100 minecraft days Farming Melons - 6,800,000 PB

Farms:
Slime - Ianxofour • Minecraft Elegance: Lo...
Wood - Squilly
Villager Breeder - BigBooty17 • Simple Villager Breede...
Cobblestone - BigBooty17 • Fast but Small Auto Co...
Iron - Squilly
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[@rekrap1]

HUGE shout out to Squilly. He’s helped me SO much with this challenge so far making spread sheets and compiling farm designs. Could not do this without him.

[@slimypuffer]

??? 2MINS

[@eliaaax]

I was wondering where you got the farm designs/plan from! awesome vid

[@TheUnknownPizza]

Cool design of the farm, i was wondering where you got it

[@Itschopbruh]

WHATS THE Seed please tell me

[@PokeHunter4]

Rekrap I have a seed for Minecraft and wanted to know if you can speedrun it, here it is 7306815763343810136 My best is 15:31

[@Antekfoo]

bro having pb on melons

[@slimypuffer]

actually here before this is top comment

[@Alolan533]

"How did we get here?"

[@ilianstrooper]

Damn

[@karadrak118]

I WAS HERE

[@RealBruhgaming]

🤨

[@Alolan533]

Never thought Minecraft would get to a point where a random guy would speedrun getting MELONS OF ALL THINGS.......

[@slimypuffer]

meleon

[@unknownperson3261]

callong rekrap a random guy is actually the funniest thing to me but yeah. people xreate challenges for themselves and that's so cool!!

[@MereLight]

mellons

[@RewEmberwind]

@@MereLight Mealonms

[@ValiantGamerFN]

This is part two….

[@Yeah_Jaron]

I think this is the most productive 100 days every played. Iron, cobble, wood, and slime farm by Day 20?!? NAH, you have a strat for waterlogging the leaves in the farm. Insane optimization

[@dxgaming5570]

Yoo jaron

[@EliteBrisinger]

True lol

[@benygames7399]

oh buddy you have no idea the efficiency i have. ive got many more farms that are actually good by day 20

[@ggplayz1483]

​@@benygames7399 prob. either 20 irl days or building small inefficient farms

[@jastonwinger30]

Still not enough :(

[@Spoon80085]

Ironically, this feels way more "in the spirit" of Minecraft than traditional speed-runs. Whereas in any%, or really any major category, runs are focused on beating the game *as fast as possible,* this "category" focuses on doing *as much as possible.* The time *limit8, instead of time *goal*, forces the player to ration their time, as in traditional runs, but also forces them to take their time, as the goal is not *just* maximizing time, but maximizing production. Being completely honest, this is easily the best "speed-run" idea I've ever seen in Minecraft. The potential for diverse runs is crazy (a Nether-wort farm in stead of a dark oak farm, as it's fully automatic, for instance), and the possibilities for other "categories" is exciting to think about; imagine group runs, or competitions- and that's just off the top of my head. This makes me want to make a plugin for these runs; something that automatically counts melons collected, turns off hoppers on day 100, etc. Also, combining it with performance mods, like Optifine or Sodium/Lithium, as performance is, evidently, a big issue. I doubt I have the time to dedicate to learning Minecraft plugin coding for Watermelon%, considering I'm a high-school senior, but I've made far worse time management decisions, like writing this comment *about* melon farming.

[@mouseman6265]

reminds me of people optimizing cod zombies to get the highest round possible before the game crashes lol

[@M_1024]

I think a better idea is to make a mod or datapack instead of plugin, because plugins are not compatible with fabric (and thus Sodium or Lithium)

[@baumdf9134]

I consider this a highscore rather than a speedrun

[@moosemaen]

this is peak yt comment section

[@mouseman6265]

no shot

[@ScooterSam1]

I'm not gonna lie, Rek sounded kind of burnt out by the end of the video. He took on a monumental task which included so many hours of unrewarding grind, and for the payoff to not be at least edging the desired goal, I can say from personal experiences that it doesn't put you in the ideal mental state. Rek, if your reading this, we admire that you pour your soul into every video project, but *please*, do things you like. You've given so much to satisfy the algorithm's endless video demand, maybe it's best to either take a short break, or upload small videos. Just because it's your job, not every video has to be a huge success. Feel better soon Rekrap

[@Neon_Daze]

You and squilly are insane! 6.8 million is incredible and your plan was so efficient and well executed. Excellent video, you're one of few KZbinrs I'm absolutely certain wouldn't cheat, so well done for putting in the effort.

