Seriously, nothing in the world will stop this man from educating people on minecraft. It is truely incredible how he is still pumping out videos more frequently that alot of the yt'ers in subbed to
Once again, even as a 10+ year player, pix has taught me something… I never even considered wool as being a fuel source. Granted it’s not a good one, but in a pinch, it’s good to know it’s there.
I think pressure plates should work even better than levers for collecting XP. Place them in front of the furnace, that'll lock the hopper and allow us to collect the item(s) and XP accumulated till that point, and when done, simply step aside from the pressure plate. Anyway, great video pix, always love watching you ❤
I'll have to try this. I havent played for a few years and at that time furnaces could be abused by a bug to store past exp forever. I was on bedrock and used it for infinite xp. Now that its patched I was looking for a way to get exp again but didnt like the level trick when I had lots of stuff to smelt but didnt want to babysit the smelter.
@@klumze9911 Sadly afaik the bug has been fixed, although there are several others which have some or other form of glitching furnace XP, they really aren't practical in a survival POV, not to mention, a majority of them requires running the world on a multiplayer
I love this series so much just because it serves as a break from the fast paced, unbearably over-edited minecraft content nowadays - I just love this chill vibe from your videos, so keep it up!
Smelting is one of those basic things I just never bothered to look into very much. You just put something in a furnace, you set it and forget it and come back and you have a little xp and the thing you wanted to smelt. I'm so glad you went over this because I can really step it up now and learn something new :)
Hey Pixlriffs. Great work as always. Two things you might have mentioned. Building a Super Smelter in the spawn chunks will keep it running even if you are not around. Even though kelp gives you one drumstick it might still be useful because you can eat it very fast. It is actually the food wich can be eaten fastest. So you can restore your hunger without being stuck in that eating animation so it might be useful in PvP or against a horde of mobs.
Great tips for autosmeller! I myself recently started using lava, with help of dripstone/cauldrons placed next to furnaces. That way whenever I need to smelt something I just scoop bucket of lava from cauldron which will then refill itself. Would love a way that doesnt include that, but once a lot of buckets are collected, you can forget refilling for a long time
I also tend to use this method, although eventually fully automatic methods of gathering fuel like bamboo are better because you don't need to bother refueling. And general advice for anybody reading this in the future, it takes 2 dripstone lava cauldrons to keep 1 furnace running indefinitely. (For powering large super smelters its generally easier to exceed this ratio so you don't have to baby sit it as much)
I built a version of this a couple years ago (based on the first season of Survival Guide!) that uses the same core premise, but with a bunch of QoL features. It's probably my finest Minecraft creation. - Hidden redstone on a single lever to deactivate output hoppers for ez xp grabbing. - Automatic minecart loader/launcher - holds a hopper cart in place while it's filling, launches it when it's full. - Minecart track "locks" that keep the minecart rolling back and forth over the input hoppers as long as it still has items. Once it's empty, the track is "unlocked" and the minecart can return to the auto-loading point. Great for those HUGE projects. Makes it fully AFK once you've dumped in all your fuel/material - no need to ever stop or manually refill a cart. I also put some indicator lights on the loader/launcher mechanism to let you know when the cart is out rolling, or when it's time to refill the input chests.
I've been playing minecraft for a LONG time and I've never bothered to make a super smelter, thank you for this video, I've now made this design in my world and I can't wait to use it
I’m loving the subtle changes to the logo each episode. It’s fun to guess what the episode is going to be about… if the title doesn’t give it away first of course!
Hey @pixlriffs - always love the survival guide and the details you go to explaining all the basics. I am hoping, however, that in this third season that you revisit these topics with more advanced builds. Like the super furnace array - a broader discussion on how to build them better and more efficiently. Or examples of different types of builds. I know it is only a matter of time before you build a storage system and I expect it will be the traditional basic one with the hopper chain, but it would be great to get an advanced lesson using hopper mine carts and detector and activator rails with a water stream over ice to show how to make a huge improvement in the system... Obviously you're going to address the basics first, but as you head into later chapters, revisiting with advanced concepts would be awesome.
I've been really enjoying this series, it's like a breath of fresh air and has re-ignited my passion for the game. Great videos, keep up the fantastic content! Easily a million subscriber worth channel!
I learned about the dangers of using lava as a fuel source, the hard way. Made my automatic drip stone lava farm and was smelting away. Went to go grab more ore from my valuables chest and left clicked to open….. it didn’t open….. it threw lava on it 😭 I never hold lava in my hot bar anymore. Lost so many diamonds and resources plus it started burning down the mine shaft I made a base out of 😂. Hard lessons.
Thank you for saying it is "perfectly reasonable" wanting to always make sure you are smelting eight items with every piece of coal! I was beginning to worry I was becoming a bit OCD there.
Another way to get xp off them is to install switches on the front of the furnaces. When they are switched off they still burn but they don't send to the chest. This allows you to get the xp pulling out the finished product by hand, then switch them on. And every once and a while just turn them off to get xp.
