Ultimate Minecraft META Reveal! Hardcore Survival

Hey folks wh here and welcome back to a comment or question of the day episode where we’ve got the castle right over there isn’t it great I love it yeah that was last episode we got a bunch of new stuff now oh boy but for the first

Comment today we are starting right here just got to get all the pages through this one there’s a lot of comments by now and it’s been so fun where is it there we go the first comment is coming in from hilus I really love the view on

The valley and the mount with the mountains on one side and the castle on the other when I saw you building this awesome castle and the forest I had the idea you could build an actual tiger Spruce Forest further to the north it sounds like a fun project for a series

Of streams as you did with the mountain I will be honest I absolutely love coming over here and sitting on top of this tree and just looking I’m very very happy with how this turned out so I completely agree with you and also yes I want to start a massive terraforming

Project I actually have like four or five in mind a few I’ve talked about on streams and one of them being right back there to the north I would absolutely love to kind of transform everything like I did with the mountain range back in my building with whip series I would

Love to do some crazy project like that and incorporating the spruce Forest because we actually have a natural one right over there I think it’ be a cool way to one mix up the type of trees that I’m building from the Oak and all those and go into something different as we’re

Moving into a new region of the world and it would also make it a little bit more realistic for all of the mountains and everything the only concern I have is what you can see loading in here at the far end of the biome which honestly

If we go for a Tiga we could actually work that into things but there’s a lot of snowy biomes up here which means everything we do either needs string on top of it or we just have to full commit and send it on the snow being everywhere

As we have the snow over here and looping over this way we have the swamp which will be the same issue I ran into in the building with whip world where we get that disgusting grass color so that would all have to be something we deal with or maybe we bring the mountains

Back down around here and you know actually have an end to them I mean we would already be covering an entire another biome with this one so that might be that might be large enough who knows or we could surround that with a mountain on the edge of the swamp ooh so

Many ideas if you’re newer here on the channel this is my original survival world I just fly around in Creative right now as I don’t really plan to continue the series at any point and I just like to be able to look at things more easily but up here as everything is

Loading in you can see an example of the massive terraforming project I was working on we’ve got the entire tigga biome up here with all that and I think we can send it even further with the new blocks that we have in the game even Villages and entire mountains reaching

Up that was the old world height and now we have the ability to go to the top of that pillar which could be so so fun and well underneath uh looked a little bit like this but it would be pretty cool to do something like that again in the

Future second question today coming in from Kevin be 2595 every time I see someone do a build like this in a place where tons of mobs spawn it makes me wonder why more people don’t just build a mob switch before taking on such a project so for this

Something I’ve been trying to take to heart recently and how I play Minecraft is not Min maxing the fun out of the game if you’re not familiar with it Min maxing is a term that’s mostly used in MMOs it’s where you basically do everything as optimally as possible to

Get it done as quickly as possible in the most efficient way usually to the point where you do it so much that you run out of things to do inside of the game side of your Minecraft world or whatever it might be I think this is a

Reason why a lot of people are like what do I do next my world I’ve already done everything I already have the best of the best I built the best creeper farm right away and I never need any more gunpowder ever but what do I do with 100,000 million bajillion gunpowder that

I have I mean it’s just sitting there in the storage room and I got nothing for it you kind of get what I’m saying there of there’s some things that you can do in this game that do make things a lot easier but it doesn’t mean it’s the most

Fun way to do something for me Minecraft is a game about the journey I’m not just actively working to get the project done I’m here for the experience of doing the project and showing the whole process of creating one of these builds whatever project I might be working on and I’m

Also here to create content about this game as I am trying to create YouTube videos if I was just doing it in single player I might be or just for myself not making a video I might be more likely to set up a mob switch but as I am making

Videos off off of this I think it’s a lot more entertaining when the Pillager fights are in there and if I build a mob switch that would disable mobs completely from the Overworld and I kind of ask myself at that point would I even be playing hardcore Minecraft sure the

Single death Rule still applies and the world would be over but that removes all chances of death inside of the world outside of falling on something or you know just falling in death or getting trapped in lava or exploding yourself which basically means you’re playing on Peaceful at that point minus the

Exploding being able to kill you too but I think that could actually do it in peaceful too I’m not sure I’ve never really played peaceful but for me that sounds extremely boring and really takes away the whole purpose of Hardcore I mean if you want to build mob switches

And make your world easier to survive it and have it as a cool technical feat that you did it that’s fine go for it do it that’s really cool that you’re doing that and you enjoy doing that but for me I find it if I remove all of the threats

Of this the same way that in my almost 10,000 day old survival world we were checking out earlier for a brief moment I kind of got to a point where I was just bored everything was so established and I had done everything there was really nothing left to work for other

Than just placing blocks down having hardcore be a mode where a Pillager could hit me with a crossbow off the tower and if I don’t react fast enough I take a lot of damage and fall down pop a totem bad things happen or a ravager gets in there or something like that or

Just random straight creepers that kind of threat of the world being in there and having a chance of losing the series and losing the world for me actually helps me stay engaged in the game a lot longer and helps me stay motivated to want to do things I also totally see for

