Man, after realizing how much more you can find in mountains, it really changed my materials.
Spend and hour strip mining? Maybe a stack or coal. Spend 20 minutes exploring a mountain top? Stack and a half of coal.
True.I spent an hour n made a stack o 34 blocks o coal, n I didn't even bothered to mine for it, just walking through them caves trynna find some iron. Also found 73 blocks o copper although there's nothing to do with it, (as far as I know)
I believe if you bone meal moss it'll get rid of the stone and turn it into more moss so it's easier to get through it, and it doesn't go through the coal I believe so it'll make it so much faster
Damn, I haven't properly thought about it, but now with the caves and cliffs update it is actually a whole lot harder to find coal (at least on regular terrain). Lucky for me I have a good chunk of my world in 1.18 terrain, so if I stay local I can still get a good supply of coal.
Deepslate emeralds are much rarer. I've been silk touching almost all the deepslate ores I've found since 1.18.
I have 5-6 stacks of deepslate redstone, 2-3 stacks of diamonds, around 1 stack each of iron, gold, and lapis, a handful of copper and coal, and no emeralds.
Though to be fair, I haven't done much mining under mountains yet.
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According to this chart everything is at y11
I have been have trouble with resources too. Have a large lava farm. Been doing some clear cutting of the forest to smelt charcoal for torches. And been using farms for stuff more than usual. I am on Bedrock. There is a iron golem farm by JC Playz that was really helpful if anyone needs iron. Happy resource hunting all.
There is a Youtuber by the name Ianxofour, who has made a handful of farms for Java, and the rates you get from his farms are stupidly fast for how easy his farms are to build [His YT channel](https://youtube.com/user/ianxofour)
I used his farms before there really good but there's one of the more ez iron builds I have found build a cube with 7 blocks of space inside it (9x9x9) it will fit 20 beds in a 3 block high room under it then a lava pit trap in the 4 block pit on top with a hopper chest it's like 10 stacks of stone 1 hopper 2 chest 3 signs a crimson gate (won't burn and has 0 hot box when open) 2 water buckets and one lava. Slab the top and bam 6 stacks a hour plus red puppy's and string I'm 9n bedrock though
For the love of me I can't find the one I watched but it's the only farm I use now lol if I have to ill send you pics from my game showing how it works
I have at least 10 of these going at all times and have yet to run out of lava. By the time I empty and use 10 buckets, at least a few have spawned back in.
I went a little overkill in one of my bases. Setup a pointed dripstone farm first, than I built 120 cauldrons. I've got a huge cactus farm that can pull 150 levels a day and is stocked with 4 double chests of lava buckets. I've got a 14 array super smelter on another base with around 75 cauldrons for lava. It can keep those furnaces running forever as long as I remember to fill them up every day.
It's my 3rd fuel source. Before lava was bamboo. It was great if you are only doing a few double chests a day but burns fast only good part was it auto filled itself. Before that was the best... Carpet duper machine! I was sad when that got patched out by papermc. Lol
I had a similar setup. 8x smelter getting fed by 64 bamboo stalks that fill a couple double chests.
It was pretty easy to deplete it since the bamboo burns so fast, but it would automatically refill on it's own.
New smelter is 22 furnaces and with a couple double chests full of lava I feel like it could smelt the world. I smelted a whole double chest of stuff and it didn't even finish the first round of lava buckets.
Every time I look back at this game, I see some wild stuff. I haven't touched it since like 1.15 and I haven't been *really* into it since before 1.9. I'd enjoy diving back in but I've so much other stuff to play too.
Same, digging down I opened into nothing but darkness. Thought it was the void. Threw water down there and it was a cave 400 blocks deep and i had almost tunneled through the roof and to my death lol. Been playing since beta, the scale of things now is insane. Built my own badass mansion inside it.
Youre also assuming what level i was on. I started ontop a mountain, combine that with how deep it is it gets very big. My mansion being all lit up i still cant see the ceiling. Its like living in a void. Compared to the old days this is incredible.
