70 Blocks Per Second... In A Boat! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Lets Play) [S2E85]

The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 2 continues. Time to hit ludicrous speed!
This tutorial will show you how to create a Blue Ice or Packed Ice tunnel in the Nether, allowing for super fast travel between locations thousands of blocks apart. We set up two ice roads - to the ice plains and frozen ocean biomes, so we can bring back more ice, and then to the badlands biome so I can get hold of more terracotta! Along the way we get the 'Subspace Bubble' advancement for travelling over 7000 Overworld blocks via the Nether.
This technique allows us to travel over 70 blocks per second in a boat, which is still not the fastest we can travel...
Season 2 world seed: -3821426255058016680
Season 2 of the Minecraft Survival Guide will teach you how to master Survival Mode in Minecraft 1.18 and beyond!
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[@tnichols312]

I will never grow tired of this series. I’ve practically been following along in my own survival world, and although I don’t have a massive need for an ice road just yet, I think I’ll go find a reason to make one today.

[@Pixlriffs]

Distant biomes or structures are always a good reason! Track down a mushroom island a few thousand blocks from spawn and make an ice road there. There’s also no reason to limit these to the Nether. They also work just fine in the overworld and the End, so if you need an expressway to and from an ocean monument or across the void to the outer End islands, that works too 😁

[@josephkim6688]

@@Pixlriffs OMG making a ice road over the void with glass railing and floor would be amazing and scary!

[@aura1003]

Best Minecraft survival series imo

[@cocoliumyt]

me too :)

[@hannahverhaal1131]

@@aura1003 yesssss! pix is so good making the series.

[@joec2078]

I like to run fencing along both sides as it keeps the boat centered on the ice along with light blocks in the ceiling spaced out to give bit of a strobe effect.

[@90kalos1]

I've been playing Minecraft off and on since right before beta came out (so like 12 years). Yet I still find myself watching your videos as they come out. The quality of your content is fantastic and every once in a while I find myself learning something new. Since I've played off and on there are things I missed when I wasn't playing. Like pressing middle mouse button to pick a block. Super helpful.

[@TheRealWormbo]

There are actually 4 different ice types: frosted ice (from frost walker enchanted boots), (regular) ice, packed ice and blue ice. They all have the same "friction", except blue ice. Frosted ice cannot be obtained, even with silktouch, but it can be used to provide temporary "freezing kernels" for regular ice. (Some ice farm designs use this technique by dragging or luring mobs or armor stands with frost walker boots across the water.) Frosted and regular ice (i.e. the two types that will melt again) are transparent, while packed and blue ice are opaque - with all the usual consequences for light and redstone power.

[@dingo4ever]

He did add a little side note, but 9 packed ice makes 1 blue ice, mine both and then turn the packed you picked up into blue.

[@jasonreed7522]

I also recommend bringing conduits to a frozen ocean to make the mining of the underwater parts of the iceburgs much safer. And definitely bring a crafting table to compress the packed ice where you mine it if your intention is to turn it into blue ice and not to use it for item streams.

[@Mandrewjammies]

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[@fallonfireblade4404]

Yea, that's what I did

[@biryanilover7147]

It's pretty satisfying when he traveled to the Badlands and the Basalt and netherrack mix around 13:23

[@stillinhere]

I highly recomend slabbing. I used glass panes on the sides and there was enough space to nearly suffocate when I accidentally hit shift when I got to a corner. There's also a baby zombified piglin stuck below the panes that can't seem to despawn. I wanted the panes as a guide but from the looks of it here, I don't think that's necessary at all. The blue ice roads are super fun to use. I found a rather enormous, relatively speaking, blue iceberg. I guess I got lucky. That world turned out to be lucky and easy, in general. I have one world that is far more challenging. (Though some would say lucky, because it put me in a crimson forest near a bastion on my first portal to the nether, and when I got my elytra, I found FOUR mansions in a 2000 block radius. Crazy, freaky world.)

[@nick-team-kinetic-energy]

seed?

