Moss Mining into an Ancient City! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.60]

The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.20.2!
In this tutorial, we find the highest chunk in our world and use moss to mine it out all the way to Bedrock!
Moss mining is a great technique for stripping all the material out of a chunk, leaving you with just the ores (and a few other blocks like gravel). It removes the need to set up a beacon for haste II, allows you to instamine deepslate (by converting it into moss), and can be self-sustaining if you compost all the moss blocks and byproducts!
We enlist the help of four allays to help us auto compost the moss, and dig down from Y:224 to Y:-59 - but a Deep Dark biome has generated below the area, and as we descend further, we risk awakening the Warden in the depths of an Ancient City structure!
Survival Guide Season 3 world seed: 787419271612053211
Music:
Minecraft soundtrack by C418, Lena Raine, Kumi Tanioka, Aaron Cherof
Season 3 of the Minecraft Survival Guide will teach you how to master Survival Mode in Minecraft 1.20 and beyond!
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[@svoidsofinfinitechaos9367]

Only in this game can a casual activity like moss farming become a stress inducing attempt to avoid a Lovecratian nightmare made partly from human souls

[@MuzikBike]

kids' game, they say...

[@darthseverus89]

The warden is composed of human souls?(lore please 🥺?)

[@traeghniwwingyl8167]

Sculk is made from it eating experience orbs, but also there's soul lanterns and soul torches everywhere, implying a sculk/soul connection separately from the experience/soul connection @@darthseverus89

[@svoidsofinfinitechaos9367]

@@darthseverus89 So, if you look in the Warden’s chest, there are three souls that you can see pulsing every time its “heart” beats. Also, since the skulk catalyst uses the death of mobs, a lot of which are undead versions of once living humanoids (like Steve) to create more skulk, it’s safe to assume that the Warden is comprised at least partly of human souls. When the catalyst activates, it has an animation similar to what you see when you run on soul sand with the soul speed enchantment. A soul rises from it and disappears. Except the catalyst puts that energy directly into creating more skulk and, I assume, powering the Warden.

[@benedictsawyer8012]

​@@MuzikBikeit's a kids game if you know where you're going

[@andrecruz04]

Allay 1: "Hey, ya know where boss is gonna take us today? Just got a bad feeling this morning" Allay 2: "Just moss mining, E-A-S-Y" Allay 3: "Yeah, George, calm down. It's not like us fighting those pillagers!" Allay 4: "Yeah, or, like a Warden, ya know?" Relax dude!"

[@humourlessjester3584]

20:20 I've never seen the darkness effect appear in a vertical shaft before and tue way that it just surges in is honestly very terrifying.

[@freytiger1]

I'm glad someone else is commenting on this! That was an awesome effect and it makes me further appreciate the projects Sir Pix takes on.

[@3AsYouWish9]

Seconded!!!

[@awesomemccoolname226]

Pix: I’m not ready for the ancient city episode The Warden: Fine. I’ll do it myself.

[@bretkilker119]

The Ancient City has a sky light now. Excellent home improvement skills Pix!!!

[@Glen789]

So what's the biome called now since it wasn't deep and its no longer dark?

[@Prabinthap]

​@@Glen789Bright Cliff

[@TheMysticCrafter]

I like that you used Allays! They are truly underutilized. I actually found few interesting uses to them. For example, they collect seeds that sniffers find - instead of using laggy hoppers or super loud minecarts. The other use was when I needed to collect insane amount of mangrove leaves, they helped me a lot when I basically destroyed the mangrove. So I am happy to see others using them as well!

[@RiskyUnknown]

To add onto this, they're amazing for Ice farms! All I have to do is mine the ice with Silk Touch, then they just put it into a hopper for me. It's great!

[@nisseheim4996]

Mojang did a good job on balancing the Allay. They are really handy in certain situations. Exellent wheat collectors when working together with farmers that have inventories full of seeds.

[@TheMysticCrafter]

@@nisseheim4996 That's what I like! There are a lot of uses, but it seems that people don't really try to see it. Other thing that I found useful is to put Allays inside the farms that sometimes drop items outside of the collection system so then those farms can actually became really lossless. Maybe people don't use it as much because Allays are a little bit hard to find (depends on the luck tbh)

[@leobetosouza]

Since the beginning of the series the deep dark has been calling Pixl. He can't resist anymore.

