The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Ancient Debris/Netherite Mining Guide

Netherite items in minecraft 1.18 are certainly  the best in the game however mining it can be   time consuming and dangerous but don’t worry  because you’re watching the ultimate minecraft   netherite mining guide in this video I’m going to  show you everything you need to know to mine this  

Rare item the fastest and safest ways possible  before we jump right in very few of my viewers   are actually subscribed literally less than one  percent so if you enjoy this content be sure   to subscribe to see more of it in the future so  netherite or ancient debris the ore of netherite  

Is most found around Y-15 in a world so that  basically means mining so that your Y level says   14 actually because where your head is which  is about this block here is Y-15 and where  

Your feet are is 14 but we’ll get more into that  a little bit later so when you find yourself some   ancient debris you basically want to smelt it  and this will turn it into netherite scraps now  

They actually smelt very slow so something i would  suggest doing is cooking them in a blast furnace   so they’ll actually cook at a good speed and they  also take twice as much fuel because they take   twice as long to smelt now once you have a netherite scrap that’s certainly not ancient debris  

But in the crafting table if you put down four  netherite scraps and four gold ingots like this   that will give you one netherite ingot which means  that you have to find yourself four pieces of the   ancient debris to get yourself one netherite  ingot now once you have the netherite ingot  

All you need is a diamond tool of any type and  let’s say we want our sword to be upgraded we   would go to the smithing table put in the sword  over here and put in the netherite ingot here  

Combine them like this and you can see that is  now a netherite sword so you wouldn’t like just   craft it like you would normally like in the  crafting grid or something you would actually   just take the netherite ingot and merge it with  a diamond tool and the smithing table also if  

You’re wondering how to craft them the blast  furnace is made simply with three smooth stone   and with five iron ingots just like this and  a furnace in the middle that gives you a blast   furnace and the smithing table which is used to  upgrade diamond tools to netherite is crafted  

Like a crafting table with four oak planks and  then two iron ingots on top and that gives you   the smithing table now netherite spawns the  exact same way in every single biome in the game   but there certainly are certain biomes that are  better to mine in than others so here is the quick  

Way of what biomes are best and which ones are  worst the warped forest is certainly best because   there’s no super tough blocks to mine in it and  also it can’t actually spawn any hostile mobs   so with your tunnels underground you’re never  going to run into any piglins or hoglins or  

Things like that the second best is the nether  waste so just kind of the old another biome   the reason why this is is because again it doesn’t  really spawn that many hostile mobs it can spawn  

Some piglins in rarely but not very much and again  there’s no super difficult blocks to break in it   the soul sand valley comes in at number three  because although it is a nice biome and there’s  

A lot of very soft blocks in it that are easy  to break to find netherite under there are also   skeletons and technically ghasts that can spawn  here so when you’re mining underground you could   technically run into those which could certainly  cause an issue now the crimson forest is actually  

Second worst to mine in the reason why is that the  hoglins can spawn here and they’re quite dangerous   hostile mobs also when you are mining you’re  probably not expecting to have a large hog run  

Up behind you and kill you so it’s quite easy to  be killed by those if they do spawn in your mines   although there aren’t any really difficult  blocks to mine in here so that’s kind of a plus  

And the worst biome to mine netherite in and this  is not a good biome to mine it in at all is the   basalt deltas the reason why is that both basalt  and blackstone that spawn quite frequently in  

This biome also spawn just like this underground  so you will run into it a lot and basically if   you’re trying to mine things out or you’re trying  to explode it either of the mining techniques   these really get in the way and basically make  the mining incredibly inefficient so this is just  

A biome you want to stay away from when trying to  mine netherite so i ran some commands that cleared   out all of the non ore blocks out of this area  around where you’d be mining the ancient debris  

And you will be running into a lot of gold and a  lot of quartz like this but you will notice even   with everything cleared out here you’re seeing  very very little ancient debris why there’s one   piece there one piece there you know let me see  there’s three there three there but overall it’s  

