Hey everyone, welcome to the withering effect. This is episode 18. Today's date is October 15 2019 and I am Duds or Duds versus everywhere else. You can find me and I'm bunk a double or a bank for sure. And today we're going to talk about some Minecraft the firstIs your lower teeth doing this week for you guys who don't know he has that written as but bu TT in the show notes. He thought of this pun and put it in show for you guys who don't know. I've been having hit problems for the last couple weeks. I went to the doctor Friday. They did some x-rays to stuff boat and why's my hip is not dislocated. Like I was hoping it wasn't. It tore turns out I tore my glute muscle and pulled my groin so much ouch, but I'm on medications and they really is helping me it helped the stream as well. Don't start yet Duds on medication gets very hyper. And I refer to myself in the third person obviously. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even notice that before. Yeah, but yeah so things I did this week we did streamwork. We ended up fixing the gold Farm because it was broken. We could like no pigment left that we're doing the what is it called The Angry call. I was just going to say it wasn't necessarily broken. We just had a lot of those to those. I don't know watch her big men die. Yeah, but I tried to It when it was in its current state and straight up only the pigment on that side of the farm we get angry. The rest of them went for some reason. Oh, so do you have any next time around the outside nowadays? Hmm But the gold Farmers fixed it works awesome except for the I starved to death at 206 levels. Oh, yeah lost my helmet, but I'm not too worried about that now we're so far into a season. It's like man, it's not gonna be hard to replace and you don't even need to replace it that badly because something is so safe. The only thing I miss on it is what is the water breathing stuff? Oh, yeah, that could be useful. I might have I might have some of those for you. I'll look I've got helmets around. I just need to combine them like the armor stands All Around The Institute. I know my base are just like backup armor that it's really close to being like God tyr Armor. Just I haven't Put the time. No plus it gives me an excuse. I've been wanting to play with villagers and 114. Maybe now is the kind of time to go ahead and work on that. Yeah. I haven't gotten into those either. Yeah. I've got a spot designated for them. It's just I haven't done it yet. We still have a breather that needs fixing as well. Yeah, that's true. But that might be another livestream project we could work out and yeah, that's a good idea. But I also made an episode this past weekend. Well, ye think we're gonna have I love you. Yeah, it basically displays all my head's that I had in the storage room because so I didn't have enough spots to display all the ripple effect heads. So yeah half of them are in a shocker box. I was like, well that kind of seems like I'm picking favorites would really I just ran out of room. So I threw him on the show core box. So it's like I'll well first it was I'm going to build a vault where I can store stuff like gold diamonds and heads and Of MMA and then it became well crap. I can't really get a three by three piston door in here and none of my other door designs really look voltage. I'm just going to build a room for heads, but I think the room came out really nice. I actually really like it. Tina get Bank shame on me that it's a it's a very cool room to just walk by and go wait. What is that? And it was a little bit of a struggle but wasn't it's like I sat there for a good hour and a half a couple times going. What am I doing? And then the second I got just a little bit of an idea like that carried me for the next four hours and then oh, yeah. I know that feeling. Yeah. Other than that, we built the Great Pumpkin in the exact center again this year, but with some twists this one now trades custom heads for or trades pumpkin pie for custom heads. And what was the other thing jack-o'-lantern, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think it was Jack O'Lantern. Yeah, so some cool stuff there if you guys are on the server go check it out. I meant to go show it off in my last episode and I forgot mmm. I often have to write because like I'll say hey at the end of the episode. We're going to go look at this in like the first clip of the episode. Well, it takes me like, oh we gonna have to record so I forget what I said in the first five seconds of the episode. Hmm. I get that I really should like before I start recording for the day re watch what I have up to that point. So I don't cuz I also repeat myself a ton and some okay. I hadn't noticed that But sure well, I'm counting. I'm chalking it up to the fact that I've been gone for so long that I'm out of move. But yeah, I mean I haven't recorded in a while. I got up and I always try to record like African close to each other or like you said sort of for you watch it know what I was up to. Yeah speaking of you recording. What have you worked on this week? Well, I didn't regard but I did work in my basement. I just did a bunch of gardening or a coyote. I Added making up off towards my bigger. Kostol I've yet to decorate it. But that's a just a little tree building and making custom trees my you don't want to do too many in a road. It gets tedious custom trees will be in my next episode. I have a desired. I'm going to use it's going to be awesome. Oh sweet looking forward. You haven't done many custom trees yet now and these are really simple so I can do them over and over and over again. Well, I mean still it's there are simple. It's sort of a juror to do them too many in a row. I think I don't know. It's true. What else you been doing? I played a lot of surviving Mars which I got three on that big games seven. At least they give they give out a free game every like two weeks or so every week. I don't know surviving Morris. It says it's what is it at stretch strategy game? I guess one of those city-building thingies. Okay have to build a colony on Mars. Yeah. I always think those games are going - this one is slowed. Oh, I don't mind that but I can see how people would find. It to slow maybe - yeah, I heard I don't take a look at it. Yeah, I'm not sure if you're on today's games might like I keep saying that it's like I'm still behind on Legend of Zelda. I'm just now getting back into Minecraft. It's like I better keep my mouth. Shut not to mention. Okay. So the Witcher 3 came out for switch. Oh nice effect today and I really want picked it because all I have is breath of the Wild for the switch and I like the switch as a console. I get it to not be here. Powerful or anything like that and I don't use it in handheld mode a lot. But sure it's a very cool convenient device and I'd like to get more physical games for especially considering the memory for its kind of crap, but I got to go ahead and finish up breaths as well so I can pick up Witcher 3. I've been reading The Witcher books because Netflix is obviously doing The Witcher show series. So I've been super