I’m on holiday right now and sometimes I miss the comfort of my home (I mean the hotel and everything is so good but of course the best place is home). What gives me good vibes is to lay down and watch Pix’s new videos 😊❤
one fuel that did not get its recognition here is farmed lava, the player does not have to run around to get lava it can be dripstone accumulated into cauldrons so a single lava block can provide endless supply of lava. I am subbed and playing loosely along with this series and very early game buried 8 lava blocks in the ground that dripstone fill 8 cauldrons in the basement, which began by gathering one single lava block from the wild, I seldom use anything but lava for fuel but have no clue how much of that can be automated if any, I have never experimented with that much but gives me something to do after work.... really like your video's....
i actually exclusively use lava as my fuel source. what ive found is that putting my lava farm next to the super smelter and having 6 cauldrons per furnace means i have never run out (although realistically im pretty sure 2 cauldrons per furnace would also work)
@@trevinbeattie4888 can you elaborate? 1) so using lava works? my concern is once the bucket is empty, its stuck in there and doesnt automatically get pulled out? 2) why 2 cauldrons per furnace? wouldn't you just need one cauldron per furnace since its only one bucket per furnace? or is the math, that one bucket of lava gets reduced faster than one cauldron of lava filled? so you need two, to help cover the difference in time for max efficiency?
I've learned so much from your videos and they're really enjoyable. I appreciate the context with some of this stuff- it's always nice to hear WHY something works and not just showing us where to place the blocks. Your redstone knowledge has really helped me tremendously! Thank you so much. Cheers
When I make a skeleton spawner farm, I really like putting in a furnace with some hoppers and chests to smelt off the gold and iron armor pieces that invariably clog up the output, and power it with the bows that also take up so much space.
Hey Pixl, I have only used your super smelting build since I saw it in S2. The best and thanks for the info on all types of fuel sources, hope your PC is back soon. Cheers
11:28 extend each end of the rail 2 blocks past the first and last hopper. this will ensure that you get the proper amount of items in each hopper. yes having it with one block will double feed the end hoppers........most of the time. sometimes it will triple feed and run out more fuel in the end furnaces. if this loss isnt something you are concerned with then build it just the way Pix did. hope this helped someone who was wondering where their coal whent.
Blaze farms are actually incredibly easy. You can build a "professional" looking, very efficient farm but what i did was went to a spawner in one of those sealed rooms, spawnproofed the hallway (2 blocks tall with moss carpet on the floor) and put 3 hoppers in the floor, a chest in front of each, and then above the chests i put slabs on the ceiling. The blazes cant see you with the slabs (you can have a potion on hand just in case), and they cant escape to anywhere else. It took me less than 10 minutes to set up. Plus, blazes give amazing XP. So sitting at a blaze farm gives you double the xp of regular mobs (i think its double) plus an amazing fuel source. And its great for making potions and ender chests
I feel like it's worth mentioning for Charcoal that it can be pretty easy to add a charcoal maker onto one of these styles of super smelters to make the process of automating it easier as all it requires, input wise, is a the ingredient to smelt and a ton of wood to churn through into fuel. I feel like charcoal is a bit of an underappreciated item since it can do a lot of things coal can (minus being made into a block).
I still make one like this - I am sure you taught me that way back. I liked using the lava buckets. Just had to find the closest lava lake! :-) Thanks again Pixl.
I've been using renewable lava to smelt the kelp from my kelp farm, and then using the kelp as fuel for my other smelters. I don't have an iron farm yet, so my max lava capacity is limited by how many buckets I make, but I can just keep storing the kelp blocks in chests and stockpile more and more fuel
Thank you Pix :) You mentioned lava being unstackable and dangerous to get, so I hope that you'll touch on renewable lava (via dripstone and cauldrons) some time in the future, I've been using that for my super smelter and it works wonders, I just have to be sure to refill my buckets every so often
I feel like bamboo has an underrated benefit over other fuels, in that it can be farmed automatically & pumped into your super-smelter, unlike any other fuel which requires the player craft a thing or gather a thing, or both. I usually make a lava farm early on, these days, but if I really needed to smelt a massive amount of some building material, I'd go bamboo, with an attached moss / bonemeal generator, so nothing ever needs to be refilled. Early days for that, at this stage of Season 3, but it is a 3 farm combo that can actually be built fairly early in the game, without an insane amount of redstone.
23:30 hype for blaze farm. I was missing it last season and it’s honestly one of my favorite farms in the game, especially the pathfinding version. As an aside: for your attic, maybe you could build that one log pillar in the basement staircase all the way to the ceiling could give the attic some anchor? (Lol i have no concept of building terms)
Thanks to waterlogged rails I was able to turn the basic 8-furnace smelter into one that loads the furnaces evenly so that they all start and end at the same time, no matter how many stacks you load. And then realized I could also turn it into an even burning inline 16-furnace array. It'll cook a hopper minecart and two double chests worth of materials and all 16 furnaces finish at the same time. All using these basic mechanics. No fancy redstone contraptions needed.
When you got to the floor lever powering the hopper so you could collect the XP from it put a thought in my head. What about putting pressure plates down in front of the hoppers? That way, you just have to walk up to one to automatically pause it, and if you decide not to take anything out, just walking away turns it all back off and it resumes normal operation without any interaction.
@@Pixlriffs I've watched a bunch of your stuff before, but for some reason, this season of the Survival Guide is giving me all sorts of ideas for my own Minecraft Realm. I'm glad I could give you an idea in return.
I think the problem with pressure plates is you have to then stand there and wait for an item to finish smelting. With levers (or a single lever wired up to all furnaces) you could lock them all and grab as they finish.
