Farming Squid with Axolotls! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Lets Play) [S2E93]

[@briarblack7437]

Pix! Don't forget that rails are immune to water now! You can use powered rails and a hopper minecart to make your collection area lossless!

[@Pixlriffs]

I have a feeling the mobs might end up nudging the hopper minecart and preventing it from moving, but I'll do some testing in creative and see what we can come up with.

[@humourlessjester3584]

Never thought of using grass blocks to see the exact outline of a biome, even though it seems like an obvious tool to use. I'll definitely remember that.

[@_Abjuranax_]

You can also add Sugarcane, as it has different shades, depending on which Biome is next to the River. Note: River Biomes "Meander" along the edges between Version Updates, so you may want to come in a couple of blocks from the River Banks to be sure that your Squid Farm remains at the maximum Spawning area.

[@fredymartinez9260]

Hi

[@mintycheddar3854]

There's a point in this presentation where one of the difficulties for breeding axolotls is demonstrated: It's easy to release a bucket of tropical fish into the water rather than feeding an axolotl, whereupon the axolotls usually kill the fish before you can get it back into the bucket. I have learned to hold a bucket of tropical fish in each hand when feeding axolotls; that keeps the axolotls' attention focused on the buckets of fish, so they aren't darting around. I've also noticed that if you accidentally take a fed axolotl into a bucket, the breeding process is interrupted such that you'll have to feed the axolotls again before they'll breed, so be careful with your buckets! Otherwise, thanks for the timely video, Pixlriffs; I just cleared an ocean monument near my base and need to build a squid farm. This design will do nicely.

[@mintycheddar3854]

Following up: I built the squid farm shortly after posting the previous comment. It covers six chunks and is divided into four rectangular sections, each containing sixteen axolotls. It works very well, producing all the ink sacs (and fish) that I will need in my solo survival world. If you build a squid ink farm, be sure to include lighting in the floor to prevent drowned spawning. I noticed a couple of things during construction. First, axolotls can cross between sections under the line of hoppers. A solid wall behind the hoppers prevents that. Second, attempting to empty a bucket of axolotl directly into the water often does not work. Aiming at the face of a solid block, such as a floor or wall in the water, works much better.

[@gwggaming123]

I've been desperately searching for an easy and understandable squid farm video and I've found it, in one of my favourite minecrafters! thanks for creating all these easy to follow tutorials pix!

[@phoenixstrills2289]

When the allay comes around, depending if they get attacked by guardians, you could maybe just afk near an ocean monument and have the allay collect it for you

[@_Abjuranax_]

@@phoenixstrills2289 I'm not sure, but the Allays may drown.

[@RuhanMajithia]

@@_Abjuranax_ allays regenerate really fast so they won't actually did to drowning

[@Flareontoast]

You and Stressmonster are making absolutely fabulous ink farms with axolotls! I think it so cute that even though we're using the axolotls as "tools" you still are kind of really sweet towards them.

[@bishwapriyosarkar4922]

Not just the wandering traders, I believe the llamas are also watching your beautiful series.

[@gegenbauer]

Seeing a glow squid farm would be really awesome! The decorating possibilities are amazing! I’d love to be able build one with a spooky “Shape of Water” vibe.

[@phoenixamoamo2254]

Love the hard work you put into all your episodes pix your amazing and I wish I could catch a stream but time zones don’t work well thanks bro ❤️

[@the_noob_guy_96]

same dude time zones never work well

[@Julia-sm9zq]

Aw, this reminds me of a river I had that was near a village, and I had a nearby cave that could spawn axolotls at the time, and so I filled it with many axolotls and got many salmon and ink sacs. No blue axolotl, but it was still very cute to swim among them, and be surrounded by axolotls! :D

[@andhalped]

- has infinite sea lanterns - uses glowstone love it

[@vinka909]

Instead of using grass block or just any block to cover a body of water an get streaming water on the top, you could go with regular ice and break it without silk touch once you are done. that way the layer will be water sources.

