Simple Powder Snow & Ice Farms! ▫ Minecraft 1.19 Survival Guide (Tutorial Lets Play) [S2E113]

The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 2 continues!
In this tutorial, we take a short & simple look at how to farm Powder Snow and Ice. Powder Snow can build up in cauldrons in snowy biomes, provided they have open sky above them, while ice can freeze from any water source in the right conditions. Ice can be harvested with Silk Touch, then crafted into Packed Ice and Blue Ice from there.
We'll need some Powder Snow to tackle a 1.19 Froglight farm next week, so this is just laying the foundation for more Wild Update farms!
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[@mintycheddar3854]

Pixlriffs' advice to build simple ice farm trays with wood is well worth heeding. I would further recommend using wood for the floor of the trays as well as the walls. In practice I have found that a high-efficiency silk touch pickaxe quickly cuts through stone floors and walls, forcing me to constantly replace them. Wood blocks are not so easily broken with a pickaxe.

[@Nockess]

I've been quietly watching all three Survival Guide series (and Empires!) pretty much since you first started posting them. I think I've gotten back into Minecraft four separate times (more or less with every other update) because you do an excellent job showcasing new content and what it has to offer. Much appreciation for all the effort you've put in for your audience over the years and it's been a delightful journey with you so far.

[@danigaming_]

Me:empire smp season 2 noises

[@benish3890]

This is only the second season of his survival guide, the first just covers several years of minecraft

[@benish3890]

But I do hope he does more multiplayer, it's always a good time!

[@silverguy1447]

@@benish3890 I think he was talking about the Hardcore Survival Guide as well

[@Nockess]

Actually had originally written two series until I remembered about the Hardcore one as well lol

[@martelastra3680]

I wish you could also demonstrate snow farming in non-cold biomes, it just needs to be built on a certain y-level above the ground for these biomes to snow.

[@norbucso]

Y 160 usually works. Mine is in 1.5 generated chunks. So they form pretty fast. Snow collection is very slow even with 200 cauldrons. But ice is less than 20 minutes.

[@FlakoMC]

Dawg you always got sick vids, keep making em

[@norbucso]

I put the cauldrons over the slabs 1 gap difference. So it's very compact and it collects snow while ice is forming. The same space. Also the side rim around the farm is cauldrons so it's a very neat design.

[@nikos.r]

You can also use powser snow to transform skeletons to strays and this way you can get their drops easily

[@JoelRipke]

Does that work on Java edition or does it require naturally spawned strays?

[@nikos.r]

@@JoelRipke normal skeletons are transformed into strays

[@paulelderson934]

@@JoelRipke This does work on Java edition, any version above 1.17 will do. You can turn a regular skeleton spawner into a stray farm just by putting a powder snow block above their landing block. Keep a one block gap of air in between so their heads are in the powder snow block. They'll turn into strays after a second or two. You can even transport the skeletons through a water stream where their heads are constantly in powder snow before dropping them in a killing chamber.

[@chrisamos1426]

I have found your Minecraft Survival Guide (1 and 2) invaluable to learning this game and being able to enjoy it. I also like that they are small, logically sequenced bites of information rather than the long-term, large projects I watch on Hermitcraft or technical content providers. The Hermitcraft Recap is fun as well--I occasionally see something from Hermits I don't normally follow so your Recap has led me to watching a dozen of them instead of just Tango and Impulse which brought me to that series. So, thank you to for both your efforts and those of your talented Recap team.

[@gamingnscience]

looking forward to your frog light farm design. hoping it will be the Spawner type one.

[@PanteraDeNoche]

I like using stairs for the waterlogged blocks. It has the advantage of the middle of the farm being ice but the disadvantage that it's not a solid block.

[@ahaaas9433]

another great vid pixlriff! i found the motivation to play minecraft again thanks to you :D

[@michaelrsoulsby]

Great video - thanks Pixlriffs

[@AnnariaLavender]

Oh my god, I needed this lmao. Oh and Pix, I've been subscribed to you for over two months now and I'm loving your content! Keep up your work and you'll get more subs!! Have a good day💙💙

[@marccloutier3501]

wow !! I can't to see that ancient city/hollow mountain base progress!!!