[@Squilly4]

thanks!!

[@trashintel]

it's hilarious how he was more keen on the 'warm ocean' part rather than SPAWNING IN THE SMACK MIDDLE OF AN AMETHYST GEODE. 7:00

[@Luna5829]

cuz that's actually important and amethyst isn't

[@MonkeyMod]

Lol XD

[@MonkeyMod]

@@Luna5829true

[@pupchamp137]

You will reach 10,000,000 in no time! We believe that you will defeat the melons once and for all!

[@hihellowelcome116]

yes

[@slimypuffer]

he has to get 10mil

[@aukemaas354]

I can imagine the technoblade "I'm freeeeeeee" when he gets it

[@ScooterSam1]

Idk if he should take that on again. He seemed super burnt out by the end...

[@enderloch]

Eh, he's tried several times (pretty sure) and each run (if he doesn't quit) is 33.33 hours@@ScooterSam1

[@colinberg3342]

A couple optimizations you could probably introduce. Obviously the runs we are seeing are behind of those from the runs you have done, so you may have implemented these. 1) Change the auto placer design so that it can be moved upwards by being a flying machine that way it doesn't need to be broken every single time. Obviously the rails might be an issue for that but as long as most of the machine can move up with needing manual collection/ fixing. That might take more materials and is worse if the extra mats needed are limited by the rates of the slime and iron farms. This should help save time towards building that 4th layer. 2) This is definitely more draining sanity wise, but the losses to the farm breaking are very bad so making extra sure they are being checked as often is possible seems necessary. If by day 69/70 everything is built that "only" 10 hours of routine checking and maintenance to do. This is all a very delicate balance of passion and sanity and speed, so do whats best for you and your goals. You have a good team/ fanbase behind you supporting this honestly very difficult goal. Even though its in Minecraft and a game and melons, this is a legitimately difficult engineering task. Some numbers are just that big. I'm sure you can get there.

[@phishphan49]