hyped about that and I've never played a Witcher game. So yeah, I want to go ahead and pick that up for the switch. So I need to go ahead and start finishing games on around me and get caught up on videos and stuff. So yeah, I think I broke up a little bit again. You don't need em. Yeah, I think I got the gist of what you were saying about I think so at least well, hopefully the people listening to the podcast will understand and yeah, I just figured you will see it's turning your head. I was doing that as well. Yeah in both directions like one. Yeah, I'm understanding what you're saying. And then the second one like no, this is not happening. At least you didn't come back doing the whole singing song thing. We do when we get cut out. Thank you smack. Yeah. The singing is a bad idea for the podcast that probably nobody will always assume that I was just think I shouldn't have said that now we're gonna get requests. No, we don't Do One Direction that's like the only boy band I can think of me. I'm not doing anything except when I'm really drunk maybe and I doubt I'll be recording. Yeah, I don't think I will let you record any way with so we got Minecraft news this week. We're trying to get back fun tangents are over last week was our big tangent episode. It was a big thing to an episode. This week's gonna be Minecraft Minecraft. Hmm. Okay, so snapshot 19 w41 a That's where we get our first look at Honey blocks. I'm just going to head start there. Let's just talk individually about because there's not a lot of stuff. No, there wasn't much but I think that at least on you blokes for sure. They're kind of interesting. Yeah things going on with that. I'm kind of excited for him. I'm a I'm a disappointed in the fact that I was hoping that it would be kind of like another slime, but that doesn't stick to certain different objects at that makes And like I didn't want honey blocks to stick to slime or right maybe I don't know. I think it's cool though that it can pick up into T's and like yeah, there's some stuff. I think that's awesome. Like that's an awesome mechanic. I'm really curious what people are gonna do with that like the obvious one is. Oh no flying machines have like a sport where you can stay on but I think this is going to be way more. Arresting for maybe from building. Yeah, I don't know pranks said a creeper on top of one of those things it launched it at someone like I don't know. Here's the thing. They are a little bit harder to get than slime blocks because usually once you set up a slime farm you're rolling around in the Slime balls in like an hour. Yeah what this you gotta take your time unless you build a ginormous because let's face it hermit crabs going to build ginormous Honey Farms within the fridge. I'm sure the mechanics will be abused fairly quickly if the How yeah, how what is it? You have to build a what is it a house for the for the bees and the bees have to go and collect it, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's going to take a while. I could see maybe taking with the Flower Farms. I have the shifting floors in the bone meal. I wonder if like combining one of those with Abby and honey farm would do any good or the shifting floors might be too much and the bees can't pass fine to the flowers or something. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure like if it's kind of depend on my wolf than a bee flies to a flower. Yeah, and I guess it's going to do that. Then you just want to make sure they go to the flowers quicker and get back. Maybe just find a way to stick the flowers really close to the I don't know but we'll find out what to do with it. Yeah other cool interesting things about honey blocks is you can slide down them. Yeah, you can kind of like throw yourself up against the wall. Splat and then slide down there shortly also here to me. This is the cool part. This is where things are going to get a little tricky that a honey block while visually the same size is every other block is not so like when you slam yourself up against the side of a honey block you slide down it if you have like a stone block directly underneath the honey block and you're sliding down the honey block. You're going to get caught on the stone block. You won't be able Get past it. You'll be standing on that stone block. Say three interesting. Yeah, same thing happens with items. So items will get stuck on the stone block and MN. If you have a honey block touching another honey, block side by side then little space kind of like how you know, how slime has that light green outline and then the darker green on the inside. Yeah. Well the honeycomb or honey block does that too and technically you Can shoot directly through those two honey blocks with an arrow because technically they're not touching right there, even though the visually um, so secret buttons. Yeah. Oh that's I mean I told you it's just gonna wait and see for what kind of interesting things they'll come up with that block. But I think a lot of a lot of cheeky stuff is going to be incented with it. My favorite part of the honey block so far isn't really anything to do with the game. It's a Meme that came out. Have you watched the office like the American version? I mean, I've seen some episodes. I've never really watched it as a dedicated thing. Anyways, there's a mean I'll have to try to find it give it to Carl put in the show notes, but it's like moaning releases the honey block and Minecraft players first thought is a you have Steve Carell who takes his tie ties it on his head and they're doing like parkour around the office. Okay, they're just yelling parkour as they do it the entire time because that's all Minecraft players not about when the honey block came out was I can now wall run parkour. I have to find the edge because it was hilarious and to me that's my favorite part of the whole 115 is it's a meme that's not even like in the game yeah yeah I think I think it'll be great for Parker don't make me do it I don't record course for my birthday I mean I don't really do dose myself yeah but yeah it's appropriate of thing and I think it'll be great for it yeah I think it's a great game mode I'm just so bad at it that I can't call my son in jail anymore I don't think I'm necessarily bad at it but that's not something I have patience for that too I don't know that's a lot of things I've infinite patience for but Parker Maps is not one of them yeah the other block that came out was the honeycomb block it mean you yeah trying to have a discussion without having a discussion before Podcast mountains block. Yeah, so my biggest complaints is it's just a decoration block doesn't yeah, that's Ring other than look pretty and to me it just kind of looks like you put a waffle on the wall. Right. I can see your point. Yeah, I don't frame on the table and put a honeycomb block on it and Bam you're serving waffles, and that's not a bad idea. Actually my big thing is you have honey in a jar. You have honeycomb. I want honey chicken. I want honey pork chops. I want honey steak. Let me combine it with some food items. Give me a honey