The Hardest Minecraft Challenge? (One Block Vanilla Episode 1)

In case you’ve played minecraft in the last 10 years there’s a good chance that you know what a skyblock is every single minecraft youtuber and their uncle has the skyblock series on their channel it’s been done so much that it is no longer interesting nor challenging so

How do we make it more interesting and a lot more challenging you ask this is where i’m gonna introduce impossible skyblock we start with the single block of grass and yeah that’s pretty much it then we have to see how far we can make it you might think that the series would be

Over then in there but let me tell you that almost all items in minecraft are obtainable starting from this very real simple and island how it works so there’s a couple of ways that we can start to make progress here in the beginning uh the method that i’m gonna go for is

To get a zombie to spawn and hopefully get an iron shovel from it so when it eventually begins snowing we can pick up snowballs and build snow blocks and that way we can expand our island um for some place to spawn however we need to be inside the despawn sphere of 128 blocks

Um but we need to be further away than 24 blocks of the spawning space and the only spawning space we have is this single block here so i basically need to jump down but i can’t go over negative 188 and otherwise the map will despawn again

So now i’m going to show you a clip of what happens when you jump off the island with full hp And as you can see when we hit the void border at a y level of -128 we take our first tick of damage and this is good we want to die in this tick but however we still have eight health left and that means that we die at a

Wide level of minus 278 and that is not good that means that the zombie or whatever mop would have spawned would have despawned by the time that actually greece born and get back to the island so basically what we want to do is we want to starve ourselves until we only have

A few hearts left preferably like two or even less and then jump off so we die in the first tick of the void border instead of a lot longer down so now that i’ve Jumped for like 20 minutes i finally don’t have any more hunger i’m beginning to die because we play on hard mode it should be noted that i can actually die from hunger so i should be very accurate with lining up the the moment i’m going to die with the moon’s face

That’s two so i wanted to take the next stick i could jump all right let’s see okay and we didn’t get a big chance that we don’t get anything but there is a small chance that we get something i’ll start jumping again and then come back for him that’s more interesting oh my

Dude that scared the [ __ ] out of me damn i don’t even know how many attempts that took and it wasn’t even a zombie it’s kind of sad all right so let’s talk a bit about what happened there um so i got a creeper after 18 attempts and um

18 attempts of 20 minutes each is around six hours of jumping up and down for a single mob um in my testing world with the same conditions i found about a fourth of them upset spawn are zombies and five percent of those zombies according to the wiki real weapons and two-thirds of those

Have an iron shovel and then 8.5 percent of those it drops that iron shovel and even if i get it it has no guarantee of having enough durability to make me a snow block i could in my testing the earth trouble i got only had six durability which is not enough so

I’m gonna have to optimize this method way more if we want to continue the series because it’s going to take me on average 8 424 hours to get a single iron shovel on average if we continue with this method okay so i want to explain real quick

Here in my test world what uh what i’m gonna do to save a lot of time so i’m gonna begin using backups to my advantage you might say that this is cheating but it is a part of the game i think it’s fair to use especially in challenges like these

Where i don’t want to finish when i’m 40. um so basically what i’m gonna do is i’m gonna jump um i’m gonna start myself um down to two hp i’m gonna line that up with the time of day so that it’s about to become day and then i’m gonna jump off the block

And before um i’m 24 blocks away from the block so there hasn’t spawned anything i’m gonna make a backup of that world and i’m gonna gonna keep loading that world until i get something um something to spawn in here and then um when i get something to spawn on here

Preferably a zombie with an iron shovel i’m gonna have to push it out onto the um onto the edge uh i can show you real quick here um so if i push it over here into the corner um okay so if i place it over here in the corner and i give myself

Survival mode it shouldn’t be able to yeah so as you can see it can’t really pathfind to me even though we’re standing on the same block and that’s because the distance between the two corners of the block is um square root of two blocks so um around one two four and it thinks

It can reach me so it won’t try to pathfind further to me but i’m actually just outside of its reach i’m gonna have to push it over here in that corner and then stand on this corner myself and then then i’m just gonna have to uh make a backup of that world and

Just keep killing it until i get an iron shovel with a decent amount of durability preferably over 50. all right wish me good luck so in that clip i forgot to mention that we can’t actually hit the zombie um at least not for any of the hits

Except the last one because that will push it off the bug into the void so we basically have to put down that in that position and then wait for the sunlight to damage it down to low enough hp that a crit from me can kill it

So i’ll have to let the sunlight tick it 19 times and then finish it over to crit myself 75 years later oh my god dude i am the best player in the entire world you have no [ __ ] idea how long that took oh my god second try with one with the trouble as

