wattles – Draining an Ocean Monument! | Minecraft Guide Episode 63 (Minecraft 1.15.2 Lets Play)

For 62 episodes elites a long time every single episode up until this point mostly this has been the head of operations the chief honcho the big boy the the boss of the world this base over here has been the one and only but today today that all changes it leads if I

Told you I was crying right now would you believe me if I really really insisted that I was crying I promised that I was crying would you believe me if he answered yes well you’re a fool I I tricked you I’m not crying right now

Believe it or not but and his kind of an emotional day welcome back though to the Minecraft guide episode number 63 so today we are officially heading out from the base the food has finished cooking which means it’s time it’s time to fly away to a very very far place so the

Ocean monument project that thing that we started a long time ago well I’ve made some really really good big progress so Paul Marco goodbye Pam I will see you sometime soon if I have any other friends over here I can’t remember them so I guess it’s not important but

We’re gonna go ahead and get one last aerial view of the base as we fly away now obviously we’re not abandoning all of this up being a little bit dramatic right now but we are actually going away from this place for at least a few episodes I think because it is finally

Ocean monument farm time or at least finally time to really get the ball rolling on this project today we have lots of water removal to do now if I’m being honest it’s a little bit more efficient to travel in the nether over to the ocean monument I mean I just

Don’t have a lot of gunpowder quite yet I I mean I have this much rockets on me and I could use them in better ways why a map set out over there but yeah not the best way but I thought this would be the best most dramatic entrance to the

Project that you guys actually haven’t seen in a while I’ve made a lot of progress on this thing off camera and also on streams but this time may off-camera the ocean monument is ready to be drained and that is exactly what we’re going to do today no today’s

Episode is going to be a little bit different yeah we’re gonna do things a little bit yeah differently but we’ll talk about that as I continue or as I start working on the project so the ocean monument take a look at this thing it is fully cut off from the outside

Ocean smooth landing right there but yeah and one of those guys over there they decided to to come over here yeah the traders the Thanks it’s great but the ocean monument is like I said ready to be drained but unfortunately I am not ready to drain it because all of these

Sponges are wet other than these three so we have to slide actually over into the nether up there so I can show you a little life hack that actually if you’ve been watching I show this off before so I dig the cleanest of this room but we

Need a little bit more space to show this thing off let’s go ahead and just push this wall out this way doesn’t really matter so long as we just just basically have a little bit of room so I have a lot of wet sponges these are all

Of the sponges that we have in the world up until this point we got more than that first style like 33 from the second ocean monument that we rated but we did that on street so before minecraft 1.15 if we wanted to dry this out we would have needed a

Furnace and a lot of fuel in Minecraft 1.15 all we need is the nether so high during today’s episode I’m going to do a lot of ocean draining that means these sponges are going to be turned into wet sponges quite a bit to drain the sponges I’ll be sliding over into the nether

Placing them down and then mining them now I know minecraft 1.16 makes the whole the official mining block for the sponge but I’d like to see if it actually already is I saw some confusion about that so we punch it like that we use the hoe it’s

The exact same speed so the hand is the way to go right now I think I don’t think shears speed this up yeah shears definitely don’t either okay well I’ve got random hoe and I’ve got extra shears now I guess we’ll make a chest and leave

Them in here I don’t really want these okay yeah you gotta break these by hand why don’t we open up to ooh that’s kind of dangerous we’re gonna we’re gonna close that back up so that’s the light pack that’s how I’ll be draining all of the sponges today just just keep that in

Mind if you’re doing this project for yourself you you should definitely do this too but I should probably definitely consider moving that nether portal down here because I’ll be doing a lot of back-and-forth in today’s episode for sure now over here I’ve set up a temporary workstation this banner is the

Banner that’s marked on the map the banner says ocean monument project because that’s what it is but I we can go ahead and put the map in there for now we don’t really need it we don’t need the wings either we’ll switch over to the chest plate because the guardians

In here are crazy this is the sandbox floor probably sand that would make sense and then this one is the work box just random stuff now I went ahead and walled off the ocean monument we talked about this a while back now but basically we have a sand wall going all

The way around the perimeter of the socha monument the sand wall is placed two blocks out from the corner or I guess three like it’s on the third block you see down here ocean monument empty empty third block wall and then wall all the way around now this wall is the next