Another great video! I always forget you can use wool and carpet to smelt stuff 😀 I have a gold farm, so I like "Gambling" with the nether gold ore blocks as I'm not short on gold... so far I think I've come out slightly ahead on gold nuggets than if I'd just smelted the blocks, but it's all down to the RNG and I've probably just been a bit lucky 😄 I also tend to put levers on the fronts of the furnaces to remove XP from them,I know this locks any hoppers going into the furnace when powered, but as I only ever switch them on for a very short amount of time to remove an item, then turn them off again, it doesn't really cause a problem. I just prefer how it looks with the switches on the front. Just personal preference, and you have to remember to turn the levers off after you've taken the XP or nothing will go in or out of your furnaces 😆
Another name for an automated arrangement of multiple furnaces that you will usually see used in a more technical context is "furnace array", while "super smelter" is typically used by content creators with a focus on entertainment instead of the technical details. (It just sounds more exciting.)
Personally, a manual system with lava (and dripstone next to the furnaces to generate lava) is the best way to go in a single player map. You rarely smelt any amount that makes that system worse than any other. Before dripstone, my favorite was a smelter in the nether next to a blaze farm, which can be arranged as an automatic smelter. Blaze rods are the second best fuel after lava, but blaze farms are always changing so I don't know how they are made in 1.20 (hope to see that in this series)
Hey Pix. I believe that diagonal rail next to the first "smelting" hopper might be making it take extra items, which would make an uneven distribution of the items and less fuel-efficient system overall. One extra horizontal rail before the hopper would help.
There's one fuel source you forgot, although this one is so uncommon, nobody can hold it against you. ^.^ You mentioned Wool and Carpet, but you forgot about Banners. If someone have a Raid farm, those pesky Captain banners can be used as fuel to smelt any junk they might have dropped. Kind of like all those bows from skelly spawners. ^.^
This was covered in the early episodes on how to get free leads from the Wandering trader by using boats on the Llamas. You can also easily tame the Trader Llamas when they are trapped in a boat. These are free pack mules. You can put chests and carpets on them. No need to hunt through mountain biomes. No expensive breeding of mules from donkeys and horses with golden carrots. And they still follow boats when led by a lead at full speed. However, to Trader Llamas do not count toward the breed everything Advancement or Achievement. You can breed one with a regular Llama to get a regular baby Llama. Once that grows up you can re-breed it with it's regular Llama parent to get credit to the breeding everything advancement. The number of inventory slots appears to be random, so you'll have to breed quite a few to get maximum portable storage for your mining and exploration adventures.
-edit- Ah. He explained it later. Gotcha. ---------------- For those in bedrock, the furnace WILL give you xp when you pull an item from the furnace/blast furnace/smoker, but then it has to build the xp bank back up before it give you any more. A lever helps stop the item from being pulled into a hopper.
The one thing i allways wondered with Nether gold is, how the XP side is. I asume fortuning the ore will probably give you much more exp than the smelting operation per block, but i don't actually know.
I have put a lava farm next to my skeleton spawner, so while I wait for skeletons to spawn, I collect the lava and store it in chests there. When I have a smelting project, I just drop down to the farm and collect a bunch of lava buckets.
Can't believe I never realised that about nether gold ore! In a recent world I got silk touch long before I got fortune so that would have been really useful...
Don't discount bamboo too much as a fuel source...the one downside to the more 'efficient' sources like lava, coal blocks, and kelp is that they're good for large loads of smelting, but tend to get wasted if all you do is a small batch. OTOH. build a bamboo farm that feeds into the fuel line of your smelter (the farm is designed similar to the sugarcane one seen a few eps back), and after a little bit of waiting for things to initially fill up, you can use the thing to smelt as large or as small a load as you like, without having to worry about gathering fuel ever again.
I fell asleep after watching this video and had a dream where Pixelriffs needed someone to stand on a pressure plate for some redstone device and ended up getting Docm77. As Pixel is touring and giving an explanation of the machine we see Doc start wagging and punching, and Pix is like “Ah, he’s doing his Hermitcraft intro.” Doc opens the door he was behind and they have a conversation something like this: D: “Heeey man, what am I doing here?” P: “I just needed someone to help out on my redstone project for a moment.” D: “Alright (chuckles) but I’m supposed to be getting revenge on the buttercups. There was like 10,000 chickens man.” P: “Thats quite understandable, you can just pop in through the Rift, and it’ll be alright.” Then I remembered that the Rift was closed, and Empires S2 was done, than I further realized that this is a private single player world, and for Doc to get home he’d have to open the Rift whilst in another dimension to a world that’s dead and has previously severed connections, twice to the place he’s trying to get.
Additional tip: You might think that smelting blocks of raw ore will turn it into a block of its smelted counterpart, but that’s not the case! You need to break the raw ore block down into its 9 pieces in order to smelt them.
The problem with the specialist smelters is that 2 furnaces are also twice as fast as 1 furnace. And this is a weird case where 1+1 isn't 2 as neither can smelt things like glass or bricks.
Using kelp blocks is even more efficient smelting 20 items per block if you are close to an ocean. Also you can smelt the kelp with itself so it’s very cheap and if you make a kelp farm its free.
I don't know if it's because I'm on bedrock edition or what, but I've been trying for the past 30 minutes to keep the powered rails from connecting and its just not happening.