Very very uncommon however even with it being  this uncommon you can still get a very good   amount of it two different ways so i’ve actually  broken this down into two different sections the   best early game way of mining netherite and the  best late game way of mining netherite and which  

Is which may surprise you so some people will say  that mining around Y14 kind of in straight lines   sort of like a strip mine is the best way and  some people say that beds or tnt is the best way  

And actually neither of them are really the  best way because they both have pros and cons   generally tnt can work but it’s just about the  same speed as just mining things out so if you’re  

Late game enough that you have a huge amount  of tnt that’s not going to be that useful so we   basically just have the bed method and the mining  method and the bed method is actually better early  

Game and i’ll tell you why all we have to do for  the bed method is get ourselves some oak planks   purple wool and a couple safety items whereas  if we’re doing strip mine tunnels we need huge   amounts of pickaxe durability with at least  efficiency 2 with netherite efficiency 2 with  

Diamond or efficiency 3 with iron and you really  really burn through these fast like maybe five   minutes and you’ve burnt through these very very  quickly so you need mending and unbreaking and a   whole bunch of enchantments and if you have that  that’s awesome but if you’re early game and don’t  

Have all those amazing tools quite yet but still  want some netherite on the tools that you do have   the early game method is best for you so we’re  going to start with the early game way of mining  

Nethrite which is with beds so basically of course  to get this much wool and wood you just start a   small wool farm just you know get some sheep into  a pen and breed them up and get a bunch of wool  

Something we’re also going to want for safety  precautions is oak doors cobblestone slabs ladders   and of course fire resistance if you have it but  we’re going to assume that we don’t i’m also going   to bring a pickaxe with me because we’re gonna  need that a little bit and i almost forgot you’re  

Also gonna want a gold helmet and some basic iron  armor if you can of course the better the armor   the safer you’re gonna be but some basic iron  armor is good enough and of course the golden  

Helmet is that if you run into some piglins you  won’t be killed by them so of course we’re gonna   go to the best biome we have around to mine in  and i do have a warped forest right here so i’m  

Gonna do this i’m just gonna mine a staircase just  like this going down all the way till it’s at y14   all right so we’re now down at y14 also bringing  a shovel with you for soul sand or gravel is super  

Nice as well so the first thing we’re going to  want to do if you’re on java edition is hold down   f3 and press g that will enable chunk borders  if you’re not on java edition you can just skip  

This step and basically what we’re going to do is  we’re going to mine forward till we find a chunk   border just like this one here then we’re going  to try and find where the main chunk border is  

So you can kind of see there’s one here you can  see it goes kind of four lines out from there   now from this chunk border we’re going to count  four blocks so this block here it doesn’t actually  

Matter which direction from it but from the chunk  border we have this block here then we have one   two then we have three now we have this fourth one  here so now we have these four blocks from there  

I’m going to mine one more and down so now there’s  these four blocks of air here the reason why we’re   going to do that is because netherite tends to  spawn a lot in your chunk borders and for this  

First bed method when we place down the bed  here right at the chunk border and we explode   it from right here so the bed’s explosion will  be the most around chunk borders as possible   now of course once you’re actually down here  you’d actually want this to be at level 14  

Still so you can check that we’re still at  level 14 at which is the number on the left   there and we’d actually be of course you know  placing it out like this but once we’re here  

That we can do is we can just get our pickaxe  and basically mine in a straight line for a bit   just like this you might even get lucky and  find a little bit of the ancient debris here  

But of course that’s not the main thing also  if you run into lava you can just place down   a block like that and then kind of go like this  a good trick is to mine well ahead of yourself  

So you’re kind of at a large distance so if you  do run into lava like that it’s pretty easy just   to block it up and generally the lava you find  would just be one block so it’s quite easy to  

Do of course also if you run into some gold you  can actually just use this to craft the netherite   later anyway so once we’ve mined a tunnel out  like this and we have multiple chunk borders here  

What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna mine down these  chunk borders of course that one already is and   from here we’re just gonna mine this way like that  we’re gonna kind of go over here to the next one  