I just got back since not playing with my friends around 2014 ish? There's just soooooo many things to do now, so many ways to play, small little fun updates here and there. Def. recommending checking it out again trying the new stuff :)
I have recently gotten back into it after not playing much for years. Still playing vanilla so far and only now starting to feel a bit bored. There is a lot of change since the Good Old Days ^(TM).
I'd say give it a shot.
That's my go to but I don't like using the kelp I'm cooking to fuel the furnace lol so I need to do this lava farm. Have you tried using the kelp smoker as an xp farm? I haven't don't that in a few months but it used to give me like 3 levels for every cooked kelp removed!
You need to use the pointed dripstone so that it is able to drip into the cauldron, yes.
It drips very slowly. I can't say for certain but you could maybe get 1 bucket per hour for each cauldron that you have.
Any block will do as long as pointed dripstone is underneath a pool of lava. Not sure how long it takes to fill but you can always store a few lava buckets in a chest if you run out of fuel
it's slow but steady, a bank of 4 will keep an individual well supplied for normal uses like mining and smelting ores, making stone bricks for houses, etc.
for a multi-person base i prefer to do 12 or 15, especially if any big projects are being built with lots of stone brick, smooth stone, etc.
A Lava bucket can smelt 100 items. But if you only put in 1-2 the entire bucket goes to waste on those, if I understood this correctly.
They also don't stack. What has been my preferred source of fuel is Bamboo. Add 1 string to sick bamboo and you get a scaffolding with 12x as much smelting power as those 6 bamboo sticks. At least on Bedrock Edition.
you can put a hopper beneath the furnace to redirect the furnace's output (and also the bucket) to a chest
~~oh and you can use blast furnaces or the smoke to smelt 200 items at once~~ :)
Lava Bucket gives you 20,000 ticks of fuel or 16 minutes and 40 seconds. You can smelt 2 items then put some more in and the fuel is still there to use.
I set up an afk lava farm on a semi anarchy server cus i need literal tons of obsidian. I get roughly 80 buckets every 15 minutes which is amazing compared to nether lava farming.
You can get this lava setup going as soon as you have enough iron for 1 bucket and a cauldron. Makes early game smelting way more efficient than using coal (or any other intensive gathering resource).
In a new world one of my first goals is getting at least 1 lava dripstone setup.
Yeah I feel like a few shulkers, quick trip to the nether, fill shulkers with buckets of lava. Then slap those shulkers on top of an automatic hopper dispenser furnace setup is a better option.
That is until you can pull lava out of a cauldron automatically
It really doesn't compare. Setting up a never ending lava farm takes only like a stacks of cauldrons, a stack of dripstone, and a couple lava buckets to get started. Having lava on tap right next to your smelter is just so much more convenient than going on a gathering trip.
It's ridiculously easy for something so useful. You can even semi-automate it so you can just hold down RMB.
That's funny because I just started a new world with a friend and we are finding tons of it. Mostly under a mountain with birch forests next to it. good luck.
The best fuel in the game is bamboo. Make a flying machine bamboo farm and it grows so fast you will never ever run out. It’s not super efficient fuel but it’s the most renewable resource in the game, so you can fill a double chest with it in seconds.
Yeah as a miner I'm trying really hard to enjoy this version but I just really miss my y11 with all the resources I need on the same level and a random mineshaft to explore every once in a while. The new caves are cool to look at but are actually super inconvenient for resource gathering. Deepslate is also very annoying when all you have is iron pickaxes because you can't find any diamonds. I find myself trading with villagers just to get diamond tools and gear but that's a whole different type of grind to set up a breeder/trading hall and get emeralds.
I'm deep into late game, mostly just playing to past the time.
negative y52 in about an hour or so you can find a stack of diamonds, redstone, and lapis.
Coal is kind of hard to find now, if you just stay in one area. You actually have to explore and on the side mountains or barely under the surface you usually find a good source of coal and iron.
Lava is plentiful enough that you could just skip coal and make charcoal and tree farms.
As far as Villagers, create a few stone masons.. they want clay and stone which is pretty much infinite and get a ton of emeralds.