apple. They're shiny things I got to be your red dragon, right? I know right at least until 116 comes out then I'll get my red dragon right million wink wink. I mean that I fully agree with you though. We won honey, honey, honey Foods. Really? Yeah. I just want more food to the game period And I get mushrooms are coming in 1/16 and you have the suspicious dudes. It's like no. I want a real viable food source. It's just Jews are cool, but they don't. Ack. It's like man. I don't not necessarily sure. If I Want More Foods like we can blend your Foods just make them more combinable do something with it that should instead of oh, you can just cook this and eat it. Mommy's gonna die worse than that if you combine honey, and like I don't know steak or something and instead of it stacking 264. It's only allowed to stack 32 that's kind of an offset. Right? But I mean at that point honey steak should have the same saturation as Goldman. Carrots or whatever. I mean I'd say get rid of the golden carrot. So make like honey apples and stuff. Like you said and do the same thing with honey. I don't know. I personally wouldn't want to eat golden stuff. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, they have so much options to go and be creative with the food that I think they should try and maybe give that a go. Okay, but before we go any further you were talking about you had one solution. That would make me change my mind. Honey, blocks being useless or honeycomb, but I think they're going to be awesome for Windows. You can't see with them down S-Class put some fences in front of it. No not see through windows, but they're going to be great for like on the outside. It looks like they're lit up Windows if you get a get a house, that's maybe like a castle thing. I mean, it's not great, but I think for specifically that I think they might be great as a decoration. I'll go 50/50 with that if it's a non-functional house kind of like how I have in front of my fort this season. Yeah where they're just houses to look pretty from the outside. There's nothing really going on checked interior. I think you Be right they could work as Windows for sure. I think they yeah go side least the texture looks like I mean the pop them to my head. As soon as I saw them. I was like, oh that's gonna be like Great Windows. Yeah, it would be cool. If they had the same was the light reaction as magma blocks where if you put a light behind it, they now glow a little bit. No, no just desperate or whatever is breaking up again. Oh, yeah. There you go boy and it's like we don't have any Nicole issues until we start recording the podcast. I know right? I'm wondering if it's if it's to this car, I'm all right. I can hear you now. So you want to keep going. Yeah, we were up to the next part, aren't we? I don't know I mentioned honeycomb blocks glowing like magma blocks and that was kind of it. Hmm you want to go on so do they know I was thinking you should oh, I mean logically that wouldn't make sense, but it would be great if they did. That would be cool. Yeah, I did the Sneakin Sprint's are going to get a toggle option so you can toggle them on and off which I think is great because then if you have to what is it Crouch for a long time my spoons for a long time. You don't have to constantly keep pressing it and they also mentioned that that means we can sneak while having well-being like in your inventory or something. Yeah, you can just keep on sneaking. So that's that's great. Especially for a uh, see kind of things if you want. Sneak up on people want to be in your inventory, but don't want to be spoiled it why sneak and Sprint already are toggleable. That does not sound like a word when you say it out loud toggle and up. Yeah. Did you have to do your tricks to get your controller work? Yeah controller Noob, I don't care. I love my controller. Hmm. I mean, that's it. I can't really blame you I prefer playing with mouse and keyboard, but I think you and when the smart way you like playing with her before comes. Let's see. You just made it work. What else you got? We're gonna be able to Croft stripped route from strip blocks. I thought you could strip through this the one no, I think for if you wanted stripped route, you have to place like the regular booting down and then strip it goes to Buddhist. What is it that the force of the six-sided? Look they gave you talking about the all bark log exactly. Oh, yeah, so you can now craft them if you have spread bugs. I mean, it's a small thing, but it I think it's yeah I can but that's about time. Hmm. Next thing we have is mobs avoid lava better. I'm still gonna yeah to trap doors down and those dummies are still gonna walk into it. So I mean, maybe it'll fix that as well. Although they didn't specify but about finding so I guess that would still work. I mean, I understand it because I don't know how many times I've had like a sheep or a pig or a cow. I'm trying to lure them back and they'll just walk right into a lava lake. Hmm. So yeah, that might be more what they're talking about. But yeah, I mean any a eye movement is better than nothing. So I definitely can't complain about that. The other thing I think is cool is we can finally save our Iron Golems. I can finally bring Frederick into the world without him dying from something stupid. Right? But yeah, your iron golem will now crack when losing his health and you can heal it. With iron ingots, I think that's a great Improvement. Yeah, same here, especially if you're a note with the like the village of Billy chip great. The villagers are really kind of the yeah, they're a kind of a safe place to hang out and also of that Iron Golem they do their work really well and if you're a new player like getting what is it for iron blocks and a pumpkin that's hard to replace our golden, but now you can just feed it like a couple of ingots that sure so I think that although be great for like New players and that are not that familiar with the game when I first safe spot in the village. Yeah. I'm going to be taking advantage of that for sure. Hmm. What is the next thing slime blocks and only blocks are no longer stick to each other when interacting through piston mechanic blocks. Yes. Oh I saw this on exhume as Twitter like literally about an hour or two before we started recording he was all right and through the Bedrock change notes because Bedrock got bees and everything today. And yeah in the change notes, it says slime blocks and honey blocks don't stick together anymore when using a piston to move them. So that's even more Redstone mechanics that may or may not come to Java. Who knows? Oh God. We lost Thanksgiving on there. He is. Yeah. Jeez. This is technically this is not the great. This is already won three times and like 20 minutes. Yeah, and I don't know what we can do to fix it. Just kind of one of those things we have to fight through it. Yeah, he's got me good gotta fight through it make it come back. Stop this my back. You're back. Yeah, cheese this snowing. It really is. It's kind of like it before we record the next podcast. I'm going to make you do a full-on