Well i failed the first one two hours later i oh my god dude that is perfect 1 30 out oh my god let’s go so that is actually pretty crazy that i got this good of a shovel usually they have way less in my testing i got a shovel with zero

Out of 250 durability and it wasn’t even broken but over half i think i’ll take that the chance of getting that is very slim slim to none so what can we use this shovel for i’ve already told you but pain you know now we just have to wait for

For the snow to come and then we can start building some snow blocks all right i’ll tell you when that happens see you in a bit so as i just showed um now that i have items i can’t just needlessly kill myself anymore i have to be careful and

Drop my items really fast and then jump down if i want to do that again not that i have any real reason to really do that right now but anyways also it’s not snowing so i’m just waiting for some snow books for now and then i wasn’t even recording but

We finally have our second snow block let’s go so apparently i’m very bad at getting these in video but it’s mainly because i’m just afk waiting watching some youtube some netflix can’t really do anything actually while waiting for snow to form but um that’s our third and yep almost at the goal

All right so it just started snowing again and um we finally have a fourth no layer and i’m pretty sure you all know what this means oh nice another one so we should just really matter what direction we do it in we can now place a second block so um

If you guys want the world tour just uh let me know i know it’s gonna maybe take a bit of a while to do it but i’m definitely up for uh giving you guys a world tour if you want to see it all but uh yeah good progress we already doubled the

The size of our island all right i’ll come back later also this means that now that we have two blocks it should speed it up by a factor of two so we should get some snow blocks faster alright so it actually goes pretty fast to get four new i’ll just stop snowing but

Hopefully it’ll start snowing soon again so it’s been a few hours since the last clap and i’ve still just begun collecting snow and basically just going on one end and then down the other one and waiting until snow block spawns and every four snowballs i have i extend the island by one

It goes pretty quick as you can see it um so let’s talk about what i’m trying to accomplish here so i’m trying to make this um bridge or whatever you call it like at least um 24 blocks long so i could stand down at one end and have mobs spawn

At the other end as much fun as it was uh repeatedly killing myself i think this is a maybe a better choice in the long run so um yeah that’s the that’s the current plan at least um so i guess i’ll uh i’ll talk to you when my pickaxe finally breaks so yeah

So i didn’t get it on recording but basically my um as you can see i don’t have mine shovel anymore it broke and we got a total of 130 snow blocks which means that we have a 28 snow blocks and no wait 32 snoop blocks and two extra snowballs so um

I can’t really uh make any more progress until it turns until this sun goes over then it’s night time again we can start seeing if i can get some spawns so yeah well there’s no issues this to me now all right i’ll come back later

So i’ve been afk here for a bit and it has finally turned night time and i don’t know if you guys have seen the same thing that i mean but there’s a skelly boy here and oh [ __ ] well that was [ __ ] stupid okay well um it works we can now get mobs without

Killing those i don’t know why i didn’t think about this before but i’ve just died and a lot of the mobs are really hard to kill on a single line especially skeletons because there’s no real way you can you can um avoid the arrows since we don’t have any armor or nothing

I’m gonna end up looking like a pocky pine when i’m done with this so i’m going to talk a bit about what the the current plan is and um the current plan is basically just to uh yeah i know i didn’t want to but we have to kill ourselves again

But it does speed it up a bit until we can get the next mop that we want so there are two mobs we want if we can either either kill the strays or kill the skeletons for bow and arrow that means that we can start killing um killing other mobs much easier

Or if we could get another iron shovel that would be the best because then i can make a dedicated spawn killing setup or a mod killing setup and so that’s the current plan so i just want to make a quick video because the theme that hey

But as you saw that i have taken back out of the world so don’t worry i do did find another um zombie so i’m gonna try and kill push all the other mobs down and hopefully isolate that one and then oh which and then then we can try and get another iron

Shovel alright hey i’m gonna make it back up here um what’s what what dude that is probably the luckiest i’m going to save this world before i so um my shovel is almost that and um you can see i’m building a little bit of a structure over here and then

Well i think you can guess what it is but i’m trying to build them some sort of mob spawn at least and if you have a disbelief you’re gonna know i’m so careful with this because um your insta mine snowblocks financial nice so as you can see three out of four monsters

Where they’re supposed to but afraid that was going to shoot me in its way then um yeah i just stand here and if there’s no some pee oh no skeleton i’m gonna drop my items and make them despawn and try again that’s the method so this should be the ufk spot all right

So it actually didn’t even take that long before this is like maybe like 30 seconds away from the last clip i already found two with the weapon one had a sword and this one has a shovel so um it works out so i’m just gonna keep collecting some dude

