Desert Temple Secrets & Archaeology! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.14]

[@tnichols312]

Pix’s level of calmness while still being surprised at his portal dropping him in the middle of a fortress made my morning. Then the mild concern and that little “ugghh” was the cherry on top. Never change Pix 😂😂

[@juliarose9423]

the "mmm, yeah, ugghh" made me laugh so hard

[@xanthiusdrake2775]

That was both the best and worst possible place you could spawn in a nether portal, and with his reaction I could not stop laughing.

[@jujoya]

He's so caaaalm

[@RockyBlocky6130]

That Magmacube dropping in...gave me a heart-attack

[@Bioh9z9rd]

It jump scared me as well. I almost dropped my phone.

[@ashlee8057]

Same lol

[@YouberChannel]

Bro thought he's mangle fr fr

[@selestiele1]

Me too!

[@SnowshoeProductions]

Glad I wasn't the only victim of that jump scare. Lol!

[@greybeardmc]

One other thing about the desert temple is that the top floor shows the player how to make a beacon pyramid. Fill the entire upper room with metal blocks, and you have a pyramid for a fully powered beacon (which will come much later)

[@SageKillah]

I use a resource pack to outline the suspicious gravel and sand and another that changes the ancient debris to a green. Makes it a lot easier to see with my vision. This is my first exposure to archaeology in Minecraft and I hope they keep adding to the feature. It has so much potential!

[@deliriouscheeto]

Ah I wish they added that as an accessibility feature. They went a step in the right direction changing ores to different shapes for colorblind folks and then made suspicious blocks that look almost identical to normal ones. But ig that's video games

[@soultundra7869]

I've got a Vanilla Tweaks one that highlights budding amethyst for that reason. And one that highlights waxed copper (but only in my inventory). Not played 1.20 yet as I'm waiting for mods and a server to update, but I'll definitely be looking into the suspicious blocks highlight resource pack!

[@CoppeRoseBush]

I have perfect vision and I still use the Vanilla Tweaks data pack that highlights suspicious sand/gravel XD

[@AceOfFools]

I had to install a resource pack for the suspicious blocks as well. Just way too hard to spot with my own cruddy eyesight.

[@jujoya]

If you have whatever deficiency: good. If not: 🤡

[@TName30]

Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.

[@bleh-zj1hy]

Why the same comment on every video

[@TName30]

@@bleh-zj1hy it's an important thing. Got a problem with the new episode drop?

[@bleh-zj1hy]

@@TName30 how is it important 😂

[@christinaapplegate5281]

It’s important for new players who don’t have a clue and old players to refresh our memory on what can be done.

[@Yourgmrgrl]

This is how I live my life m-F. Pix is my alarm clock

[@sidriss]

Thank you so much Pixlriffs, I have an Archaeology background and it's so good to hear them referred to as Pottery Sherds not Shards! :D

[@Cynful27]

I thought it was a made up word for the game. Grateful that he explained the difference and I learned something new!

[@erickmatthew6033]

Been watching since season 1. Playing along for the first time. Probably the coolest world I’ve ever explored!

[@daniellebrissing9485]

I appreciate ALL of your advocacy (roofs and hand rails on nether bridges, blocks on your hotbar for quickly dealing with lava, putting a box around portals to ghast protect them), I've learned so much! Thank you!

[@imperfectimp]

I consider myself a Minecraft veteran, but I didn't know items don't trigger stone pressure plates. Guess I've been extra super careful for no reason for years.

[@64bit_link]

Some types of pressure plates can be triggered by items iirc, but not the stone pressure plates.

[@polarstriker3854]

@@64bit_linkWooden pressure plates are triggered by items. Similarly, I believe wooden buttons can be activated by arrows, but not stone buttons.

[@islaannandale5964]

It's still good to be a bit cautious sometimes

[@imperfectimp]

I think iron and gold pressure plates trigger only above a certain number of items. Minecraft has so many niche features like that. It's hard to remember everything.

[@scott040877]

You missed something @pixlriffs - often, those portals have one or two gold blocks, and if they're not up top because the portal Collapsed, if you dig around where the top of the portal appears to have fallen, you can find them buried in the nether rack!

