Caves & Cliffs! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.34]

[@pratitghosh5973]

Once again, we witness the reunion of Pixlriffs and an emerald ore. Truly historical!

[@Raskolnikov70]

*dragon hoarding intensifies*

[@elliotgandersen]

I really love how clear he explains everything, but it’s not dry like a history book it’s very entertaining.

[@eloquentornot]

I love this episode!! Really feels like a school trip almost, especially with the warnings about the Deep Dark in advance! So fun to just explore a world like this!

[@Ilit015]

Funfact; if you will rename a bucket of axolotl in an anvil, the axolotl display a name in the same way as naming it with a tag does.

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

That's neat. Does it work the other way around? If you name an axelotle and then pick it up will the bucket have it's name?

[@amcburney134]

@@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κyeah! If you name a axolotl something like Bob and pick it up in a bucket it will say bucket of Bob!😂

[@KitsukiiPlays]

I always forget this tip!! Thanks for the reminder!

[@volehunter]

Would be cool if you could rename a sweet berry, plant it and have a special death message when you die by it.

[@discochaotica]

This is also true of all other mobs which can be picked up in a bucket, such as fish and tadpoles!

[@trevinbeattie4888]

It amazes me how many cool surprises you’re finding in this world so close to spawn when you were mainly looking for a well-situated cherry grove when choosing the seed.

[@leobetosouza]

Best seed ever. An Ancient City inside that beautiful mountain with lots os cherry trees! Great!

[@sirromap1021]

I used the Survival Guide world seed to follow along. I've built the house, and am orking on the storage system. One of the first things i did was dig a staircase into that mountain, I found that city weeks ago. I've never explored one. I can't wait for Pix to go into it.

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

Bring lots of wool. I think carpet works too. Night vision potions are a huge help too.

[@another_jt]

One thing missing from the dripstone cave is the chance for drowned to spawn in those caves, especially in the flooded dripstone caves. And this is significant because there is a chance for them to spawn with tridents, and a thrown trident can break pointed dripstone, which then has a chance to fall on your head (as if the trident itself wasn't bad enough).

[@laniakea31]

I am using the same seed and that was the first ancient city that I have ever explored in Minecraft. And I kinda did it for only one reason: to get swift sneak enchantment. That is really an amazing enchantment, especially when I am building large structures and have to sneak on high places all the time.

[@JimKayaker]

Excellent as usual! small comment on "keep the shift button on speed dial" - honestly, no experts ever cover it, but my preference when crouching long term (bridging the void for example) is to go into options and change crouch from hold to toggle until I'm finished. Much easier on the pinky!

[@Pigborg]

It would be really nice if there was a ‘permanent crouch’ hotkey so we don’t have to go into settings every time tho…

[@emmdeekaysays173]

The thing no one mentions about the Warden is after he goes back underground the shriekers don't reset and he'll come up every time one goes off

[@danielrobertson5968]

The shriekers will go down 1 "alert level" every 10 minutes you manage to stay quiet. Just FYI

[@grimmsoul3096]

well they do reset, after a period of time. not after he despawns, as you say.

[@RikkeMyE]

Totally agree, I only silktouch emeral ores ❤ 7:46

[@batusalem569]

I've being waiting for the city discovery since day 1 ✌️😋 Speaks verry well of the community for keep this secret tho 😗👍

[@Squishems01]

Anyone else here watching this despite being a Minecraft veteran?

[@sirromap1021]

Yes. I love the survival guide. I still get tips I didn't know. Also Pix's voice is a nice way to start my day.

[@nitrovenom991]

I have fully enchanted netherite stuffs still I'm watching 😂

[@FrostyTime]

@@nitrovenom991same here😂

[@dino_drawings]

That’s why we are here!

[@catmus1506]

I'm a veteran, in age only. 😢 Still a newbie in terms of what content creators do. Texture? Nah... cobblestone and oak still looks good. 😂

[@selestiele1]

Pix's world: Look at this amazing, open, and large dripstone/lush cave! My world: Look! A single block of dripstone/clay block in a noodle cave!

[@MiningForPies]

Haha I get that too, Three hours branch mining …. Two diamonds. Three hours fishing, just fish 🫣

[@deantakelly6653]

Mentioning this because I learned this the hard way when exploring the Deep Dark: Chests make noise when you open them and when you close them, so if opening one sets off a shrieker, closing it will probably also do that too. (I thought I was fine opening a chest when I was on my second strike, but then I closed it and it summoned the warden.)