So i’m just gonna keep collecting some troubles and hopefully uh oh no i’m gonna make it back up now see ya so i’m sitting here building and building out the island um for the next episode but i just wanted to include this i looked over here and i saw this rapid and

I went closer and then i saw there was a fox then i went all the way back and as you can see there’s a cow i had no idea it was this consistent to spawn passive mobs but apparently it is that is actually crazy luckily it’s not a sheep

Ain’t no oh my god there’s more here dude what the hell i’m gonna have to read up a bit about i thought it was way harder to get passive mobstups gone i thought i was gonna have to build out this huge thing i thought this just want as well

Dude that is actually crazy dude i’m fully flabbergasted that is this easy to get positive mobs for spawn i thought it was way harder all right that’s it so real quick just so you can see how many mobsters spawn um see if you don’t think this is a pretty

Huge amount you can see the other side is pretty decently filled with mobs i don’t think we lost the fox over there too bad i think there’s someone with an iron shovel ain’t no way i’m gonna get that is that online shuttle i can’t really tell Yeah so uh see what the nights are looking like also we lost one of our oh i have a bone i could actually tame him oh that actually huge dude that is pretty crazy he is 100 not gonna survive but that is what it is that is crazy

Dude i’m gonna make a safe spot for this guy i didn’t even realize i could tame him so just so you can see how i get my stuff i’m dropping all these things here jumping down so that everything despawns then when everything is despawned i

Guess i can waste a few bucks on this guy i’m not gonna risk this it’s just a loot fest i’m gonna have to kill this guy i think he looks oh [ __ ] this is not a fox oh i mean this is not a wall this is actually a box

That is crazy this is exactly why i’m extending the island this is um the reason why so in 1.18 they changed it so that foxes can now spawn on top of snowblocks which is pretty perfect for this challenge outside and um foxes have a very rare chance of

Having an emerald in their mouth when they spawn um as you can see this one does not i think it’s a uh um i think it’s a one percent chance i think it’s a 20 chance of them having an item in their mouth and when they spawn

With an item in their mouth it has a five percent chance of uh being an emerald so i think that works out to being around um around one percent chance and yeah it’s pretty crazy that we’re getting all of these uh mops all over them all right i’ll see you later like literally

One second after i just closed the last clip i saw that there is a fox here and i think there might even be a box behind that as well dude i thought that passive maps were way harder to spawn no what was that did the [ __ ] just commit suicide

Why would you do such a thing yeah so no emerald sadly it’s what it is you that is so crazy i’m so i fully fletched for it would be way harder and you’d have to have way more spawning spaces to be able to get these it’s just so crazy to me scooty [ __ ]

How did that happen did the wolf kill it dude that is so huge i thought it was a slime ball damn so i have a bit of a slime trap as you can see here so let’s talk a bit about what the next step in our plan is um

I think on average right now i average around 90 snow blocks an hour over the past few hours so um it’s not that efficient way and i need like actually haven’t done the math but i could imagine a couple thousand blocks to fill this in the only reason to build this was not

Only because of the foxes it’s also because of our next step now that we have the emerald you can probably guess what it is but we want to um to get a wandering trader and um i mean we might as well get some more because it actually has a couple of

Useful traits to us and since the emeralds were so easy to get i’m still so surprised by the fact that these foxes just spawn so incredibly fast all so i am actually ended up dying because i was afking for a bit too long um spider got to me i don’t even know how

Oh i see this there used to be a gap here but uh this was getting pushed down by other zombies so i expanded the platform and i must have filled in the gap I mean it’s uh it’s a decently big setback but it’s not that bad so i was supposed to be lowering the iron shovels with the zambian reinforced reinforcement method that i showed before but uh something a bit more important has just come up so as you can see this uh

These wolves have been to get over here i have no idea why but this one does have an emerald so i don’t really know how to go about this because i’m afraid if i start hitting it it’ll just run away but i guess that’s pretty much my only chance isn’t it

What if i do this do don’t jump off please yes dude that is so huge all right okay now i’d like to get a and what i’m gonna do i’m gonna put these items here quick and then i’m gonna jump down here so all the monsters will despawn real quick

Right i think that’s a decent uh decent place to end the episode and um if you enjoyed be sure to leave a like it’d be really cool if we could have like 10 likes or something in my first video so uh yeah thanks for watching i’m gonna be grinding

This a lot over the next few weeks so um let’s see if we can get some wood maybe even stone the next episode but probably just wood so i’m going to focus on getting a wandering trailer next time and then giving him this green thing imagine if it fell down there

Alright i’ll see you guys later