Yeah, my favorite "Pix is a beast" moment was in the original Empires series, when for storytelling reasons he walked away from everything he'd built, leaving behind all his gear and everything, went off alone into the desert in nothing but his skin, and just a couple of episodes later was already building a high-efficiency ghast farm. Because of course, when you're starting from nothing in the desert, *obviously* a high-end ghast farm would be one of the first things you'd do, that's just common sense, right?
@jonadabtheunsightly Right ?? We don't see much of it here on the Survival Guide, because its a slower pace. And while I'm a huge fan of that, I love the small glimpses of just. what he could be capable of. if he was allowed to just go and pursue whatever project he decided was fun that day
Just because these videos don’t get a ton of views right away doesn’t mean they aren’t appreciated! I see this series as something people will discover over time. The first few episodes didn’t have a huge launch but they now have hundreds of thousands of views. It’s a healthy, sustainable way to keep my channel going 🙂
@@PixlriffsMinecraft Survival guide is what got me into minecraft in the first place, when bored in covid times, I searched how to play minecraft for beginners. You have been a window for me into the minecraft world, be it hermitcraft, which I first heard from you, empires and other aspects as well. Minecraft survival guide and the teacher's role you fulfill in the community is very much appreciated.
Hi Pix. I've played Minecraft for many years, in many iterations and I still come back to your survival guide series. Inevitably I learn something I never knew before, but even if I don't, I'm always entertained and impressed by your presentation. I seldom comment on other people's work but just wanted to drop some appreciation and thanks for the care and effort that you pour into your work and the many hours of value it has provided.
Thanks for making (and continuing to make) the Survival Guide series. I've been playing since 2012 but I've still learned a ton from your videos and have improved a lot since watching. Yesterday was the first time I fought the dragon in a solo world, mainly because this guide finally made me feel confident enough to do so. (And I didn't die!)
The grace that you have while playing this game ever ceases to amaze me. Still calmly giving a tutorial in a calm understandable tone, whilst under the pressure of being in the nether bombarded with blazers and ghasts. Or always a pleasure and an inspiration watching your videos, Cheers Pix
Another cool episode Pix. It's common to see in vids builders running out of blocks. TIP A stack of 64 blocks covers an 8X8 area, or 4 stacks covers one chunk. I haven't seen or heard mention of this basic math fact in ANY Minecraft videos. So, I charge you with the task of spreading knowledge of the 'Four stack chunk rule'. I know it's clear after you've been told, but everyone I've pointed it out to has been surprised at how they missed something so obvious. Also, put a hopper under where the snowmen land, preload with one sheared pumpkin in each slot, and stand closer to the hole, it's annoying loosing pumpkins. Around the snowman hole I replaced an endstone block with snow so as to middle click pick block. Well done explaining the bounding boxes without using a mod to show them. Finally, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this, please join the next 'Life' series with the Hermits and Empires cast. Keep up the great content ❤
I love the “remakes” through the seasons of Survival Guide. As the game changes just the feeling of 4 months ago rather than 1 year ago when searching for videos helps a ton. Thanks
I started playing Minecraft during the pandemic during 1.16. I came across you and wattles while scrolling UA-cam during the lockdown. Started on bedrock and moved to Java for 1.18. I absolutely LOVE this series!! Can’t wait to build this in my world!
i thought this was another episode of SOS to be extremely honest but so glad i get a tutorial on a wither farm instead :D very much appreciate it, gunna save this for future reference!
That's a good point. While I'm impressed by many of the big technical builds I see, what I need is something scaled down, that I can do alone. I can do the things I see in these vids, put my own spin on them
thank you so much for making this. i made a design based off another videos farm and my spawn rates are terrible. thank you for taking the time to go thru all possible steps and explaining why they work. it helps ppl like me to retrofit a previous build to incorporate those things that'll fix it without just completely restarting from scratch
As soon as you said convenient farm for that and quick stop at pumpkin farm I knew it was Ian’s wither rose farm. Such a great farm, his entire Minecraft Elegance series is fantastic
So it finally happens in survival guide. Good luck! For mine I went out 4,000 blocks for a quad intersection farm, and in the end placed 70k slabs or so, with a lot being in a basalt delta or crimson forest. Hopefully yours has more lava 😂
Nice to see ianxO4 design here. Using the same setup to make those flowers. I had to build a fast unloader from ilmango to handle all those snowballs and flowers collected from under the wither platform. The snow production is higher than the input. Which makes this a snow farm as well.