hey just a few thoughts on how to further min/max with farms - some may or may not suit your personal rules for the challenge - but the two most important aspects seem to be resource grind / farm construction -> resources to start building auto farms at scale. and then being able to build at scale repeatably and reliably. CONSTANT BOTTLENECKS: the storage placement grind takes an insane amount of time - its also prone to clogs/failure/ overflow - you being a manual hopper often for large chunks of time.... and in the last video you noted farms running slower due to lag; which the silly large amount of hoppers you're using are perhaps the biggest contributors to... likely followed by the near 10K double chests. that time to craft and build that and lag it generates is killer... HOW TO SOLVE A BUNCH OF THIS (IMO): 1. in your current routing it when you first loot the end - just block up the bottom door of the closest end city to your gateway to save the two shulkers , take the time to bridge there from the gateway - just take the 2 seconds to mine a few stacks of netherrack at some point in the nether - nothing to destroy it in the end and endstone or wood/ stone take to long - and not pearl for future prep) first gateway - proceed as normal; noting coords 2. as soon as you have slime, wood, and iron farms up - you can either craft (or dupe - vanilla mechanic same as TNT) rail - and build ianxofour's shulker farm in the overworld near spawn if possible. it's reliable; generates shells fast , is easy to refill if it breaks, and after you've built it 2-3 times it's mindless and super quick. once built - collect the two shulkers you saved from earlier after railing your bridges from earlier using a furnace minecart to push it thru gateways... 3. Ian uses glass for the layers - which - before building the shulker farm - if not opposed... go back to your end portal - red mushrooms are ez as you have already found dark oak - and you have the rest of the minimal build - make an end portal gravity block duper - they take 1-2 minecraft days to build and even the basic ones are insane in items per hour. dupe sand on one side (3 blocks), and gravel on the other 3 ((9 blocks) more later). 4. smelt the sand into glass while you mine down like the 9? ish stack of obi for the shulker farm portals while you basically AFK the duper on the end side - the overworld is loaded via super simple chunk loader. 5. Shulker farms are insanely productive. the wood would still be the potential bottleneck. Each double chest of shulker shells is 1728 shulker boxes when combined with (18 stacks logs = 9 stacks chests, so 36 is the 18 stacks to convert to to shulker boxes - not bad). 6. this seems like way more work... but when building a module a shulker box loader is 10000x faster (like... 60-90 seconds each)to make than your chest/ hopper walls & far more dependable as each is a copy of the previous module - speeds up the farm, saves lag, saves time placing blocks, reduces iron cost - making peaceful viable in the latter 3rd potentially. unless planned and pathed obsessively - may add time up front / first 1/3rd? not much.... *SUPRISE TWIST* : ....but that's why i mentioned that the end portal duper is easy and quick to make and use gravel on 9/12 blocks.... how long does your dirt grind take right now - because the gravel produced from the end portal that you can load into your free shulkers at that point takes it from hypothetically 60k blocks to 30 k blocks - that's *days* and huge iMO - just mine half your current dirt - then use it with gravel to mass craft coarse dirt - then place the coarse dirt as the fields- when turned into farmland with a hoe - it becomes actual farmland - if you mine it you get dirt - not course dirt back.... shulker loaders and cut your dirt grind in half + way more repeatable and reliable... grind in have and you're over 10m EZ- the sheer amount of lag that could eliminate...also way way way less manual labor and more time to monitor and fix small issues before they become big issues IMO you could hit 15m cheers man - want to see you beat this!

[@whocares2277]

I'm not sure if the shulker farm approach works. Ianxofour says his farm makes ~250/hour. Storing 10 million needs 6000 boxes or 12,000 shells so you would have to run the farm for 48 hours or 150 minecraft days. Oops. You would need two or likely even three of them. But then you are mining obsidian for an hour. You also need to build all the extra farms and time to craft the boxes (and build tens of shulker box loaders, we have ~200 melons/s). 10 million is 3000 double chests, placing them and the hoppers takes maybe 3 hours? Not that much time to work with. He could build the farming layers first and then place most of the storage chests later while the farms are running. From watching the video, the dirt placement looks awkward. I wonder if series of 12 wide block fillers would be faster. Should be fewer blocks to place in total.

[@ees4.]

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[@phishphan49]

@@whocares2277 ...so I read this and didn't forget about it and actually took the time test it... You're correct as to the claimed yield of the farm. I've made some minor tweaks on both the overworld and nether side, also I use the piston/wither rose kill method "upgrade" - unsure if that contributes, and the ez refill portal above the farm that restocks the farm if ever needed, which, just saves on downtime tho rare...but after a few AFK sessions to test... I find i average 350ish - 500 per hour (turning down simulation distance === more; diminishing returns after all the nearby farms are unloaded (built over river in spawn chunks; main base complex is huge & full of farms & partially loaded in my usual 18 chunk simulation distance . What's helps the most (maybe?) is the huge portals spawn tons of zombie piglins & since I'm above a river so the snow golems don't melt - covered the bottom sides of the portals with trap doors & put some turtle eggs on trapdoors as well, so they fall into the water, which I dug out to y=0, made source blocks w/kelp, and replaced the floor with magma blocks, which pull them down till they despawn. Pretty sure I don't lose any shulker spawns to the trapdoors on the portal frames & AFK at a height where the player bubble is spawnproofed. Regardless. Sorry for the essay. My point - you're right that even my "improved" version is far too slow... And rek is dealing with slices not whole melons... So it's more like 10k double chests iirc. There are however almost as quick and easy to build farms that give like 2.5k + shells per hour which can be built with minimal resources... That would suffice for the run. A simple TNT sapling/bone meal tree farm could produce all the wood needed in a fraction of the time of chopping, and with an elytra a half hour in the nether soul sand valleys once could fill enough shulkers with bone blocks to supply the farm for the whole run... I kinda really still think shulker loaders and reducing grind are the key... If those things are in place it just comes down to block placement speed.... Which, rek seems to spend a lot of time practicing. Again sorry for the essay. I find the challenge interesting

