The Hardest Minecraft Challenge? (One Block Vanilla Episode 1)

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Welcome to my new series, Impossible skyblock, where we start off on a single block of grass in an empty world in vanilla Minecraft. Let's see how far we can make it :D.
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Intro song: Elliot Adamson - You Don't Understand
Heavily inspired by JokeyPokey: / gugglewuggle
Thumbnail made my -Mildi-.

[@ImPinu]

Hey guys! So cool to see so many of you guys enjoying the videos! There's a new episode coming in a few days so I hope you want to watch that, it's gonna be a banger!

[@Cloud7050]

The algorithm is starting to recommend this more it seems

[@brahbehindslaughter9879]

Can't wait.

[@poklipps]

I cant wait I love this!! also i think the algorithem is starting to pick up your videos well deserved ☺ ☻

[@ChevyTheCat]

@@Cloud7050 yes

[@fishh_3984]

Yt algorithm gives us an actually good video about time

[@justink1800]

“if you want a world tour i’m down for it” this joke earned all my support

[@RubyPiec]

same lmao

[@albingrahn5576]

he played it off cool but i'm sure he had been planning to make that joke forever lol

[@Ninjakiw1]

@@albingrahn5576 he'd been keeping that one ready for a while haha

[@maguslinus726]

I never thought someone might actually do this, mad respect!

[@ImPinu]

cheers dude means a lot :)

[@LaborwaveLenin]

Have you heard of jokeypokey he has a series where he survives on a single piece of bedrock.

[@LaborwaveLenin]

I made that reply before I saw he commented lol

[@commenter621]

I don't respect

[@jmejuniper]

True! Most "one block" challenges just have an infinitely respawning block :p

[@fsexplorer9727]

finally, the skyblock I have always wanted, where the "one block" isn't clickbait

[@JadenEdits325]

Fr

[@ruthiewitter569]

The 1 durability clip made me laugh literally out loud, comedic timing was amazing I could feel the disbelief and frustration and amusement all at once

[@masela01]

the triple point of shovel

[@BlackoutGootraxian]

The way he just stood there silently and then threw the snowball killed me

[@MrPeat2010]

I just cracked up there lol

[@ruthiewitter569]

19:07, for anyone who wants to see it again XD i came back to find the timestamp, and also holy crow that's a lot of likes

[@Jokeypokey]

Holy heck this is insane. Didn't think it was possible but you've actually gone and done it :o

[@ImPinu]

Yoo what’s up dude, yeah thought this idea was too good to pass up and saw that enough changes were made in 1.18 to make it viable, like foxes spawning on snow, which is pretty lucky in our case lol

[@jimmified]

Wow…. It’s the visionary himself

[@maragazh9993]

This ofcourse begs the question: does the theorist or the experimentalist get the nobel prize?

[@ImPinu]

@@maragazh9993 defo the theorist!

[@noneofyourbusiness4133]

@@ImPinu can you maybe turn down the game volume? It’s SOOOOO LOUD!!!

[@borsk473]

You mentioned you could do a world tour - I think that would be nice. It can be hard to keep track of things given how quickly they develop :D

[@ImPinu]

I might do that in the 5th episode, thanks for watching! :)

[@RubyPiec]

@@ImPinu thanks! I can't wait for the world tour

[@amazeinrunar]

I look away for 5 minutes and missed the making of half this world

[@jackdaleggett7184]

I thought that was a joke given the only progress to tour at the time was the first snow block

[@gandalf6174]

@@ImPinu maybe link a world download even tho it might weight a lot

[@terrariaskeletonpre1.0.39]

hey, this might be way too late to mention but you can "trade" foxes' items instead of killing them, they prioritze food items (rotten flesh, for example) and will drop what they're holding effortlessly for those foods instead. Hopefully this is useful in future, maybe

[@lux6485]

thank you terraria skeleton pre 1.0.3 from the hit game terraria

[@DialecticRed]

I hope Pinu sees this, this would be much less risky and that sequence where Pinu killed the fox with the emerald was so tense