some ~math~ for the folks wanting to build The bounding box of crossroads is 19x19 (7x7 extra blocks in each corner) hey require 361 blocks (5 stacks & 41) each to fill (so 361 netherrack, 361 wither roses, etc.) in the vertical space of a bounding box, 3 floors with a height of 3 can fit if you go to the bottom like at 16:13 Any lower/higher won't be in the bounding box, but CAN spawn fortress mobs if on nether bricks
I made a wither skeleton farm and spawnproofed a fortress that had lava lakes around it but also a lot of Nether Wastes and a bit of Chrimson Forest. To put it into perspective how long it took to spawnproof as much as I needed to I must mention that I listened to the audiobook "Thousand Sons", which takes nearly 20 hours to go through. I am confident that I listened easily through the entire last fourth of the book and was still not entirely finished with spawnproofing. And I also think that I actually started building my farm when I was just halfway through the book, but I listened to a chapter or two when I wasn't playing Minecraft.
I didn't notice that part and am watching this late so I thought it was the follow-up and got a fair way in. Started thinking things like "wait has he been using the old netherrack texture this whole season?," "wait he talked about wither skeleton rules last time but didn't I don't recall him using the mod," and finally "hold on this is a completely different design -- when is this from??" XD
Instead of using flowerpots I am using Snow layers (4) which gives the right height for the view in between the stairs and slabs above... I was watching the video and the thought occurred to me... surely with the snow golems the answer is right there? So I googled it, and any snow layer of 2 layers to 7 layers is non-spawnable, yay!! It's an elegant solution, as it's really cheap and gives our captive snow golems a feeling of being more useful :) ***of course the silk touch shovel is needed for that harvest!
The Nether terrifies me but the more I've watched you on SOS (and this series too) I am delving deeper into the biomes. Can I make a skele farm? Doubtful. Will I try? Heck yeah XD
I'm a big fan of ianxofour's portal-based wither skeleton farm solely because it meant I didn't have to button or slab anything. I know that's not as lag friendly, tho
Sticky piston to move an observer in front of another going straight into the dispenser for the carved pumpkins. They won’t place unless there is something there to receive it, like making a snowman or an iron golem. The dispenser will just click empty until you build a double high snow block for it to dispense a carved pumpkin onto the head of. Add a hoper to the bottom of the tunnel and you’ll go 100% lossless when it comes to carved pumpkins.
I had made a previous iteration of Pix's farm, and the piglins that were used kept ending up dying somehow, even tho I built the farm exactly as Pix did. Hopefully, this new version of the farm doesn't have that issue
wouldn't warped and crimson stem be best for boarder since they don't burn? Still no blast resistance but fire wort effect them. Also you missed a great joke in that you have buttoned up the nether fortress..
Why not just dig it all out instead of putting buttons ? If i have found the same Fortress do i have to get rid of the caves under the lava inside the 128 block radius ?
The way that pack spawning works in soul sand valleys and warped forests means that there are only a small number of spawns outside the fortress so doing a large amount of spawn proofing outside the fortress is not necessary.
If they're spawnable space, then getting rid of them will improve the efficiency of the farm, at least a little. (The larger they are, the more relevant that is.) But since the Sci-Craft server already exists, you don't need to create it; and that means you don't necessarily need to achieve the very highest efficiency possible. At some point, the law of diminishing returns kicks in and you decide that your farm is efficient enough to meet your needs, and putting in several times as much effort in order to boost the farm's rate by another 10%, may not be worth it, when you can just afk at the farm 10% longer instead. Exactly where that line is drawn will vary from player to player because, among other things, it depends on how often you're going to be using the farm and for how long. If you're trying to fill a double chest full of shulker boxes full of beacons for an upcoming project and expect to have more projects like that in the future, then you're going to care a lot more about the wither skeleton farm's efficiency than if you only expect to need maybe a couple dozen beacons total over the course of your entire time in this Minecraft world.
@pixlriffs As a player who if I attempted to build that I would die 600 times loosing ALL my tools, armor, and skulker boxes. As a survival guide would you be willing to cover the topics losing everything, how to recover/rebuild back up in less time, how to not get discouraged, and other things that might lower the anxiety less skilled players like myself experience?