[@Pixlriffs]

That’s a good call. I think I’ve internalised the idea that ice needs a solid block below it to create water when broken, but I guess that’s also true of water source blocks

[@abdelkarymhdid4139]

You can use waterlogged slabs that's the easiest way

[@_Abjuranax_]

Using Slime Blocks has the advantage that they can be broken without losing any Durability on your Tools, depending on availability in your world.

[@Raskolnikov70]

@@abdelkarymhdid4139 Yep, using top-half slabs means the water source blocks stay because the slabs automatically get waterlogged when you place them, and they work just as well as full blocks for placing flowing water on top.

[@soulhunter0]

Fresh out of the sea! Good to see the upload! Thanks pix.

[@derrickobara6806]

This might not be the most blisteringly fast squid farm, but gosh if it isn't the cutest!

[@Filip-ez2ov]

This season of mc survival guide is illegaly underrated. please people drop a comment and like so the new episodes get noticed by yt algorithm!!!

[@johanputter5061]

very nice build Pix. Was waiting for this farm. can't wait for the trident and wither rose farm now! Keep up the gr8 work and thanks for all your effort!!!!

[@Cyberguy42]

While the guardian farm looks very nice, it doesn't seem very effective. Even with looting and a roof over the spawning tanks, the drops from the farm can apparently be handled by a standard 'single-speed' hopper item sorter 25:19. For comparison, the guardian farm I built (based on shulkercraft's video) was far faster to build (no draining of the monument), doesn't have a roof, and doesn't use looting, and yet requires at least 4 or 5 hopper lines to keep up with the drops. So, either that item sorter is killing efficiency, or the farm's rates are far too low to justify the build effort.

[@joshuajohnbantugan176]

hey pix maybe putting a cobweb in front of the dropper so that the cooked cod will have a straight drop to the cactus. anyways love the series!

[@another_jt]

spawn-proofing against drowned is a bit of a chore, since unlike other hostile mobs they don't need a solid surface to spawn on. They just need a 2 high block of water (source or flowing) where the light level is 0 at the lower water block. In rivers, this can be all the way to the top of the river. Luckily, all you need to do is light up the tank.

[@_Abjuranax_]

Also, since Water is Translucent and not Transparent, Water gets darker the deeper that you go, or can see underwater. So generally, more Light is needed to Spawnproof areas with deep Water.

[@novawynn]

Thanks for this farm idea! I found that using walls allows for the items to still be picked up by the hoppers while making sure that the axolotl stay in their designated tanks!

[@ShavayD]

As someone who has built a wither rose farm, I will day it is alot less tedious and it is much more reliable than a squid farm. I used Shulkercrafts farm but he did make one huge mistake. Set up the afk platform 50 BLOCKS above the spawning platform for the endermen, NOT 128. I afkd for 15 minutes and got 38 stacks of wither roses!!!!

[@timariugabriel6175]

Hey, you can put the row of hoppers at the base of the farm and a fence wall above them. This way you wont lose any items

[@_Abjuranax_]

The Ink Sacs will eventually rise and be collected, so that would be both inefficient and a lot of extra work for nothing, sry.

[@jekentmenietje]

That would actually work!

[@jekentmenietje]

@@_Abjuranax_ of the fences aren't waterlogged, the items will fall through them into the hoppers

[@87alphaone]

I am having a bad day, so I came here to make it good. Thank you

[@Chriscsg89]

Looking forward to your video on the wither rose farm! Excellent work as always Pix!

[@scrappedmetal]

you'd need to light up the tank all the way for drowneds spawning at night, right? assuming you aren't sleeping while afking for an hour

[@cloud09gaming]

Getting really tired of waiting or hopeing that youtube will just show me the videos. Not sure why I keep watching these videos like that. Guess it's time to subscribe. XD

[@AspieGamer13]

The problem is since the Nether update, overworld biomes are partially 3D. That is, the borders aren’t a solid vertical line. If you check different y-values, you get different biomes (you could even see it as you were bobbing up and down in the river). Since that update, even existing biomes have changed their exact outline twice. A good demonstration would be the minihud mod which can show biome (and structure) borders.

[@Raskolnikov70]

I'm liking the new terrain generation less and less. I love that they did stuff like change world height and add more varied caves, but it also feels like they didn't think a lot of things through. And certain things like biome borders staying "flat" as you go up or down shouldn't have been messed with at all. They could have superimposed the new 3D lush cave biomes on top of the old system IMHO.

