Cactus Farming, Concrete & Terracotta! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let's Play)[S2 E44]

[@miladdy]

As a visual designer, it was very fun to see you explain a little bit of color theory with the terracotta blocks 😄 That effect, where the pinkish White Terracotta looks bright white next to its Terracotta family (and Cyan Terracotta looks cyan alongside the terracotta rainbow, but grey by its lonesome), is called color constancy! To nerd out a bit more about color theory, if you don't mind me: Cyan Terracotta gets the grey hue due to both colors (the natural orange-y tone of regular Terracotta + Cyan Dye) cancelling each other out! They are exact opposites in the color wheel, and this effect is true to all opposite (aka complimentary) colors. With Terracotta, Minecraft does a great job to show how colors mix together IRL with subtractive color mixing (with paints, inks and dyes).

[@Chia_Mochia]

That's very interesting! Colours sure are weird lol

[@ThatOneLadyOverHere]

Yes! I'm an artist and appreciate a lot of the things Mojang did in Minecraft with colors. I specifically appreciate the color range that Minecraft has since they actually included magenta and cyan which are primary colors and need more recognition. But you also see them balancing common speech/misinformation with the truth so people don't get too confused. Like how mixing colors is all over the place so that it matches how people think it works. Although let me tell you, mixing red and blue paint doesn't give you a nice purple it gives you a very brown purple because red has yellow in it. It frustrated me for a while until I learned that I'd been taught wrong my whole life... I think the only tertiary color they missed is one between cyan and green, but since we see the least of green it's fine, I just like to use a rainbow of 12. I do kinda wish they had called light blue sky since that is a color people can understand just like how they called it lime not bright green, but I get it.

[@lisa_wistfulone7957]

This is really interesting! I had found the Minecraft terracotta colors confusing, but your explanation of the grey hues makes sense. I also had been frustrated with paints, since I’m an untrained amateur but true tones are important to me. I suppose the pure clear mixes occur when it’s colored light blending (red+blue=purple) rather than substances like paints? I love when folks share their knowledge of things they’re passionate about!✨

[@ThatOneLadyOverHere]

@@lisa_wistfulone7957 yeah, paints are chemicals so it does get confusing, but also blue, red, and green are primary colors for light (additive), but cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primary colors for pigments (subtractive). So magenta+yellow=red, and magenta+cyan=blue. Orange and purple are tertiary colors (which means they are between a secondary and primary color, so primary+secondary), that means that magenta+blue=purple (red+yellow is still orange it's just not a secondary color like everyone thinks). The reason that red+blue don't make purple is the same concept as the terracotta colors in minecraft, because there is yellow in red and yellow is pretty close to purple's complimentary color it creates a very muddy purple. I recently got new paints and tried to specifically buy the 6 correct primary and secondary colors and then mixed blue and magenta and was SO EXCITED when I got a nice purple! Absolutely beautiful! Some people do still use the traditional color wheel for deciding which colors to use since we see colors unequally (whole other science lesson there) so the scientifically correct color wheel looks imbalanced, but for mixing colors the scientifically correct wheel is easier to use. It's kinda hard to explain all of this in a comment, but hopefully that made sense and will make mixing paints a bit easier.

[@miladdy]

@@lisa_wistfulone7957 That's correct! It's hard to make light "muddy", as you can with paints, because when you play with light, it's an additive color system! Furthermore, for subtractive mixing with paint, you will probably have a better time trying to use cyan and magenta as primary colors (and yellow, of course), instead of blue and red. Think how our screens are made (RBG) and printers work (CMYK), the difference with the mixing will probably help you lots :D Also if you have trouble with color as an artist, I definitely recommend Marco Bucci's channel here on KZbin :)

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

Pix -Where on earth is a zombie converting to a drowned? Also pix- *completely oblivious to the fact that he is standing atop a water body he covered long ago.*

[@joshuas.4969]

I feel like terracotta is underrated. It's earthy tones match really well with lots of blocks. I use them for roofs as a more colorful block but not too colorful that it's out of place. I also use them for my nether hub since they're ghast proof while concrete isn't.

[@Platcode797]

How are they ghast proof? Aren't they also solid blocks?

