Another strategy to looting nether fortresses: if you go into a hallway and arrive at a dead end, go back and block it off with any block so you won’t accidentally go to that dead end /no loot end again
All these years, and I’ve only just learned that we have cracked nether bricks lol. Also, I love your calm presentation. Way too many RUclipsrs- and _especially_ Minecraft RUclipsrs- scream and shout over the top in their videos. It’s like a fake, puppy dog excitement that’s become insufferable lol. I appreciate the calmer, more mature narration.
As of 1.19, "spawn proof" nether fortress has become more difficult as the devs increased the light level to be 11 or above for mobs, specific for this structure. In my 1.17 game, I could barely have a Wither Skeleton in it. Now they are everywhere, just more visible.
Best strat right now I would say is to bring about 3 stacks of building material and put up little anti-Witherskeleton beams around every corner and halfway through hallways. For extra long hallways, place a little 2 high pillar to approach blazes more easily. No need to mob-proof entirely if you can make just make mobs much easier to deal with. Also helps you with getting loot more easily.
Personally, i would recommend this to people with potato PC or Android devices as it is definitely not easy to navigate the nether safely with lag or poor framerate. Also , Android devices sometimes freeze while playing especially in the nether while the game still runs potentially getting you killed by ghasts or some other hazard: Cover your portal with cobblestone or some hard block. Then create a pillar that doesn't get blown up by ghasts and make the ladders to go till y level 118. Then use chunkbase to find nether fortress or bastions. This is just a suggestion btw.
@@moazammuhammad565 not trying to kill the fun but, that makes the same amount of sense as people thinking crystals can magically cure you from anything
As a speedrunner,there is also a way to locate the fortress without chunkbase web,and its called pie-ray.We can select block entities in the pie chart inside the f3 menu.Then we can search for a mob spawner in the chart.And mob spawner in nether are most likely blaze spawners in fortresses.And so we can know which direction and how many chunks away the fortress is🤔😆
My tip is when first raiding a fortress make sure you have like 6 stacks of stone type block. Like cobble or deepslate. Make bridges everywhere so you can quickly run from a place to other using the made bridges. Also what I suggest is already bring 3 water bottles with you and a piece of redstone. This way when you find a fortress you only need a magma cube and blazerod to make yourself 3 8min fire res potions... Also bring normal golden apples. Or bring apples and mine the gold in the nether. Having like 10-20 golden apples really helps. Because you can eat them and just try to always stay above 6 hearts. The witherskeletons hurt. Also make a lot of safe spots where 2 high gaps and or places in the walls where you could quickly hide because blazes have extreme range and you could be seeing no mobs and then 10 seconds later there are like 4 witherskelletons and 3 blazes around the corner...
That's horrible advice especially if those bridges are over lava and and just bring the 3 potions with you. 3 inventory slots. If you make them there three water bottles a piece of netherwart the brewing stand. That's 5 Then hope you find blaze rods and magma cream. Where do you put your loot when your inventory is full of water bottles cobble and apples.
Bro i got trapped in a corridor with 3 blazes in front and 3 behind i couldn’t do anything because i panicked and death was the result 😂😂 and because they shoot fire my overpowered bow vannished had to get 40 xp to re build it 😢
Also, not everyone knows about the Red Nether Brick blocks either. You'll need a lot of nether wart to make them, but they're a brighter red version of the normal blocks. You can make them with 2 nether bricks and 2 nether wart. IIRC that gives you one red nether brick block. Kind of expensive unless you have a nether wart farm and are using fortune 3 to farm your nether wart. But it's a great way to get rid of all that ugly netherrack taking up all your chest space. Smelt the netherrack into bricks and then combine. Voila!
One thing I'd like to add, you can shoot an arrow before it hits a mob then switch to a looting sword to have the looting effect applied to the arrow. I know this works on bedrock but Java I am 50/50 with
I believe that, at least on Java, if you hold your Looting enchanted sword in your off hand, your bow and arrow will effectively have Looting too. Of course, this isn't something you can do while holding a shield.
You can use Looting with a bow, snowball, crossbow, trident, as you please. The the looting effect happens if you’re holding a looting sword when the mob dies by any attack from you. It’s easiest to use the bow in your off hand, though you can be fancy and shoot the arrow or other weapon and switch to your sword while it’s flying to the target. This can make collecting rods much easier, since you can see a sliver of a blaze’s hitbox around a corner and fire before it can see you. Standing above fortress bridges and raining arrows down on all the wither skeletons in range while holding a Looting III sword works well to collect skulls. Doing this in open plain at night lets you stock up on gunpowder too. It’s also one of the only easy ways to use Looting on a ghast without an elytra, dropping up to 4 tears and 5 gunpowder with Looting III. Gold or iron, or worn out, swords with Looting can be perfect for this, since it takes no durability from the sword and the damage is done by the arrow.
Woah !! That's really helpful to know and I believe very few people know about this stuff I just got my looting 3 sword but I was worried about how will I confront a wither skeletons cuz I am not good at 1v1 So Thanks a lot !!
When i was 8-9 years i always died in the nehter fortress, after death after death, i was kinda scared to go there when i got my ps4 to play the versions after 1.13 (minecraft legacy stop updating in 1.13) but i found it very easy, just be careful in the corners and dont let a army of 20 blazes spawn and you will PROBABPY survive, also use toches for exploration and put lighting on 100 to see better the wither skeletons, and i also make a safe place with a 2 blocks height door, where blazes can enter but wither skeletons can't
Thank you so much for all your guides, my wife and I love your informational videos! Your content is amazing and we appreciate all the work you put into it. 😊
Thank you for inspiring me to raid a nether fortress. You make such good videos. Sadly, I died and respawned at the world spawn point, but it is ok because I have to coordinates for my house.