Im horrified and impressed by the kind of guy who'd willingly build two wither skeleton farms in the span of a few weeks
Yeah, my favorite "Pix is a beast" moment was in the original Empires series, when for storytelling reasons he walked away from everything he'd built, leaving behind all his gear and everything, went off alone into the desert in nothing but his skin, and just a couple of episodes later was already building a high-efficiency ghast farm. Because of course, when you're starting from nothing in the desert, *obviously* a high-end ghast farm would be one of the first things you'd do, that's just common sense, right?
@jonadabtheunsightly Right ?? We don't see much of it here on the Survival Guide, because its a slower pace. And while I'm a huge fan of that, I love the small glimpses of just. what he could be capable of. if he was allowed to just go and pursue whatever project he decided was fun that day
The balls on this guy, right?!
You're talking about a guy that's built multiple David's on multiple servers.
I hope down-to-earth videos like this get recognition again
Just because these videos don’t get a ton of views right away doesn’t mean they aren’t appreciated! I see this series as something people will discover over time. The first few episodes didn’t have a huge launch but they now have hundreds of thousands of views. It’s a healthy, sustainable way to keep my channel going 🙂
@@Pixlriffs glad to see that you're not looking forward to discontinue this type of content :)
@@Pixlriffs Heck, it hasn't been that long since I went back and binge-watched most of the *original* Survival Guide series again.
@@Pixlriffstakes me time to catch up with everything going on at the moment. Worth it 😊
@@PixlriffsMinecraft Survival guide is what got me into minecraft in the first place, when bored in covid times, I searched how to play minecraft for beginners. You have been a window for me into the minecraft world, be it hermitcraft, which I first heard from you, empires and other aspects as well.
Minecraft survival guide and the teacher's role you fulfill in the community is very much appreciated.
Hi Pix. I've played Minecraft for many years, in many iterations and I still come back to your survival guide series. Inevitably I learn something I never knew before, but even if I don't, I'm always entertained and impressed by your presentation. I seldom comment on other people's work but just wanted to drop some appreciation and thanks for the care and effort that you pour into your work and the many hours of value it has provided.
Thanks for making (and continuing to make) the Survival Guide series. I've been playing since 2012 but I've still learned a ton from your videos and have improved a lot since watching. Yesterday was the first time I fought the dragon in a solo world, mainly because this guide finally made me feel confident enough to do so. (And I didn't die!)
Took a mf 12 years to beat the game
The grace that you have while playing this game ever ceases to amaze me. Still calmly giving a tutorial in a calm understandable tone, whilst under the pressure of being in the nether bombarded with blazers and ghasts. Or always a pleasure and an inspiration watching your videos, Cheers Pix
Another cool episode Pix.
It's common to see in vids builders running out of blocks.
TIP
A stack of 64 blocks covers an 8X8 area, or 4 stacks covers one chunk.
I haven't seen or heard mention of this basic math fact in ANY Minecraft videos. So, I charge you with the task of spreading knowledge of the 'Four stack chunk rule'. I know it's clear after you've been told, but everyone I've pointed it out to has been surprised at how they missed something so obvious.
Also, put a hopper under where the snowmen land, preload with one sheared pumpkin in each slot, and stand closer to the hole, it's annoying loosing pumpkins. Around the snowman hole I replaced an endstone block with snow so as to middle click pick block.
Well done explaining the bounding boxes without using a mod to show them.
Finally, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this, please join the next 'Life' series with the Hermits and Empires cast.
Keep up the great content ❤
2:52 I'm glad to know I can make use of so many buttons from my first attempt at auto crafting that have been gathering dust in a chest
I love the “remakes” through the seasons of Survival Guide. As the game changes just the feeling of 4 months ago rather than 1 year ago when searching for videos helps a ton. Thanks
Didn't know you can shear the carved pumpkins off the head of snowmen.
Love it 😂!
I started playing Minecraft during the pandemic during 1.16. I came across you and wattles while scrolling UA-cam during the lockdown. Started on bedrock and moved to Java for 1.18. I absolutely LOVE this series!! Can’t wait to build this in my world!
it's so cool to hear of people picking up minecraft relatively recently! hope you enjoy and don't sweat the inevitable losses
i thought this was another episode of SOS to be extremely honest but so glad i get a tutorial on a wither farm instead :D
very much appreciate it, gunna save this for future reference!
Always a treat - love this down-to-earth approach to farms designed for single-player worlds!
