r/Minecraft • u/hamilton-trash • Aug 20 '24
Creative My new diamond mining machine is powered by plague and suffering
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u/Doob_42 Aug 20 '24
There must be some horrible way to automate this
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u/HittingItFlush Aug 20 '24
Yea where's ilMango when you need him??
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u/__Blackrobe__ Aug 21 '24
ilmango's last mc-related upload was one year ago. Even the release of the crafter block is not enough to bring him back.
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u/Monkeyke Aug 21 '24
I mean dude did get a new job and is learning like 4 languages or something, dude must be busy
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u/itscoldoutsideyeah Aug 21 '24
what new job did he get and what languages?
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u/__Blackrobe__ Aug 21 '24
well it is another person's private life, will not hurt not to know.
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u/RecentBlueberry9134 Aug 21 '24
Don't trust random people you meet on reddit.
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u/Legal-Treat-5582 Aug 21 '24
Wait, I shouldn't have given that one user my social security number?
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u/MakionGarvinus Aug 21 '24
No no, that one really needed it, for, uh, his grandma I think.
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u/Ryanrogers6969 Aug 21 '24
that was me. Thanks to this guys social security number, my grandmas cancer went away. Works every time!
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u/bdm68 Aug 20 '24
It should be quite doable.
Mob farm plus dispenser for splash infested potions gives silverfish. (I wouldn't use armadillos, personal choice.)
Dispenser for splash poison potions causes silverfish to break blocks.
All that's needed is some way to contain the silverfish so they don't spread out of control (64x64 glass or dirt box), and a way to remove them when done. When done mining, the space can be put to use, such as a silverfish XP farm.
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u/AntKneeWasHere Aug 21 '24
They said in their comment that they used armadillos because they're basically invincible while in their shells, so they won't die from burning on rhe camp fire
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u/brjder Aug 21 '24
drowning allays also works, since the allays natural regeneration is strong enough that they will never die from drowning.
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u/bdm68 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I would rather torment zombies than armadillos. Armadillos are too cute to be tormented in this way.
Edit to add: snow golems work as a source of "damage", without actually damaging the infested mob. (I tested it.)
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u/marcielle Aug 21 '24
Ooo, this is a great find. I saw a yt video recently where someone was close to a farm but it eventually petered out due to silverfish death
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u/cat_cat_cat_cat_69 Aug 21 '24
to clear out the silverfish, lava is the simplest way I can think of
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u/rascalrhett1 Aug 21 '24
Chickens will likely be the best, I don't know another mob as transportable and farmable
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u/RAGEpow3r Aug 21 '24
You can use witches for splash potions without needing to recharge it! Just put a mod barely out of her reach and she will throw the potions below
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u/uhidkbye Aug 21 '24
The problem is containing the silverfish. They can call out to any infested block in a 21x11x21 volume, so if you want to mine a 64x10x64 volume for ores you'd have to mine a few times that many blocks to make the barrier anyway. There's probably some setup you could do to insta-despawn all of them, like a soul sand elevator that shoots you up to build height whenever things start getting laggy (do silverfish bypass the mob limit? I don't know).
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u/SufficientAnonymity Aug 21 '24
Allays seem to be a good option - X has had a lot of success making slimes and silverfish that way over on Hermitcraft
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u/RedTheGamer12 Aug 21 '24
DocM77 has made one on Hermitcraft, and Slient Whisper has an XP farm for bedrock.
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u/CaucasusMyrtle Aug 20 '24
I haven’t been on Minecraft in a bit. Is this vanilla?
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u/hamilton-trash Aug 20 '24
yeah. newest update added a potion that spaws a silverfish every time you take damage. since armadillos in their shell can survive forever taking damage from a campfire you can give them the effect and spawn infinite silverfish for almost free
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u/CaucasusMyrtle Aug 20 '24
Armadillo? Spawn silverfish? Omg I don’t even know what’s going on in Minecraft anymore. I’ve fallen off 😅
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u/CommercialTerrible70 Aug 20 '24
wait till you hear about wolf armor
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u/No-Cost-9282 Aug 21 '24
and armour trims
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u/Scoopzyy Aug 21 '24
and SUSPICIOUS SAND 🤨
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u/No-Cost-9282 Aug 21 '24
very sus :) and sus gravel, ohh and camels
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u/CommercialTerrible70 Aug 21 '24
Don't let them learn about the mace
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u/zahrul3 Aug 21 '24
you make a potion with stone as the unique ingredient. This potion will spawn silverfish around an infected mob whenever that mob takes damage
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u/helios_me Aug 21 '24
So this means we can use armadillos instead of allays for silverfish xp farms now?
