Using Withers To Gather Ancient Debris Automatically - With Dry Tunnel!

[@wesleychen4408]

This might be one of the most exciting things to come out of the 1.19 updates even though it isn’t 1.19 specific. Just the fact that the movable wither cage was theorized in 1.19 was enough to spark this massive innovation that was hiding just below the surface. Incredible work ilmango!

[@randomhardcoreplayer2096]

It isn't 1.19 exclusive?????

[@illliiiiillliii6265]

@@randomhardcoreplayer2096 yep the only things needed to make this compact movable wither cage was honey. You could make it in 1.15. The second part that turns all the lava around the tunnel to basalt does require the nether update(1.16) because basalt didn't exist before that. On a side note the only reason honey is used is because it can move the chicken in a minecart on top of it. It might be possible to make it without honey. I haven't played around with wither cages so i cant confirm for sure. Funny that stuff like this was possible for years but people didn't realize it, makes me nostalgic to the times when the first quarries were theorized :).

[@randomhardcoreplayer2096]

@@illliiiiillliii6265 sadly it only works on easy I'm a hardcore world

[@TheRussell747]

@@randomhardcoreplayer2096 it'd be pretty stupid to do in hard-core anyways. The risk wouldn't at all be worth it

[@randomhardcoreplayer2096]

@@TheRussell747 true tunnel bore might be better in this case

[@docm77]

Yo Li mango, can you add a bridge maker? Lol

[@Yasser-444]

no

[@Teddy0567]

This video must scare you, just like you scared me with the wither cages in season 8. I liked your motivational speech at the end of it tho, made me get up and do what I was dreading. thanks for that!

[@GregHamblin]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned it before!

[@marvinlemmer9733]

this guy again. Why dont you shadow make a bridge

[@BS-bd4xo]

"Li mango" Nice

[@CptBarbarosa]

I'm trying to picture the profound confusion a denizen of the Nether would have seeing this. A handful of the most devastating creatures of legend strapped thrashing in torment to a massive machine comes plowing by, leaving a perfect bore in its wake. A while later, alien creatures are following it and placing down infrastructure with a squirrel looking on muttering about further optimizations.

[@greatestyoutuber]

first time i have seen someone use denizen in non professional situations

[@bailey125]

@@greatestyoutuber Shhh!! He's got his thesaurus in front of him, let him play as a linguist for a little while longer.

[@ambiguousduck2333]

@@bailey125 is denizen that uncommon for you? I find that it's used rather often in swords&magic fantasy fiction quite often. Considering how he's using the word it honestly seems pretty typical.

[@kristofladanyi3671]

Just imagine Technoblade seeing it and reconsider how much is his life worth.

[@starblaiz1986]

And all of a sudden, we realise the horrifying truth: Minecraft is actually set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe! XD

[@Slackow]

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in minecraft, I would've never thought something remotely like this would be possible in vanilla 5 years ago

[@canadianfalcon3160]

minecraft powercreep lol

[@Fslreal]

5 year Ago you Wollens Even Belive netherrite

[@Nanamowa]

It's not. You can't make a machine like this in vanilla survival in the nether.

[@Slackow]

@@Nanamowa why not?

[@Slackow]

@@Nanamowa it doesn't use reinforced deep slate, that block being pushable is where the idea came from but is not needed to make this, all you need is to be on easy difficulty.

[@Alrik.]

Very nice that you made it "dry" now, the lava spilling everywhere didn't look great before

[@justinbchen]

I thought he meant the machine requires a dry tunnel, and was shocked to see that it was the other way around

[@RubyPiec]

I thought he meant the tunnel has no water so its not wet

[@danielanderson5806]

@@RubyPiec waters not wet

[@vahgarimo9864]

@@danielanderson5806 yes, but the tunnel having water would make the tunnel wet

[@marcd7332]

@@vahgarimo9864 There's no water in the Nether

[@CCheukKa]

This is it. This is where we have officially conquered Minecraft, to have equated the most fearsome boss to nothing more than a factory worker.

[@web4639]

Not even a worker. A cog.

[@Joe_Monkey_Rogan]

Hope it doesn’t unionize lol

[@ilmango]

I don't get why people keep saying I should make a bridge at the end of the machine. It's actually frustrating at this point xD You need lava to make basalt or stone, but you can't move lava without a player in java edition. The only way you could move lava is by collecting lava with a bucket and placing it again. But it would take too long for the lava to spread to keep up with the rest of the machine and it's kinda inconvenient since the whole machine is automated, but you'd still need a player placing the lava manually. One way to get this to work would be introducing movable dispensers, like in bedrock edition, but as long as we don't have that in java it's not something you can just easily pull off. edit: I might make a bridge at the end just to satisfy people :) But it requires a mod that makes it possible to move dispensers. here's a video I made a while ago showing the concept: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6XZfJuVoallZ6s

[@raezad]

tutorial for this?