[@phishphan49]

@@whocares2277 okay last thing .. again I find this interesting lol I'm so sorry... Taking the time to build a wood farm and shulker farm and using shulkers to store melons is... 1.21 will be for Melon runs what 1.16.1 was for SSG/speed running in general. Autocrafters completely change the run. I mean . Storing whole melons only takes 1/9th the space, and the redstone to supply a loader with shulker boxes crafted on demand from a chest of logs and shells.... The golden age of melon speed runs is coming lol

[@whocares2277]

@@phishphan49 Still not sure about the shulker farm, but crafting the slices to melons is game-changing.

[@Ondium]

It truly shows how entertaining you are because I’m excitedly watching a 40 minute video about Minecraft melon farming

[@hihellowelcome116]

fr

[@RaveCanDrive]

So true

[@hmmm...gamerigess8165]

Same

[@Mediocre_Soup]

and its not even the 10m video

[@lucycpe]

reall

[@Daluba]

2:52 Rekrap never fails to feel hard

[@Enigma-ij1rk]

"I felt so hard so many times bro you don't even know how much I've been practicing"

[@sillymonkeyyy]

@@Enigma-ij1rkthink it’s “failed” but it’s still funny

[@AK_804]

@@sillymonkeyyy he’s kidding

[@nameyname1447]

lmao, it works for his like next 4 sentances

[@oceans6517]

@@Enigma-ij1rkthat’s what I heard 😂

[@foxchorrus9202]

Hi! Found your content recently, just wanted to thank you for all of the work you put in. You seem very genuine and are fun to listen to.

[@washyourhands]

This is great content man, I'm excited to see a full 10m melon video when you hit it!

[@michaelyourboss]

12:06 this clip man, shows how many attempts you have made. You are the most hard working youtuber I know honestly I am jealous of how much dedication you have to complete something you have started, like your speedrunning I was here through your entire journey and I am so proud of you . Anyways you are my favorite youtuber I mean 2nd (after Technoblade) .

[@michaelyourboss]

I would buy you a thanks but i am student and a broke so bye.

[@TrentonCS]

He not a KZbinr anymore bro

[@IAmHoodLarry]

@@TrentonCS wdym not a youtuber anymore? he made this video.

[@user-pp2fh4id8e]

20:40 man just walks by some diamonds. Living the balling life

[@DivyProject]

same i was just about to comment that

[@CBTunesPlays]

That hurt me

[@bigbird4481]

It takes me so long to find diamonds, it's hurts to see him ignore them

[@Just_a_random_username]

Efficientcy baby

[@jonathanlacefield5066]

This is 100% every thing Minecraft is about man, doing wild projects learning the ins and outs of mechanics to create insane videos… you’ll make the 10 mil!!! Seriously your content is always some of my favorite to watch without a doubt

[@CallMeVega]

Really liked the minimal uses of background sound/songs it made the vibe that much more authentic when watching. Had a blast!