Wall this is the beginning of today’s process we need to remove all of the water inside of the ocean monument and around the ocean monument today we’re just going to focus on the outside of the ocean monument then we’ll do the inside of the ocean monument a little later on

Now draining the ocean around the ocean monument is actually a very very tricky and also time-consuming job if we were to just start placing sponges say in here the ocean would actually just fill right back in because that’s how minecraft water works that means we’ll need to sort of cut off this this

Monument or the water around the monument into smaller pieces so we can actually remove it if we were to place a sponge right in here the water is actually drained and it doesn’t really come back which is exactly what we need so after you’ve walled off your ocean

Monument from the outside ocean it’s time for more walls exciting right now these more walls should be three blocks out or four blocks out from your other walls so while right here three blocks of space another wall a gap of three is the minimum that I recommend if you do a gap

Of two you’re just wasting a lot of time you can definitely get away with a gap of four of those so one two three four then the next wall goes right there all the way across I’ll probably be doing gaps of four just because that’s what

I’m used to but I did start with a gap of three over here now we need to remove all of the water from this area over here that’s where the sponges come in but first we sleep sponges are really really cool because they can remove water if I placed a sponge down over

Here all of that water is now removed that is a beautiful beautiful sight today’s episode is going to consist of a lot of sponge placing just like that sponge breaking just like this and then more and sponge placing just like that yeah it’s gonna be a long project guys

Because this is a big ocean there’s a lot to get rid of now we don’t have all that many sponges we have a stack and a half about which is nice it could be better but at the same time I guess it could be worse now obviously sponges

Will only remove so much water the sponges that I place in here have not erased all of the water in here entirely because sponges only remove so much water it’s nice to have a good rhythm a good pattern going if you section the ocean around your ocean monument off

Into three or four wide sections you can use this rhythm right here we have a sponge on this wall next sponge goes over there on that wall one or two blocks below the surface then we can go ahead and jump over to that sponge break this sponge with our hand and then

Repeat the process over here one or two blocks below the surface a couple blocks past the flowing water boom the water is pushed back even farther same trick go ahead and jump over remove the sponge and do it again just don’t forget to come back every once in a while and pick

Up these sponges as you have five minutes from when they break so yeah don’t let them be spotted the sponge is despawn obviously you’re out of a job kind of there is another way to remove the ocean from around the ocean monument that method involves redstone machines

The method is nice because it’s a lot more automatic but I don’t know I sort of preferred the manual water removal method I don’t I kind of enjoy it which is weird like that’s a really long process I guarantee this is going to take up most of my day

To day but I I mean one seriously what else am I gonna do right now and two I don’t know if it’s kind of nice it’s kind of calming that’s why I like Minecraft like the whole grindy vibe I don’t know I just kind of enjoy it so my

Plan here today is to go ahead and actually remove this first section then we’ll talk about the second section then after that probably a big Q&A segment with also some other important things that I’d like to talk about so I’m gonna go ahead and repeat this method over and

Over and over again until this section is drained so we can talk about the next one then we’ll go from there oh right elites I’ve made great great progress section one is pretty much entirely drained now all the way down past the I guess the top part of the monument so

Personally I recommend just not worrying about this lower area at least right now you can finish this part a little later on now one thing that I realized that I kind of forgot to say is don’t get trapped down here remember scaffolding or extra building blocks or something

Because if you don’t you’re gonna have to break one of the sand walls and let water pour in and yet basically won’t be good but section one done now section two but before I do section two I need a whole lot more sand because unfortunately that sand wall has to stay

Right now eventually we’ll be at a point where we can basically take one sand wall down and move it over that point will happen after we drain section two but yeah until we drain that section we’re gonna need a lot more sand so let’s go ahead and grab the Electra

I’d like to show you guys where I’ve been getting my sand from the sand box you can definitely come with me and leave the chestplate there and then this and that there as well and I mean we might as well leave the sponges here too we don’t need them where we’re going so

I’ve been collecting all of my sand from a desert that is located right over here when you’re taking on an ocean monument farm project it’s a good idea to consider the surroundings if you have an ocean monument that is right next to a desert then that would be a great ocean

Monument to turn into a farm because obviously you need a lot of sand for this project it takes a lot of sand then for this project I’ve been getting most of my sand mostly from over here so when starting the project I did use a little bit of sand from the original mob

