Of course the Copper King himself would end up with an absurd amount of copper. Another great episode Pix! Can’t wait to see what we get up to in the next one!
@@jujoya the copper king was pix’s persona’s nickname in Empires SMP season one. “David” was the name of his copper aging facility. ‘Cause “David Copperfield” (a Charles Dickens novel) and it was a copper field.
Just wanted to say thank you for this series. My 7 year old son has been desperate to play survival mode and this series equipped me with the knowledge to be able to play with him without him driving me mad. I mean, he still dies by falling a lot but it’s a lot easier for me to replace all the lost gear and not be annoyed by it. 😂 I am late to Minecraft and I just want to say what a fantastic job the developers have done with their procedural generation. I found a random cave while mining yesterday, and I can’t remember the last time a game made me feel genuine awe. I think we think that something that looks like Minecraft does shouldn’t be able to do that, but turns out it’s not graphics, it’s scale. My son and I adore exploring caves, it feels like real adventure.
If losing items is too much of a bother I'd recommend turning keep inventory on (the command is /gamerule keepInventory true). That allows you to keep everything on you when you die. 👍
Fun fact about large vein generation: It uses essentially the same algorithm as the old-school cave generation, except the space is filled with a mix of stone, granite, copper ore and some raw copper blocks, or with deepslate, tuff, deepslate iron ore and some raw iron blocks.
just found one with 6 stacks of blocks and there still prolly more and i was so confused. gotta go home n place these all down to mine again with fortune😔🤣
I still remember finding my first iron vein. I thought it was huge, then found out I'd only found a quarter of it. Even though it's been a few years I still haven't found a copper vein though. And now I learned that I probably never will since I pretty much exclusively mine in deepslate level.
David 6.0 begins!! Hope your PC is on the mend Pix! Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge 😊💜 I've been watching since Series 1 and still learn new stuff from you all the time!
I always like finding the coordinates of a vein, going just above, digging a 9x9 to start and moss blocking, everything but the ore converts and I don't worry about getting lost, scaffolding is helpful though
@@timohara7717 for the moment you make a good point, but I'll be surprised if they don't make tuff a craftable block like diorite or granite soon. I'd hope they do it this update but who knows
Oh shoot I didn't even think about using moss blocks to excavate it! That's brilliant! I've got enough tuff to build a castle, but now I can save on pickaxe usage!
My 5 year old daughter is amazing at minecraft. She can see something once and build it. She adores you and has me watch pixlriffs daily. I ask her how she got so good at minecraft and her answer is always "pixlriffs" or "watching pixlriffs". She wants to see you make a cat house is where I'm getting at here. She didn't elaborate on size or anything but yeah shes keeping an eye out for a cat house video by pixlriffs. Her name is Jovie, btw, in case you needed to know.
If you're someone that's looking for copper ore, you can't do better than finding a large dripstone cave that also has a copper vein running through it. Set up a lava farm for fuel, and you'll have enough copper for most needs.
I'm a night owl, and the only window in my gaming room is behind me when I'm sat at my PC. Seeing a Pixlriffs vid in my notifications is my personal warning sign that I've stayed up all night playing Minecraft or No Man's Sky*. *AGAIN
You know it's funny, I was just rewatching some old episodes from season 1 of the Survival Guide, and you were talking about how useless the blast furnace was- these huge veins (and copper in general) really do make the blast furnace valuable to have nowadays
Hey Pix, I love the episode. In my new 1.20 world, I found an ancient city next to spawn thanks to an iron vein that led into it, across it and well beyond it! 😮
I like Jack o lanterns for marking large mining complexes. They can be used to spawnproof deep water and are easily obtainable early in game. If a vein leaves an inconvenient hole, I cover the surface of the hole. Scaffolding is so much better than pillaring up when you are not being attacked. It is great for mining high cave ceilings and bridging gaps. You can exploit the max placement distance of horizontal scaffolding to pillar down. Once scaffolding reaches the max placement distance over a void, the next scaffolding placed drops like gravel or sand until it matches the horizontal scaffolding.
With all that much copper, I see a small timeline of events that can happen. I can't quite remember if you found a dripstone cave in this series already? Regardless, a dripstone cave can bring a lava farm with it. And conversely, that lava farm can go into a super smelter build.
It feels like they really missed an opportunity with Blast Furnace and smokers. Saving time isn't really important for things the player doesn't need to actively participate in so their gimmick is generally just ignored. They could have really made them a part of progression by giving them a more unique focus that really feels like they're a massive upgrade. Blast Furnace should have been able to smelt the full raw ore block making it feel like not just a time save but also an efficiency buff, the Smoker could have had the fuel last significantly longer such that a single coal block could make it through a whole stack. Smelting in general is already inefficient by nature when you can use Fire enchants for meat and and most ores can be gotten with AFK farms, buffing them like that would not have really broken anything.