system shutdown redo your router and everything. I know right? Like I didn't actually didn't think about it shouldn't be my internet and never really messes up. Yeah. I don't know. I'm all green on this side. Like I can see you and I could see me. He's just something hmm, how well will fight through it for now and then do some massive fixing afterwards gotta get to the bottom of it. Hmm anyway, so alright. Let's go ahead and start moving on to some other stuff. Yeah. It's point out. We have a Discord we do this every week you guys know the drill. It's a great place to hang out with fellow wither effect members as people who work on the episodes questions. It is also the best way to get in contact with us. Us women we have Twitter's and stuff, but we followed it as quite a lot more closely. We love hearing from you guys. Hmm. We actually getting a getting a great Community going on their dog pictures are still getting posted. Yeah Special channel for it. Even I kind of did that like that's going to be my new thing before we start recording. I'm going to snap a picture of the puppy and put it up in the Discord nice. So it's like recording puppy day. Hmm. Gives you a great reason to post a puppy picture every week and it's true. I want to start doing the whole like mine guys. Like Hey, we're recording today. You got any questions or comments? You want to share? Oh, yeah, that's held about you should do it the day before that and it gives people enough time to yeah. Well, I'm gives us another thing that research the answer so we don't look like fools or to sound like fools I should say. More yeah, that might help as well. Yeah, so we're going into our main topic of discussion today and that's going to be like tips and tricks beginning a new world. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you actually had some some tips and tricks before yeah, like before you start even at world so a couple things I thought of considering like so if I'm getting ready to play a single player world or heck even when I was running the common Craft Server before we started a new world or anything, I would consider the amount of players on the world. Because that's kind of a big thing. Do you want everyone living close together? Do you want everyone spread out? You also got a think do you want to theme your build particularly? Because let's face it an old western theme isn't really going to work in a nice bikes biome. So do you really want to spawn straight into one of those or a deserted island in the middle of warm ocean? So yeah, that's a good point. Yeah choosing a small rifle. I could be really annoying as well as if you Born on a little island in the middle of a big ocean. Yeah with no trouble. So you can't exactly it's gonna take you a half an hour before you can even start playing them up. Might as well just start a new one. I've always been a fan of just going out and Googling the internet for seeds. I know some people just like to randomly hit go and get when they get but that's me. Yeah, I've always been a fan of the seeds coming up with themes. Do I want to do a mountain build which is What I do anyways, another thing to consider is PC specs. So yeah, if you're planning on building a lot of redstone projects, but you're also planning on doing some other stuff like you don't want to build redstone projects like where you're going to be a lot of if you have lower PC specs you kind of want to build them in a spot where you go visit and leave so that also could come into doing stuff with your seed and your theme. Maybe you have An industrial area in some random plains biome that's 500 blocks away. So it only gets loaded and it's only lagging your PC down. Maybe you have a beast of a PC and you're like, you know what I spawned here. This is where the iron Farms going even though. They're not really as laggy anymore. So well as well if you get like mess if mode since you got to dig it away, so that's something you want to start off with again choose the seed. Yeah. That's actually this is some pretty good tips and Never really thought about it that way. Well, I mean when you start in Jungle, you know like oh, yeah, this is cool. This is a great place to start and then like you die in the first night because creepers wandering behind you exploding or 15 minutes later. You're still crawling through the jungle, right? Like I swear that this looks exactly the same as that other Bush I passed it's like so it's Minecraft. It's a really cool area, but it's hard to walk through I guess. So what about you because you've got like a detailed list of stuff for ya. So I started thinking like tips and tricks and then the first thing that popped into my head this like, who are you gonna give tips and tricks to write because if I if I were to give tips and tricks to you and you start a new map those who don't be silly be completely different than to someone who starts with the game for the first time. Yeah, so I thought you will take it sort of beginners and a more experienced tips and tricks, I guess. Okay, and we already divided it into like what are you gonna do for your first night for your first? Tweak and then what after that so yeah, when you are, you're a beginner like the whole game is new to you obviously, so that's a lot of people are really scared of the first night already and they start playing the game dig a hole. So well, that's one thing to do. I think I think that's that's how a lot of people ended up. That's probably what I did as well. I know I admire the first night and then you're going to be boards for like 10 minutes, right? Guess you're stuck in that hole. So try like your first day that like a good thing to do is just get some food get a bet like skipped a night. That's actually a great tip for like the first week if you're really new we just yeah skip all the night. If you don't just try try and get a safe spot like a cave and block it off but a little bit bigger than the little hurt. All right. What is it the little hole normal people like make because you're gonna get bored for 10 minutes doing Which is just a shame really. So my first ever first night I was playing and I dug the 1 by 2 whole or whatever bury myself in there. And then when I thought it was daytime because I heard some B's burning and everything. I was like, I was like great. I'm safe broke the block above my head at creeper fell in the hole blue. Yep. Yep. Yeah, those holes are more dangerous after a night as well. Because yeah group of us. They don't they don't disappear. So from now on whenever I have to bury myself somewhere. It's in the side of something two blocks tall so I can move below and then kind of peek out and see if I'm getting ready to get blown up and then I generally go for a Sitel as well or if it's a new map. I try and find a cave that usually can find The Maria babies you got plenty of those. What if you're on Angela just block off a little section. If you only chilling from one night on top of a tree is a good spot to oh, that's a good bite. I live skeletons might get a little bit. That's true. And if you're their Fighters can