[@miladdy]

@@Platcode797 Each block has a different blast resistance in game! Blocks like Netherrack, Concrete, Dirt and Wood are "soft" and Ghasts can blow them up, while others like Cobblestone, Terracotta, Basalt and Blackstone are "tougher" and can survive a fireball blast.

[@hussamgunter7381]

Also I think they are going to go well with the new mud bricks in 1.19

[@leehphoto]

Try swapping the honey blocks on the side of the farm and it may fix the bee path finding as honey blocks are not full blocks.

[@cajup]

I came here looking for this comment! The bees might think they can get out through that one pixel gap.

[@lalobee]

The honey blocks are though not directly next to the bees but next to the glass. The bees are blocked inside the hive/spruce/glass environment, not?

[@lisa_wistfulone7957]

I’d be interested in knowing if someone tries this and how it turns out. Since bees move 3 dimensionally, their AI is more complicated (and more glitchy) than mobs that walk.

[@aralinedelia7920]

Isn't there something with the bee AI that tries to land on honey blocks? I kinda remember seeing something like that on the wiki.

[@lisa_wistfulone7957]

@@aralinedelia7920 Genius! Yes, I checked, and their AI is drawn to briefly land on the honey block. And we’ve seen how bees can be attracted to a flower on the other side of glass. I think you discovered the source of the problem!

[@creativefun1758]

This is illegal why dont u have a million subs already your content its amazing and top notch production quality

[@mrgloveyt4353]

Yes

[@fallonfireblade4404]

That's what I'm saying, man

[@Eereepa]

#badalgorithm

[@varuntej2667]

Ya real

[@atifashhabatif8391]

@@Eereepa agreed

[@BinaryJoe]

I'm not ambitious enough to even gather 16 colors of wool...but, your tips about the glowberry vines are much appreciated. I've recently begun a stint as a cave designer combining dripstone and lush cave elements with some traditional touches; glad to have a way of controlling the growth and "flowering" of them. Thanks for this series, Mr. Riffs, even though I was aware of a lot of this and I'm back on Java, you've clarified the 1.18 elements and your advice has me living longer and playing more strategically regarding base building, area planning and resource collection. I wish you a world of subscribers.

[@mintycheddar3854]

When harvesting cactus manually, I always chop the bottom block to avoid any loss, then replant the cactus. I enjoyed the review of color for terracotta and concrete and think that some discussion of dyes might also be useful. Vanilla Minecraft allows several colors of dye to be made by combining others, and some of them can't be obtained any other way, such as purple. However, it has always bothered me that one cannot make green dye by combining blue and yellow, so much so that when I am not able to readily obtain cactus, I sometimes add a custom recipe that allows me to combine blue and yellow dye. I've also done that for black and brown when ink sacs and cocoa beans are hard to get. Finally, I wish that some form of pastel-colored blocks were available. For example, combining white dye with the other colors could make a much paler color that might be applied to concrete to provide a very useful range of pastel blocks.

[@Sammstar420]

Pastels in wool, concrete, glass and Teracotta would be so kool lol. Besides lime green lol not always appropriate 😂

[@racram0444]

Hey pix, thnx for that bastion vid, I was able to find 7 ancient debris in the bastion chest along with a diamond sword.

[@Pixlriffs]

Nice! Sounds like a lucky set of chests. Great work 😀

[@owen983]

Pix, I've been playing Minecraft since 2009, and yet somehow I learn something every time I watch one of your videos. Keep up the great work!

[@Verizonfan_]

no offence but i hate when people lie about playing Minecraft in 2009, There are very few players (Based on how much there is now) have played minecraft since 2009 Maybe you've played in 2012 or even 2011 But 2009? Unless you have proof i dont believe you...

[@owen983]

@@Verizonfan_ thanks for assuming I’m lying

[@Verizonfan_]

@@owen983 No problem

[@MapHKid]

I find your vids do an amazing job bridging the knowledge between noob to pro. They are perfect for someone who has played a little bit of the game but also watched other Minecraft KZbinrs who are leagues ahead. You may understand what they were doing, just not how - so your videos are pretty awesome to make sure the basics get covered and where to focus if you want to master this aspect of the game. Spot on for a guide series I would say.