Firm that we built way back in like episode 11 but after that I started just digging up deserts around the ocean monument initially I was going way way way to the south like way down by the the brown banner at the bottom but I’ve kind of decided to not go all the way

That way and just to go over here instead I am not really worried about keeping this desert looking good I definitely will never build anything over here so I’m not worried about it I’ll just rip it all up I’ve been actually saving the cactus and the dead

Bushes though because I I mean well I guess because you never know even though I will probably never need those as well now the plan here is to fill this sand box all the way back up so I have way more than enough sand if I’m being

Honest this is probably good right now maybe it would be close but I’d like to have way way way more than enough so you just so I have more than enough no further reasoning really but time for me to dig up a bunch of sin that I’ll catch

You guys back over at the ocean monument [Applause] boy guardians no not today not today you will not target me today you’ll target me once once you’re in your farm which means you want to target me but we’re back over here at the ocean monument the sandbox is full which means it is

Definitely sand time as so time for me to go over here this time we’re gonna do a four wide section basically what I need to do is stand here and place sand but before I do that I’m gonna go ahead and swim down here and remove any help

That may be in the way and sea grass as well if I don’t do this the sand will never place it’ll just drop down on this stuff won’t be good I’m also remembering I maybe it should have brought my conduit with me over to this

Build because I mean if I am under the water I’ll get increased braking and mining speed which is cool but at the same time I guess it’s not that important because I’ll mostly be out of the water today removing it anyways time for a said well this will

Definitely take some time little tip for placing here if you crouch right on the edge of the the sand and then you get your cursor as far down as possible so right there if you just hold down the place button it seems to be a little quicker than placing like up here and

Waiting for the sand to fall I don’t know little life hack it’s not much but if you can cut out a little bit of time here and there then in the long run that a little bit of time will definitely add up because this is a big big project

Alright well section number two has been walled off so that means it’s draining time so we’ll start right here and then we’ll alternate walls they’re there they’re there you know all the way down by the way also did move the nether portal down there I skipped the corners

Not my proudest moment at all that’s for sure not my best moment but I mean as sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do I wanted to leave that platform up there so I can go up there and take a look at the project from time to time I thought

That would be kind of cool but yep I’ve got lots more draining to do I’m gonna go ahead and drain this section before I begin the time-lapse because there is one more thing that I would like to show you guys and just show you guys I have

To drain this section so a time-lapse suit just soon it’s soon very soon but for now lots of training wish me luck by the way on these four wide sections it might be a little bit smarter at to go only one block below the surface and

Set up – it just tends to work a little bit better alternate walls for sure oh boy you know what time it is you know what time it is it’s time for tortious because this section has been drained of pretty much all the way now torches what

Are what are the charges for well the torches are for this right here so now that both of these two sections are drained we can actually take the wall down in between them and use this wall over the next section so section three so that is basically the entirety of

Today’s project now are just for reference I’ve already spent about an hour on this project and I have two sections done a tiny bit of the ocean monument uncovered but I did start on of the biggest chunk so the front is deeper than the back because you know how an

Ocean monument is kind of like a pyramid it gets higher up on the back that means the walls won’t be as as tall you know on the backside so then it’ll be okay the end will be a little bit shorter than the beginning but if I’m being

Honest not buy too much now again I will come back later on probably near the end of the episode and work on these other sections draining the underside of the ocean monument is a whole lot different well eh it’s not that different than doing the top it is a little different

Though but yeah time for me to take the wall down time for me to reboot the wall up on to the other side of this wall and definitely time for me to sleep as well so let’s just go ahead and go this way over to the scaffolding and we’ll go

Ahead and take a nap and then get to work in yes the next minecraft Jay but for the most part that is actually the whole ocean monument draining process so I am gonna go ahead and flip things over to a time-lapse here now answer a bunch

Of your questions talk about some of my own stuff cool things like that I’ll keep track of about how many hours I spent doing this for reference and I’ll show that at the end I might come back in with some random cuts here and there talking about I updates and things but I

Guess we’ll see but uh anyways Sam laughs I hope you enjoy oh the right gamers you know what time it is it’s Q&A time laughs the time but actually is it actually no it’s it’s not actually Q&A time lapse time quite yet that’ll be in a minute first I’d like to

