Solving the Jungle & Desert Temples! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let’s Play) [S2 E37]

Hello everyone my name is pixelriffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode i figured we could continue looking at minecraft’s generated structures we looked at a couple of them in yesterday’s episode where we looked at shipwrecks and

Drowned ruins we also found an ocean temple which we’ll be back to later this week so i figured why not go out in search of a few of the others we know where a couple of pillager outposts are already but i think we’re going to skip over those and head towards something a

Little bit more exciting in terms of loot so i’m gonna head back towards the east so that we can head towards the desert that we found i know the desert was fairly small and didn’t have a great deal in terms of generated structures but there was one over there and i’m

Hoping that by looking for another desert in the same region we can find another on the way there will be a couple of jungles we can stop off at and hopefully we are going to track down both a jungle temple and a desert temple in this episode and out here about 1500

Blocks to the east we stumble upon our first jungle it is close to midday so we’ve got a little bit of time to look around before we have to sleep for the night and within the jungle itself there might be some in the bamboo groves as

Well but i think within the main body of the jungle is where we’re going to be looking for our jungle temple looking for a jungle temple from the ground though is probably not going to be the best idea since the jungles are dense with foliage there are pitfalls there

Are melons there’s all kinds of stuff going on in a jungle so we’re going to climb up to the highest point in the jungle and take a look around from there because if we can’t see a jungle temple from at the highest point around here then there probably isn’t one and we can

Keep looking further afield this right here is the tallest tree i could find it in our surroundings let’s bump up our render distance a little bit maybe turn the simulation distance down but turn the render distance up to 24 chunks let’s see if my computer starts chugging

At this and maybe a little bit frenzy here and there but we can take out the spyglass and take a look around the horizon we see a couple of pandas down there in the bamboo grove we see a lot of bamboo and i’m not certain if we’re going to see a

Jungle temple from here the jungle continues off in this direction until it becomes a regular forest again over there or is that a more of a sparse jungle i think that might actually still be a sparse jungle biome over there there’s a lot more hills back where we

Came from and there was a room another portal down there in the river but it didn’t have a great deal worth writing home about i don’t see anything over this way as well so we’ll have to spread out in this jungle and comb the area but

What we’re looking for is a temple made out of cobblestone and mossy cobblestone that’s potentially got a bit of loot inside for us let’s get a decent look back at where we are in the jungle i decided to take to the water and lo and behold what do i find but a mossy

Cobblestone structure peeking out from between the trees let’s roll on over there’s also a really nice stone shore area there’s a shipwreck behind us over there and it looks like we have an azalea on the shore over there as well that kind of indicates there’s a lush

Cave in this area so this looks like a fairly nice place we might end up coming back here at some stage but the main thing we need to do is check out this jungle temple we’ll raid the shipwreck afterwards but the jungle temple takes priority i am going to quickly see if i

Have enough iron in here i do thankfully from our previous exploits for a set of shias because we can take those into the jungle temple and they will help us defuse some traps that are going to be in here because yes the jungle temple is a mildly dangerous environment the main

Thing you need to be worried about really is hostile mobs spawning inside of here but if we can find the entrance which i think is actually on the other side around here there we go only just managed to get an entrance it is a little bit dark in here there aren’t any

Naturally spawned light sources in here so we will need to watch our step a little bit now as we come down here you’ll notice there are a couple of leaf blocks in here to our immediate right is a set of switches we’ll deal with those

In a second first of all we’re going to go around the corner here and you’ll notice at the end of the corridor there a dispenser waits to shoot arrows at us cunningly disguised by a set of vines there is some tripwire on the floor here which we can simply break with shears to

Defuse the trap and it breaks into string it’ll make a noise like a bow string twanging but no arrows will have hit the wall alternatively if we want to see this trap in action we can put the tripwire back and walk over it and as you can see an arrow shoots down the