[@stillinhere]

​@@nick-team-kinetic-energy I think I found one mansion twice, so oops, there were three that were relatively close with elytra, anyway. Also, the fortress was in the crimson forest near my portal, and the bastion was a tad bit out, but not much farther, in the warped forest. I set up my base at -206/1442. The seed is 6144696300915793027. However, if you want something fun and supposedly impossible, check out my very first nether portal experience. Seed -5009356017460867999, build a nether portal at -530/64/-1252, and give it a thorough search. (Hint: the improbable part is at-12/79/-218) I died a lot.

[@justmartin0729]

9:21 i usually put a block on which the boat can slow down instead the packed ice in the corner, and it will be much comfortable to turn in a 90 degree angle, because the boat won’t spin around so wildly, even if you don’t handle the boat carefully.

[@LeopardMask12]

Oooh! Could even turn into a sort of landing pad - if there happen to be multiple places to go in the same general direction, a single block or so to slow down on would make for both easy turning and easy decision-making on which way to go!

[@cameronverhaal3960]

this series is sooo good. pix is amazing at making imformative but still fun.

[@Cj_Hash]

just binged the last 2 episodes and you JUST uploaded the next :D lucky me

[@RedWinterRoses]

Okay but watching someone speed down an ice highway is incredibly satisfying.

[@LeopardMask12]

yesss I agree! So fun to watch.

[@SpiceStopMotion]

Is there going to be 101 questions about Minecraft?

[@somratkhan8688]

Pixlriffs at the 101th question: *N E V E R*

[@bubblespawn]

In my ice roads, I line the walls with glass panes. Never measured, but I heard it reduced friction between the walls. Also all my nether roads are at y=15, so mining for ancient debris and making nether roads are always the same thing for me. Another thing I do is I use fence gates at junctions to help stop me when I need to turn a corner, using different color woods to denote different routes.

[@sleepyavo]

ah i learn something new with every video!! this is very cool!

[@derram0k]

You can move all the portals up to the tunnels. As long as you match the x and y coordinates of the portal itself, the z coordinate isn't all that important.

[@davidreid8627]

Always informative and entertaining 👍

[@johanputter5061]

very nice Pix, noted for the to-do list and get the advancement too. thanks for video cant wait to see what you do next!!!

[@CosmicCrib]

I didn't realise that we're one episode 85. Man this series is so interesting, fun and bizzare.

[@deltaV-1]

the only reason hes so far in is because he makes these videos like, every 3 days. Maybe even 2.

[@biryanilover7147]

You should've put blazeare since he's making this episode in the Nether and saw blazes.

[@The4BsPodcast]

pixel going after docm aka the goat like its nothing, this means war

[@Pixlriffs]

Lmao, DocM had a rapid transport system in season 8 which got twice these speeds using depth strider, soul speed, and dolphins. The whole point of his llama expressway is that it’s hands free once you’re riding it, while this method relies on you controlling the boat the whole time. Doc knows what he’s doing, this video is not a callout 😂

[@narrowgroundentertainment]

A project I was working on a year or so ago was an ice farm that would condense into a piston feed tape and from there be formed into a giant ice cube. Never got it working to my satisfaction. Now I kinda want to go back and tinker with it again.

[@TheCincyPatti]

New on Nat Geo: Ice Road Boaters!

[@martinhartecfc]

Will you set up a minecart elevator likle you did in Season 1? It probably took you as long to climb that ladder as it did to travel all those blocks on the ice boat road ha ha. 🤣

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, we’ll cover minecart elevators in the near future :)

[@Timelord79]

Or make a cake staircase? You. Can make very thin steps out of every cake, making a very high staircase with a very small footprint, allowing you to sprint upwards at very high speeds. A cake walk so to speak. :)

[@lilJerald1]

We have ancient debris, yes. But what about ancient night-bris?