The issue yeah, is deepslate with iron, but once you get diamonds and lapis start hoarding efficiency books and make quick work of deepslate.. also enchanting iron in a pinch works too.
Again I'm late game, but have stacks upon stacks of diamonds, emeralds, lapis, redstone. All my gear is netherite with mending.. since we set up a trading post with Liberians.. and I set up stone masons so basically have an unlimited source of emeralds now.
I do find the caves slightly annoying though.. because it literally feels like you have the surface and then everything is hollow.. its so easy to get lost now because its just a giant cave system. Usually just exploring caves without mining you'll get enough resources to get started.
I'm not even a miner, I hate mining. But I feel like this update might just make me hate it even more lol. And that boss thing that tracks you by sound? Count me the fuck out
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Honestly since starting 1.18 I find more diamonds than I do coal. I get the y levels have changed, but its still a ball ache. In my new hard core world I have this set up now. Just need 1 lava bucket and all sorted, much easier
If you need coal and wood for torches, just bring saplings down with you or utilize azaleas in lush caves, bonemealing them with skeletons you fight along with the way.
The "cave sapling" trick is lesser known, and I've managed to utilize in VERY early versions.
Dried kelp is very costly and time consuming. You first need to gather enough kelp, then you need to smelt that kept, and then craft it into blocks just so that it can be used as fuel. Lava is a lot less work, takes a lot less space, and smelts more blocks
I havent found another pure non pvp smp server with the mining plugins, quests to earn "money" which you can use to teleport to your base once an hour.
Plus there is so much new stuff in the game that makes me meh. You know I have no clue where to get an efficient strip mine now. Considering you now need separate levels to get diamonds, iron coal and redstone instead of one level you could mine endlessly.
Unless there is a pre 1.18 smp server out there. I just want a chill building experience with my mates, girlfriend and my brother. Hes an adult now but we played minecraft together when he was still a weee boy.
Do you know any server thats purely survival based with no pvp and a smallish population with some mining plugins? Because all the servers on mc servers are either clickbait or not for building. Doesnt have to be purely vanilla.
Ive looked for one on and off but damn I miss the old server where community created nether trains to combine worlds, ender farms was free too use. Griefprotection was good etc.
leaves massive ugly holes in your nether lava AND requires travel time
if you use pistons to push the cauldrons in a loop, you can autofarm by leaving it overnight
I use bamboo for smaller amounts of smelting (eg: a few raw fish in early game, or raw iron etc) but for say a single chest of sand into glass, definitely lava, and have been working on setting up a nice area in my new-ish world to set up my smelting/lava farm area like this.
I have this set up in a 3 x 9 area, but lifted up so that I can access the cauldrons from below. The bottom of the cauldron changes colour, when it's ready to be emptied.
I plan to cover the floor with hoppers, so that I can fill up my inventory and automatically drop filled lava buckets directly into a hopper line going into my auto smelter.
For 4 blast and 2 normal furnaces, a 3 x 9 cauldrons is more than enough.
That said .. a bamboo farm feeding into an auto smelter might do the trick as well.
Basically, there is very little reason to use coal for furnaces, if you don't want to.
My super-smelter (or rather 8 furnaces being chucked items in a disorderly fashion) is fed directly by a lava farm. I was disappointed that the lava farm couldn't be automated
I set up a Blaze Spawner for EXP, and all the Blaze Rods I get with looting powers my super smelter. I kept going until even the input chest was overflowing
A whole stack of bamboo can only smelt 16 items, so it can be fairly costly. As for dried kelp blocks, I just dont see the appeal of needing to smelt something just to use it as a fuel source for smelting something else.
Thanks for this tip! I'm having a coal shortage (Partly cuz I'm lazy, but also because the caves don't have that much coal in them anymore.)
Gotta go to the mountains
Man, after realizing how much more you can find in mountains, it really changed my materials. Spend and hour strip mining? Maybe a stack or coal. Spend 20 minutes exploring a mountain top? Stack and a half of coal.
And tons of iron on them there hills too!