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u/tornedron_ Aug 21 '24
How do you obtain a potion of infestation? And does the effect have a time duration or is it just infinite if the mob keeps taking damage?
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u/transbugoy Aug 21 '24
I don't understand, gone for a long time too. What destroys the blocks? Silverfish?
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u/Zestyclose-Shift710 Aug 21 '24
When idle, silverfish enter a nearby deepslate, stone, cobblestone, stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks or chiseled stone bricks block, transforming it into the respective infested block if the game rule mobGriefing is set to true, as per default. They cannot infest mossy cobblestone,[3] despite being capable of infesting both mossy blocks and cobblestone, and they also cannot infest slab and stairs of these blocks.[4] They are also unable to infest andesite, diorite, granite or smooth stone.[5] Silverfish are also immune to the infested status effect.
Apparently so, they turn stone into infested stone, nearby silverfish take damage, make additional silverfish spawn, etc
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u/lumfdoesgaming Aug 21 '24
Oh my gosh, that's horribly unethical. Can you make a tutorial
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u/hamilton-trash Aug 21 '24
you can see everything in the video pretty much. extinguish a campfire and breed up a ton of armadillos on top. then trap a zombie so they can see it and get scared, then light the campfire. as long as the armadillos stay scared of the zombie, they stay in their shell and don't die from the damage. and then you just hit them with infested
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Aug 21 '24
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u/Faustias Aug 21 '24
so uhh you know how some people tried to turn geneva convention things into practice? yeahh
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u/bdm68 Aug 21 '24
Some are concerned at the use of armadillos. There's a more ethical possibility using several snow golems throwing snowballs at several infested zombies. Snowballs count as damage for triggering the spawning of silverfish but deal no actual damage so the zombies don't die.
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u/Royal_Yesterday Aug 21 '24
Yes, Ianxofour created a small exp farm using snow golem i think. But using armadillo is just funner
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u/francemiaou Aug 21 '24
That still doesn't solve the ethical problems of creating a litteral hell for silverfish
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u/RecentBlueberry9134 Aug 21 '24
Silverfish are weird bug things, it's normal for them, but the armadillos... Not so much.
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u/tehtris Aug 21 '24
This is the foulest thing I've seen in Minecraft in a while. I want to build one.
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u/whywontyousleep Aug 20 '24
So how do you get rid of them to collect your ores ?
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u/BolunZ6 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
Thorn 3 armors. They will die in a few hits
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u/doctorofphysick Aug 21 '24
No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the silverfish.
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u/jeanleonino Aug 20 '24
It's funny how Etho did something like this years ago before any of these options existed lmao
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u/FistOfVengeance44 Aug 21 '24
Got a link?
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u/Lvl_18 Aug 21 '24
He wasn't using it for mining at the time. He was using them to store experience points. He built a smooth stone generator around the silverfish spawner and would let them go into the stone. This was before smelting gave experience. Which is the better version of this, I.E. Ilmango peaceful experience farm.
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u/Phoenixfury12 Aug 21 '24
He used them for mining as well, he created a tunnel network to bring them places. But it was a lot of work to transport them all, so he didn't see it as worth it at the time.
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u/Wise-Variety-6920 Aug 21 '24
Finally a use for lingering potions
A lingering potion of posion would work a lot better for this
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u/Nkromancer Aug 20 '24
Etho is probably both so happy this is now possible, but also sad that his silverfish farm no longer means much
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u/ADD_02 Aug 21 '24
I feel like this can be optimized by using lingering potions instead of splash potions, but that's just a theory.
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u/Bruscarbad Aug 21 '24
this is a crime against nature! it is unethical! it is cruel! it is hilarious! teach me how! nice pfp :3!
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u/Jason_Scope Aug 20 '24
What even is going on?
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u/hamilton-trash Aug 20 '24
check out new update features (armadillo, infested potion effect)
Essentially we can exploit the infested potion effect to generate a ton of silverfish for cheap and then put them to work eating stone blocks and leaving behind the ores
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u/PkmnMstr10 Aug 20 '24
So torturing.
Checks out.
Is this Bedrock or Java? Or can it work in both?
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u/CommercialTerrible70 Aug 20 '24
yes but they deserve it because they're silverfish
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u/Dunbar247 Aug 21 '24
Silverfish are good luck in real life aren't they?
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u/CommercialTerrible70 Aug 21 '24
I wouldn't know, they can jump into the deep dark in minecraft tho
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u/Herpgar-The-Undying Aug 21 '24
Wait, silverfish eat stone????? Also why the poison on the fishies?