[@Big_Boy_Happy]

2:08 Optimal Ice Type 2:53 Ice Type Explained 4:01 Optimal Way To Obtain 8:21 Also Nether Is Better For Longer Distances Though Over World Is Better For Shorter Distances 5:43 Nether Option 6:48 Building The Ice Path 7:05 Spawn Proofing Im to lazy to do the rest

[@joshuaswanson4211]

I have been digging all of my nether transport tunnels at level 13. With an efficiency 5 pick you can basically sprint while making a one by two tunnel. Ancient debris comes easy when widening tunnels on return trips. Also I am considering the idea of using intermittent blocks of soul sand with mending souls speed boots for faster transport without having to locate and mine blue ice, or fiddle with a boat

[@Komodo040]

Just a reminder that if ur comfortable with the nether roof it’s much easier to build these up there because you don’t have to dig out a tunnel. Just throw a wall on one side to hug. A lot of people like to put iron bars or glass panes as a guide and iron bars are 6 ingots to 16 bars which is easy with an iron farm.

[@tntkff9901]

Playing on bedrock, I can't build on the nether roof to make a hub, so instead I made my hub at Y-0 give or take a few blocks, and made my hub tunnels with lots of TNT.

[@Pixlriffs]

Good decision! The main reason I avoid going that low on Java Edition is that any cave generation below Y=32 is automatically filled with lava 😅

[@jasonreed7522]

One thing i noticed on bedrock (other than blue ice roads being faster than an Xbox 1 can render in the world), is that you have to keep the boat centered on the ice and can't skip blocks otherwise you pick up friction from other blocks and lose all your speed. All this means is you need to do a better job placing the boat or spend alot more ice on the project to do the entire floor.

[@Pixlriffs]

I believe the issue with bedrock edition is that the boat still gets some friction from the slabs on either side. So you need to suspend the ice path higher (or rather, place the slabs one block lower down) in order to avoid that

[@buddhinieperera1314]

Ya thx I am going to do that

[@Timelord79]

@@Pixlriffs Java lava

[@porkythepig6461]

If Joel was in this Minecraft server. He would be a maniac on episode 1 making a gigantic mega base. (like from Empires SMP)

[@nalin6038]

Great every day I watch your guide it’s amazing

[@oO5Dynasty]

ty for this

[@AspieGamer13]

My understanding is speed is the same on ice and packed ice, with the only significant difference being packed ice doesn’t melt My understanding is blue ice matches your assessment

[@mhelvens]

Could you set up a slime block piston in order to take that 90° corner at speed?

[@daniellujan2840]

no

[@mhelvens]

@@daniellujan2840 Why not?

[@azeravOS]

You can, just seems unnecessary!

[@sailingguy4491]

you'd have to perfect the orientation of the boat as well-you could also just make a diagonal ice road

[@aldenz776]

Queen of Spades has a different meaning in certain communities lol

[@taufiqdaus5979]

Have a great day Mr, Pixlriff🎉

[@respectrealperson290]

Pixlriffs! I enjoyed your video!!!

[@jonathanwood8575]

Im using bedrock 1.19 and I get a lot of friction though this does work. I think it is the walls

[@johnlourencecarlos9620]

Weird way of fast travel,but still a very good way to travel like a speed of light(not even close at speed of light) Only disadvantage is it's so expensive so I think I'll stick with Powered Rails Plus my phone can't handle loading chunks as fast as ice travel speed

[@AyaanThe0ne]

Honestly, if you think Blue Ice is expensive, I would just recommend Packed Ice which is still incredibly speedy and, I would think, less expensive than Powered Rails. Even normal ice would be fine since if you are using Powered Rails you're probably not travelling that far and it can negate the slow loading time for the chunks. Only downside to all of this is you having to control the boat with the mobile controls.

[@RedSeabird96]

Kind of a bummer that a lot of useful things in Java don't always work in bedrock. Last time I tried to test out an ice road in my bedrock world, the button actually interfered with the boat travel and negated the purpose of the ice...

[@narayanbandodker5482]

Docm77 managed 30 blocks /second. This is faster than Llama technology ™️

[@Pixlriffs]

The whole point of Docm’s llama bolt is that it’s hands-free, so you can tab out of Minecraft or go get a drink while you’re travelling. DocM also showcased a way to travel 140 blocks/second in HC season 8, which involves combining soul speed, depth strider, and the Dolphin’s Grace status effect.

