Peaceful Challenge #79: Automatic Amethyst Shard Farm

We're building an automatic amethyst shard farm in the geode we found.
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[@fufu_212]

Ah yes, nothing better than a little NP-complete discussion in the middle of an ilmango video :)

[@davidharrington5694]

Ugh, that brings back memories...

[@stienogamez8296]

@@davidharrington5694 NP-complete??

[@christopherking6129]

Technically the traveling salesman is NP-Hard. We don't know if it's NP-complete.

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

Imagine if gnembon is here tho lol (He's a professor in CS)

[@jenaf372]

The redstone signal wiring alone isnt NP-hard, as the signal can branch out. Thus you could use dijkstra or something similar to make a minimum spanning tree from the signal source and solve it in polinomial time. (But thats just one subproblem of making the farm). The piston and hopper placement may be similar enough to knapsack to prove NP-hardness that way? But thats just a guess on my end.

[@lerquian1970]

I've thought about a way to make budding amethysts movable, keeping it hard to transport long distances. Every time you move a budding amethyst it cracks, having (around) 3 levels before it completely breaks. Then the budding amethyst repairs (go up 1 level) everytime it fully grows an amethyst cluster. This way you can move the budding amethyst short distances without many problems, but making it super hard to move it long distances. Even if you have the percistence you can move it to your base or something, but most people would prefer to build a farm in place. I posted this idea in r/minecraftsuggestions but nobody seemed to care :/.

[@camelcaseco]

oh i like this, this could be cool

[@dreamer5959]

I thought of something similar. My idea was that there is a small chance of the block breacking. That way it's easy to move a few blocks but risky to move a lot. Your idea is very good too

[@fontajo]

Yeah I like that idea a lot. So only movable with pistons. Maybe that could be overwritten with update suppression too!

[@Ddddddddddd381]

That subreddit gets a lot of stupid fucking suggestions

[@lerquian1970]

@@Ddddddddddd381 yeah usually it's like "add 100 more new blocks/ores/dimensions" or "add a new quirky interaction that will probably lead to many bugs and performance issues and will be fun for only 5 minutes" lol

[@schoo9256]

I am really going to miss this series when it's done, I love the vibe of a small group of scicrafters with rotating guests just doing their thing at a lower-stakes level.

[@rizar56]

I really agree with you on the amethyst not feeling "sandboxy" with them kinda forcing you to build these redstone messes around it wherever they spawn

[@Xandros999]

On the other hand I like that it gives you a reason to travel. For most other things you just sit around at your base or conveniently located farm. But ehh.... then you'd have to AFK for hours. Many things in the game would be nicer if things got ticked while away from the player. Like you could leave a farm and come back and harvest it.

[@rizar56]

@@Xandros999 I like the idea brought up in the video about making them movable as most casual players will still need to travel as it would be easiest while allowing those who want to mold the world as they wish

[@pierrotA]

@@Xandros999 It will surely never happen because it would ruin a lot of farms if stuff grow without updating adjacent blocks. Tbh it always was the biggest default of this game for me. If you play alone or on a small server, you need to stay near the farms or the progression is very slow... So it discourage you from exploring far lands.

[@yeshwantradev463]

That's exactly what they want us to do

[@theexcaliburone5933]

@@Xandros999 you already need to go places if you want to have lag efficient, and regular efficient farms

[@unhott1893]

It would be neat if tinted glass could be powered to let light through

[@giacomobiondini8543]

this is a amazing idea!

[@savbeeing7376]

@Thimo Linders ??

[@maxwellli7057]

@@savbeeing7376 They must be old friends or something

[@bottlekruiser]

solid crystal displays be like

[@lerquian1970]

maybe it can be a new item with a craft similar to glowstone lamps, 1 tinted glass and 4 redstone dust

[@awwastor]

About the Travelling Salesman Algorithm: there is a faster solution than a brute (O(n!)), it uses dynamic programming and it’s called the Held-Karl algorithm, it works in O(n^2*2^n) time complexity. Additionally there are some pretty good heuristics, like the The Algorithm of Christofides and Serdyukov which gives at the worst 1.5 the perfect solution . There are also some interesting heuristics like the “ant” solution where you simulate a few hundred ants which leave a pheromone trail, which other ants are likely (but not guaranteed) to follow. This is a really cool problem

[@cea6770]

There is also a O(n + log(1/ε)) quantum algorithm, though not implementable in practice yet.