[@turdboi420-69]

Not one of the speedruns I expect to see... Melons collected PB is hilarious to think about. I can't imagine the pain you might've gone through any time your run failed... That's A LOT of hardwork man.... I wish I could have had 10% of your dedication, could've been living the best life I imagined

[@slimypuffer]

me either tbh

[@hihellowelcome116]

frrrr

[@Licketer_AH]

#toiletgang

[@penny1672]

not exactly a speedrun if it takes the exact same amount of time every time lol

[@turdboi420-69]

​@@Licketer_AH fellow toilet gang?(ex member)

[@heaaaa9921]

Rekrap casually escaping all the traps on the lifesteal and here he is trapped in an infinite loop of farming melons

[@Jamsalt]

Just goes to show psychological damage is always the most powerful

[@GodzillaGaming14]

@@Jamsaltjust like terrains trap that one time

[@randominfoig]

0:39 I've never heard someone so excited to get lapis

[@Greatgiant19]

ur commentary and videos in general are incredible, no other youtuber could keep me entertained for 40 minutes with melons, Luv u Rek

[@noahsmethers9339]

You got me back into Minecraft but I’m actually enjoying it! Thank you for entertainment and inspiration, love your vids ❤

[@xLeco]

"It's fast and I've to do it for the melons" 22:34 ~Rekrap 2024 💀

[@air15]

y u think about it like that

[@OLLGY69]

33:03 You definitely said "my wife" in that sentence and you can't convince me otherwise

[@zwatotem]

Man is getting too invested 😄

[@DarthVader09410]

I heard it too

[@itromacoder3088]

he did

[@kuwaitigamer6324]

He did 100%

[@Wumple22]

I HEARD THAT TOO

[@PickledPengu1n]

WOW this is incredible! Amazing job and dedication rekrap, the grind is real Also I thought the slip up at 30:23 was funny, I can tell you're mad exhausted XD Keep it up!

[@Triple_Plays1043]

YEAH LETS GOO im so exited for this video i was hopeing you would make an other one thank you so much Rekrap

[@sergej1263]

im liking the vid just for the fence placing at 12:04 holy cow

[@nubble4289]

rek, the mix of your personality and skill makes this so enjoyable to watch, even with only cuts and no music/edits

[@soulnoal]

I freakin love your videos man, just keep continue !!! you're the best !

[@ArsonTheShroom]

dude I got so excited when I saw this - massive farming is one of my favourite things to do in minecraft :D

[@Benw8888]

I love this type of speedrun because it explores the more technical side of minecraft

[@pingudapotato]

now we get him to speedrun a netherite beacon in 100 days 💀

[@epikcracker]

hey rek! i know your probably not going to see this, but i was just wanting to tell you how amazing your content is. even how little you post, ur videos are still able to make me happy every time. take care and keep up the grind

[@mystykgame]

30:24 REK SWORE HOW COULD YOU!!! YOU WERE THE BEST FAMILY FRIENDLY KZbinR

[@DrOynx]

init

[@crab_with_no_legs]

Just imagine, you work out of your mind for several hours, just for all your work to be crushed. Rek is a human, after all.

[@MufffinVR]

his didn’t even mean to say it he misspoke chill out

[@mystykgame]

@@MufffinVR it was a joke bro thats what the 700 exclamation points were for. People need to learn sarcasm

[@mystykgame]

@@crab_with_no_legs Lol it was a joke ofc it was an accident and he fixed it right away

[@NotchArrow]

I saw that exact same cobblestone farm design recently! Glad it helped with this

[@RewEmberwind]

0:23 1st oh my gosh 0:46 2nd oh my gosh 0:47 3rd oh my gosh 0:48 4th oh my gosh 0:58 5th oh my gosh 1:08 6th oh my gosh 1:13 7th oh my gosh 1:20 8th oh my gosh 1:35 9th oh my gosh 1:52 10th oh my gosh 4:02 11th oh my gosh 4:05 12th oh my gosh 8:25 13th oh my gosh 8:32 14th oh my gosh 8:36 15th oh my gosh 8:40 16th oh my gosh 9:20 17th oh my gosh 9:39 18th oh my gosh 10:18 19th oh my gosh 10:24 20th oh my gosh 10:25 21st oh my gosh 10:26 22nd oh my gosh 10:42 23rd oh my gosh 11:02 24th oh my gosh 14:14 25th oh my gosh 16:59 26th oh my gosh 18:35 27th oh my gosh 25:28 28th oh my gosh 34:46 29th oh my gosh 37:10 30th oh my gosh 37:19 31st oh my gosh 37:37 32nd oh my gosh 38:07 33rd oh my gosh 38:34 34th oh my gosh 38:42 35th oh my gosh Thanks to @juliannahotel6929 for pointing out some of the ones I forgor. ;-;