climb up a couple of nights. Well Phantoms. Oh, yeah. Well, you shouldn't have to worry about those two first night. Yeah. Also Shields there are massive Lifesaver. Just go for shield. Yeah, they kind of block anything. They're only ghosts like one iron and some wood. That's you can easily get that in your first day. Yeah, I'd never used the shield that much when it first came out because I just couldn't remember the stupid recipe because the shield looks nothing like the recipe. Yeah. So angry I could never remember it. And then now that we have the recipe book. I'm just so used to not using it that I haven't been using it. I have one in my inventory at all times though. I mean once you get some decent armor, you don't Shields. Really necessary, but for the first for the first while there are really great. Yeah, and they literally almost broke anything. I'm contemplating changing my gameplay up a little bit that would require me to really use the shield. So it might get some action. I might go ahead and get a shield with some mending and Unbreaking on it. That sounds like fun. Yeah, not really, but sure. I'm relying on the shield mardan on your armor of its kind of interesting, but you Have to pay more attention, which is all right, I think it'll be more skill-based granted. I die from starvation at Gold farm. So Hmm. This is what I have to deal with. But yeah Shields not going to help against starving. I mean, I guess you could chew it. Yeah, but what about an experienced player? What are they doing? Their first night? Well, I'd say get a shield first day. Yeah, get full iron ideally. Yeah, it sounded like I mean, that's it's very possible. Possible like there's a lot of iron on the ground that you can you can dig it up quite easily if you just run through some case. All right, go on the ocean find some shipwrecks. He's got a point breaks have a lot of iron in them one or two shipwrecks and you can have up to like 40 iron ingots. Yeah. I mean yummy you also have gold armored that you can get and while it's not as durable as iron armor. It'll still protect you decent amount to start with Yeah, yeah, especially if you combine it with the shield where you have some, you know, if you'd know something is coming. You can block it all together. Yeah. Also this your brakes have some diamonds in them sometimes and the maps which lead to even more loot possibly. Yeah. Also, I recommend for more experienced players try and get an enderpearl the first night if you're if you're daring to go step that'll get you an Ender Chest, which is something I'd recommend work to like in your first week probably will see I thought you're going a different way because Banks known on the first day of every server since they've come out he goes and gets sugar boxes. Yeah, yeah doesn't fight the dragon just pillars out go find some density and he's got a choker Box by the end of the first day. I mean, I would fight the dragon but normally servers have to staying where they want to fight it in groups, which I understand. But yeah, in order to respect that you're going to just have to bridge out or I'm calling you mister speed run from now on because if you guys don't know Banks been doing the speedruns and yeah something that was YouTube channel. They're His Highest viewed. Videos like people love his ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. What is it my it's not even my latest one but like that and upload it three the middle one. It actually got like 500 fuse now. It is ridiculous. Yeah, like only uploaded them so I could put them on the website and I was like, all right, like three people are gonna watch it because they have to like George it's sugar. They're forced to watch it. Even yeah, and then a lot of people voluntarily watch it, which is awesome. So for a Halloween costume paying your guy has to put on a Flash costume. All right, that's that's not a bad idea actually look into that. You know what I'm gonna write it down. So I don't forget to see now. We know real stuff cooking get it get a note. Sorry for the noises. I have to write that one down Flash costume thinking ahead. I just reuse my same pumpkin shirt from last year. Yeah, but you Sure are outside a bunch more than I do. Yeah, I think I've got like nine skins so far this season. Mmm not including the underwear Aquaman. I mean that one doesn't I don't think I use it for like a day once I think I might still have that the underwear Aqua. I think you send it to I'm not sure. Oh God. We'll get back to that students. Don't forget. We're coming on her lower Erica's we're back to beginners on their First week. What are they got to do? Yeah. Well what once you have a bet down which is a race bomb Point. Don't go explore a bit. Don't be scared because you know, you have a respawn Point. Yeah, just just go and explore discover the game. Don't be I see what's around you. Yeah, don't be afraid to die. You will die. Anyway, so don't you know, you might as well embrace it. And if you're afraid like oh, I don't want to lose this just put something in the chest and leave it there and then use it when you need it because when it's in the chest it all it'll be safe. Even when a creeper explodes next to it your chest or break, but your items will be spread out over the ground so you can pick them up still what else collect a lot of iron like trying going in caves and stuff just iron is a you know, it gets you everything like that. Tools and armor and that really helps you survive and do things so it's a good thing to look out for and then you don't have to go deep underground. I think like below sea level. So when you see water unlike the ocean soon as you're below that you can find iron so you don't have to go deep and for your first week, I guess it's good to set some kind of goal. Like, you know, you don't want to wander around aimlessly forever. So decide what you want to do. Do you want to go and Adventurer a bit go after like what is it strongholds and dungeons that kind of things or do you want to build a house? Do you want to be a hoarder and just collect all the things that are all the things? Yeah. I mean try try and I think that'll help you just get a goal and sort of something to do to work towards. Yeah having a goal is always a big thing. Yeah, I'll so yeah. I mean I said it again, but try and just go Go into places here. You're not really familiar with explore. Especially the scary places. Once you get a respawn Point sort of I mean, I want to say get comfortable dying. You shouldn't probably but I mean it's not a bad thing to die. There's nothing really scary about it. Although it might seem lately. Yeah and the more you spend in the in the sports that you're afraid of like the more I don't know like oh this isn't too bad. But yeah, I know the never yeah, and of course we guess I was gonna say you probably Able to get into The Nether by then. Yeah. Yeah, and I knowed another is like a lot of people find that like really scary and I had the same thing when I started playing I was constantly on edge and now it's like well as long as I keep moving nothing's gonna happen