They Just Secretly Added AUTOMATIC MINING To Minecraft! (biggest update ever)

[@jaymieparker9323]

You can use allays on a campfire. They regenerate faster than they take damage.

[@wattlesplays]

THANK YOU

[@mattpolz3418]

I know they're just code but I can't tell if that's hypothetically more ethical or less ethical. Infinite torture sounds like hell to me lol.

[@claytonsteckel]

​@@mattpolz3418It's a bunch of pixels on a screen. They're not real so morality has no place in it. Of course it's your choice but nobody thinks it's actual toture.

[@Cass0wary_399]

@@mattpolz3418Iron farms runs on the the fear of villagers and deaths of iron golems. Other conventional mob based farms are just outright mass death machines. World eaters are literally meant to wipe entire chunks off the map. A lot of player built contraptions are unethical. If you want to play ethically you’d have to never build any mob farms for their loots.

[@matthewlofton8465]

what about witches? I dunno if it's still the case but in the past witches could outheal the damage taken from magma blocks (assuming they cannot also outheal campfires), so that would remove the need to heal your mobs from time to time. Witches can also toss poison, so that could trigger the silverfish mining below without having to have a brewer setup or a buffer chest preloaded. One obstacle I can see is that the silverfish will wander too far (which is fine for later when you move the farm but not so optimal when you're trying to clear blocks). Slimeblock machines tend to be notoriously unreliable with respect to entities, but perhaps you could move the farm around that way to keep the miners busy. The player will need to generate player-damage without also killing the mob, for that you could probably use an autoclicker swording an armorstand. This will trigger a sweeping edge attack from time to time and because the sword is not enchanted with Sweeping Edge enchants the damage these base sweeping attacks do is always 1 point. Add a sword-autocrafter and you don't need to waste more valuable materials on better weapons.

[@KingJojoB]

Minecraft has been on a roll with these W updates

[@wattlesplays]

RIGHT?!

[@bapugouda2335]

U can use magma block for damage​@@wattlesplays

[@RandomDuckyGuy]

only 2 replies? lemem fix dat

[@Memessssss]

Facts

[@matthewlofton8465]

Etho was doing this when silverfish spawners were first added to the game. He figured out how to store silverfish for later, as well as how to move them around.

[@ILootStandingStill]

I vividly remember watching those episodes lol, made me never want to mess with silver fish to this day 😂

[@3styleat]

ye but you cant displace spawners no more. Luckily i got one directly next to an ender portal, so ill try to make a farm that pushes them to the other side

[@jimg6391]

@@3styleat he didn't displace the spawner, he made cubes of infected stone and then had them chase him.

[@matheusmunizduarte]

We have strip mining, crawling, caving, mountaineering, moss-mining, X-ray on bedrock, night vision, doors (for aquifer/underwater mining), TNTs, beds for Nether, crazy redstone contraptions . And now the new way of mining: silverfish poisoning!

[@thomasaitken7495]

🤣

[@sanelmuric5534]

Try making that auto mining machine in your survival world

[@chinesefood3165]

Instead of armadillos you can shove allays onto the campfires and set up a three dispenser system, one with potion of infestation, one with a flint and steel to light the campfire, amd one with water to extinguish the campfire when not using. Just put allays in a hole above tje campfire and use pistons to push them down u til they are merged with the campfires basically, amd because allays have regenerative capabilities they should never die, and also you can dupe the allays with amethyst

[@cyruswarr1192]

what about using a wither rose? no added fire starting/stopping

[@OddWorlderer]

​@@cyruswarr1192allays regenerate faster than taking damage from campfire, wither rose, I have no idea.

[@cyruswarr1192]

@@OddWorlderer this technique was demonstrated in another KZbin series.. think of hermits playing Minecraft. An Xp farm was made combing bunches of allays, boats, infected potion and a ton of poor silverfish lol

[@Angel-2-7-]

As a Silverfish enjoyer, I'm glad that my favorite hostile mob is getting the spotlight for once :)

[@Laiminoi]

Ain't no way bro admitting to liking the silverfish hell naw bro 💀

[@AlexPlaysStuff-games]

@@Laiminoi I mean to be fair it's one of the more creative mobs compared to others.