And basically just mine down this one like this  and down this one like that and we can place down   a bed on either one so we can place down a bed  there and a bed there but do not explode this  

Yet because i have some extra safety precautions  that are really good especially if this is early   game for you so what you can do is you can  place down a cobblestone slab just like that   and then try exploding it what this will do  this will shield you for more of the explosion  

And also it will never put fire where you’re  standing so if we right click on that now   you can see we we were hurt a little bit there’s  no fire where we’re standing as there usually  

Would be there’s even some behind us when we do  this that same thing will happen again now once   we’ve exploded this what we want to do is put down  a second bed so from where we’re standing still  

And of course this is marked out by the slab  we’re gonna go one block over then one block up   and then from here this is one two three four  five and you’ll actually know if you did it  

On this side because it’s at the chunk border  then on here we’ll go like this and then one two   three four five then from there we can put down  the beds just on here like this and on the other  

Side like this then we’ll go back down here in  our kind of our safe little explosion shelter   and we can explode these again just like that and  we didn’t find any ancient debris this time but  

It’s always good just to take a good look around  and also if you do start on fire like that be   careful to eat because of course there’s no way  to put yourself out with water this way so it’s  

Always good just to be aware to break the fire  in your path but anyway there’s no ancient debris   here but that’s fine we can go on to the next  area and keep mining it out and the trick is just  

To kind of make those blast holes at every single  chunk border you find now what the ladders and the   oak doors are for is often times affecting to this  right here often times when mining you’ll run into  

Lava but the awesome thing about a ladder is it  actually blocks lava so what we can do with this   is let’s say we’re down here and we’re doing some  explosions and you have some lava try and land on  

Your head like let’s say there is lava above you  what you can do is you can basically put down a   ladder right at your side because usually both  sides wouldn’t be exploded and then from there  

If you actually shift right here the lava will go  all the way around you and then you can kind of   mine out of that safely same thing with the door  you can place that down and you have like a little  

Safe pocket to be in if there’s lava on top of you  so if you don’t have any fire resistance potions   having some doors and ladders on you are a really  safe but also important way to block lava you can  

Even use them like this to kind of get rid of lava  in your path that’s kind of a fun thing to do and   i just found some ancient debris there which is  cool so i’m gonna go and mine that now i don’t  

Think it needs anything super special i’m pretty  sure it does need to be mined with a diamond   pickaxe so we’ll just mine that and it does take  a decent amount of time to mine i think this is  

Just uh two ancient debris here but generally  you will find about one to three there might   also be some intersecting now whats important  is let’s say we found one ancient debris here   okay we’re going to mine out the ancient debris  but here’s the problem let’s say we mine this out  

Well there might actually be another ancient  debris hidden so what they can actually do is they   can spawn kind of diagonally so there’d be like  one here they’d be kind of blocked up and there  

Could be like one here so it’s always important if  you kind of find one like this to mine it because   you can even have three diagonally so you could  mine this one and completely miss the other ones  

That are above it just like that also once you’ve  been making these explosions for a long time   and you think you want to kind of not keep going  in this direction for a long time what you can do  

Is you can mine this way about one or two chunks  over so let’s see from there i think we’re that   was one chunk so we can go over here until we’re  about over here there’s our chunk border again  

And from there we can go one two three four  and then we’re gonna be uh mining right here   so from here then we can make another tunnel like  this and then we can place our beds again although  

What you can do as well to make this a little bit  more efficient because you’d be exploding kind of   two beds in the same space because there’s the big  explosion there is from here you’re going to want  

To mine out from this there’s four blocks there  that we have the chunk border here then we’re   gonna mine out another time all the way over here  until all the way past here we’ll get to another   chunk border and then from there which is just  gonna be probably right ahead here then right  

From here there we go we’re gonna go again one  two three four and make your second tunnel here   that’ll make it so that you’re not mining out any  places too much and you’ll have a good chance of  