[@ajkleipass]

August of 2022: Despite having played Minecraft for over a decade, your videos are both entertaining and informative. I've been attempting to binge watch this season of the guide, but I've run into a problem - two, actually. #1: each video makes want to jump into a new world and play around. And #2, binging while in bed (thus away from the temptation of the computer) triggers an ASMR response and I start to drift off despite myself! LOL! Thank you for your dedication to the community!

[@indnwkybrd]

Hey Pixlriffs, gotta say, I really love the series! You are my favorite Minecraft KZbinr :) Your recent episode on colored wool, and now this one on concrete/terracotta, have inspired me to brighten and color up my own world a bit. I did some poking around, and starting figuring out how to make banners on the loom. I hope you will consider doing a banner episode for 1.18 in Season 2 of the Survival Guide! Since you're from the UK, in your honor I decided to put a Union Jack banner in my world! (I would do the Founders Forge flag from S1, but I haven't gotten to the Nether yet for a Wither Skeleton skull.) You're a gentleman & a scholar sir. Please keep all the great content coming :)

[@Qu4lityTr4sh]

The green concrete with the honeycomb blocks look so good. They’re my favorite shades of yellow & green 💛

[@Flareontoast]

Just the other day I used light blue glazed terracotta for the bottom of a fountain :D I rarely use it, but seeing all the colours side by side makes me want to use the blocks more often.

[@JohnR31415]

Thought you were going to add wool to the display - nice to see all the different colours and textures like that.

[@catmus1506]

Love the bee house, at the start it looks a bit like a Cyclops with a moustache.

[@jbgaud]

that's funny I saw the same thing

[@cjoy5713]

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it

[@jbgaud]

@@cjoy5713 looks like mumbo jumbo but with one eye

[@LeopardMask12]

My (currently only) stonemason in my world is giving me blue and pink glazed terracotta (sadly no regular terracotta from this one), and I discovered that the pink stuff both looks nice with dripstone (which the stonemason also sells!) and contrasts nicely with cyan terracotta and deepslate! That's my planned build palette right now for a section of my base!

[@littlebumgorf]

The explanation of white and cyan terracotta was super helpful.

[@another_jt]

I have found that bees that have just a bit more room than one block tend to pathfind better to available flowers, and not block each other. It's almost like they don't notice the flower that they are essentially inside, so they try to path to a neighboring one, but as they all pop out in the same time in the morning, they're blocked by the bees in that block, who are doing the same thing. One more block of space, either horizontal or vertical, gives them some clearance to move around.

[@silverutopia]

So swapping out the moss blocks and flowers for flowering azalea leaf blocks should fix the problem?

[@another_jt]

@@silverutopia could be. If the bees really want flowering azalea leaves, maybe give them to them.

[@buzzman4860]

First time I have seen the color's presented this way. Very original

[@AlanFasick]

I'm a big fan of both seasons of this series -- having played for quite some time, I still pick up a new trick or tip and look forward to every episode. I also wanted to say that I appreciate the colorful thumbnails and designs you include when you talk about the color spectrum in Minecraft.

[@KilianKlein]

Regarding the bees looking away, isn't it because the honey blocks are a little bit less big than a solid block? the two at the front of the farm?

[@TotPocket]

Ooooooooo you might be right

[@samuelhutchison3474]

I've never been so hooked so quickly on a series! Any chance you'll show us how to make an auto sorting storage system?

[@whitson6777]

Well, the day has arrived. After finding Pix's channel and binge-watching for a week-straight, I'm finally up-to-date with the Survival Guide and that makes me sad :(

[@zebedeesummers4413]

have you watched any season 1?

[@noahb8709]

I've been playing Minecraft since it came out on the Xbox 360 and still every episode of this series I feel I learn something new. Love this series! Keep up the awesome work!

[@LeopardMask12]

It's also worth a note that glowberry vines, weeping (crimson) vines, twisted (warped) vines, and kelp can all be cropped, however regular vines cannot for some reason. My best guess is that it's related to the fact that regular vines can spread sideways, whereas the other things can only grow vertically. I can't remember if you can crop bamboo or not.