[@RonTheDumb]

@@RewEmberwind bro forgot to switch accounts

[@RewEmberwind]

@@RonTheDumb Lul

[@juliannahotel6929]

you forgot these ones 37:10 30th oh my gosh 37:37 31st oh my gosh 38:07 32nd oh my gosh 37:19 33rd oh my gosh 38:34 34th oh my gosh 38:42 35th oh gosh (does this still count)

[@RewEmberwind]

@@juliannahotel6929 Ah thank you! I'll add those

[@Leaparr]

Keep grinding. I love these melon videos for some reason so I can't wait for you to hit 10mil

[@gengarjuice69]

youre absolutely nuts lol. i loved the "in terms of diamonds, minecraft has gotten too easy" while youre fully kitted and completely stacked after 2-3 days xD

[@Dot_Starshot]

Man u got my respect for your dedication to this challenge! This random challenge has become so big now... GGs!

[@pietertje1176]

Rek’s speedrun knowledge really come’s in clutch in this

[@user-nw9vg5kx3e]

Love your videos reck! You always have great ideas!

[@captain_narthex9550]

YESS THE REDEMPTION ARC BEGINS NOW I THOUGHT FOR SO LONG YOU HAD GIVEN UP ON MELONS you have once again surpassed my expectations and made my day

[@Tidal21st]

Congrats on getting 6,800,000 peanut butter rek! Keep up the amazing content!

[@bravepanda5679]

the effort you put into this is cataclysmic. I think with learning from the failures of this run, you can absolutely complete the challenge on a worse seed

[@Phendet]

I love your new editing style, crazy how you can edit a video of beating the ender dragon into 2 minutes of footage

[@Sibertron1]

I love these melon videos ty for uploading and we all can agree that ur goated

[@Mooffomatic]

even though you think you failed, you did good man!! instead of looking at what you didnt accomplish, looks at what you DID ACCOMPLISH!!! what you did here is IMPRESSIVE!! dont let numbers get you down. i can hear the pain in your voice throughout the video. dont hurt yourself. remember to do challenges that you love, not ones that leave you burnt out. another rekrap2 W.

[@Stubbily]

rekrap1 I love you man! Keep up the good work.

[@GermanSeverin]

rekrap2 *doen't exist*

[@therookie1431]

​@@GermanSeverin My man's the neglected twin

[@slimypuffer]

rek doesn't rap

[@neeraj7b]

Bro he is a bot, no one says rekrap1,they say rekrap

[@TheAsh7]

keep going your almost there good luck man🤑

[@Quidvio]

I love seeing your content because you mix crazy ideas with the actual ability to pull them off because you're a speedrunner and so you know more and can do more than most.

[@JonBonCat]

Dont be too hard on yourself man. This is very epic none the less. This was a great video.

[@MrSnowman838]

Hope you get to 10 mil soon!

[@slimypuffer]

he will own the title melon god

[@EntergeticalakaBot]

Ive never seen a more depressed reaction to a new pb

[@Little_Astronaut]

So cool i love this serie when i saw the video i freaked out of pure excitement 😂❤❤

[@MetafonTV]

rek your movements and decisions are actually insane bro that hotkey to the block to avoid the blaze was sick as hell

[@wiggletonthewise2141]

21:21 ...3 shulker boxes, 2 growing melons, and a partridge in a pair tree

[@hummisman]

I didn’t think you’d get any better at farming MELONS, yet here we are 😂😂

[@Jacobs_mc]

Rekrap you are insane and I love you!! You will get to 10mil one day! Keep up the amazing work!!! 💜

[@shottgum7899]

Another banger of a video that you would never see from any other KZbinr. Good shit mr.rap

[@JurassicFriends]

