The Minecraft Survival Guide

Season 1

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Guide to Minecraft Java Edition.

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82 Episodes

  • Surviving your first night!
    E1
    Surviving your first night!The Minecraft Survival Guide begins! This tutorial will show you how to survive your first night in Minecraft. The series will teach you how to master Survival Mode, and will also be my Single Player Let's Play series!
  • How To Start A Farm!
    E2
    How To Start A Farm!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to craft a bed so you can set a spawn and skip through the night, then we'll cover how to create a farm for crops and animals.
  • Your First Time Caving!
    E3
    Your First Time Caving!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to prepare for a caving trip, where to find iron ore, some tricks for surviving encounters with mobs, and breeding animals for food and resources!
  • How To Find Diamonds!
    E4
    How To Find Diamonds!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you where to find diamonds and other precious resources in your world, a few easy techniques for mining safely, and we even bump into a surprise on the way...
  • Upgrading Your Starter House!
    E5
    Upgrading Your Starter House!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how you can take your starter house to the next level. Using just basic materials which can be found easily in the early stages of Minecraft, we rebuild the tiny wooden cabin into a huge rustic house!
  • Setting Up A Storage System!
    E6
    Setting Up A Storage System!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up storage in the early days of your survival world. We also work on the interior of the house we build last time, and craft our first diamond pickaxe!
  • Introduction To Enchanting!
    E7
    Introduction To Enchanting!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to craft and use an Enchanting Table. We also explore the abandoned mineshaft under our base, and bring some chickens home!
  • Into the Nether!
    E8
    Into the Nether!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to enter the Nether, locate a Nether fortress, rebound a fireball into a Ghast's face, and deal with the many challenges in this freaky dimension!
  • Potion Brewing 101!
    E9
    Potion Brewing 101!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to get started with potion brewing, where to find the vital ingredients, and craft a potion that lets you swim through lava without taking damage!
  • Sugar Cane Auto Farm!
    E10
    Sugar Cane Auto Farm!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up manual and redstone-powered sugar cane farms, so you can craft paper for books whenever you want to. Plus a little extra information about water and furnace fuel!
  • Early Game XP Farming!
    E11
    Early Game XP Farming!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you a few different ways to acquire experience points in the early stages of Minecraft - vital for getting those level 30 enchantments!
  • How To Repair Tools!
    E12
    How To Repair Tools!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to repair tools, use the Fortune enchant to double your diamonds, and a few tips for our next big build!
  • Finding Buried Treasure!
    E13
    Finding Buried Treasure!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to deal with Silverfish, some tips for (not) getting lost in the overworld, and where to dig when you find a map to buried treasure!
  • Starting a Nether Hub!
    E14
    Starting a Nether Hub!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up a Nether Hub, and link up Nether portals accurately so they don't lead to the wrong locations.
  • Introduction to Fishing!
    E15
    Introduction to Fishing!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you where to fish, how to fish, and most importantly WHY to fish. Also which enchantments are best for fishing rods, and how Mending works!
  • Marking New Biomes!
    E16
    Marking New Biomes!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to mark biomes on maps, the easy way to fight an Enderman one-on-one, and how to make a Nether Portal without using a diamond pickaxe!
  • Interior Design Basics!
    E17
    Interior Design Basics!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to fight a Witch, what happens when a creeper explodes outside of your front door, and how to decorate a rustic house interior!
  • How to Find a Village!
    E18
    How to Find a Village!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to locate a Minecraft village, how to trade with villagers, and the benefits of keeping a village alive!
  • Mob-Proofing A Minecraft Village!
    E19
    Mob-Proofing A Minecraft Village!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to unlock new villager trades, how Ender Pearls work, how to craft an Ender Chest, and how to protect a village from mob attacks!
  • How To Find A Stronghold!
    E20
    How To Find A Stronghold!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to find a Stronghold using Eyes of Ender, where to find the End Portal and stronghold libraries, and what the Silk Touch enchantment does!
  • Expanding Your Nether Hub!
    E21
    Expanding Your Nether Hub!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to link more portals to your Nether Hub, the benefits of a Silk Touch pickaxe, and some ideas for building in the Nether!
  • Preparing for the Ender Dragon!
    E22
    Preparing for the Ender Dragon!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to prepare for the Ender Dragon fight, why beds sometimes explode, and the best way to fight phantoms!