I wouldn't say "bad" I've got a lava farm set up next to my furnace array, I just fill up a chest minecart with lava buckets and set it off, once all the hoppers are filled it takes ages to run out, and I just take the empty buckets out of the bottom chest and refill the empty slots in the chest minecart. It's a closed loop system really, it can only hold a fixed number of lava buckets at any one time, and it only takes a few minutes to keep it topped up. Plus I kinda enjoy filling lava buckets from cauldrons. It would definitely take me longer to travel all the way to my wither skelly farm to get loads of coal, and I can't be doing with smelting kelp, then crafting it into blocks to stack in a furnace array. Maybe I'm just weird, but there's something very satisfying about having a bunch of cauldrons all set out in neat rows, all full of lava, and just running down the row with a stack of buckets 😆 Yeah, I'm probably weird.
Pix had a lava farm last series but I think he ended up finding it tedious to gather and a waste to use in a furnace array unless you have thousands of items to smelt. For me, the solution has always been putting the lava cauldrons in the same room as the furnaces so there's less back-and-forth.
@@BooksMusicMe17 It's just personal preference really... and unless you're smelting the exact number of items every time, smelting stuff is always gonna waste *some* amount of fuel. If it's renewable, I'm not really that bothered about wasting a few items worth of lava 😄
@@soultundra7869 In the context of furnace array specifically the ways of referring to is having to gather at least eight buckets of lava every time you want to smelt something to ensure every furnace has fuel. Because lava is unstackable it's a bit tedious, especially if your inventory is full, and negates some of the time saving of having a minecart furnace array set up in the first place. I'm a patient smelter though so I usually use lava in less furnaces at a time and just go do something else for a while.
Hoppers don't collect XP like items, so the only way hoppers would prevent you from getting the xp is if the xp orbs get stuck on the hopper's hitbox. The solution is simply to stand next to the hopper, not to break them
"You can make sure you are smelting 8 items per block of coal"... yes you should. If you are using 8 furnaces always put in full stacks of materials to smelt when using coal, each furnace will always receive a number of items to smelt divisible by 8, no waste. Its really easy to waste lots of fuel in a super smelter if you don't put enough materials in, especially coal blocks. Also slabs... bedrock players get a bonus for using slabs, I think 1.5 items per slab, so 12 items per log crafted into slabs, more efficient than charcoal and you don't need to spend fuel to make it.
When you talked about using lava for fuel, you only talked about natural sources of lava. I've found that a lot of people still cut down trees for renewable fuel, rather than dripstone lava farms.
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Seriously, nothing in the world will stop this man from educating people on minecraft. It is truely incredible how he is still pumping out videos more frequently that alot of the yt'ers in subbed to
Pix gives lots of helpful tips and tricks of doing something in Minecraft!
Lriffs saved my marriage
Once again, even as a 10+ year player, pix has taught me something… I never even considered wool as being a fuel source. Granted it’s not a good one, but in a pinch, it’s good to know it’s there.
I sometimes use it as a bad fuel - as a filling in my endoflame setup.
If you want to get cheaty cheaty, you can make a carpet dupper and use that for unlimited fuel.
I could have 16 colors of fuel! Don't ask me why I have 16 colors of sheep.
I think pressure plates should work even better than levers for collecting XP. Place them in front of the furnace, that'll lock the hopper and allow us to collect the item(s) and XP accumulated till that point, and when done, simply step aside from the pressure plate.
Anyway, great video pix, always love watching you ❤
My friend did this in 1.13, and I've been doing it ever since. It looks much cleaner having the furnaces flush with the floor.
I'll have to try this. I havent played for a few years and at that time furnaces could be abused by a bug to store past exp forever. I was on bedrock and used it for infinite xp. Now that its patched I was looking for a way to get exp again but didnt like the level trick when I had lots of stuff to smelt but didnt want to babysit the smelter.
@klumze9911 I play on bedrock just use a villager trading hall / iron farm combo thing for xp
@@emmdeekaysays173 This is exactly what I had in my vision, must look so clean and functioning right?
@@klumze9911 Sadly afaik the bug has been fixed, although there are several others which have some or other form of glitching furnace XP, they really aren't practical in a survival POV, not to mention, a majority of them requires running the world on a multiplayer
I love this series so much just because it serves as a break from the fast paced, unbearably over-edited minecraft content nowadays - I just love this chill vibe from your videos, so keep it up!
So true, nowadays all youtubers speak 6x faster than normal, shouting, while captions are constantly flashing into your face.
Same. Only MC youtubers I can even stand to watch are Pix, Shulkercraft, and build tutorials from players who dont even speak
Smelting is one of those basic things I just never bothered to look into very much. You just put something in a furnace, you set it and forget it and come back and you have a little xp and the thing you wanted to smelt. I'm so glad you went over this because I can really step it up now and learn something new :)
Pixlriffs, you are so incredibly articulate. You often amaze me with your creative yet precise language.
That transition at 3:12 is just amazing.
Having the sound going into the next scene really seals the deal for me.
Hey Pixlriffs. Great work as always. Two things you might have mentioned.
Building a Super Smelter in the spawn chunks will keep it running even if you are not around.
Even though kelp gives you one drumstick it might still be useful because you can eat it very fast. It is actually the food wich can be eaten fastest. So you can restore your hunger without being stuck in that eating animation so it might be useful in PvP or against a horde of mobs.