I feel a +50% fuel efficiency would be reasonable amount and I really like the idea of them having exclusive smelting capabilities. I do feel it should be limited to not include entirely new items but I do think it could be cool to be able to smelt more items with them
@@DarthVader-wk9sd That's a coal block, I mean the coal itself. In such a system the whole block would get a similar upgrade. What matters isn't time saved, it's effort, and having longer lasting fuel is more about not having to refuel the thing as often.
great video, as usual. I wish mojang would make copper tools (maybe with the same "mining level" of iron, but with less durability. Honestly you find a lot of copper, but it doesnt have many uses, except of a couple of recipes, and of course, building. Feels like a missed opportunity to have a tier in between stone and iron tools and armors
a tool between gold and iron simply either would not get used, or would be used to a degree that iron's relevance would be knocked out completely honestly. adding more mid-tier tools to an already debatably unsatisfying progression tree feels doomed to be unbalanced and imo shouldn't be where their focus should be with copper expansion. i guess there's a slightly stronger argument for copper armour, especially if it were a chainmail-like mob drop exclusive from drowneds, but otherwise? nah. theres absolutely room for technical expansion w copper's possibilities (especially with redstone) and i hope we see them in future, but i really think they made the right call to not include copper tools and armour, especially when u consider that the early design + dev on the trims had likey been ongoing for a good while. but on that note. tool trims mojang. please. let us have gilded tools to quickly visually distinguish different enchants. p.s. i know a lot of people dont like building with it either because of the aging mechanic or the colour palette and while it obviously would not be functional in anyway at this time, using copper blocks as your base block for redstone lines in contraptions would be a fun way to burn through your copper supplies in a way that feels a little bit relevant. though that does also run the risk of mojang one day going "haha so get this we're gonna make copper blocks double the strength of redstone, so now u need less repeaters". p.p.s. the sea lantern (shards or block) + oxidised copper + redstone = an alternate teal & white coloured redstone lamp would be appreciated by many i think
Anyone remember that Cubfan135 once made an entire biome out of raw iron ore blocks? Think about how pix just collected about 5 stacks of raw ore blocks in 90 minutes. Now think about how quickly you burn through materials when building larger areas. Yeah, it's pretty insane.
Thanks for another excellent episode. I had the delightful surprise of finding a massive copper vein intersecting the trail ruin I was excavating. What a shock that was!
I'm currently doing the opposite for the iron vein; I'm digging out all non-precious blocks around it. Its fascinating how much it is! The livestream was why I returned to that cave :)
On bedrock, in my current world, i found a massive copper vein. I soent over 6 hours mining it and i STILL havent completely cleared it out. I basically strip mined it, rather than vein chasing. I should really get back over there...
This is cool! Going to hop over to watch the stream VOD cause I love your chill chopping and mining streams, but I'll be back for the video results! I look forward to you setting up an iron farm, letting it run for 90 minutes, then showing us the compared results.
I found two iron veins in my survival world but after I already built my iron farm. So for the one right under my base, I cleared all remaining stone and tuff and kept just the iron and any other valuable ores. Makes a cool structure.
Whenever I encounter a giant vein, I mine every block around the ore top to bottom as much as possible. it definitely puts a strain on my netherite pick, but it's so worth it
This makes me wish Mojang made copper and iron ore that generates as part of those large sprawling veins should have Granite copper ore and Tuff iron ore variant blocks respectively.
Use stone pickaxes to take out the granite since we all have chests upon chests of cobblestone, or use iron pickaxes if you've Fortuned quite a but of it. Then use Silk Touch or Fortune on the ores you come across.
I'm five minutes in right now and I truly do very much look forward to this topic. I have found a vein or two in my world but I only just mine what I can see, I don't understand how the tactics work to not just be digging randomly or away from the vein.
I just got so excited. Watching your video as I’m playing Minecraft’s and guess what…i found deepslate iron with tuff around it😃😃😃. 3 iron, that was it then it was all gone. I feel sad
If anyone's curious, according to google, it'll take about 2500 copper blocks to make a life sized statue of liberty (give or take given that the statue of liberty isn't made of cubes)
I dug out that entire iron vein (I think) and it took several hours, so I think you left quite a bit behind. Let's just say I won't be needing to worry about an iron farm any time soon.
Remember that you can mine deep slate with moss and bone meal, then break the moss instantaneously with a hoe. You can use the excess moss to make more bone meal in the compost bin.
