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Beating Minecraft's Hardest Modpack With Nothing // Episode 2 - It Takes A Village(r)

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The content details the player's progression in a modded Minecraft "start from nothing" challenge, focusing on building a functional mob farm, overcoming resource scarcity, and tackling the complexities of villager breeding and crop cultivation within the game's mechanics.

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welcome back when we last left off fate

and a little bit of Creeper tickling had

left us an enormous ball of dirt to

harvest I intend to dedicate all of that

dirt towards a more nuanced mob farm but

first let's get rid of that shall

we the location and design of this new

mob farm is fairly important I want it

to be close to where I spawn because I

will be dying a lot from it but not so

close to the rest of my everything that

mobs will be able to easily chase me

down and murder me I also want it to be

far enough away from everything that

mobs will continue to spawn at all times

which means within a 64 block

sphere but also tall enough that they

will keep spawning while I'm using the

farm this means the farm will need to be

at least 24 blocks taller than the

surrounding terrain but again that 64

block restriction in a sphere still

applies it must also be wide enough to

allow extremely thick mobs to use it

without jamming it up too much these

demands bump up the dirt requirements

for the farm by quite a lot from my

estimated 17 stacks and I'm going to

need to pop some more creepers before I

can finish the roof and Gilling

room after I lightly torch up that's a

joke you can laugh the creeper platform

so that I can see what spawns without

disrupting it it's a fairly simple

matter to roll mobs until I find a dirt

creeper I actually get two and after a

great deal of careful operation prove

that I have learned my lessons well and

successfully detonate both of them in

the correct spots I collect the dirt

just before nightfalls and return to

building after a quick death to refresh

my Hunger as my weapon and armor

situation improves hunger is

increasingly going to become a

bottleneck in my work this will not be

changing for quite some time however so

I Soldier on and sip instead from the

infinite Bounty of the Void or I would

if I could remember which gravestone had

my torches in it I don't even have

chests yet and sorting is becoming a

problem good grief I also realized I

didn't relight the mob platform so now

Enderman are going to mess it up again

frustrated noises

intensify at least I have mobs now

though that's an improvement over the first

first

episode since I currently lack dirt and

nighttime I decide to install the rest

of the water in the mob farm instead

while I do that I should mention that

water in Greg Tech New Horizons does not

infinitely Spawn from Source blocks like

it does in vanilla Minecraft I'm not

sure why this was implemented because

there are tons of other ways of

automating Water Production even this

early in the game and in the situation

I'm in right right now surrounded by

literally nothing even that is not

enough to make this much of an issue my

best guess is that it was to prevent

people from feeling like they had to

manually top up their water supplies

every time they ran low but it might

just have been an aesthetic choice I try

to swing a creeper Spawn from the farm

before night passes but no

luck the next day I'm able to get one

from the tube after the usual surgery

and masterful tail wiggling in its

general direction I get it half way up

the creeper detonation platform I lose

sight of it for a second and I guess

this is long enough for it to lose

interest because it then turns around

walks away and just waltzes off into the

void I do not understand mob pathing in

this version of Minecraft at all what a

waste I get another one later in the day

and this time I take a different route

incidentally look at the size of that

creeper good grief when I get him on the

stairs he turns around and does the

exact same thing as the other one

I am being

scammed I take a bit of time to change

the stair design just in case it is a

weird pathing bug and wait for Knight to

spawn me some more once I roll a spawn

cap that has a couple I camp out on the

tube it turns out to be a waste though

because apparently the creepers

despawned and I didn't notice it and I

am left with nothing except a piston

which will admittedly come in useful

later I eventually get a third tube

creeper and it actually goes where it is

supposed to go I have no idea if my fix

worked or if I just got

lucky and with that in my belly let's go

finish up the farm the roof of the farm

is easy I patch it up pull the Torches

from the inside and work my way down the

bottom of the farm is more tricky and

ends up having

several deployment

issues I eventually get everything

patched up but as still dirt short so I

will have to eat the tube for resources

this is honestly fine with me I've been