Talk about something really really big that I’m sure you guys would like to hear about and maybe even get to voice your opinion on so obviously I don’t even say it at this point but society life it’s different right out it’s very weird now related to it but also

Unrelated to that fact I’ve been getting the itch for something new lately like something fresh that’s something minecraft a brand new Minecraft world or a brand new Minecraft series so the Minecraft guide this series right here is definitely not going anywhere we have lots of things to

Do and I am in love with this world super excited about it what I am considering doing is adding something else into the upload schedule maybe just once maybe twice a week that other thing well that’s where I hit a roadblock I genuinely don’t know

So not actually like to ask you guys for your opinion and it’s really what you’d like to see from me now when I say new series there are a couple conditions this new series would not be like a Minecraft guide to season 3 or something like that it needs to be completely

Different that means just a plain old regular minecraft letsplay is completely off the table I also pretty much rule anything another update related off the table as well if I do another update let’s play right now then the content will not be as exciting once the nether update actually drops

For everybody so unfortunately no another survival quite yet you’re gonna have to wait for that elites instead what we could do is another hardcore let’s play in a brand new world maybe a modded let’s play I’ve been looking at the SCP mod that looks really really

Cool I don’t know I have a couple of different ideas but I’d like to hear your guys ideas and I’d also definitely like to know what you guys are thinking and what you’d like to see if there’s something you would like to see for me is some kind of new series maybe you

Have a crazy cool idea drop that down in the comments below and if you see an idea that you would like to see leave a thumbs up on that comment so it’s the topic just pushed to the top then I know more people want to see it and

Maybe I’ll consider it a little bit more of course if I do the series you’ll get a nice special mention in that episode one 100% for sure but that’s the big thing now the Q&A time lapse so if you’ve been around this place you know how these works this is the tweet right

Here now I got a lot of replies to this time so I’m gonna pick some of the questions answer them in this next segment while we grind out this ocean monument project I’m recording this commentary afterwards and I gotta let you guys know this first part it took

Like five hours like crazy and it’s not even done it’s crazy anyways questions number one is from Leah do I have a favorite food so if you asked me this maybe a year ago it was a definite yes I would have said pizza or hamburgers because both of those things

Are good and I like them but now I’m kind of on that that salad grind day for being honest gamers I have been loving salads and it’s the weirdest thing in the world but no lie I like crave them I usually have them for lunch and uh yep I like crave salads

Now so I guess it would be a salad seriously like like just a basic salad nothing fancy but probably salad is my favorite food my second favorite food would definitely be gaming minecraft news is wondering if I’ll make a let’s play in Minecraft dungeons to answer the

Question in short kind of yes but but actually no now for those of you who don’t know Minecraft dungeons is a brand new Minecraft game coming out May 26th at least that’s the current date and it’s something completely different it’s not like normal minecraft you don’t drop

Into a world punch a tree do all all that stuff it’s actually a dungeon crawler game so you’re basically working your way through a dungeon getting gear loot power-ups cool things like that I’m definitely excited for it and I plan on making some content on it but I don’t

Know if I’m going to really do a let’s play series it definitely maybe probably won’t be called that but there will definitely be some minecraft dungeons content for sure once it releases or once I’m in the beta program unfortunately your guys did not make the cut

Big rip Liam l is wondering if I would ever consider a modded series this ties perfectly into what I was just talking about yes I would absolutely do a modded series but here’s the catch I am not experienced with modded so it wouldn’t be me like you know talking about how to

Do things it would be me learning how to do the things which would be completely different but I think it would be really really fun in particular I’ve been looking at the SCP lockdown mod I think is what it’s called lately looks really really cool for those of you that don’t

Know as CPUs are like basically creepy creatures the the dangerous the cool some of them are safe there’s a whole mod that adds a bunch of them in it looks really really fun heavily considering a modded series right now honest it just depends on your guys feedback

Oh right elite so cutting back in here from that time lapse I have made a lot of progress on this project it’s taking a long a long time but here we are currently we are sitting at just about halfway done I would say the whole front half of the monument has been drained

And it looks really really really cool now I did go ahead and drain the the entrance area to that space right there I don’t know if I’m going through the underside of the monument today or not still haven’t decided quite yet just sort of depends on I guess how much