[@jairlevy]

ice farms is one of my favorite things to build.. i really like to break them and then wait them to freeze.. i have no use for it! but i like it!

[@norbucso]

This is what I did for the froglight farm. To use the powder snow to shrink the large magma cubes for the little frogs. Step by step I see Pixxl. Well done mate.

[@_Abjuranax_]

Shulkercraft has a design that uses 2 Iron Golems and Iron Chains, instead of Powdered Snow.

[@norbucso]

@@_Abjuranax_ I know. I saw that. It's in a basalt delta on top of the Nether. If you have a treasure bastion like me. 2 actually, then it was obvious I use those for the froglight. It's also a little magma cubes farm. Which is pure nice profit. I mean for me was easier since I discovered those. If you haven't and can r wait you can find a delta and make that design. Still it produce a lot of lights. More than you ever need.

[@lilJerald1]

I love how no matter what I think I know about what the episode is about I always learn something new about minecraft.

[@nikos.r]

Snow Powder is amazing for hidden door bases

[@danigaming_]

And trapz

[@angusthekid4198]

I heard you coming back to Empires season 2. Hope u stay through to the end of season this time.

[@xxxxxwxwxw4037]

😍 do more farming

[@CreateWithBhavya]

As you are seeing so much of skulk catalyst i can imagine the warden farm in 1-2 weeks

[@Kidmasters]

lovely content

[@nikos.r]

What is the difference between, simulation distance, render distance, entiry rendering distance and the 128 block active chunk rule

[@rahmatdarman203]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWfIiqVvodB-ldU It's a video of pix explaining how this works

[@ranie7350]

Simulation distance is how far away (most) things can happen, render distance is how far you can see, entity* distance is how far away entitys will be wisible, and the 128 block rule: idk, maybe someone else can answer.

[@nikos.r]

@@ranie7350 yes that's is where I get confused. (I misspelled the entity)

[@craigds3745]

@@ranie7350 Mobs more than 128 blocks away despawn.

[@nikos.r]

@@craigds3745 Yes but Pix also mentioned that if he is inside a 128 block radius of the cauldrons they will fill

[@TenkoBerry]

This is good 👍

[@slawomirdors9764]

@Pixlriffs Are you planning to make an episode on farming shulkers by any chance? In season 1 you transported them back to the spawn, I remember, but in that version of the game, they didn't duplicate yet.

[@Pixlriffs]

Eventually, yes, we'll probably make a shulker shell farm. :)

[@NoOneYT1]

Powered snow can be used to get rid of blazes

[@mineralnoodles]

pix, opinions on the new report system?

[@Loadarine]

This may aswell become a redstone farming series, theres not much building happening

[@Tattygoldfish35]

What happened to the rtx survival?

[@Pixlriffs]

It was a sponsored series, so it was always intended to be short. I mostly just wanted to play around and see what the RTX lighting was capable of, but I didn’t see the need to keep that series running alongside all the other stuff I’m doing.

[@mintycheddar3854]

@@Pixlriffs Earlier this year I was inspired by Pixlriffs' RTX series to give it a try myself, and spent a week experimenting with it in a survival world. I tried several different RTX resource packs and found very few that were complete or nearly so. I enjoyed the optional bump mapping effects and many of the lighting effects but there were also some effects that I did not like. Ore blocks were less impressive than I had hoped, metallic blocks were so reflective they almost looked invisible, and simulated refractive effects in water were not quite right. Ultimately I gave up on it because it consistently gave me headaches. I am prone to migraines and RTX effects turned out to be a trigger for that. So, be forewarned, if your rig can support RTX and you give it a try, you will find much to enjoy, but there are downsides to it. Overall, my impression is that RTX and RTX resource packs need more work to be fully enjoyable in survival worlds.

[@DvirMC]

You can harvest powder snow from mountain biomes while waiting for the powder snow in the cauldron to fill up!!

[@luolul1769]

How?

[@DvirMC]

@@luolul1769 with a bucket of course!