[@Laiminoi]

@@AlexPlaysStuff-games no amount of creativity finna make me like the silverfish,shits annoying af

[@nicholaspizzalato4526]

Your favorite mob is dying And you're excited!?!!?!!

[@Angel-2-7-]

@@nicholaspizzalato4526 dying? All i see here is a way to get infinite silverfish, it's way better than when it could go extinct by destroying the spawner in the stronghold, and even though most players are going to use this for mining (therefore hurting the silverfish), I'm going to have the best defense mechanism for my bases now that I make an infested stone farm (also I might get a bunch of them as pets)

[@andrewnichols8472]

Mojang has got to make silverfish be able to infest the rest of the stone type blocks, imagine doing this to find ancient debris or set up an end island trap that causes the entire island to just disintegrate beneath your feet...

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

At this rate they might go to stone brick ALONE...and not any sort of natural stone. Which...I'm fine with.

[@Scugzerker]

And if you're willing to build this setup, might as well make a splash regen potion to patch up your armadillos after some time. Better to be safe than sorry. It's easier than one of those flying bombardment machines.

[@wattlesplays]

YES!! SMART

[@EGJMoorington]

The damage reduction applied by being rolled up means they take 0 damage, so no need for that.

[@NetheriteBunny]

@@EGJMoorington just in case of entity cramming or some other known reason - its unlikely, but if it runs for too long they could die

[@Planetmango48]

Yes.

[@keithtwombley]

You could use Allays instead of armadillos. No need for a nearby zombie and they are bulletproof.

[@B3NJY_NLA]

Now that's quite the way to grief my friend's cave base 👀

[@cyruswarr1192]

ohhh yes.. this is excellent idea for shenanigans

[@wattlesplays]

you’re evil!

[@Nobody-jo3tv]

stony peaks work too

[@lukusblack6442]

Two issues arise. The first is, when they've eaten away enough floor, the drop becomes insta-death to newcomers. I'd keep the contraption around floor level. The second is, once you've used this, you've got a ton of silverfish to kill. A possibly fix would be a water block just under the fire. Once the floor is lower, it will spill around creating a drop they can survive. Once it the floor is down far enough there should be enough water to drown a good portion of them for an easier cleanup.

[@darius-m3p]

Id love to see them add grass slabs

[@BrennonHinckley]

Unnecessary but okay

[@Not_An_EV]

​@@BrennonHinckley lots of blocks they add are unnecessary what's your point?

[@therealtailsprower]

better than wolves real

[@savage.4.24]

Nothing is better than the wolf lol. Keep a pack on leashes in your base and double door it ...nothing will survive getting in😂​@@therealtailsprower

[@BrennonHinckley]

@Not_An_EV just saying unnecessary, don't overthink it

[@AnthonyKellyYip]

As someone who's met a silverfish or two IRL, the raining silverfish here look horrific 😂 In an uninfestable room, torrential silverfish would make a great trap

[@peixeesquisitomk]

Most of the autominers that I've seen use allays holding items

[@wattlesplays]

I did not think of that!!

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

@@wattlesplays Witches will also work! In fact, now that I think about it, I wonder if there's a way to harness the infinite potions of poison witches have?

[@cyruswarr1192]

@@wattlesplays yea this is the first ive seen this mechanic used for mining... there needs to be a great exploit here... what i have seen is allays and this combined for an xp farm... absolutely stupid returns haha

[@EGJMoorington]

​@@Finity_twenty_tenThere is! You just need some bubble columns between the witch and its target (a player, for example. It won't only throw poison potions, but that shouldn't be an issue.

[@fafuo]

​@@EGJMooringtondo witches throw harming potions at entities that arent poisoned? Cuz there might be a problem if they do. Also, how would you use those potions without them breaking?