[@franziska9260]

oh no he's turning into cub

[@TussockyBongo57]

Spread the souls, spread the sculk

[@SuperJelly55]

That happened to me as well on my new world recently

[@danielrennie8444]

Love 0:28, the frog jumped as you said "jumped out at me" lol! Best pun in awhile

[@WilliamSheen-ee5qi]

Your next project should be skulk mining into a lush cave. You build a very powerful mob farm over a chunk, then place a skulk catalyst in the middle of each layer, mining the layers of skulk lower and lower.

[@TheRealWormbo]

Tip for anyone who wants to mine out a chunk for any reason (other than by the "official" "Punch-A-Chunk" rules): Use a beacon for the stone layers, and don't start in mountains. For one, beacon-mining is much faster in stone than the moss method. And secondly, the higher your starting terrain is, the more Deep Dark biome you will end up having to mine through, always risking random shrieker activations. Remember: Pix is a professional. Don't try this at home! ;-)

[@bloomingirl]

yeah pix is a professional but its called the survival guide for a reason

[@Thunderhawk51]

*Digs down from the highest peak of Stony Peaks Biome* *Finds Deep Dark biome* Surprised Pikachu face *Finds Ancient City* Another surprised Pikachu face I mean, it's almost a certainty to find a city below Stony Peaks. Not to mention Deep Dark. We found dozens of cities with my brother, drilling down countless peaks and mountains. We had really bad luck finding the silence trim which is why we did it. 😂 It was super fun, though. We had Wardens disabled for sanity's sake. Sometimes it took a long time to hunt down an Ancient City, but drilling down from the highest point drops you into the city quite often. It's not that rare, actually. Just to let anyone know if they want to find more of them without going to caving for hours.

[@arasdeeps1852]

Yeah, the best way to find an ancient city is to look under a mountain. Even Pix has said so in this guide. He then went looking for the tallest peak, so it's not surprising at all that he found one! 🤣🤣

[@evaroovers4871]

The darkness dropping all the way down into the pit so fast scared the crap out of me😂

[@AdamNisbett]

Digging under mountains is the best way to find ancient cities so it doesn’t surprise me you dropped in on one. That deleted chunk could come in handy for a quick elytra escape if necessary while exploring the city though.

[@lckittyqueen]

thank you so much for not just giving up when you saw the deep dark! and the ancient city! I’m very happy that you kept going

[@BoneHeadPlaysGames]

You really need to be able to put allays in your inventory like the axolotl in a bucket. What about allay in a flower pot? 😂

[@peartreeLeaving]

Honestly same for like frogs lol

[@HeydenHarvey]

Allay lantern

[@kptsjn]

Just watching the allay hard at work collecting moss just too adorable.

[@auranah_was_taken]

I didn’t know moss spread to other blocks. This makes me so happy! I love moss!

[@TName30]

Babe, this is worrying. Why did my timer broke? Well oh well, oh you're already up? Then I guess it's time for the new survival guide episode.

[@meiliquadrospereira9797]

i don't have much to say other than I love your builds and the stuff you do, love watching your videos

[@felipegutierrez9087]

I’m really liking these multiple videos throughout the week

[@eloquentornot]

This is so cool! I'm looking forward to the exploration, great that you have a big escape tunnel for it! :D

[@ypcomchic]

I started a new world and made house farm etc then started mining down a staircase to get to bottom and I’m at about -36 and I mined the next stair level down all of a sudden heard a scream and almost crapped my pants and then lost vision. Mind you I’m in a two by tunnel digging a staircase down and haven’t seen any sculk. I immediately ran back to the surface and made a sign for other people to not mine the next block or the warden will show up. First time that ever happened to me and it was so scary!!

[@dvnyhngry1681]

Love the "cute bunch of balloons"

[@christinaapplegate5281]

I remember Cub specifically looking for higher mountains to find ancient cities. And any generation with a sheer drop or obvious world generated biome change with high sheer cliffs when looting Ancient Cities. Very interesting ore generation video. Especially where nothing generated. Thank you Pix❤

[@bradhay6357]

I love how the Allays look like they're throwing up Into a trashcan. 😂😂

[@The_Anime-King]

The moment I was studying you send a video

[@kestrelgaming554]

There really up the diamond generation, so diamond spawn in bigger clumps now. Wow... if you found that vein mining 🤯 Jackpot.

