The Secret Tunnel | Ep. 15 | Minecraft Empires 1.17

[UPBEAT INTRO MUSIC] Hey guys, what’s up, LDShadowLady here, and welcome back to Empires. Where I have some good news, and some bad news. The good news is that Mythical Sausage is so happy we killed the ender dragon, that he’s left a wonderful gift. How very kind.

But the bad news is, in that killing the dragon we inadvertently empowered a certain demon, and now that very demon is watching me from afar. Look at this. The eye of Xornorth has appeared. Right on top of my sugarcane farm. So needless to say, I will not be collecting any sugarcane today.

In fact, now I’m starting to feel a little bit awkward, that Xornorth is watching me. So today I’m going to go into hiding, and I’m going to work on a secret underground project. You know they say, “An empire is only as strong as its allies”.

And that’s why I’ve been working so hard to forge some strong alliances. With my marriage to King Joel of Mezalea and my undying loyalty to the CodFather, all I’m missing now is a strong connection to my southern ally, Katherine of the Overgrown. She is after all so far away, but I have an

Idea to fix that. A secret underground railroad. And I thought a great place to start this journey, would be from her embassy. So I’m going to ruin this beautiful floor so that we can dig down. And down here at level 29, I’m going to start digging.

And we’ll just see how long it takes me to reach Katherine’s empire. Oh…my gosh. That is a ravine. And those are DIAMONDS! [GASPS] I’m going in. [MONOTONE SCREAM] Wow, I’ve never seen so many diamonds in one place. Today is my lucky day. Now I just need to get back over there, without dying.

[CREEPER DYING] [ZOMBIE DYING] Sorry about that, just a little detour for diamonds. I’m now back on track, heading for Katherine’s empire. Okay, almost there. Ah ha! Right here. Now we just need to go up, and we have arrived! And just beyond all that corruption there, is Katherine’s kingdom.

So now I just need to make enough rails to travel the 1800 blocks. It is a good job that Mythical Sausage gifted me a lot of iron. Because I’m going to need it all. For now, I just need to place all these rails, along this rather boring track. Okay, here it is!

I used the optimal spacing of one powered rail every 38 rails. And now my mine cart should travel at a perfectly consistent speed. Ah yes. [ARROW HITTING WALL] Oh no! Okay, so many the tunnel has a few issues, but the mine cart speed is perfect.

So now we can move onto the next phase. I want to decorate some sections of the tunnel, to be really interesting, so that this journey is an experience. and I’ve been inspired by a certain part of the tunnel down here, where I broke through a geode, and I thought it was beautiful.

So I want to expand this, and I just had a brilliant idea for how to make a huge hole. TNT. The answer is TNT. And I actually have rather a large supply of TNT somehow. Don’t ask me how I got my hands on all this. Because I don’t want to talk about it.

Now I’m a little nervous that this is going to go horribly wrong, so let’s clear out this section of the track, and start exploding things. [EXPLOSION] Oh wow, there’s already a cave here. [MORE EXPLOSIONS] So now, I have to build my very own giant geode.

So I’m just going to start covering all of the surfaces, in amethyst. Did you know that it takes thousands of years for geodes to form? And I’m starting to realise why it takes so long. Ta da! My giant geode is complete. But I think my mine cart rail needs an upgrade,

So I have brought some materials, I thought these spruce planks would complement the amethyst nicely. And boy was I right. Why this looks positively majestic. And now were the tunnel breaks into the geode, I’m going to do some calcite, and some basalt, for a nice transition from the tunnel into the geode.

Just like a natural geode. So now this is my favourite part of the tunnel, but that’s not really fair on the rest of the tunnel. So I’m going to add in some more fun sections, with some different themes. And back this way, since this is closer to my

House and here we’re technically in the ocean, I thought it would be fun to make a flooded tunnel. So I’m going to widen out the tunnel, and flood it with water. Now this still looks a little bit boring, but do not fear, the aquatic plants are here.

To add a little spice to my flooded tunnel. Okay now it is looking pretty fabulous, and the flooded section actually reaches back to this ravine, where I found all of those diamonds. So I think we should leave the ravine as a feature, and bridge across in a cool way.

So once again I will use my spruce wood, to spruce this bridge up. And we can cross the ravine in style. Ta da! Now onto the next section, beyond the geode, since this is a tunnel to the Overgrown, I thought it would be cool to a section that is overgrown.

So let’s expand the tunnel once more… oh no… no, not more flooding! No! We’re done with the flooded section. No more! Oh my gosh. And that’s what you get for tunnelling through the ocean. [DISPLEASED GROANING] Oh my gosh. There are so many flooded caves around here, I cannot work under these conditions.

I need a sponge! Excuse me while I go on a small detour for a sponge. So I took a quick little trip to the local ocean monument, where I was hoping to find a secret sponge room. SPONGES, SPONGES! YES! These are the sponges I want. But I need to kill the guardians first.