[@chinesefood3165]

They are for mining and also allay xp farms now.

[@Nevir202]

Wild that he built this whole cursed thing, and managed to find a grand total of 1 diamond ore lol

[@bronsoncarder2491]

Even more wild that there were two on the wall behind him. Meaning that this farm is demonstrably less effective than just... turning around and mining the diamonds right in front of you. lol

[@julian8643]

it would be better if you'd do the bug with the witch (that would infinitely throw regeneration potions to illagers) then have the armadillos block the potion so it will infinitely regen

[@brandonthegrey]

Why not just use the allay and a wither rose?

[@wattlesplays]

Omg genius

[@cyruswarr1192]

yup.... first i saw of the combo was from docm77.. another youtube series contributor........... but his was for xp... this mining thing is very neat and using game mechanics to do what creative mode commands can do is very cool ie: all stone here needs to disappear haha

[@mrsduck_man]

​@wattlesplays Heya, there are a few 1.21 silverfish XP farms, most which use allays & reg campfires (soul campfires outpase allay's regen), you could probs make an augmented version of a silverfish farm which drops the silverfish into the area you would want to clear, then have a silverfish on the side with an extended poison 1 potion

[@ryanpiotr1929]

That sounds very cruel.

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

​@@mrsduck_mani didn't know soul campfires were stronger.

[@PickleNugget-tk6bw]

You could put lingering potions down to make the poison more automatic (after a straight drop for silver fish)

[@robertwolfgan]

I never ever ever thought of automatic mining using potions on a mob that mines for me. This is perfect

[@ShrekRock]

Minecraft’s updates keep getting better and better, what’s next?

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

I'm sorry, how is this "better"? This just looks like, "play the game enough to basically never have to actually play the game again." That's trash game design.

[@Im_PG_]

Yeah use allays bc they regenerate fast OR use the witch healer, where you have like 20 witches and a pillager with under 3 hearts, then make a water stream with soul sand to catch the healing potions that the witches throw at the pillager to heal the armadillos OR use tnt flying machines to mine even faster automatically.

[@Karmasu_L]

Sounds like like a great way to get swarmed by silverfish.

[@Trident_Gaming03]

Even better than the armadillo for infinite damage is the allay You just put it in a water block, it out-heals the drowning damage, no mob to scare it is needed, and the water is resettable

[@jadegroot7455]

Idea to get past the poison potion issue, if you set up a box (maybe 4x4) under the armadillo to catch the silverfish it could let it fill for 30 seconds or so and have a timer to automatically dispense a splash potion and simultaneously open up the bottom with a redstone contraption so it's dropping a batch of poisoned silverfish every 30 seconds or so???

[@paulminor4707]

you can automate the poison as well. have a piston push a single clean stone under the funnel an collect the silverfish. on the same timer as the infestation potion, ideally a bit before, throw a poison pot with a dispenser on the silverfish. the stone will get broken and the poisoned silverfish fall down. wait 2 seconds, push another stone into place, wait another second and throw the infestation pot. repeat on a timer that is maybe 10s longer than the infestaton potion duration

[@isaacstyles92]

Wow! How outside the box. Was fun watching you figure out how to do it

[@DragInit0642]

I was about to sleep, and this vid pops out😐

[@FriendlyCynic]

Neat trick. Do this in survival and Ill be impressed.

[@CapObv]

Would a snowball trigger the infestation? What if you had a bunch of snowmen trying to hit the zombie, but they hit the armadillos? Would they hit all at once or one at a time?