[@m1.r0_bot]

pps be like: just lava lock your wooden stairs and create infinite lava source lol XD

[@vassowned7768]

Make it in bedrock then i challenge you bet you cant

[@ilmango]

@@vassowned7768 pretty sure the wither is too different in bedrock edition to make it work

[@gabrielsalahi3656]

YoU sHoUlD mAkE a BrIdGe At ThE eNd Of ThE mAcHiNe

[@gluestix17]

would love to see this at the bottom of the nether so we could see just how much debris it can collect

[@Cyberguy42]

In the previous wither tunnel bore video, Ilmango commented that gravel was the only thing that could break the machine, so it needs to be built higher up

[@nzgrover.]

debris spawn at all y levels btw, its just more common lower down

[@AnEnderNon]

@@Cyberguy42 i mean, you could stagger a bunch of wither diggers to break gravel from the top down

[@cooper.quinlivan]

@See, the thing is what if the machine was staggered from y41 to y0. It would be absolutely massive and probably not worth the time but it could work and proof of concept you could just clone the machine in creative

[@bjosey855]

Could you just replicate the machine multuple times from the nether roof to the bottom, and have the top ones go off quicker than the bottom ones to wipe the gravel away?

[@arial_01]

Wow, blew me away as all ways. This is the first one I can actually see myself building, because of the liquid removal. Nice job mango!

[@GreatWhiteElf]

By far the most advanced tunnel bore machine I've ever seen. Although Getting all the withers in place is probably very tedious and difficult, unless there's an easy way I don't know about (probably).

[@treemallow757]

just spawn them in the cage?

[@bruhlol8530]

@@treemallow757 yeah and they’ll surely not explode

[@BS-bd4xo]

@@bruhlol8530 just disable explosions and freeze them in powdered snow, DUH

[@PanNic97]

@@bruhlol8530 lava blocks explosions like water does :) just pour lava over withers after placing the last skull

[@bruhlol8530]

@@PanNic97 oh nice i only knew that it blocks tnt

[@amatoyoichi8468]

the amount of wither tunnel bore this man pump out is astounding. go get em tiger

[@breznknedl]

MangoMan MangoMan, does whatever a redstoner can. Create farms and flying machines. Look out- here comes the MangoMan

[@Cyberguy42]

That machine is simultaneously the most impressive tunnel bore and least efficient ancient debris collector I've ever seen. Good fun!

[@dtniland]

still it does work forever so you can just leave it on until it hits the world border

[@Firazoid]

Aside from how great the machine is, these videos are amazingly well made. You really captured the outrun vibe. I would love to see a longer version of this exact same thing. The timelapse of the bore working feels like the Minecraft version of a Ferrari on a neon highway.

[@dundermiflinpaper]

I will never cease to be absolutely astounded by the genius, let alone amazing videography/music choice of ilmango. To put it lightly.

[@nikolaslendvoy5396]

Can tell Mango is having fun with these machines. incredible to watch

[@CN-yb5gn]

This is incredibly useful, thank you!, I’m gonna use this to make elytra tunnels in my server

[@ThijquintNL]

Keep in mind this only works on easy difficulty ;)

[@CN-yb5gn]

@@ThijquintNL yep, withers are less aggressive, but even so, it works incredibly well

[@spartycool]

@@CN-yb5gn the reason this only works on easy is because the Withers don't produce blue skulls

[@CN-yb5gn]

@@spartycool yeah, I know

[@burger9997]

@@ThijquintNL as a technical player switching difficulty is no problem, I can’t wait to try this out!

[@Cr4zyRuski]

This has to be the most insane contraption I've seen in Minecraft! This looks incredible and I can't imagine what amazing thoughts went through your head to create this! Incredible!

[@racernatorde5318]

0:50 So this is what happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object I knew you would try to make such a system! Only downside is probably the impact of the world file size

[@derianvandalsen]

External hard drives should mitigate that

[@racernatorde5318]

@@derianvandalsen It's still annoying for working with backups and such

[@limonlx7182]

The only immovable objects are bedrock, end portal, and maybe some other stuff. These blocks can be broken with a fist.