[@riuphane]

If you're quick about it, then you can close it before the sensors can reset, but if you're just going to make the noise intentionally, it might be better to break the chest than open it

[@amcburney134]

This man is a legend! The reason I play this game is because of him.

[@M4st3r0fN0n3]

I mined the calcite out of a big caldera, one of the most satisfying projects i ever have done. It also gave me about 7 shulkers of calcite and half a stack of emerald ore, so quite lucrative

[@katgrace8834]

Everytime I see a lush cave I get the biggest grin on my face! I just love them so much. I think they’re my favorite biome

[@Dozeji]

Oh my god, an Ancient City right by your house. In the Ancient Mountaint lives the Ancient Warden... The Survival Guide Prophecy (this is no luck anymore) strikes again

[@ihatehandleupdate]

Man, I had no idea the new caves can be this cool! My current world was made pre-1.18 with the old generation and haven't started one since. But this video made me heavily consider jumping into a new one!

[@scrao]

You could trim your current older world to force a new generation at those locations. Or maybe venture far far away to a location you have still not explored from the latest update.

[@ellieeveritt]

Start a new one! I created a new world with my daughter using this seed. I have so much stuff in my old world, but it's fun to start again with all of the cool new things in this seed

[@asteria4279]

Don't reset if you still love playing in your world! Pix did a video on how to trim chunks in your world, then just launch it in the newest version and go exploring! 😊

[@ihatehandleupdate]

@@asteria4279 I like my old world, but it would be good to start over. I learned a lot of new stuff and I want to begin more organised this time around.

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

​@@ihatehandleupdatesome people say trim and some say start a new world. I always start a new world. It seems to help me with burnout.

[@ion0057]

if you go back and look at the entrance to the cave you went into, there is an emerald ore block that was just above your head

[@selestiele1]

I spotted it, too!

[@rocketflashxd]

Same

[@luckyred1260]

Incase you missed it there is some emerald ore peaking out at the cave entrance for a split second at 1:08!

[@callyg7696]

Enjoying this series. Learning lots since being on and off Minecraft for a good 18 years

[@RossLemon]

I don't think Mojang gets enough praise for how well they did the Caves and Cliffs update. Sure, it's not littered with a ton of, arguably useless, features you'd see in some tacky mod but what they did do was amazing. The update came out 2 years ago and I'm still constantly stopping in awe of different mountains, hills, cave openings, and otherworldly world generation.

[@T0NI_]

This is really highlighting how much different of a game Minecraft is nowadays for me. I mean, you could still get some pretty cool generation back in the day (I believe when I started playing it was called Beta 1.7 or so), but wow, the generation for the caves are amazing (I mean, that hanging abandoned mineshaft is incredible), and the mountain ranges? And that "caldera"? That's downright beautiful

[@bleh-zj1hy]

Minecraft update idea, customisable chests, sort of like armor trims or maybe make them look however you want with a few materials by having specific designs like banners, so that it's easy to know what's where

[@thespudlord686]

That's a great idea All we have now is the ability to name them

[@bleh-zj1hy]

@@thespudlord686 yeah it's irritating having to always hover over them

[@bleh-zj1hy]

Also coloured tools would be awesome too

[@RyokuWeil]

Woohoo! You finally found this cave! I've been following your guide and had gone into this cave instead of the first one you caved in. There are some awesome things down there!

[@graceo.77]

Exploring is fun! And looking forward to more about deep dark in a future video!

[@johanputter5061]

Hey Pixl, Wow that drip stone cave is insane, I have been playing along the same seed and have never noticed that cave... I think I should explore more... Thank Pixl and see in the next eps, Cheers

[@thejonbmc]

I snuck into that ancient city and found a swift sneak III book in the first chest I checked, so I bounced lol

[@SageKillah]

Wow! So many cool things hiding beneath the Sacred Mountain! What other secrets may the peak have in store? 🤔

[@willrun4fun]

I need to go snag some of that drip stone to make a lava generator. I spent all week in my after work time cleaning out that iron ore vein and have over 8 stacks of bean blocks.

[@malialinsell5832]

love this video! keep up the amazing work!

[@Queen_Victoria55]

Dripstone is so op and i love it

[@davidyodo24]

I play along in the same world, omg the Holy Mountain is truly amazing 😍

[@ozelhassan8576]

Pixlriffs I love your Videos it’s so nice to watch them plus your voice is interestingly soothing.