I'm just so perplexed why copper doesnt play a bigger part in this game.... its so easy to get stacks and stacks and stacks but what is copper actually good for. I hope they figure out a way to make copper more useful OR at least optional
When asked about this, Mojang pointed out that lots of uses for iron have been added since Iron was originally introduced. Iron kinda gets a free pass because it's part of the tool progression, but things like hoppers, cauldrons, anvils, blast furnaces, chains, crossbows, iron trapdoors, weighted pressure plates, shields - those were all added long after iron was introduced.
@@Pixlriffs interesting... well if they could give us the capability to make square-like copper piping, or copper wire-type of string, I think copper would open many building possibilities
I ignore copper and dispose of it when I do have to mine some, it seems useless to me as I don’t like the look of it whilst building.. am I missing something?
If you don’t have any plans to build with the blocks, it’s safe to ignore for now. The only other uses of copper are infrequent (lightning rods, archaeology brushes, spyglasses, and armour trim.) They might add more uses to it in future updates though, so it might be worth keeping some around!
I found a promising area under my building! Gonna go check it out. See what I get! Thanks Pixl! Gonna watch a few more videos before I get into my building and mining!!! ;-)
When you mine iron ore with Fortune III, you're getting a maximum of 4 raw iron per ore, and you have the option of crafting 9 raw iron into a block, so you actually *save* space using fortune on iron ore. Copper ore can give you a lot more raw material, but the Minecraft Wiki says the average is 7.7 raw copper per ore block with Fortune III, so by that logic you're actually still saving inventory space by mining with fortune and condensing the raw copper into blocks. Also means you don't have to mine every block twice.
In fact, if you look at the video, this is mathematically proven! In the chest at 8:40 have about 890 blocks of raw copper in that chest, after mining 1086 copper ores. So I've actually saved 3 stacks of inventory space.
I found in my seed a huge mountain of copper, coal and Emeralds. I do not have any of the ender chests but I do have a boat with a chest. I have found a full inventory of coal and copper and have to keep coming back from my house so I can get more. I have never seen so much resources at once above ground.
Boxed in villagers are effective and always there when you need them, but I think it would be cool to surround you house with a small village. A house for every profession. thats what Im gonna do In my world Im playing right now.
The fact you can smelt ores making ingots, then craft ingots into tools, I wonder why Mojang never added other types of ore to make alloys (and a furnace to combine two types of ore). For instance, copper and tin make bronze, copper and zinc make brass. Maybe they already settled on Diamond being the hardest mineral to craft into tools, making alloys seem pointless. It would give copper another use though, and you could maybe craft small decorative statues from the alloy!
That's generally one of the things I miss after coming back to vanilla from modded -- more variety of tool materials from additional ores and alloys. Some mods also add different abilities and buffs to the different materials depending on how you combine them. I suspect Mojang wants to keep the tool/armor progression of vanilla simple, though.
I’m happy with vanilla and haven’t tried any mods yet. Possibly in the future, who knows. There’s so many new things to discover now like archeology that it keeps me entertained, I never get bored with it😃
nice tho since mining veins like you said can end up maze like even with torchers being placed on one side when caving for easier pathfinding. how about a short vid on alternative ways of marking ones path in and out of maze like caves where torches wont helps as much? maybe use of flags, blocks placed on walls that dont spawn in caves etc?
He mentioned using uncovered diamond/redstone ore blocks as landmarks in the video, the only real way to find your way around, together with using non-native blocks like cobblestone to mark your path. I can't think of a better way than this either.
Hmm, what Y-level do you typically find those huge iron veins? Asking because I need the iron not only for a Mystical Agriculture farm, but also for an army of iron golems.
Hello, I like your videos. I learned a lot. I'm new to minecraft. I just started playing last month. I would also like to see you playing minecraft in ice spikes biome. I just learned it a very challenging place to survive. I love ice and snowy place 😅
That's interesting, because I've often heard people say they have a hard time finding iron ore veins - but I guess if you spend a lot of time mining in deepslate layers instead of stone layers, you're much less likely to stumble upon copper veins.
Pix you've probobly been asked this multiple times already, but are you still doing New Life SMP? I was really excited to see everything you could do with the create mod? I know your probobly super focused on the survival guide, but I was still hoping to see a NL:SMP episode every once in a while ^_^
As I mentioned on my community post, my PC had to go in for repairs, and since Survival Guide is easier & faster to make episodes from, it took priority. New Life is on hiatus until I say otherwise.
@@Pixlriffs Sorry man. I totally should have checked that first. My bad. Hope your rig gets fixxed soon. ^_^ Me and my son have watched your content since he was 4 (now 7). You have pretty much taught us both almost everything we know about minecraft. I don't think our relationship would be as great as it is without you. -_^
I enjoy this video very much and learned a fair amount from it but am I the only one who was up just a little bit triggered because of every time picks decide to run clean past unmined gold ore? Either way I'm not worried angry or anything like that it's just if he's a completionist pick up the gold ore in a redstone while you're at it man make it clean job of it huh?