[@EnderDudas]

amazing video! so grateful for the work you put into it :)

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Lucky...not only did you hit Deep Dark *and* Ancient City, but you hit it at just the right point that you only had to deal with the one shrieker block the whole trip.

[@mercury6901]

Thanks for the tip of flying elytra with allays on leashes. So far I have been using the boat method, I ride the boat and let them fly behind me (without a leash), they can keep up with the speed of the boat.

[@camilo.ferreira]

This seed is AWESOME

[@chickeyd9579]

That was so much fun! I remember the first time Pixlriffs did this, but this time was way better😁

[@kanalsz8067]

The moment i stop studying you send a video

[@somebodywithinternet_]

I didn't know you can't convert infested stone to moss, I thought it'd behave like normal stone :0 you learn something new every day

[@aismailuk]

Nice video as usual pix ❤ keep up the good work :D

[@lilac216]

Maybe I should try the moss mining in a chunk and I'll see if I have your luck with finding an ancient city lol. The game wants you to do an ancient city raid 😂

[@PawstheGame]

This game is both peaceful and terrifying and I hate it (I love it who am I kidding)

[@seungtakho]

it feels weird watching survival guide at 9pm icl

[@gravitationalredshift]

highest deep dark i've seen is at y=120! under mountains that are at world height, it's an insane seed

[@nguamolyt327]

Good one

[@nymerianicholas491]

Thank you Pistol Fist

[@joshualangan7668]

Love your content, bro!

[@MrDanglyLegs]

17:20 Is that the time-lapse music I'm hearing a hit of?

[@blackhawk15897]

Too bad that wasn't a slime Chunk. You could have killed two birds with one stone and gotten the most tedious part of making a Slime Farm done as a byproduct of your moss mining demonstration.

[@Pixlriffs]

It might’ve been a slime chunk but since the Deep Dark generated so high, the slimes wouldn’t spawn in that biome anyway 🙃

[@KitsukiiPlays]

Was sad I missed the stream, but the notification showed just as I arrive home from the groceries! Gotta love Pixl’s vids 🥰

[@LegoboyDhhroov21]

Hey pixlriffs, the city under your base has a trim, but not the QUITE one.

[@PoilQC]

I'm having a good day hopefully everyone else is :)

[@Jason-sm4oc]

Yes actually I am :) I have a day off from work (But still getting payed), just had a nice meal and now a Pixlriffs video. Such a good day!

[@AllThatShines1000]

Hey everyone! Anyone know how to enable chunk borders on Bedrock please? Xbox especially!😊🤞 Great video as always Pix!

[@hikari1690]

Oh nyo, I was just about to go to sleep

[@TenkoBerry]

This is good 👍

[@Sey318]

god pix loves deleting chunks

[@hiveldket]

Onety one! 🎉

[@houseofmeza]

Pix, did you lose a wager and now have to include Decked Out card names at least once per episode? :D

[@Pixlriffs]

I mean you’re gonna hear me say “sneak” a lot next episode but it’s purely a coincidence

[@dylanmosley9099]

I’m also a Emerald ore lover❤❤❤

[@marling013]

Guys I have a question. Can Ancient City spawn under a hills bioms? I noticed in my world sculk generating under those, but no Ancient City. Unfortunately, I never saw actual mountains biomes in this world xd

[@LeonOc-t8m]

In my world the deep dark always was under me

[@grazzap56789]

Lol nobody cares or likes the first place claimers..... but 11th is apparently the place to be 😂

[@gritz1701]

Will you find suspicious grave while doing this?

[@Pixlriffs]

Suspicious gravel only occurs in ocean ruins and trail ruins - so you won’t find it in a chunk like this.

[@pharo26]

ur so close to 1m subs

[@niceyredzy5556]

Are you gonna mine the diamonds and the others ores?

[@jackwhipple2890]

The best Minecraft player? Pix

[@Mapwelo.]