[@BeingLolaStar]

The thing about your videos is that is shows just how different people prioritize different things. Terracotta/concrete are some of my favourite blocks and even on survival I tend to prioritize them. Especially with the new lush caves! Terracotta would have been in the first 10eps for me.

[@masseysmotivationalmatters]

Very informative and perhaps the best and most concise guide I have come across. Thank you!

[@sanjeevinik.j.9176]

Really loving this series, Pix !

[@StarNanny]

Second @Lee Harrison comment….perhaps the sunny patterned glazed terra cotta would be a good replacement? If the bees are trying to land on the honey blocks, that could fix things, and you can keep your wisteria look…it’s really pretty!

[@krrishmundra]

22:12 | We can also add some string below the glow berries, in order to stop them growing further..

[@LeopardMask12]

Yep! But, while string is *almost* invisible, cropping the vines like that leaves no trace at all! String is still useful for regular vines, though, since they sadly can't be cropped.

[@AmirKeshtkar]

for fixing the bees bug that you mentioned, I think you should try replacing moss blocks under the bees with Flowering Azalea

[@golem8209]

I love concrete its such a futurist building block

[@lazypaladin]

Glazed Terracotta is a very picky block for me: Apart from Flooring of a Swimming Pool I can't not find any other uses for it. Best I've done with it is a Public Bath-House

[@skyshadow5]

Maybe have a look at Cubfan135 specifically his "Hermitcraft Season 7" Pyramid base. Near the end of Season 7 he creates a huge glazed terracotta floor (based of a Reddit post I believe) and it looks very good (imho). I've never tried a large build using glazed terracotta, only using it for highlights but this works so well on a large scale.

[@MairJfan1]

I am beyond jealous of the fact that you have cactus. Similar to your earlier struggle, I've now traveled over 20k blocks in multiple directions and haven't found a desert. Hours searching and not seeing a single cactus. I'm trying to find one without using the locate biome command, but my resolve is wearing thin. I've even started doing the unthinkable: yearning for a wandering trader.

[@inc2000glw]

Desert village, shipwrecks, other villages has cacti blocks

[@MairJfan1]

@@inc2000glw I checked many shipwrecks thinking the same thing, but didn't find any. The wiki also doesn't list cactus as a loot drop for shipwrecks, so I don't think you can find them there. I also haven't been able to find a desert, which makes finding a desert village a challenge.

[@alannadena]

My personal favorite use for magenta glazed terracotta is directional blocks for mapping out paths and redstone projects. Though my favorite glazed terracotta is the purple one as I have a thing for darker blocks mixed with purple/blue ones.

[@bruh.....8560]

This is a very good series i hope this season become more popular than Survival Guide Season 1 Love From India💗💗

[@footlonghawk3960]

Man I know that coloring of the different blocks mustve taken some time and I learned there are 17 different types of terracotta colors I didnt know that you always teach me something and I've been playing this game for many many years

[@chitusminecraft]

The green concrete with the honeycomb blocks look so good. They’re my favorite shades of yellow & green

[@CharlotteBradburn]

Thanks for the simple Cacti farm, super easy and fun to make! Perfect for my single player world too!

[@DoomWalker42]

I love your new building style. It's really improved since last season!!

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

The build looks amazing!!!

[@caagri22]

It’s always a good day when I get a survival guide vid in my notifications feed, really informative Vids even for and experienced player like myself

[@waveclaw]

And now you see the 'post end of the game' core loop of Minecraft. Design a build. Collect the resources. Make a build. Repeat. There is fun in the building but also in the collecting, exploring and farming.

[@itstaadis]

House looks like it has a awesome moustache!

[@nitrolitro]

Really nice video. -Enjoyed the explanation of colour theory.

[@vvrsvallabh]

"It still tries to grow even though it knows it will break coz that's how cactus are." This is inspiring!

[@jamesh8503]

wow, great episode as usual

[@b.venkatsai9925]

S sir

[@prathameshkapase2816]

U didn't even see it yet

[@lj.youtube0901]

@@prathameshkapase2816 channel members see it earlier.