How do you mine red stone ? I have the same seed world and found a hughe cave with alot of materials but i dont have a silk touch pickaxe. Im still working on obtaining a enchanted table
You need an iron pick to be able to get redstone dust from the blocks, silk touch isn't necessary but can make travel easier. You can also get it from a cleric villager of course
Ya but that's because originally all Y levels were positive and there wasn't any plan to expand it. Then when they did, they wanted to do the least amount of "damage" to existing worlds so came up with negative Y levels and expanded the upper range too. But agreed, in a "perfect" scenario the world should generate sea level at 0 and then go +/- from there, for the current total world height of 381 (which is odd in itself).
I like to stand at my skeleton farm and watch your episodes in 4-5 minutes bits. But at the start of this episode there's pillager and witch sounds and it really confused me :-D. Is it my minecraft or your minecraft?? :-).
Actually, no - lightning rods redirect lightning regardless of height, with a spherical radius of 128 blocks. So as long as my house and the villagers are within that sphere, the rod protects them.
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Pix is a certified Minecraft mentor
And a good one given the lack of hyoeractivity, and the lack of an overly drawn out, terrible, dubstep intro
Yep. He mentored me from my MC start.
Bro is a Minecraft master, Minecraft menace even
Man is a Minecraft living LEGEND
*always has been*
Of course the Copper King himself would end up with an absurd amount of copper.
Another great episode Pix! Can’t wait to see what we get up to in the next one!
It's a shame David probably won't make an appearance for some time 😅
Copper king?
David???
@@jujoya the copper king was pix’s persona’s nickname in Empires SMP season one. “David” was the name of his copper aging facility. ‘Cause “David Copperfield” (a Charles Dickens novel) and it was a copper field.
Copper is literally everywhere. So much so that i leave it alone most the time unless i am using it for something.
Just wanted to say thank you for this series. My 7 year old son has been desperate to play survival mode and this series equipped me with the knowledge to be able to play with him without him driving me mad.
I mean, he still dies by falling a lot but it’s a lot easier for me to replace all the lost gear and not be annoyed by it. 😂
I am late to Minecraft and I just want to say what a fantastic job the developers have done with their procedural generation. I found a random cave while mining yesterday, and I can’t remember the last time a game made me feel genuine awe.
I think we think that something that looks like Minecraft does shouldn’t be able to do that, but turns out it’s not graphics, it’s scale.
My son and I adore exploring caves, it feels like real adventure.
"it's not graphics, it's scale" I think this is the best description I have heard explaining Minecraft's popularity!
If losing items is too much of a bother I'd recommend turning keep inventory on (the command is /gamerule keepInventory true). That allows you to keep everything on you when you die. 👍
It's always a good day when there is a Pixlriffs video. 🙂
True story. I’m new to Minecraft. So I live for his next video!
Fun fact about large vein generation: It uses essentially the same algorithm as the old-school cave generation, except the space is filled with a mix of stone, granite, copper ore and some raw copper blocks, or with deepslate, tuff, deepslate iron ore and some raw iron blocks.
it seems like new school
just found one with 6 stacks of blocks and there still prolly more and i was so confused. gotta go home n place these all down to mine again with fortune😔🤣
I still remember finding my first iron vein. I thought it was huge, then found out I'd only found a quarter of it.
Even though it's been a few years I still haven't found a copper vein though. And now I learned that I probably never will since I pretty much exclusively mine in deepslate level.
You can find them from the surface. Just peek into the ravines when you encounter them. You got a pretty good chance of finding a vein.
Also try going swimming. I've never gone underwater caving/mining from rivers and not ended up finding a copper vein, as crazy as that sounds
ive only found one in suvival two in creative and yea they like water@@caitlinhenn5102
David 6.0 begins!!
Hope your PC is on the mend Pix!
Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge 😊💜
I've been watching since Series 1 and still learn new stuff from you all the time!
I always like finding the coordinates of a vein, going just above, digging a 9x9 to start and moss blocking, everything but the ore converts and I don't worry about getting lost, scaffolding is helpful though
Smart technique!!
but the exlusive blocks especily tuff since its non renewible and now has blocks
@@timohara7717 for the moment you make a good point, but I'll be surprised if they don't make tuff a craftable block like diorite or granite soon. I'd hope they do it this update but who knows
Oh shoot I didn't even think about using moss blocks to excavate it! That's brilliant! I've got enough tuff to build a castle, but now I can save on pickaxe usage!