just keep walking. You don't even have to run just keep walking and even when one of those ghosts shoot, it's gonna shoot where you were the ball is gonna it's not there with a homing missile. Yeah, so they just they just go where you were so just don't be at the point where the guy shoots at. First are the chords. Are you want the pretty blocks? Yeah. Yeah pretty blocks. Also a lot of experience if you want to get and challenging stuff done. Oh you remember when we were talking in an early episode about creating our own mobs and I obviously wanted a mob that drops courts. Hmm. Yeah, I completely forgot that now there's a villager that trades quartz blocks. What? Yeah, A stonemason villager will trade quartz blocks really but how about that? That's useful. I don't think he trades the flower though. Yeah, so only the blocks but not like he'll straight at it little tell you the regular clean block. So basically you can make any other courts block out of it. But if you want, yeah our attempt to Redstone, you still got to go into The Nether hmm. Oh, but that's still pretty cool though. That's gonna help a lot when you do want to want to do build. It's with quartz watch especially orange blocks are really expensive to get yeah, especially when you're playing on a server or like all of us. Everyone's could grind a guy remember at one point. I had a shocker box full of quartz or yeah, it's just like I know that's kind of mean stealing all this Court's but I think I'm still to the point where I need more courts, like I've gone through that whole shoulder box and I'm not even building with a lot of quartz. This year was just going to say like even if you get like a Go box full of quartz or it's gonna be like what two maybe three steaks of course looks I think it's more than that, but that's what it feels like. It's probably more than that. But yeah, it's like you don't get much pick for those know. So that's another reason. I'm kind of wanting to play with villagers is oh, I'd like to see what some of these other guys that we've not really traded with before because let's face it. It's been farmers in Librarians for years. That's all. One cared about maybe an armor or black? Yeah, but now you got guys like these stonemasons. It's like oh hello Mmm Yeah, and I noticed the Fletcher's for example, they trade arrows. I think that's kind of useful as well. Maybe the old ones did that I actually not sure I can't remember exactly that could be interesting as well. Yeah. Well also with the what is it the crossbow did they don't have an affinity? So if you're really like to use the crossbow you'll The steady supply of arrows I guess still don't have a crossbow. I still don't think I've fired one yet. Are you wanna you want to get it from a villager? Right or from a billy? I was wanting to get it from a yeah roll and not just go and attack one of their little towers mmm, but patrols aren't happening as often as I thought they would think I've also when we found a patrol we ended up trapping the guy that's true. Well, I had two more patrols since then. Oh, really? Yeah nice. None of them have dropped anything. So I think I'm just going to go ahead and I think it's Carl who built the yeah raid farmer, whatever. I might just go explore that area and go ahead and do it that way because I want to play with them. I've not ever played with them. So I mean they're fun to play with a little I didn't I don't like him as much as two regular bow. But yeah, yeah, that's a personal thing as well. I guess. Yeah. So what about experienced player his first week or her and week getting Home Point some backup stuff and foods, like just a place where you have that so you don't have to worry about it too much all the time. Get a silk touch pickaxe and a little chest. Yes, I think for experienced player. That should be doable the first week those two are, you know silk touch pickaxe obviously to move your animals just around and then, you know, you can get the diamond or she can just collect orders which are not smaller than when you break them up into the pieces. That makes sense like a redstone or if you chop that down. It's going to break into like seven or eight parts Redstone Dust I was shaking my head. Yes, but I was yawning at the same time so word for coming at my mouth. Yeah, that's all right. Yeah so silk touch pickaxe is really useful. Yes. One thing I've seen so many people to assist a their Works towards diamond diamond gear and then spend the whole day outside and getting experience and in Something that diamond gear and then usually they die within and I are within an hour and lose all that stuff and then they quit. Yes. I recommend not getting diamonds gear and not go in a child, especially not the first week. Maybe wait a month. I generally wait until we got like an Enderman Farm they can even take more than months for me. I've always followed the rule of I get my tools diamond and Enchanted the way I want them. And I'll enchant my iron armor for sure, but I'm not trying to force all the enchantments. I want on the iron armor. It's just kind of like a chance at see what I can get. And if I get lucky I get a couple good things together. I'm good to go. And then once my tool, yeah all set up and I have a home base of operations. I go ahead and start doing armor stuff because it's 20 diamonds or whatever to do a just a regular suit of diamond armor and then 24 you can yeah, and then when you're trying to combine Multiple Diane stuff to get it to work together not worth buying getting the levels. Yes getting a chance. You got to be level 30 takes a while, especially when there's no firm. I usually go by the rule like I want to make sure I can replace it easily. Yes iron armor always easy to replace and then challenge the diamond stuff easy to replace fool enchanted diamond stuff that gets tricky if you don't have liked the chance for it. Oh, thanks phone. That's awesome. Okay make a good experience firm. Yeah, for experienced players lay first week is a good time to go and explore try and find that and gate I think pretty catchy. I've only found the end once and that was the first comic craft map every X in like some random player just be mining and they stumble across it. Nice. Huh? Never had to like go look for the end and like last four years. Yeah. I mean, they're not that hard to find that I don't know. It's gonna be fun. I'm trying to sort of find one. Okay, so back to beginners you've lived. Yeah first week. You've got a home and got the stuff going on like that. What do you do then? Yeah, I'd recommend I recommended this for that for the first week for experienced players, but get a home Point have a place to go home to a safe spot where you got all your food just a spot where you don't have to worry about any any For more danger we can just relax and hang out. Yeah, and also that's going to be the point where you spawn back when you die. So you want to be want to be safe there. I like the idea of a renewable food source at your home Mmm Yeah, I think that's because well, I mean again if you die and you lose all your stuff that you got