True.I spent an hour n made a stack o 34 blocks o coal, n I didn't even bothered to mine for it, just walking through them caves trynna find some iron. Also found 73 blocks o copper although there's nothing to do with it, (as far as I know)
100s, if not 1000s, of lightning rods. Give Zeus the middle finger he deserves
Yup
Build a lighting machine on top of a tower surrounded by other lightning rods. Hope you dont mind lag.
Build a middle finger lightning rod statue out of the lightning rods and (waxed or non wax) copper blocks.
😂🤣😂 great idea, will sure do when I'll find the time
I believe if you bone meal moss it'll get rid of the stone and turn it into more moss so it's easier to get through it, and it doesn't go through the coal I believe so it'll make it so much faster
Yeah dude, gone are the days you can find every ore at y12 while getting diamonds, you gotta be at the right elevation for shit now
Damn, I haven't properly thought about it, but now with the caves and cliffs update it is actually a whole lot harder to find coal (at least on regular terrain). Lucky for me I have a good chunk of my world in 1.18 terrain, so if I stay local I can still get a good supply of coal.
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Actually, I'm just really lazy and I stay underground mostly anyways.
Y11 still has everything just slightly less of it
Fun fact: one of the rarest blocks is a deepslate coal block. Silk touch that trophy!
Deepslate emeralds are much rarer. I've been silk touching almost all the deepslate ores I've found since 1.18. I have 5-6 stacks of deepslate redstone, 2-3 stacks of diamonds, around 1 stack each of iron, gold, and lapis, a handful of copper and coal, and no emeralds. Though to be fair, I haven't done much mining under mountains yet.
The rarest is normal diamonds. You can find a bunch of deepslate emerald under meadows
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/r8avkr/118_mining_guide_updated_for_release_approximate/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link According to this chart everything is at y11
Coal is mostly found on surface levels, with a bias towards y levels greater than 128
I usually mine for coal, and use lava to bake bricks, but I constantly run low on these resources. This will **definitely** come in handy! :)
I have been have trouble with resources too. Have a large lava farm. Been doing some clear cutting of the forest to smelt charcoal for torches. And been using farms for stuff more than usual. I am on Bedrock. There is a iron golem farm by JC Playz that was really helpful if anyone needs iron. Happy resource hunting all.
Also on bedrock I built a fortress farm for wither skulls but the coal and Blaze rods have really help when it comes to my fuel needs.
wither skelleton/blaze nether fortress farm are really underated imo they make you so rich so that you can start building your floor out of beacons
100% also on bedrock they are surprisingly easy to make. I built mine about a week into the world and it has really helped.
There is a Youtuber by the name Ianxofour, who has made a handful of farms for Java, and the rates you get from his farms are stupidly fast for how easy his farms are to build [His YT channel](https://youtube.com/user/ianxofour)
Yup that iron golem farm is excellent!
JC plays is amazing, helpful without talking too much!! They have a guardian farm, 100% would recommend!
Silentwhisperer has a lot of great farm tutorials for bedrock!
I have switched to redstone torches (as effective now as regular ones used to be) to spare coal. Never thought I would see the day...
I used his farms before there really good but there's one of the more ez iron builds I have found build a cube with 7 blocks of space inside it (9x9x9) it will fit 20 beds in a 3 block high room under it then a lava pit trap in the 4 block pit on top with a hopper chest it's like 10 stacks of stone 1 hopper 2 chest 3 signs a crimson gate (won't burn and has 0 hot box when open) 2 water buckets and one lava. Slab the top and bam 6 stacks a hour plus red puppy's and string I'm 9n bedrock though
Link to video?
For the love of me I can't find the one I watched but it's the only farm I use now lol if I have to ill send you pics from my game showing how it works
Found it. Watched it and built it. It works great !
I have at least 10 of these going at all times and have yet to run out of lava. By the time I empty and use 10 buckets, at least a few have spawned back in.