@@SobiTheRobot the best part is, even an unenchanted stone hoe can instamine moss so you can just use the cheap tools till they break
My 5 year old daughter is amazing at minecraft. She can see something once and build it. She adores you and has me watch pixlriffs daily. I ask her how she got so good at minecraft and her answer is always "pixlriffs" or "watching pixlriffs".
She wants to see you make a cat house is where I'm getting at here. She didn't elaborate on size or anything but yeah shes keeping an eye out for a cat house video by pixlriffs.
Her name is Jovie, btw, in case you needed to know.
@@CalebCredeur-o8p neat! Not a common name at all
If you're someone that's looking for copper ore, you can't do better than finding a large dripstone cave that also has a copper vein running through it. Set up a lava farm for fuel, and you'll have enough copper for most needs.
I'm a night owl, and the only window in my gaming room is behind me when I'm sat at my PC. Seeing a Pixlriffs vid in my notifications is my personal warning sign that I've stayed up all night playing Minecraft or No Man's Sky*.
*AGAIN
You know it's funny, I was just rewatching some old episodes from season 1 of the Survival Guide, and you were talking about how useless the blast furnace was- these huge veins (and copper in general) really do make the blast furnace valuable to have nowadays
Hey Pix, I love the episode. In my new 1.20 world, I found an ancient city next to spawn thanks to an iron vein that led into it, across it and well beyond it! 😮
Watched this video this morning. This afternoon, found my first huge copper vein. Wouldn’t have recognized it wt all without this video! Thanks Pix!
I like Jack o lanterns for marking large mining complexes. They can be used to spawnproof deep water and are easily obtainable early in game. If a vein leaves an inconvenient hole, I cover the surface of the hole.
Scaffolding is so much better than pillaring up when you are not being attacked. It is great for mining high cave ceilings and bridging gaps. You can exploit the max placement distance of horizontal scaffolding to pillar down. Once scaffolding reaches the max placement distance over a void, the next scaffolding placed drops like gravel or sand until it matches the horizontal scaffolding.
You can take pix out of empires but you can't take the copper king out of pix. Thank-you, I love copper too 😊
With all that much copper, I see a small timeline of events that can happen. I can't quite remember if you found a dripstone cave in this series already? Regardless, a dripstone cave can bring a lava farm with it. And conversely, that lava farm can go into a super smelter build.
Ore veins are such a fantastic feature. I wish they added more veins for some other ores.
Fr, I just excavated nine stacks of raw iron....imagine if we could find diamond veins! Just one and I'd be set for life.
It feels like they really missed an opportunity with Blast Furnace and smokers. Saving time isn't really important for things the player doesn't need to actively participate in so their gimmick is generally just ignored. They could have really made them a part of progression by giving them a more unique focus that really feels like they're a massive upgrade. Blast Furnace should have been able to smelt the full raw ore block making it feel like not just a time save but also an efficiency buff, the Smoker could have had the fuel last significantly longer such that a single coal block could make it through a whole stack. Smelting in general is already inefficient by nature when you can use Fire enchants for meat and and most ores can be gotten with AFK farms, buffing them like that would not have really broken anything.
Also most big smelters don't use blast furnaces cuz they mess up timings :(
I feel a +50% fuel efficiency would be reasonable amount and I really like the idea of them having exclusive smelting capabilities. I do feel it should be limited to not include entirely new items but I do think it could be cool to be able to smelt more items with them
A coal block does make it through a whole stack lol, it smelts 80 items
@@DarthVader-wk9sd That's a coal block, I mean the coal itself. In such a system the whole block would get a similar upgrade. What matters isn't time saved, it's effort, and having longer lasting fuel is more about not having to refuel the thing as often.
@@Tomeroche Well you said coal block in your comment though
I didn't know that Copper Veins exist! Now I know! Thank you Pixlriffs!
Pixlriffs now: "We've mined 8,000 copper! 14 stacks of copper blocks!"
Pixlriffs in 6 months or so: "Bring on Gnembon and David 7.0!"
great video, as usual. I wish mojang would make copper tools (maybe with the same "mining level" of iron, but with less durability. Honestly you find a lot of copper, but it doesnt have many uses, except of a couple of recipes, and of course, building. Feels like a missed opportunity to have a tier in between stone and iron tools and armors
a tool between gold and iron simply either would not get used, or would be used to a degree that iron's relevance would be knocked out completely honestly. adding more mid-tier tools to an already debatably unsatisfying progression tree feels doomed to be unbalanced and imo shouldn't be where their focus should be with copper expansion. i guess there's a slightly stronger argument for copper armour, especially if it were a chainmail-like mob drop exclusive from drowneds, but otherwise? nah. theres absolutely room for technical expansion w copper's possibilities (especially with redstone) and i hope we see them in future, but i really think they made the right call to not include copper tools and armour, especially when u consider that the early design + dev on the trims had likey been ongoing for a good while. but on that note. tool trims mojang. please. let us have gilded tools to quickly visually distinguish different enchants.