[@emmdeekaysays173]

@@Pixlriffs but that only works in the overworld, and technically you'd be moving 240 blocks per second in the overworld by using an ice boat path in the Nether.

[@Pixlriffs]

Honestly, I would not put it past Doc to find a way of getting Dolphin’s Grace to work in the Nether. Probably using water in cauldrons or something

[@danub5551]

@@Pixlriffs you can't have water in the nether anyways so.. even if there is a way, it's useless in the nether :)

[@emilemarcotte2782]

@@danub5551 You can actually (surprisingly) place water in a cauldron in the Nether in Java Edition! Try it! 😉

[@AnklespankinV2]

For my ice road that branched off in multy directions, I just put fence gates aslike check points in the event I need to make a left or a right to go down each tunnel. I had ice road tunnels to like 7-8 different locations.

[@Thatlolyisaspy]

I miss this guy's one chunk house tutorials they were always such cute and really cool houses, it's been a couple updates now without him making another one there's a lot of new blocks to use from, you think you'll ever start doing those again?

[@Pixlriffs]

No plans to return to one chunk tutorials. They were a fun format but they take several days to make, which would take too much time away from Survival Guide videos.

[@Thatlolyisaspy]

@@Pixlriffs oh 🥺 alright 😔

[@pannalaanika2450]

hi ! my name is Anika. I have seen all of your sereas after The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 1. seeing the Copper Aging Factory, ice rode and the s1 Fighting The Dragon With Beds ,I think you can make 1or more bildings eney of sereas of yours

[@NoOneYT1]

Blue ice are one of the easiest transport to build. The thing is that you need to spend a lot of time building it

[@hannahverhaal1131]

hey pix, will you ever make a season 2 of empires? i love that series!

[@Pixlriffs]

Season 2 of Empires will happen at some point. We don't know exactly when yet.

[@grewpet2253]

fun fact: subspace bubble achievement gives you some xp (although not a lot)

[@itmeurdad]

How does the dust cloud taste, doc? 😝

[@JoeSlow3]

72 blocks per hour -> 72 meters per hour -> 259 kilometer per hour -> 161 miles per hour That's incredible fast

[@corbanharwood]

Yes, 72 blocks per *second* = 161 mph is incredibly fast! 72 blocks per *hour* is walking on slime blocks while crouching :P

[@JoeSlow3]

@@corbanharwood Yes, you're right! I didn't even notice that I wrote "72 Blocks per hour". 72 blocks per hour would be incredibly slow indeed ;-)

[@TheMousheen]

Ii need this road! I have just completed a 1000 block tunnel from my main base out to a woodland mansion, currently using my horse, want to give him a break!

[@SqereTheGnagster]

Pixilriffs, Can you make more minecraft dungeons videos?

[@Pixlriffs]

I don’t have plans to make any more Minecraft Dungeons videos right now. I still have a bunch of streams from the other difficulties and DLC levels over on KZbin.com/pixlvods if you want to watch those :)

[@SqereTheGnagster]

@@Pixlriffs Ok and this is the first time a youtuber has replied to my comment! Thx for replying.

[@skyhijinx]

That boy zoomin

[@TenkoBerry]

This is good 👍

[@DaFunkz]

*cries in minecart*

[@wiliam334]

Can u make one ice farm as per latest mechanisms pls

[@danigaming_]

GOTTA GO FAST 🙂

[@nick-team-kinetic-energy]

yeah i need to make this on my smp so I can get to our mesa. hope nobody sneakily breaks a block. also, would it be better to make the highway on the nether roof as I don't need to clear anything out? also ty for this season and season 1, it has really helped me get better at minecraft.

[@LeopardMask12]

I suppose the choice of using the roof or not would mainly be a matter of, do you want to dig tunnels or build spawnproof walls? I can see using the roof and building walls on either side potentially being easier, especially if you personally don't prefer digging for miles lol (I know I can find that tiring after a while). There's also the matter of getting up and down off the roof, although since roof portals connect properly I guess that's not a huge issue unless you need to go down into the Nether Proper for something.