Ancient debris in your second tunnels and this  is nice just to keep track of where you’re mining   so you don’t lose your way and not have like  a super long tunnel and have a really really   large walk to get back also it’s always good  to put down netherrack on the exploded areas  

So you can mine back through your mining system  quite easily instead of having to kind of traverse   through large and dangerous explosions like it is  right here and because of these explosions you’ll   be getting huge amounts of the netherrack so  that’s a really good bonus as well and if you are  

On bedrock edition and you don’t have these chunk  borders what you can do is you can just count 16   blocks between each thing you’re doing so from  there just 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 and  

That’d be the 16th right there and that’s quite  easy as well and of course on the side tunnels if   you want to make multiple tunnels in parallel you  just go over 32 blocks instead of 16 but either  

Way you can get yourself a lot of ancient debris  this way and of course you can get yourself these   kind of cool mined out spaces as well and you  certainly do find a large amount of the nether  

Quartz as well as another gold ore so if you’re  looking for gold and quartz you can get a huge   amount of it this way which is a really big plus  also when you’re mining through here and you have  

All these fire bits you can punch out all the fire  and see if there’s any ancient debris under them   but the chance of there being that is incredibly  small so that’s basically just a waste of time  

It’s certainly better just to go through here  and if you don’t see an ancient debris right away   do not look too much more than a couple seconds  around here because they generally do stick out   quite easily to see one last trick when you’re  mining with the bed method which is to store your  

Beds in wool and planks because it’s a lot more  condensed as beds do not stack then you can just   bring yourself a crafting table like this and you  can turn in a couple stacks of blocks like that  

Into a whole lot of beds just like this which  makes it about 10 times more efficient for storing   the beds especially since you may not have shulker  boxes at this point it certainly is a really good  

Way of keeping your beds very condensed also if  you do want to keep using this bed method late   game no worries it just is only about 80 percent  as efficient as the next method i’m just about  

To show and now for the fastest way of getting  ancient debris which i think is a little bit   late game because you need a lot of pickaxes that  are probably going to be mending and have at least  

Efficiency 2 and generally unbreaking on them as  well so we’re just going to use these efficiency   2 pickaxes because we can you’re also going to  want some fire resistance potions these are going   to be instead of the blocks we were using as a  safety precaution because if we drink the fire  

Resistance potions the fire as well as the lava  will have no danger for us also we gonna need   some golden carrots or just a decent food source  it doesn’t have to be golden carrots and of course  

We’re gonna want a nice shovel on us and although  you technically don’t need it it’s still a good   idea to have some nice armour and also a golden  helmet so that you’re not attacked by the piglins  

And we’re gonna want to make our way down to  y14 for this as well as it is still the best   level for mining ancient debris interestingly  enough we’re also going to want to put on chunk  

Borders with f3 plus g and if you’re on bedrock  edition no worries because you can still just do   this technique without the specific chunk borders  being there so now that we have the chunk borders   here we’re going to drink our fire resistance so  that we’re safe from lava or fire find the chunk  

Border and with our efficiency pickaxe like an  instant mine we’re going to mine out all of the   area around here of course being careful for lava  although it’s not too important because it’s just   going to get in our way a bit we can basically  just mine along chunk borders just like this kind  

Of instant mining we already found some ancient  debris already and i did not plant that there i’m   actually surprised we found it that quickly but  either way you’re basically going to mine along   the trunk orders just like this because basically  the ancient debris does generally spawn the  

Fastest around chunk borders so mining along it  like this is a super quick way of finding ancient   debris we can mine this piece here just like this  as well again the only downside of this is the   fact that it does take a lot of pickaxe durability  those importantly of mending and then unbreaking  

And just good enchantments like that so that you  won’t completely destroy all of your pickaxes but   basically mining along the chunk borders like  this is a super quick way of getting yourself   tons and tons of ancient debris just because you  can break so many blocks so quickly you can even  