[@TaraGrace56]

The amount of luck you have in survival guide is insane, an enchanted golden apple and a fortress at the portal 👀

[@AdamRadenheimer]

Started up a new survival world with the start of the series, and I just recently beat the game; right next to the stronghold there was a ruined nether portal, and on the other side of the ruined portal, was a fortress. I’m pretty sure the fortress and stronghold were about in the same place across dimensions lol

[@AdamRadenheimer]

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you’re looking at it) it was a fortress I had already found

[@Dozeji]

The luck of this man... Enchanted Golden Apple ALONG with a regular one so he can explain the difference right then and there A diamond from the sus sand A well spawning next to the temple AND a blimey nether fortress

[@pratitghosh5973]

EXACTLY man!! (But it is no longer the fabled 3 diamonds from a desert temple anymore)

[@TheMNMPig]

Well you have the seed...

[@bleh-zj1hy]

I'd found an enchanted apple in the beginning of my new world where i was exploring nearby igloos and stuff and found one in an igloo, had a lot of stuff on me when i decided to go down an azalea tree only to find that the lush cave was a part of an aquifer and a drowned killed me, so lost the apple Then recently found ANOTHER one in a dungeon and it's safely stored now

[@breninznx]

@@bleh-zj1hy why didnt you use the golden apple to run from the drowneds...

[@radhakrishnafanclub3693]

Also double striders

[@MargueriteCrawford-y2o]

Hi I am 67 years old my grandkids told me about this game and ever since I am hook love it . And your video

[@christinaapplegate5281]

I’m getting so much better aquatinted with Minecraft again. You forget the tips and tricks of things over the years of playing. I have loved watching the guides and your content on your channels. Thank you for providing these for us all ❤

[@mintycheddar3854]

If you accidentally break a block of suspicious sand or gravel, or cause them to fall, you will know it because it makes a characteristic 'crunching' sound, one of the most disheartening sounds that I have ever heard in Minecraft. So, be very careful when digging out trail ruins and the hidden room in desert temples. Light up the area well so that you can see the suspicious blocks more easily and avoid using a high-efficiency enchanted tool. For delicate work like this an unenchanted tool may work better. I was holding my breath the whole time Pixlriffs was digging around in the desert temple with his Efficiency IV shovel. In case you've never found mobs in desert temple 'burial chambers', yes, they can spawn there. I once heard the characteristic footsteps of a creeper in a desert temple just before a massive explosion destroyed the bottom of the chamber and all four chests with their loot. That was pretty disheartening, too. Thank you, Pixlriffs, for another informative and entertaining Survival Guide episode! I will be looking forward to more.

[@roberthiltz2741]

Thanks for showing the entirety of a desert temple archeological site, that’s one of the few places I have yet to try my brush! Other KZbin channels have mentioned it, but I haven’t seen a video explaining the process of unearthing the whole room. Yesterday I did excavate an entire trail ruins in a jungle and got some cool stuff

[@humourlessjester3584]

Nothing like a morning cup of coffee and a new pixlriffs video

[@GeeklingNo1]

Pix's determination to keep the series calm and chill while digging a massive tunnel through the nether fortress, past the gasts and over MULTIPLE LAVA LAKES is very impressive. Oh and magma cubes, don't forget the ninja magma cubes.

[@riuphane]

I just did my first archeology adventure a few days ago, started with a pyramid, found 3 wells, and finished with another pyramid. I think it's a ton of fun. I can see how it might become tedious later in the game, but for now I can't wait to find more structures with suspicious sand/gravel!! Great episode, as always!

[@racram0444]

19:56 The magma cube dropping made me jump in my seat

[@Bioh9z9rd]

I almost dropped my phone

[@Techdawg77]

My heart jumped in my chest.

[@Autonate_42]

"Just in case our nether spawn is a little rough" Blaze: hello there.

[@brin1033]

I've always liked learning about new features from here as you prefer to show them in survival. This episode is my first look at archeology :3 So excited to see new reasons to visit classic structures!

[@Yoshideking]

loving the fact that the guide is so differently structured than V2. cheers!

[@freakofnature3329]

I actually didn't know you could break the pots and get the sherds back so thank you. I got a little to excided and put all 4 sherds so I had 7 with all 4 sides with a design so I thought I was screwed, also I didn't know flower pots can be put in the top. My builds are saved. You're a legend pix.