[@StuStuStu2107]

who would have thought you can make a bullet train in Minecraft

[@mr.shgamingguy]

is this in java or bedrock?

[@SGM_26]

Your the only reason I have a very high intelligence about Minecraft Pix, you're awesome

[@callmemiku]

"Frojen ocean" heheh

[@shundongli4707]

Pixlriffs Did you know that "The Queen of Spades" is also an opera by Tchaikovsky (in Russian)???

[@Pixlriffs]

Nope. I only know it as a playing card

[@shundongli4707]

@@Pixlriffs kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3KWnYevbLSAg5o

[@raulv.2240]

Hey Pix, what do u recommend to travel in the nether, making several highways of this kind, or just elytra on the nether roof with some torches on the bedrock to guide the path to the next nether portal? (note: i have sugar cane farm and mob grinder to get free rockets)

[@Pixlriffs]

I recommend whatever you want to do. Personally I don’t want to do much on the Nether roof yet, and I like projects like this because they get me using mechanics I might not consider otherwise! But if you find the nether roof more convenient, go for it.

[@_Abjuranax_]

I like to use 2x3 Horse Paths in the Nether and Overworld for getting around more easily, but the Chunks do not render in very well in my World, and I am concerned about the consequences of going out over "open space", as I do not wish to lose my very expensive gear to a Glitch going fast down an Ice Path. I go slow for now and wait for the Chunks to load, but are my concerns founded, or am I just being paranoid? Please let me know in the comments, thanks.

[@Pixlriffs]

Honestly, I’d take an immersive and glitch-free gameplay experience over the potential for glitchiness and chunk-loading errors. So I think, as long as you’re happy with the horse transport, stick with it

[@_Abjuranax_]

@@Pixlriffs The Horse Paths are tried and trued and are easier and quicker to make, but in an ideal world, we would all have the newest computers, lol. Just mainly wanted to know the consequences of disregarding the safety precautions. And thanks reply.

[@LShortcuts]

You can craft 9 packed ice into 1 blue ice.

[@averilreyes5368]

I hope you come back at empire s2

[@januzi2]

The speed is so big it made the part at 17:33 blurry as hell. ;)

[@thEultimateTide_Pod]

why do you need a 3x3 tunnel? why cant you do it with 3x2 or 3x1?

[@56possumsstuffedintoaduffl38]

Would it be possible for instead of tight corners having a diagonal system -not in touch with all of minecraft mechanics just curious

[@Pixlriffs]

I explained the problem with diagonals in the video. The boat still has a lot of forward momentum when you start a turn. You can’t keep the walls this close because colliding with a diagonal block kills your momentum. So while it’s perfectly possible to build a diagonal or a curve in your ice boat paths, it takes a lot of careful planning and much wider turns, which would require a lot more ice blocks

[@56possumsstuffedintoaduffl38]

Ok thanks for the response pix I was thinking of building one in my world and needed to consult a professional beforehand so again thanks

[@googlesucks3713]

I'm upset I wasted hours of my time doing this because it doesn't work as efficiently on Bedrock edition

[@rotemshalevelkin9718]

Ice roads in Mincraft

[@phxsunfan]

Not sure why, but when I put spruce slabs in between, it slows down the boat

[@robinday8200]

I know you like to keep blocks... but what do you do with all that netherack? Surely you can't be storing all that? I attempt to smelt them into brick just for the XP but even that is a faff and feels a waste of fuel

[@Pixlriffs]

About half of the netherrack from digging these tunnels was re-used in creating bridges and tunnel walls over areas where the ceiling terrain opened out into empty air. I did collect and store about a chest’s worth of blocks for future use, the rest just despawned because my inventory was full of other blocks.

[@philsey6913]

At some point you have to give up on keeping things like netherrack and just let it de-spawn. I'm in the middle of a huge nether terraforming project and after storing away 3 double chests of netherrack I just started letting it go.