[@DrkPanthra]

I’m new to Minecraft. Been playing about little over 2 months so I appreciate the videos.

[@saashayaway]

I've been waiting for you to find this! I mined into the ancient city in my first few weeks in this world (and immediately noped out of there)

[@youALLadopted95]

Love listening to your videos while I manscape or wash the dishes. Cheers!

[@alwayslearningtech]

I'm now learning the cost of playing on the same world. At the start of the video, i realised you were going into the mountain and had to decide whether or not to explore it myself or watch the latest Pix video... I watched the video because I couldn't not watch it.

[@doggydoggywoowoo1233]

Your base is in a good place.

[@Imran7jr]

"If you have found a large enough vein of calcite then mountain will barely notice its gone" -Pixelriffs 2023 I recently got back after three-four years of not playing minecraft and this guide is so much helpful regarding all the recent updates and he only talks about the practicality of some build, mechanics which is the reason why I watch him.. I learned so much well rather than searching each specific/minute details about things on the internet.

[@mitch85714]

Deep dark = toggle sneak. Save the hand cramp haha

[@SDsonny]

This is what is getting me through school

[@Lopdercop]

Love this series 😄😄😄😄❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BooksMusicMe17]

I never realised that about the small dripleaf being harder to get!

[@chytruseczek]

Wow that's a beautiful cave.

[@norbucso]

Man! I wish they would add volcanic islands and volcanos. Like it would be called the inferno update.❤

[@WizardOfDocs]

honestly, the reason I haven't set up shop in a cherry grove yet is that there's so often Deep Dark under them. Sculk creeps me out way too much.

[@typervader]

Another imporant thing about montauins, you can get sliverfish blocks spawning here

[@FishBoii-07]

I have been playing minecragt for years but this series still teaches me things I didn't know

[@sarahaufssri4529]

Congrats on finding your first emerald ore in this world! Now onto deepslate emerald ore

[@aQuayQuay]

Since spore blossoms come in a limited quantity, are hard to get to, and they can't be bonemealed, I was hesitant to try to break it with only my hand and used shears instead. Thanks for showing me you can use your hand!

[@rebeccaharbison1742]

Reading the Minecraft Wiki does note that because lush caves, dripstone caves and the deep dark generate based on the same information as the biomes, there is some correlation between surface biomes and cave biomes. (Basically Minecraft generates five 2-D patterns when creating the world, that look like the kinds of things you get when you ask Photoshop to generate a random cloud pattern. That means each X, Z location has 5 parameters associated with it: Temperature, Humidity (aka Vegetation), Continentalness, Weirdness, and Erosion. Lush caves generate at certain depths when the Humidity is high, which means they are not found under Plains and Savannah (for example), and are most likely found under Taiga, Dark Forests, and Jungles[1]. Dripstone caves need high Continentalness, hence they are rarely found in the ocean[2]. The Deep Dark needs low Erosion, so 'Mountain' is a good sign. ) [1] Strangely enough, deserts generate even when Humidity is high if the temperature is high enough. Hence occasionally seeing lone azalea trees in the desert marking that there's a lush cave below. [2] Continentalness raises the height of the average terrain, but that could just mean high 'normal' biomes rather than mountains.

[@LeMan12349]

Pix, if you ever need bulk loads of calcite I’d recommend going far away and taking it from there and maybe building a blue ice boat track on the nether roof, to between ur home & there

[@darkskull1-132]

Interestingly enough I also have an ancient city beneath my base area in my modded world, a valley inside a crescent shaped mountain range 😎 no abandoned mineshaft in between though, or dripstone cave, but there is this modded structure that's something like a village bunker, giving me a secure location for working with villagers 🤓

[@waveclaw]

The 'left' side of the cherry mountain has a better string farm: a small cave with dungeon in it. You have to see it to believe it. Right outside your front door are some of the best spawners for the best farms. Bones, string and even zombies within walking distance! Amazing map seed. On the plus side, a lot of the floating mineshaft are slime chunks if you want to setup a classic pre-MumboJumbo-Swamp slime farm. Although the later is going to be much less work and much much higher output in 1.20. Finally, if you visit your desert village where the camels were, the deeper you go the more lush caves you'll find. The whole of the desert is shot through with amazing finds and strange terrain generation.