And obviously, since I’m such a minecraft professional, I had everything completely under control. Naughty man! Until I lost control and this happened. ♪ I don’t want to die in here ♪ Oh shoot, what? No I don’t want to die alone. [CUT OFF SCREAMING] Okay, take two, it’s the remix.

This time I’m not going to die. [EXPLOSION] Ah ha! I see you there. Yes! Now I have all the sponge a girl could ever need. Not that a girl usually needs much sponge. But this one does. Okay so maybe I almost died, no wait, I did die, trying to get these sponges.

But hopefully this makes me life a lot easier. Oh no… okay, update… my life is still difficult. Now that I have finally cleared out this hallway, it’s time to make it look overgrown. So my plan now is to use the skills I learnt on who wants to be a mossillianaire,

And moss this place up. So rather annoyingly, it won’t change the cobblestone into moss, so I’ll have to do that myself. Which means I’m going to need a lot more moss. But luckily, Joel turned up with an emergency moss delivery.

Okay now this place is looking nice and overgrown, it’s time to add some details. So first of all, we shall replace these ugly torches with a more natural glow berry. So I’m going to plant these on the side, and let them grow. Nice and long.

And now this looks so much more majestic, but now it’s looking too green. So in this first section here, I’m just going to plant loads of alliums. To bring some colour. And then I’m going to transition, into a tulip section, with some white and pink tulips.

And then from the tulips, we’ll transition into some blue flowers. And finally, the mushroom area. With lots of little mushrooms. And I kind of like how this coal ore vein cuts through the tunnel here. It looks very natural, good job nature, you’ve done it again. But now let’s move onto something completely different,

As this next tunnel will be desert themed. So first, I must carve the way. It is done. And now to transform this place. And for that I’m going to need a lot of sandstone. So I flew over to the nearest desert and I started shaving the top off the terrain,

Leaving it nice and neat, unlike the maniac who created this mess. Clearly some of the empire rulers around here are heathens. But don’t worry, I’m not one of those. [SURPRISED YELL] Hello…what ugly blocks you have today. Begone! Oh I do need those leads though. Sorry! Oh gosh, am I the bag guy?

I don’t know! Well back to my empire, under the watchful gaze of Xornorth. And straight underground to hide from the watchful gaze of Xornorth. Now we just need to turn all this sandstone into chiselled bricks. And now I will dedicate the next few hours of my life to this repeating pattern.

Because I love minecraft. Oh bloody hell! Something really bad has happened. And this can only end one way. I’m so sorry. Here, you can play with my sandstone while you die. Oh gosh! Get him out. Let him out, let him out! Get out of there. Go on, get out. Yes… YES!

He lives… NO! Why do you choose death? Get out! Oh, thank goodness. I hope that never happens again. Oh it’s blooming happened again! I swear dolphins have a death wish. This is taking far too long. But I have a little idea. If Joel can create a game show based around

Making moss, I think I can make my own game show. Okay boys, please follow me down. Joel: Okay. Scott: Oh. Welcome, thank you for coming to my game show. “Who wants to be a tunnel builder?” Joel: Oh for goodness sake. Scott: Oh…

Yeah, the two of you will be competing for the ultimate prize. Scott: What’s the prize? Joel: Which is? The ultimate prize. So as you can see we’re in the tunnel building arena right now. Joel: I feel like you have lied to use and are making us do work.

No, this is a game show! Where there will only be one winner. Okay so as you can see, there is a pattern repeating along the walls, and you guys need to each pick a side and then race to see who build your pattern to the end the fastest. Here are all the blocks.

Here’s your stone cutter. And build that way. GO BUILDING! Oh they’re digging. What efficiency do you have Joel? Joel: Five Lizzie: And Scott what do you have? Scott: Five Joel: Gravel?! Lizzie: Oh no. Joel: Oh I’ve chosen the wrong side! Eventually though the mining stopped and the real challenge began. The block placing.

Each of them choosing a slightly different method, but as you know there can only be one winning, in “Who wants to be a tunnel builder?”. Joel: Erm, I have finished. Congratulations. Scott: Oh my goodness, he did it. It’s perfect. Joel: What do I win Lizzie? The ultimate…prize… is… it is these spiders eyes.

Ta da! Joel: This is the worst prize I have ever seen in my life. Scott: Joel starts taking down the sandstone walls. NO NO NO! MY WALLS! I worked so hard to trick you guys here. [SCOTT AND JOEL CHUCKLE] Scott: How do we get out? How do I go home?

The desert tunnel is complete. And I now officially hate this tunnel and want to escape. So now my secret tunnel has four themed sections. I’m going to need some suggestions for how to decorate the rest of this tunnel. So please leave any ideas in the comments below.

Don’t forget to leave a like, and I will see you next time. [UPBEAT OUTRO MUSIC]