leaving it torched up anyway so I'm not

getting any use out of

it a little bit of engineering later and

we have ourselves a mob farm I have gone

through all of my grayes and pulled all

of the useful blocks and items I got

from infernals we have four loot bags to

open later by the way and use them to

give me some Redstone controls for the

farm the Pistons on the end will prevent

mobs from falling into the void allowing

me to kill them manually if I want to

and and if I want to stop the flow of

mobs into the Farm's killing chamber I

have a third piston further up the water

shoot this will be useful for things

like zombie villagers or creepers that I

want to break out and move around to

help me see inside I've placed some iron

doors to act as primitive Windows they

aren't great but mobs won't aggro

through them which is kind of all I care

about almost immediately I get a

redstone from a lightning creeper and

since the only Redstone carrying signal

item I can make a redstone torch needs

it I'm going to make sure to pick up as

much as I can get my hands on at this

point most of the super awful dirt

grinding is out of the way so I have a

stable safe is Farm design that lets me

filter mobs and now I just need to wait

for things that I want to kill to spawn

and then jam into the shoot with the new

Farm process of mob farming being so

much easier it's kind of ridiculously

simple to get stuff that I want spawn

rates are so high that I can basically

pick and choose which infernals I want

to kill and I only ever really take

damage from infernal effects and weird

hits that sometimes come through the

corners of

blocks my farming times are more of a

function of hunger now than health and

if my inventory fills up I can just take

a quick dip in the void to fix both of those

those

problems I pull another dirt creeper out

though at this point I don't really care

if I never need dirt all I have to do is

wait I take the time to open my

accumulated loot bags and get an

enchanted golden apple which is three

times rarer than the regular kind and

can't be used to cure villagers very funny

funny

Minecraft I pull another dirt creeper

out I'm honestly just going to start

stacking them on the new platform now

and make this giant pile of dirt balls

because I don't really need the stuff

and I don't even think it's worth

commenting on them at this point because

they are that

common after a fair amount but not a

terrible amount of time passes I finally

get my first natural gold apple drop I

take it back to the quickly growing

storage area and swing by looking to

open all of the loot bags that I stacked

up at this point but it looks like I'll

only get the one for today that's fine

zombie villagers are annoying to find at

the best of times and half of their

variants don't show up on the mini map

so this will just live in my inventory

until I'm ready for it I do take the

time to mine out some of my ever growing

dirt stash and build cages for any

zombies in whiches that I find though no

sense in being unprepared while I have the

the

resources while hunting for my elusive

zombie villager I end up running low on

HP I do my usual dip in the void trick

and only then notice that somewhere

along the line I have picked up a second

Golden Apple this is not hugely

surprising because they aren't really

all that rare and I've been doing this

for a while now but it is very much a

nice thing to have and I wish I could

have caught it on a

clip oh look a whip

is spotted it specifically heard it is

also unfortunately the wrong kind of

witch as a general rule if you don't see

the witch icon on the mini map then

witches won't have weakness potions The

Alchemist effect can sometimes be used

as a substitute but usually that effect

is paired with things that you don't

want your villagers to be near so I will

just instead farm for a

witch I can hear another witch in the

following shoot but have been waiting

for so long that the spawner is plugged

with spiders normally I could refresh

the mobs by jumping in the void but I

can't do that here without losing one of

the zombie villagers I've captured the

fact that I can see its icon in the mini

map also means that it is the correct

kind of witch because as mentioned

modded ones usually can't throw weakness

potions and all of those won't show up

without an icon once I isolate the witch

that RNG strikes again it has the choke

effect which basically means I will take

constant chip damage unless I hit it

regularly and it's also poisonous so I

will take constant ship damage if I do

hit it regularly I decide that I want to

have it kill me before I try and cure

the zombie that way it won't be infernal

and will make my life easier with a

little more wiggling I get a lucky early

weakness effect slam the Apple down the

Villager and banish the witch this took

I kid you not over 3 hours to

complete here's hoping for a sapling e

villager and it's bees oh boy do I love

bees gosh Jolly G darn it I love me some bees

bees

jerk I go back to it and almost

immediately get another zombie villager