[@anonymouscommentator]

The outro music spawn cap was full with the axolotels... 😂

[@floydwordsworth9175]

Mojang was gonna leave out candles because they weren’t happy with them. Meanwhile budding amethyst just made ilmango depressed XD

[@Mysda_]

"Do you guys want a cactus?" *Gives one random cactus* Yea this make a lot of sens to me.

[@asailijhijr]

They use cactus as a wrench tool to rotate pistons. I think the functionality is part of carpet.

[@leoliu2837]

I was confused at first too

[@muzaqqiralibaig]

@@asailijhijr yeah it's a Carpet feature

[@rei.of.sunshine]

Darkphenix your name is spelt wrong

[@Mysda_]

@@rei.of.sunshine it is not, Phenix is the common way to say Phoenix in French. But even more, Phenex, Phœnix, Fenix and even Phoeniex are all valid name for this demon. It's just very simplified by common english. But yes my name is already 10 years old and I should change it one day

[@jerzozwierz581]

Me: I want to go sleep Mango: Not today

[@colin7270]

On the topic of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) or its multiple variant (MTSP), many evolutionary algorithms are well equipped to find the global minima. In my own work with them, I've been able to solve the TSP well past 200 nodes with very little research and no optimization. Adding additional objectives such as load balancing in an MTSP problem can still be solved rather quickly!

[@ApertureCombine]

Yeah, I was going to say. Modern solutions definitely aren't to just straight brute-force them. That would be n! permutations, so good luck with that.

[@jackaw1197]

How do you know if they are optimal? I would be interested to see the literature on this if you could link some papers. Although I might not understand the fine details since it isn't exactly my field.

[@d.l.7416]

You can't prove your local minima is a global minima tho? Yes you can find a good solution, but you can't prove its the best?

[@colin7270]

​@@d.l.7416 True, though escaping local minima is guaranteed with well written crossover and mutation operators. You can also run the algorithm 100s of times and compare results to determine its accuracy. Sometimes a 'good enough' solution is well.. good enough. :)

[@ApertureCombine]

So there are also different formulations of the TSP. One such formalization is framed as a decision problem: "Is there a solution of length at most L" which is trivial to verify a solution for by just summing the edges. However, it is definitely not trivial to verify if it is the global optimum and would require just solving

[@ottlight]

Great to see more 1.17 episodes of this series. Can't wait to see more. :)

[@micrwvae]

in the life streams u added the carpet rule to make the budding amethists movable is that rule openly accesable yet and if where can we get it

[@ilmango]

it's part of quick carpet, but afaik it's not officically released

[@micrwvae]

@@ilmango thanks for the quick response and im looking forward to the big farm

[@isaacribeiro6823]

this farm is turning every efficient player going nuts

[@gmankab]

Hello Ilmango, some of your videos generate auto-captions in German instead of English. Please do something so that they are everywhere in English, because I still have a hard time understanding English by ear, but with subtitles it is much easier for me. I am Russian.

[@ilmango]

I complained about this issue several times, but youtube didn't fix the issue. I can't do much more. You need to complain directly at youtube because I'm definitely not manually randomly setting the language different each time. Their detection is faulty

[@gmankab]

@@ilmango ok, thank you

[@gmankab]

@@ilmango or try vpn of an English-speaking country

[@DanteDeRuwe]

We need community subtitles back

[@fontajo]

Waiting for the technical gods to find a crazy glitch that allows us to attain those blocks.

[@derdimi927]

I think thats even harder than the bedrock item because there has to be a technical possibility to get the item dropped in the first place (e.g. mining bedrock w/silk touch)

[@zackglenn2847]

I would definitely use a carpet rule that makes the budding amethyst movable. So much more interesting than what we've got now.