Longer things take but now it’s time for me to start working on this stretch of the monument now this stretch will actually be a little bit easier because the monument comes up a whole lot closer to the surface of the ocean which is really really nice I think like if we’re

Talking about water blocks that I have to remove today I would be way over halfway done because that side like the front area has a it gets really really deep in some places whereas the back side like I mentioned earlier briefly it doesn’t get as deep like it goes back

Down a little bit but I don’t think anywhere near as far down as the front at least in the center for sure but I yeah I’m making lots of progress on the Frog it’s just taken a long long time but it’s okay I’ve actually just sort of been watching YouTube while I’m working

On this project watching actually some SCP mod gameplay so this one pretty fun pretty nice pretty chill pretty relaxing but yep just want to delay you know that I am now officially about halfway done so either I’ll continue the time-lapse now or I’ll go ahead and jump cut over

Towards the end of the project not too sure when I’ll do quite yet but either way I’ll be back in a minute oh boy I wonder I really really wonder what waddles will do will the time-lapse continue or will the jump cut happen away it looks like we’re in the middle

Of a time-lapse that’s right we’re gonna go ahead and come back in here with some more questions so thank you everybody who always asks these questions I love it it makes it super super fun so the next question is a really really good question from hey look Brian the

Question is how are you staying healthy with everything going on and need some motivation here so everything going on obviously the quarantine quarantine is necessary but not very fun at all I have a couple big quarantine pointers right here so let’s go ahead and get the fancy music welcome to surviving quarantine

With your boy waddles I hope you enjoyed the intro music and let’s swing it over to our guy waddles with quarantine tip number one take note elites take note quarantine pointer number one walk around your house so to stay active I walk around my house my house is not the

Biggest but I mean I can walk in it so yup that kind of works to stay active like I don’t know no lie being serious here that ain’t much but it’s honest work thing number two memes I find that I’ve been looking at more memes the

Longer the scorin teen goes on and it looks like this quarantine is going to continue to go on for more time so unfortunately I will be prescribing myself a whole lot more memes no joke I don’t know it’s this all stressful and the memes definitely are helping the next thing that I’m do

To try and stay positive through the quarantine is watch the office I’ve actually never finished the office all the way so I’ve restarted it well not restarted I’ve resumed it trying to work on it maybe I’ll finish it probably not and then finally the other big thing is YouTube I’ve been

Looking for some new fresh a series to just kind of binge and watch you know just trying it again keep my mind busy occupied that would be nice so yep just kind of watching things walking around my house and looking at memes not very exciting but the memes are fun so that’s good

Yeah quarantine life is not exciting but super super grateful that I do still get to make the videos for you guys I am so so thankful for all of you and that’s it for today’s episode of surviving quarantine with waddles let’s go back to that Q&A time-lapse stupidy asks the

Spicy question what is your favorite Italian dish definitely macaroni and cheese is that Italian with ketchup Bree like many many other people is wondering what happened to the hard core series so the hard core world that we were playing in you know then like the end of last

Year the beginning of this year Michael the great people it’s not over but it’s also kind of over now I didn’t really know what to do after the dragon fight couldn’t find the inspiration to really take on the wither or anything like that kind of just ran out of ideas and was

Really focused on the Minecraft guide world this current world so I don’t know I would kind of say that it’s over right now but then again will I release a random video maybe maybe I’m not too sure I don’t know whether our girl world is the next question is from Christian

The question is what recording software do I use so I record with an Elgato Game Capture and I do my audio with audacity audacity is free Game Capture isn’t free but I really really do like the game capture it does everything that I needed to beautifully if I do say

So myself the next question is from my guide the general a koto Kusumoto the question is does the new basalt creation lava lake paving machine el mango came up with and validate the addition of Striders in my own opinion the answer in short no the lava lake paving machines

Are really really cool and maybe will be a whole lot more efficient and impractical when it comes to lava lake travel but Striders are Striders they’re awesome I mean if I’m being honest the Strider is one of my favorite minecraft mobs already they’re really really cool so know the strategies aren’t useless

But lava lake paving machines might be a more efficient way to go the next question is from Louisiana Vader the question relates to one of my Instagram stories the question was basically am I getting bored of this world absolutely not I imagined it earlier on but I just

Wanted to reiterate that no I’m not bored of this world I love it it’s amazing and for now we’ll wrap things up with this animal crossing question from Nev the question Timmy or Tommy the answer whichever one is more talkative I can’t remember their names

