Thriving in Vanilla Minecraft Skyblock, but it’s HARDCORE! (#1)

Welcome to Skyblock we’re gonna do this one in hardcore which means one wrong step and this series is over that’s not gonna happen we’re gonna not only survive we’re gonna Thrive just a little run down here you start with this tiny little island and the goal is to generate materials and build ourselves

Up we do have a little starter chest with a couple goodies and we can go ahead and make ourselves our first cobblestone generator that’s what we’re gonna need to generate blocks straight away and we will dig this out and this is all we need to get going now that

We’ve picked up our first block you can see an advancement’s been made which will allow us to see exactly what we should be doing if you ever play Minecraft and and you can run out of things to do it’s nice to have a little guide like that to give you some

Inspiration on what to do next so then we’ll put that there we’ll put that there and we’ll break that and we did it flawlessly I I risked that just a little bit but we’re good all right so break this block out and now I’m gonna need to

Get a pickaxe to start to harvest some of this Cobblestone just gonna get these three for now I don’t want to start doing any more because then leaves will start to Decay and they’ll probably just fall into the void if a sapling is generated and we just broke all of our

Grass and didn’t get a Single Seed from it not so lucky there but that’s okay we’ll go ahead and get our first crafting table done and I usually like to put this right behind the Cobblestone so that as we’re breaking it it’s not easy to break the block behind that

You’ll see what I mean in a second and our first pickaxe all right Cobblestone collected I’m just gonna I’m gonna get three and then I’m gonna ditch this wooden pickaxe and with the next eight Cobblestone I’m gonna go ahead and make a furnace and I will need another log if

We’re gonna get some charcoal but we’re not quite ready yet because I need to expand this out so I’m gonna use my new stone pickaxe we’re gonna go ahead and get some more Cobblestone and we will start to expand our platform and there’s our first full stack of Cobble we got

Another advancement made we are indeed quite the Cobble collector and what I’m gonna do now is I’m gonna actually put the slabs on the bottom side of the block meaning that when we’re standing on these we’re actually on a half of a block and because of that mobs can’t

Spawn and as you can see as soon as I come down here and shift and you can see the Horizon just goes completely dark that’s what’s going to happen as we go kind of under the world here so like if if we’re actually down here and we see

The dark Horizon like this we don’t worry about Phantom spawning which is nice so that’s a strategy although I don’t really want to stay shifted down under here the entire night tonight either although first night in the world don’t have to worry about that we’re not we’re not facing Phantoms just yet we

Don’t have the insomnia so that’s good all right so we’ll build out a little bit of a platform here again this is just so that as the leaves Decay if any saplings do get generated we really don’t want those falling into the void now eventually I’m gonna want to just

Tear this right back out because I don’t really want to have a cobblestone Skyblock world that’s not the goal we want to make it look good like any other world that we would possibly want to build all right I’m going to go ahead and get rid of this wood and like I said

I think I will go ahead and use this to make our first torch so we’ll get some some coal from that might have been a little bit of a waste but that’s okay all right it is now night time let’s go ahead and make our torches here and

We’ll just pop one down right there so there’s nice light any saplings drop yet oh not yet and we’re running out of options you know I know it’s a myth that if you punch them that uh there’s there’s less of a chance of a sapling dropping that is indeed a myth but I’m

Gonna go ahead and let them despawn naturally anyway just because I got other things to do in this chest we have glowberries and glowberries are edible but we need to grow them first so I’ll plant that now and hopefully hopefully it’ll be able to feed us saplings saplings please we’re down to three

Situations getting dire I remember if we don’t look at it and and then it’ll happen it’s one of those things if you just stare at it you’re not gonna get what you want and our first pickaxe has been broken and we still have a lot of Cobble to collect I need to really

Preserve what little wood we have just in case Oh there’s one over there oh my gosh oh my gosh I thought we were without a sapling that was close all of those and we got one wow all right we made it through our first night we’ve got three stacks of cobblestone I’m just gonna go ahead and

Turn them all into slabs all right let’s go ahead and make our way over we’re also waiting for this sapling to grow up so hopefully by the time we get back that will be done no matter how many times I play Skyblock this part of it is always terrifying because one little

Pinky slip and the series is over all right we have made it I’ll do the same thing over here where I kind of use the bottom sides of the blocks to go up and also let’s Harvest this bush and hopefully we get these perfect and we’ll

Plant those when we get back and then we’ll get some extra wood from here suppose we could probably take this pumpkin too and we have the same kind of dilemma with the leaves of this tree so let’s go ahead and build out a platform around here too just to make sure we

Don’t lose anything all right I think we got a big enough platform let’s go ahead and chop the rest of this tree down and we’ll hope that we get a sapling from it as well and look at that there’s already more berries on this so we’ll go ahead

And just Harvest some more and it’s pretty much our first food source not a great one but it’s better than nothing and I think with this one I’m gonna go ahead and speed up the process look at that first one we hit we actually got a

Sapling so that’s a good sign well first one and only one it seems oh never mind there was one hidden down here so we did collect two saplings out of that but yeah we’ll take it back to our main starter Island and we’ll start to get

Them growing all right well I’ve got a couple of these trees planted now we’ll go ahead and let them grow Meanwhile we’re back to harvesting some Cobble and uh maybe trying to work our way out to yet another Island here I am starting to get really nervous about our food

Situation so I think what we’ll do is next Island we tackle that one out there you can see there’s actually mushrooms on it and if we have to we’ll go ahead and make some mushroom stew all right I’ve been thinking about it I think what

I’m gonna do is try to move some of this grass out of the spawn area so that we can have a chance for some passive animals to spawn and we can make a food source that way because we’re at right now they’re not going to be able to spot