Strong

[@salmonbirdboi]

Feels wrong to be so early

[@pharo26]

11TH COMMENT

[@williamsowers6959]

First

[@tanzimislam6749]

1st view?

[@MiaKelslyn]

Early gang 👇

[@LegoboyDhhroov21]

PIX...TRIPLE ANCIENT CITY UNDER THE PEEK AND BEST AND RAREST TRIM IN THIS ANCIENT CITY

[@stickways]

“The Pixlriffs delved too greedily and too deep”

[@KitsukiiPlays]

26:29 ok, there’s natural light touching the ancient city. That’s unsettling

[@spbslinky7381]

Another great video, I always enjoy your survival guides. I love allays, they are so useful and definitely one of the best mobs added to the game. I did a similar lush fairy cave to store my allays in boats. I often use large caves to create all my moss blocks and azalea, so I don't affect my landscaping and builds on the surface. I'm starting to feel like the travelling trader is actually some kind of undead that's stalking me. No matter how many times I kill him, he always reincarnates and appears behind me.

[@shadow325lone]

What an amazing episode! I am so happy to find an ancient city while moss mining, it made the episode for adventurous and thrilling. And it also lasted longer 😏. Great video Pixl, keep up the good work ❤

[@gunterlauch-yq3ny]

just found a vein of coal with around 15 deepslate coal ore

[@Icwalking]

Great timing! Just having a break! Nice

[@aceyoung5196]

This is amazing. This type of activity automatically added to my bucket list of todo and want to experience. Heheh I'm new to this game. So I haven't experience much. As of now I'm enjoying playing early basic things in minecraft. But I already have a lot of knowledge what you can do in minecraft since everyday I watch YT videos all related to minecraft. I love playing minecraft 😁

[@chilledmusic6949]

20:22 that darkness effect falling from the sky looks terrifying

[@peartreeLeaving]

Don't take a nap, babe, new survival guide just dropped

[@geertbeukeveld1073]

survival guide : TODAY WERE BAKING BREAD! video lenght: 30 minutes💀

[@robinday8200]

always nice to break to the lower point and just fill in with glass so you can still see all the bedrock without it getting in the way

[@trevorgreenough6141]

On mining, I had a world where I had 3 ancient cities and a drip stone cave under my base, where I decided to set up a mine, that started on top of a tall hill.

[@chilli881]

Congratulations for surpassing 1K days in this world

[@chloesdad1000]

Best way to find caverns is to dig down.

[@Spectervamp1]

*Doesn’t want to explore the ancient city this episode so flies somewhere else *Mines a chunk to bedrock for demonstration purposes *Finds ANOTHER ancient city Well, I think the game wants you to raid the city next episode, I’m looking forward to it

[@thedragonclub]

I was inspired to try moss mining after your video and ended up in Ancient city as well! I showed my finds to the server and we all took turns dying there while being spectated from the dig. Got to say I love loosing all my OP gear in new and creative ways. Thank you for all your amazing content.

[@ethanwebber3929]

In your intro, you should change the 'survival guide' section that is copper to some of the new copper blocks that are being added. Dunno. I just thought it would look cool.

[@leonitthaqi]

Couldn't you just build a wool wall around ur chunk where the ancient city was?

[@SnowDownatHighNoon]

Then there's no video

[@deborahsheets2604]

Poor pix, you just know he was really hoping to find some deepslate emerald ore 😂😭

[@mateo_sid]

played MC for years but always find your guides interesting

[@kanalsz8067]

1st🎉

[@Java42069]

i think the scariest thing in minecraft is redstone

[@easternv1lle]

Yet again no captions in this next vid 👀😂

[@vusimagwaza9820]

1ST ONE. LOVE UR VIDS MAN

[@HUS__]

hi , i am ur 3y+ old fan

[@ItsUtopia_]

here from twitch o/

[@CraftingTable13]

You could have done this to the trail ruins too

[@Pixlriffs]

Using moss on the trail ruins might’ve displaced some of the suspicious gravel that’s waiting to fall inside a structure. Some of the blocks generate with nothing supporting them. Plus half of it was underwater 😅

[@CraftingTable13]

@@Pixlriffs Now i Understood

[@colinvanful]

dear pix please stop saying [ my name has been pixlriff ] :)