6.8 Millon? Oh my gosh that is a lot of melons good luck Rek

[@OLLGY69]

You should do a integer melon limit speedrun at one point. No specific amount of days, just try to be as fast as possible. I don't think it would even take THAT long, considering the farm is kinda exponential in a way

[@DianeSteele]

it is absolutely not exponential in any way, it is at best quadratic growth, but he is already hitting tps and chunk loading limits, so realistically it's pretty grim, would take months of unbelievably tedious work

[@OLLGY69]

@@DianeSteele oh shit yeah that's true

[@BeauDaBoi]

16:50 "BOOM BOOM BANG POW, tripwire." We love your commentary rek

[@frozenpods]

this was fun to watch! keep it up 😊

[@TheUnknownPizza]

Video was released 1 minute ago and there is already 13 comments

[@ddank77]

1 more minute and 107 comments now

[@slimypuffer]

128

[@Kenotsus]

Show's how goated rekrap is😎😎😎

[@leonpetrovic9956]

4h later 676 coments

[@hallohoegaathet7182]

Maybe it is worth it to collect less blocks and build a smaller farm but be able to build it earlier and faster making it run for longer. Look if auto crafters can help you make chests or melon blocks (making storage smaller and faster to build). Because building the platforms took so long maybe it is faster to flatten some terrain making you collect dirt for the other platforms and at the same time making the lowest platform.

[@po9m_]

finally:D i was waiting for this for soo long

[@nervmelissa8963]

this video is art and i love it and i love your dedication to this lol :)

[@wombat6]

The grind is impressive, and congrats on the PB. I still think you can reach 10 million. Obviously you made some mistakes in this run but I think that's really not what's important. This challenge is about exponential growth, and what matters with exponential growth is to get started as early as possible. You need to find a way to get the melon harvesting to start earlier. And for example, maybe you can get away with smaller/less farms early on, and then you add/expand your farms later on while some melons are already getting harvested. Another thing, maybe build more layers but smaller ones, to have less issues with render distance, lag, ghost blocks and so on, I dunno if that's an actual fix but expanding vertically instead of horizontally might be worth exploring.

[@zwatotem]

I think the strategy he has right now is actually better. The growth is actually square, not exponential. The tempo the farm can grow at is capped by how fast a single person can expand it, not by how fast it can supply itself with seeds. Horizontal setup requires less infrastructure and is easier to build, so it will be actually easier to start earlier. Any bootstrap setup that you'd want to have in the meantime would have to be compromised on some aspect. If that aspect is automation, you have to manually harvest once in a while, but that'll slow down the other work, and every additional second of work of the big one is worth more than a second of work of the bootstrap one. If it's compromised on size, not automation, you still have to get the redstone, minecarts, chests, slime blocks, hoppers to build it. If you harvest them manually, this will be just too much of a waste of time (especially the slime balls), if automatically - you may as well build the main farm. The one optimization I maybe see is building the first layer manually with the first strip end-to-end working, and then the rest, so that you can populate it with melons right away. But for the rest the supply of seed will quickly outgrow your building abilities.

[@phishphan49]

any sub -optimal farms that aren't the final optimized end game modules would be wasted time - it would always be a better use of time to grind the resources to build the optimal farms that scale in ways that support the "in theory" math. they'll never produce enough to matter end game & the most important time to hit in this challenge is being ahead of building the optimal farms ahead of what the "in theory" spreadsheets say are required to hit the target... the real world rarely goes perfect... being ahead gives a cushion to deal with those things.

[@Nexus-edits]

30:22 Rek swears😂

[@expiall8496]

Exactly 😂

[@boi5275]

Thank for posting. We don't mind that you didn't get it. We just love the content. Also avoiding diamonds in caves is crazy.