  • How To Beat the Ender Dragon!
    E23
    How To Beat the Ender Dragon!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to fight and defeat Minecraft's "Final Boss", the Ender Dragon!
  • End Cities, Shulkers, and Elytra!
    E24
    End Cities, Shulkers, and Elytra!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to search for End Cities, the best way to fight Shulkers, and where you'll find your first Elytra! Also, how to die in the End but still keep all your items!
  • How To Control Minecraft LIKE A PRO!
    E25
    How To Control Minecraft LIKE A PRO!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to use hidden keyboard shortcuts and useful controls that will help streamline your Minecraft experience and harness the true power of your inventory!
  • Starting Our First Big Project!
    E26
    Starting Our First Big Project!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to landscape and decorate a wheat field for our first big project - a rustic, medieval inspired area. We also take our first Elytra flight!
  • Build Something Beautiful!
    E27
    Build Something Beautiful!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you some tips and tricks for building in your starter area, how to incorporate lore into your builds, and also a fun scarecrow design! Today we're building my One Chunk Windmill.
  • Skeleton Horses / How to Tame a Horse!
    E28
    Skeleton Horses / How to Tame a Horse!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to deal with a Skeleton Horse trap, how to tame a regular horse, and how leads work. We also build a cute little horse stall!
  • Spider Spawner String Farm!
    E29
    Spider Spawner String Farm!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will explain spawner mechanics in more detail, and show you how to set up an easy AFK string farm using a single spider spawner!
  • The Most Valuable Villager Trade!
    E30
    The Most Valuable Villager Trade!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you what to do with all the string we're now farming, how to make concrete, what Cartographers do, and where to search for biomes without using mapping tools. We also, completely by chance, find the most valuable villager trade.
  • Secrets of the Desert Temple!
    E31
    Secrets of the Desert Temple!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to raid a desert temple without exploding, why cactus is super dangerous to your items, and how to use Mending to repair your Elytra!
  • How To Transport Villagers!
    E32
    How To Transport Villagers!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to transport villagers using boats and minecarts. We also return to the desert to talk about unique desert mobs, and see what happens when a desert temple blows up!
  • Two Redstone Projects!
    E33
    Two Redstone Projects!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to light a spawner using redstone lamps, and how to make a lossless sugar cane farm with hopper minecarts. Also, the joys of owning a silk touch shovel.
  • How to Cure Zombie Villagers!
    E34
    How to Cure Zombie Villagers!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to cure a zombie villager, converting them back into a regular villager! I also spend a little bit too long justifying putting Mending on an Elytra :P
  • Introduction To Auto-Smelting!
    E35
    Introduction To Auto-Smelting!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up hoppers and furnaces to make a basic auto-smelter, allowing you to automatically smelt and store a large amount of items. I also spend a bit of time adding some details to the Sugar Cane factory building.
  • Three Rare Minecraft Biomes!
    E36
    Three Rare Minecraft Biomes!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to find Jungle Trees, what Red Sand does, why Blue Terracotta isn't really blue, and how to solve the puzzles and traps of a Jungle Temple!
  • Choosing The Right Materials!
    E37
    Choosing The Right Materials!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will explain my philosophy on how to choose the right materials for a build - considering the location, the style of the build, and what resources you have available at this stage of your world.
  • Starting a Resource Quarry!
    E38
    Starting a Resource Quarry!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you a few options for starting a quarry - including blasting it with explosives! There's also my favourite time lapse yet, and I do a little more building work around the sugar cane farm.
  • Doing Magic With Snow!
    E39
    Doing Magic With Snow!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to find snow, turn it into snow blocks, make a snow golem, use that snow golem to farm infinite snow, and make that snow golem INVINCIBLE TO FIRE. Merry Christmas!
  • Taking on an Ocean Monument!
    E40
    Taking on an Ocean Monument!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to raid an Ocean Monument - including which potions to prepare, strategies for fighting guardians, where to find the Elder Guardians, and how to deal with Mining Fatigue!
  • Draining The Ocean Monument!
    E41
    Draining The Ocean Monument!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to clear the water out of an Ocean Monument. We take an in-depth look at how sponges work, how to craft prismarine, and what an Ocean Monument looks like when it's completely empty!
  • How To Farm Infinite Cactus!
    E42
    How To Farm Infinite Cactus!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to build a Cactus farm, giving you an infinite amount of green dye! We also build a medieval tower around the farm, and I demonstrate a few simple designs for pumpkin and melon farms.