Your videos are helping me quite a lot especially since i've just started playing my first survival world. Please do continue creating more amazing videos!!💕
Wither Skeletons can be dealt with in a similar manner as endermen, they can't go through two-tall spaces. So, what I tend to do is place blocks on the ceiling at the ends of halls and covered intersections.
@@ohchip That's because you were in a walkway, not a hallway. Once you cross the lava well room, there's a few walkways that _look_ like they're proper rooms, but there's no roof. Skellies like to walk on the walls of those.
Never... IN MY LIFE... HAVE I SEEN SUCH AN UNDERATED CHANNEL ON RUclips. THIS CHANNEL TEACHES ME SO MUCH STUFF I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW! AND THE FACT THAT NOT EVEN THAT MUCH PEOPLE WHO WATCH ACTUALLY SUBSCRIBE! WHY WOULD SOMEONE COME HERE AND NOT SUBSCRIBE!? This... Makes me truly angry, but these videos make me truly happy.
First time I spawned into the nether its right on top of a fortress 40 blocks from a blaze spawner. O.o I turned tail n ran back out to do some research so I dont die. LOL Thank you for the help.
Awesome 👏. I just now tunneled my way to right outside my first fortress. I tried finding one on my own without commands and after making a 526 block long bridge and finding nothing (X positive axis), I said screw the achievements, I need potion materials lol... and found the closest one 350 blocks away on the Z axis 😆. I never would have found it without commands honestly. I'm right outside the actual fortress and just busted thru 1 block and can see a blaze spawner just ahead. I always thought Minecraft was a "little kids" game, but some of these mobs scare the 💩 out of this 50yr man lmao. Thank you so much for all the informative videos. I've only been playing Minecraft for about a month and am totally addicted lol.
that literally happened to me today with my friend. And yes, everything in the never makes you 💩your pants. And have you heard the noise soul sand makes when place it? It kind of sounds like a blaze behind you.
4 years of playing minecraft and i never knew about this seed map thing up until now and i cant describe how much it helped me, very thanks bro and instant subbed👍
After years of losing my good loot to the Nether, doing it the "proper way," my most recent playthrough I just accepted that death was inevitable and based my strategy off of that. I put my portal next to my strip mine and built cobblestone tunnels/highways everywhere I needed to go, with storage chests every so often. When I came up to a dangerous situation, I left my good stuff in the tunnels, took the disposable iron tools, and threw my walking corpse at the problem until it was solved. It worked out pretty well and I barely lost any loot.
Subbed. I knew most of this, but didn't know the wither skeletons needed 3 blocks to follow you. A good tip is to tell people to always bring stacks of blocks. You'll need to block off areas, make bridges to get over lava and other places, and block line of sight for ghasts. And normal stone or better have enough blast resistance where ghasts won't break them with their blasts.
a tip i have is to only put torches on one side of walls. either works but i prefer putting them on the right. this way you can tell if you've already discovered an area or if you're back tracking.
If you hold an looting 3 sword in your offhand and kill with the bow in your main hand, the Effect will aply and you get more loot witch helps with the Skeletons.
I started a survival world today. I spawned near a ruined portal and there was 3 obsidian and a flint and steel, which is enough to go to the nether. After some exploring, I found a nether fortress. Blazes were so annoying, I basically ate every meat I had, when my whole food is gone, all I could do was to set my gamemode to peaceful. Hopefully with your video, I can raid a nether fortress!
Bruh, 3 nether fortresses, none have nether warts. What the heck is my luck 😐 Edit 1: I almost let Minecraft gaslight me into thinking that nether fortresses no longer spawned with nether warts. The secret is that you actually have to travel 1200 blocks away from your nether portal to find a fourth nether fortress which will actually have nether warts. /j
Not sure if this is a bedrock feature only or not because I play on java and have found a nether fortress a few hundred blocks away from my portal and it had a very good amount of nether warts but I believe I will be looking for another one since wither skeletons are pretty much non existent in that fortress
Also worth noting about finding a nether fortrss in soul sand valley is that it can be a really good spot for making a wither skeleton farm. If you find one and it's in a soul sand valley, mark its coordinates.
blaze are fine to farm when youre picking them off one by one, but as soon as you take 5 seconds to eat a porkchop, another 3 spawn, and then all of a sudden youre running away from like 5 or 6 blaze, and then the exit is blocked by 2 wither skeletons who just pop into existence
I started playing minecraft again after almost 8 years of not touching it. The never fortresses are much harder than I remember... it was a huge chore just to get nether wart.
I found that honey also stops the wither effect and it stacks. I did okay early game with Fire Prot iron armor and a Diamond Sword with Looting, Knockback, Smite IV, at least I didn't die anyway.
You can make a copy of your world. And look for a nether fortress that way. Make it creative. I did it recently and they were in the same place. In the original and copy world. Don’t know how to raid it though.
@@Eyecraftmc The amount of research you do to cover all the base topics of every single aspect for your videos, your presentation of the content in both a visually clear as well audibly understandable way, your coverage of the major things that not many channels cover..... It's just very satisfying. You are doing such a great thing to attract newcomers to the game and also provide older experienced players such as my own self with knowledge that we completely missed. Keep up the great work! Stay original and true to your format. I am a pretty recent subscriber and I hope to stick around to see you grow lots.