[@robloxdev2869]

Wattles: dont look it up 1:38 Me: *proceeds to look up immediately*

[@VincentVanJoYT]

i once found an actual silverfish in my room. i panicked and i crushed it with my bare hands

[@NetheriteBunny]

*shiver *shiver

[@bluejayofevil]

Magma blocks can also be placed to reduce to the need for poison potions. Much easier to craft/obtain than brewing tons of poison potions. I've found you can also modify this to work as a turbo-charged sculk mining method by having the silverfish die to a nearby damage source (e.g. magma blocks, campfires, wither roses) and have a sculk catalyst convert blocks immune to infestation turn into sculk (except ores.) This works in all 3 dimensions but shines especially well in the *basalt deltas* in the nether, which opens that biome up to easier and more efficient ancient debris mining. Just grab a hoe with Efficiency 5 and Mending (Silk Touch is not recommended) and clear the sculk away as newly exposed blocks get converted. Seeing how much more compact the armadillo method is when the silverfish get trapped in the campfire with it gives me some ideas for more efficient and space-friendly improvements. I'll have to test that out soon. To think Etho was _12 years_ ahead of his time in seeing the potential silverfish had for mining. 1.21 brought that method back with a vengeance.

[@Spikeba11]

Allays also work well as they have passive regen that beats a bunch of damage source. There are also some setups that witches should health potion their way through.

[@TheBohobemeister]

Wonderful video as always!

[@Isawadigitalferrari]

The allay and slow drowning technique is a more effective spawning method, as it pushes the silverfish away while simultaneously damaging the allay. I originally saw this method used in a slime farm, but it's fascinating to see that, with some modifications, it could also be applied for automatic mining.

[@johnex2154]

Now you just need automatic breeding, a way to detect when theres three armadillos, drop the extra one safely into the chamber, setup a timer for the 2 potions using redstone, and before you know it your whole underground is gone

[@NWOHIO77]

Love this new format! Would you like to see some condensed long play challenge stuff. Especially the zombie horde mod

[@AidanheGreat]

What is this 1800s America looking ahhh industrial expansion

[@ActionBob]

Automating the poison pots is how you limit the size of the mine, you can strip mine straight down because the only time that silverfish are going to keep eating is when they are poisoned, any that travel outside of the range of the poison won't continue mining.

[@ftab]

Finally something scratches the itch I've had ever since beacon mining was nerfed with deepslate. Silverfish mining is the new beacon mining. Can't wait to see what people do with this stuff.

[@BSEUNHIR]

If you can have the spewing out of silverfish more contained, a lingering poison potion might be able to apply to a lot of silverfish, increasing efficiency and reducing effort

[@RandomPhantom-bo8rn]

Wattles: -especialy if you know what it looks like in real life (don't look it up) Me: *instantly searches it up* *gets tramatized*

[@BUDA20]

I only care about all that infested slime that can came out of those, is an infinite slime factory

[@Nova.Series]

You can drop armour with prot 4 to villagers

[@harrycooke4699]

Very cool! Difficult to see the silverfish really removing massive amounts of blocks, but I wonder if this might be a good approach to sculk conversion mining with a sculk catalyst

[@conradwheeler68]

box them in with a wooden fence so they can't spread out too far, then they'll just go down and be easier to manage them. sort of like a bonemeal/moss mining. Once the pit is made, they'll just go down until they find bedrock or lava

[@soumyadiptadandapat2395]

You cant clean the silverfish after they are finished instead you die trying.

[@xalxika]

dump a bucket of lava and let it wash over them

[@NetheriteBunny]

I should be doing maths homework (due in 18 hours) but... this is so cooL!

[@That3th3]

Silverfish are an incredible exp farm and the only downside was the spawning rates of them. But with a silverfish farm like this, you could get an incredible amount of exp at once with a single sweeping mending sword.

[@Levee-kx6ul]

A way to make thi semi automatic/afk-able is to have a restone clock that goes in to a dispenser every so often to distrubute poison. Maybe firing at silver fish coming right out of the damage chamber. And then to make sure aramadillos never die, a similar restone clock could dispense healing potions

[@MomoDriller]

I agree I also think swarms and swarms of insects is a beautiful sight

[@robikkupegasus7039]

Somewhere Captainsparklez is shuddering unwittingly.

[@Gilly2020]

Shout out Neisn made a video about this ages ago!