[@lichensubmarine4051]

8:36 his wisdom is far beyond our understanding

[@robertskitch]

Maybe a compromise with the budding amethyst would be only being able to move them with pistons a set number of times before they break. At least that way you'd be able to arrange the blocks so that they'd be easier to farm, and I don't think there are any other blocks with a feature like that so I guess that would make budding amethyst unique which would please Mojang. Mojang seems to like prioritising uniqueness of features (regardless of whether other aspects of the game would also benefit from having those features).

[@destructivforce2894]

I don't think that's quite the best solution, but I agree with the concept. Something where you can move them, but it keeps the location dependency would be ideal. iirc part of why they aren't movable was mojang wanted people to explore to make farms, so that should be kept, although some way to manipulate the crystals would be nice.

[@brandonplays702]

I would that would be too complex for mojang to want to implement and that it isn’t something they want in the game

[@roachfacesrs5270]

ilmango: chilling, just trying to record Thunder: "HEY. I'M HERE TOO."

[@DemainaNyx]

Definitely agree that amethyst farms just suck to make. They aren't complicated or anything, just a pain. I feel like even if the budding amethyst was only able to be moved a few blocks that would be so much better. I kept running into stacked buds which meant horizontal pistons or double piston extenders. If we could just move them like 5 times and that's it, it would make it so much better. Or, like someone below said, make it so that there are special conditions to move them like encasing them in wool or slime or honey. Or instead of pushing them, maybe they can only be moved if pulled. Another suggestion I liked was that they are craftable but they are like blue ice in that you need a ton of the base material to get them. Or perhaps when you break a budding amethyst, you get an amethyst core. With that and a ton of amethyst you can create a new bud. That way you can technically move them, but it would be a ton of work to do it.

[@soranuareane]

Go ahead and mod the budding amethyst behavior. The whole point of this peaceful challenge is to have fun, and the fact that tinted glass is so difficult to obtain just ruins that somewhat.

[@block7059]

5:00 it sounds like a motivation speech😂

[@destructivforce2894]

Music turned on at just the right time

[@atomspalter2090]

The part where you dug around the amethysts was pire anxiety

[@omargoodman2999]

Mango: [Calm explanatory voice] Since you can't move the budding amethyst in any way, you're limited to build around their initial placement. That means your farm will be messy and inefficient. I'm not really a fan. Inner Mango: [Nonstop screaming and cursing in German]

[@Nevir202]

I agree, mod it, use flying machines to drag them around and then make a fully industrial setup.

[@CorneliusThroatworthy]

ilmango, I know you spent a good while designing and testing amethyst shard farm designs when they were first added to the snapshot, but I feel compelled to ask, did you overlook using a platform of water below (e.g 10 blocks below) all the budding blocks as an item collection method? it seems to me that the complexity of the design (and spaghetti-like appearance) can be greatly reduced when you don't have to worry about hoppers at all, and place a single row of hoppers at the edge of the water platform, leading into chests down below the farm. Is this something you overlooked, or did you consider this but rule it out due to something I've not yet figured out? because anywhere where shards could get stuck in a hopperless design, the shard could also get stuck in a hopp-based design (as hoppers unlike hopper minecarts, can't pull in items that are a block's distance away), so there's no advantage to the hoppers, whereas with a hopperless/water-based collection system, many places where before you had to decide whether or not to put a hopper & block crystal growth, which would also force you to wrap any redstone lines around the hopper to get to the pistons

[@person1082]

would need to make sure no items land on any nearby blocks

[@mrmaxmondays]

@@person1082 but that’d be an easy fix-this is actually a really good idea mate

[@CorneliusThroatworthy]

@@person1082 that's true, but that's also true of most automatic farms - you make sure you make an area around where you're farming, plus a few blocks of clearance, and then put a building around the farm / walls around the farm (if it's underground like a spawner farm). Likewise, with a amethyst shard farm, you'd be clearing out a cube that is a few blocks bigger than the locations of the buddy amethyst blocks sot hat you have space for redstone, then you'd also dig a few blocks below the lowest budding block, make a platform that is wide enough that all falling shard items fall onto the platform, and then direct those items to hoppers using water streams

[@jacksonpercy8044]

@@person1082 Could just have a pillar above each budding amethyst block where possible, since they're not harvesting those anyway.