[@derianvandalsen]

@@racernatorde5318 it does have the added benefit of being able to easily reset terrain if you so wish

[@sycco42]

@@limonlx7182 nah they meant the obsidian, its also immovable

[@_End3r]

For anyone wondering, the music used is : "Night Stalker" by Wave Saver

[@frab8061]

Just incredible. Ilmango seems to have a lot of fun with this concept

[@BombsanTheCommenter]

Who'd have thought that moveable either cages would the tunnel borers of the future; and it doesn't even rely on any dupes like TNT dupers do. Keep up the innovation! technisches Minecraft erstaunt immer wieder!

[@azafreak]

The 1000x speed shots were great, I was hoping for the bore to meet up with 10 more and join the swarm lol. That whole trip got like 7 debris. bruh

[@gui.duarte14]

He made that at a high y level.

[@irisinthedarkworld]

as always, ilmango's tastes in music and aesthetics are immaculate and his designs are genius what's the song name?

[@darkwise8628]

Night Stalker by Wave Saver

[@irisinthedarkworld]

@@darkwise8628 thanks so much!!

[@darkwise8628]

@@irisinthedarkworld shout out to shazam ;)

[@evanherriges4042]

yo I did it and it took like 5 seconds, dude this is incredible thanks so much man, I never would have found it :) btw the song was "Anyone But You" by Particle House

[@undyne3366]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@excancerpoik]

just the fact that a bug that made the 1.19 blocks movable gave the inspiration for someone to build a movable wither cage without them is insane

[@SB737]

This is so cool

[@Glossah]

Might be a fun thing to bring in your hardcore world, only downside I see is the afk time But having a bunch of withers in a tunnel bore would be spicy to say the least lol

[@notad___]

Finally u can finish ur netherite beacon 😂

[@gokhanozturk3027]

This is sick! It is first time I am seeing something unobstructable by anything!

[@AnonYmous-et4mz]

While it's immensely enjoyable to watch these Wither-based tunnel bores in action, by now I do miss hearing your voice :)

[@poodle5421]

agreed. It’s getting pretty boreing

[@azasplutshi3238]

@@poodle5421 funny.

[@poodle5421]

@@azasplutshi3238 thank you bro

[@winni2701]

Imagine having set up you super duper secret base in the Nether and then this guy comes by.

[@hawkmothh4765]

This is one of the most insane red stone contraptions I’ve ever seen, I’m mind blown this is even possible!

[@highcommander2007]

This is one of my favorite videos on your channel, and i've been watching a long time. I can appreciate the lava clear mechanism on the back of the bore it's rather ingenious. LOVED this. Loved the editing on this too

[@davidepretti4667]

this is just... beautiful. thank you so much for your efforts and this amazing machine!

[@SkidFace]

This is astounding. Thank you for showing us this Ilmango. It's amazing in every way.

[@tCi_R6]

Ok, now I know what Doc will use in his next episode in Hermitcraft. Awesome video!

[@primemac3dstudio18]

I for one found this video amazing. The time-laps with the music choice really makes this video very attention gathering. Now that I left my thumbs up and made a comment I am going to watch it again lol. Good stuff.

[@vihaanravishankar3989]

The basalt gens are insane

[@quintonwilson8565]

This is absolutely insane! The timelapse is so cool

[@lima7132]

This is gonna open up the game for so many things. Totally automated quarry with filters for collection? That means debris, diamonds, raw ores, redstone and lapis, anything you want pretty much! Please try to ram one of these into an end city to see if we can collect shulkers hahahha

[@lewiswilliams9355]

End city probably wouldnt be too efficient because you can already make shulker farms

[@BlueberryCats_]

Plus it would probably take hours between hits, because of this things tiny width and height

[@Chuckles-9838]

It currently doesn’t work in the overworld because of gravity blocks. That’s why it’s so high up in the nether, no gravel spawns

[@Prince_of_X]

Shulker farms already exists

[@BlueberryCats_]

@@Chuckles-9838 does now i think, mango made one that works for gravel i think, but idk about fluids

[@rellikpd]

This is bananas. One of the more amazing things is how you planned for, and handle lava. Something most people probably wouldn't even consider a big deal, considering your just eating through the world anyway... but the whole thing is awesome!

[@spencerjones7809]

Making the lava pockets into basalt is truly innovative. Would this work at lower nether y-levels? Could we use it at nearly bedrock level?

[@Goodgu3963]

I wonder if this could be used to tunnel straight through a lava lake.... then you could have almost entirely hidden tunnels underneight the lakes.

[@carbon1255]

@@Goodgu3963 pretty sure it can, yes. that is the point, really isn't it? to eat the debris at below nether lava level.

[@cara-seyun]

I believe so, though does the design stop lava from dripping through the sides?