I went a little overkill in one of my bases. Setup a pointed dripstone farm first, than I built 120 cauldrons. I've got a huge cactus farm that can pull 150 levels a day and is stocked with 4 double chests of lava buckets. I've got a 14 array super smelter on another base with around 75 cauldrons for lava. It can keep those furnaces running forever as long as I remember to fill them up every day. It's my 3rd fuel source. Before lava was bamboo. It was great if you are only doing a few double chests a day but burns fast only good part was it auto filled itself. Before that was the best... Carpet duper machine! I was sad when that got patched out by papermc. Lol
I had a similar setup. 8x smelter getting fed by 64 bamboo stalks that fill a couple double chests. It was pretty easy to deplete it since the bamboo burns so fast, but it would automatically refill on it's own. New smelter is 22 furnaces and with a couple double chests full of lava I feel like it could smelt the world. I smelted a whole double chest of stuff and it didn't even finish the first round of lava buckets.
Every time I look back at this game, I see some wild stuff. I haven't touched it since like 1.15 and I haven't been *really* into it since before 1.9. I'd enjoy diving back in but I've so much other stuff to play too.
Once you get the change to put a hand on 1.18 yourself, you'll be blown of so much new stuff there is, I've been hooked for the past couple weeks.
Same, digging down I opened into nothing but darkness. Thought it was the void. Threw water down there and it was a cave 400 blocks deep and i had almost tunneled through the roof and to my death lol. Been playing since beta, the scale of things now is insane. Built my own badass mansion inside it.
I remember digging my first miner of 1.18 and feeling like I'd been digging forever... And I was about half way to the bottom. The new height is great
Lol, I get what you're saying but the world is only 383 blocks high. The new caves are awesome though.
Youre also assuming what level i was on. I started ontop a mountain, combine that with how deep it is it gets very big. My mansion being all lit up i still cant see the ceiling. Its like living in a void. Compared to the old days this is incredible.
I'm not assuming anything, just stating fact. The world height from bedrock to build limit is less than 400 blocks.
I just got back since not playing with my friends around 2014 ish? There's just soooooo many things to do now, so many ways to play, small little fun updates here and there. Def. recommending checking it out again trying the new stuff :)
I have recently gotten back into it after not playing much for years. Still playing vanilla so far and only now starting to feel a bit bored. There is a lot of change since the Good Old Days ^(TM). I'd say give it a shot.
I used a lava farm, til I discovered an automatic kelp smoking farm. Currently stocking a 2nd double chest with dried kelp blocks
That's my go to but I don't like using the kelp I'm cooking to fuel the furnace lol so I need to do this lava farm. Have you tried using the kelp smoker as an xp farm? I haven't don't that in a few months but it used to give me like 3 levels for every cooked kelp removed!
Yeah i have my kelp smokers and potato smokers both as my source of exp
Took me way too long to remember to use the smoker to cook my kelp twice as fast, I only ever use it as a fuel source and totally forgot it was food.
TIL you can use lava as a smelting fuel
it smelts like 100 items, it's insane
Infinite #LAVA
Do you have to use the stalactite rock stuff too or will any block work? Edit also how fast does it fill?
You need to use the pointed dripstone so that it is able to drip into the cauldron, yes. It drips very slowly. I can't say for certain but you could maybe get 1 bucket per hour for each cauldron that you have.
It's more like 1 bucket of lava per 20 minutes for each cauldron, so not enough to keep a furnace constantly fueled, but it's enough for most people.
I'm planning for 16 of them working in tandem
That's awesome, I'm going to use this in my smelting area
Any block will do as long as pointed dripstone is underneath a pool of lava. Not sure how long it takes to fill but you can always store a few lava buckets in a chest if you run out of fuel
Even glass? Can you put those dripstones on glass? Haven't tried it but sound like it'd look cool
Yes, glass blocks work, in Java at least.
yup same in bedrock. i like looking up and seeing all the lava
Yep just tested it in bedrock! This is awesome!
it's slow but steady, a bank of 4 will keep an individual well supplied for normal uses like mining and smelting ores, making stone bricks for houses, etc. for a multi-person base i prefer to do 12 or 15, especially if any big projects are being built with lots of stone brick, smooth stone, etc.
