The Deep Dark & The Warden! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.47]
The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.20.2!
This tutorial will cover your first visit to the Deep Dark, and your first encounters with both Sculk blocks and their creepy sentinel, The Warden.
First, we cover another scary mob encounter - Phantoms, which can swoop down and attack you when you've gone several nights without sleep. We explore quick strategies to deal with them and discuss one of the main uses of their Phantom Membrane drops - creating Slow Falling potions.
After that, we head back under the mountain to a Deep Dark biome, where we encounter Sculk Blocks, which can be harvested for xp; Sculk Vein, which spreads to blocks the Sculk cannot; Sculk Sensors, which detect and relay nearby vibrations; Sculk Catalysts, which absorb xp from entities that die nearby and use it to spread the sculk; and Sculk Shriekers, which summon the Warden.
Intentionally spawning the Warden, we observe it from a safe distance and discuss how it hunts for the player, navigating using sound and smell, and how to avoid being detected by sneaking or using wool blocks.
After that we try spreading the sculk on the surface, then briefly explore how Sculk Sensors and the new Calibrated Sculk Sensors are used in redstone circuits!
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It should probably be noted that Phantom Membrane can also be a cat gift. Tamed cats that are allowed to follow you will sleep along with you in your bed. The next morning they will drop a "gift" for you, which in typical cat fashion could be fluff (string) or something the cat was proud to have hunted down. Also, Phantoms are also scared of cats, who will hiss at them when they get closer.
Also a good source of rabbits feet, in case you just want to make a few potions of leaping without going through all of the trouble of making a rabbit farm.
@TheRealWormbo I legitimately did not know that phantoms were afraid of cats I have been farming phantom membranes by snuggling with my fuzzy baby who love me before bed every night but I really did not know it was my furry baby who is bringing me a elitra repair kits thanks very much for your comment
You also get cats from a village or getting enough villagers
I play on Peaceful and cat gifts are essential. IlMango has a whole series on Peaceful mode and includes a great cat item farm using minecarts and glass blocks.
@@darthseverus89 I hope you put Mending (and Unbreaking) on your elytra, because repairs will get more and more expensive until you are literally not allowed to do them anymore.
Very glad Pix mentioned the Warden wasn't the kind of mob you fight head on. It wasn't designed to be and if you do successfully kill it, it doesn't drop anything unique like the other "bosses" in the game.
The skulk catalyst drop was intended to make them renewable, but had to be nerfed by Mojang. People would farm the Warden to make chests of them. The various skulk blocks can be kept and broken later to get XP for repairing tools. Fun fact: not only will cats hiss at and block the attack of phantoms but also Phantoms will not generate if you are standing bellow block height 62. The opaque blocks above your head are only needed if you are this "sea level" height in Minecraft.
Wait wait wait so even if I spawn him and slay him fully legitimately I get nothing for it really?
@@darthseverus89 you'll get a skulk catalyst, which isn't as unique as other boss drops cause you can just get skulk catalysts in any deep dark
@@darthseverus89 yuh, it’s designed to be not worth killing. when i’ve done it in creative, it also drops like 3 xp orbs lmao (or they were absorbed by the sculk)
Why did this seem like a nature document "Here we see the warden in it's natural environment" 😆
I have that David Attenborough voice lol
Brilliant 👏
The insomnia timer isn't impossible to check, but you won't see it unless you look for it. If you check your statistics in the game menu you can find "time since last rest", which will allow phantoms to spawn if it's over 1 hour.
I really appreciate that once he started descending into the mountain into the sculk area, the song “So Below” starts playing. Very fitting.
Lena Raine's music brings so much atmosphere to the game. C418's soundtrack is obviously iconic but it really feels like the soundtrack to 2015 Minecraft. Lena, Kumi Tanioka, and Aaron Cherof really evoke what modern Minecraft is like
@@Pixlriffs massively agreed, infinite amethyst is my favorite minecraft song (just about tied with wait)
@@Pixlriffs I feel like for the biome-specific tracks, yes, but otherwise I feel like C418's tracks are timeless to the game's atmosphere and tone.