[@bjrnbrekke9626]

I think minecraft should add grizzly bears because the only bears in minecraft is polar bear and panda

[@Zutanni]

Allays have regeneration also make a good candidate for the silverfish spawners and don't require a secondary mob.

[@coledavidson5630]

With potion of oozing and auto crafters it should be possible to make a fully automatic slime farm with any mob. No more being limited to slime chunks or hostile entity spawn caps. No clue if it would actually be worth doing but hey it should be possible now

[@stretchmtsa5106]

As someone who loves to build with deepslate, this is painful to watch, all that glorious deepslate being destroyed like that...

[@wattlesplays]

i do feel your pain too

[@DouglasWeaver-j5v]

Blackstone's better.

[@gigachad416]

Also you can throw regeneration potions along with the poison so the silverfish will take damage indefinitely

[@Babooshka47]

Imo they should make a workstation that can make every block into a slab. And also allow 2 different types of slabs on each other. Would allow for so much more detailing in every build

[@wesleyclymer9026]

If you want a more hands on approach then you could go in with wood blocks and hit them yourself. Splash potions of harming would also be great for containment.

[@CrystalFier]

5:09 this is a lot easier with a couple boated allays! Not only do they have a good amount of health, but they heal themselves.

[@IceMetalPunk]

I think maybe wattles has misunderstood why people mine for a long time...

[@trevors.5922]

3:21 when this feat was brought up to the devs wayback when, they actually decided to buff it. This was to make the silverfish trap the player initially made using poison potions in dispensers and infested stone. I wish I could remember the video Im oretty sure Paulsoaresjr or Sethbling Edit: it was Ethoslab

[@cyruswarr1192]

i cant imagine trying to clear all those hell beasts to collect all of the exposed ore... neat idea though

[@pixies64]

lava

[@damonhicks969]

drop an iron golem or two on em

[@jeppy4021]

I wonder if termites would behave the same but with wood if it had chosen

[@Neowarshark]

The only thing I remember about silverfish watch out for armor durability they chew threw armor and stand somewhere safe if one flings in your direction, it might push you off. xD

[@darkbooger]

Somebody did this with silverfish around 8 or so years ago. They were way ahead of their time.

[@emiliaperkins]

Since you're going to be making splash poison anyways, could you poison the armadillo instead of using the campfire? That should damage it without killing it. Then you could potentially infest any mob.

[@GamerShyUncut]

Correction: The armadillo actually does take 0 damage. Using a mod that shows health down to 0.01 of a health point, they take absolute 0 damage by all calculation. This is infinite.

[@RisedSky]

You can use Alay to have infinite damage to spawn Silverfish, its the best farming xp ever, 30 lvl in 2min

[@SocialBubblia]

"This is a secret mechanic that has been in the game for a really long time." A secret mechanic that i knew about for many years? A secret mechanic that is literally in the MINECRAFT OFFICIAL HANDBOOKS?

[@KekPafrany]

Why is this better than using allays? They regenerate fast so they don't die either, and you can breed them even when there is only one of them at hand. And they don't need a zombie.

[@starryagent9936]

Another strategy: the Allay regenerates health automatically if it takes damage. So that’s also a viable option if you don’t live near a savanna or badlands biome, but have access to a woodland mansion or outpost

[@wattlesplays]

genius

[@Jbait]

warden with a bell and campfire sounds like it'd work

[@Aleixus]

Quick question, you do this how are you supposed to remove the silver fish? Or is it just a massive lag zone?

[@michaelcherokee8906]

Pandora's Box has been opened, and nobody is gonna be able to put a lid back on it now.

[@BreakingRadOfficial]

This is awesome! Now they need to make Netherack investable…

[@Clashhass]

Use an alay instead of the armidillo cause it regens

[@imagine8959]

You can make 4 chutes for silverfish to fall down and how water at the bottom of each to break their fall. Then you can make a dispenser that spews lingering poison potion at the bottom of the chutes guaranteeing that every silverfish that falls down gets splashed.