Corridor and since the direction of arrows is a little bit random sometimes that will end up hitting you but don’t be too frightened by the sound of the tripwire you can just break it like so and you can even collect the tripwire hooks if you want to now let’s move on

Around here there is another tripwire laid down right in front of this chest so you need to be a little bit wary of that but in the meantime you can break out some of the redstone that was used to lay the first trap for you and if you

Want to you can shear the vines off the dispenser and grab any arrows inside in case you need those we could of course reach over the tripwire to open up this and that’s actually surprisingly good loot for a jungle temple chest they don’t always have that great stuff in it

But we’ve got seven gold ingots who’ve got an iron horse armor an iron ingot and a little bit of bamboo which is always worth having in case you haven’t found any bamboo out there in the jungle a little bit more redstone dust behind here that’s activated by the tripwire

Here and we’ll probably go into tripwires in future and how they can be used in redstone contraptions but for now this section of the temple doesn’t have much else to look at on the other side of our entrance though is this set of three levers that i mentioned earlier

And i’ll show you how to solve this particular puzzle which will open up a secret area in the temple which has some extra loot inside it if you don’t want to see the solution to that look away now first of all we pull the lever on

The left then we pull the lever on the right then we deactivate the lever on the right and deactivate the lever on the left when you’ve done that you can walk up the stairs over here and a secret compartment has opened up over here thanks to a combination of sticky

Pistons you can’t actually reach the chest without dropping down into this area so we’re going to do that we’re going to open this up and it will have another loot chest sometimes this can even contain diamonds right now all we’ve got is a little bit of gold and

Some bones so nothing much to write home about here the loot inside of these structures is not all that interesting at the best of times however if you are playing on peaceful mode so that you don’t have hostile mobs spawning it is one of the only ways that you can get

Hold of easy sticky pistons because this structure will contain three of them we’ve also got a redstone repeater and a bit of redstone dust in here of course you could find that nice and easily by exploring but it is kind of nice to have the sticky pistons because getting hold

Of slime in a peaceful world is quite difficult you can get it occasionally from pandas that sneeze slime balls out and you can buy it from the wandering trader but slime is a precious commodity on peaceful worlds and honestly just not having to craft three sticky pistons is

Kind of worth the price of admission alone sometimes you’ll find that lever mechanism on the inside is on the left hand side of the entrance instead of on the right hand side in which case you just reverse the order of the levers that we just flipped and the puzzle will

Solve itself the same way so that is the jungle temple conquered there’s not much to it these days they were an older structure that has not really changed since they were first added to the game and so maybe we’ll end up remodeling a jungle temple to have a few more

Interesting components to it but for now that is the jungle temple in its entirety you can break it down for mossy cobblestone if you want a bunch of that you can just tear the whole thing apart if you would like to but that is how basically every jungle temple is solved

But i think this jungle temple is actually in a really nice location it’s got this kind of river valley going off into the jungle in that direction we’ve got a nice lagoon that we head out to over here i think maybe if we grab some obsidian we could turn this into a

Location for a nether portal and that way we’ll come out in the jungle temple every time we want to visit this area and maybe work on some build projects if we choose to build in this jungle in future so i’m going to stash the stuff we got from the jungle temple inside of

My ender chest we’re going to row over to that shipwreck to see if there’s anything over there and then maybe i’ll go back and grab some obsidian from that room nether portal or find a nearby lava lake and we can create a nether portal here inside of the jungle temple

Let’s see what we’ve got here in the shipwreck it’s actually pretty easy to row up into that one and this looks like the type of shipwreck that will have three separate chests in here so we’ve got a couple of emeralds in there as well very nice a couple of

Gold nuggets as well and the final chest of a shipwreck that we didn’t get to cover in yesterday’s episode this one down here just has food in it for the most part it can also contain moss blocks and bits and pieces of paper there’s some coal in here which is going