Impeccable timing again! In my current world file I just built my first portal and it spawned me inside a fortress! Luckily I had built ahead of time switches to turn my portal on and off in the overworld (so baddies don't invade my home) but I also figured I should get some more info before diving right in lol!
I've been playing Minecraft for a while now, but I've embarrassingly never beat the game on survival all by myself. (I prefer farming/exploring/trading in survival and creative mode, so it's not like I'm trying to beat the game.) The nether fortress is where i always hit a dead end, so tysm for this guide! Maybe I'll finally get blaze rods 😆
Just subscribed, been watching your videos the past couple weeks and I thoroughly enjoy your guides! Very in depth and all the stuff you want to hear about when researching. I am super grateful! Keep up the awesome work!
Hi, i really like your content but i think a lot of people including me would like a hardcore/survival lets play it would be really entertaining and also informative for people.
Nether fortress is so scary! lol I even went in with 8 mins of fire resistance and still had scary moments where I almost die. Wither skeles and magma cube combos are deadly. It's a big change cause any other time I never lose hearts to mobs so it's easy going on expecting to be fine. I didn't think lighting of the nether would matter. Gonna have to start going in with torches now
About the nether fortresses spawn areas, they can't actually generate in a basalt delta, but they might cross to it. So realistically, don't go through a basalt delta(especially if it's a big one) if you're trying to find a fortress.
Well, bastions only can't generate directly in a basalt delta as the terrain blocks get confused with the structure. Nether fortresses can spawn in basalt deltas
Personally I find these structures very RNG dependant. On my last hardcore world I got a fortress basically next to my portal, for which I got really happy, but then realized it was gonna be a complete nightmare to raid with it being on a lava ocean and mobs shooting from every direction.
The beginning of your video made me laugh. I dropped my first nether portal in a new world and its sitting inside a fortress just down the hall from a blaze spawner.
I was trying to get nether wart for potions but I took all of them from the fortress and I may have died in the lava, accidentally dropping the nether wart in the lava lmbo. I need to find another fortress, but thank you!
Chunkbase is something I've never used in an actual survival world im playing. I have never failed to find a fortress by simply just searching around, so there was no need anyway.
i just got back into minecraft after years away and i'm trying to find a nether fortress. i finally get the obsidian to set up the portal, warp in, and get ganked by a bunch of red slimes in a basalt biome. it's been a bit of a nightmare and i'll be honest i may start fresh and look for a better seed lol it's been very frustrating to die before even being portaled in
The whole reason I searched this video was because I found two nether fortresses and neither of them have had netherwart. So as for that small chance one can be spawned with no interior, so far it's 100% true for my world
I just don't understand why a Soul Sand Valley would be preferable over any other biome that has significantly reduced mob spawn possibilities. Aren't Warped Forests and Basalt Delta's only spawning a single type of mob? In my experience the Soul Sand Valley is a horror biome that spawns a lot of regular skeletons and Ghasts, both being very annoying to encounter regularly in a Nether Fortress. Also at 6:40 you misspoke and said a bow can block Blaze fireballs which I think is funny. Personal additions to the guide: - If you don't want to use Chunkbase and you have access to a large lava lake, you may want to tame a Strider using a Saddle and a Warped Fungus on a Stick. This gives you a reasonably safe and fast way to traverse great distances. Keep the Strider penned so you don't lose it. Do *not* forget to put your respawn anchor close to the fortress Consider bringing a map and two banners. Duplicate the map and place one inside your base, in case you die in the Nether. The Nether does not show any landmarks on maps and doesn't show what direction the player is facing, but it's still a good way to trace your path. Put one banner near your Nether portal and use the map on it to place a marker. Do the same for the Nether Fortress to make sure you can easily find both again. Once you have a little base outside of the Nether Fortress you can mine a spiral stairway into one of the pillars for safe access. Keep it 3 high so Wither Skeletons can't descend upon you. If you need to build a bridge to one of the pillars, make sure to include a fireproof (and blastproof) ceiling as Ghasts will try to get at you and Blazes will snipe you from great distances. - Spawnproofing takes a lot of torches (since enemies spawn at light level 11), and you'll want to have a lot of mobs spawn later on. Therefore, instead of torches, bring about 3 stacks of building material and build those little 3-high beams that deter Wither Skeletons around every corner and halfway across long halways. Blazes often try to float up to hit you, and so will be blocked off by the 3-high beams. Pretty much the only real danger for the interior halways becomes regular skeletons and zombified piglins, as Magma Cubes either don't spawn in there or are much less dangerous due to the ceiling, which gives you very favorable odds of survival. - There are three important visits you will make to the Nether Fortress. They are as follows: 1. Brewing necessities. Go into the interior hallways section, find Nether Wart and get at least 2 Blaze Rods (just 1 if you find a brewing stand in the overworld). Because Piglins give potions of fire resistance, you _may_ want to skip this one, but having your own brewing stand makes life a lot easier, it's a great addition to your base, and just one Nether Wart, one Magma cream and some redstone dust will give you 3 potions of fire resistance that can last 8 minutes, which is great for visit number 2: 2. End portal necessities. You'll want at least 6 blaze rods to craft 12 eyes of ender, in case you're unlucky and the End Portal has to be filled entirely manually. However, you'll also need to craft Eyes of Ender to locate the stronghold, and honestly more blaze rods is a great thing to have. Once you reach the outer walkways of an End Fortress, chug your 8 minutes of fire resistance down the hatch, make a mad dash for a blaze spawner, immediately block the path behind you, and try to block up the ceiling too. The only way Blazes can hit you from this point on is with melee attacks, so as long as you keep your health up for those and prevent them from flying off, they're pretty much sitting ducks. Those 3x8 minutes of glory in your insulated Blaze chamber can set you with Blaze Rods for life, especially if you have a Looting III sword. Looting III isn't a necessity to get enough out of your raid, but you'll need it for the third visit: 3. Getting Wither skulls. This is a late-game visit and I recommend having a ton of food for it. If you prepped your Nether Fortress as I described above with the 3 high beams, fighting Wither Skeletons becomes safe and easy. With a Looting III weapon you'll have roughly a 1 in 18 chance of getting a Wither Skull, so this'll take about 60 Wither Skeletons kills, but statistics will often let you down, so buckle up to be fighting at least 100 of those evil pieces of shit.