[@Unramaan1]

If you build a small platform on top of an ocean monument above the water with a hide box around it and hang out for 5-6 min the guardians will kill all squid in the vicinity. Just swim around or boat around grab all the ink then go hide again so the guardians don't focus on you instead of the squid. You can get a few stacks in about 20 ish min. Slower than a farm yes, but effective early game.

[@adeeldrew]

Oh man it was wonderful episode ❤️

[@justpapaya6005]

For the use of prismarine. The palette I use is prismarine/prism. bricks/dark prism. + orange blocks such as orange glazed terracotta, orange concrete, acacia wood, orange terracotta, red sand/sandstone, shroomlights and copper.

[@s1l3ntmyth99]

The best MC youtuber out there!!!

[@NoOneYT1]

You can also use guardians to farm, though it is harder to do

[@lindleya]

For the ink getting stuck under the hoppers, you could use waterlogged trapdoors along the edges of the hoppers to block those little spaces from being accessible

[@jekentmenietje]

But then items would get stuck under the edge of the trap doors. you would have to do trap doors all the way to the bottom to prevent that, and that would cost a lot of spawning spaces (and it would be pretty expensive)

[@lindleya]

@@jekentmenietje good point, i hadnt thought of that.

[@TheRealWormbo]

The squid farm dilemma on servers should have been resolved with the 1.18 per-player mob cap change. That change affects all mob caps, not just the one for hostile mobs. As far as drowned spawning is concerned, they do indeed require zero block light, but also keep in mind that skylight only prevents them from spawning in shallow water during the day with clear weather. Rain will reduce the thickness of the spawn-proof area, and night or thunderstorm will completely disable spawn-proofing through sky light. One fun piece of info I figured out during a bit of research on mobcaps: I originally thought only hostile mobs can spawn every tick and everything else has a 20 second spawn cycle, but that's actually only the case for the "creature" mob category, i.e. land animals and striders. If you are interested in some mobcap-related debug information, the F3 screen lists the caps in the line starting with "SC:" in the order "Monster", "Creature", "Ambient", "Axolotls", "Underground water creature", "Water creature", "Water ambient", and "Misc" (mobs that don't count to any other mobcap, such as villagers), each denoted by their first letter and the number of mobs counting towards the cap in that category.

[@Pixlriffs]

Assuming the server is running on the default settings, but I know most servers will probably want to run a more configurable server jar and they might have a different approach to the global mob cap. It’s worth knowing the options, either way. I actually put the glowstone in there on stream, when two drowned spawned at the bottom of the tank during (I think) the middle of the day. It could’ve been raining, now that I think of it. Still expected the glowstone to deal with spawns during the night, but I guess block light might not reach the diagonals.

[@TheRealWormbo]

@@Pixlriffs I guess the point about modded servers like Spigot or Paper is valid, but then again, those are configurable enough that many parts of the Survival Guide may not apply exactly. There's options that affect iron golem spawning, zombies tracking towards turtle eggs, nether portal generation/linking mechanics, and many other things you might take for granted. Notably those server implementations are the origin of the "redstone may break under lag" myth.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

@@Pixlriffs Put some lighting up the sides of the wall and on the top--you're possibly getting spots in the middle where light level is 0 mid-water, especially at night, and since unlike other free-spawned (as opposed to spawner-spawned) mobs, they don't need a solid block under them..

[@tldr9989]

Drowned do spawn at light level 0. Assuming you were not AFKing at night, those were probably zombies that spawn nearby and walked towards water, either because you were close enough or might be a pathfinding bug. There was an issue with mobs on fire not searching for water so maybe the buffed that in a way that overrides the 32+ block rule. If you AFKed at night, drown could've spawned near the surface.

[@Raskolnikov70]

He AFK'd for an hour so it was nightime at least three times during that period. They most likely spawned near the surface since there aren't any lights around the farm.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

@@Raskolnikov70 Also, do converted zombies drop nautilus shells? I know they don't drop tridents, but not sure about the shells or copper.