To be quite useful a couple of poisonous potatoes but sometimes you’ll find things like carrots and potatoes that you can plant in there which can be useful if you haven’t found those if you don’t want to wait to get a zombie kill to get a carrot or a potato like i did

In this series now if we open this chest up we’ll get another buried treasure map from in here so we might as well grab that also an empty map and a little bit more paper too but as we can see from this map the player marker in the bottom

Right hand corner is much smaller than usual which indicates that this map is actually quite far away from our current location i’m not sure exactly how far away and if you know please let me know in the comments because i did a bit of research before this but i could not

Find anything on the minecraft wiki that tells you how far away your player has to be before your marker will show up that small on the map so i’m fairly certain that’s not random i just don’t know exactly how far we can expect to travel before we start to appear as a

Larger player marker indicating that we’re a little bit closer but it does say that we need to go north and a little bit west so let’s see which direction that is oh it’s that way okay good we can continue in this direction then and we’ll come back to a place the

Nether portal in that jungle temple well i’ve road to the other side of that little bay and we are now looking a little bit larger on the map here which seems to indicate that the treasure is going to be nearby we’ve also returned to the desert that we found in the

Previous episode where we were exploring to find cactus so there is our little stripe of badlands and over here on the shore is a structure that a few of you spotted in the last episode here this is a desert well it’s not the most exciting structure in a desert but it does exist

It is there so let’s go and take a look at that so here it is the desert well it’s simply a section of sandstone raised up a little bit with these pillars around it and five water source blocks in the center these can actually be a neat way of finding out that you

Can get infinite water from a single central water source but that’s basically all they do they don’t really have any kind of function they don’t have any loot chests they are just here for decoration i believe they also used to be associated with villages but that’s not really the case anymore since

The village designs changed as of minecraft 1.14 so we have a desert well at least and that’s pretty much all that can be said about that luckily for me over here on this side of the desert i remembered that we had a bunch of lava

Over here so i’m going to turn a bunch of this into obsidian and then we’re going to gather all of this up for nether portals that we can build in the jungle and hopefully in a desert temple there we go perfect we have a nether portal set up here in the jungle temple

We might as well go through to the nether and very quickly see where we end up oh that’s not too bad actually crimson forest ravine by the looks of things i was hoping that it wasn’t going to be a basalt delta so i think we turned that

All right there back over here in the desert the other place i was considering building a nether portal because some people in the comments suggested it was right here on this ship that seems to have just run aground on a sandbar here and been relatively untouched by the

Process it’s hardly a shipwreck it’s more of just a ship i guess so let’s go and raid this and see if there is a room on board for a nether portal because i’m kind of curious to see how much of this has actually been submerged in the sand

And it turns out absolutely nothing this is quite incredible i’ve never seen a shipwreck in such good condition and so we could in theory although it’s a little bit torn up on this side we could in theory turn this into a base of sorts from which to explore further afield

Around here i’m at least gonna sleep on the deck even though it’s made out of slabs so my bed is weirdly hovering above the deck here let’s quickly check the chest at the front here a couple of suspicious stews so the chest at the back here is going to have another

Buried treasure map but i don’t want to pick that up quite yet because a couple of people in the very treasure episode did point out that we could even take one of these maps a little bit further away once we’ve discovered the treasure in this area and potentially it’s not

Going to try and find a new treasure until we open it i want to test that theory so we might as well do that while we’re on the hunt for our desert temple there’s a lot of beach area over here on this savannah so i have a feeling that

We’re probably over there somewhere by those acacia trees yep all the way on the other side over here it looks like and all we need to do is find that magical nine-nine coordinate around here and we should be stumbling upon another treasure and judging by the whole hero

Is a little worried that we’d already dug this up but it seems like the sand here has somehow oh hello wait a second what on earth has happened here is this a ruined nether portal that’s caused this cave in well it doesn’t seem to be it just seems like some magma blocks