I can't believe I've never thought of bringing Fire Res potions to the nether Fortress when I normally like trading with the nether villager because they don't have very good trades most of the time, to get Fire Res potions.
I have two extra tips: if you ran out of arrows and a skeleton is attacking you, use a zombified piglin as a shield since the skelleton will hit the zombified piglin it will attack the skeleton and kill it. Tip number two is that when you are fighting slimes or magma cubes you can kill the smallest ones with anything since they die with 1 hit so you don't have to use your sword, small slimes and magma cubes are numerous and you can waste the use of your sword/bow
The Soul Sand Valley is no joke, my portal spawned me in one. The Mobs ! Sweet Baby Buddha ! They just don't stop. I've used the Tunnel Rat strategy to get around, found a Nether Fortress with everything I need like 40 blocks from spawn tho
I got really cool generation on my minecraft world. There is a soul sand valley biome and a crimson forest biome connected together and beneath that there is a nether fortress.
I just jumped into the nether fortress in my hardcore world, and took a lot of damage right away. I then tried to dig down into the nether brick to block myself of and died immediately because I dug straight down and fell into lava
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Another strategy to looting nether fortresses: if you go into a hallway and arrive at a dead end, go back and block it off with any block so you won’t accidentally go to that dead end /no loot end again
I use Torches to mark points of interest like spawner ore corner on those blocks as well.
@@Jesus_Wojak I do torches on the right if I'm exploring deeper, torches on both sides/in the middle to show dead ends. Kinda expensive sometimes tho
@@tristqnejdjeh7278 i do double blocks for dead ends and a block with a torch on it for tunnels/ hallways of interest.
I do that too
He did 11:35
All these years, and I’ve only just learned that we have cracked nether bricks lol.
Also, I love your calm presentation. Way too many RUclipsrs- and _especially_ Minecraft RUclipsrs- scream and shout over the top in their videos. It’s like a fake, puppy dog excitement that’s become insufferable lol. I appreciate the calmer, more mature narration.
Same dude
Noice
defo - just spittin fax no drama
It is really enjoyable
It puts me to sleep every time. I can’t seem to finish one of these vids without a nap, lol.
As of 1.19, "spawn proof" nether fortress has become more difficult as the devs increased the light level to be 11 or above for mobs, specific for this structure.
In my 1.17 game, I could barely have a Wither Skeleton in it. Now they are everywhere, just more visible.
do bottom half slabs prevent spawns in the fortress? (if you put one on EVERY BLOCK!)
@@DanzelGlovington yes always
@@DanzelGlovington yeah but if you manage to do that without getting killed you might as well not even bother doing that in the first place
Man twice I was being chased by 3 or 4 Witherskeletons after I placed a lot of torches now I know why.
Best strat right now I would say is to bring about 3 stacks of building material and put up little anti-Witherskeleton beams around every corner and halfway through hallways. For extra long hallways, place a little 2 high pillar to approach blazes more easily.
No need to mob-proof entirely if you can make just make mobs much easier to deal with. Also helps you with getting loot more easily.
Personally, i would recommend this to people with potato PC or Android devices as it is definitely not easy to navigate the nether safely with lag or poor framerate. Also , Android devices sometimes freeze while playing especially in the nether while the game still runs potentially getting you killed by ghasts or some other hazard:
Cover your portal with cobblestone or some hard block. Then create a pillar that doesn't get blown up by ghasts and make the ladders to go till y level 118. Then use chunkbase to find nether fortress or bastions.
This is just a suggestion btw.
Yes, I actually recommend this in my nether guide, to cover your portal in cobblestone to avoid ghasts
@@Eyecraftmc fun fact: use dirt and sunflower in the nether the direction of the sunflower will be the direction where a fortress/bastion is
@@moazammuhammad565 not trying to kill the fun but, that makes the same amount of sense as people thinking crystals can magically cure you from anything
@@GabyIsHere2 i know its wierd
Android devices won't lag or drop framerate super bad if you take care of them, that's how I keep pocket edition running super smooth 👌
As a speedrunner,there is also a way to locate the fortress without chunkbase web,and its called pie-ray.We can select block entities in the pie chart inside the f3 menu.Then we can search for a mob spawner in the chart.And mob spawner in nether are most likely blaze spawners in fortresses.And so we can know which direction and how many chunks away the fortress is🤔😆
note that there is still a small chance for being a mob spawner of a magma slime in the treasure room type bastion remnant if u are unlucky🥲
cool thanks for this tip!