[@creeperking6879]

thank you terraria skeleton pre 1.0.3 from the hit game terraria

[@a_soulspark]

I cried as he killed those innocent foxes, bro just give them food ToT

[@SenseiSpooder]

EMERALDS AND GETTING WATER FRIM WANDERING TRADER

[@JoeEnderman]

You probably know it, but combining broken tools gives you a 5% durability bonus. I don't know why I didn't fix this earlier. The above is technically incorrect. Minecraft uses fancy math to come up with something close-ish to that number. Minetest Game actually uses a set percentage to make it simpler though.

[@Icetastesgood]

69 likes means I can’t like

[@goldultimateguest]

@@Icetastesgood it's 77 now you can like it safely

[@suop1234]

@@Icetastesgood wheezing

[@lux6485]

i thought the formula for combining broken tools was a + b + 7

[@beaub152]

​@@lux6485 I thought it was flat too

[@timothynelson5992]

I like how calculated this first episode is. Everything counts and there’s little to no wiggle room

[@markyourboy1161]

Someone actually doing a proper One Block world? Finally, all the others were fakes where the block would change when broken. I respect the dedication this challenge requires.

[@aSmallGreenDot]

Foxes will drop whatever they're holding to pick up food, so you can just drop raw rabbit to get the emeralds more safely

[@garrondumont7891]

I've wanted to do this since I saw jokeypokey's video about it, but didn't know how to do it in a realistic amount of time. I hadn't considered backups. Definitely need to try this at some point!

[@ImPinu]

Go for it, it's a super fun challenge!

[@Popcorn_Pillow]

Bro you are deranged... In a good way

[@nebulisnoobis102]

@CarterCandy fun is subjective

[@sengkuhotak]

​@@ImPinuman just say it fun💀

[@KizGalaxy]

This challenge is insane! Massive respect for all the time you've poured into this. I'd love to see a full series in this world, don't get discouraged! 💜

[@fry_fr]

ayo its you

[@FungIsSquish]

Kiz3r!!! :)

[@Jam_1e]

You could improve it a bit by not using iron shovel entirely when it drops and combining it with the new one - that would give it some durability boost

[@Tuxfanturnip]

that takes a grindstone now, not just crafting

[@PopeMical]

@@Tuxfanturnip Just went to double check and you can still craft tools together to repair them. It repairs the same amount as doing it inside a grindstone as well from my brief tests. For those curious you get an extra 12 uses from your iron shovels by combining two 1 durability shovels together.

[@Tuxfanturnip]

@@PopeMical huh, I thought it was changed

[@drthvrdr]

@@Tuxfanturnip it was in some 1.14 snapshots but they reverted it because people didn't like the change

[@128Gigabytes]

that would be hard to do since he dies every zombie spawn attempt

[@ianboyer2224]

16:14 “There’s a skelly boi here” “Well that was f*ckin’ schupid” That killed me 😂

[@dxcvvxd]

here from jokeypokey btw you deserve a lot for even attempting that challenge; it was hard to find your channel and that actually suprised me and yeah I'd like to see a world tour lol

[@ImPinu]

Yeah algorithm hasn't been nice until JokeyPokey gave me a shoutout hehe :)

[@dxcvvxd]

true true

[@jammybot2529]

Thought this was gonna be one of those maps where the block regenerates. But this is just insane, really great job on this!

[@jademonass2954]

him placing that snow block felt like catharsis

[@offbeatstuff8473]

Woh, the protosky dudes spent like 10 days for 1 emerald with a designated farm, and you found one just lying on the ground. This challenge started as impossible grind and minecraft really rewarded you for your hard work after. Huge respect man

[@urbolio]

yeah well the big difference being that they only had one grass block back when it only spawned on grass

[@lmnk]

Came here from Jokeypokey's 6th EP of bedrock survival. And man, this is amazing!! Nice to see someone actually decided to try the original challenge out and found even better techniques. Keep it going!