[@ianmitchell9449]

@@jacksonpercy8044 but they would still get stuck on the pistons everywhere

[@alexmiller3349]

This is the most brute force approach from sci craft members that I've seen in a while. The only way to do it simpler is to have someone manually harvesting amethyst from the geodes.

[@ERobbo]

Definitely add movable budding amethyst. I’d love to see what you can do with them

[@NumericFork]

Probably in the minority here, but I really like that amethysts aren't movable. It adds a unique challenge to make a farm for them. If you make them movable then it becomes just a simple piston array with water beneath it. Plus i'm always happy to have reasons to travel (and make travel infrastructure) to specific areas. What I wouldn't mind is if there was a small chance to find much larger amethysts, seems easier to deal with than having to find many amethysts close to each other for a bigger farm. Admittedly pushing amethysts with flying machines long distance would be fun, but I would rather have that be another new block instead of changing amethysts.

[@HowslyOfficial]

Keep in mind that you can get up to 16 shards with a fortune 3 pickaxe per cluster. On average that's going to be x4 more crystals than using a piston, and you don't run the risk of breaking crystals prematurely. Point is for the average player that's still a lot of exploration and a huge effort to transport buds, just to get the same rates as a manual farm.

[@GuusKlaas]

I love Mango just taking Dijkstra's algorithm to convert amethyst farming to a graph. SciCraft at its best.

[@apfelmann]

Ich gucke relativ viele Videos von dir und bin immer so fasziniert von deinen Werken.

[@skarman1533]

I think the perfect solution would be to make the blocks break if mined (so you can’t take them in item form) but you can move them with pistons so you can rearrange them. And if you really want to move them to another part of the world you can, but it’s tons of effort

[@Cytrynid]

IMHO the perfect solution to Mojang is to make those geodes breakable by pushing, but not by pulling them.

[@Yuka-fs3mo]

Can u let an enderman pick up the block where it grows on? i havent checked if it has the tag

[@JustJum]

Of course not, people wouldve found that by now

[@Ruben41441]

There isn’t enderman spawns in peaceful mode

[@raymondstheawesome]

endermen on peaceful lol

[@user-ke1gn3ql1g]

@@Ruben41441 he was talking in general.

[@lockyroberts5572]

The should make the budding blocks falling blocks to make the farms still location based but more fun to work with

[@Xandros999]

Huh? So a gravity block that can't be mined? That's really interesting!

[@adamrezabek9469]

you can get any gravity block for example with torch. That's also how obtaining some ilegal blocks may theoreticaly work (get them as falling_block)

[@lockyroberts5572]

@@adamrezabek9469 that could be fixed pretty easily. just an idea that would make the budding amethyst more manageable whilst also having them be location based. You could also argue that whilst in entity form they can be bounced around into other locations, so that could be a problem as well

[@adamrezabek9469]

@@lockyroberts5572 i wanted to say that ability to (with precise timings) move them to different locations is upside

[@pianojay5146]

Wandering salesman problem: O(n!) with brute force, for n nodes

[@Lyraaaaaaaaaaaaa]

I wouldn't mind budding amethyst being immobile if they were easier to farm. Lots of mob farms require going to a specific biome or structure. My suggestion would be to increase the blast resistance of budding amethyst blocks. That way you could make a simple, but inefficient farm with a TNT duper and a collection system. And if you wanted something more efficient, well 😂 I'm not the one with with a redstone channel so idk how you'd do it. But amethyst isn't powerful enough to merit being harder to farm than mending books

[@Frithgar]

Admittedly I've used spectator mode to take a look (well, freecam mode) but I've already found a few areas that have at least six geodes within range of the player, so I'd assume you'd be able to find more. But that would drastically increase the output without having to spend hours figuring the perfect setup for each one. Much better to be allowed to move them, or at least craft our own buds instead, say out of combining lots of crystals, maybe in a way that's similar to the creation of blue ice.