[@craft_smith3678]

Never been this fast!!

[@wilbibe]

I found alot ancient debris at y level 91 in the nether

[@around3]

Packed and blue ice are craftable..

[@cajup]

To save some people from wasting their time, according the the wiki, you would need efficiency 5 and haste 7 to insta-mine blue ice, so impossible in survival unfortunately.

[@emmdeekaysays173]

Can you instamine 9 packed ice before you can mine 1 blue ice is the real question

[@AyaanThe0ne]

@@emmdeekaysays173 Yes but it probably isn't practical and you won't always be drilling packed ice

[@Colt-x3z]

Have you, ever died ones in this world

[@Pixlriffs]

I've died once so far. Unfortunately it was off-camera - a creeper dropped from a ledge in the dripstone cave base while I was in my inventory crafting something. I talked about it in an earlier episode.

[@robw6143]

U probably cover this later in the video but why not just break into the nether roof

[@jasonreed7522]

Breaking bedrock is an advanced technique, and bedrock players can't even use the nether roof for building on.

[@Pixlriffs]

You say that as if it’s easier, but the nether roof has its own set of problems. First of all, it’s not an option at all for Bedrock Edition players, who have a hard build limit at Y=128 in the Nether. And now the rest: you need to break bedrock to get back down into the nether cavern, which is something I will probably make a whole separate video about. Portals can link up there, but the minimum Y height makes it harder to precisely link portals in the overworld. There are no landmarks on the roof, so you have to rely more heavily on coordinates for navigation, and every solid block has to be spawn-proofed otherwise you get Ghasts and stuff spawning up there. Plus you still have to actually build a boat road there. TLDR: we’re not ready for the nether roof at this point in the series.

[@ovadiadan]

You just bested Docm77 lol

[@Joseph_Stalin_t-34]

whats the seed for this world?

[@gavinbrown5804]

3141592

[@vvcreative2628]

The only problem with going 70 blocks/sec is that the pc will get stuck in time. (I have an old pc though)

[@infinitegaming453]

Mythland spy

[@skfarddingamings6919]

Love you from India

[@tj_1260]

Noice

[@lelouchvibritannia69yearsa78]

You have exactly 70 views! Coincidence I think NOT!

[@noname-codm4590]

Reaching 70 views is inevitable... unless it stops at 69, that is where the problem starts

[@Ashl3yxx29]

How did you comment on this 69years ago Edit you joined KZbin a yesr ago

[@norbucso]

The video is lagging. It's strange. Maybe KZbin issue.

[@zistex10]

Fast.

[@co2olium98]

1,601 Video's!

[@hikari1690]

My toaster cant keep up with the boat soeed and I usually end up stuck after a few chunks hahaha

[@lordnublic]

70 views with a title including 70, wow

[@timderuijter]

Things in the Englis language that bother me... your name "has been" pixlrifs... is it not anymore?

[@Pixlriffs]

If you want to resolve this from a grammar point of view, my real name isn’t actually Pixlriffs, so I guess you could say I stop being Pixlriffs at the end of each video

[@timderuijter]

Haha, no further comment :)

[@MeekaThePooh]

What if Minecraft made it p2w, (Ex: 1 diamond for 1 dollar, and diamonds are harder to find now?)

[@patryknikiel5250]

Or 1 km

[@gwggaming123]

Omg hi fifth pls can i get a pin

[@ezradevs]

You are not fifth you’re like tenth lol

[@gwggaming123]

@@ezradevs um when i commented i was fifth and u dont have to be so rude

[@wendybariquit9522]

fourth

[@ezradevs]

Nope better try next time

[@SupathiRatnayake]

Second

[@scaratb8810]

First

[@aghamink50yearsago27]

Here befroe 100

[@chitusminecraft]

He did add a little side note, but 9 packed ice makes 1 blue ice, mine both and then turn the packed you picked up into blue.

[@ruler255]

Second

[@ezradevs]

Nope you are third

[@eshanmohammed4644]

First

[@ezradevs]

Not even close buddy