Some people that that might be the thing that makes you not want to play the game at all but I find for me that’s what helps me want to continue is having a true hardcore series I’m not cheating I’m not breaking any rules the only thing that I’m really

Doing here that I would consider kind of a little cheeky is I duplicate TNT for some of my Farms where there’s no other way to automate the Farms but outside of that I don’t really change anything inside of the game I like Bare Bones vanilla Minecraft and I want everything

That it’s going to be offering so if that means I turn into a porcupine when I’m building a castle like that big guy over there uh then so be it question number three coming in from Andre Peterson 5589 hi FIP have you you ever thought about doing tutorials like not

Of singular builds but of a general type of build for example styles of different build Styles or how to detail your environment to Simply put it no not not really in the way that you would expect to see a tutorial I have done some tutorials in the past but I’ll be honest

I hated the process of making them I would get really burnt out and I would really really dig my feet in the ground be like I’m not having fun doing this and it makes it really feel like work to get it done where yeah building all these houses and things and establishing

The build style here is definitely work but having to break down something that I already made and already have finished up into the different elements and then turn into tutorial format to make it believable and easy follow for any single person that would pick up the

Video and watch it and learn how to build this grocery store to me that doesn’t sound like fun also side note on that I’ve done tutorials in the past and the amount of people that stole the videos and just completely followed my tutorial to make their own tutorial

Building the house that I built a tutorial on and then they would upload it and then they would get hundreds of thousands of more views than mine because they their algorithm worked by their tutorials on their Channel very frustrating very much making me not want

To do it but I also find the things that I would want to make tutorials of aren’t something that would do very well on a YouTube video Minecraft tutorial type thing so they wouldn’t get very great views and it would actually actively hurt the channel more than help it it

Also takes a ton of time to get them done properly where I can instead spend that time building new houses inside this world working on the main series videos oh that’s my inventory and I personally find that to be a lot more fun and motivating to want me to keep

Moving forward on making all of this cool stuff so we can have a whole world to explore as far as the concept tutorials you mentioned I do like to include those as small bits throughout the video as we can talk about I don’t know how to detail a riverbed as this is

Coming down I really slow the video down for a moment and just talk about some nitty-gritty details of how I’m doing things instead of just focus on big Grand wow windmill appeared I also have a ton of videos like that on my channel that you can go check out for how to

Plan out towns how to plan a castle how to build a city whatever you can think of for how to plan or build or do that type of stuff I probably have it somewhere on here as that’s actually how I originally grew my subscriber base if

You didn’t know my first main video that kind of popped off and went viral was a how to build a castle video talking about how to lay out the base shapes and nothing more I didn’t actually build the castle I just talked purely concepts for it all that stuff still applies you

Might just get a 6 years ago Flip or 5 years ago at this point I I’m not too sure so it’s a it’s a little dated but you know the concepts are there and then after that the first major explosion I had was how to build a city video where

I just kind of laid out an entire city in concrete and talked over a time lapse as I was doing and how I was spacing out buildings and all that stuff and that thing got like a million views in a week and to be honest that is what started

The journey to becoming a full-time YouTuber so if is like what’s the moment where you’re like ooh this stuff might be happening uh it was that video going live because it just absolutely blew up my previous most popular video on the channel at that time was like 100,000

Maybe 200,000 views and 7 Days Later that thing was above a million yeah you can you can kind of see where it went a little crazy so I don’t think you will see many tutorial videos for me in the future I think I’ve moved Way Beyond

That that was an old style of content that I used to do when I was trying to really find my place in the Minecraft YouTubes and at this point I just love my let’s play style of getting in here and playing the game and bringing you

All along for the journey you hear me say that a ton and I really truly do mean it of I want to show you all how I play this game and bring you along for that ride not try and teach you how to play the game you can follow along with

What I do if you would like to but I’m trying to just give you inspiration on how you might want to do things and I think the best way for me to show that is through how I actually play not telling you hey Place one Cobblestone

Here one stone there and then do a stone brick and bring it up for more blocks to create a wall on to the last question for the day 39 pages into this book we are almost through this one we’re going to be like two or three more episodes

And this thing be full but it’s coming in from ZT Viper I believe I love this series I hope it goes on for forever me too with the increase of every build having to outdo the next do you think there will come a time where that drops

Off when we have a new Minecraft meta first starters I would love for a new meta to appear on the Minecraft YouTube side of things because it would just be breaking things up as you’re kind of mentioning that going bigger doing more and more and more it does get a little

Exhausting after a while but I will say The Meta right now also really really suits how I like to play this game as a Creator I don’t want to have to talk through every single build that I make and I want to be able to build more than

One house per video or more than one thing per video so the mega build or The Meta of doing bigger builds and a lot more bu builds in a single episode to be honest for me I think I had a positive impact on my channel as it’s really

Allowed me to set in and see that there’s success in doing more than one thing in a video and then doing that myself has made me really enjoy how I create things and really changed my style of content moving forward and set it as something more unique as I don’t

Really follow that going bigger and better every single episode format that you see some people doing the people that do that that is that’s a little too much I don’t think that’s going to last much longer because we’ve already had people claiming to build an entire Universe in Minecraft and then somehow