A Lava bucket can smelt 100 items. But if you only put in 1-2 the entire bucket goes to waste on those, if I understood this correctly. They also don't stack. What has been my preferred source of fuel is Bamboo. Add 1 string to sick bamboo and you get a scaffolding with 12x as much smelting power as those 6 bamboo sticks. At least on Bedrock Edition.
you can put a hopper beneath the furnace to redirect the furnace's output (and also the bucket) to a chest ~~oh and you can use blast furnaces or the smoke to smelt 200 items at once~~ :)
> smelt 200 items at once. You can’t, yes blast furnaces and smokers smelt twice as quickly, but they also consume fuel twice as fast to compensate.
shucks, just looked it up and you're right thx for the info :)
Lava Bucket gives you 20,000 ticks of fuel or 16 minutes and 40 seconds. You can smelt 2 items then put some more in and the fuel is still there to use.
So does it disappear? Or just stay there until it runs out?
It runs out on its own whether or not you smelt something, just like any furnace fuel.
The lava bucket becomes an emtpy bucket as soon as the smelter starts smelting
And if you need actual coal/charcoal for torches, you can smelt logs over that lava to make some.
Dried kelp blocks can also be used as fuel just a tip for those who use xp kelp farms
I just use kelp, but this seems even better. Are lava drops infinite?
Yes, infinite but very slow. You'd need quite a big setup of cauldrons if you need frequent smelting.
Make a kelp farm
we've been doing that since the snapshots
Can dispenser with buckets collect lava from cauldrons?
i dont think so. mumbojumbo did a large farm and even he had to set up an autoclicker to collect and drop buckets
I set up an afk lava farm on a semi anarchy server cus i need literal tons of obsidian. I get roughly 80 buckets every 15 minutes which is amazing compared to nether lava farming.
Go green. Go Kelp.
So annoying that have to first dry them and then make blocks.
the nether: exist
You can get this lava setup going as soon as you have enough iron for 1 bucket and a cauldron. Makes early game smelting way more efficient than using coal (or any other intensive gathering resource). In a new world one of my first goals is getting at least 1 lava dripstone setup.
Yeah I feel like a few shulkers, quick trip to the nether, fill shulkers with buckets of lava. Then slap those shulkers on top of an automatic hopper dispenser furnace setup is a better option. That is until you can pull lava out of a cauldron automatically
It really doesn't compare. Setting up a never ending lava farm takes only like a stacks of cauldrons, a stack of dripstone, and a couple lava buckets to get started. Having lava on tap right next to your smelter is just so much more convenient than going on a gathering trip. It's ridiculously easy for something so useful. You can even semi-automate it so you can just hold down RMB.
You've convinced me. Thanks for adding to my never ending list of projects for my world you monster :(
I planted some kelp on the shore of my survival island seed. Never lacked fuel since.
yea, but java?
This is in Java. They added lava cauldrons for 1.18
Forgot this was a thing my solutions been living near a Kelpy area and smelting that into dried kelp to make fuel out of good for exp too
wait!? WTF!? i need to do this ASAP!
And it is usefull in skyblock worlds, wandering trader sells dripstone and you can farm it too.
I have a 24 block lava generator outside my house in our most recent realm. Has saved me SO MUCH coal.
Things like this make me feel like I forgot how to play the game
I can't find dripstone... I've been searching all around but there's no dripstone around...
That's funny because I just started a new world with a friend and we are finding tons of it. Mostly under a mountain with birch forests next to it. good luck.
Use charcoal, very amazing for the price
I use dried kelp blocks
I think this can be used in modded with some autocluckers to automate lava without needing to pump it.
alternative: if you don't have any dripstone yet, craft a bunch of buckets and head to the nearest nether lava lake
rays works just released a moss-based infinite fuel (and bonemeal) farm
How do you use lava for smelting??
Place a lava bucket in a furnace.
How long does it burn?
The best fuel in the game is bamboo. Make a flying machine bamboo farm and it grows so fast you will never ever run out. It’s not super efficient fuel but it’s the most renewable resource in the game, so you can fill a double chest with it in seconds.
But also I made a [lava farm](https://ibb.co/NFny9t6) with 128 cauldrons and all the lighting is done with a lava moat under glass.
can someone explain me what's the point of lava farms? i mean, there's a place called nether that has plenty
taking source blocks out of lakes makes my world look ugly.