[@greffen]

what a challenge! cant wait to see where this series goes :D

[@whitebeartigtig]

wasn't expecting to see you here

[@baconpork342]

"If you guys want a world tour, let me know, it might take a while, but I'm up for that!" - :D Dude, I'm surprised that you still had sanity left after the shovel grind! I definitely wasn’t expecting humour out of you!! This is literary a mad challenge! To me, this challenge is one of those things that we can't even fathom, like the distance to the nearest star. We can only think, ah! It's a long distance away. But have no idea, how far. It's like that. Mad respect bro!

[@finleycooper8844]

This is the best series I've seen on KZbin maybe ever, really gives old school KZbin vibes.

[@vorlock7149]

Very interesting challenge. I think you could have dropped the raw rabbit in front of the fox, then he would have swapped it with the emerald and dropped it (I think thats how it works).

[@ImPinu]

Really :o had no idea that worked.

[@Erynash]

What a thoughtful description you wrote there mate! JokeyPokey brought me here, respect for this challenge.

[@hzmanyag6761]

wow. geniunely crazy. i never thought someone would attempt, yet not give up on this challange! props to you!

[@ImPinu]

Thanks man! :)

[@Stage_3_Yawning_Cat]

31:40 foxes prioritize food above all other items, so if you drop some, it'll drop the item it's currently holding to get the food

[@kongobongo]

You sir are insane. I really can't wait to watch this series. I wonder what other mad torturing challenges people might put on themselves next. Might do one myself and record the pain for people to see?

[@571joejoe]

Insanely impressive, looking forward to watching the rest that are out so far! Not at all surprised to see you play OSRS too lmao

[@ImPinu]

Yup been busy with raids 3 which is why I haven't uploaded in a bit, thanks for watching! :D

[@YANILLIONAIRE]

this is a osrs type grind if I've ever seen one 🤣

[@Squilfinator]

This video stresses me tf out lmfao. You stayed so chill and meticulous the whole time. Great work!

[@PINPAL]

Never thought anybody would actually attempt these other than just pure theorizing. Got yourself a subscriber :D

[@The4DRY4N]

the jokeypokey shoutout hell yeah just watched the series and it's really cool to see someone actually attempting this. new sub!

[@trentot1559]

New favorite series. It’s amazing how much you can do with literally nothing. Good luck making more videos, don’t stop.

[@tritonia_]

What a Legend, I knew it was possible but the patience to manage to do this legit is insane. You deserve some sort of trophy for being able to do this.

[@Geology051]

What a great start for a whole new series! I’ve held off starting this series until Jokey finished his, and it was definitely worth it. Glad to see someone taking on the true challenge of one block skyblock. I’m excited to see how this will eventually pan out!

[@m3nny658]

"If you guys want a world tour i'm down for it" "As much fun as it was repeatedly killing myself" This channel is the best bro

[@Engage_lol]