[@wiggletonthewise2141]

i was under the impression from the wiki that slime rates were intentionally worse in mangorves, so im glad it worked out for you

[@Themanmanmanman]

Hey rek, just a thought. Wouldn't the melon farm be more efficient if you had a gap of 2 blocks between planted crops instead of 1? This is because they wouldn't be trying to grow melons in the same spot. Just a thought tho

[@NucOps]

I dont think it would work with the iron bars connecting to push the carts, and also I dont think thats how it works it will just put a melon on any open space

[@chicken]

honestly shows how entertaining you are because I’m watching a 40 minute video about Minecraft Melon Farming😂😂

[@imnotabearr]

copied comment of @Ondium also fuck you go away

[@joshuajansenlips1999]

Just made my day seeing you post another melon challenge

[@user-wt4sn9ho5v]

Rek, don’t stress it believe and you got it! Continue with the amazing videos! ❤

[@supergoldenpug]

dont forget sand btw

[@Mugxwara]

Bro is speed running melons and somehow it’s entertaining

[@MonkeyMod]

You know it’s a good day when Rekrap uploads!!!

[@UGNBHSPACE]

Big fan

[@slimypuffer]

really

[@JoonHan-rf8ze]

what is between rek and melons

[@slimypuffer]

he loves melon

[@Keram_urt]

Sorry to hear about your lost run! PLEASE! We want to see this story! Thank you for this amazing video! I just want to see you succeed in this immense challange!

[@NPG_gecko]

I'm always excited when you post 👍❤

[@niznas]

lazarbeam would be proud.

[@Alien0-_-]

1 like = 1 pray for rek

[@nikolazugic6033]

Amen brother❤❤😊❤❤

[@Ryoich1.]

Idk why, but i just enjoy these types of videos I hadn’t watched Relrap’s vids in about 2 months, so i forgot how calm and fun they were to watch

[@snowpandalp853]

Still insane dude, dont beat yourself up too badly you did great 40 Minutes of enjoyment right there

[@sword6813]

I will do 0 pushups for 0 like

[@robot_clusher]

0/0 = infinity

[@sword6813]

Oh shoot I don’t wanna do infinite pushups 😳

[@SleepyHopes]

For ever like this comment gets I will eat One McDonalds Fry

[@GhostJeffy1]

Bros starving

[@Omega_o7]

Eat more

[@the_home_team]

no. excercise

[@alacsonsmth]

69

[@BADrx_fpv]

"Dude, just stop dying" - rekrap 2024

[@bettaking4862]

You are my favorite minecraft youtuber. I am so glad you redid the Mellon challange. I would like to see you try to beat mine craft 100 times in the same world. Or even 50 times in under two days.

[@michalbiernacki1938]

First?

[@_hatb]

yes

[@davidhoover9071]

aww dude I feel so bad like to try and fail 3 times like aahh (I re watched it first saw this video when it came out) when I heard that this video was coming I hoped you would make so sorry man. but alas nothing but respect man the dedication these videos take.... absolutely insane love your content

[@rivaloriginal]

yo rek im sorry if i was late happy birthday man ur the goat of the lifesteal :D

[@mr.tv001]

20:25 this made me realize that the villager before booked it because it took damage and i guess it was still panicking when you let them go sleep and i love that you speed ran the whole process unlike anyone else whose done this

[@wergefert]

16:11 the reason the villager fell of was because he was path finding to the left bed instead of the right one, also i think netherack doesn't count as a full block so when he was pathfinding he fell of because he thought the block was a full one, (mobs will fall of blocks like cloosed trapdoors because they think there full blocks)

[@wergefert]

Also ghost blocks are caused by server lag

[@holddoor6843]

Hey rekrap, good video but i think you can make two blocks of dirt and then two blocks of melon stalks next to each other then modify the harvister because sometimes melons cant grow because there is already a melon there from a different plant.

[@RachitGujarati-cx7cq]

I had to watch rekrap make the waterlogging in 0.25, and still had to watch twice!!! This guy puts in soo much effort. deserves the sub.

[@ashii7459]

I hVE A rly short attention span and the fact I've watched 37 mins of this is honestly shocking. this was rly nicely edited.

[@ForrestC-hs2kc]

Keep up the good work rek :)