[@Rickby]

That magma cube almost made him break professional character

[@TheSpencermacdougall]

3 series in a row where you're a archaeologist. I love it.

[@kahten5358]

Hi Pix! My kids and I absolutely love watching your videos and I’m so happy the next season of The MC Survival Guide is out. Your tips and tricks are easy for everyone to understand, even kiddos who are just learning the game. Thanks for continuing to make content the whole family can enjoy!

[@syystomu]

If you have trouble with your eyesight, you can actually use the pick block function to test whether a block is a normal sand block. All you need is some sand in your inventory. (I think it was Joel Duggan who figured that out actually?)

[@katgrace8834]

Archeology is sometimes I’ve wanted in Minecraft for so long and now it’s finally here and it did not disappoint! It’s so cool to see this stuff being implemented! Also the luck of a nether fortress in a soul sand valley?! It’s practically screaming either skeleton farm! And the Enchanted Gapple!! So cool

[@weber9958]

i'm a history major and it makes me so happy to see archeology in minecraft! :) can't wait to see what the other pottery designs look like

[@waveclaw]

I don't recall if you covered it, but how you pickup items in a chest and use a hotkey to collect all the items is not obvious. You may want to cover that just as you covered how to bulk move items with shift.

[@Lea_D.]

Check the second video in the Survival Guide Season 2 playlist (Controls, Keyboard Shortcuts & F3), he covers all that stuff in detail! :)

[@dolphingoddess81]

Heck yeah! Best part of waking up is new survival guide episode! 💙

[@SquareBracketSmileyFace]

These videos are so fun to me, I've been playing Minecraft for years and I'm still learning new things with all these videos, they're so fun to play along to as well :]

[@02bigkev]

No matter how long I play this, There is always something new to learn. thx Pix

[@lastsonoftennessee9895]

My favorite way of travelling in the Nether (other than getting on top of the roof, eventually) is to pillar up almost to the ceiling and then tunneling through the netherack just below where bedrock begins. At that height you have almost nothing to worry about besides lava pockets and the occasional rift. You just have to dig thousands of blocks of netherite, but that's a small price to pay.

[@Cynful27]

I’m telling Etho you’re not using corners. As always, enjoying this series. To be fair, I enjoy all you do. Keep it up!

[@Ayush-id2vl]

I really like the archeology update in Minecraft. It makes the game more informative and creative

[@drewid8734]

I love how this episode is titled as a relatively peaceful excursion 😂 classic survial minecraft!

[@yoloswagb0i]

I haven’t regularly played since 1.15. Downloading on my steamdeck now to start a new world!

[@elijahgale9369]

happy to share my idea for pottery sherds with everyone. I was planning to use mine to make a story wall about "what happened" to the people here before the player (such as thise in the end city). Kind of like hieroglyphics.

[@fentin480]

This is a really great playthrough! I'm enjoying it and looking forward to every new episode. Great work!

[@1010GamingX]

Loving the series, keep em' coming!

[@niallhealy3039]

Literally just found my first trail ruins yesterday. Wouldn't break my new vase without knowing if I would get to keep it so thanks for that tip!

[@thejonbmc]

With the exception of your initial arrival at the fortress, your experience there seems a lot more peaceful than mine. There were so many blazes and wither skeletons spawning I couldn't get across the first bridge and had to dig a tunnel under the walkway. Then the blazes started spawning in the tunnel. It was insanity.

[@StarNanny]

Watching again….so many surprises! 😆

[@georgelykiardopoulos2886]

12:00 the staircase leads to the room by a 2x2 hole in the middle of the wall

[@brentbarr498]

22:45 I've always taken the approach of putting my portals inside buildings and then adding a caged area in front of the portal to trap any mobs following me back home so I can kill them with ease or when I feel like it.

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

19:55 now that's proper tutorialising

[@indus3270]

"Looks like it's going to be a full block of TNT" Wouldn't it be great if it turned out to be an Etho slab? XD

[@codyofearth]

My heart skipped a beat when that Magma Cube jumped on you. You were so close to being thrown over the edge there. That would have been tragic. 😅

[@RoryZ23]

Learned a lot about nether travel in this one. Thank you!