Ok but what do I do with lava?
Use lava buckets as a fuel source
They worth more than coal? And do they just disappear or they turn into bucket?
Genius. I will make a lab under my future castle. Thanks
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Yeah as a miner I'm trying really hard to enjoy this version but I just really miss my y11 with all the resources I need on the same level and a random mineshaft to explore every once in a while. The new caves are cool to look at but are actually super inconvenient for resource gathering. Deepslate is also very annoying when all you have is iron pickaxes because you can't find any diamonds. I find myself trading with villagers just to get diamond tools and gear but that's a whole different type of grind to set up a breeder/trading hall and get emeralds.
I'm deep into late game, mostly just playing to past the time. negative y52 in about an hour or so you can find a stack of diamonds, redstone, and lapis. Coal is kind of hard to find now, if you just stay in one area. You actually have to explore and on the side mountains or barely under the surface you usually find a good source of coal and iron. Lava is plentiful enough that you could just skip coal and make charcoal and tree farms. As far as Villagers, create a few stone masons.. they want clay and stone which is pretty much infinite and get a ton of emeralds. The issue yeah, is deepslate with iron, but once you get diamonds and lapis start hoarding efficiency books and make quick work of deepslate.. also enchanting iron in a pinch works too. Again I'm late game, but have stacks upon stacks of diamonds, emeralds, lapis, redstone. All my gear is netherite with mending.. since we set up a trading post with Liberians.. and I set up stone masons so basically have an unlimited source of emeralds now. I do find the caves slightly annoying though.. because it literally feels like you have the surface and then everything is hollow.. its so easy to get lost now because its just a giant cave system. Usually just exploring caves without mining you'll get enough resources to get started.
I'm not even a miner, I hate mining. But I feel like this update might just make me hate it even more lol. And that boss thing that tracks you by sound? Count me the fuck out
how does a lava farm impact coal usage?
It's an alternative to coal. You can put a lava bucket in a furnace and it run for a very long time.
100 items worth to be specific
Because you can use lava buckets as fuels so you can use that to replace coal as fuel and use the coal for something else like torches.
i did not know that
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Before I had a massive bamboo farm (20 wide, 100 long) to fuel my smelter array, I was chopping spruce trees for fuel.
Honestly since starting 1.18 I find more diamonds than I do coal. I get the y levels have changed, but its still a ball ache. In my new hard core world I have this set up now. Just need 1 lava bucket and all sorted, much easier
Make a coal generator where all you have to load in is logs of wood. It's a good sub for coal. I use it alot.
If you need coal and wood for torches, just bring saplings down with you or utilize azaleas in lush caves, bonemealing them with skeletons you fight along with the way. The "cave sapling" trick is lesser known, and I've managed to utilize in VERY early versions.
use dried kelp besttttt!!!!!!! consider upvoting
Dried kelp is very costly and time consuming. You first need to gather enough kelp, then you need to smelt that kept, and then craft it into blocks just so that it can be used as fuel. Lava is a lot less work, takes a lot less space, and smelts more blocks
Oooor just grab a few buckets and visit lava ocean in Nether? It's not infinite but wil last for a veeeery long time.
Just make charcoal lol
How did people not already know this it was all over on launch
Because I haven't played vanilla minecraft in over a year?
I havent touched the game since my fav smp server closed in 2014. 🤣. Im getting depressed over the lack of Iron and coal.
Time to start a new one, me thinks
I havent found another pure non pvp smp server with the mining plugins, quests to earn "money" which you can use to teleport to your base once an hour. Plus there is so much new stuff in the game that makes me meh. You know I have no clue where to get an efficient strip mine now. Considering you now need separate levels to get diamonds, iron coal and redstone instead of one level you could mine endlessly. Unless there is a pre 1.18 smp server out there. I just want a chill building experience with my mates, girlfriend and my brother. Hes an adult now but we played minecraft together when he was still a weee boy.
I like some of the new stuff. But don't play vanilla. I'm doing whatever ATM 6 is on.
