and just observe. And with that, crash that subscribe button down below,

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