[@DoomWalker42]

You can obtain suspicious sand and gravel by putting a cobweb under it and breaking it similar to how you break the dragon egg. If you use another gravity block like sand or gravel between the suspicious sand/gravel and the cobweb then both will fall into the cobweb and pop off onto the ground so you can pick it up and store it in your inventory or place it anywhere in the world.

[@_Abjuranax_]

Yes you can collect and place suspicious blocks in your world, but you will not be able brush them and collect archaeological drops after converting them into item form afterwards.

[@Lea_D.]

​@@_Abjuranax_ But at least you can put them in a museum! :)

[@LosferWerds]

You are my go to for post-errand decompression. Great, informative, tutorial as usual Pix. I've been watching a lot about the new archeology aspects of MC trying to learn. @ItsMarloe did a video recently where they uncover an entire trail ruin, it remined me of your work in Emp S2 ( and more recently in New Life).

[@origulator]

There's probably some sort of joke you can make about explorers ignoring the living populace of desert areas and instead gunning straight for their ancient ruins for plunder.

[@josephdavies713]

Man, I'm jealous. I've rated like eight or nine desert temples now. 30, 000 locks away from my base and still haven't found a doom armor trim template

[@MJDENTON]

Pix, you're absolutely spoiling us with vids!

[@lulugoblin]

Oh gosh the magma cube that surprised Pix literally made me jump, I didn't expected to be startled like that 😂

[@matthewparker9276]

Just a hunch, but I think we'll be raiding a nether fortress in the next couple of days.

[@Timelord79]

Hey, this time at least he didn’t spot it five seconds after going into the nether the very first time.

[@mrnobody.158]

I'm quit good at dying in the nether so I guess I'll travel through the overworld 😂

[@brentbarr498]

23:20 "Precious Stuff".. my precious.. lolol.. sorry, couldn't help myself.. plus I thought I heard Gollum in your voice when you said it.. ;)

[@W1nterGreenLOL]

The Survival Guide Luck Strikes again, this time by an enchanted golden apple on his first ever Desert temple raid(how is this even possible?)!

[@_Abjuranax_]

You are also required to eat one of your Enchanted Golden Apples for the eating all of the foods Advancement, and are more common to find in Ancient Cities. And you can collect Suspicious Sand and Gravel as an item by digging underneath them, and have them float for 30 seconds on a Water Column or Cobwebs. This only gives you the block as an item though, and it will not give you an Archaeology item as a drop if you place it back down and try to Brush it again. So first check the Suspicious Sand and Gravel for useful drops before converting them into an item, if you wish to collect them as items.

[@johnmorris8621]

Enjoy your stick. Truly a prize of the ancient world

[@fionathegayesttiefling9867]

Not that it matters beyond fun details., but there's only 8 actual spawnable squares at the bottom of the temple, since the pressure plate makes a block unspawnable. Fun fact, this also means both spiders and slimes can't spawn down there

[@phillac]

Omg that Slime dropping down gave me a heart attack! Especially since I'm always playing on hardcore😳

[@BooksMusicMe17]

One of the things on my to-do list for 1.20 was using camels to traverse my nether tunnels (I think they'd like the heat!) so I didn't have to build ice boat roads. Looks like you have the perfect location for it!

[@Daniel-pk5wv]

Etho actually showed that you can acquire the suspicious sand and gravel by making them fall into cob webs. The entity will break into it's block form after a certain amount of time falling. So by making it fall into a cobweb you can make sure it doesnt hit the ground until that timer runs out.

[@Patryc]

15:43 that nether spawn 😂

[@TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

Thee best Minecraft playlists on KZbin Thank you Good Sir 🎩

[@Lisa04W]

I always thought that 'sherd' was just a made up word by the Minecraft developers. What a pleasant surprise to find out that's what they're called in real life archaeology. Thanks for the random fun fact Pix...I feel a little bit smarter now haha, all thanks to you and the survival guide!! It's also nice to know that this update had a lot of thought and hard work put into it by the developers to recreate real life archaeology as closely as possible. I appreciate them for that and it makes me even more excited to discover the new update. Otherwise, thanks Pix for the great episode!! I'm always excited to watch another one of your videos :)

[@georgeharris572]

one thing I've learned with this new mechanic is to take a few iron shovels instead of using my beast shovel, though I still take it for clearing out dirt around the outside of the sites, so you don't accidently hold the mouse button too long and clear everything (especially after doing a ton of digging before hand)

[@hikari1690]

Yay! Noooo piiiixxxxxx you left the golden apple 😢. Today I learnt a new word. Sherd. 23:20 literal boat load 🤣

[@dstaron3162]

Great episode!! Can't wait for the next one.