I have an idea to make the challenge feasible without the use of backups. 1. Zombies/skeletons who picked up items won't despawn 2. With maximum local difficulty, 55% of zombies/skeletons can pick up items (easy to get high local difficulty if you afk a lot, after less than 20 hours of playing you get the 55% rates) This means you could use this mechanic to avoid losing 20 min starving yourself, and have a spawning attempt every ~6s instead of every 20 min. The steps required to achieve this : - Use the starvation technique to get any loot from skeleton or zombie (takes you 12 hours on average). You have to wait 20 hours anyway for the next part of the grind, so let's fix the time spent on this part at 20 hours. - Drop this item on the ground. - Every mob that picks up the item won't dispawn. Unfortunately, zombies with a shovel won't pick the item since they already have a weapon. Skeletons won't aswell. - However, zombies with armor will pick up the item, allowing you to farm armors (with max local difficulty, which you have after 20 hours of play time, 15% of zombies are geared, and 55% of them can pick up your loot) - On average, a geared zombie has 3.44 pieces of armor with max local difficulty. - At night, it should take you 1 min 48s to get a spawn (18 attempts in the video*6 seconds, which is the time it gets to drop in the void, die from full hp, and respawn. btw it's probably shorter than this since you would fall longer, which means more time spent in spawning range so less attempts needed). Out of these, 30% of them are zombies. 15% of them wear armor with 3.5 pieces on average. 55% of them will not despawn because they pick up the random loot. - After the maths, that means you get an armored zombie that can't despawn every 72.7 minutes. - Drop rate is very high (8.5% per armor piece). However, if the mob spawns with a helmet, you would have to wait that it breaks before it takes damage from the sun (yes, helmets of zombies/skeletons break after some time under the sun). So they would only have 3 armor pieces. Which brings the amount of armor pieces to 2.71 on average. - Every time you kill a geared mob, you would have 21.26% chance to drop an armor on average. - This means it would take 5.7 hours on average to go from 1 random loot item to 1 piece of armor. Double it because you can't do anything during the day. Total time playing is now 30.4 hours. - You now have armor. This means a zombie with a shovel can pick it up. Let's do the math : 1 mob every 1 min 48s. 30% are zombie, 1 zombie every 6 minutes. 55% can pick up loot, so 1 persistent zombie every 10.9 min. 3.33% of them have a shovel, so 1 persistent shoveled zombie every 5.5 hours. 8.5% drop means you get the shovel after 64 hours on average. Of course, this only works at night so you would have to double the time to get there (day is fully afk). So 128 more hours, half of it is full afk. Which brings the total time playing to 158 hours (around half of it is full afk) On top of that, you can also go for the bow route at the same time and get your first block with wool. It takes 2.1 hours on average to drop a bow from a skeleton that can't despawn. Which means 4.2 hours because you wait during the day. Which means 34.6 hours of total play time to get a bow. However, once you have a bow, it takes 150 hours on average to get a sheep spawning (it's really rare with 1 block like this). Thing is, by combining the 2 methods (shovel route with persistent mob + bow route and killing sheep), it should take on average around 130 hours to get your first block (once you get it, things become exponentially faster, it should take less than 20 hours to get a 3rd block). Without backups. That's a lot (and it requires active play time after the first 12 hours of starvation strat), but humanly doable. You also don't need to worry about any other spawns (creepers will despawn since they can't pick up anything). You only have to practice to make sure you deal with mobs properly. If you get any mob, you want to kill it to get your item back anyway, so you will have to wait the day and die over and over from it (unless it's a zombie and you do the trick in the video) It shouldn't fall in the void if you don't punch it/if you don't push it with your collision box. You don't have to player kill the mob to get your item back.

[@masonberg155]

neat idea, your summary of skyblock at the start of the video was spot on, standard has grown quite stale, good job mixing it up! very cool idea

[@NOOBYPANDA]

I'm subbing just for this, mad respect my man please make a series out of this

[@geoffsutton78]

I am loving this and would love to see it released on CurseForge, but with one change: Spawn with an iron shovel (or even wooden) by default. That would make it possible to complete the map in hardcore.

[@moonyl5341]

ur ideas are so smart, i wouldve never thought of most of the things u came up with keep it up!

[@ImPinu]

Thank you man, really means alot :) Thanks for watching.

[@FredChuck64]

19:46 Only the best for the best. Loved this vid, Pinu. Had this recently recommended to me. Super fascinating stuff, just the amount of nuanced information in this video just to spawn mobs and also collect snow to build more space on the island- just- round of applause. Well played.

[@adjustedbrass7551]

Love it man. I've been thinking about this ever since jokeypokey's theory video. So glad someone is actually attempting this.

[@DobbeltD]

This deserves much more views, the sound isn’t the best, but damn, mad respect for grinding so hard, imagine spending all your free time in this, just for 1 block. Hope this blows up 👌🤞🤞💯💯

[@ImPinu]

Thanks man, gotta fix the audio in the future.

