TheRaidingViking – Minecraft HARDCORE Ep 03 OVERPOWERED Squid farm!

Hmm hey everybody so it turns out to be one of those episodes I was planning a project and then I quickly discovered I need too many materials for that project and yeah so I started another one need too many materials for that project as well so yeah it’s one of those episodes but

Yeah as you can see behind me I’m slowly getting some stuff together I’m doing the old stick for emeralds thing combined with uh sweet berries for Emerald there you go they’re disappearing so yeah the project that I eventually landed on making for today is that’s

Quite fun because I need a lot of black dye I found the perfect location as well it’s East which is that way and I flew off that way for a couple of times mistakenly and so I’ve only got one rocket left now as you can see I’m already starting to get the

Villagers together with some useful trades you know they’re not the best trades but I’m I’m getting the basic stuff together I’ve got mending here uh I still need Unbreaking actually this one I might just dispose of so yeah I’ve been busy digging this tunnel here connecting to that little um

Bit over there I also found a zombie spawner so if we wait a little bit um you’re gonna you’re gonna make me a liar or you’re gonna drop there you go so yeah I’ve got a zombie spawner up there it’s not the best source of uh XP but for now it will

Do so yeah this is what I want to show you so I haven’t been idle I’ve been digging out a room for a project this is gonna be quite the project but this is gonna be basically the first Farm in the spot where I’m gonna make my base settlement I don’t know

What to call it yet um and I’ve got a clear picture in my head but I fully realize that you guys have no idea how this is gonna come together but if I can’t get to this on this episode which is more than likely um yeah it’s gonna be next episode but

Just to show you guys yeah big things are coming big things are coming okay for those of you who don’t know squid spawn in oceans and in River biomes and usually people make script farms in River biomes because there’s a lot less water to remove because otherwise it’s quite difficult to

Collect the uh to kill and collect the squid so yeah the location that I found is a gigantic River biome and it’s gonna do just fine for my knees I tested it out in Creative I hadn’t even removed all the water and in a couple of minutes

I had a couple of stacks so yeah you can see the spawning over there as I was mining this away I saw this start to reform so that gave me an idea it might be interesting you know to get a whole bunch of ice I’ve located a location

Um obviously a location you know I’ve spotted a location where I want to make the uh the squid farm and I was thinking why don’t I just mine out the water just remove the top layer of ice let that ice regrow as I’m doing it and

You know remove the water that way it would take a longer time but it would provide me with a lot of glass um sorry not glass ice as well as I’m going along I might as well take this obsidian because I’m gonna need it nothing really interesting in here

And I’ll take the iron though his location so as you can see there’s a lot of ice to be mined away the squid Farm is going to be right in the center of this crevice this little Bay Area and if I make my AFK platform up in the sky

All I need to do is block off the water line like there and a little bit over there as well and then the only spawnable spaces for squid will be in here and then later on we can we can pretty it up I’m not really sure how to

Do that yet but yeah this is gonna be it’s gonna be interesting now this is not the most efficient way to remove water guys I am not saying that but uh it is going to be a bit more fun for me than the traditional way of just you

Know placing sand and using sponges don’t have any sponges anyway but it’s going to give me a lot of ice and obviously there’s more efficient ways to get packed eyes and blue eyes as well and there is an ice spikes biome very nearby but yeah I’m gonna do it this way I’m

Gonna do it this way because it’s more fun for me and I’ve never done I’ve never done water remover like this yeah I was making this retaining wall here for the water and look what I found look at that that is a copper vein so I’m gonna make

A note of this it would be handier if it was an iron vein but you know I’ll take it what is up with rabbits in this world you guys stuck I don’t know oh so the infrastructure is done I can get back to the base and here pretty easy I’ve built the retaining

Walls over there and over there so now I’ve got this whole area marked down so this is where the squid Farm is gonna be it’s gonna fit inside of these snow walls that I’ve laid all the way around so all the snow walls are done I just need to

Remove all this water by mining the ice oh boy give me a second you know you do 50 laps and see if you’re out of breath or not oh one pass at the top here and this pickaxe already needs mending however on the flip side look at this

I mean talk about a good way of getting ice now I am curious give me that give me all that what’s the recipe for blue ice oh my God that is so expensive that is so expensive look we got enough for one stack uh yeah one stack of blue eyes that is

Incredibly expensive but yeah now I just have to wait until this freezes over again and then we can go again not with this pickaxe though yeah see what I can do about that Thank you remember when I said it wasn’t a quick process yeah I wasn’t lying why do I do this to myself so I’m finally starting to reach the bottom of this thing finally yeah um it’s taken me a while but this is the kind of stuff that I do enjoy this slow

Grindy process and for me at least this is like the exciting part because now I can watch the layers unfold as I go down gonna have to worry about mobs as well but they shouldn’t be a problem because I’ve been sleeping the nights away but