Removing the sculk from blocks is also a good way to expose rare ores, such as diamonds in your world. Also, the insomnia counter is cumulative. So if you do not sleep nor expose yourself to the night sky by staying underground, the longer you stay, the more the insomnia counter adds up. This means that if you do not sleep for a 1000 days underground, when you do finally go out at night, the phantoms will literally darken the skies. It could be a challenge to see how many phantoms that you can kill in one night. Enjoy.
I started a world in your seed and thought it was a good idea to mine a staircase down in your mountain. I found out the hard way that I shouldn't when I summoned a warden near my mineshaft. That was a scary morning!
I've explored parts of the cave- which is huge- but avoided the Deep Dark parts because I wanted Pix explore it first. I'm such a chicken 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 that warden is no joke
Wake up babe, new survival guide just dropped.
Thanks pookie
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hey pix, when you kill the cow at ~19:10, the reason that it didnt spread is because it died on the catalyst
It's also intended behaviour that mobs won't start a new patch of sculk if they die in mid-air, so knocking a mob into the air when it dies is actually something to avoid.
Wtf is your handle
@@killianobrien2007 good band
they should add a wallpaper block that functions like glow lichen or skulk vein for people that want an indoor colour to be different from the outside block without making it 2 thick
Wow, for what minecraft is, the Deep Dark is actually genuinely pretty horrifying. This is the first time I've actually seen what the biome is like, and just wow. That first shrieker activation is something that would've legitimately terrified me if I ran into it organically, especially with the subtitle of "The Warden approaches"
Even though I’ve been playing Minecraft for more than 5 years and I know basically everything about the game, I still enjoy watching Pixlriffis’ videos and find it relaxing just to listen to him explaining all the mechanics
Lol I've been playing since 2015 and have since quit but this guys voice is relaxing :)
I've been playing since tu1 on Xbox 360 (2012) and I still enjoy watching pix's Minecraft survival guide series'.
Been playing since fire was even added and chest animations were a thing, try seeing how old I am💀
13:58 When you first walked past that 2 block hole, in the back of my mind I thought, "Hey it could be a good idea to cover that one up!" lol
Now that I think about it, a really interesting definition for a Minecraft boss would be that it affects the state of the player while loaded. The ender dragon modifys the hud with a boss bar, slightly alters the skybox, and starts unique music. The wither also has a boss bar, in addition to turning the sky black in Bedrock edition. Elder guardians give a status effect and a grafic on the screen. Finally the warden also gives a status effect, custom sound, and the sounds it makes can be heard no matter where the player is. As far as I know no other mob can affect these elements
The ancient guardian also has an ingame effect where it gives you a heart attack /jk
Raids have their recharge bars onscreen when you're in the radius of the raid but that's a bit of a different situation, but they could also be considered a boss
Totems of undying would also count according to this
@killianobrien2007 really? It obviously has to be a mob
So cave spiders are bosses??? How about strays?? But seriously though the warden isnt a boss and mojang has already said it you're supposed to avoid the warden not fight it
Touching the warden is a basic instant death.. Because it will target you in mediately
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FYI the Silence armor trim with gold or diamond looks AMAZING on netherite.
A less risky way of being able to see in the deep dark is to take night vision potions, also useful for raiding ancient cities. Just don’t drink them next to a sculk sensor and you’ll be fine! Reduces the need to put torches down and risk accidentally triggering a sensor
Yeah, I don't use the potions just because I'm addicted to torches. I don't want to walk into an unexplored place without realizing it.
@@tctheunbeliever same honestly. I have to get used to bringing night vision potions with me to the deep dark/ancient cities and to the fact that mobs don’t spawn in those areas
Once again, a super informative video, presented in a truly engaging way. I find that I know most of the things you talk about but every video has at least one bit of info that I store away for future use. The warden is something that I haven't really done much with. Looking forward to a future video about the ancient city and how to loot it "safely"/safer.
I wish I had the guts to get a closer look at the Warden, I just didn't want to risk being KO'd in one punch 😂
@@Pixlriffs Ya he terrifies me .. I've only ever beaten him in creative mode and that was only once.
@@Pixlriffs I'm usually too busy shooting for the ceiling. The only time I see him is when I get knocked off my pillar.