[@zianagarganta]

I've been looking out for this

[@GIRGHGH]

I think what might be wrong is that maybe the bees are trying to pathfind to other flowers in the box but the other bees are in the way? I think you might have to make separate chambers for each hive.

[@3lmodfz]

I think I need to start making magenta terracota for the arrows so I don't get lost in mines/caves lol. They also make me think of DDR machines 😅

[@hummingbird7548]

I have used them in my nether fortress. I always make them point the way out.

[@humourlessjester3584]

Too bad the foliage of the house was distracting the bees, I really liked how you patterned the flowering azalea leaves to look like they were dangling. Might use that idea in one of my builds.

[@Timelord79]

Foliage?

[@mef9327]

@@Timelord79 foliage fō′lē-ĭj, fō′lĭj noun Plant leaves, especially tree leaves, considered as a group. A cluster of leaves. An ornamental representation of leaves, stems, and flowers, especially in architecture.

[@Joker-fj8hg]

@@Timelord79 ImpulseSV, is that you?

[@dpeters9897]

Beekeeper Shack looks like a cyclops with a super juicy mustache!

[@KUTTYportfolio]

that messes with how you perceive different colors against others, when you were talking about the cyan and white terracotta! It’s all color theory :) funny since I’m taking a college course in that rn😂😂

[@thestarwarsmusiccomposer3491]

15:47 thats my favourite block in the game

[@steIIarsanctuary]

I honestly never saw some of the glazed terracotta's design in my minecraft days! I've got a new favorite block now lol

[@steIIarsanctuary]

also the hoe mechanic on a coarse dirt was so surprising!

[@khuulestguy7581]

i have watched many of these episodes,because i have covid and these are so entertaining.

[@dimitri040582]

Thanks for your guide, it helps a lot !

[@_duane_joshua]

I've been waiting soo long for this yayy

[@shavonnelynch6508]

"you can also use melon and pumpkins for decorating if you have a really weird interior design" not me feeling called out because i recently made a roof out of pumpkins and melons (and some other blocks)

[@IQvillager]

I also made a cactus farm but it was very slow.Now I realise I shouldn’t have gone and check the farm every minute,I should have done other things and let the farm running

[@KilianKlein]

Quick question, the 128 blocks closeness for the cactus to grow, does that apply also in the spawn chunk?

[@michaelsoftelbows]

Wholesome Minecraft fella.

[@walover165]

Pixlriffs: posts late at night Aussie time Me: starts using Pixlriffs videos as my wind down sleepytime videos

[@spicycheeto2427]

Just watched your stream, keep up the good work!

[@rooodis456]

I really gotta build with these blocks more, so much can be done with them

[@dentheman1797]

And you can also get terracotta and its coloured variants from trading with masons.

[@ios.3am]

never knew u could smelt terracotta 😅 been playing this game since 2012 lmao thank you for the tips they help alot😄

[@sahilt3111]

Did anyone else notice the zombified piglin walking around when he was talking about teracotta colors?

[@aaryananand7288]

Can you explain how age of cave vines and kelp work next video?

[@derptea7]

Essentially… When the plant is placed, the end segment of the plant has a random age assigned to it, up to 25. Every time the plant grows, the age value increases by one until it reaches 25, in which case it stops growing. This age value is reset whenever a new plant is placed on it or the plant gets broken

[@aaryananand7288]

@@derptea7 Yea I know this stuff from watching pix explain kelp for his farm in season 1. I just want the newer players to also be made aware of this… Like before 1.18, we had to use the debug menu to make sure the end of kelp/cave vine is at age 25 to stop it from growing instead of using shears… Thanks for the explanation tho…

[@simplygreat9230]

I wait all day for these videos

[@steeks5580]

Very good

[@fleetstreet11]

"YELLOW STAINED CLAY!!!!!" - Simon, The Yogscast

[@eandm_creations]

😲 I had NO CLUE right clicking the recipe menu opened more options!! #gamechanger

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

An unrelated question: If you were given the choice to spend days maxing out your gear before accessing the end, or get decent Armor, beat the end, and get useful loot from the end cities, which could boost your upgrades heavily, which one would you choose? You can choose what you feel best to do, in a typical survival Let's play situation.