p.s. i know a lot of people dont like building with it either because of the aging mechanic or the colour palette and while it obviously would not be functional in anyway at this time, using copper blocks as your base block for redstone lines in contraptions would be a fun way to burn through your copper supplies in a way that feels a little bit relevant. though that does also run the risk of mojang one day going "haha so get this we're gonna make copper blocks double the strength of redstone, so now u need less repeaters".
p.p.s. the sea lantern (shards or block) + oxidised copper + redstone = an alternate teal & white coloured redstone lamp would be appreciated by many i think
Anyone remember that Cubfan135 once made an entire biome out of raw iron ore blocks?
Think about how pix just collected about 5 stacks of raw ore blocks in 90 minutes.
Now think about how quickly you burn through materials when building larger areas.
Yeah, it's pretty insane.
I love large ore veins. They're so cool.
Now if only you had someplace to age all that copper. Maybe some kind of a red stone machine
Copper vein Coordinates: -234 14 -239
Iron vein coordinates: -203 -25 12
Thanks for another excellent episode. I had the delightful surprise of finding a massive copper vein intersecting the trail ruin I was excavating. What a shock that was!
Loving the series, glad to see you getting some momentum!
I'm currently doing the opposite for the iron vein; I'm digging out all non-precious blocks around it. Its fascinating how much it is!
The livestream was why I returned to that cave :)
On bedrock, in my current world, i found a massive copper vein. I soent over 6 hours mining it and i STILL havent completely cleared it out. I basically strip mined it, rather than vein chasing. I should really get back over there...
Hey Pixl, Thanks for eps, I was expecting a lot more iron as I did visit the stream. But copper drops rules for now . Cheers till the next eps
Catching up on this 3 months later: what's copper good for?
Ohhh you're in for a treat!
Megaveins are cool and are good for a lot of iron and copper at short notice, but MAN are they tedious to uncover
This is cool! Going to hop over to watch the stream VOD cause I love your chill chopping and mining streams, but I'll be back for the video results! I look forward to you setting up an iron farm, letting it run for 90 minutes, then showing us the compared results.
i spent some time without watching your videos and i'm kind of glad because now i have loads of them to watch. i learn so much from you
I just mined a huge iron vein and it took several evenings in real life. I got about 20 stacks of ore blocks!
Am I the only one yelling at Pix to stop talking and run from the witch. Lol
the future David has been subtly introduced
Got it, if i find a copper vein, build the statue of liberty. Win the game.
I found two iron veins in my survival world but after I already built my iron farm. So for the one right under my base, I cleared all remaining stone and tuff and kept just the iron and any other valuable ores. Makes a cool structure.
once u have an iron farm finding a vein really is a jackpot for decorative building/texture blocks too imo.
Found a copper vein now
David seems going to have a cameo in this series.
Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.
Next episode we going to build David.
David Copperfield VI
Whenever I encounter a giant vein, I mine every block around the ore top to bottom as much as possible. it definitely puts a strain on my netherite pick, but it's so worth it
This makes me wish Mojang made copper and iron ore that generates as part of those large sprawling veins should have Granite copper ore and Tuff iron ore variant blocks respectively.
“I have been mining, FOR THIRTY MINUTES”
0:29 the comedic timing of that creeper😭😂
Use stone pickaxes to take out the granite since we all have chests upon chests of cobblestone, or use iron pickaxes if you've Fortuned quite a but of it. Then use Silk Touch or Fortune on the ores you come across.
I got major Monty Python vibes there at the end... "Huuge... veins of copper!" Maybe it's just me 😆
Did anyone have the coordinates for the start of that iron vein? Thanks!
I'm five minutes in right now and I truly do very much look forward to this topic. I have found a vein or two in my world but I only just mine what I can see, I don't understand how the tactics work to not just be digging randomly or away from the vein.
I just got so excited. Watching your video as I’m playing Minecraft’s and guess what…i found deepslate iron with tuff around it😃😃😃. 3 iron, that was it then it was all gone. I feel sad
If anyone's curious, according to google, it'll take about 2500 copper blocks to make a life sized statue of liberty (give or take given that the statue of liberty isn't made of cubes)
I prefer to silk touch all resources when I'm caving, to save space. I place them back on the surface, and fortune them there with an empty inventory.
I dug out that entire iron vein (I think) and it took several hours, so I think you left quite a bit behind. Let's just say I won't be needing to worry about an iron farm any time soon.