[@DemainaNyx]

Would totally be ok if it was like Blue Ice. Maybe even one more layer so it's like shard -> amethyst -> harden amethyst -> budding amethyst. I figure if you just harvest the first geode you find, you'll get a few stacks of amethyst anyway, so the additional layer prevents you from just getting 20 buds from the first geode you find. You'd still get a few buds to take home, but not a ton.

[@darcipeeps]

I hope they choose to make the geodes movable

[@scientistwool9009]

You are very cool I really like your creations

[@sirjamesfancy]

- How are you using a cactus to flip pistons - How do you have a bundle when they don't exist in the game yet - How are you able to see hit boxes - It's not automatic if you are not using observers - If you have all these pistons firing at once they will destroy the amethyst before it grows fully because again: no observers to check if it's grown

[@Nevir202]

LOL watching them mine, kept expecting them to get blown up.... Then I remembered... *sigh*

[@alexhryhoriev2487]

If you could move budding amethyst blocks then you would end up with a boring repetitive farm that is not much different from sugarcane or pumpkin farms, but even simpler. And everyone would just copy that one design. But with current mechanics you have a little challenge and a unique farm every time. That is a truly special mechanic that we have never had before (except for multiple spawner farm, maybe) and one of the best things that has been added in years.

[@ShiraKiryuu]

I totally agree with you. I get why a lot of people are complaining but making something new like this makes it more unique than the rest of the farms. We should actually be glad that pistons can still harvest them since I remember them being completely manual from earlier snapshots.

[@memelephant]

I love that the translation is Traveling salesman, as opposed to wandering trader. I will use this from now on

[@doveman0527]

Lesssgoooo

[@Frithgar]

What is the mod that allows you to see the sources of various lag issues? That seems like a really useful tool to have

[@someonenotsomeone8835]

If youre talking about the tick entities its carpet mod

[@Frithgar]

@@someonenotsomeone8835 Ah ok, thank you :)

[@andre_601]

Something I wonder: Would update-suppression work for moving the budded blocks? Or is this somehow excluded from the suppression?

[@octosaurinvasion]

wdym? what would the update-supression do?

[@miszkolc6535]

You can use composter glithch to look if any geods are around.

[@jakewaitart9507]

I really hope they make the budding amethyst movable with pistons/slime it would be far more interesting for technical or hardcore players while more casual players it would be the same as it is pretty much. I love the idea of having to make flying machines to bring 30 geodes out of the ground and to a central area to make a super crazy amethyst farm lol

[@Conqueror933]

make the budding amethist blocks needing to be surrounded in slime or honey to move them, you know pretending to be very careful when moving them

[@MrTomyCJ]

A special required condition to be able to move them is a nice idea!

[@redthunder6183]

I think the best way to make a amethyst farm would be to just use downward facing pistons and only harvest 4/6 shards per block. That way you could just have the shards fall into a water stream. That would probably be the best effort to rates ratio plus it won’t be a redstone mess

[@BaronVonScrub]

Can you obtain budding amethyst blocks in the same way you did the bedrock? Then you can dupe it enough to make custom shard farms, right?

[@Mister_Lovely]

I wonder if mojang would consider adding the ability to move budding amethyst like only 5-10 blocks from its spawn location before shattering. So its still hard but offers some mobility and a chance to optimize each unique geode layout

[@stealthhydrac8516]

Moving geodes would be really nice, even if its only using pistons or slime blocks

[@ShugarMeat]

Allow them to be movable with a chance of breaking the block in 3~5 moves

[@RickeyBowers]

How is it that a single layer of hoppers below all blocks is not more efficient? Just trigger activation from top to bottom and prioritize block top/bottom farming. This way no items are caught on blocks.

[@koamckevitt6426]

ur pumping out videos daily mango, thank u so much for the all the content

[@memelephant]

I really hope they make budding amethyst pistonable

[@user-mi2pg9pl5z]

They are so chillll... Love that

[@JorgeVV99]

No pierde el tiempo este hombre

[@extremawesomazing]

I've seen glow squid spawn in an uncovered lake during the day in Friday's prerelease in a forest biome.