Have generated here naturally but does that mean they’ve destroyed the buried treasure chest because i think it should be on this block right here oh unbelievable that seems to be what’s happened because right here that nine nine coordinate we are right on the x of the treasure map it looks like that

Magma block generated there completely covered this because i definitely haven’t been out here digging up buried treasure before that’s for certain well now we know that’s a dud i can bury that treasure map there for basically ever now let’s head back to the shipwreck that might have had a second treasure

Map for us and if we take this treasure map out of here it still says buried treasure map and that’s giving it an id already when we put it in our inventory which i think means that it’s already chosen a location for that so unfortunately there isn’t really a way

Short of maybe putting it in a hopper and transporting it across the ocean or something that it can’t choose a location automatically when you take it out of the chest but we’ll find out if that means anything in a second or two for now we’re gonna grab these iron

Ingots and iron nuggets we might stash the lapis here in the end of chest as well we’ll cross the ocean over here in search of potentially another desert biome and hopefully that will have a desert temple for us once we’re over there we can also see if we can load up

That buried treasure map and search for treasure a little further afield now ocean biomes count among the biomes which are linked by temperatures so there is every chance there we go as we cross the ocean that we end up in some other warm biomes and it looks like we

Do have a little ridge of desert there there’s at least one or two cacti there before it turns back into a jungle there’s also i’m going to swing around for this as well a ruined portal here in the water which looks like it has three

Blocks of gold so i might as well grab all of those while i can figured i might as well since we’re on a bit of a structure hunting kick here and we’ve got efficiency and protection gold stuff nothing to really worry about what i was really hoping for though was an area

Where the desert continued into a larger landmass because right now these little strips of desert aren’t really large enough to spawn at their own desert temples another shipwreck kind of overturned over there in the water but not really something i’m looking for right now well that’s incredibly cool

Still isn’t the desert temple though and this just damn the valley from that is a pretty incredible location for a nether portal you’ll also notice that this mountain which i believe has a stony peak biome up there also contains a really large deposit of calcite so if you’re having trouble finding that in

Geodes down underneath the ground if you’re kind of struggling to find more stuff to build with and you wanted lots more calcite look for the taller mountain biomes in warmer areas that have the stony peaks instead of frozen peaks and you’ll find large deposits of calcite hidden amongst the stone or

Sometimes just in plain view like that one is every warm biome i find in this world seems to be a jungle but there is another jungle temple right here so i figure we might as well raid this one too we can actually get in here see if

The lever mechanism is on this side which it is okay so let’s use this combination this time and there we go that burial chamber on the side here should be open we’ve got a little bit more gold from there that’s not too bad actually i think we’ve had

Decent luck so far it occurs to me that while we’re several thousand blocks out i might as well check this buried treasure map and yes it does look like it’s leading to the same place so unfortunately as soon as we took it out of the chest that buried treasure map

Was not really going to be useful anymore let’s see if tripping these traps down here is gonna lead to anything else that’s a little bit more gold in fact i think both of those chests might have been the same thanks to some sort of fluke of minecraft’s

Loot generation hey not to worry at least we’ve raided another jungle temple in this video and maybe after the next cut there’ll be a desert temple waiting for us i have never been so happy to see a landmass in this game oh my goodness i have traveled about four thousand blocks

In the opposite direction from where that jungle temple was we’ve gone south all the way and finally i have found a desert larger than a postage stamp and i’m very happy about that fact i don’t know if it’s got a jungle temple yet but i wanted to bring you folks back in so

You could see what a real desert looks like because finally finally we have ourselves something resembling a desert it might even have a desert village in it it is large enough at least to sustain some sort of civilization and oh i’m so glad we’re gonna need a lot of sand throughout the

Series later as well not just for stuff like glass which you can actually get by trading with librarians and i prefer to do that because sand can be used to craft tnt it can be used to make concrete we’ve got a whole bunch of other stuff we can do with sand so we’re