Yeah this this is um for me at least this is fun like I enjoy draining ocean Monument monuments and Mining down mountains and and this stuff this uh this is a new favorite activity for me I’ve never drained water this way and it’s pretty uh exciting at least for

Me I know I’m weird so I’ve been watching a lot of Let’s Plays recently and boy have they changed from when I used to uh watch let’s plays as well I’m used to watching impulse Exuma doc um uh Etho I’m not I know I’m just exclusively naming hermit here but

Uh yeah recently you know Mark swamp with his super flat uh Challenge and then you know you’ve got a couple of Sky Block um series that I that I enjoy watching ill mangos recently um yeah I enjoy watching more old school let me sleep for a second

I suppose you could say like more old school type of Let’s Plays but yeah it’s it’s you know completely you know that’s my thing uh I am curious what what’s what’s your thing whoops so in the comments down below could you put whatever type of uh

Content you enjoy most and then maybe I can incorporate it if I like it as well so we can make this a mutual kind of thing so yeah let me know sorry if you can hear that in the background but there’s some baby birds and they’re growing up and they are

Apparently very hungry but uh yeah so this is done finally uh so we can get on to the next phase of the project I need portals I need obsidian and a lot of it uh so I scouted around a little bit and right over here oh go now boom I found

A large well it’s larger than this um I saw it on free cam basically yep Chidi I don’t care it’s my world I do what I want but um I saw it I can’t unsee it so I know there’s a lot of lava nearby which are turned into obsidian

And I’ve already started mining a little bit so I need two shulker boxes and a little bit so yeah another big grind this video is already late so it’s just gonna be finished when it’s finished I’m not gonna I’m not gonna diminish quality just because I want a video out on time

I want I want the quality to at least be decent so yeah nope found another pocket oh and Diamonds oh and redstone normally finding another pocket wouldn’t be a good thing in this case it definitely is so after a couple of days real life days of grinding I think I’ve got all the

Materials to finish this Farm now uh finally so let’s just uh let’s just start start building this thing and then hopefully next episode we can try and make it look a little bit neater so yeah let’s uh let’s build this Farm okay I figured that I would let you guys

Join in on this one uh so I can explain the concept of the farm a little bit better just in case you’re not familiar with Squid farms in particular portal based one uh squid can spawn from level 50. so this level okay so if I cut this off

Boom that’s my uh my first portal going in that direction and then I want a gap of two spaces and then another portal two spaces another portal so you can see that I needed a lot of obsidian for this but I’ve got all the materials I’m gonna

Have to properly spawn proof this as well I just realized I didn’t count these but yeah so let me sleep The Night Away okay so including the frame the biggest portal is uh 23 by 23 Square so if I get 23 but then mine is the one I’m standing

On this should be the height of this portal and it should align nicely with the top layer whereas grid can spawn oh nope because this is the top layer okay well no matter I thought it did but it didn’t but purely by chance when I made designed this in Creative I could get

The max size portals next to each other like really nicely okay but now from that side to that side I need to count 23 as well so this is a little trick that I like to do so with this off that’s 20 23 with this one and I’ve got 22 blocks in my

Hand so I just need to bridge this over there we go and I know this is 23. and then we just need to repeat the same thing this is 23. another 23. and now it should align with the wall over there nice one left over because I have 22.

Nice so it does align brilliant so now I gotta make all of these portals so this is the portable the squid are gonna exit incidentally all the piglens as well nothing I can do about that but this is basically the storage system so that’s that’s all set up now I need to

Go to the other side of this portal which is going to be my AFK platform and yeah prepare all the uh the portals down at sea level or below sea level so that the squid can spawn okay so all the portals all right just need to light them up but I believe

I have to get rid of all the snow as well which is why I just wanted to get the obsidian placed down so that that layer those layers don’t form anymore okay and then you know obviously I’ll prettier it up after so I think the next step is to get down here and

Spawn proof all of this jazz Thank you oh okay that’s not good I’m gonna need to do something about that I guess let’s try and not hit any and let’s try and not fall down I can’t forget this is hardcore okay got a plan got a plan let’s see that should be good I don’t like being this high

Okay I’ve got some trap doors here okay no go away where are you going I don’t know see ya no no no no okay new plan no did it fall oh I got it okay that was more stressful than I thought he would be okay let’s uh check it out

I think I just saw some fall well clearly it’s working so if I just get a collection system there I could have the rudimentary gold form and then for the guys who are wandering in there I’ve got an idea as well but the outside needs to be drained for that

So that’s not gonna be today that’s not going to be today oh there you go I’m falling they are falling and I need more frog lights again good thing frog lights Farms are overpowered so you know making Farm’s early game can take a little bit of time so that’s why