[@wesselvermunt8514]

Couldnt you make like slime block caps (like a 2 high cross with the middle part shifted 1 block up )so 1 piston covers 5 sides of the buds?

[@ozylot]

I wonder if you could clean up some of the wiring by pushing a row of honey blocks down against the crystals using sticky pistons? (I know slime is limited though as it's peaceful) That way all your pistons are on one or two levels and making the wiring neater.

[@pratikpanda8034]

His subscribers are increasing !! Yay 🙌🙌

[@jordanpierce7637]

Mango falls through a rail 5:28

[@cobaltshrew2732]

maybe you could make a movable block entity video with the amethyst block being movable. That way you don't have to re-do your peaceful farm and not "anger" the part of your community that want this series to be vanilla (even if you already have the auto crafting tables enabled). Just a thought

[@Nocturne563]

I don’t know why I didn’t think an automatic Amethyst would be possible

[@josiahtaylor8714]

Literally 0:46

[@Nocturne563]

@@josiahtaylor8714 he said it would be very slow, not impossible I said that I didn’t think a fully automatic amethyst farm would be possible, but I was proven wrong

[@vaepuer2290]

With the item elevator at the end, would waterlogging it with a thin block like an iron bar or something prevent the bubble column or whatever's being used to be active? because if not, surely a 'filled' block can prevent spawning.

[@justinhackbarth8147]

Ive seen Glow Squid and Axolotl spawn in rivers and swamps where a tree is on the edge, with just leaves above the water.

[@sasiji7638]

I think if we could pickup and place them BUT they would grow only inside some box boundry of natural geodes then farming those would be better. Kinda like Guardian or witch farms limited to locations but for blocks.

[@ChaceRehberg]

What would happen if you covered 5 sides of the budding amethysts with block so crystals could only grow on one side? Would that speed it up/make it easier to farm or would it be way slower?

[@kevininc5082]

Could you collect budding amethyst the same way you collect bedrock?

[@Noah-rz1rh]

Did you ever eat something in this challenge, which wasn’t a golden apple ore a enchanted golden apple?

[@ilmango]

chorus fruit

[@thetesseractwhisperer8900]

I’ll just share my original idea for how I thought the geodes would work. I thought Geodes were going to be similar to biomes where all Amethyst Blocks in the area would act like Budding Amethyst allowing you to choose how many Blocks you want in the area and what shape to make it. This would allow for both keeping the area restriction and allowing for some creative freedom. This will even add a usage to Amethyst Blocks. But I could not tell you how this could be possible or lag friendly.

[@syncRamon]

i like the piston-push-idea! though i somewhat also like the idea, that there is something precious, that can be lost forever (like magma-slime-spawners) and therefore needs to be treated properly. like in a "submissive" way instead of living in a world that has off-the-limits creative possibilities. as in real live there are things that we cannot change .. like gravity e.g. so my idea for a compromise would be that the movement of the block by piston maybe has a 10% or so chance to break the block for good. that way it still would be risky but possible. or like in real live crystals form under high temperature, moisture and preassure. maybe for a farm setup there could be a requirement to satisfy there needs artificially as the sphere gets destroyed by the player and therefore the conditions change.

[@enfissione8297]

10% chance, is this a joke? You probably will need to move those like 1k+ blocks

[@enfissione8297]

+ magma spawners is useless anyway, there is other ways to get magma cream, but with amethyst it’s just stupid expensive for no reason.

[@icedragon9097]

@@enfissione8297 i think the idea was to move the blocks within the farm, not move the farm entirely. Also 1k blocks?? They spawn wayy more commonly than that

[@thewarlord6529]

no... that's the same as making it non pushable, you wouldn't be able to move it anywhere useful...

[@Brandonligon]

Uneducated opinion, BUT, if you had pistons push the crystals and a floor of hoppers underneath, wouldn't you be able to have more available growing spaces?

[@CaedmonOS]

It would be super fun if you could push those around I would totally be happy with that

[@eggdog3361]

Ich liebe dieses Intro :D

[@mrmaxmondays]

Remember that long, long process you guys did to get the bedrock? If that wasn’t patched, couldn’t you get the items you need to move the amethyst farm?