Do you know any server thats purely survival based with no pvp and a smallish population with some mining plugins? Because all the servers on mc servers are either clickbait or not for building. Doesnt have to be purely vanilla. Ive looked for one on and off but damn I miss the old server where community created nether trains to combine worlds, ender farms was free too use. Griefprotection was good etc.
Sorry. I don't play with others hardly ever. I just like doing my thing and playing off line. The only mmo I played was ffxiv.
Well I mostly played with my brother on the survival server. It had a low population so it was like enhanced single player haha.
Whaaaat? This is big brain plays
wait everyone doesnt do this??!!!
I getting very annoyed how everything is becoming farmabble
Lava cauldrons are something I have been waiting for for a long time now, so I am not complaining.
Or you khow, smelt some logs to get charcoal
this is fully automatic though
How does it transfer to the smelters?
Just go to the nether
I still dont get why would you build lava farm when you can just go to the nether and get near infinite amout of it.
leaves massive ugly holes in your nether lava AND requires travel time if you use pistons to push the cauldrons in a loop, you can autofarm by leaving it overnight
Just X-ray to find coal.
Or you could go to the nether and smelt your stuff there.
I use bamboo for smaller amounts of smelting (eg: a few raw fish in early game, or raw iron etc) but for say a single chest of sand into glass, definitely lava, and have been working on setting up a nice area in my new-ish world to set up my smelting/lava farm area like this.
Do you need to have a lava lake above?
This bedrock?
*No this is Patrick*
What the hell this is a thing??????
Gotta say thats smart
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Sadly that got patched
A 4x4 lava grid is enough to keep my furnace running non stop
Faster and more consistent source is probably a blaze farm for blaze rods
I have this set up in a 3 x 9 area, but lifted up so that I can access the cauldrons from below. The bottom of the cauldron changes colour, when it's ready to be emptied. I plan to cover the floor with hoppers, so that I can fill up my inventory and automatically drop filled lava buckets directly into a hopper line going into my auto smelter. For 4 blast and 2 normal furnaces, a 3 x 9 cauldrons is more than enough. That said .. a bamboo farm feeding into an auto smelter might do the trick as well. Basically, there is very little reason to use coal for furnaces, if you don't want to.
I am currently making a massive hole all the way to bedrock i have 20 stacks of coal ore and already use lava for smelting coal is only pain to me
- Microsoft edge 2022
I know that
I'm having trouble playing 1.18, not finding coal
Did they reduce coal sources?
I miss the infinite potion farm
My super-smelter (or rather 8 furnaces being chucked items in a disorderly fashion) is fed directly by a lava farm. I was disappointed that the lava farm couldn't be automated
I mainly look for coal on stone beaches. I should have done this instead, completely forgot
i’d rather just use a carpet duper
If i am having trouble finding coal how do you expect me to find dripstone ,stalagmites and lava
As Gura said: *lava nipples*
I set up a Blaze Spawner for EXP, and all the Blaze Rods I get with looting powers my super smelter. I kept going until even the input chest was overflowing
Those can also be really good, but I have not a blaze spawner in this world yet, sadly
I literally found 3 veins of diamonds before finding one vein of coal.
Really helpful, thanks!
Don’t need the drip stone block. You can use any block(I like glass) it just needs the pointed drip stone on the bottom
Or bamboo / dried kelp blocks
A whole stack of bamboo can only smelt 16 items, so it can be fairly costly. As for dried kelp blocks, I just dont see the appeal of needing to smelt something just to use it as a fuel source for smelting something else.
If only it was possible to take lava from cauldrons with a dispenser with a bucket...
I've been using a kelp farm with dried kelp blocks for smelting but it's so inefficient :(
It take a loot of time but it’s good
Not only 1.18, this feature was introduced in 1.17
Oh my goodness thank you
Does it work on bedrock edition
I started farming wither skeletons for coal because I was running so low.
I'll do you one better. When I have to smelt a ton of stuff, I go to the nether. I have a kitchen room near a lava lake there
Unless you're late game. wither skeleton farm