I watched this video right after I found a fortress in my survival world. It was very helpful and now I'll die 75% less now.👍
how was it in the fortress
@@tomatofrog5108 lol
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My tip is when first raiding a fortress make sure you have like 6 stacks of stone type block. Like cobble or deepslate. Make bridges everywhere so you can quickly run from a place to other using the made bridges. Also what I suggest is already bring 3 water bottles with you and a piece of redstone. This way when you find a fortress you only need a magma cube and blazerod to make yourself 3 8min fire res potions... Also bring normal golden apples. Or bring apples and mine the gold in the nether. Having like 10-20 golden apples really helps. Because you can eat them and just try to always stay above 6 hearts. The witherskeletons hurt. Also make a lot of safe spots where 2 high gaps and or places in the walls where you could quickly hide because blazes have extreme range and you could be seeing no mobs and then 10 seconds later there are like 4 witherskelletons and 3 blazes around the corner...
Makes sense
Great tips 😮
That's horrible advice especially if those bridges are over lava and and just bring the 3 potions with you. 3 inventory slots. If you make them there three water bottles a piece of netherwart the brewing stand. That's 5 Then hope you find blaze rods and magma cream. Where do you put your loot when your inventory is full of water bottles cobble and apples.
Bro i got trapped in a corridor with 3 blazes in front and 3 behind i couldn’t do anything because i panicked and death was the result 😂😂 and because they shoot fire my overpowered bow vannished had to get 40 xp to re build it 😢
You makes some of the most informative and useful tutorial videos in RUclips community 👌🏼
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Agreed. When I’m having difficulty in my Minecraft I just look for one of your informative videos. Always a great help
I appreciate your calming voice, so many youtubers are screaming at their viewers to hype up their videos
0:56 ain’t no way bro casually juked out the skeleton 💀
Also, not everyone knows about the Red Nether Brick blocks either. You'll need a lot of nether wart to make them, but they're a brighter red version of the normal blocks. You can make them with 2 nether bricks and 2 nether wart. IIRC that gives you one red nether brick block. Kind of expensive unless you have a nether wart farm and are using fortune 3 to farm your nether wart. But it's a great way to get rid of all that ugly netherrack taking up all your chest space. Smelt the netherrack into bricks and then combine. Voila!
If you are low on nether wart , you can use fortune pickaxe on it , that will drop more of it
Can also use a fortune hoe if you have one!
One thing I'd like to add, you can shoot an arrow before it hits a mob then switch to a looting sword to have the looting effect applied to the arrow. I know this works on bedrock but Java I am 50/50 with
I believe that, at least on Java, if you hold your Looting enchanted sword in your off hand, your bow and arrow will effectively have Looting too. Of course, this isn't something you can do while holding a shield.
@@MartinKoistinen It certainly works with the Looting sword in your main hand and your bow in your off too.
You can use Looting with a bow, snowball, crossbow, trident, as you please.
The the looting effect happens if you’re holding a looting sword when the mob dies by any attack from you. It’s easiest to use the bow in your off hand, though you can be fancy and shoot the arrow or other weapon and switch to your sword while it’s flying to the target.
This can make collecting rods much easier, since you can see a sliver of a blaze’s hitbox around a corner and fire before it can see you. Standing above fortress bridges and raining arrows down on all the wither skeletons in range while holding a Looting III sword works well to collect skulls. Doing this in open plain at night lets you stock up on gunpowder too. It’s also one of the only easy ways to use Looting on a ghast without an elytra, dropping up to 4 tears and 5 gunpowder with Looting III.
Gold or iron, or worn out, swords with Looting can be perfect for this, since it takes no durability from the sword and the damage is done by the arrow.
I've been playing Minecraft for years and I've never heard about that. Thank you for sharing!
Woah !! That's really helpful to know and I believe very few people know about this stuff
I just got my looting 3 sword but I was worried about how will I confront a wither skeletons cuz I am not good at 1v1
So Thanks a lot !!
This man is a life saver. Thanks for the video!
Your welcome :D
This was the best timing. Literally planned on doing this with my buddies after work tonight lol.
Perfect, Good luck!
I like making iron golems in the nether fortress. They assist me in killing mobs.
damn, great idea why does no one mention this
Dude I’m in the nether now looking for a fortress. The timing is fantastic.
When i was 8-9 years i always died in the nehter fortress, after death after death, i was kinda scared to go there when i got my ps4 to play the versions after 1.13 (minecraft legacy stop updating in 1.13) but i found it very easy, just be careful in the corners and dont let a army of 20 blazes spawn and you will PROBABPY survive, also use toches for exploration and put lighting on 100 to see better the wither skeletons, and i also make a safe place with a 2 blocks height door, where blazes can enter but wither skeletons can't
Thank you so much for all your guides, my wife and I love your informational videos! Your content is amazing and we appreciate all the work you put into it. 😊
The pun at the end is under rated. I can’t wait for the pun for the end… at the end… in the end 😂
Thank you for inspiring me to raid a nether fortress. You make such good videos. Sadly, I died and respawned at the world spawn point, but it is ok because I have to coordinates for my house.
A spawn Anchor is mighty helpful when messing around in the Nether.
@@mace8873 I had one, but thought I had more lives left. It's fine, I did not lose anything important. Had a fun way back to the house though.
noob
i kept losing. totally gave up. this game has become way too hard to beat
@@mace8873 i lost my things in the nether fortress😢 .. are you all like that too?