[@hhff8534]

Not gonna work. Lingering potions can affect max 5 mobs

[@imagine8959]

@@hhff8534 huh I had no idea (kinda stupid ngl)

[@clarkmeyer7211]

Seems like it would pair well with explosive mining by doing that first and then using silver fish to mine after. The set up for this would be too much work for what's supposed to be an easy return. It's an awesome concept but it's going to need refining.

[@DiMarcoMario]

What if you replace the campfire with a slab and make them take entity cramming damage? If they dont die from that it should be more efficent. Like 99999999999 armadillos should make the work really fast. But you will need a good computer for that too.

[@CharmainDesrosiers-qf4mn]

Hi I'm Robert I'm using my mom's phone right now. bra Mojang should make it so silverfish can infect the regular versions and make them the infected versions cuz that's the whole thing is if they can't infect the regular versions well how did the infected versions come into existence see what I mean so there should be no such thing as the infected version or at least the infected version should just be what it's called when a silverfish is currently in it. But maybe Mojang just doesn't care about the law or what would make sense.

[@RetroTerrestrial]

Using armadillos instead of allays is good because it works in both versions

[@ryanb33n]

So how do you get rid of the silver fish after?

[@incognitogaming6180]

Couldn't you just use a witch and have the witch on some sort of like auto dmger that wouldn't be able to be counteracted by the witch using potions. I say that since the witch can use a health potion to heal. Unless the armadillo is just truly unkillable when used in that kind of scenario.

[@ultimate_pleb]

Ahhh the sound of Tartarus! Truly music to my ears Is what i would say if they weren't bleeding right now I wonder why that is?

[@claytonsteckel]

Instead of armadillos, use allays. They don't need to be scared and have regeneration. No need for a zombie and they'll virtually never die from damage.

[@cypYTofficial]

I looked up the silverfish

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

If you want to, a witch or an allay (which both heal themselves really quickly) will also work.

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

You might have to change the design for the witch version because there's a chance that a witch might use a potion of fire resistance. (warden or zoglin maybe?)

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

Fun fact, witches are so good at healing that they can survive a warden's sonic boom.

[@wattlesplays]

wow! i didnt realize that about the warden and witch! thats super cool

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

@@wattlesplays Maybe not a warden, though. Not only would it be killing all the silverfish, it's gonna be kinda annoying (and deadly) to get it into a position where it can damage a witch, also even if you get it into position, the warden's still going to be targeting you, it's also gonna be much slower, wardens do sonic booms much slower, and melee attacks will just kill the witch. So a zoglin would be better, or even a Johnny vindicator might work.

[@JasonAura]

Can you think of a way to use a snowman? Their snowballs don’t cause that much dmg

[@linktothepast2432]

Now you need to descend into the silver fish pit to mine those diamonds

[@jackfrost2692]

This just screams surface to bedrock quarry. Take some time to replace all four edges with Anti silverfish blocks in advance and they could dig a whole chunk out. Just have the poison dropped from the surface on the same timer as the one that drops the potion on the armadillos.

I feel like this might be easy enough that someone might actually do it, but annoying enough to setup that it won't be OP. So I hope they don't patch it out.

[@bolchinsky]

i would love to see it on survival to see the precautions to take XD

[@jenniferfahnestock450]

That was horrifying. The noise!

[@iTzMangoJR]

It's pretty interesting, but the amount of time it would take to collect materials and make both poison potions and infest potions, lure an undead mob, find and lure that many armadillos, make the enclosures and get everything set up...I could find enough diamonds manually to never need this contraption in the same amount of time lol

[@IamGrief887]

Very cool, but I think I will stick with moss farming. Bone meal is an end in itself.

[@Caffin8tor]

Does poison from witches not work for this? If so, it should be possible to set up a farm where a witch is being provoked to throw potions and those potions are being captured by a water stream or something.

[@Ethan_Cubed]

funny how people are still discovering this. i saw a video about on the day the potion snapshot was released