in the farm nice because of the other

villager in the capture pen when I free

it it goes right over to where it's

supposed to go no baiting needed at all

convenient the game seems to be done

with messing around with me because

literally not 30 seconds after I killed

the clip I was taking when moving the

Villager a witch drops down the shoot a

real one not a modded one with an icon

and everything score I try to use its

withering effect Against Me by killing

myself to reset its infernal status I

fail however and am unable to punch it

again to get the effect because I am too

weak so I have to starve myself really

quickly instead either way the job gets

done the switch is far less Cooperative

than the others and it takes multiple

deaths before I can get a cure off

either that or it was running low on

weakness potions you could never

tell and it's a forestry villager

yay with the wrong trade

Boo as counterintuitive as this sounds

though this might actually be a good

thing I thought about it for a bit and

this is kind of the worst of the best

possible scenarios there are for villagers

villagers

because these guys do not have that many

trades in their pool and almost all of

them are saplings which will give me at

least a little wood however if we do

manage to roll a sapling trade after

trading for this one which is a grafter

we can guarantee sapling drops by using

the grafter that we had to buy anyway on

the leaves from the tree that we

purchased the problem of course is that

I don't have enough emeralds to buy

anything yet and when searching through

my stuff for emeralds the farm decides

to spontaneously explode for no apparent

reason whatsoever dumping water all over

everything a typical Greg Tech moment

right there I patch the hole in my farm

secure the Villager as best as I am able

to read in dirt with a torch for company

and resume the grind as an aside I'm

pretty sure getting wood is going to be

the single most difficult thing to do in

this pack for like five episodes at

least and the worst of it is over th

craft mini bosses are not super rare and

The Uncommon loot bags have about a 25%

chance of dropping an emerald so this is

really only a matter of

time in really no time at all I have a

handful of loot bags and one of them is

nice enough to drop an emerald with the

one I got in the first episode this is

crafter you

jerk all right then hold please after

shockingly little time I amass a

collection of 14 common loot bags and 10

regular loot bags I figure this is

probably good enough for a couple of

emeralds by my math I should get about

three and a half so I decid to crack

them open out of all of them I get six

emeralds and a bunch of other random

junk uh this is pretty okay in my book I

also get random Splash weakness potions

which is super neat so no more witch

baiting for me if I ever have to heal a

zombie villager again sadly there are no

golden apples but overall I'm pretty

okay with this result time to go visit

our recalcitrant friend and feed him

green rocks until he

pops 32 urine colored wooden planks

later and I end up getting a plantain

sapling as my third role I have

literally never seen this

thing yeah I'm fairly certain that

plantain also isn't a tree unless you're

talking about bananas which are a

separate kind of tree so I'm not really

certain what this thing is supposed to

grow into so I pop over to a test world

and Sprout it

up so initial thoughts lots of leaves

which means good things for its sapling

yield and it generates a workable amount

of logs although not a fantastic one the

one weird part is that I can't seem to

figure out how to turn it into planks uh

when the item drops it gives me banana

wood and there isn't any Associated

banana plank it has the log wood tag in

Forge though so at least I have logs but

not planks yay I'm getting really tired

of the game trolling me at this point

except hold on eat it you lousy game I

can just craft a better sapling by

trading for growing and harvesting a

plantain sapling I'm going to get logs

and more saplings this lets me make a

crafting bench which lets me make a

pickaxe which lets me make a furnace

which lets me make stone which lets me

make mortar and pistols which gives me

bone meal and I can combine all of those

things from sticks with witches and

plantain saplings to make a Greg Tech

Plus+ rainforest oak sapling whose wood

does give me planks it's simple uh

trivial really I have no idea why I was

concerned at all anyway in the time that

it took me to draw that out I farmed out

some more loot bags give me those

goodies and wow those were way more

generous than the other ones no

complaints here so come here villager

and give me your lame scammy bogus

sapling I have a game to beat and Presto

sapling grown while I execute my

brilliant plan some fun trivia for you

silverfish Stone and cobblestone look

identical and out of respect to that the

what am I looking at plugin calls them

the same material to presumably prevent exploits

exploits

uh what it doesn't do however is it

doesn't conceal the hardness and blast