  • Pumpkin & Melon Farms!
    E43
    Pumpkin & Melon Farms!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up automatic pumpkin and melon farms using very simple redstone! We also cover how to get Terracotta without access to a mesa.
  • Building a Medieval Bridge!
    E44
    Building a Medieval Bridge!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to build a bridge, experimenting with different designs and repeated patterns. We also visit a village and get a bunch of emeralds from trading with farmers!
  • Introduction to Auto-Sorted Storage!
    E45
    Introduction to Auto-Sorted Storage!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up automatically sorted storage using a simple item filter circuit, and how that can be adapted for precious items like diamonds!
  • How to Build a Cobblestone Generator!
    E46
    How to Build a Cobblestone Generator!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to make a simple cobblestone generator, set up a piston feed tape, add an automatic shutoff, and play the bass guitar!
  • Finding a Mushroom Island!
    E47
    Finding a Mushroom Island!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you what a Mushroom Island looks like, the curious animals that live there, and how to grow your own giant mushrooms! We also clear up some stuff about the storage system from Episode 45.
  • Multi Spawner Mob Farm!
    E48
    Multi Spawner Mob Farm!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how multiple spawners can be linked together into a setup that provides drops and exp for the player. Also, Cave Spiders!
  • Bubble Columns and Dye Crafting!
    E49
    Bubble Columns and Dye Crafting!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up a bubble column as a player elevator, and a safe drop using a single bucket of water. We also cover a lot about dyes, and how to farm them from 2-block flowers!
  • Shaders Tour!
    E50
    Shaders Tour!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! Today I take a break from focusing on tutorials, and take a tour of the projects we've done so far - with Shaders! We also cure a couple more villagers ready to put together a villager breeder soon :)
  • How To Breed Villagers!
    E51
    How To Breed Villagers!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will explain villager breeding mechanics, and how we can use them to create a simple infinite villager breeder.
  • Building an Iron Farm!
    E52
    Building an Iron Farm!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how the villagers from last episode's villager breeder can be used to create an Iron Golem farm, providing you with infinite, renewable iron!
  • How To Fight the Wither!
    E53
    How To Fight the Wither!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to get Wither Skeleton Skulls, how to prepare for the Wither fight, and some strategies for taking on Minecraft's scariest boss!
  • How To Use A Beacon!
    E54
    How To Use A Beacon!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how beacons can help you mine faster than you ever thought possible, provide you with useful effects, and add a decorative flair to your base!
  • Starting A City Build!
    E55
    Starting A City Build!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! Now we have easy access to huge amounts of resources, we can draft some ideas for a our first big city project in the nearby plains biome!
  • Working With the Terrain!
    E56
    Working With the Terrain!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will explain why working with Minecraft's natural terrain can be a good thing, and how the landscape can inspire how your building projects.
  • How To Plan Out A City!
    E57
    How To Plan Out A City!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to plan the layout of a city build using pathways and roads. I also explain how I've been getting my time lapse footage without the use of any camera mods!
  • How To Respawn the Ender Dragon!
    E58
    How To Respawn the Ender Dragon!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to respawn the Ender Dragon using End Crystals, and how Elytra can make this process much easier! We also take a look at creating Lingering Potions using Dragon's Breath.
  • Raiding a Woodland Mansion!
    E59
    Raiding a Woodland Mansion!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to find and raid a Woodland Mansion. These structures are home to the Illagers - axe-wielding Vindicators, spell-casting Evokers, and their flying friends the Vex. We also acquire our first Totem of Undying!
  • How To Build A Slime Farm!
    E60
    How To Build A Slime Farm!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to locate a Slime Chunk and build a Slime Farm. In the process we create our own Iron Golems and create some redstone circuits for fast item transport!
  • How To Get a Trident!
    E61
    How To Get a Trident!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to get hold of a Trident, where to find packed ice and why it's important, and we even stumble across a coral reef!
  • Conduits and Coral!
    E62
    Conduits and Coral!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to craft and set up a Conduit. We gather a bunch of coral, and I demonstrate a few ways coral can be used for building!
  • What Is... Optifine?
    E63
    What Is... Optifine?The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to install and use Optifine, a client-side mod for Minecraft Java Edition designed to improve the game's performance and give you more control over how Minecraft looks.