Remember that you can mine deep slate with moss and bone meal, then break the moss instantaneously with a hoe. You can use the excess moss to make more bone meal in the compost bin.
There is another huge iron vein just before the copper one, in that passage!
I'm just so perplexed why copper doesnt play a bigger part in this game.... its so easy to get stacks and stacks and stacks but what is copper actually good for. I hope they figure out a way to make copper more useful OR at least optional
When asked about this, Mojang pointed out that lots of uses for iron have been added since Iron was originally introduced.
Iron kinda gets a free pass because it's part of the tool progression, but things like hoppers, cauldrons, anvils, blast furnaces, chains, crossbows, iron trapdoors, weighted pressure plates, shields - those were all added long after iron was introduced.
@@Pixlriffs interesting... well if they could give us the capability to make square-like copper piping, or copper wire-type of string, I think copper would open many building possibilities
trapdoors are close enough. its only redstone componant is the rod and the transistor@@christopherestes6760
Pixlriffs gives really good advises of Minecraft!
Chunkbase can show where iron/copper veins start, and it differentiates between Small, Medium, and Large ones...
Woo pixelrifs wooo thanks for some insperational videos
Don't age your copper that close to a lightning rod.
Lighting strikes will deoxidize your copper.
Lightning only affects copper blocks in a 3 block radius from the lightning rod, so they're fine where they are.
@@Pixlriffs I'm tired of being wrong.
poor guy@@PromptCriticalJello
I could have used this about 10 episodes ago. Before I setup an iron farm, wool farm, and aged nine _stacks_ of copper for building.
0:30 creeper, awwwwww man
I ignore copper and dispose of it when I do have to mine some, it seems useless to me as I don’t like the look of it whilst building.. am I missing something?
If you don’t have any plans to build with the blocks, it’s safe to ignore for now. The only other uses of copper are infrequent (lightning rods, archaeology brushes, spyglasses, and armour trim.)
They might add more uses to it in future updates though, so it might be worth keeping some around!
i mean you can just keep it. i feel one day they might make it so you can turn it into emralds. rn in snapshots its almost as useful as quartz
I found a promising area under my building! Gonna go check it out. See what I get! Thanks Pixl! Gonna watch a few more videos before I get into my building and mining!!! ;-)
Need a shameless plug for David Copperfield inserted here.
I would be interested in knowing why Pix doesn't use his silk touch pick to save inventory space.
When you mine iron ore with Fortune III, you're getting a maximum of 4 raw iron per ore, and you have the option of crafting 9 raw iron into a block, so you actually *save* space using fortune on iron ore.
Copper ore can give you a lot more raw material, but the Minecraft Wiki says the average is 7.7 raw copper per ore block with Fortune III, so by that logic you're actually still saving inventory space by mining with fortune and condensing the raw copper into blocks.
Also means you don't have to mine every block twice.
In fact, if you look at the video, this is mathematically proven! In the chest at 8:40 have about 890 blocks of raw copper in that chest, after mining 1086 copper ores. So I've actually saved 3 stacks of inventory space.
@@Pixlriffs I knew you would have a logical answer, above my Minecraft knowledge! Thank you so much for replying!
Its always a good day when Pixs uploads :D❤❤😊
Life sized statue of librarians
I found in my seed a huge mountain of copper, coal and Emeralds. I do not have any of the ender chests but I do have a boat with a chest. I have found a full inventory of coal and copper and have to keep coming back from my house so I can get more. I have never seen so much resources at once above ground.
Boxed in villagers are effective and always there when you need them, but I think it would be cool to surround you house with a small village.
A house for every profession. thats what Im gonna do In my world Im playing right now.
The fact you can smelt ores making ingots, then craft ingots into tools, I wonder why Mojang never added other types of ore to make alloys (and a furnace to combine two types of ore). For instance, copper and tin make bronze, copper and zinc make brass. Maybe they already settled on Diamond being the hardest mineral to craft into tools, making alloys seem pointless. It would give copper another use though, and you could maybe craft small decorative statues from the alloy!
That's generally one of the things I miss after coming back to vanilla from modded -- more variety of tool materials from additional ores and alloys. Some mods also add different abilities and buffs to the different materials depending on how you combine them. I suspect Mojang wants to keep the tool/armor progression of vanilla simple, though.
I’m happy with vanilla and haven’t tried any mods yet. Possibly in the future, who knows. There’s so many new things to discover now like archeology that it keeps me entertained, I never get bored with it😃
nice tho since mining veins like you said can end up maze like even with torchers being placed on one side when caving for easier pathfinding.
how about a short vid on alternative ways of marking ones path in and out of maze like caves where torches wont helps as much?
maybe use of flags, blocks placed on walls that dont spawn in caves etc?