resistance numbers and those are

different for silverfish Cobblestone and

regular Cobblestone more fun trivia

despite murdering plenty of witches I

also only have five sticks the solution

to this of course is more saplings I

have enough sticks to make a hammer a

saw and a file out of solid gold ingots

very blingy which give me the power to

strip leaves off of a sapling so times

Greg Tech everyone regardless I plant my

new totally not genetically modified

sapling bone Millet and Presto wood has

been solved I crank out a few of the

introductory quests with my new found

wealth and then get to work one

moment through the power of wood I

present to you a cleaner working area

brought to you by

shovels wow gravel which I didn't need

wood for at all but I need Flint so

whatever bite me I guess I just started

caring about gravel now reusable

storage more reusable storage because I

have too much junk oh please help me I

have too much junk and I haven't even

entered the Stone Age yet Farms which

again I could have done before but

whatever no more gravestone collections

because I have real storage now and

improved mod pen because I still have a

use for this thing that you'll see in a

little bit and it also didn't need wood

but bite me cropsticks for a

weed weeds as in unwanted plants that

break cropsticks not haha funny number

Canadian flag plant this one is a bit of

a weird one so I will explain in a

moment and finally a bed so that now at Day

Day

57.6 by my math we can fin finally

finally go to sleep this has got to be a

world record for slowest bed percent in

this run anyway back to the weeds this

mod pack has Industrial Craft 2 crop

breeding in it industrial craft crop

breeding is basically the birthplace of

breedable anything in Minecraft in this

mod pack and something like 80% of the

crops are entirely useless at any stage

in the game I see this as proof that

breeding was a great mechanic

implemented with absolutely zero thought

given towards practical

implementation but one that is useful to

me right now is also conveniently the

easiest to get weeds these are normally

a punishment that you get if you don't

pay your attention tax on time and they

will very quickly eat your expensive

pedigree crops by overgrowing everything

with more weeds basically it's just

Kudzu but angry they are also useless

except for a weird aesthetic feature

that most people will never encounter

and fewer still will have a practical

use for weeds will spread air quotes

there to dirt blocks nearby converting

them into grass blocks and finally after

almost a Day of Play Time real life I

can finally touch grass we are minted up

to our eyeballs right now we got

Grass Grass blocks of course mean

passive mobs they also mean seeds

because in order to get seeds in this

pack you have to hoe grass blocks rather

than Breaking Tall Grass why I have no

idea pointless mechanic passed the first

5 minutes of the game and probably an

accidental addition from a mod that was

added for other reasons but it's in

there so oh well but why stop there more

wood more Quest completions more coins

and more loot bags side note my opinion

is that Quest rewards are a fair game

for the starting with nothing rule set I

can access the quests with a keybind so

you are supposed to have access to them

at all times even if you don't have the

quest book and they clearly are not part

of a naturally generated World they also

mostly just give you stuff that can kind

of help kick you in the seat of the

pants a little bit rather than anything

new and useful exceptions to that rule

coming up so I consider it basically

fine strategically I am almost always

going to pick the loot bag reward unless

there is something that I don't think I

can get normally being offered because

loot bags can sometimes be useful you

can view the possible loot bag drop sets

by going into creative mode and shift

right clicking on the bag each bag has a

chance of dropping a set of items from

either the default item pool or the item

pool that the bag is a member of which

in this case would just be basic Stone

Age both are shown on screen upgrading

the bag to its Enchanted State removes

the default item pool as an option which

isolates possible drops to only the

named item pool for the most part this

is what you're supposed to do and is

what I would do if it weren't for one

amazing fact there is exactly nothing

that I want from the basic Stone Age

item pool not a thing a full 80% of it

is either dye or random food and I have

both nothing to die and have no reason

to worry about food because I've been

getting on just fine without it for a

while now all three plantable items on

offer I either have already or can get

from crop breeding looking at you

sugarcane I have zero use for clay aside

from taunting the Apothecary villager

and the rest is stuff I can make armor I

don't need or potions with effects I

don't care about I actually want to pull

items from the default drop pull the

default pool on the other hand is full

of building blocks saplings and items

that I won't be able to get for a while