on you. If that's all you have then as soon as you spawn, you're going to have to find food if it's night, you might be in a tricky situation or if you want to get back to your gear and it's night. You want to have something to get health back while you get to it. So having everything like a food source at your home. Well, I put my hands up to to do brackets, but nobody can see that. Yeah. Yeah anything that you can count as a home. It could be a cave. Could be anything ready where you're badass. This is kind of later in the game. But I always just having like a backup backpack. So when you die, you want to go get your gear have some just like kind of leftover random armor laying around haven't with a couple golden apples in there, maybe even yeah because you may have to go kill something. That's now wearing your armor. Yeah. Good point. Well actually now on the server in my show. Am I under chest after Ashoka books called Bank he died and it's basically just my standard inventory that I always have only and it's in that chest. So I have a complete new set of armor in there you go. Obviously that's you know, when you're well into your game and you have to luxury of all that stuff and being able to make it but I had some spare time and I was like, I might as well just make like an extra set of armor. And if I die I can just even if I lose it all I immediately have a new set. don't reduce yeah I don't have to go and create a new set immediately yeah I like your next topic you're saying in the fact that explore the game don't just yeah comfortably like challenge yourself I mean to me the biggest breakthrough in Minecraft for me was when I decided to sit down I was like I'm going to learn Redstone right yeah that was so much fun to learn yeah I still opened up a whole new world to nothing compared to guys like mumbo-jumbo and Tango Tech or even though mango all my Lord right only me yeah yeah he knows I can only imagine what he's forgotten that I don't yeah right so yeah I'm scraping the surface on Redstone but yet I feel if I want to build it I can build it somehow so yeah getting to know the basics is snow to her not hurt you and it opens up a whole new world yeah exactly and it opens up a whole new world of of things to do with it's so cool don't just build tutorials I mean I started off building tutorial. Yeah, it's a great way to learn the mechanics of redstone. But once you get a feel for it, just trying to me and the way I Learned was so I'd watch the tutorial in 90% of the farm would be the tutorial but I would always have tweaked something. It's like I'm watching a tutorial from two years ago. There might be something yet little bit different than I can tweak here and there like when observers came out they became the new tweaking object. It's like well you can do it this old. The way but now you can put three observers and that takes a whole section of this Farm out. Yeah or something. I run into a lot whilst that the tutorial doesn't fit. Yes. You have to modify it to just make it fit in the area You're Building? Yeah, the the final common Craft season, we built the who's it's no crashes blaze farm. That was V shape with the rails. And yeah that didn't fit and I was flipping it. So it was inverse of itself at the same time. And remember we also changed like did is we do a different grosser at the end of it from another Farm or something? Yeah. We used a Crusher from I want to say it's a Wither Farm. Okay, and it was just non-stop going on the entire time because I couldn't get yeah, I think circuits data just like, you know, it's gonna run non-stop as long as no one's in the area. It's going to turn off anyway, so yeah Network kind of nice. Yeah, so that's what I mean by don't just follow the tutorials obviously learn from tutorials, but put your own. Analogy into it. Yeah, try and play around with it when she get a bit comfortable and start to understand. Yeah, make sure you have fun as well. Let's go. Yes, that's the most important one. Just have fun do whatever you want to do. Yeah it literally if you can dream it. You can build it in Minecraft. That's the best. I mean my yeah Minecraft. This doesn't have goals. I mean, there's some advancements you can go to I guess but there's no you can't finish the game just enjoy it because I enjoy the ride beat Minecraft Minecraft can beat you. Oh, yeah, for sure feel the burn also map makers can be too but that's all different story those guys cheat man. Literally. All right. So what about you experienced Minecraft players? What are you doing after the first week? Yeah, make sure let everything you got easily to renew like make sure you got some spare diamonds to make a new armor set get some experience for arms, so you so you can enjoy Lawyer stuff I highly recommend the furnace XP storage thing. I've been oh, so I had to use the gold Farm obviously and I sat there and I went this thing so much slower compared to that furnace XP storage, right? Well then I think thanks be storage is great for especially like when you're digging a lot and your pickaxe broken, but for rest, nothing is broken. Yes. It's like Oh, no, I got to go to the gold firmware the end of farm. Well, You only have to repair one item for you. You can just go do your thing. Click the button. Yep all refresher pickaxe. Yeah, so that's a good those are the great things to work to also got lifted our children boxes. So make sure you get the bed Furniture. I don't know what I do. I don't want to start over because I don't want to lose my shoulder boxes. I've got more stroker boxes this season than I've ever had and I don't know what I'd do with that'll I mean main reason as we open the drop rate sometime a little bit. Yeah. Nice, cuz after that first month, I haven't had to go back into the end for silver boxes. I think I haven't gone back. Like I went into the ends like the first week and then I haven't been back or no two hands for shoka. Let's say we didn't minigame in the end. Yeah, I've been in the end. That's true. That's true. Yeah, they haven't been slow and I think we went a lighter hunting one time because I lost an Elijah. Oh, yeah, it wasn't really for sure - we did she'll purr hunting because we were already there but we were there for leiter has I remember also flying around the end actually just picking up the light fast now, we just ignore the whole thing and just pick up the light try and go again. I would never have done that but we're kind of spoiled now. Yeah, you know for this like experienced players already kind of know what to do. Just so make sure you have fun do what you do experienced players already sort of have to wait to do right? So my Redstone or some our Builder some are explorers. Yeah, and whatever you're not good at practice it. yeah expending your What is it skill set Yeah, the more, you know, the more you can play with it. So that the more creative you can be last season. I made a goal of I was going to be better at terrain work and forming natural land formation. So I built a base in a hole that literally had to be formed out of nothing and I think I did a really