He mentioned using uncovered diamond/redstone ore blocks as landmarks in the video, the only real way to find your way around, together with using non-native blocks like cobblestone to mark your path. I can't think of a better way than this either.
Ooooooooh smelt all the copper then break the blast furnace and share the satisfaction of the xp :-D.
Hmm, what Y-level do you typically find those huge iron veins? Asking because I need the iron not only for a Mystical Agriculture farm, but also for an army of iron golems.
Why don’t you use silk touch when mining out these resources that take up a lot of inventory?
Hello, I like your videos. I learned a lot. I'm new to minecraft. I just started playing last month. I would also like to see you playing minecraft in ice spikes biome. I just learned it a very challenging place to survive. I love ice and snowy place 😅
Missed opportunity to make copper a stronger signal variant of redstone
copper is fine as it is
I used this over the weekend to find 2+ stacks of raw iron (without fortune)
Very nice of them to give me all that granite.
...I mean copper
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Anybody know what VOD had the mining of the veins?
I all ways run into iron ore veins before copper ore veins.
That's interesting, because I've often heard people say they have a hard time finding iron ore veins - but I guess if you spend a lot of time mining in deepslate layers instead of stone layers, you're much less likely to stumble upon copper veins.
Pix you've probobly been asked this multiple times already, but are you still doing New Life SMP? I was really excited to see everything you could do with the create mod? I know your probobly super focused on the survival guide, but I was still hoping to see a NL:SMP episode every once in a while ^_^
As I mentioned on my community post, my PC had to go in for repairs, and since Survival Guide is easier & faster to make episodes from, it took priority. New Life is on hiatus until I say otherwise.
@@Pixlriffs Sorry man. I totally should have checked that first. My bad. Hope your rig gets fixxed soon. ^_^ Me and my son have watched your content since he was 4 (now 7). You have pretty much taught us both almost everything we know about minecraft. I don't think our relationship would be as great as it is without you. -_^
I hope pix reach 1mil subs before this guide ends
Should have mentioned waxing copper.😂
Saving that for later this week, when we start talking about bees!
@@Pixlriffs awsome!
I enjoy this video very much and learned a fair amount from it but am I the only one who was up just a little bit triggered because of every time picks decide to run clean past unmined gold ore? Either way I'm not worried angry or anything like that it's just if he's a completionist pick up the gold ore in a redstone while you're at it man make it clean job of it huh?
Anyone have the cords of that Iron vein?
Java stats are awesome wish bedrock had that
How do you mine red stone ? I have the same seed world and found a hughe cave with alot of materials but i dont have a silk touch pickaxe. Im still working on obtaining a enchanted table
You need an iron pick to be able to get redstone dust from the blocks, silk touch isn't necessary but can make travel easier.
You can also get it from a cleric villager of course
I'm surprised he hasn't started a lava farm yet...
I just wanna say, that it still bugs me to no end, that they didn't make 0 correspond to sea level.
Ya but that's because originally all Y levels were positive and there wasn't any plan to expand it.
Then when they did, they wanted to do the least amount of "damage" to existing worlds so came up with negative Y levels and expanded the upper range too.
But agreed, in a "perfect" scenario the world should generate sea level at 0 and then go +/- from there, for the current total world height of 381 (which is odd in itself).
@@williamludwick77 You mean 384 (320 is the height limit, -64 is the bottom of the world).
@@THE_bchat sorry yes -64 not -60... Miscalculation on my part.
I like to stand at my skeleton farm and watch your episodes in 4-5 minutes bits. But at the start of this episode there's pillager and witch sounds and it really confused me :-D. Is it my minecraft or your minecraft?? :-).
Will you keep uploading New Life?
anyone know what mod spawn raw ore block in ore vein?
How do you know it’s the same vein and not a separate vein? The iron one seemed very far away from the original spot
So the veins are much larger, I have been checking 5x5x5 vicinity. 😂
Also I think copper should be the upgrade to red stone for longer distances.
yeah, copper being either long distance or waterproof redstone would be nice
@@peartreeLeaving maybe we should have underground oil, to coat the copper to make it waterproof and it won't corrode with the air.
@@GENERALWA5TE I think that adding a new liquid isn't something Mojang is ever likely to do, sadly. It could be neat though!
To be fair, waxing keeps copper from corroding though
wouldn't the lightning rod have to be taller than their stands or than your house
Actually, no - lightning rods redirect lightning regardless of height, with a spherical radius of 128 blocks. So as long as my house and the villagers are within that sphere, the rod protects them.
@@Pixlriffs nice! thanks for the response Pix. Enjoying the vids, appreciate the response
Hi pix big fan