I’m really bad with names and I mean it doesn’t help that they look identical but the one that talks more is my favorite so whichever one that one is not a related side note absolutely loving Animal Crossing it’s so fun this is my first animal crossing and it’s

Great it’s amazing I’ve failed you big time I’ve failed you day number 898 I I couldn’t do it I couldn’t do it yesterday I did not finish the clearing of the ocean monument but day 2 and I am still at it we’ve met a lot of progress

I hope you guys enjoyed that nice along Appanna time lapse and uh yep I’ve got a little bit more to do so I I counted here I have one more section here than two then three then four so four sections left the monument is clearly a mostly drained now uncovered which is a

Really really nice site because I’ve spent a lot of hours on this project but I am not quite done quite quite yet now I have made the executive decision to probably not do the bottom of the monument in this episode of but we will get it done it will be done sooner or

Later just a probably not in this episode I kind of need to finish this episode so I can get the next ones I made you know so I don’t fall behind so yep I just sort of wanted to come back in and give you a progress update date to

Now and the build is almost done I’m definitely done with the time lapses for this episode though I feel like you guys have seen enough and I don’t really want to bore you with just a bunch of time lapse II stuff so the time lapses are

Done I’ll go ahead and finish up this build and then jump cut magically into the future Here I am picture me you know finishing up the project and then I hear the noise yes I you you have made your way all the way out again to the ocean

Monument thank you for your beautiful overcharging a wandering trader this is amazing this is amazing Steve we’re gonna break you and we need your help I am sorry wandering trader I am NOT interested in your business go ahead climb climb you do it you do it let’s see how good of a swimmer

You really are are those boots working for you are they working for you they kind of are but not anymore llama friends you are you are we friends oh we’re friends hi buddies you guys get to live here now this is your house yours all of it all all of the space for

The llamas ha well thank you for our visiting a wandering traitor but I have a little bit more work to do I don’t feel bad about anything that I’ve done now I gotta be honest elites I don’t feel bad I would do it again 10 hours 10 hours

Elites that is the amount of time that I have spent draining the ocean around this monument hog boy that is a big big project we’re now on day 912 in this world but would you take a look at this I would say personally that all of this work is

Going to definitely be worth it and it kind of already is I mean this is an ocean monument with no water around it you really get to see the beauty of the structure and the color changing on the prism rain it’s like really really noticeable once you remove all of the

Water around this thing now the only block missing from this structure is right there at the top that’s when we I think we snuck out of this place but yep this is what an ocean monument looks like without water around it now I did go ahead and drain the edges here too so

If I were to fall from here that would pretty much be game over for me that would be really really bad so I I definitely need to be careful now there is still water inside of the oh no oh oh how did I make that oh my gosh I have

Invited you long I haven’t played way too long there’s water at the monument still there’s water on to the monument still will remove its later oh um yeah I’m gonna I shouldn’t have taken that water away oh well that was terrifying that that was terrifying okay so in

Terms of the stuff we have this much kelp and then this much like prismarine and I actually have a pufferfish as well I think that’s from a guardian not 100% sure though sandbox a full all the way and then over here bunch of boats over here even more sand inside of her work

Box we definitely need to stop back at the base next episode or before next episode or something because that’s a lot of sand but we actually might end up using some of it over here so maybe not lots of help as well but there’s one final thing that I would like to do

Before we end the episode and that is definitely go up to this platform and take a look at the ocean monument from the sky from like a why 117 yeah wow this is a big big strong structure elites I love it though it looks really really cool and I guarantee that this I

Mean I would think it would show up on the map by now because it’s fully drained we’re for a little bit more I’m kind of nervous about falling you know now but ocean monument boom top-down that’s what it looks like now but elites that is actually going to be

Just about it for this episode of the Minecraft guide now next episode I actually have something a little bit different a little special plan so keep your eyes out for that it definitely relates to this project it’s a step that I feel that I need to

Take but at the same time it’s a little bit different you’ll see soon today I would like to send a big thank-you a big shout out to my patron ground crazy May thank you very much for all of the support thank you all for watching like subscribe comment links in the

Description merch below the video go have a good one elites on until the next time it’s me your boy waddles I’ll see you around good bye