[@yeudler41]

Are you going to do a world-tour for Episode 100, and a "101 Questions About Minecraft" for Episode 101?

[@biryanilover7147]

I wish he could do it, but I have a little bit of doubt.

[@yeudler41]

@@biryanilover7147 Why? The length of a tour video doesn't bother me.

[@freytiger1]

🤣!! The wandering trader may very well be your first subscriber. Nonetheless, you have many fans. Your videos are amazing!

[@Slaikkarinaj]

25:40 How would the torch power a block in front of it?

[@deawinter]

Are there any requirements in terms of sky access for squid spawning? (one of the locations I’m considering is underneath a large build I’m doing, so it’d be loaded a ton but would have solid blocks above it.)

[@Pixlriffs]

I don't believe they need open sky above - just make sure you light the farm adequately to prevent drowned spawns, if you're using axolotls!

[@deawinter]

@@Pixlriffs well I’ve GOTTA use axolotls, this is officially the cutest 1.18 farm thanks as always for the help!

[@naufalm5884]

25:40 the torch wouldn't power the block next to it, only a block on top of it

[@southernantman]

when you break it does the color convert back to the regular color on the blocks. It has to right, because it doesn't separate it in your invitatory.

[@Pixlriffs]

Fun fact - the prismarine texture is also animated in your inventory as well!

[@m2lansky]

Very cool, i really wanted to this long ago, but my wotld got deleted by play store. But i probaly will do this design any time soon

[@allenpaluszewski4030]

Maybe to prevent the Axolotls from jumping over to the other tank. Use Trapdoors over the hoppers, and Glass block over the trapdoors.

[@mommabearr6593]

Hi Pixlriffs - Have you ever considered making a glow squid farm? I have one, but am having a difficult time finding the right afk spot to spawn in the glow squid. I'm sure you have a much better understanding of the spawning mechanics.

[@JustinTimeCuber]

The thing about spawning on multiplayer isn't generally true anymore, there are now per player mobcaps (1.18)

[@biryanilover7147]

Would you play without biome blend, I think it looks really cool.

[@muscledeep]

Just saw your tweet, and so i'm here :)

[@Harani66]

could you put trapdoors on the side of the hopper to stop items getting stuck "under" them ?

[@craigds3745]

You'd have to put them all the way down to the bottom or the ink sacks would get stuck on them too

[@bottombunk7685]

could use walkerlogged scoffolding instead of grass blocks under the water stream.

[@connorsutton288]

3 hours late and there already 5k views and 800 likes. Just proves how good this man is.

[@toddbonzalez947]

"I'm pretty sure he watches this series" "UH-HUH"

[@hikari1690]

If I put the amount of effort you put into your vids into my studies I'd be a doctor now

[@kirstiegray347]

Wud trap doors work to stop the ink from being under the hoppers? ... Might need to do it the whole way down both sides but I'm sure that wud work!

[@MrMattkid]

If you put 1 block holes in the central dividing wall the axolotl's will be able to freely move from side to side and the squids won't making it they go to which ever side needs their attention the most.

[@Raskolnikov70]

Minecraft has some weird AI behavior. It's just as likely they'd all wind up in one side of the farm because they have a slight tendency to move in a certain direction. Like bees - when they get lost from their hives they'll gradually migrate towards the northwest (negative X and Z) over time even though they buzz around in circles doing it.

[@realitycheckparanormalinve6710]

Will you make a wither rose farm at some point in this series?

[@prithaknepal2013]

He will.

[@BooksMusicMe17]

Would making a bubble column to the AFK platform affect the farm?

[@brahtrumpwonbigly7309]

If you need quick ink sacks, just go to a normal sea temple and kill the elder guardians. After, just wait for a bit and the guardians all around that spawn kill squids by the dozen. After a bit I always have several stacks of ink sacks. Probably 5 stacks in 15 minutes or so. All you have to do is boat around in a boat and pick them up off the surface.

[@Raskolnikov70]

That works great if you need a quick stack or two, but guys like Pix use full shulkers of dark prismarine or black concrete for big projects. This is one of the better basic farms to build unless you really enjoy hunting squid.