[@vvainwald3252]

9:24 Bro celebrated in lowercase

[@vasa_kot]

This concept is insane! Subbed

[@anbeli1691]

I was always waiting for some maniac to do it

[@YANILLIONAIRE]

you're going to become the minecraft settled if you keep this torture going

[@jamesondasilva6502]

This reminds me of the ProtoSky series on Raywork's channel but taken to even more extreme level. Fantastic video!

[@leohebbe2980]

Awesome! Love these kinds of challenges, and you're pushing it further than anyone. Great video

[@oldmatekraven9970]

Dude im just seeing this now but this is awesome. Hope to see you keep doing this series 🤙

[@skeepodoop5197]

KZbinrs be like "one block this" "one block that", Pinu out here doin the REAL one block challenge.

[@SwampChiggy]

As your 83rd subscriber i wish you luck and look forward to what this brings.

[@aleksapetrovic3230]

Bro youre crazy Gonna binge watch the whole single block series

[@lavishmongoose8410]

I love the quiet, relaxed vibe you have going on, really chill to watch and chillax

[@dappls6452]

OMG i was gonna attempt it, but gave up within the first hour, mad respect to you for doing it

[@gideonm-t1526]

13:05 lmao The effort is crazy keep it up

[@ImPinu]

Someone actually understood it was a joke haha

[@SoundlessAir]

Soo awesome, please keep this up! Subscribed

[@nolife910]

This is a pretty creative idea. Nice job.

[@herobrine8763og]

man really expected 10 likes for so much effort, what a legend

[@silver_david2498]

Little tip for foxes. They always prioritize holding food over anything else, and they'll drop whatever they were holding. May be easier to do that instead of killing in some situations.

[@weeeb1742]

Why do they prioritize holding food?

[@juusomaenpaa7236]

​@@weeeb1742food tastes good

[@weeeb1742]

@@juusomaenpaa7236 I see I see. So why does it taste good.

[@angelodavid1320]

Ur so hardworking and inspiring. Keep up the good work man👍

[@EuropesNinja]

this is so cool, im so excited to watch this series

[@knatspray]

Dude this is Minecraft history right here, you’re a pioneer

[@passwordisDu6bAu4IC__oAoN]

This is absolute insane

[@georgy_bolts]

That is golden. I always saw "1 BLOCK SURVIVALE!!!!" and they have shit like a mushroom??? Unimpressive. Starving yourself to 2 hearts and jumping in the heart of the void so maybe a zombie with a 90 durability shovel spawns? That's fucking badass. You got yourself a fan, camarade.

[@bananabutzz]

This is so insane, props to u man

[@many_a_dog5365]

more people need to see this this is awsome

[@RTOmega]

This is the REAL 1 block skyblock!

[@edwardt-j9829]

Love this. So creative and such dedication.

[@Mozie69]

OMFG I love you I always wanna watch real Minecraft challenges you took this to the next level ❤ you made my day

[@WarnObeve]

I really enjoyed the dedication taken for this video looking forward from more episodes for the future and the other viewers could you please raise the audio it’s a bit low

[@ImPinu]

Hey man, thanks for watching! I've tried in later episodes to fix the audio, but ep. 2 defo has the worst audio, should be fixed from ep. 3 and onwards.

[@Vici0uSquirrel]

Please turn up your mic volume or lower game volume, whenever you’re next to a zombie I’m caught between raising volume to hear you and lowering it because of the zombie noise. Anyways great video keep it up!

[@maestroofmetal9]

This is the most insane challenge I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to watch your channel explode from the algorithm

[@Krassertyp7]

This is sick, you got a new subscriber!

[@VxVidoy]

This is by far the most underrated content on youtube.

[@commenter621]

Not true

[@VxVidoy]

@@commenter621 Fine. It's some of the most underrated content on youtube.

[@58209]

that reaction to the 1 durability shovel was hilarious

[@phos4us]

I watched a theoretical video in the past of possible methods of starting but didn't think of seeing if anyone has tried this until now. This is amazing!