[@desislavad6239]

Every emerald ore I collect is always in honor of you 😂

[@fabiogius2451]

You missed an emerald ore, it was at the entrance of the cave, where you put down the first water source, some block above your line of sight on the other side. (Edit: time 1:07 )

[@andrewmorris4395]

Just searched the comments to see if anyone else saw it too

[@thenev2847]

can't wait for the ancient city episode!

[@emirwattabor6991]

Ancient Cities very often generate under mountain biomes!

[@Gringo_Lingo]

Organic Ancient City find?! Pixlriffs is king of organic POI finds!

[@explodingdice173]

I love this style of video! Do you think you'd ever consider doing a vault hunters guide?

[@Pixlriffs]

The whole reason I can do a series like Survival Guide is because I know a bunch about vanilla Minecraft, so I mostly know what I'm talking about when I make a tutorial. I haven't played Vault Hunters at all, so I couldn't make a tutorial let's play when I know very little about it.

[@explodingdice173]

@@Pixlriffs That makes sense, your knowledge does add a special charm to the series. I love what you do!

[@joshue2112]

You really have found the perfect seed 😄

[@logicbug]

You have a nice seed for your world there. Am I wrong in saying that the latest world generation has a lot more subterranean water? I can't seem to reach -59 without a few underground oceans making it harder?

[@greybeardmc]

You forgot to mention that glowberries are edible.

[@ConnorFlashwing]

This world seed is actually amazing!

[@philsey6913]

At 7:06 to about 7:27 I am barely hearing the background music from the game. To me it sounded like one of the underwater themes that you hear when spending a long time submerged in an ocean environment. Does one of the new music themes sound similar? If not, then what happened to cause that music to play?

[@philsey6913]

I heard it again around 10:28. It is definitely that underwater music. Maybe the environmental music was initiated while he was in one of the water columns descending into the depths?

[@Pixlriffs]

I play with the in-game music turned all the way off, and I add music afterwards when I edit the video. Mostly because I make frequent edits, so any music playing in-game is going to be chopped up when I make a cut between clips,

[@paulgrotebeverborg1119]

You really should build something in that dripstone cave sometime!

[@TheRealWormbo]

He already mentioned he'd like to find a dripstone cave below a mushroom biome, because that would be a relatively easy place for setting up a drowned farm, because they can spawn there. And while river-based drowned farms are have been sort-of the standard since 1.13 where they were introduced, dripstone caves are an even better place for a farm, since the drowned spawn in somewhat larger numbers there. (However, if you find dripstone below a mountain, check your Y coordinate - there will be neither drowned nor copper above sea level.)

[@paulgrotebeverborg1119]

@@TheRealWormbo i meant something decorative, not a farm

[@TheRealWormbo]

@@paulgrotebeverborg1119 He already did that in the previous season.

[@paulgrotebeverborg1119]

@@TheRealWormbo so you can only build something decorative in a dripstone cave once in your life?

[@TheRealWormbo]

@@paulgrotebeverborg1119 It's more like "it might happen, but given that it was done somewhat recently already, I recommend not holding your breath".

[@Shunylium]

Not gonna lie. When he said you might be familiar with calcite from geodes I legit thought he was going to talk about when Joel stole the calcite from his mountain way back on empires

[@Zia_9912]

I believe to farm lava you need to have a block of dripstone under the lava source, and then the pointed dripstone!

[@sikwilly45]

As for playing on Bedrock, I used dirt then pointed dripstone and it works just fine. Dripstone block may work faster though. My mud/clay farm works rather quickly.

[@silverfishstone]

I believe there is actually some correlation between surface and cave biomes, I've found that lush caves are very common under dark forests, dripstone under meadows and badlands, and the deep dark under mountainous terrain. It's due to the biome generation noise values (erosion, temperature etc.) overlapping, not the biomes themselves, I think?

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

I find more drip under dark oak than lush. Have found a world that had both lush and drip in same cave. That was a nightmare to light up!

[@Greeeyt]

If I may excuse myself, I want to ask you a question: Is there any meaning behind the text's color in your thumbnails for each episode of the survival guide?

[@Pixlriffs]

Nope, it just alternates between copper, gold, and diamond. I figure it helps people remember whether they've already watched an episode or not :)

[@evaroovers4871]

Docm77: Don't touch my redstone Pixlriffs: Don't touch my Emerald ore

[@Nyckidd]

I had no idea you could find Calcite in other places

[@lckittyqueen]

I’m abroad two hours ahead and it got to 11am and I thought you weren’t posting today and got really sad lolll

[@emmdeekaysays173]

Noooooo, you glossed over my favorite biome stony shores T-T, they added so much immersion to the world.