I just recently got into Minecraft about 2 weeks ago and I have already watched your survival guide 1-3 alllll the way thru 😅 lol thanks for all tips and tricks
the warden is so terrifying to me, but i am really glad they added it and ancient cities
What I find interesting is that Phantom Membrane can be used to repair an elytra. Since only similar materials can repair an item, that begs the question : What is an elytra made from?
In insect biology, Elytra are the hard outer wings of beetles. I wonder if the Elytra are shed by some sort of beetle evolution of Endermites? Obviously there's no big link to phantoms other than "it's another mob that flies", but it's fun to speculate about these things.
Also worth noting that Phantoms were originally going to be added to the End too, but that idea was scrapped (probably because you can't sleep in the End, so there would be no way to get rid of them.)
21:10 note here; it’s not that it needs to have an air block above it, as sculk can spread up walls. In order to convert something to sculk it must have a side where sculk vein can be placed. Sculk vein will not override other blocks, so that flower did stop it spreading. But if a sculk vein was to generate on the side or bottom of that grass block it would still be converted to sculk even if the top is covered. I’ve been working on an endermen-based sculk farm recently (it’s a nightmare) so I’ve had to figure out a lot of weird things with the sculk and it’s such a pain trying to get it to not convert the soul soil in my basalt generators to sculk
What a hero! I would never have dared to trigger the warden and stay near him. Gutsy! Thanks for showing it to me, so I don't have to.
There's an important misconception about Phantoms that I think needs to be cleared up. Although it's a bit less relevant now that Mojang added a rule that lets you change how many players need to sleep in order for nights to skip, I still think it's important to know. If you are in a multiplayer game, and one of your fellow players is far away from home mining or something, and can't/won't sleep in a bed, skipping the night isn't mandatory in order to reset your Phantom's insomnia counter. merely lying down in a bed for one game tick is enough, even if you hit the cancel button right away. And if you play in a multiplayer game with the rule set so that only one player needs to sleep to skip the night, and you play for hours without ever lying down in a bed because someone else was sleeping the night away for you, you STILL build up insomnia, even though the night was skipped. It's just that it will only take effect when you are above ground on a night that nobody slept, and will get swarmed by a huge wave of Phantoms when that happens. In other words, every player have their own insomnia counter. And every one of them only resets independently when that player sleeps, and will still build up if they don't. Resetting the insomnia counter and skipping the night to stop new Phantoms spawns for that night are two separate processes that are both triggered by the same action of someone sleeping in a bed.
Cubfan called. He said "embrace the skulk!".
I hung up
It's a good thing they thought about the sensors only detecting player actions. I was in an ancient city recently and 4 bats were flying around triggering the sensors like crazy
I love sculk and the Deep Dark!! It's such a cool addition to the game, and when you fell down that tiny hole right after summoning the warden it was so tense! The other day I played around with seeing how much sculk I could destroy in survival after teleporting to an ancient city and giving myself a hoe that could instamine it and repair itself with the mending, and I did also cheat at one point just to save myself from a death that wouldn't have been the warden because I wanted to specifically see how long I could avoid it so I definitely don't think it really counts and I still want to do the challenge completely legit one day, it surprised me how easy it was to avoid the warden, I kept getting more and more reckless until it finally managed to kill me but if I hadn't decided to go completely chaotic because I had something else to do and needed to finish, I probably could have lasted even longer! It's still a super scary place though!
Very glad you linked to the new Minecraft Wiki instead of Fandom.
It’ll be difficult to go back and find any old links I’ve posted in these videos, but I’ll definitely be linking to the new wiki from now on!
I think the Pillager sculk made a P for Pixlriffs!
Thx Pix, informative as always.
The new wiki address!
27:34 gotta love the new minecraft wiki plug
❤ watching phantoms get beat up is always a good time. I wanted them at first but... Seriously.
I voted for the Great Hunger and I will never forgive the community its folly
Am I the only one to think the warden is scary as heck?
Hey Pixl, thanks the deep dark and skulk tutorial, but I can't wait for ancient city raid eps. Till next eps Cheers
babe wake up a new survival guide just dropped
What a legend.
Lol😊
Currently in Bedrock 1.20.30 you can Silk Touch a skulk block and it drops a small bit of xp. You can repeatedly place and pick up the skulk block for unlimited xp.