This video is going to be late but as I said I don’t want to sacrifice quality or content for you guys and this is yeah this is definitely like a bigger Farm I won’t need to make a black ink Farm anytime soon but in the process of making this

Uh I do get Pikmin to spawn through the portals they go back through this portal and somehow make it out in my AFK area so I’m just thinking of adjusting both the portals on this side and in the Overworld to kind of get gold from this

As well nice and early gold fun but this is all the ink that I got from making the farm and AFK in for like a minute or two so definitely definitely good yields there and then obviously I’ve got the fish the salmon which I can trade with

With fishermen for emeralds and then the rotten flesh from uh from the piglands as well so I’m gonna fight piglets there’s some in there you can hear them uh and occasional bone meal so all of these three chests are sorted through all of them all of these contain all of the

Bits that I get from uh from this Farm on this end so yeah I mean it’s not it’s not bad yields definitely I mean I can do a lot with this much black ink and trust me I’m gonna need it so I made some adjustments so as you can

See I’ve got a minecart going back and forth underneath the portal so all of the ink sacks that will be stuck on on top of the portal they will get picked up by the minecart then all of the piglens going through zombified piglands they’re gonna hop in this powdered snow

So they will slowly freeze to death tried it with campfires obviously that didn’t work um Soul campfires that didn’t work either so yeah uh powdered snow seems to do the trick why is there still stuff there I know why oh these blocks are powering those hoppers hmm shouldn’t happen anymore but just in

Case let’s test it I’ve got 41 lanterns here they’re gonna go through the powdered snow and then judging by where I dropped it there they go okay so I basically just moved this redstone torch from over there to over here because it powered these those three blocks which in turn powered

Those three Hoppers rendering most of the farm were useless and there we go we’ve got 41 per lesson frog lights back so all of these chests should be empty so ready for a test basically on this side I raised the portal up I put the powdered snow in and now I fixed

The uh the powering of these blocks issues got a minecart unloader here for all the drops on the portal itself the only loss that this Farm will have is if Squid pushed themselves back through the portal and end up through the portal of my AFK spot because there’s something weird with the

Alignment of these portals even though they’re in the exact position where they should be when you’re dealing with such large portals from the other side it can go a bit weird sometimes so yeah as you can see sometimes they push each other back and then they they

Get dropped through this portal but it’s minimal I think I can live with it for now um I think because we’re gonna test it now and see if the drops are good this is the AFK spot where I should be just in case that something else comes

Through like a drowned I don’t want to risk it so I made a little platform here and I’ve put some turtle eggs on a block there so all of the zombie piglings coming through this portal or all the drones coming through this portal should be attracted to that and then they drop

Down on top of those two Hoppers exactly there and then the drops will go in the chest so if there’s any drops in that chest I will know that it’s not safe to AFK up there but for now I will AFK here also keep in mind guys all of this water

Needs to needs to be cleared for the farm to be a hundred percent but let’s see what the forms at where the Farm’s at right now I have AFK for an hour and this is the results so I’ve got a nice big stack of um of black ink and

A couple of bits so kind of disappointing that I didn’t get more piglings but you know it’s an hour I can’t expect too much and then the occasional chicken from the uh from the chicken jockeys but this is working and you know now I just need to check that

Just on the other side uh down on top of the farm to see if anything had spawned there nothing has fallen in it and nothing’s around it so I feel safe enough to take this down and yeah we can we can AFK next to the portal instead of on that little platform there

But yeah I’m very satisfied with this Farm it was a lot of work but yeah the results are you know undeniable and I took the opportunity as well I saw a couple of patrols come by and saw the opportunity to to capture those guys and if I just sit in the boat

With them like this they’ll fire their bows but they won’t hit me so this way I can pacify them and use them for Farms or whatever I want to use them for oh so pretty I tend to not like gameplay with shaders on too much because it shouldn’t you know and what

I’m one of those people you know it shouldn’t you know subtract from the from the vanilla Minecraft experience at least if you’re playing vanilla vanilla you know maybe I didn’t say that right you know you should be able to make things in my opinion at least it’s more impressive if you make things

That are that look good in vanilla you know without shade is without anything as you are building something in you know with shaders because if you make something with shaders sometimes it could look weird in in just without shaders still haven’t pacified these guys but yeah I finished editing the video

And I think it’s long enough it’s one of my longer episodes and I’ve spent a lot of time on this project as well so let me sleep and in the morning it’s not night really bastard bastards hello messing around I guess get over here okay oh

It’s not so scary anymore are we yeah I’m not even blocking me not even blocking okay much better oh if you guys enjoyed this episode please give it a like and a subscribe it was a lot of grinding so I would definitely appreciate it and uh yeah I will think

Of what we can do for the next episode and I will see you then goodbye now time