[@htob]

you could save lights by putting them in the middle of the farm

[@bulldogtonyyt1116]

I built a lush waterfall and pool for my Axolotls, they kept disappearing even after I name tagged them and made sure they couldn't escape! Started with four, breed them up to ten, now all are gone but two of them!

[@jekentmenietje]

Hey Pixlriffs! I'm pretty sure drowned still need light level 0. Perhaps they are spawning during the night?

[@RockyBlocky6130]

Piece of random information/question: I was watching All the small things by Blink 182... does the lead vocalist have Pixlriffs "official" jumper in some of the shots?

[@TenkoBerry]

This is good 👍

[@norbucso]

If you expand this under y:30 you technically can get glow ink as well? I say the hardest farm to make is the ink one. I mean the previous season version. So much setup but the payoff is nice. I like dark prismarine as well but even more the fact that ink sacs are loot to sell to my librarians. 🙏🙏😊

[@grimmsoul3096]

there are many other ways to get emeralds from the villagers raids and infection + farms are good methods

[@norbucso]

@@grimmsoul3096 Thanks. I sell everything the game can offer in double chests worth. Wandering trader can learn from me. Haha. Now I just use the trade system to mend my tools. It's fastest way. Emeralds I have way too many.

[@polaide8036]

Are bred axolotls exempt from despawning?

[@deacis8298]

trap door is solid block ?

[@taseennahi]

I have a feeling that the wandering traders are secret agents whose mission is to be famous through the Minecraft Survival Guide Season 2 Series... 🤔

[@SargeWolf010]

Wandering trader here: I have watched your Serries from in game and sea that you need black dye and Sea pickles... So want to trade? Hmmm? Huh? 🤣😅

[@Lea_D.]

I hope your guardian farm sorting system isn't spitting out ink sacs into the cactus. I get quite a lot of ink sacs at my guardian farm which has been enough for the amount of dark prismarine I've wanted so far.

[@Cyberguy42]

Same here

[@parsaemamjomeh]

Nice

[@alexdloake]

Hey guys does anyone know is stained glass PANES block light like stained glass blocks do? For mob farm reasons. Thanks

[@Pixlriffs]

Stained glass doesn't block light at all. Tinted glass blocks light, and it cannot be crafted into panes.

[@longlongzuo]

doesn't guardian farm also give ink sacs?

[@Pixlriffs]

No. Guardians will kill squid in the open ocean, but once you’ve converted it into a farm, squid don’t spawn in the bounding box of an ocean monument so you’ll never see them in the guardian farm

[@RandomKnight588]

Does this Squid farm work in 1.19? Just built it but squids are just not really spawning. I get a lot of Cod spawning, maybe that fills the cap?

[@Pixlriffs]

If Cod are spawning, you're building in an ocean biome. Which is fine, but if there's a large ocean nearby, the squid are probably spawning there and not inside your farm. The most important part of this is making sure you drain enough water around the farm, then AFK at a height where squid can only spawn inside the boundary of the farm.

[@RandomKnight588]

@@Pixlriffs Im building in a river biome, i afk at 178 so the least amount of space is in spawning distance and drained quite a bit, maybe not enough on one side. I was wrong, its Salmon what's spawning not Cod. But still where is a lot of them. And thank you for answering. :) Edit: fixed it by clearing a bit more of water next to it, also importantly i moved my afk spot to 172 so the whole farm is spawnable.

[@danielrhouck]

With the 1.18 multiplayer mob spawning changes, are you sure the “squid farms arenʼt good on servers” line is still true of default vanilla?

[@Pixlriffs]

I expect Wither rose farms are still much better, but I may have been overselling the point a little.

[@lavaburgs]

7 episodes left till ep 100!

[@Gr33nazzan]

Hey! Pix! Just want to tell you that you should remake the squid farm which was in the first season. This one is too slow.

[@Pixlriffs]

Hey Tiger Gamer! Just want to tell you that the squid farm from the first season had to be split over two episodes because it took a really long time to build, a lot more resources, involved drying much more of the river, and is made obsolete by simple mechanics in this update. It is perfectly adequate for my needs and not a massive grind to create. If this farm is too slow you just need to add more axolotls, and - let's be real here - as long as it is functional, the only thing you need to do is AFK at it for longer.