[@Cyberguy42]

In the previous wither tunnel bore video, Ilmango commented that gravel was the one thing that could break the machine, so it won't work reliably at the lower y levels.

[@AnEnderNon]

@@Goodgu3963 no it would refill with lava, you need to place blocks on the ceiling or add a basalt generator to do that

[@mrmaxmondays]

That collection system is really really clever holy smokes, so simple yet I would never have thought of it

[@einkosmischer9454]

Really clever to use the basalt generators to stop the lava👍

[@Yahda]

I remember way back when being impressed by stuff like mobile build craft quarries, but those mods were designed to do those things, this is on a whole different level of impressive. I also love how similar the engineering is to a real tunnel bore, but instead of rotational blades it’s just using living mobs

[@travisjones3120]

These red stone showcase videos are great.

[@qpn6ph9q]

Truly amazing! I really hope they keep this mechanic in the game!

[@oriyonorigins]

This should turn out to be insanely useful

[@Xanthopathy]

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[@Xanthopathy]

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[@matt5726]

All hail Ilmango! Especially that Synthwave music, bruh I chills (not to mention my mouth open) the Entire video! Absolutely Amazing😎

[@rtificial8292]

Wow, it is super fast too. Faster than any flying machine I've ever seen... 20 blocks per second is insane 😏

[@noname-codm4590]

Yeah

[@theothercreare]

yeah soo fast

[@CarlWoe]

This is how I imagine what travelling the warp must be like. Everything wants to kill you and the only means of propulsion requires ancient terrors straped to the front of it. Nice work and good music, too!

[@Sagar_shetti]

The way they used basalt generator to block lava from top is pure genius

[@beowulf2772]

I have watched this multiple times now. Truly mesmerizing

[@nikolasscholz7983]

Insane! If you put the machine at lava lake level, you can also make a fully solid floor for the tunnel

[@ilmango]

well there's gravel up to y41 that can break the machine

[@janb.3600]

anywhere below should create a solid floor as well since the caves are filled with lava too.

[@cedriccaspar503]

@@ilmango Gravel is a problem for overworld mining with the tunnelbore as well then. Also, is it possible to add an auto waterstream builder at the end to just collect all items to a storage. Is that even a thing/possible in vanilla?

[@toamastar]

this is fantastic!! :o WHAT A MACHIIIINE!! :D You are a crazy minecraft scientist! :)

[@marp_625]

This will be so cool to watch and never build because I don’t have this level of dedication.

[@gamingbeastak9512]

Right

[@Eyecosaeder]

Mein lieber Herr Gesangsverein ist dieses Video gut. Es ist einfach ,,nur" 5 Minuten bohren, aber wie diese freecam Stück für Stück alle Teile vorstellt zusammen mit der Musik und wie man ab und zu auch nur den Tunnel oder die Umgebung sieht... Einfach glorreich. Dass die Maschine krass wurde glaube ich oft genug erwähnt, aber krasse Maschine xD

[@wonderstruck.]

I wish you’d have shown us how the tunnel borer behaves when it goes through a lava lake. Surrounded by lava on all sides, does it still work?

[@fl02k10]

Really great tunnelbore you made there and the steady improvement is just exciting to watch! thou it could yield maybe more ancient debris at lower hights, of course. I think a very useful application of this machine in the nether is the unsupervised clearing of a 24 gap beneath the bedrock cealing, fitting your ancient debris world eater from 2 years ago. Nice to see such amacing innovations and videos!

[@VoxelMusic]

Damn i swear 75% of ilmangos audience are absoloute trogs who dont understand the amount of effort that goes into these things.

[@austinitsua]

Keeps getting better and better

[@scalamasta]

It would be really cool to see something like this running on 2b2t and just leave it going forever. You'd find some cool stuff I'd bet

[@TheVisidor]

Don’t some people have hacked bedrock items there? Running into one would break the machine …

[@scalamasta]

@@TheVisidor I didn't think of that you might be right.

[@TinyWhoop]

I am loving this style of video dude.

[@akeldama3061]

I so wish us bedrock players could do things like this

[@Desmonid]

come to the java side ;)

[@elon6131]

@@Desmonid We have wither tunnel bores!

[@duckface81]

speaking of, you can get pc edition for free now if you want to try it

[@SeeNyuOG]

How epic, gigantic, enormous, intimidating this machine/video looks. Wow

[@AnimilesYT]

wouldn't it make more sense to run this at the bottom of the nether? Or is there something I'm missing?

[@janb.3600]

Pretty sure gravel falling in from above can break it.