Thank you for linking to the wiki's new home freed of the Fandom cruft!
Something about the combination of the subject matter today and your voice really made me feel like I was watching a nature documentary lol. Great video! Would love to see you make some sort of fun contraption with skulk sensors if the opportunity presents itself. They seem really neat but I am terrified of anything Redstone lol
"Here we see the Warden, the most frightening creature to be found in all the Deep Dark. Our player has inadvertently woken him from his habitual state of oblivion, and likely the interloper will pay dearly for his misstep. His uneasiness turns to alarm as he realizes that the hunter has detected him, and the prey panics. His options being rather limited, he frantically begins stacking his precious store of brightly colored wool blocks, utilizing a method commonly known as "pillaring" as he climbs desperately for the relative safety of a stony ceiling well above his head. But meanwhile the blind Warden appears to have sniffed out his target's general location, for he angrily attacks with the most devastating weapon in his inventory: the dreaded Sonic Blast, a thunderous shotgun blast of deafening sound capable of violently battering his victims with often lethal force. His first attempt is a miss but the second is deadly accurate. The hapless visitor somehow manages to survive the titanic blow but he is knocked from his high perch and hurled into space. If he survives the precipitous fall to the hard deepslate far below he will be rewarded with a horrific yet mercilessly rapid demise at the hands of the dark lord of this stygian realm. He will soon respawn in the friendly village presumably a bit wiser but very likely permanently scarred by his encounter with underground horror. The Warden will resume his eternal mindless vigil in the dark, in a dead and abandoned metropolis reared by a long-forgotten race."
I Just Came Across The Deep Dark And Now Seeking Information Before Entering!! Thanks For This Very Informative Video!!!🙌 (Hope I don't Die In My 3 Year Old Hardcore World)
Perfection.
And before we’re going too much further, I will note that I’ve brought two… arrows sticking out of my head 😂
That was so much fun ❤❤❤
This is one of the areas I've not played in survival in the Deep Dark. That will be another one of my firsts! :-) Whew!
Bro literally watching you from years brings nostalgia LOVE FROM INDIA 🇮🇳
Aww man, new episode dropped
Heyo pix, are you going to release a word with your storage room build? I find those really helpful to know how many items ill need
The easiest way to kill the Wither is to spawn him in the deep dark and summon the Warden and run away but not too far. Wait till he finishes the wither and get your Star.
FYI, the shriekers give no warning on bedrock. The Warden is triggered immediately
Out of all the hostile mobs in the game the warden is terrifying he even stronger than the wither and enderdragon.
The sound that Endermen make has always made my skin crawl
This good 👍
Lovely video as always! Just wanted to note that the warden can be incredibly easy to kill if you know how- even without any buffs or totems. If you have a few pillaring blocks/scaffolding, you can get out of range of its blast (I think it’s like 15 or 20 blocks) and then shoot it with a bow. Once a warden has aggro on a player, it will track them basically forever, but because you’re above it and out of range, it just stands directly below you, which means it’s incredibly easy to hit. Not that you gain much from doing it, but if you accidentally spawn one and it won’t go away, that can be an easy way to get rid of it
There isnt often a 20 block pillaring height in caves though
@@killianobrien2007 not always, but with how ancient cities generate- which is where you’d most often be encountering wardens- you can usually find a spot that works
You should normalise occasionally starting the video at night. Very aesthetic
Do you know about occlusion rules in non-straight lines? You showed a sensor and a shrieker on the same plane and in the same line. But in cities and the deep dark they are often at angles, I would like to understand where to place wool in those cases. After I'm done, my city looks like the annual wool market of a medieval shepherd's country.
The Machine!!!
Rain + Potion of slow falling+ riptide trident= poor mans flying.
Hey there Pixlriffs 😊😊😊. You're the best Minecraft Teacher
well i randomly came across a wardens spawn point i guess? he popped up and completely shitted on me 😂 now im thousands of blocks away from home i hope i find my way back
I currently just found this biome in my Minecraft Survival World on Normal Mode, So I Need a Guide!