if ever it's good stuff also stuff that

isn't really necessary for me right now

I will be holding on to these on the off

chance that I can upgrade them to

something better in the future anyway

enough about loot bags my quest has

given me enough coins to purchase Oak

saplings as a reward from the coins tab

I do that I then turn it into an apple

sapling take a walnut sapling as a

reward from that Quest and carry on with

my life I will need the coins and the

quest that unlocks later for other

reasons that I will get into I also do

some more Quest management and complete

some of the easy quests with random

items I have lying

around while I'm reading through the

quest book one of its informational

quests reminds me that there is a couple

of caveats that I should mention about

this challenge the short version of them

is that first well I did come up with

this Sky Block style starting from

nothing challenge idea independently I

did not come up with it first the second

in that so far as I can tell everyone

who has tried this challenge myself

included agrees that it is impossible to

beat the game with this kind of rule set because

because

reasons I will leave the more nuanced

discussion of this towards the end of

the video so you can easily skip over it

if you aren't

interested but yeah like most other

challenge runs the mod pack is not

designed for these sorts of restrictions

sorry after a little bit of messing

around my weed is very quickly spread

and produces some delicious tasty grass

soon the whole island will be a fetching

shade of green and be infested with

passive mobs which will be the bane of

my existence for many a future run all

according to plan to get seeds however I

will require a Matic which requires

Tinker stuff to make because I don't

want to use up all of my iron hose if I

can avoid it after flailing around on a

crafting bench I slap together some

basic Tinkers and make myself a bone

mtic I now have in addition to access to

seeds repairable tools that even deal a

fairly decent amount of damage this

thing hits as strong as an unenchanted

iron sword which is pretty dang good at

this point for being infinitely

repairable this means I can start saving

infernal drops for processing into raw

materials down the

line now that I have wood I'm kind of

now in a bit of a holding pattern I have

a couple different Technologies at my

disposal that I can pursue and and each

has their own upside and downside I

could either explore down the Industrial

Craft crop breeding line and secure

myself some early wins by setting up a

basic crossbreeding kit this would be

fairly expensive initially especially

since I am very short on any sort of

material to craft tools out of but it

would give me a much more stable supply

of building blocks in the form of wood

from small pet saplings called

Bonsai alternatively I could instead

devote my resources to making a basic

villager breeder and explore their trade

options for further expansion both of

these need to happen at some point but I

decide to start on the farms

initially it will be far easier to get

villager breeding once I have an excess

of disposable building blocks and

villagers don't really help with farming

at all all 23 of my fresh new crop

sticks are planted with the oak saplings

I accumulated through farming my coin

purchase out it isn't a lot but it is

enough for steady wood supplies for now

because once these things grow up you'll

get around two stacks of wood from

harvesting them I also add a second

layer to my initial Farm because there

is basically no such thing as too much

farming at the

moment I am very quickly approaching the

point where lots of dirt gravel and

stone are going to be needed as well to

collect this I want to take advantage of

the power of charged creepers and

disposable building blocks so I create a

little creeper charge charger by pathing

the creepers up and running them over

the trap door the creepers should fall

in the water for storage and detonation

damping so they don't you know blow up

the entire Farm once charged I can then

free them and Route them to applicable

locations wherever that may be hopefully

we'll see I have passive mobs let's kill

them I isolate a lightning creeper

unfortunately it's glitchy and keeps

trying to clip through the floor it also

defin finds a different route to me

ignores the Trap entirely and then

explodes after a protracted game of Ring

Around the Rosie at least it was raining

so you know things don't catch on fire

as much as they could have oo free th

craft glue bag a gravel creeper is my

next Target and it goes in without a

hitch nice now for the lightning creeper

it is a little less cooperative and

seems to think it can jump but

eventually falls in the hole as well

after my paranoia check p passes I

detonate it carefully and succeed in

charging up my gravel creeper I then

apply the patented shake and shimmy that

brings all of the boys theard and get a

little close for comfort until it Blows

Its Top covering my Island in a fine

patina of ground Stone success sort of