[@lycheejj3929]

Can you teach me how to create an automated root farm

[@aryamehendale9925]

Hey Pix! Story plot suggestion for Empires 2: Gemity Tay burried the gem in which Xornoth was trapped. But he somehow got out of it and found himself in an underground civilisation where he was being treated. The people there were curing him as they thought he was some sacred being and he would protect them. But they didn't know what hit them. They made him stronger with spells and potions but then Xornoth betrayed them and killed them all. He didn't even let their souls rest in peace. He trapped all of them inside him and that's how Xornoth was reborn as The Warden. He had one weakness though...he was blind. Then he started to currupt the area. He set various traps there so he would know when anybody visits. He's still there.... Waiting for the emperors....

[@gamingnscience]

But fwhip has banned Xornoth from the server entirely now as the system admin. No longer a problem. XD

[@aryamehendale9925]

@@gamingnscience Ohh... Um... Didn't know that😅😅

[@_duane_joshua]

Is there any way you could automate this farm? It'll be way more efficient that way

[@Pixlriffs]

Dispensers can’t collect stuff from cauldrons, so the only way to automate it is to have a player continuously right-clicking with buckets, and either have the player being pushed around by water streams or riding a minecart, or using a piston feed tape to move the cauldrons around. Possible, just not wholly necessary for how much powder snow I want, and the farm would only work while it was raining/snowing

[@_duane_joshua]

@@Pixlriffs yeah considering those facts, I think automating it even if its possible would be impractical

[@norbucso]

On bedrock they can be automated. But on java not yet. I mean automate cauldrons.

[@Korre84]

I wish you could put a cauldron on top of a hopper

[@fixarsfix1206]

make a white dragon with that "blue ice" to make blue ice white dragon. *PUN

[@joseantoniogomezrodriguez1724]

water on cold biomes should givew the "frozen" effect like powered snow

[@wesleyclymer9026]

does the ice farm work on bedrock or am I doing it wrong?

[@tonystark3560]

Is it an armour stand 3:50

[@shadow325lone]

I can't help but thinking about Pixl's song while watching this lol

[@nathanbrittain3595]

@Pixlriffs could you make a terraforming video next, as this would help me a lot. Thanks

[@arandomguywithagreenprofil5075]

He did alot of those

[@Faesharlyn]

There are half a dozen in the playlists, all worth watching for the little tips and tricks he mentions while he's building

[@gerardosoto7067]

Hey Pix, Bruno and I have a dilemma, Bruno says they dont but I think frog lights have a funny smell... considering where they come from hahaha. What do you think?

[@ryanfang97]

Hi Pixlriffs, can you do a video on the new 1.19.1 java ban system? The new ban system allows Mojang to completely ban players from playing in any online multiplayer server if they violate Mojang (really Microsoft's) rules. This is absolutely ridiculous. Players should be able to do whatever they want no matter how offensive in the game, and it shouldn't be up to Microsoft to determine what is allowed. It should be up to individual server owners. Since you have a big voice I think you're views will have more resonance with the Mojang dev team.

[@jackpig183]

Using Frost Walker boots on that ice farm design would also make it much faster right? Then you wouldn't have to wait for the water to freeze

[@Pixlriffs]

Ice created by Frost Walker can't be harvested (at least, not on Java Edition). It's actually a totally different, unobtainable block called 'frosted ice'.

[@jackpig183]

@@Pixlriffs wow didn't know that! Is it obtainable in creative?

[@dtslawyer6970]

@@jackpig183 If you use inventory editing, probably. But otherwise not really

[@layanmalik667]

how did the episode finish so fast lol

[@gregoryroberts3132]

🥔👍

[@pushpapai9217]

Hey pix , we all want you to be an active member of Empires season 2 mate , don't give it the backseat again.

[@biryanilover7147]

He said he will join Empires Season 2, don't know what you mean.

[@Broomy818]

13tn

[@AhrarOfficial3]

112 no. View

[@haydencisneros3521]

Dawg you always got sick vids, keep making em

[@chitusminecraft]

I heard you coming back to Empires season 2. Hope u stay through to the end of season this time.