[@cottoncandy6273]

Incredible!! Can't wait to see more :)

[@fez3332]

The presentation of this video gives me old Etho vibes. pretty cool 👍

[@rajanslee]

I noticed that too. It’s a really nice change of pace and it’s nostalgic compared to all the super energetic KZbinrs that dominate the platform these days

[@patrickkloiber741]

Just found you very underrated

[@ImPinu]

Thanks man!

[@67mustang05]

I can't imagine how long this took you. Great job

[@markjenkins6424]

Dude you got a good durability shovel AND an ingot drop in one? That's crazy. Exploiting saves is the ONLY thing you have working in your favor, and if you didn't, this series would take drastically longer. You're a better man than I. No way in hell I'd have the patience for this.

[@ChickenScratch]

I hope this was all done on stream to prove its legitimacy like the many walks to the farlands

[@ImPinu]

So most of it was done on my discord server with a handful of witnesses. But which places did you think could be faked easily? All the big grinds just include using backups which is already a gray-zone if talking about cheating, and you see the process leading up to me getting the desired item.

[@Visurient]

@@ImPinu not accusing or anything, big props to you for all of this. one thing that might've caught my eye a tad is 28:22 you went from 27 blocks and 2 balls at cut to 27 blocks, 2 balls, and 15 extra stacks i believe you just started recording when you were felt like you had enough blocks and wanted to place some down, but i could see suspicion from that clip. you definitely cant record every shovel grind and every snowball grind in the video again im not accusing you, massive props for doing this, looking forward to watching all the episodes of this :)

[@ChickenScratch]

@@ImPinu I don't think any of it is fake, I just really like the documentation of things. But I suppose it could also help with people that don't believe you. Either was I think it is all really impressive!!

[@fettuccinealfred]

Average unemployed friend on a Tuesday

[@mr.neworld2031]

This Challenge is just crazy and I like it, mad respect

[@Mcedits.1]

You are just freakin awesome dude Bruhhh Loved this vid

[@wenghongwong5686]

hellos came from jokeypokey's video

[@qxnten]

I love REAL Minecraft challenges like these instead of those 'Minecraft but'. Keep up the great work. -70th sub

[@pumkin610]

Mods are cool and all but yes more vanilla challenges would be good

[@Primaral]

You are going insanely fast I watched you go from 5.8k to 6.3k in like 4 hours keep up the hard work

[@su1tcase622]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Easiest sub

[@Internet_No_Body]

I never even thought of the iron shovel-snow technique, I thought the block on the thumbnail was just a wool block. Mad props, you're a madlad.

[@obsidianobserver]

you should watch the original video linked in the description. He's the one who thought of that technique in the first place, and is the reason why this video existed.

[@Internet_No_Body]

@@obsidianobserver This comment is actually surprisingly well-timed, as I finally came across Jokey's series at the end of this series after skipping over Pinu's explanation like an idiot. This community has way too many madlads, I swear.

[@falsifiedbrib1268]

Id love to see a TAS of this

[@firefly7992]

Even the computer would give up. I guess with rng manipulation it would be wayyyyy faster but if it’s just a movement TAS then it’s just gonna be one really long recording lol

[@VvDiverDownvV]

Dude the dedication for that initial start. Now that you have a platform its gotta be exponentially better but DAMN that start was rough. Like human technology going from basic tools for thousands of years, simple metal tools for a couple hundred, and in one century we've gone from the first flights on earth to the first flights on mars

[@ImPinu]

such a cool comment dude thanks

[@TheMagneticDude]

This is insane I didnt think anyone would actually do this

[@mauvyy9495]

Where did you download this world? I was thinking about trying this out, looks pretty fun once you start getting snow.

[@Djones314]

31:55 i was clencing so hard for half a min

[@isidorwolkert]

Really warms my heart to hear someone ask for 10 likes, and that bekng a really cool goal, and then checking the likes and seeing 18k! Good work my man keep it up!

[@FabbeNJ369]

I saw a video about a concept about this a while ago, and the person in that video said that no one should ever try this, you deserve more subs for your dedication