So uh we are gonna have to get the grass to kind of travel out that way and hey hello we got a tree very nice I think what I want to do is actually get underneath these blocks and put a little tray down because I don’t want to lose

Them so in order to do that we’re gonna have to pop a hole in the bottom here grab that block let the water flow down just a little bit and while that’s happening let’s get some blocks that they’re ready we’re gonna get underneath the island and place some blocks here

Which is this is always terrifying we’re in a little in a water channel here and if we fall that’s that’s the void down there so pretty scary all right I placed one right on the edge there so we can get to it from here and then we’ll go ahead and

Chip away at this and then that way we’re just a little bit lower all right basically I’m just putting down a little base path here so that we can start to walk the grass further away from us away from the spawn protected area and then hopefully we start to get some some

Animal spawnage over there of course now I have blocks I could make my own cobblestone generator somewhere else don’t need to use this all right there we go set up another cobblestone generator and this time I just waterlogged a stair anyway now that allows us to take this down and I got to

Be careful because I just remembered there is still a hole there that we don’t want to fall down in in fact maybe we should plug that I also made a little more charcoal here as well because you can see it’s becoming nighttime and it

Will be good to light this up so it can continue to grow at night oh we forgot to light up our path and we got a little too far away from it and now we have to deal with a Skelly oh God just go with the void please oh

That was terrifying it’s all fun and games until you take an arrow to the knee things are coming along quite nicely here we’re starting to get well established and I’ve been doing a ton of cobblestone grinding trying to get a little organized here with some chess we

Now have plenty of sweet berries so our food source is taken care of I just have these five kind of growing I’ve expanded the island out a little bit we’ve moved the grass over and I’m hoping this is far enough away from the protected area of Spawn that we should get some passive

Mob spawning very soon I’m really hoping for some sheep hey I’ve been waiting for this to happen too we I keep having to trim this because we haven’t been getting any more glowberries and hopefully they don’t fall off the map oh there we go I will hang that one up and

Keep getting a chance to get some more it’s it’s a random chance as this grows that those become glowberries so yeah we’ll just uh I’ll keep doing that as well and every time I turn around I feel like there’s a new tree that I have to

Cut down which is is good we’re gonna need the supplies look at this we’ve got our first passive mob spawn happening and it is four chickens now you probably are thinking hey this is a good idea why don’t you just go ahead and make a little chicken farm you know but for now

The best thing for me to do actually is to go ahead and just well you might want to look away for this yeah that’s right we needed to clear them out because we need another batch to spawn in order to get an attempt at maybe getting some

Sheep in here which yeah with too many passive mobs in the world I think it’s like more than six six or more no more will spawn and so such a low number we have to kind of keep this pen cleaned out yeah cleaned out that that that’s

The word we’re using anyway I guess I’m gonna go back to waiting and hopefully we get another spawn soon it’s been hours literally hours and nothing else has spawned we gotta move that grass platform lower down in the world so that the spawning algorithm can help us out a little bit and you

Guys will see what I mean once we get it down there waiting around for animals to spawn hours on end no way no way we said it we said we’re gonna Thrive and survive and and that’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna get the best massive mob

Farm we possibly can so okay now I got the tedious task of taking this grass and bringing it down to the bottom of the world all right so the goal is we’re gonna get that grass all the way to the lowest point in the world as we possibly

Can and in order to do that we dropped the lava down I’m waiting for the lava to go all the way down to the very bottom of the world and then we’ll put some water next to it and we will let the water flow down thus turning this

Entire bit in to Cobblestone and then once we have that we can just dig our way down to the very bottom piece and make a new platform lower in the world and then we gotta start walking our grass down which is another very tedious process all right looks like the lava

Has made it all the way down so let’s take our water here and I think what we’ll do is we will just water log this slab right there which is below that source so we should be fine it’s I always get a little bit nervous doing

That all right I got some blocks got some ladders and I’m just gonna dig this pillar all the way down to the bottom and have to make sure I don’t dig out the very bottom block or else we’re going into the void and uh well it’s

Been a fun episode one hasn’t it okay I think we reached the very bottom block down here let’s take a look yep that was it let’s go ahead and just expand this out and then I will need to make a ladder back up so we can get up there

But that is quite the climb it’s gonna be pretty tedious to go back and forth so I think my first order of business is pretty much just to move everything down here we’re gonna have a lot better time living on the bottom of the Void all

Right now the next step the uh of the very very tedious step of getting grass to travel all the way down there and I think the way I’m gonna do it is basically just utilize the fact that grass can jump two blocks down so we’ll leave like a space and then put another

Block underneath that so I’m going to have to kind of do this like one block at a time I guess I could go steal some ACT back out of there or I could start to dismantle this bit here now since we haven’t had any luck over here I think I

Will just go ahead and snag some of these blocks and then I’ll try to walk the grass a little bit closer to the ladder so that we can just use the ladder to place them next to us as we go down and while we’re waiting for the

Grass to grow maybe I will start to move some of our stuff all the way down to the bottom there Foreign now that we’ve got our grass moved to the bottom of the world the spawns are coming in much quicker and I moved every bit of it down here we’ve got a nice area for all the animals to spawn in now and we’re having a lot of success in

Fact we’ve already got our first pieces of wool made a bed slept through the night and also we have a good source of food look at all the pork chops coming in raw mutton beef and it’s happening really quick now and I am excited because we are getting well established

Straight away in this Skyblock world but I am excited to go on this adventure I hope you guys are too please let me know if you liked it by hitting the like button and if you want to make sure you don’t miss any further episodes coming out soon then make sure you subscribe

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