Great tips for autosmeller! I myself recently started using lava, with help of dripstone/cauldrons placed next to furnaces. That way whenever I need to smelt something I just scoop bucket of lava from cauldron which will then refill itself. Would love a way that doesnt include that, but once a lot of buckets are collected, you can forget refilling for a long time
I also tend to use this method, although eventually fully automatic methods of gathering fuel like bamboo are better because you don't need to bother refueling.
And general advice for anybody reading this in the future, it takes 2 dripstone lava cauldrons to keep 1 furnace running indefinitely. (For powering large super smelters its generally easier to exceed this ratio so you don't have to baby sit it as much)
I built a version of this a couple years ago (based on the first season of Survival Guide!) that uses the same core premise, but with a bunch of QoL features. It's probably my finest Minecraft creation.
- Hidden redstone on a single lever to deactivate output hoppers for ez xp grabbing.
- Automatic minecart loader/launcher - holds a hopper cart in place while it's filling, launches it when it's full.
- Minecart track "locks" that keep the minecart rolling back and forth over the input hoppers as long as it still has items. Once it's empty, the track is "unlocked" and the minecart can return to the auto-loading point. Great for those HUGE projects. Makes it fully AFK once you've dumped in all your fuel/material - no need to ever stop or manually refill a cart.
I also put some indicator lights on the loader/launcher mechanism to let you know when the cart is out rolling, or when it's time to refill the input chests.
Loving the series. Gives even veteran players a great refresher
Get this man to a million, he's one of the most consistent and best minecraft youtubers out there
I've been playing minecraft for a LONG time and I've never bothered to make a super smelter, thank you for this video, I've now made this design in my world and I can't wait to use it
Excellent video, as always! I always seem to forget the nether gold trick. Thanks for the reminder.
I’m loving the subtle changes to the logo each episode. It’s fun to guess what the episode is going to be about… if the title doesn’t give it away first of course!
I love a good super smelter. Especially for glass. And sometimes mass quantities of smooth stone types. Thanks for easy setup, Pix
Its been more than 6+ years since I am playing this game yet I learn something new in every episode of this series
good job pix!❤
Hey @pixlriffs - always love the survival guide and the details you go to explaining all the basics. I am hoping, however, that in this third season that you revisit these topics with more advanced builds. Like the super furnace array - a broader discussion on how to build them better and more efficiently. Or examples of different types of builds.
I know it is only a matter of time before you build a storage system and I expect it will be the traditional basic one with the hopper chain, but it would be great to get an advanced lesson using hopper mine carts and detector and activator rails with a water stream over ice to show how to make a huge improvement in the system... Obviously you're going to address the basics first, but as you head into later chapters, revisiting with advanced concepts would be awesome.
I've been really enjoying this series, it's like a breath of fresh air and has re-ignited my passion for the game. Great videos, keep up the fantastic content! Easily a million subscriber worth channel!
I learned about the dangers of using lava as a fuel source, the hard way. Made my automatic drip stone lava farm and was smelting away. Went to go grab more ore from my valuables chest and left clicked to open….. it didn’t open….. it threw lava on it 😭 I never hold lava in my hot bar anymore. Lost so many diamonds and resources plus it started burning down the mine shaft I made a base out of 😂. Hard lessons.
Great hearing the "creative mode" Minecraft music in the background! Brings back a lot of great memories of previous videos and series Pixl.
I’m sure it has been mentioned but I believe a simple lava bucket farm is needed soon
3:36 my favorite "Redstone" build 😂 The Charcoal Kiln 😂
21:15 I personally prefer charcoal kiln that auto feeds smelter
Thank you for saying it is "perfectly reasonable" wanting to always make sure you are smelting eight items with every piece of coal!
I was beginning to worry I was becoming a bit OCD there.
15:45 calmly explaining how an automatic smelter works while your enderman audience flips the hell out in the background
Hooking up a bamboo farm to the furnace array is way better because it grows so fast, and removes the need for any crafting.
Another way to get xp off them is to install switches on the front of the furnaces. When they are switched off they still burn but they don't send to the chest. This allows you to get the xp pulling out the finished product by hand, then switch them on. And every once and a while just turn them off to get xp.
Nevermind shoulda waited til I watched the full video lol
I always get so excited when i see a new episode is out...! Thank you for making these! :D
That enderman was about to steal the lever. What a save Pixx! 😂😂❤
I’m on holiday right now and sometimes I miss the comfort of my home (I mean the hotel and everything is so good but of course the best place is home). What gives me good vibes is to lay down and watch Pix’s new videos 😊❤
Very well done dude. You did forget that lava is now renewable. With an iron farm and a lava farm, that is the best fuel source.
one fuel that did not get its recognition here is farmed lava, the player does not have to run around to get lava it can be dripstone accumulated into cauldrons so a single lava block can provide endless supply of lava. I am subbed and playing loosely along with this series and very early game buried 8 lava blocks in the ground that dripstone fill 8 cauldrons in the basement, which began by gathering one single lava block from the wild, I seldom use anything but lava for fuel but have no clue how much of that can be automated if any, I have never experimented with that much but gives me something to do after work.... really like your video's....
The series remains brilliant. Hope your PC is home soon.
i actually exclusively use lava as my fuel source. what ive found is that putting my lava farm next to the super smelter and having 6 cauldrons per furnace means i have never run out (although realistically im pretty sure 2 cauldrons per furnace would also work)
My own foundry has 5 furnaces and 24 lava cauldrons, so this checks out.
@@trevinbeattie4888 can you elaborate?