Your videos are helping me quite a lot especially since i've just started playing my first survival world. Please do continue creating more amazing videos!!💕
Wither Skeletons can be dealt with in a similar manner as endermen, they can't go through two-tall spaces. So, what I tend to do is place blocks on the ceiling at the ends of halls and covered intersections.
they dropped from the ceiling and i lost all my gear anyway :/
@@ohchip That's because you were in a walkway, not a hallway. Once you cross the lava well room, there's a few walkways that _look_ like they're proper rooms, but there's no roof. Skellies like to walk on the walls of those.
Finally! I needed this so much cuz I’m a noob at these. Good luck on other videos and keep it up!
Never... IN MY LIFE... HAVE I SEEN SUCH AN UNDERATED CHANNEL ON RUclips. THIS CHANNEL TEACHES ME SO MUCH STUFF I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW! AND THE FACT THAT NOT EVEN THAT MUCH PEOPLE WHO WATCH ACTUALLY SUBSCRIBE! WHY WOULD SOMEONE COME HERE AND NOT SUBSCRIBE!? This... Makes me truly angry, but these videos make me truly happy.
First time I spawned into the nether its right on top of a fortress 40 blocks from a blaze spawner. O.o I turned tail n ran back out to do some research so I dont die. LOL Thank you for the help.
9:22 You actually can get the looting effect while using a bow if you dual wield them both at the same time
Awesome 👏. I just now tunneled my way to right outside my first fortress. I tried finding one on my own without commands and after making a 526 block long bridge and finding nothing (X positive axis), I said screw the achievements, I need potion materials lol... and found the closest one 350 blocks away on the Z axis 😆. I never would have found it without commands honestly. I'm right outside the actual fortress and just busted thru 1 block and can see a blaze spawner just ahead. I always thought Minecraft was a "little kids" game, but some of these mobs scare the 💩 out of this 50yr man lmao. Thank you so much for all the informative videos. I've only been playing Minecraft for about a month and am totally addicted lol.
that literally happened to me today with my friend. And yes, everything in the never makes you 💩your pants. And have you heard the noise soul sand makes when place it? It kind of sounds like a blaze behind you.
Finally, another "grey gamer". Thought I was alone. Welcome!
Also note on wither skeletons, a smite V axe one shots them however it cannot roll with looting so use at your own risk.
The timing of this video couldn’t be better! Doing my first play through of Minecraft and I literally just found a fortress in the nether!
You should have mentioned the red nether brick block and recipe. I feel like a lot of players don’t know about that one either.
Best youtuber with guides in Minecraft, voice is also soothing
lowkey proud to be one of your early subs, part of the 70k club :D
Top content as always!
4 years of playing minecraft and i never knew about this seed map thing up until now and i cant describe how much it helped me, very thanks bro and instant subbed👍
Wel i knowed about it though I am playing from 5years
After years of losing my good loot to the Nether, doing it the "proper way," my most recent playthrough I just accepted that death was inevitable and based my strategy off of that. I put my portal next to my strip mine and built cobblestone tunnels/highways everywhere I needed to go, with storage chests every so often. When I came up to a dangerous situation, I left my good stuff in the tunnels, took the disposable iron tools, and threw my walking corpse at the problem until it was solved. It worked out pretty well and I barely lost any loot.
I was just looking to see if you had a Nether Fortress video. What timing! 😎
At last… the best nether guide on youtube.
Ps. Been waiting for this aha
Subbed. I knew most of this, but didn't know the wither skeletons needed 3 blocks to follow you. A good tip is to tell people to always bring stacks of blocks. You'll need to block off areas, make bridges to get over lava and other places, and block line of sight for ghasts. And normal stone or better have enough blast resistance where ghasts won't break them with their blasts.
What are the odds, I was about to plan a trip to find a nether fortress soon. Your videos are all out when I need them.
Perfect timing!
Same!
same lol
First I love these videos it refines ways of doing complicated stuff on minecraft secondly I just watch these videos as his voice is so relaxing
a tip i have is to only put torches on one side of walls. either works but i prefer putting them on the right. this way you can tell if you've already discovered an area or if you're back tracking.
If you hold an looting 3 sword in your offhand and kill with the bow in your main hand, the Effect will aply and you get more loot witch helps with the Skeletons.
I started a survival world today. I spawned near a ruined portal and there was 3 obsidian and a flint and steel, which is enough to go to the nether. After some exploring, I found a nether fortress. Blazes were so annoying, I basically ate every meat I had, when my whole food is gone, all I could do was to set my gamemode to peaceful. Hopefully with your video, I can raid a nether fortress!
You're supposed to gear up first too man
Bruh, 3 nether fortresses, none have nether warts. What the heck is my luck 😐
Edit 1: I almost let Minecraft gaslight me into thinking that nether fortresses no longer spawned with nether warts. The secret is that you actually have to travel 1200 blocks away from your nether portal to find a fourth nether fortress which will actually have nether warts. /j
1200?? damn, the ones near me doesnt have any warts was wondering if I am playing in a bad seed
The one near me does have warts and it is 200 blocks away from portal.
U spawned next to a nether fortress and a bastion and the nether fortress didn’t have any warts but the bastion did
Not sure if this is a bedrock feature only or not because I play on java and have found a nether fortress a few hundred blocks away from my portal and it had a very good amount of nether warts but I believe I will be looking for another one since wither skeletons are pretty much non existent in that fortress
@@amrosman1186 was also playing Java, probably just bad RNG
i needed this so much thank you!!
Np!
man! the tune of your voice is sooooo relaxing I can't stop watching your videos even though I don't play minecraft anymore.