[@derptea7]

For me, it’s the former. End cities arent guaranteed to even spawn, have a good amount of loot chests, and the enchantments are all up to RNG that you really can’t affor to gamble on reliably. Meanwhile, if you don’t get the enchantments you want from villagers or something, 3 levels or rerolling a librarian trade is a lot less costly than not finding end cities with good loot

[@trevorgreenough6141]

Could you put flowering azalea leaves in front of the farm and have it still work? Or because of path finding, will a bee appear on top of the leaf block, teleporting through the enclosure?

[@thelandmann08]

i cant wait too see the day you hit 1m subs

[@rockzalt]

From my observation, flowing Azalea leaves and bush seem to attract bees more than the other types of flowers.

[@punkinlady1039]

3 stages of cactus farms in minecraft: 1. Wow this farm is slow. I’ll come back to it in a bit. 2. Cool! Have a stack of cactus already! 3. *rocking back and forth in the fetal position surrounded by chests full of cactus*.

[@terrilynch4888]

I love this survival guide! Are you going to return to Empires for season two?

[@VanguardJester]

this may sound silly, but i wish you could 'wax' the concrete powder so you can place it in water without it converting.

[@itsViirtueYEAH]

Ypu could use silk touched ores behind vines to look like flowers instead of them targeting the azalea

[@RobbieLawrence]

I just realized pix doesn't have his skull and crossbones shield and now that I've noticed it feels so wrong lol

[@Gucciblackberry]

Me obsessed with the glazed terracotta👀👀

[@ThatOneLadyOverHere]

I would actually like a tutorial where you are just figuring it out and seeing what works because that shows the thought process behind the creations which is the hardest part to figure out when learning a new art medium and something tutorials don't teach. I want to see how you plan these things.

[@loreyainclips]

Thats basically his streams, his vod chanel is pixlvods

[@rvanachem1532]

Hey Pix! What does the attack damage on a weapon indicate? Is it the number of hearts that anybody looses? For example my Netherite sword has 10 attack damage and takes only one hit to kill a zombie.

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

I think it represents the weapon's base attack damage, that is, the damage recieved by a mob, independant of any protection or status effect, by a normal swing of the weapon. Critical hits give more damage, because the game calculates air dropping time and increments the damage. Status effects like resistance and any form of Armor and/or protection can increase/decrease the recieved damage.

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

I don't know the exact health of a zombie, but considering it dies from a fall of 24 blocks, same as the player, it would also have 10 hearts(20 HP) health.

[@averagezing]

How many of these episodes do you have already with planned out topics? The pacing of this is super impressive, and I know it'll reduce as soon as you run out of tutorial and move into the more typical survival gameplay, but I'm hoping we've got a while ahead of us.

[@CR-ep8tx]

Ma man ! tried the bee thing from last episode, not gonna lie, i died 3 times

[@terukutiatongaawhikau6089]

Love these videos

[@ios.3am]

love the videos broo

[@mikecroakphone]

Bees are always so difficult to deal with. It looks like it's working till it doesn't

[@kdaviper]

Do you think they are trying to path through the small gaps in the honey blocks?

[@melaniep.]

Weirdly coarse dirt is my favorite block. I'm not sure why but it is lol

[@olmstead25]

Are they trying to pathfind to the honey blocks you have by them?

[@Sammstar420]

All I could think of when I saw all those concrete powders laid out was “damn they would be perfect at the bottom of an aquarium” lmaoooo but then they would convert and that would defeat the purpose.

[@elizabethb.1346]

if you replace the moss under the bees with the flowering azalea leaves that may help them?

[@itskaciestar]

The plant cropped thing that you did to the glow berries with the shears, does that work with vines as well?

[@derptea7]

Normal vines don’t have the ability to be cropped, for some reason.

[@mikroaaltouuni8272]

when you gathered the glass in the stream I gathered 4 double chest of glass :)

[@pederw4900]

Beekeeper’s shack looks like a one-eyed mustachioed moose

[@emmdeekaysays173]

44 episodes in, but I learned something. I didn't know you could right click in the book for items with multiple recipes