1) so using lava works? my concern is once the bucket is empty, its stuck in there and doesnt automatically get pulled out?
2) why 2 cauldrons per furnace? wouldn't you just need one cauldron per furnace since its only one bucket per furnace?
or is the math, that one bucket of lava gets reduced faster than one cauldron of lava filled? so you need two, to help cover the difference in time for max efficiency?
@@theresmeinteam9567the bucket gets pulled out as output like the items that have been smelted.
Yay! This is totally in preparation for building David Copperfield the 9th!
Isn't it the 6th?
Let's compromise and say its the 69th
I've learned so much from your videos and they're really enjoyable. I appreciate the context with some of this stuff- it's always nice to hear WHY something works and not just showing us where to place the blocks. Your redstone knowledge has really helped me tremendously! Thank you so much. Cheers
Love starting the day with a survival guide video
When I make a skeleton spawner farm, I really like putting in a furnace with some hoppers and chests to smelt off the gold and iron armor pieces that invariably clog up the output, and power it with the bows that also take up so much space.
Hey Pixl, I have only used your super smelting build since I saw it in S2. The best and thanks for the info on all types of fuel sources, hope your PC is back soon. Cheers
Another fantastic episode and I learned so much! Thank you!
11:28 extend each end of the rail 2 blocks past the first and last hopper. this will ensure that you get the proper amount of items in each hopper. yes having it with one block will double feed the end hoppers........most of the time. sometimes it will triple feed and run out more fuel in the end furnaces. if this loss isnt something you are concerned with then build it just the way Pix did. hope this helped someone who was wondering where their coal whent.
if you build the inputs the same way as Pix then that is fine. its just the end bits that would need to be extended
Blaze farms are actually incredibly easy. You can build a "professional" looking, very efficient farm but what i did was went to a spawner in one of those sealed rooms, spawnproofed the hallway (2 blocks tall with moss carpet on the floor) and put 3 hoppers in the floor, a chest in front of each, and then above the chests i put slabs on the ceiling. The blazes cant see you with the slabs (you can have a potion on hand just in case), and they cant escape to anywhere else. It took me less than 10 minutes to set up.
Plus, blazes give amazing XP. So sitting at a blaze farm gives you double the xp of regular mobs (i think its double) plus an amazing fuel source. And its great for making potions and ender chests
I feel like it's worth mentioning for Charcoal that it can be pretty easy to add a charcoal maker onto one of these styles of super smelters to make the process of automating it easier as all it requires, input wise, is a the ingredient to smelt and a ton of wood to churn through into fuel. I feel like charcoal is a bit of an underappreciated item since it can do a lot of things coal can (minus being made into a block).
Mannn i already knew the minecraft basic but this guy was opening my eyes to even more about minecraft
You can also make a lava farm using dripstone and caldrons. Dried kelp blocks can also be traded with the butcher villager for emeralds.
I still make one like this - I am sure you taught me that way back. I liked using the lava buckets. Just had to find the closest lava lake! :-) Thanks again Pixl.
Goddamn it babe i woke up late, hey youre not awake yet? Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.
I've been using renewable lava to smelt the kelp from my kelp farm, and then using the kelp as fuel for my other smelters. I don't have an iron farm yet, so my max lava capacity is limited by how many buckets I make, but I can just keep storing the kelp blocks in chests and stockpile more and more fuel
Thank you Pix :)
You mentioned lava being unstackable and dangerous to get, so I hope that you'll touch on renewable lava (via dripstone and cauldrons) some time in the future, I've been using that for my super smelter and it works wonders, I just have to be sure to refill my buckets every so often
I feel like bamboo has an underrated benefit over other fuels, in that it can be farmed automatically & pumped into your super-smelter, unlike any other fuel which requires the player craft a thing or gather a thing, or both. I usually make a lava farm early on, these days, but if I really needed to smelt a massive amount of some building material, I'd go bamboo, with an attached moss / bonemeal generator, so nothing ever needs to be refilled. Early days for that, at this stage of Season 3, but it is a 3 farm combo that can actually be built fairly early in the game, without an insane amount of redstone.
After I saw that last episode I knew this one was coming! I love building super smelters
23:30 hype for blaze farm. I was missing it last season and it’s honestly one of my favorite farms in the game, especially the pathfinding version. As an aside: for your attic, maybe you could build that one log pillar in the basement staircase all the way to the ceiling could give the attic some anchor? (Lol i have no concept of building terms)
Such an fantastic series!
Thanks to waterlogged rails I was able to turn the basic 8-furnace smelter into one that loads the furnaces evenly so that they all start and end at the same time, no matter how many stacks you load. And then realized I could also turn it into an even burning inline 16-furnace array. It'll cook a hopper minecart and two double chests worth of materials and all 16 furnaces finish at the same time. All using these basic mechanics. No fancy redstone contraptions needed.
When you got to the floor lever powering the hopper so you could collect the XP from it put a thought in my head. What about putting pressure plates down in front of the hoppers? That way, you just have to walk up to one to automatically pause it, and if you decide not to take anything out, just walking away turns it all back off and it resumes normal operation without any interaction.
Great suggestion! I like that idea.
@@Pixlriffs I've watched a bunch of your stuff before, but for some reason, this season of the Survival Guide is giving me all sorts of ideas for my own Minecraft Realm. I'm glad I could give you an idea in return.