Gonna need a decent stockpile of it from somewhere and while i usually go out quite far to mine out an entire desert for sand later in a world’s lifespan i have a feeling that this is one of the closer deserts to my base at 3 000

Blocks on both the x and z axes so hopefully it’s got a desert temple so we can at least talk about that today but if not we might have to go and find yet another desert look at this though the landscape is really interesting and we

Have a little bit of a swamp valley going on in there that’s kind of cool the terrain generation has gotten very extreme in places and it looks like that’s even affected the village over there you can see that iron golem there’s a cat standing over there in the

Distance there’s some hay bales over there and they’re all on this weird outcropping there might even be some stuff generating underneath the overhang there so let’s go and take a quick look at that because we haven’t had a chance to look at a desert village until now

Honestly i’m just super happy we found this place it’s a little bit ugly in spots look at these weird stone outcroppings and stuff like that it’s a very very strange world generation that we’ve ended up with but man am i happy to see at least some structures in a

Desert that’s a little bit larger than my own thumb let’s take a look over here we got some hay bales piled up over here that we could snag if we need a little bit of trading material or a few other building blocks or just some bread if we

Wanted to because i have been traveling for a while i might be running a little low on food the architecture of this desert village has been torn asunder by the world generation and it looks like we’ll have to climb up this hill here before we even get to the village proper

And get to see other villages yep underneath the overhang here we have a couple of houses and this guy appears to be stuck in the ceiling so i’m gonna steal his bed for the night because it’s getting dark outside and you’ll notice that these villagers have completely different outfits from the ones we’ve

Encountered before these are the desert villagers looks like at least one of them is a cartographer the iron golem is marching around up here there’s a couple of floating sandstone blocks and things like that but the majority of this village is just confused with where everything is and i don’t think there

Are that many workstations around for people to work at either is that guy a leatherworker i think he’s a leather worker there’s so many weird positions for the houses up here but we’ve reached the top of the village at least for the moment and maybe it could be a fun

Project to come back to this village in future and level it out a little bit and if while we take down all of the sand and sandstone from the surrounding area turn this into a village that at least looks habitable but that’s not really what we’re here for today so i’m going

To take the coordinates just in case and be on my merry way and in case you wanted to look at what a better desert village looks like there’s one on the opposite side of the hill i feel like these people drew the short straw in terms of where to settle down

But luckily for me this village looks like it expands out in this direction as well let’s wander over and see if we can find a desert temple oh no desert temple yet but something potentially just as good right over there as you see the stretch of red sand

And a little bit of naturally generated terracotta indicates that right there on the edge of this hillside a badlands biome has started to form we saw the red sand before well this is really what it’s supposed to look like although we don’t have much more of the badlands

Generation around here so it seems like potentially we could be losing out on what would have been a mesa otherwise yeah it looks like we don’t get much more than that unfortunately well the badlands continues to be even rarer than the desert and we’ve only just found the

Desert another desert well here as well there is even as if to taunt me a jungle temple right on the edge of where the desert biome turns into a jungle but directly opposite that i see the towers and the pyramid of a familiar structure and over there we even have a

Little bit more of the badlands generation so this area here is what i’ve been looking for this entire time and look at that jungle badlands combo look at the gradient in the leaves oh my goodness anyway the desert temple i’ve been talking about for the longest time

Is finally over here and wouldn’t you know it there’s yet another desert village over there which is fantastic placement this is definitely an area where i want to place a nether portal because we all want to come back here for a variety of things a jungle temple

Right there a badlands right here and a desert temple here well let’s dig on in you’ll find these desert temples in a variety of places in a desert as long as you find a large enough area and the first thing we need to do once we step

Inside is just light up the corners just in case because unlike the jungle temple the desert temple has one very distinct area of loot and it’s down here if we dig down through this you’ll find that we end up in a kind of burial chamber area with four chests surrounding a

Pressure plate and that is the reason you do not want to dig through the very central piece of terracotta there the pattern on the floor is a little bit of a trap and we know what happens if you dig straight down you could end up falling into something potentially very