good job at that. And yeah, this season was I need more buildings that aren't shoved into a mountain or a whole and I think again, I'm excelling at that. In a part of my base is still kind of in a mountain. Remember in the Discworld I wanted to I wanted to learn how to build trees. Your country's said that a little awesome which says something considering the Discworld had awesome generated trees to start with. Mmm. I mean, I still I'm still quite happy with my treat they come out a bunch of quicker though. Like I would spend like hours on the tree there. Yeah, although last map helped a lot too old making all those palm trees. You can say your palm trees to me. You're the best ones like I want more Young to Fall. That tutorial for palm tree. That would be awesome. I would be so old are let's say that I mean like you're shoving was it melons and coconuts up in there for ya. It was cool. It's a little details to do it right also last map I challenged myself to try and build more in a modern style, which you normally wouldn't do. Yeah. That's the first time I've ever really seen you build anything modern. Yeah, I think it worked out. Well, it was a big Challenge and I struggle with it quite often. That's kind of ham with this season. I'd never build medieval-style know I'm finding it's like I have more options to choose from right which you think would make things easier but it just makes it hard. It's kind of the same problem. I'm running into like normally I'm in the swamp. So I it's pretty much empty. There's no landscape to go off. It's normally you something I do a lot. I see what kind of area I got around me and sort of build into that. But now it's there isn't any which is kind of tricky. Yeah, I mean, but you did a real good job taking the little land mass. You have your walkway in and out of your starting home. And that area to me is my it's one of my favorite details on the whole base. Yeah. I've been starting to try and decorate the area and sort of Branch set out and hopefully that sort of gift. Eat up Lance. I want or need to build more around. It's sort of an inspiration kind of thing. But it's also I like building nature of things. It's you don't have to be too. How do you say it? You can be real rough with it. You can just yeah with things around some the more mistakes you make the better its kind of Lux. Yeah. I don't know how many times I've seen like a 1 by 1 whole and like my grass field and I grabbed like a cobblestone stare and just shove it in there right that actually works. So yeah leaving it. Yeah, it's I don't know. It's the it's the mistakes to make things look good or something. But talking about expanding like us building differently to me. That's what you should do. After after the first week stuff like you're experienced player. You've been playing this for a while. It's like now you're starting to get burned out and demotivated. How do you keep going we talked about this with C-3PO. I can't yes last week or the week before but change your build style do something completely. Wild and crazy and different maybe I don't know build something. You would see in Harry Potter make a story or recreate a story. Yeah, that would be awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, that's how I started this season was I had to tell a story because I couldn't figure out how to build medieval and now that I've figured that out. It's come more easy. I don't have to always tell a story but I mean you look at my last room which is a room of heads that started out with me saying well, this is a keep keeps have volts. I need to build. A vault and then it kind of just morphed into something different from there. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing that the story also does. Like if you don't know what to do. You just think back a few the story you made up for it and I'm oh right. I still have to build that it's sort of getting guide itself or if you can't come up with the story. There's plenty of stuff. You can find online whether it be written ideas or TV shows or movies. Well, like you say if you like Harry Potter, Go and make a Harry Potter world like go and make awkward, sir or Diagon Alley or whatever you pronounce this stole it. I was like no, I'm gonna get Harry Potter fans excited this watch this nudge nudge Diagon Alley. It's like oh, all right, drew that. Sorry. I'm gonna make us what is it is closet bedroom thingy you are. Yeah that yeah, I kind of did well, it's not my bedroom. Well not anymore. I used to have my bed there. That's true. You don't worry, I'll build a bed underneath a staircase somewhere for you. Hmm, or I mean, yeah, we'll call it Becky's house. But Big D shows. I think we're thinking wrapping up. Right we've covered I think saying we had yeah. Yeah. Well, so it's run an hour pretty much. Yeah didn't expect that to be honest for this episode. We had stuff in mind and we knew the news was going to be something deep to cover. So thank you Mo. Yeah, releasing some snapshots that were more than just we fixed bugs. Well that was actually like sort of a new mechanics to talk about. Normally. It's only a dad at this which is similar to that or whatever. This was something new. I like it. Yeah. All right. I'll take us out. I guess Carl make me do work. So damn. He's got to do work now and bleep me. It couldn't resist if you like the show, you can share it. Once. Yeah from the several do more. If you like to show you can share it with all your friends and I'll social media follow us, you know, Twitter and all that and if you listen on Spotify leave us a review and if you listen on Apple both gasp doing what is it? 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In this episode, DuDs and Bank share some Minecraft tips and tricks for both beginners and experienced players on what to do on their first night, first week and beyond. There's a new snapshot 19W41A which adds the Honey and Honeycomb blocks. Also, I'm going to send Bank to the naughty step... just after he fixes his connection issues :P  1.15 snapshot blog post: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-19w41a Office USA meme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KRDgUfM2I3CfH5tm_RECLZBjnp5WwP3h/view?usp=sharing  Podcast Website: http://rippleeffectsmp.com/podcast Contact the show: podcast@rippleeffectsmp.com  The Withering Effect Discord: https://discord.gg/gqnKyeZ The Ripple Effect Twitter: https://twitter.com/rippleeffectsmp  Hosts: DuDs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DuDs_vs DuDs Twitter: https://twitter.com/DuDs_vs DuDs Mixer: https://mixer.com/DuDs_vs Banks YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyg7sNFi_qMG2pRtTM4046w Banks Twitter: https://twitter.com/AardappelBank Banks Mixer: https://mixer.com/BankAardappel  Digital Producer:  CarlRyds YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/carlryds CarlRyds Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlryds  Music: DiiKoj YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DiiKoj DiiKoj Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiiKoj  Podcast hosted by: Anchor.fm 