"you wanna have a bow and the shield the bow can block attacks and the arrow can k!ll the blaze" wise words💀
Awesome video! Keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
As someone who always dies to blazes, this video was really helpful
Also worth noting about finding a nether fortrss in soul sand valley is that it can be a really good spot for making a wither skeleton farm. If you find one and it's in a soul sand valley, mark its coordinates.
blaze are fine to farm when youre picking them off one by one, but as soon as you take 5 seconds to eat a porkchop, another 3 spawn, and then all of a sudden youre running away from like 5 or 6 blaze, and then the exit is blocked by 2 wither skeletons who just pop into existence
I started playing minecraft again after almost 8 years of not touching it. The never fortresses are much harder than I remember... it was a huge chore just to get nether wart.
I was excited as well as scared when I spawned in a fortress 😂. I stepped out and a blaze started attacking me it was just a complete panic situation
Thank you for this!
You should get like 500x more subs than those clickbait channels.
I found that honey also stops the wither effect and it stacks. I did okay early game with Fire Prot iron armor and a Diamond Sword with Looting, Knockback, Smite IV, at least I didn't die anyway.
You can make a copy of your world. And look for a nether fortress that way. Make it creative. I did it recently and they were in the same place. In the original and copy world. Don’t know how to raid it though.
As usual, always press like before you start watching.
We all know the video will be awesome :)
Thanks :)
@@Eyecraftmc
The amount of research you do to cover all the base topics of every single aspect for your videos, your presentation of the content in both a visually clear as well audibly understandable way, your coverage of the major things that not many channels cover.....
It's just very satisfying. You are doing such a great thing to attract newcomers to the game and also provide older experienced players such as my own self with knowledge that we completely missed.
Keep up the great work! Stay original and true to your format. I am a pretty recent subscriber and I hope to stick around to see you grow lots.
Impeccable timing again! In my current world file I just built my first portal and it spawned me inside a fortress! Luckily I had built ahead of time switches to turn my portal on and off in the overworld (so baddies don't invade my home) but I also figured I should get some more info before diving right in lol!
I've been playing Minecraft for a while now, but I've embarrassingly never beat the game on survival all by myself. (I prefer farming/exploring/trading in survival and creative mode, so it's not like I'm trying to beat the game.) The nether fortress is where i always hit a dead end, so tysm for this guide! Maybe I'll finally get blaze rods 😆
Just subscribed, been watching your videos the past couple weeks and I thoroughly enjoy your guides! Very in depth and all the stuff you want to hear about when researching. I am super grateful! Keep up the awesome work!
I absolutely love your guides! Keep ‘em coming for everything we should know and what you can think of! Thanks!!
OOH thats why i keep dying in the nether fortress because its got more mobs thats good info
I sure do love blocking fireballs from blazes with bows.
Thanks man really helped me with my progression in the game
Hi, i really like your content but i think a lot of people including me would like a hardcore/survival lets play it would be really entertaining and also informative for people.
8:04 you can just cover the spawner with torches
Nether fortress is so scary! lol I even went in with 8 mins of fire resistance and still had scary moments where I almost die. Wither skeles and magma cube combos are deadly. It's a big change cause any other time I never lose hearts to mobs so it's easy going on expecting to be fine.
I didn't think lighting of the nether would matter. Gonna have to start going in with torches now
Magma cube: deadly nether mob
Level. 1 toad: 😋 yoshiii
Love the Mario reference
Just in time, I’m about to start raiding a Nether fortress I found.
Can we just appreciate how much effort eyecraft puts in to his videos (tysm they are so helpful )
The puns as well. They’ll Nether get old 😂
About the nether fortresses spawn areas, they can't actually generate in a basalt delta, but they might cross to it. So realistically, don't go through a basalt delta(especially if it's a big one) if you're trying to find a fortress.
Well, bastions only can't generate directly in a basalt delta as the terrain blocks get confused with the structure. Nether fortresses can spawn in basalt deltas
Personally I find these structures very RNG dependant. On my last hardcore world I got a fortress basically next to my portal, for which I got really happy, but then realized it was gonna be a complete nightmare to raid with it being on a lava ocean and mobs shooting from every direction.
11:50 I use this same strat for strongholds since they're also mazes
2:02 hmm, strange looking fossil 🤣
I actually want to find one on my own, will try these tips later, thx
Np!
This is very helpful
The beginning of your video made me laugh. I dropped my first nether portal in a new world and its sitting inside a fortress just down the hall from a blaze spawner.
I was trying to get nether wart for potions but I took all of them from the fortress and I may have died in the lava, accidentally dropping the nether wart in the lava lmbo. I need to find another fortress, but thank you!
Chunkbase is something I've never used in an actual survival world im playing.
I have never failed to find a fortress by simply just searching around, so there was no need anyway.
i just got back into minecraft after years away and i'm trying to find a nether fortress. i finally get the obsidian to set up the portal, warp in, and get ganked by a bunch of red slimes in a basalt biome. it's been a bit of a nightmare and i'll be honest i may start fresh and look for a better seed lol it's been very frustrating to die before even being portaled in
The whole reason I searched this video was because I found two nether fortresses and neither of them have had netherwart. So as for that small chance one can be spawned with no interior, so far it's 100% true for my world
14:33 At first I was like “how is a glitched nether fortress cool?” And then I realized he was talking about the lava room😂
I just don't understand why a Soul Sand Valley would be preferable over any other biome that has significantly reduced mob spawn possibilities.