Try breaking a wider amount of blocks if you  want but generally it’s just best to go in a   two by two tunnel like this because you’ll uncover  the most and of course if you wanted to kind of a   hiccup or something that’ll stop you from  keeping the mine just something like this  

You can just block it up and keep mining along  the other chunk border kind of branching out along   here the only problem with this method is the fact  that you might end up getting lost in the sort of  

Maze that you’re creating mining around here like  this so it’s always good to remember the way you   came from so you can kind of mine back to it or  find your way back to it over here maybe mark  

Down the coordinates of where your little mining  hub is so that you can find it quite easily also   if you did want more netherrack than you can ever  believe then this is a really good method as well  

Just make sure that you have a good enough pickaxe  to mine it all a large amount of fire resistance   potions of hopefully at least eight minutes and  a lot of time on your hands to mine out all the   netherrack just like this although again this  method is actually about twenty percent faster  

Than the bed method because it does uncover a  lot more blocks at a time and it’s kind of easy   to see where the chunk border is now if you  are on bedrock edition you can basically copy  

This exact same technique except for instead of  looking at chunk borders so what you can just do   is you can basically just find a space and just  kind of mine it out just like this just mining  

Out the entire level all around here like this  quite easily and although this is not quite as   efficient as it would be in java edition you still  will find a lot of ancient debris this way as well  

Because you’re mining the best layers to find  it and of course you see the layer above you   the layer below you and the two layers that you’re  mining out so you actually have a pretty decent   amount of vision for every block you break and  look there’s some more ancient debris there as  

Well so it’s actually pretty quick and literally  just in this demonstration i’ve already mined up   at least four ancient debris which is super  awesome this is certainly the fastest way of   getting this amazing item in game now you have  ancient debris and you’ve smelted it into a  

Netherite ingot but one question remains what can  you actually do with this item don’t click away   quite yet because this amazing item has a lot of  uses some of which really are not that well known  

For instance you can make a lodestone so if you  put chiseled stone bricks in a pattern like this   with one netherite ingot in the center that  makes a lodestone and this amazing item when   right clicked on with a compass basically charges  that compass as well as giving you an achievement  

So basically that compass will always point  towards the lodestone which is super cool   which means that let’s say you have a base that’s  not at 0 0 where the compass normally points   what you can do is you can have that lodestone  at your base and then you can have a compass  

Charged to that so you can go away as far as  you want and that compass will always point to   the coordinates of your base and of course you can  have multiple load stones with multiple compasses  

Making that a very very cool use of netherite  of course we all know that we can upgrade our   armour and our tools into netherite armour and  tools but you might not know actually how much   better that is well we can see by durability  that the netherite does have more durability  

Visible as that it also provides more  armour points and more knockback protection   which means that if i’m hit by something instead  of being knocked back a good amount i’ll just be   knocked back a little bit or basically not  knocked back at all which is really cool  

Also netherite items literally cannot be burnt  in lava we can throw it in lava just like that   and it does not sizzle or burn it literally just  goes right there floating away and will not burn   which is super cool because of course like a  diamond pickaxe or a diamond chest plate will  

Instantly burn like let’s say you die in lava  all of your items as long as they don’t despawn   will never be burnt up by the lava that you fell  in also for a pickaxe it is a bit faster and you  

Can see the durability is decently more on there  as well 2031 durability with a netherite pickaxe   whereas you can only mine 1561 with the diamond  pickaxe and although the netherite pickaxe isn’t   that much faster it still is a really nice upgrade  and of course it does lava proof your tools  

And if you’re like me and put a lot of time and  effort making perfect tools for yourself and   maybe even naming them making them lava proof is  a super cool use and last but not least if you’re   incredibly rich you can actually use netherite  ingots to craft netherite blocks just like this  

You can even use these to make a beacon base if  you have enough of them and you can even power the   beacon with a netherite ingot although that is a  very expensive use of literally the most valuable  

Ingot in the entire game anyway i hope you guys  enjoyed the ultimate netherite mining guide if   you did make sure to comment like subscribe  share and i’ll see in the next video goodbye