I think the problem with pressure plates is you have to then stand there and wait for an item to finish smelting. With levers (or a single lever wired up to all furnaces) you could lock them all and grab as they finish.
i know everything about minecraft but I still find these videos very enjoyable
Another great video! I always forget you can use wool and carpet to smelt stuff 😀
I have a gold farm, so I like "Gambling" with the nether gold ore blocks as I'm not short on gold... so far I think I've come out slightly ahead on gold nuggets than if I'd just smelted the blocks, but it's all down to the RNG and I've probably just been a bit lucky 😄
I also tend to put levers on the fronts of the furnaces to remove XP from them,I know this locks any hoppers going into the furnace when powered, but as I only ever switch them on for a very short amount of time to remove an item, then turn them off again, it doesn't really cause a problem. I just prefer how it looks with the switches on the front. Just personal preference, and you have to remember to turn the levers off after you've taken the XP or nothing will go in or out of your furnaces 😆
So thoroughly covered, excellent!
I was really looking forward to finding the chestboat idea to deposit items into furnaces in this video frfr 😭
You can make a lava generator using dripstone and a cauldron. I find that having four of these generators gives me plenty of fuel for my needs.
0:45 he makes a duck sound🦆
The furnace xp glitch a few updates ago was so good. I kinda wish they didn’t remove it.
Another name for an automated arrangement of multiple furnaces that you will usually see used in a more technical context is "furnace array", while "super smelter" is typically used by content creators with a focus on entertainment instead of the technical details. (It just sounds more exciting.)
See also “mega base”.
I always refer to my 8 furnace array as a "mini super smelter" 😆
@@soultundra7869the meaning of super smelter has shifted a bit since Hermitcraft and Scicraft
Personally, a manual system with lava (and dripstone next to the furnaces to generate lava) is the best way to go in a single player map. You rarely smelt any amount that makes that system worse than any other.
Before dripstone, my favorite was a smelter in the nether next to a blaze farm, which can be arranged as an automatic smelter. Blaze rods are the second best fuel after lava, but blaze farms are always changing so I don't know how they are made in 1.20 (hope to see that in this series)
Hey Pix. I believe that diagonal rail next to the first "smelting" hopper might be making it take extra items, which would make an uneven distribution of the items and less fuel-efficient system overall. One extra horizontal rail before the hopper would help.
There's one fuel source you forgot, although this one is so uncommon, nobody can hold it against you. ^.^
You mentioned Wool and Carpet, but you forgot about Banners.
If someone have a Raid farm, those pesky Captain banners can be used as fuel to smelt any junk they might have dropped. Kind of like all those bows from skelly spawners. ^.^
I started watching you after I’ve been playing on Minecraft server, but you have been really useful for us and my team
Crafting ladders from the bambooplanks is even more effective.
Place a Boat down to capture Mobs and remove their Leads. Also, you can then remove the Mobs by using a Lead on them in the Boat.
This was covered in the early episodes on how to get free leads from the Wandering trader by using boats on the Llamas.
You can also easily tame the Trader Llamas when they are trapped in a boat. These are free pack mules. You can put chests and carpets on them. No need to hunt through mountain biomes. No expensive breeding of mules from donkeys and horses with golden carrots. And they still follow boats when led by a lead at full speed.
However, to Trader Llamas do not count toward the breed everything Advancement or Achievement. You can breed one with a regular Llama to get a regular baby Llama. Once that grows up you can re-breed it with it's regular Llama parent to get credit to the breeding everything advancement.
The number of inventory slots appears to be random, so you'll have to breed quite a few to get maximum portable storage for your mining and exploration adventures.
Thx for the help pixl
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Ah. He explained it later. Gotcha.
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For those in bedrock, the furnace WILL give you xp when you pull an item from the furnace/blast furnace/smoker, but then it has to build the xp bank back up before it give you any more. A lever helps stop the item from being pulled into a hopper.
The one thing i allways wondered with Nether gold is, how the XP side is. I asume fortuning the ore will probably give you much more exp than the smelting operation per block, but i don't actually know.
I have put a lava farm next to my skeleton spawner, so while I wait for skeletons to spawn, I collect the lava and store it in chests there. When I have a smelting project, I just drop down to the farm and collect a bunch of lava buckets.
I've made auto bamboo farms in Minecraft and then had the bamboo hoppered into a fuel chest underground for my furnace setup.
You can actually double the input the minecarts provide to the furnaces by waterlogging the rails,
One step at a time! As always, we’re introducing the basic concept here and will look at ways to improve it in future.
@@Pixlriffs all good, you do you, just something thats relatively new i didnt expect many people to know,
If Minecraft didn’t exist pixlriffs would be a History teacher or something 😂
Can't believe I never realised that about nether gold ore! In a recent world I got silk touch long before I got fortune so that would have been really useful...
Don't discount bamboo too much as a fuel source...the one downside to the more 'efficient' sources like lava, coal blocks, and kelp is that they're good for large loads of smelting, but tend to get wasted if all you do is a small batch. OTOH. build a bamboo farm that feeds into the fuel line of your smelter (the farm is designed similar to the sugarcane one seen a few eps back), and after a little bit of waiting for things to initially fill up, you can use the thing to smelt as large or as small a load as you like, without having to worry about gathering fuel ever again.
I fell asleep after watching this video and had a dream where Pixelriffs needed someone to stand on a pressure plate for some redstone device and ended up getting Docm77.