cleaning up the mess Nets me a stack and

a half of gravel at the cost of

basically nothing but it still feels

weird that a crucial part of the game

progression is now tied up exclusively

in the process of covering my entire

Island in

garbage anyway I apply the same basic

principle to a dirt creeper I then do it

again with a lightning creeper you put

the lime in the coconut you shake it up

and then blow it apart to further your

technological progress firefighting not

included and just like that dirt plenty

of it so much dirt more than I will need

for a while in fact because my next

project will be the Villager breeder

which is purely dependent on wood it

will also require far more time than I

have left in this video so I will save

it for the next episode as always thank

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others have done on these Sky Block

Challenge runs stick around otherwise I

enjoyed you still here all right you're

still here research time let's dive into

it a little so to reiterate I am not the

first person who has tried to do this

Challenge and technically speaking this

challenge is impossible there have been

multiple documented attempts made by

various groups and individuals to

complete Sky Block kind of challenges

like this one with very various

different rules and config changes to

make them work there is no established

precedent for what rules are valid or

invalid here because basically no one is

crazy enough to try it if you're

interested in reading the history behind

all of that I will include some links

below all three of the previous runs

that I'm going to link had a bit of a

different spin on the idea of nothing

rather than deciding to convert all

worlds into void worlds they either

started out in a voided dimension

or just voided out the Overworld and

then restricted themselves to that empty

Dimension some of them played on

Peaceful difficulty for extra difficulty

and a couple of them spawned in a few

items for various reasons but those were

very much not Universal decisions the

routing of one of the challenge runs

seems to indicate that you don't

actually need to spawn anything in with

my current rule set but that's because

my rule set is slightly more permissive

than any of the other groups because I

have access to all Dimensions there is

just initially nothing in them either

way my rules seem like a pretty fair

interpretation of the basic idea to me

and I'm not softb myself here routing

for all of these attempts and I am very

much including this run and earlier runs

that I attempted in this category is

rough across the board this is nothing

like a mainstream speedrun or challenge

run where everything is already theed

out ahead of time there is a ton of room

for new innovation and it is cool that

I'm going to be able to contribute to

that the second copat that I want to

talk about is the one that's a little

bit sad so with all of the rules that

the previous runs were operating under

it was impossible to fully beat the mod

pack period the end game which is

creating something called a Stargate is

simply unachievable there were too many

things that you needed from too many

obscure locations and past a certain

point there was no alternative way to get

get

them currently there are three confirmed

items that blocked progression the first

is Bernarda seawood for creating radx

there is a sliver of a chance that I

might have a tentative solution to this

one but I don't hold out hope so don't

rely on it the second item is a chaos

Shard From draconic Evolution

I have made a configuration change to my

world to reenable an item that should

normally be functioning but was removed

presumably to prevent grief on

multiplayer servers and that combined

with my Dimension access allowed rule

means that this item should be

obtainable the quote unquote normal way

the third is a source of torium which

normally comes from tagam ores I have no

solution to this and I don't think there

is one with the version that I'm playing

on right now that version is admittedly

a couple versions behind the most recent

stable release I'm on 2.3 and I think

we're on 2.5 or 2.6 at this point so I

don't anticipate that it will make much

of a difference but if I truly find

myself soft locked later on by something

that is available in a future update I

will update that said the fact that this

run is going to soft lock itself is

really not a surprise I knew going in

that it would most like the impossible

to fully 100% beat the mod pack and was

entirely fine with that the goal here is

instead to push the limits of what I

know about this mod pack in a way that

is hopefully entertaining enough for

people to enjoy and as long as I'm

learning new things and breaking the

game in new and ridiculous ways I'm

happy with that and with that I will end

this video for real thank you for your

time twice over now and I hope you enjoyed

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YouTube Transcript:Beating Minecraft's Hardest Modpack With Nothing // Episode 2 - It Takes A Village(r)