I keep failing at avoiding Wardens😂, hope this video helps. Phantoms don't bother me much. I rather not expand skulk, I hate the stuff.😒
🎉I was here within the first ten minutes!!!🎉
Riffin on a Monday night
Pix setting that sheep on fire caught me off guard
Takes me back to spam clicking on the sheep in Warcraft
did you know that you can get looting 2 on your bow by putting it on your off hand and shooting the bow?
or looting sword on off hand and bow on main hand
Honestly? I've never had any personal experience with Skulk or the "Deep Dark". (Ancient Cities, etc.) Given everything I've seen & heard? I'm not sure that's a BAD thing!
If you drop tnt and explode it from a range, does that count as a shrieker trigger?
Not all know this but Phantom membrane is very useful, especially when you haven't acquired mending books. It can repair a broken elytra, just combine elytra and phantom membrane in the anvil. ❤😊
It used to be the only way to repair elytra before mending was added to the game. Now it's not really sooo useful as you're much more likely to have mending available before having looted End ships for your wings.
Mending and Elytra were added in the same update 😅
@@Pixlriffs Ah, my bad. I could've sworn Mending was the update after the End update😌😅
@@silverutopiaAlso it used to be leather before phantoms were added
When watching this i saw in the subtitles when the shrieker went off I says "Warden approaches" I would've just booked it our of there if it was me.
Yessssssss
i tried to sneak past the shriekers, but my cheeks are dummy thick and their claps alerted the warden. i'm sorry. this just popped up in my head while watching this episode
Is this a Decked Out tutorial? xD
Where can I find the lower shield mod?
You didn't mention silencing the skulk sensor using water.
This is just an introduction to these features, we’ll talk more about how to use them in future!
ur a teacher of Minecraft
How far we can stretch series of one sensor detecting another and so on...is to create wireless redstone control room...🤔
Each sensor can detect vibration from 16 blocks range...but how far series of sensor detecting each other could be extended ❓️
Is it affected by loaded chunks and spawn chunk limit🤔
Are you going to be talking about and addressing the change with the Wiki and the issues with Fandom?
I’ve mentioned it on Twitter and in this week’s episode of the Spawn Chunks podcast! It’s not something that’d make a topic for a full video, but I think other folks like Xisuma are already spreading the word with a larger reach!
How do you play this for so long without takin breaks. I always lose motivation and that ain’t used to happen. I love this game and grew up with it. I still play it but I don’t have motivation to play.
Same I play for maybe a month then stop playing for a few months. When I come back I end up deleting my world and starting as new one. I get burned out so easy.
What if the warden was made by a sniffer and a axolotl (sorry if you’ve already said this)
Does phantom membrane no longer mend elytra?🤔
It does, we just don't have Elytra yet so I can't demonstrate it.
@@Pixlriffs Oh, good! There have been so many changes, it’s hard to keep up. 😅
You can kill the warden by using a lot of iron golems Have you tried that?
I died a total of 40 times trying to get to this biome. 20 just trying to get there. 20 trying to get my stuff. I deleted the world.
How did you know I got my first sneak 100 achievement yesterday
You weren't sneaky enough
peaceful mode players are laughing right now
You have similar voice and videos like paul suarez junior
just me or is minecraft scary now
Hi
Anyone else switch off the warden in game options because they’re cowardly and find it really creepy 😂
How do you do that? They’re demons form my nightmares
@@DiamondBull66 it’s in game settings when you create a new world. You can turn off loads of different spawn types. Think you can do it via a command if you’ve got “cheats” enabled not sure how though
On every ending your name is always pixlrifs
Yep! That hasn't changed in almost 10 years
@@Pixlriffs what made you choose the name pixlriffs in the first place?
Okay so Riffs trivia time; It's a left over, i believe, from an old username when he worked on music production, Wiki Riffs. When he changed to gaming he switched Wiki for Pixl, but he liked riffs so he kept it. Pix, please correct any of this info because i don't really remember where i heard it (probably wikitubia which could be inaccurate)@@redfox3752
So, this isn’t a mod. I genuinely hope so, I play on PS4.
second or third
Upside-down, the p for pillager is d for di*****ds
Weird that you would censor the word 'diamonds' 🤣
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you got real first congrats
Grim, I found the first person to comment. Sorry
@@WiCritZ its fine
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you got beaten