Their entire universe is like 400 blocks wide but you know they built a universe so like good for them I do see this meta as moving to be too big though off of what I just mentioned is you have people building universes you have people building entire dimensions and worlds in

A single video and just going bigger and grander and spending an entire month on a video eventually there’s going to be people who are doing that thing and the month that they spent on a video project that they think is going to be the next big meta thing they’re going to get it

Wrong and they’re banking their entire month off of one video doing really really well on their Channel and that’s all they have and it has to bring in three four million views for them to make it worth it if they instead just did like a single video every single

Week like I always see on my homepage on YouTube these people that uploaded a hardcore video one month ago and it has 5 million views on it and I’m like oh my gosh that’s so cool they got so many views on their video but then I add up

All of the views that I get on my videos that I posted just in this that month and like the residual views coming in and everything like that and I’m getting more views than they are and they spent an entire month working on one thing with one bet and their channels about

The same size as mine and if their bet didn’t pay off they would have gotten no views it’s a very volatile way to run your YouTube channel whereas I think having smaller but still large and Grand projects is the healthiest way to do it

And I find the level of stuff that I do per video right now to be something that I can keep up with pretty sustainably moving into the future and I’m very excited to kind of continue this and really bring in this style of smaller projects but each project that we start

In a video we do finish it and we do put a good amount of hours into it right now I put in about 20 to 24 hours of Minecraft gaming time bringing it to like 140 to 150 days per video but you don’t see me saying I built this in 100

Days I mean I don’t do it too often if it’s like two 300 days I might say that but you know that’s just for the clickbait right there full honestly sometimes it works out and sometimes it’s really good to do that’s part of being a YouTuber but I don’t ever lie in

My videos on that front so I think that I think it’s fine to do but anyways back to the Minecraft meta thing I would love to see something new but I don’t think it’s going to be something that goes back to slower style content just with the recent explosion of short form

Content not recent it’s been about a year and a half two years now with Tik Tok and YouTube shorts taking off and all that stuff you can get a video on there that will will be building a single house and you’ll get it in 40 45 seconds so with the current attention

Span of audiences and things like that I know there’s a lot of people who do prefer that slower form content but that’s where live streaming comes in with that slower form content and then you have the vods available for that but when you go into a video itself you’ll

Find a lot of people are struggling right now when they do at that slower form where over 20 minutes they build a single house or they just go on in an adventure you’ll see a lot of people struggling with that right now because the attention span to try and get people

To watch that entire video enough to where it’s going to push well on YouTube is pretty hard to achieve which is why you saw the shift into this doing more and more and more because the videos have to be more exciting and hold people’s attention spans who are more

Likely to click off and go and do other things unfortunately we do have to build them for the masses sometimes on YouTube instead of building for a small M like slice of the audience a smaller slice so if you’re asking me to predict what the next meta is I honestly have zero ideas

Where it’s going to be going from here uh I’m a little worried that it’s going to continue on this bigger bigger bigger trend for another six eight months or so until some of those people uh either get exposed as cheaters and then they get cancelled over it or they realize that

When they’re going bigger and bigger they’re going to have to start spending two to three months on a single video and then from there they’re going to be like it’s not even worth it anymore I’m putting too much time into this for the money making out of it or you’re going

To see them go super sellout mode and then their fan base is going to be like uh what overall I am excited for the future of Minecraft YouTube I think it’s in a very healthy place right now 1.21 is going to have a lot of great changes

For the technical community and I think it’s going to bring that back in and also make it a lot more approachable with the autocrafters compared to right now technical Minecraft is pretty difficult to get into so that’s why you see people just follow a tutorial and they’d rather follow the intense big

Tutorial than follow something that is smaller that they’re still having a hard time understand you only want to if you’re building a creeper Farm you only want to make your brain hurt building a creeper Farm once probably instead of going through it multiple times over and

Over and over again to slowly level up your creeper Farms but you know that’s how you might actually understand the mechanics so maybe do that but that’s going to do it for today thank you all so very much for watching leave a like if you did enjoy let me know any other

Comments you have as we’ve got one more video left for the year coming out next Thursday then I’m going to be taking a little bit of time off for the new year headed out to go visit some friends and things like that and celebrate the new

Year and I’ll be honest in the start of January it’s very rough on YouTube the ad Revenue resets as no advert ing departments have figured out what they’re doing for the year yet so posting a video I found last year after paying my editor and everything like

That I was actively losing money this is not me asking for support or anything like that by the way this is just me saying that uh I’m going to be quiet on the main Channel we’ll maybe do a few streams for the first two weeks or so of

January maybe 3 weeks and then I’ll start ramping videos back up as we get closer to February and everything like that but I’m going to enjoy some well needed time off so thank you all so very much for the support over this year hope you did enjoy all the content 2023 I

Guess we got another videos I can send off the end of the year as there’ll be another one of these next week woohoo so I don’t have to do all that but anyways if I don’t see you again Happy Holidays happy New Year and all that good stuff

And I’ll catch you on the flip side bye