Minecraft Habits Keeping You Poor

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[DimetryB]

>Minecraft Habits Keeping You Poor
>The recommendation to spend extra resources to put golden rails instead of just using redstone powder

[Jeff]

Actually, a fortune pickaxe is much more useful for compacting raw ores than a silk touch pickaxe. After mining an iron vein, take your raw iron in a crafting table and make raw iron blocks, which compacts 9 raw iron into 1 block. You can then decompact them once your back from mining. This way you can go on much longer mining expeditions without filling up your inventory and you know exactly how many blocks of iron you got too.

[SunriseAlchemist]

You don't want to silk touch ores aside from nether gold. Just carry a crafting table and you can craft the raw ore into blocks of raw ore, giving you 9x the space and saving you from wasting durability on your tools

[Maderyne]

I light up caves to see, not to prevent the mobs from spawning. Walking in a semi-dark cavern is acceptable I suppose, but still, I would rather see the blocks without the shadows.

[beewoman]

I had no clue you could actually shoot down chorus fruits, I'm actually mind-blown. Imagine the minigame potential for that.

[videosbymathew]

Use Y-54, not Y-58, for mining diamonds. It's a lot safer being above the lava layer and diamonds there are just as plentiful (slightly less technically, but it doesn't really matter).

[Merlin_Ambrosius_]

Regarding the statue of liberty. It was originally a brilliant copper color. So even if it’s not oxidized it’s still accurate. Just historically accurate and not modernly accurate

[imperfectimp]

There's one exception to the smelting ore blocks instead of raw ores. Even when you mine nether gold with fortune three, you'll never get a full ingot from a block. Silk Touch them instead, and stick them in a furnace.
Though I suppose most of you know this already.

[TrojanExodus]

I will say for the crop one, the best way to plant your crops is in a 9x9 square with one water source in the middle. You can keep expanding out with more 9x9 squares, or go up and make a big tower of farms with one water stream going down the middle.

[HappyMatt]

You can compact ores much more efficiently if you mine them with fortune and then craft them into blocks. You get up to 4 items compacted when you use silk touch instead, but you get 9 compacted when you craft blocks.

[neroclaudius]

Well, I'd actually rather use Shears since they are much cheaper to replace, especially with an iron farm

[_Abjuranax_]

Be careful using Lightning Rods for decorations. While they have their purpose, they also prevent Trap Horses from Spawning near the local area during a Thunderstorm. Take them down after getting your Advancements, and/or make sure there is a Block above them, either an overhang, or a block high enough that it can't be seen. Also, use non-flammable Blocks for your roofs to protect them from Lightning.

[ForeverLaxx]

I like these "trick" videos that still tell you to do the inefficient thing. Craft your fortune-gained ore while mining into the raw stacks instead. Also, you actually *do* want to smelt nethergold blocks because, in the long run, you'll get more gold ingots that way as the average number of nuggets gained per block under Fortune 3 is only 8.8 whereas if you smelt the block, you get 1 full ingot (which is 9 nuggets).

[lynjones]

1:22 "shorter than a block" is one pixel higher

[bismuth]

I disagree at 2:38 and here is why:
Basically, you need to consider how much yield you're going to get from fortune. If, on average, the ore gives you fewer than 9x yeild, you should instead mine the ore with fortune and craft them into blocks as you mine.
According to the minecraft wiki, every single ore, when mined with fortune, has an average yeild of less than 9 *except for lapis*, so the silk touch method is only the most efficent with lapis. Since everything else will give you an average yeild of less than 9 items, it's more space efficent to bring a crafting table and craft them into blocks. This way, you can carry more and do not need to re-mine everything at home. However, you could still use the silk touch method if you want to store the EXP for later, in which case, it still has an advantage.

[inoob]

Counterpoint to cactus + mob farms being inefficient for making lime dye, doing both things yield several side benefits like cactus smelting being integrated into a smelter array exp farm, and the mob farm providing other materials alongside being exp farms at the same time

[maxdiamondcat]

Tbh, I never knew that the chorus flowers could be collected with an axe. I always used arrows or a loyalty trident. The more you know.

[bellissimo]

Oh my god - the mud block tip alone was worth watching the video! Wasn't aware of it being a little less than 1 block high, so that you can remove stuff using a normal hopper... Minecraft keeps surprising me!

[okayokay]

While hoppers are fine for small sugar cane farms, hopper minecarts are so much better for medium to large farms because they cost orders of magnitude less iron and are much more lag friendly.

Also, unrelated sugar cane farming tip: you can use waterlogged stairs for your water sources for sugar cane. This means you can walk over the field while manual harvesting without worrying about falling into the annoying potholes and you don't have to route hopper mine cart rails around a block underneath the water.
Edit: forgot about water logged leaves. That has those advantage but you can also presumably put torches on them which you can't do with stairs.

[spinz]

0:14 We have a bigger problem



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