  • How To Get Music Discs!
    E64
    How To Get Music Discs!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to obtain Music Discs, craft a jukebox to play them on, and set up a simple Music Disc farm to obtain the 10 hidden music discs!
  • Villager Trading Hall!
    E65
    Villager Trading Hall!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how you can transport villagers into simple, protected trading stations, allowing you to sort through a large quantity of villagers and save the best trades!
  • Crop Nano-Farms and AFK Fishing!
    E66
    Crop Nano-Farms and AFK Fishing!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up a nano-farm to quickly grow large quantities of carrots and potatoes, and an AFK Fishing farm to gather fishing loot without you lifting a finger!
  • How to Control Lightning!
    E67
    How to Control Lightning!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how the Channeling enchantment can be used to control lightning - and the effect lightning has on Villagers, Pigs, and Creepers!
  • Building the Blacksmiths' Guild!
    E68
    Building the Blacksmiths' Guild!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you some tips for interior design in larger builds, how armour stands can add a cool touch to your interior, and how to sneak up on a creeper without it spotting you!
  • What Is... A Resource Pack?
    E69
    What Is... A Resource Pack?The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will explain how to install and use Resource Packs (which you might know as Texture Packs) and show you how different Minecraft can look with a fresh skin.
  • How To Build a Mob Spawner!
    E70
    How To Build a Mob Spawner!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to create a 'dark room' mob spawner - taking advantage of hostile mob spawning mechanics to easily collect loot drops from overworld mobs. Also including our first hopper clock!
  • Making Farms Look Good!
    E71
    Making Farms Look Good!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to easily build complex shapes like spheres with the help of online tools, and how this can be used to make your mob farm into a beautiful feature of your world!
  • 16 Ways to Hide Lighting!
    E72
    16 Ways to Hide Lighting!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you 16 ways you can hide lighting around your Minecraft world, so you can tidy up all the torches you've spammed everywhere and have a more immersive experience!
  • Planning a Dynamic City!
    E73
    Planning a Dynamic City!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how working with height, depth, infrastructure, and negative space all lead to a city feeling more dynamic and alive. We plan out houses, shops, and market stalls, build walls and archways, and even add a secret door to a hidden area...
  • Guardian Farm, Pt. 1: The Setup
    E74
    Guardian Farm, Pt. 1: The SetupThe Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up the collection area for a full size, bubble column powered Guardian farm - and stay safe from Guardians while you do it!
  • Guardian Farm, Pt. 2: The Payoff
    E75
    Guardian Farm, Pt. 2: The PayoffThe Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up the mob grinder and bubble columns for the guardian farm we started in the previous episode, and we even discover a way to insta-mine the monument blocks in the process!
  • How To Breed All The Animals!
    E76
    How To Breed All The Animals!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to breed all the breedable animals in Minecraft, which will get you the 'Two By Two' advancement! We tame our first cats and dogs, see turtles lay their eggs, and witness a derpy baby llama.
  • An Easy Auto-Smelter!
    E77
    An Easy Auto-Smelter!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to put together a 16 furnace auto-smelter with minecarts spreading out the fuel and items. This will be the first of many blacksmith builds!
  • The EASY Way To Fight The Wither!
    E78
    The EASY Way To Fight The Wither!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to trap the Wither in bedrock, making it easy to fight and take down Minecraft's most destructive boss. Although I don't quite get it right the first time...
  • Building a Medieval Marketplace!
    E79
    Building a Medieval Marketplace!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how the little details make all the difference, as we put together some colourful market stalls for the town of Founder's Forge.
  • Finishing the Blacksmith!
    E80
    Finishing the Blacksmith!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to adapt to asymmetry in your builds, how drafting sections of builds in a creative world can save you a ton of time, and how stained glass can be used to create some cool building effects!
  • Ink Farm, Pt.1: Draining a River!
    E81
    Ink Farm, Pt.1: Draining a River!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to set up a squid farm in a river to collect large amounts of ink! In this episode we drain the river and create the farm. The next episode will cover the collection mechanism!
  • Ink Farm, Pt.2: 5,000 Ink Per Hour!
    E82
    Ink Farm, Pt.2: 5,000 Ink Per Hour!The Minecraft Survival Guide continues! This tutorial will show you how to collect all the ink from the squid farm we built in the last episode, and set up a shulker box loader to collect all that ink!

 

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