That's a good point. While I'm impressed by many of the big technical builds I see, what I need is something scaled down, that I can do alone. I can do the things I see in these vids, put my own spin on them
thank you so much for making this. i made a design based off another videos farm and my spawn rates are terrible. thank you for taking the time to go thru all possible steps and explaining why they work. it helps ppl like me to retrofit a previous build to incorporate those things that'll fix it without just completely restarting from scratch
As soon as you said convenient farm for that and quick stop at pumpkin farm I knew it was Ian’s wither rose farm. Such a great farm, his entire Minecraft Elegance series is fantastic
Great Video! Loved it Pixlriffs! Keep it up
So it finally happens in survival guide. Good luck! For mine I went out 4,000 blocks for a quad intersection farm, and in the end placed 70k slabs or so, with a lot being in a basalt delta or crimson forest. Hopefully yours has more lava 😂
"unbotton a nether fortress"
- pixlriffs, 2024
Nice to see ianxO4 design here. Using the same setup to make those flowers.
I had to build a fast unloader from ilmango to handle all those snowballs and flowers collected from under the wither platform. The snow production is higher than the input. Which makes this a snow farm as well.
some ~math~ for the folks wanting to build
The bounding box of crossroads is 19x19 (7x7 extra blocks in each corner)
hey require 361 blocks (5 stacks & 41) each to fill (so 361 netherrack, 361 wither roses, etc.)
in the vertical space of a bounding box, 3 floors with a height of 3 can fit if you go to the bottom like at 16:13
Any lower/higher won't be in the bounding box, but CAN spawn fortress mobs if on nether bricks
That is one clean looking thumbnail my guy. Chefs kiss
I made a wither skeleton farm and spawnproofed a fortress that had lava lakes around it but also a lot of Nether Wastes and a bit of Chrimson Forest.
To put it into perspective how long it took to spawnproof as much as I needed to I must mention that I listened to the audiobook "Thousand Sons", which takes nearly 20 hours to go through.
I am confident that I listened easily through the entire last fourth of the book and was still not entirely finished with spawnproofing.
And I also think that I actually started building my farm when I was just halfway through the book, but I listened to a chapter or two when I wasn't playing Minecraft.
14:15 this is really sad!! the poor snowmen😂😂
ooh I haven't seen the snow golem method for getting wither roses before. definitely going to use that
So glad you didn't go the Rendog route! We wouldn't have seen any content from you for weeks hahaha.
youtube recommending me "Wither Skeleton Farm, Pt.2 - The Minecraft Survival Guide" (4 years ago) made me chuckle.
I didn't notice that part and am watching this late so I thought it was the follow-up and got a fair way in. Started thinking things like "wait has he been using the old netherrack texture this whole season?," "wait he talked about wither skeleton rules last time but didn't I don't recall him using the mod," and finally "hold on this is a completely different design -- when is this from??" XD
Started this serie a week ago now im here 👍🏻
Excellent video pix!
Instead of using flowerpots I am using Snow layers (4) which gives the right height for the view in between the stairs and slabs above... I was watching the video and the thought occurred to me... surely with the snow golems the answer is right there? So I googled it, and any snow layer of 2 layers to 7 layers is non-spawnable, yay!! It's an elegant solution, as it's really cheap and gives our captive snow golems a feeling of being more useful :) ***of course the silk touch shovel is needed for that harvest!
Thank you for the chill video to background play while I game and do house work 🤠
The Nether terrifies me but the more I've watched you on SOS (and this series too) I am delving deeper into the biomes. Can I make a skele farm? Doubtful. Will I try? Heck yeah XD
Great timing Pix. Working on mine as well.
Oooh wither skeletons!
I'm a big fan of ianxofour's portal-based wither skeleton farm solely because it meant I didn't have to button or slab anything. I know that's not as lag friendly, tho
Also requires two players to operate in multiplayer, whereas designs like this can be built on servers without that issue.
Use scaffolding and fire res potions to clear out large areas of lava in your world.
I just went to get some Wither Skellie Skulls! THanks Pixleriffs!
Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.
Mom said it’s my turn to write the comment 😒
Today I learned that flowers can burn.
Best minecraft guides
I like how he talks to me when he’s doing “boring” things like spawn proofing so I feel like I’m chatting with a friend
A bit easier than on a hardcore ish server. This looks like a beast of a farm with that soul sand valley fortress 😮
Sticky piston to move an observer in front of another going straight into the dispenser for the carved pumpkins. They won’t place unless there is something there to receive it, like making a snowman or an iron golem. The dispenser will just click empty until you build a double high snow block for it to dispense a carved pumpkin onto the head of.