Dangerous in this case we’re going to remove the pressure plate and i’ll dig out the floor because underneath here is a whole bunch of tnt and we could have exploded that if we ended up jumping on that pressure plate in the center potentially detonating us losing all of

Our items and the loot from these four chests so that is most definitely something you want to avoid i’m gonna throw down my ender chest so that we can throw a bit more stuff in here including the tnt and i think i’ll throw the obsidian in there for the moment we’ll

Reclaim that in a second once we’re ready to make our nether portal now i’ve given myself a little bit more room i can throw the rest of the tnt in there as well let’s rebuild this floor and let’s see what’s in each of these chests

Well for a start we’re gonna get a few loot items just your standard junk your gun powder a few bones we’ve got a saddle which ain’t bad if you haven’t done a lot of fishing in this next chest we have a diamond horse armor so the

Loot is getting a little bit better in that one we’ve got some iron ingots here and another diamond horse armor so we might as well grab those along with maybe we’ll collect the bones up and in this one finally we get something good we have an enchanted book with just

Projectile protection but much like other enchanted book loot these can be basically any enchantments including treasure enchantments like frostwalker and mending the only one it cannot be is soul speed because i’m pretty sure you can only get that traded to you by piglins so as far as loot goes this

Wasn’t all that great i’m gonna grab all of the bones and take them with me because it’s always nice to have a decent supply of bone meal and we haven’t got a fully automated farm for that yet but that’s more or less it for this desert temple we could blow the

Entire thing up with tnt now if we wanted to but i’m gonna settle for just hobbling my way out of here and i think we’ll set up another nether portal here just so we can return to this desert temple at any time because it links to

The rest of this desert and i will definitely want to come back here for like i said the village over there a couple of other village projects in the area loads of sand and this badlands biomes are the only place in the world you will find red sand except for maybe

Occasionally the inventory of a wandering trader but even then it’s kind of random whether or not he turns up with that which means badlands biomes are one of your only ways of turning red sand into red sandstone which is kind of an interesting building block if you

Want to go with a very orange color palette of course there are some other things around here that we could get hold of if we wanted more building materials like all of the terracotta around here the majority of this is just regular terracotta which you’ll find is an earthy kind of orangey-brown color

But there are striations of different colors of terracotta as well and terracotta much like wool is a material that can be dyed different colors so you’ll find some naturally generating gray and white terracotta over here although i can’t pick all of it up right now because my inventory is looking a

Little bit full further up there you’ll see orange you’ll see brown you’ll even find stripes of red and yellow in some of the larger badlands biomes there are a lot of different badlands of variations that can occur naturally it’s just that right now we don’t have a

Great deal of them around here but don’t worry we’ll be back to talk about badlands biomes another time and hopefully we’ll be able to find a few more variations on them because there’s some pretty spectacular terrain generation out there for now i’m going to make good on what i said i was going

To do and we’re going to set up a nether portal right here and i’m going to make this a three by three nether portal always good when you misplace obsidian so i’ll just grab two more obsidian blocks from the ender chest we’ll light this portal and let’s see where we end

Up this time okay okay near the waists looks like relatively high up and immediately found a ghast over there hiding under the overhang all right well we’ll uh pop back through but at least now we know where we are and i thought it was getting dark outside turns out

It’s just raining in all the biomes where it can actually rain the desert not being one of those well folks finally we have found ourselves the desert temple and you know what i think we’re probably going to wrap up the episode here i think i’ll spend a bit of

Time though linking these nether portals from the jungle temple and the desert temple back to my central area so we’ll at least know that we have a safe path out there and i’ll probably end up doing that on a live stream relatively soon so keep your eyes peeled for that and in

The meantime thank you so much for watching this episode of the minecraft survival guide my name has been pixarious don’t forget to leave a like on this video if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and i’ll see you folks soon take care bye for now you