As Pixel is touring and giving an explanation of the machine we see Doc start wagging and punching, and Pix is like “Ah, he’s doing his Hermitcraft intro.”
Doc opens the door he was behind and they have a conversation something like this:
D: “Heeey man, what am I doing here?”
P: “I just needed someone to help out on my redstone project for a moment.”
D: “Alright (chuckles) but I’m supposed to be getting revenge on the buttercups. There was like 10,000 chickens man.”
P: “Thats quite understandable, you can just pop in through the Rift, and it’ll be alright.”
Then I remembered that the Rift was closed, and Empires S2 was done, than I further realized that this is a private single player world, and for Doc to get home he’d have to open the Rift whilst in another dimension to a world that’s dead and has previously severed connections, twice to the place he’s trying to get.
Additional tip: You might think that smelting blocks of raw ore will turn it into a block of its smelted counterpart, but that’s not the case! You need to break the raw ore block down into its 9 pieces in order to smelt them.
While carpets are absolutely inefficient, they are also extremely easy to dupe, which gives them a use for smelters for less scrupulous players.
What kind of monster would smelt their wooden pickaxe?! That goes in an item frame over my bed in *every* world.
Blaze rods with a Blaze Farm. My go to for fuel.
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can't find kelp in a river, but since the update to rivers I love to plant it in rivers as an early game kelp farm.
Bamboo grows REALLY FAST and making a large bamboo farm is easy.
Wtf that enderman doing on a tree😂.. it was on top of pix at 15.46 lol
Yeah I think he warped through me at one point lol. Trying to bait me into looking at him
I use dripstone and cauldrons to generate lava for my smelter setup.
The problem with the specialist smelters is that 2 furnaces are also twice as fast as 1 furnace. And this is a weird case where 1+1 isn't 2 as neither can smelt things like glass or bricks.
Using kelp blocks is even more efficient smelting 20 items per block if you are close to an ocean. Also you can smelt the kelp with itself so it’s very cheap and if you make a kelp farm its free.
I don't know if it's because I'm on bedrock edition or what, but I've been trying for the past 30 minutes to keep the powered rails from connecting and its just not happening.
I would like to mention that lava is renewable with dripstone and some cauldrons, it is still a bad fuel source though.
I wouldn't say "bad" I've got a lava farm set up next to my furnace array, I just fill up a chest minecart with lava buckets and set it off, once all the hoppers are filled it takes ages to run out, and I just take the empty buckets out of the bottom chest and refill the empty slots in the chest minecart. It's a closed loop system really, it can only hold a fixed number of lava buckets at any one time, and it only takes a few minutes to keep it topped up. Plus I kinda enjoy filling lava buckets from cauldrons. It would definitely take me longer to travel all the way to my wither skelly farm to get loads of coal, and I can't be doing with smelting kelp, then crafting it into blocks to stack in a furnace array. Maybe I'm just weird, but there's something very satisfying about having a bunch of cauldrons all set out in neat rows, all full of lava, and just running down the row with a stack of buckets 😆 Yeah, I'm probably weird.
@@soultundra7869not weird at all. Lava is a great renewable source for furnace arrays!
Pix had a lava farm last series but I think he ended up finding it tedious to gather and a waste to use in a furnace array unless you have thousands of items to smelt. For me, the solution has always been putting the lava cauldrons in the same room as the furnaces so there's less back-and-forth.
@@BooksMusicMe17 It's just personal preference really... and unless you're smelting the exact number of items every time, smelting stuff is always gonna waste *some* amount of fuel. If it's renewable, I'm not really that bothered about wasting a few items worth of lava 😄
@@soultundra7869 In the context of furnace array specifically the ways of referring to is having to gather at least eight buckets of lava every time you want to smelt something to ensure every furnace has fuel. Because lava is unstackable it's a bit tedious, especially if your inventory is full, and negates some of the time saving of having a minecart furnace array set up in the first place.
I'm a patient smelter though so I usually use lava in less furnaces at a time and just go do something else for a while.
Nice! Great ideas!
Hi Pix I knew I was staying awake for a reason 😁
6:00 you forgot to mention that hoppers pick up xp, if you break the bottom hoppers as well you will grab more of the xp the furnace dropped
Hoppers don't collect XP like items, so the only way hoppers would prevent you from getting the xp is if the xp orbs get stuck on the hopper's hitbox. The solution is simply to stand next to the hopper, not to break them
"You can make sure you are smelting 8 items per block of coal"... yes you should. If you are using 8 furnaces always put in full stacks of materials to smelt when using coal, each furnace will always receive a number of items to smelt divisible by 8, no waste. Its really easy to waste lots of fuel in a super smelter if you don't put enough materials in, especially coal blocks. Also slabs... bedrock players get a bonus for using slabs, I think 1.5 items per slab, so 12 items per log crafted into slabs, more efficient than charcoal and you don't need to spend fuel to make it.
This episode reminds me that I should build my auto smelter now 🤣 guess I should start grinding again 🤣
When you talked about using lava for fuel, you only talked about natural sources of lava. I've found that a lot of people still cut down trees for renewable fuel, rather than dripstone lava farms.
"Incidentally, you *cannot* make blocks of charcoal."
As an XisumaVoid subscriber, I find that comment deeply amusing.
Make a lava farm to fuel your smelter! Dripstones and cauldrins should work.