Add a hoper to the bottom of the tunnel and you’ll go 100% lossless when it comes to carved pumpkins.
Starkes Video, gute Arbeit
You've got this project buttoned-up...😂
Got one in the middle of a lava lake. No other spawns than the fortress. Unfortunately no double blaze spawner thou.
an amazing spawn !! sounds dangerous on first pass though
@@franziska9260i died 3 times. I play pocket.
I had made a previous iteration of Pix's farm, and the piglins that were used kept ending up dying somehow, even tho I built the farm exactly as Pix did. Hopefully, this new version of the farm doesn't have that issue
6:24 pix loads arrow to kill the wither skeleton..
The Wither skelton's Zombie Piglin Gf - Don't kill him
I wonder after The Wither Skeleton farm can you do a Frog Light Farm next
Nice
Can you do a shukker farm when you're done with this one
Shulkker
Let’s get pix to 1M!
I'm the viewer the completed the stack! 64th view baby!
can u duo live stream on UA-cam and twitch for your UA-cam viewers ?
I didn’t even know you could make a wither sideways
first person to like and comment! ur vid are amazing btw
Good heavens a second one????
So for some reason the second dispenser didn’t manage to shear the golem, is it just server lag?
wouldn't warped and crimson stem be best for boarder since they don't burn? Still no blast resistance but fire wort effect them. Also you missed a great joke in that you have buttoned up the nether fortress..
Yo, what's up pix😎
Can you make a blaze farm tho ?
Hi pix
In your video, Do you give tipes for bedrock addition also ?
I try, but I don’t really play bedrock edition so I don’t know enough to cover everything.
@@Pixlriffs ok thanks
What is the reason for shearing the pumpkin off the snow golem before putting them into the chamber?
So you get the pumpkin back. Killing a snow golem only drops snow, but shearing off the pumpkin first lets you refill the dispenser
Hery look! A mob farm tutorial made for second monitors!
Why not just dig it all out instead of putting buttons ? If i have found the same Fortress do i have to get rid of the caves under the lava inside the 128 block radius ?
The way that pack spawning works in soul sand valleys and warped forests means that there are only a small number of spawns outside the fortress so doing a large amount of spawn proofing outside the fortress is not necessary.
And while you could mine out all the blocks making up the fortress that's a very slow, tedious, and unnecessary process.
@@64bit_link even for bedrock?
@@Christopher-cr7pw bedrock edition is a completely different story that I can't speak to
If they're spawnable space, then getting rid of them will improve the efficiency of the farm, at least a little. (The larger they are, the more relevant that is.) But since the Sci-Craft server already exists, you don't need to create it; and that means you don't necessarily need to achieve the very highest efficiency possible. At some point, the law of diminishing returns kicks in and you decide that your farm is efficient enough to meet your needs, and putting in several times as much effort in order to boost the farm's rate by another 10%, may not be worth it, when you can just afk at the farm 10% longer instead. Exactly where that line is drawn will vary from player to player because, among other things, it depends on how often you're going to be using the farm and for how long. If you're trying to fill a double chest full of shulker boxes full of beacons for an upcoming project and expect to have more projects like that in the future, then you're going to care a lot more about the wither skeleton farm's efficiency than if you only expect to need maybe a couple dozen beacons total over the course of your entire time in this Minecraft world.
@pixlriffs As a player who if I attempted to build that I would die 600 times loosing ALL my tools, armor, and skulker boxes. As a survival guide would you be willing to cover the topics losing everything, how to recover/rebuild back up in less time, how to not get discouraged, and other things that might lower the anxiety less skilled players like myself experience?
works in java? 1.20
I’m wondering how I can change the snapshot of my Nintendo switch?
Can you do a world download
How did you trap the wither because I can’t do it I’m on bedrock
He plays on Java
Why use buttons and not torches?
Several nether mobs are still able to spawn in full light levels (zombie piglins, magma cubes, and ghasts).
@Pixlriffs Thank you! I appreciate such a prompt reply! It's humbling.
Is Part 2 a victim of the computer troubles 😢?
Now wither skeleton farm
Ohhhhh I am da first one heck ye
WHATS THE SEED? (10TH DAY ASKING)
Go watch the start of the series he mentioned the seed there
,thx