[@ilmango]

fixed in 1.13. also wouldn't work. It only worked because if you mine the bedrock block with silk touch it drops an item. It's just not possible to mine bedrock normally. If you mine a budding amethyst with silk touch it doesn't drop anything

[@mrmaxmondays]

@@ilmango Ah, what an absolute shame. I’m sure I speak for many of us that we’d love to see you alter the game to make the blocks movable by pistons, though!

[@cryochick6736]

My problem with moving it Flying machines moving multiple geodes feels wrong. I think you IMOP you shouldn't be able to move them far fast. Like maybe make it so it takes up more pushing than a normal block so flying machines are not possible with them

[@bachaddict]

why not fortune all the up and down crystals when you come to pick up shards?

[@seriousbusiness2293]

I was wondering if the complexity is maybe more like a sudoku.

[@CarcharodontosaurusSaharicus]

I don't know if anyone will see this, but would it be possible to add a second bubble elevator that the axolotls will path find to that takes them up to an area where they can be farmed?

[@dontletmememandie6506]

Can you break the crystals with water? I guess you guys would have done it if it was possible but idk.

[@Skyline-wm2hs]

With the glow squid/squid farm could look out for the rare blue axolotl.

[@Protofall]

Whoa, what's that cactus trick doing? Never seen that before.

[@evanyoung9714]

It can flip blocks to a different orientation. It's a carpet mod feature.

[@Protofall]

@@evanyoung9714 Oh right, I just assumed there were no mods since its a snapshot and that this was some weird bug. Thanks :)

[@yeptyep2666]

Hello Ilmango I was wondering if you could make a really basic tunnel bore without using tnt or ancient debris because no matter what one I look up that you are mostly used TNT

[@zawbones5198]

What would you use instead of TNT? You need something able to mine

[@dusanvickovic]

ilmango: uploads this at midnight... me: WHY!?!

[@sebastiansaez4927]

Where are you from lol

[@osmiumforge]

According to my clock, you wrote this at midnight

[@b5yuwu672]

I love the suffering they go throu of placing pistons

[@Daw3D]

Why not use ender chests of shulker boxes with specific blocks in them like food, wood, ingots you know organise your stuff? I use colour coding on mine as well.

[@deepakperumpuzha3843]

Irangi poyera Vali daave you are super 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️

[@theaureliasys6362]

Here is an idea. Make the budding amethyst moveable, BUT only by pulling with a 0 ticked sticky piston. If the pulse is longer, the budding amethyst gets destroyed.

[@fckihate69jokes]

I really want to make one of these. I've found like one geode in my single player atm and i already accidentally broke 3 budding blocks.

[@Fiznik3933]

Coolest thing about amethysts is that there is no block by block tutorial you can just copy to farm it, you have to think a bit on your own when you do the redstone. Uncoolest thing is its slow as shit

[@adamrezabek9469]

that would also apply to creative flymachines to transport them

[@benw5069]

Can we have a world download for the safe tnt blast chamber you recently designed

[@sirmclovin9184]

Yes, we all want one, please!

[@bachaddict]

I thought he provided the litematic

[@sirmclovin9184]

@@bachaddict no world download, no litematic in the video description

[@racernatorde5318]

@@sirmclovin9184 He want provide world downloads anymore, but there should be litematic. Unless he still wasn't finished with the design, I can't quite remember

[@sirmclovin9184]

@@racernatorde5318 Can you not read? There was nothing.

[@dracconis69]

Could just use a stone pick so that you know for sure you wont break the budding block

[@quinnolore1582]

Do shards give different signal strengths per growth stage? That could be an interesting way of doing it if so (but still probably less compact than clock method)

[@JustJum]

Observers only give out a pulse strength of 15 no matter what update it is Comparators dont interact with the crystals at all

[@quinnolore1582]

@@JustJum ah ok, thanks. I think it would be a cool addition if comparators did interact with them

[@irisinthedarkworld]

the skin on the amethyst farm bot is cute

[@king_br0k]

Why dose each spot have it's own hopper, as opposed to a water based collection system?