How To Find THE BEST STRONGHOLD | Minecraft 1.20 Guide (#19)

In episode 19 of the Minecraft 1.20 survival let's play it is off on the stronghold search for us. In this one we talk how to find a stronghold and some of my best tips and tricks for looting a stronghold for armor trim and more.

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[wattlesplays]

hi how ya doin friends?! 😄

for a cool unrelated obsidian hack check out this short from earlier today!

[Xizyx]

Always take an allay along when using the Eye of Ender during the Stronghold search. The little guy will quickly find where it lands if it didn't evaporate.

[ethanglaeser]

For the sake of convenience, I would always recommend that you bring 10 Obsidian and a Flint and Steel when looking for Strongholds. This allows you to set up your Nether Portal on the first trip, and then you can return through the Nether by building another portal and you never have to manually run through the Overworld to get back.

[pkbuggydclown]

Stronghold searching tip: each room further you travel from the entrance staircase has a lower and lower chance of being the portal room, so unless you want to 100% search the stronghold, you should stick pretty close to the stairs.

[Lamtm]

More speedrunner's tips:
1. When finding the stronghold, you can turn on hitboxes to easily find the eyes especially in the ocean.
2. The starter generation of the stronghold is called the starter staircase - a staircase which doesn't lead anywhere. The portal room is oftenly 5-7 rooms from the starter staircase.
3. If you dug down into a different room or got lost, you can follow the doors that were placed on the opposite side to get to the starter staircase.
4. There's a total of 4 alter chests in each strongholds.
5. In a 5 way room (the cross room as you called it), if you find flat walls that are made of stone bricks, you should always check if it's a hidden room.
Thats about everything, proud of you for learning about the 4 4 trick!

[sqzr]

Nice episode Waty Wat, hope that you are well.

You asked for tips.
Inventory should contain on top of your usual tools, weapons, food, torches, boat and blocks.
-Stacks (2-3) of cobblestone and logs, not oak as it's used in generation builds. Birch or acacia stand out as player placed.
-Ender chest. I usually take the obsidian and pearls on the first blaze hunt to make a couple immediately. The extra inventory is GAME CHANGING!
-Torches, extra stack or coal to craft them.
-Ender pearls, I agree with the 16 eyes min, but extra pearls help heaps in quick exits and exploration. Plus a couple of blaze rods, just in case.
-Obsidian + flint and steel for a portal to shorten travel to and from the end portal.

Exploration
-Always mark your path.
-Torches, place on the top layer, they generate at the 2nd and can be washed away on the floor.
-I place them on the left, so I know which is the right way out.
-Always follow the left wall and block off other passage entries until you come back to them, stops mobs coming behind you. You'll eventually return to the start. This will give you the perimeter.
-Then explore internal passages in the same manner, backtracking when you reach an area already covered. Go down any (left) passages you come across. These should have been on the right going in and are blocked off. Rinse and repeat.
-Traverse the perimeter again to verify that all the blocked passages on the right have been explored.
-Not sure if this is still true, the end portal room will always be generated within 5 doors of the entry. This is/was a speedrunners tip, might have heard it from the Hermit Cubfan or possibly Dream.

Silverfish
I'm sure that blocks with silverfish take longer to break, you said quicker???
If you use a lava bucket on them it's not recognised as a player attack, this means that reinforcements will not be summoned/spawned.

Have a great week and keep up the great content

[Dragonariscraft]

Wattles: Should I fight the dragon at episode 25 or 30?
Community: Do how you feel like.
Wattles: Let's do episode 20.
😂
Incredible episode as always!👍

[Jtcostel]

Pretty cool finding a spawner within. I went and found the stronghold for my world today, had two libraries and the deep dark consumed a good amount of the stronghold. Never have seen that before.

[stitrock]

A dedicated fan would count the number of times you called the stronghold a fortress. Thanks for being a real person Wattles. Great video.

[iantassinari]

One stronghold tip, block off all dead ends and or mark them with signs if anything important should be down the hall. It lets you easily identify where you need to go should you return in the future.

[GainaxBoy]

If you have two established villages that close to a Swamp Biome (especially with a waterway in between them); then I think you should definitely build and create a SWAMP VILLAGE from the ground up. Not only would it be an amazingly creative build project, but you would also be able to take advantage of those new sweet sweet biome-locked villager trades :)

[mitsosyt]

Stronghold Tip: Sometimes some rooms are not connected to the "main" part of the stronghold and to find them I suggest that you mine inwards in any stone brick wall in any 5 way room (the crossroad room). There is a way to determin if there are "secret" rooms but its better to just check every time.

[loneranger]

Stronghold tip: just go for it. Learn through experience

[andreascolignon]

I never do that chunk line up trick, I didn't even know it was a thing. Eventhough I am not new to Minecraft, I'm still learning, so thank you Wattles!!

[amb_]

not a stronghold but an end tip, but bringing snowballs and eggs to fight the ender dragon is very useful bc they can break the end crystals and could save arrows if u don’t have infinity on ur bow.

great episode as always tho✌️

[Matt]

I don't know wattles schedule, but I FELT this episode drop... felt it in my soul... what a great day it is today

[ethanglaeser]

My recommendation for Strongholds is to diligently use torches to mark out your navigation when you first go. Given that you are looking for 1 Portal Room, 2 Libraries, and any other number of other chests, you may actually want to spend a lot of time searching the structure. Additionally, I find myself returning multiple times so the torch marking helps a lot. My method is that I regularly use torches on the floor to light my way, and mark where I have been already. In junctions between multiple paths I will leave a torch to show that I went a certain direction, but I will always leave two torches on the path that returns to the starting point. This allows me to find my way back regardless of how turned around I get. Additionally, I have used triple torches to mark the way to the Portal Room sometimes.
I have had multiple Strongholds that collided with Mineshafts in spectacular fashion, and if you find yourself in that situation, the navigation marking may be frivolous. It can get insanely chaotic to have those two structures combined.

[mornemuller]

Since Armour trims are in the game and you can always find it there and if you have silk touch you can get bookshelves for your enchanting setup.

[Craxin]

When I'm exploring a stronghold, I only place torches on the wall if it's pointing the direction I came from, especially at intersections. The rest are always on the floor. Any naturally spawning torches get knocked down. That way, if I exhaust a path, I can find my way back. Alternatively, Jack-o-lanterns are also a great way to point your way back to where you were. Breaking doors is a good idea, if you see a door down a path, you know you haven't been there. Finally, some sort of marker block, something that doesn't spawn in the stronghold to mark a path you've taken is good. Wood or other crafted blocks are good.

[mathpi]

Stronghold tip: hug the left (or right) wall of the stronghold. If you keep doing that, you can easily explore the entire stronghold. If you want to backtrack, just hug the same wall and turn around (this will become the right wall if you started out on the left)