Aren't Warped Forests and Basalt Delta's only spawning a single type of mob? In my experience the Soul Sand Valley is a horror biome that spawns a lot of regular skeletons and Ghasts, both being very annoying to encounter regularly in a Nether Fortress.
Also at 6:40 you misspoke and said a bow can block Blaze fireballs which I think is funny.
Personal additions to the guide:
- If you don't want to use Chunkbase and you have access to a large lava lake, you may want to tame a Strider using a Saddle and a Warped Fungus on a Stick. This gives you a reasonably safe and fast way to traverse great distances. Keep the Strider penned so you don't lose it. Do *not* forget to put your respawn anchor close to the fortress
Consider bringing a map and two banners. Duplicate the map and place one inside your base, in case you die in the Nether. The Nether does not show any landmarks on maps and doesn't show what direction the player is facing, but it's still a good way to trace your path.
Put one banner near your Nether portal and use the map on it to place a marker. Do the same for the Nether Fortress to make sure you can easily find both again.
Once you have a little base outside of the Nether Fortress you can mine a spiral stairway into one of the pillars for safe access. Keep it 3 high so Wither Skeletons can't descend upon you.
If you need to build a bridge to one of the pillars, make sure to include a fireproof (and blastproof) ceiling as Ghasts will try to get at you and Blazes will snipe you from great distances.
- Spawnproofing takes a lot of torches (since enemies spawn at light level 11), and you'll want to have a lot of mobs spawn later on. Therefore, instead of torches, bring about 3 stacks of building material and build those little 3-high beams that deter Wither Skeletons around every corner and halfway across long halways.
Blazes often try to float up to hit you, and so will be blocked off by the 3-high beams. Pretty much the only real danger for the interior halways becomes regular skeletons and zombified piglins, as Magma Cubes either don't spawn in there or are much less dangerous due to the ceiling, which gives you very favorable odds of survival.
- There are three important visits you will make to the Nether Fortress. They are as follows:
1. Brewing necessities. Go into the interior hallways section, find Nether Wart and get at least 2 Blaze Rods (just 1 if you find a brewing stand in the overworld). Because Piglins give potions of fire resistance, you _may_ want to skip this one, but having your own brewing stand makes life a lot easier, it's a great addition to your base, and just one Nether Wart, one Magma cream and some redstone dust will give you 3 potions of fire resistance that can last 8 minutes, which is great for visit number 2:
2. End portal necessities. You'll want at least 6 blaze rods to craft 12 eyes of ender, in case you're unlucky and the End Portal has to be filled entirely manually. However, you'll also need to craft Eyes of Ender to locate the stronghold, and honestly more blaze rods is a great thing to have.
Once you reach the outer walkways of an End Fortress, chug your 8 minutes of fire resistance down the hatch, make a mad dash for a blaze spawner, immediately block the path behind you, and try to block up the ceiling too. The only way Blazes can hit you from this point on is with melee attacks, so as long as you keep your health up for those and prevent them from flying off, they're pretty much sitting ducks. Those 3x8 minutes of glory in your insulated Blaze chamber can set you with Blaze Rods for life, especially if you have a Looting III sword.
Looting III isn't a necessity to get enough out of your raid, but you'll need it for the third visit:
3. Getting Wither skulls. This is a late-game visit and I recommend having a ton of food for it. If you prepped your Nether Fortress as I described above with the 3 high beams, fighting Wither Skeletons becomes safe and easy. With a Looting III weapon you'll have roughly a 1 in 18 chance of getting a Wither Skull, so this'll take about 60 Wither Skeletons kills, but statistics will often let you down, so buckle up to be fighting at least 100 of those evil pieces of shit.
I can't believe I've never thought of bringing Fire Res potions to the nether Fortress when I normally like trading with the nether villager because they don't have very good trades most of the time, to get Fire Res potions.
4+ hours searching the nether with no signs of the fortress.... time to start a new world
Dude your videos are the best. Perfect and to the point.
the blazes can definitely still spawn with your glowstone setup. just use torches. much cheaper and easier.
I have two extra tips: if you ran out of arrows and a skeleton is attacking you, use a zombified piglin as a shield since the skelleton will hit the zombified piglin it will attack the skeleton and kill it.
Tip number two is that when you are fighting slimes or magma cubes you can kill the smallest ones with anything since they die with 1 hit so you don't have to use your sword, small slimes and magma cubes are numerous and you can waste the use of your sword/bow
The Soul Sand Valley is no joke, my portal spawned me in one. The Mobs ! Sweet Baby Buddha ! They just don't stop. I've used the Tunnel Rat strategy to get around, found a Nether Fortress with everything I need like 40 blocks from spawn tho
6:43 "a bow can fully block the fire balls" xD
I got really cool generation on my minecraft world. There is a soul sand valley biome and a crimson forest biome connected together and beneath that there is a nether fortress.
Personally, I go positive x and negative z when trying to find a nether fortress. It works a lot of times!
I just jumped into the nether fortress in my hardcore world, and took a lot of damage right away. I then tried to dig down into the nether brick to block myself of and died immediately because I dug straight down and fell into lava
has played minecraft for 5+ years:
ah yes i need to watch this
I subscribed to your channel after watching this video. Nice bro!
10:44 The magma cube can kill you faster than lava 🤪💀
HOW does he know exactly what I need to know all the time? Thanks for this
this dude is literally my minecraft guardian angel lol, without him i’d be kiving in a dirt hut with wooden tools