[@aarondevlieger9279]

I love your videos keep it up!!!

[@OehlkeJD]

You should've made this a let's play series, with the occasional tutorial and guide material interspersed throughout.

[@evaroovers4871]

That magma cube gave me a heckin jumpscare 😂

[@jujoya]

You reminded me of my tunnels back at early to mid game... thousand block system of tunnels all with iron pickaxes 😭 Makes me wanna start a new world, and i might next year, there's so much left to do in my world yet. Also, dang, regular diamond ores are so rare now... i have only a few

[@johanputter5061]

Hey Pixl, very nice finding and "O so close" call with the nether. What about some blaze rod next eps. Till then. Thanks for the share and time.

[@multi.instrumentalist]

That magma cube gave me a heart attack, how the hell do you stay so calm about these things?!

[@Sparrow420]

Hey pixlriffs, I'm playing the same seed as you are. I've set up base at the desert you explored, there's a ruined portal there near a river, it spawns you literally right next to the blaze spawner in the fortress. (Like 15-20 blocks away!)

[@Lee-mmg]

Well, I've never made a nether hub.. so that will be fun and handy!!!

[@UkuleleProductions]

I should really start exploring my world some more. So far I have just been setting up, and the only 1.20 feature I used is the cherrywood. Well, this video, makes me really excited for archeology. What I'm wondering is - and anyone feel free to respond: Do you think you will go out, exploring for Trailruins/Dessert-Temples after your first time doing one?

[@AtticHaunt321]

That is one spicy portal!

[@CorwinAlexander]

Thanks for explaining "sherd". My computer has been busted for a couple years so I had no way to check it out. I've heard Grian, Pearlescentmoon, and yourself pronounce it and I wondered if it were a UK and Australian pronunciation of shard.

[@ronorleans]

Stuck in an airport overnight and this helps. 😅🙌

[@mitchelloconnell3309]

For all the bedrock players, a map that you create in the overworld will still show your relative location in the nether. You can use the Overworld map like a treasure map in the nether. as long as you know where your portal is on that overworld map

[@sickatae_9257]

I stay up just for your uploads

[@akshatchheda1102]

hear me out... coloured pots!! :0

[@codyofearth]

That's probably my only criticism of this update. I really think we should be able to Dye the pots different colors. I hope they add that in the future.

[@bunta3434]

Living vicariously though this till I can chunk edit my minecraft world so I can keep my progress but not have to travel

[@RUBRONEGRO87]

Your content is addictive, Pix!

[@TheSpencermacdougall]

16:35 a Cold baby strider on the back of a adult!

[@re.liable]

Wow an Enchanted apple already!

[@Riceking10]

Still watching! 14 episodes in!

[@melanierimmer1744]

I’m playing on this seed and have found not one but two enchanted golden apples, which has never happened to me before. Lucky seed, obviously!

[@cporly3051]

jeesh! 19:55 That scared the shiat out of me ._. Even 5 nights wasn't THAT scary O_O

[@alexanderfischer7253]

Hey, Pixlriffs. I had a question. Is fire tick on in the Survival Guide? Also I love waking up to watch your videos. They are very entertaining and informative.

[@Pixlriffs]

Yes, I left all the world settings on the defaults, so fire spreads

[@alexanderfischer7253]

Ok thank you.

[@LittleKittyMine69]

Don't forget that lava in the nether moves FAST! In the overworld, it flows much slower than water, but in the nether, lava moves as fast as water!! So if you see a lava flood in a tunnel you're making, ACT QUICKLY!!!

[@williamjones5334]

You can also get a decorated pot back whole if you use a Silk Touch tool to break it!

[@ay99]

Hello, I found a hidden basement in the Desert Temple. Would there be additional loot there as well? Or it's just a basement? Thanks.

[@AvidEric]

Damn... that magma cube almost made me jump out of my chair.