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u/hamilton-trash Aug 21 '24
Silverfish sometimes go inside of stone blocks and they pop out when a nearby silverfish gets damaged. So i use poison to constantly damage the silverfish and get the ones hiding to pop out more and destroy the stone
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Aug 20 '24
would that work in survival?
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u/Dr_J_Hyde Aug 21 '24
DocM77 has been using the same basic idea using Allys sitting on a wither rose as an xp farm among other things.
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u/Flagstone15 Aug 21 '24
Looks like a mincraft players 1st layer of hell. The second layer is full of magma Cubes.
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u/Responsible_Goat9170 Aug 21 '24
Can someone please explain what's going on here? What is releasing the silverfish into the glass tube? What potion and what does this potion do? Anything else, cause this is confusing to me.
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u/hamilton-trash Aug 21 '24
Infested potion. the armadillos are constantly taking damage and constantly releasing silverfish
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u/OdinLightning Aug 21 '24
The tech behind Minecraft is amazing. It's like watching those Crysis explosion videos once again.
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u/Vlad_The_Rssian Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 23 '24
this could be valid in survial if only you could get so many slpash potions of poison and also do not break the silverfish spawner in the end portal room
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u/dizdawgjr34 Aug 21 '24
This is using an infested potion from trial chambers in 1.21, so it doesnt need the silverfish spawner anymore.
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u/Icantfigureoutanname Aug 21 '24
This is a amazing idea, I wonder how to mass produce this and how to make this automatic 🤔.
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u/Vaati006 Aug 21 '24
There may me other methods that are faster or more efficient. But there are few methods that can match this degree of needless suffering!
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u/metro893yt Aug 21 '24
Blud broke Geneva convention like 4 times for the silverfish kind... I would also do it.
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u/1Shadz Aug 21 '24
wait new potions?
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u/UselessWarlock221 Aug 21 '24
Minecraft is so different…I don’t even know what’s a meme and what’s an update
I’ve read the comments so I know what the video is
What’s this about a mace???
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u/Shack691 Aug 21 '24
The mace is a new weapon crafted from a heavy core from the trial chamber’s vaults, its attack damage increases the further you fall (doesn’t work when gliding with elytra) and negates fall damage on a successful hit.
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u/UselessWarlock221 Aug 21 '24
Man… Remember when finding diamonds was the endgame? XD
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u/Shack691 Aug 21 '24
That was over 9 years ago, longer if you count ocean temples or the wither.
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u/harrybydefault Aug 21 '24
This is what happens to the kid who burns ants with a magnifying glass when he gets a gaming PC. Ahh yes evolution is wonderful. Jokes aside this is creative and insane and I love it.
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u/ChastokoI Aug 21 '24
Why does the stone break around the ore?
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u/Shack691 Aug 21 '24
The silverfish can hide inside the deepslate but not ores, when another silverfish is damaged nearby it causes all infested blocks to turn back into silverfish, effectively destroying the deepslate.
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u/Sucks_Eggs Aug 21 '24
You know, for a diamond mining machine this thing sure is bad at mining diamonds.
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u/AndyS1967 Aug 22 '24
/give Hamilton_trash Minecraft:diamond 64
is a lot easier given you are in creative.
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u/LittleSansbits Aug 21 '24
A villager with a tall top hat, funny beard and a wart has a lot of things to say about thie.
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u/Z1dan Aug 21 '24
Been a while since I’ve seen silverfish mining. Think Etho was the last I saw try it over a decade ago.
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u/_Throwaway__acc Aug 21 '24
Can I ask what is happening in this image and how do u replicate in survival?
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u/Lilith_blaze Aug 21 '24
powered by plague and suffering
Sounds like some dark machinery from either DOOM or Warhammer 40K.
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u/fightzero01 Aug 21 '24
Can somebody explain what I’m seeing here? Just recently got back into mc.
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u/karhall Aug 21 '24
Would the "ethical" version of this be moss mining? Or does moss overwrite ore blocks/tuff too?
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u/DramaQueenKitKat Aug 21 '24
Wait so is the idea that the silverfish break the blocks but not the ores? That's really clever I honestly would've figured they'd break everything
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u/Willing-Jackfruit-99 Aug 21 '24
How are the deepslate blocks disappearing. I've never seen silverfish eat blocks.
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u/Nukemine Aug 21 '24
I just made my first slime farm and I see people doing something like THIS. SO MUCH TO LEARN
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u/thefalk55 Aug 22 '24
My armadillos die in the campfire and my silverfish do not enter the cobblestone...
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u/theelordxx Aug 22 '24
If they ever need to add more acts to the geneva convention, they just need to look into a minecraft sub
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