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.

[@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

[@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

[@sanelmuric5534]

Try making that auto mining machine in your survival world

[@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)

[@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.

[@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

[@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]

🤣

[@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.

[@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.

[@tomasdariuspaun7586]

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

[@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)

[@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?

[@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

[@chinesefood3165]

They are for mining and also allay xp farms now.

[@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.

[@robertwolfgan]

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

[@FriendlyCynic]

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

[@DragInit0642]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@NWOHIO77]

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

[@isaacstyles92]

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

[@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.

[@robloxdev2869]

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

[@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

[@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???

[@VincentVanJoYT]

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

[@NetheriteBunny]

*shiver *shiver

[@TheBohobemeister]

Wonderful video as always!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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*

[@NetheriteBunny]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@MomoDriller]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@Gilly2020]

Shout out Neisn made a video about this ages ago!

[@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

[@Zutanni]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@gigachad416]

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

[@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

[@BreakingRadOfficial]

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

[@Jbait]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@bjrnbrekke9626]

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

[@robikkupegasus7039]

Somewhere Captainsparklez is shuddering unwittingly.

[@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.

[@Bananenvorkauer]

Funny how etho already fiddled around with silverfish mining back, when they came out 😂

[@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.

[@jeppy4021]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@jenniferfahnestock450]

That was horrifying. The noise!

[@IamGrief887]

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

[@linktothepast2432]

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

[@AidanheGreat]

What is this 1800s America looking ahhh industrial expansion

[@JasonAura]

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

[@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?

[@IceMetalPunk]

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

[@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.

[@neiltattersall2078]

Ethos vision has finally come true!

[@PrismaticFrank]

looks like a death trap to me lol but super satisfying in creative! cool things the keep adding

[@Codmkid]

Last snapshot I played was probably 24w33a or 34a I’ll soon be back on Minecraft again Wednesday or Saturday when Minecraft live is on

[@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.

[@darkbooger]

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

[@Clashhass]

Use an alay instead of the armidillo cause it regens

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

Thats nice, but when are we gonna get the combat update on bedrock? Im sick of not having AoE swords.

[@RetroTerrestrial]

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

[@steventyler3582]

Ad potions of healing for the dillos set to go off every few minutes

[@ashenbreese]

what i would like to see is a setup like this for bedrock as an xp farm. we cannot use the allay trick on bedrock (they die) ,but i'm not sure if armadillos do.

[@chriskenney5511]

I got it to work using powdered snow instead of fire

[@bitebaykon9948]

Keep looking. There are XP farms out there for Bedrock using Iron Golems & silverfish

[@ashenbreese]

@@bitebaykon9948 right, but i'd like to find a work around to the healing aspect of golems. i'm curious about armadillos and armored dogs using wither roses.

[@bitebaykon9948]

@@ashenbreese Build as shown in the video with Armadillos and at the bottom of the long fall construct a Trident Killer. Stand by the killer to collect XP from the dying Silverfish.

[@ashenbreese]

@@bitebaykon9948 this works in bedrock?

[@Merge820]

Why do they haft to ruin it for bedrock

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

Silverfish kind of look cute even irl. Cause unlike in games they are harmless in real life.

[@arasdeeps1852]

Harmless? Pretty sure they're as bad as moths when it comes to clothes. They're common where I live. Cute? I'm not normally afraid of insects, but there are a few that creep me out. Silverfish is one of them. 😨

[@ConsistentlyInconsistent]

I wonder if snowballs would work to get the armadillos to spawn silverfish.

[@NapppleDahAppple]

This happened on the hermitcraft server in the city base that is being built by Bdouble0 that one episode

[@Aleixus]

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

[@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)

[@VillagerOf2024]

Many people say the silver fish is the most annoying but since I have been playing survival a lot I think the most annoying are the witch the stray bogged and one mob THAT SHOULD BE ROMOVED FROM THE GAME THE MOST TERRIBLE ANNOYING IS THE SKELETON!!!💀💀💀💀 jk it’s one of the main mobs yet so annoying

[@abhaysharma937]

What about a pack of diamond/iron armoured baby zombies having diamond/iron sword spawned by ominous trial spawners 💀💀

[@VillagerOf2024]

@@abhaysharma937 I forgot about baby zombies lol but I would add that to the list 100%

[@abhaysharma937]

@@VillagerOf2024 Baby zombies are dangerous but the one I'm talking about are pure nightmare 💀

[@VillagerOf2024]

@@abhaysharma937ok

[@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

[@KotushkFier666]

I know it's just adding more potions to the setup, but couldn't you theoretically just use Regen potions to keep your chosen mobs alive? I'm not good at Minecraft, and I barely know much... Sorry if this is a dumb question.

[@ConstructiveGamer]

@wattles you incorectly credited this, ethoslab did a giant silverfish xp farm a while ago aiding to the science of silverfish