[@Gr33nazzan]

Got it pix! Appreciate the reply 💙

[@Zawnpuia1640]

@@Pixlriffs 😂smart

[@Loyal_Canadian]

Can you please release the world download of the old survival series?

[@RedisFun2]

Actually he did release a world download at the conclusion of that series. Try searching the last few videos in that playlist and there might. E a link to the download. Though, not sure if it's still available but it's only been about 8-9 months maybe?

[@Loyal_Canadian]

@@RedisFun2 well the videos are all private, and the public doesn't have the link

[@thelandmann08]

7:50 lol us bedrock players need to start nagging mojang for f3

[@thelandmann08]

also axolots wont die from drowneds usually because they will play dead

[@biryanilover7147]

@@thelandmann08 and regenerate health like they regenerate body parts in the real world.

[@thelandmann08]

@@biryanilover7147 exactly

[@genesheeshh]

I didnt even know Prismarine Block Can change color

[@theod9548]

I thought mob caps had been recently modified and that each player now had their own mob cap ...

[@aedantucker6543]

Why are there villagers for the swamp and jungle but no villages. Is it because of lack of spawnable space for a village.

[@Pixlriffs]

I think it's a combination of the terrain not being very friendly for villager pathfinding, and the fun of there being two 'secret' types of villagers for players to discover on their own.

[@Zawnpuia1640]

Yesss

[@unlistedgaming414]

i was thinking with axolotls than the old way

[@jeradcurby]

Sooooo.... I'm playing on an Android tablet, and have yet to be able to catch anything with a bucket... I've tried it with water in bucket, and without water in bucket. I have relied on wandering traders for fish in bucket, but that is few and far between. Anyone else have this problem?

[@thirupathig4027]

I still think the enderman powered black dye farm is better, you would get about 9 stacks of wither rose in like 5 minutes.

[@mineralnoodles]

Yeah and I think building that would be better in terms of complexity too since working working water is very weird

[@thirupathig4027]

@@mineralnoodles Yep

[@Pixlriffs]

It's not about building something better. As I said in the Guardian Farm episodes, this guide is not here to show you the easiest or lowest-effort way to do everything in Minecraft.

[@thirupathig4027]

@@Pixlriffs I get it pix no worries, a lot of stuff you do is just to show that it exists and necessarily for practicality like building the flying machine basalt bridge making the wither skeleton farm low tech when you could have just placed some wither roses and be done with it. This farm showcases the interaction between axolotls and squids maybe other people can come up with more fun designs. I really appreciate the stuff you do. I felt like telling wither roses are better.

[@RedisFun2]

@@thirupathig4027 I think also his style allows for experimenting, and problem solving . There are really awesome tutorials but often no theory or how to fix if it breaks or a single block gets misplaced. Pix seems to gear his series to folks with various degrees of MC experience from beginer on up. Edited cause autocorrect hates me!

[@norbucso]

I keep forgetting your game is not mine and when I saw the cactus to destroy items I was like but hey the ink sacs will be destroyed. My monuments was generated in a river biome. So the guardians constantly kill the squids and also gets collected in the soul fires down below. It's a weird coincidence I know.

[@grimmsoul3096]

the group of wandering traders that watch the video are prob very angry that all their friends are dying and i will watch as someone with the username of a wandering trader comments this video

[@whoami6251]

5 minute gang

[@alialnuhii4729]

2nd

[@fSebastianRe]

First

[@chitusminecraft]

There's a point in this presentation where one of the difficulties for breeding axolotls is demonstrated: It's easy to release a bucket of tropical fish into the water rather than feeding an axolotl, whereupon the axolotls usually kill the fish before you can get it back into the bucket. I have learned to hold a bucket of tropical fish in each hand when feeding axolotls; that keeps the axolotls' attention focused on the buckets of fish, so they aren't darting around. I've also noticed that if you accidentally take a fed axolotl into a bucket, the breeding process is interrupted such that you'll have to feed the axolotls again before they'll breed, so be careful with your buckets! Otherwise, thanks for the timely video, Pixlriffs; I just cleared an ocean monument near my base and need to build a squid farm. This design will do nicely.