[@BrettAkaXthDoctor]

Is that upped brightness a thing you're doing in post? Even at max brightness my game doesn't have visibility that good in unlit caves.

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, I often add some gamma correction to cave/nether footage when I edit the video. Otherwise it tends to look kinda grainy on KZbin

[@djn2872]

A bit late, but lush caves, at least for me, i see a lot of them in spruce biomes. Not sure if it is a bedrock thing

[@thespudlord686]

I'm gonna argue that deepslate coal is the rarest ore I've found it maybe once

[@Pixlriffs]

Deepslate coal has a shorter range it can generate in, because it doesn't appear any lower than Y=0, and deepslate ores only start generating a few blocks above that. It mathematically can't be the rarest ore, though, because of vein size and biome distribution. Coal can occur in larger veins, whereas emerald ore veins have a maximum of three blocks, and coal can be found in any biome, while emeralds can only be found mountain biomes and windswept hills.

[@charlesbudge5104]

When a stalagmite and stalactites frm together it is called a column

[@bones5258]

There was one world I had where when I hit an edermen, they teleported away and I never saw them again, and they creeped me out. I lost that world to an endermen and I'm now very on edge with endermen now.

[@Pixlriffs]

I guess it’s easy for them to play the long game when they are 3 meters tall 😂

[@bones5258]

@@Pixlriffshaha yeah

[@onelunglarry]

at least im aware hes not doing this series long term like season 2 and hardcore

[@FrostyTime]

Let’s go I’ve been waiting all day😎

[@alexanderkesterson6338]

Okay Mojang volcano biom for the surface and possibly volcanic islands

[@trgvergv]

i know what below that mountain. i know whats coming :)

[@xinfeng9979]

theres a cave on the top of the mountain with 5 - 10 blocks of emerald ore

[@danrudd1521]

1:07 nobody else saw that emerald ore flicker in the top left? Above the entrance to the cave? Or am I mistaken?

[@JustinTimeCuber]

12:45 this actually isn't true, cave biome generation relies on the same "multi-noise" system that surface biomes use. Deserts are just weird because they can generate in both dry and humid regions, unlike in real life. From the wiki: Lush caves generate underground at any altitude. They favor generating underneath biomes with high humidity values, which makes them most commonly found beneath dark forests, jungles, old growth taigas and wooded badlands. Dark forests, old growth taigas and bamboo jungles, in particular, are almost guaranteed to have lush caves generate below them, unless the lush caves are overwritten by dripstone caves. It is not possible for lush caves to generate beneath forests and grassland biomes like plains and savanna as they are not humid enough. Lush caves can sometimes generate beneath oceans and deserts, and are the only one of the three underground biomes capable of generating beneath oceans.

[@Subbed_Edits]

would like to see some gameplay footage with shaders

[@neshavan720]

Once again tall birch 😂 spotted in pix video

[@Yules.adventures]

🙌🏻THIS✨

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

Yea. Watch just to see differences to bedrock. I don't think bedrock can stop the glowberry vine growth 😂

[@MarkPattershall]

Yes

[@Vagmouss]

Love the title of the video

[@TugiFox]

With the new 1.20.2 villager changes, how do you think they'll handle Villagers already present in the world? I've got ebery high-end enchantment from my librarians, and it took a long time to get. I don't want all that progress erased just cause I've updated. I've asked this on the Spawn Chunks, but I really want an answer so I'm asking it here, too.

[@asteria4279]

The update would not change trained villagers, just new trade generation. Also, it's not for a 1.20.2 update - it was released as experimental, not a snapshot. It would be part of a larger update.

[@TugiFox]

@asteria4279 that's how I hope it's going to work. I thought the plan was to introduce big content in the main updates, while keeping mechanic changes and things to the dot ones.

[@asteria4279]

@@TugiFox yes, but the proposed villager changes would be pretty big 😄

[@TugiFox]

@@asteria4279 ahaha very true xD

[@scrooge1374]

Found a lush cave below an ocean, tried digging up, gave up😂

[@TenkoBerry]

This is great 👍

[@chimesproduction6341]

Took you long enough to find the deep dark city. I discovered that weeks ago while making a staircase down to my diamond mine. I summoned the warden on a accident. Ya long story short I had to move my mine.