[@PawelHerok]

Anciend debris also spawns at the top

[@guitarman052196]

Technically yes it would but the gravel would bork up the machine once you get past y=41 so you can only run it at higher altitudes for now it seems

[@NotFlappy12]

@@PawelHerok it does?

[@PawelHerok]

@@NotFlappy12 yes

[@jarrod752]

There's something cathartic about just watching it crawl forward and then eat the lava flows that come afterwards...

[@luminance69]

wouldn't it make sense to run this at the bottom of the world since ancient debris spawns much more down there?

[@TyroRNG]

I think the problem would be lava lakes, as in lava on all four sides.

[@ActualGoatUnicorn]

@@TyroRNG that could probably be fixed with a contraption on that back the automatically makes a basalt tunnel

[@therealadamshort]

@@ActualGoatUnicorn im sure he has his reasons though, ilmango doesnt generally overlook stuff like that

[@lukasmiller8531]

yes, but it probably just looks cooler up there ;)

[@lukasmiller8531]

@@TyroRNG I don't think so, the wither is immune to fire, so you should be able to just fly through it. All observers are covered, so the lava shouldn't be a problem

[@erycktackitt6771]

This and the soundtrack go hand and hand! Phenomenal work!

[@Deverouxe]

Shouldn’t this been done at a lower Z coordinate for a higher probability of ancient debris?

[@omnitroph1501]

Y coordinate, and it's because of the possibility of gravel, which could break the machine.

[@redtro8678]

this is incredible

[@monawoka97]

Yo the music choices for these have been A+

[@uu9903]

This is fucking amazing, true engineering.

[@humbertoechegoyen8247]

congratulations Looks amazing can’t believe what i’m witnessing right now

[@solzuchtvalashu5794]

pretty cool :D doubt id ever do such a machinery :)

[@zpotato1346]

This oddly reminded me of the movie were they had to dig to the core of the earth :P , amazing and epic thing you did here man NICE !

[@Johnnyrdk]

I swear this guy just puts the weirdest things together and just once in a while makes a discovery

[@b1gg5y]

ilmango my friend, this gave me legitimate goose bumps at the start. You sir are a Maestro

[@genericprofile2381]

Wonderful cinematography.

[@ItsKyleBrah]

I enjoy how you've made these last couple of vids super epic lol! Love the editing! :P Keep up the good work sir!

[@ultimus616]

Honestly I'm just blown away by the way you did the lava removal, I kept wondering what the basalt on the ceiling was and then it clicked

[@naxieysadventures5506]

such a crazy build, amazing

[@nickbrewer8472]

This is seriously such a cool idea! Also the music slaps!

[@Mpup19]

After watching multiple seasons of Hermitcraft with redstone references for farm designs from hermits this was the first of your videos i watched. Redstone apparently either reaches peak efficiency or insanity. Either way this is amazing to watch.

[@hesterclapp9717]

I love how it ploughs through the nether destroying everything in its path for thousands of blocks, and only finds a handful of debris

[@dominicwinet4935]

beautiful. I can already imagine a massive wall of these things ominously sweeping a biome off the face of the earth. these things can be used in the over world too for mining for diamonds. they could also double as a tunnel boar, for the purpose of pearl cannons or something.

[@BigBurdel]

I think this may have been one of the coolest things I've ever seen in MC.

[@scaffus]

Ilmango's not stopping, genius machines on genius machines

[@BulllRush]

This is awesome. Video needs to get 1 mil views. Incredible

[@cptfairgraves9120]

...What is this sorcery? Seriously this shits got me all sorts of excited and baffled What you guys do is so fucking amazing and I'm so glad MC has you as part of their community

[@leakingamps2050]

I love watching these giant contraptions in action

[@chexo3]

ilmango is going ham with these movable wither cages

[@cameron3914]

This video has a very 1980's Tron feel too it even down to the music......I love it

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

I love how this rains lava from above as a result of it opening up lava pockets

[@indigo6124]

I'm amazed at how well this thing works!

[@imold1029]

This guy is built different man, its like we have albert einstein in minecraft

[@ashtwenty12]

Amazing. I really like the speaks for itself style of video

[@Muddytony20]

I love how mango realized, fuck it this is too cool for commentary, all I need is some sick beats and the footage will speak for itself

[@UnIockables]

Best to ever do it Impressive as always, hats off to you and all Scicraft 👏

[@loudneon]

100/100! Worth every note of epic music!

[@anatolequestel1621]

This is prime Minecraft engineering right here! Brilliant showcased too 😁👌🏼

[@akinako4064]

This is amazing! I also like the music and the cinematics!!

[@json17]

This video is so mesmerizing! Super cool that you made this even though it's kinda pointless