Shadowing Practice: 24 Hours To Build The Statue Of Liberty in Minecraft - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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So you're saying that took four years to make?
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So you're saying that took four years to make?
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I could probably make that in 24 hours.
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Ahem.
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You-you-you-you-Morra, there's no way you can build this in 24 hours!
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But I have no choice now, do I?
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I'm building it here because it's on a small island just like the actual statue.
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If we zoom into this image,
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it looks like the base or pedestal was made out of stone bricks.
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Also, I already have a massive catalog of stone bricks and I don't have a lot of time,
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so I gotta use whatever I got.
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So, uh, guys, remember, uh,
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remember that massive catalog of stone bricks I had?
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Me neither, because it looks like there's no stone left already.
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Also, doesn't this feel a little bit big?
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Like, I'm building at one-to-one scale,
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but for some reason it feels way too big.
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Oh well, I need more stone anyway,
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and fortunately, I have this groundbreaking invention.
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Heh, ground, groundbreaking.
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Whoa, I was not paying attention and just about broke my pick.
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Alright, two fresh boxes of stone.
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As good as this looks,
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it is merely a tenth of the final product.
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You know, if I didn't keep running into these chunks of other stones or ores that slow me down,
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I could probably accumulate the stone bricks much faster.
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Hmm.
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Actually, what if I just make two pistons,
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a buttload of hoppers, play stone like so,
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Trap doors, water, lava, redstone, and boom!
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Hello, stone farm, my old friend.
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This should allow me to gather stone much faster than before.
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Oh, hold on.
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I can't even mine for very long without mending my pickaxe.
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No problem.
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I can just...
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Come on, one of these books has to be silk to- Brother!
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After extensively searching through all of my enchanted books,
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four, none of them had silk touch.
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I could either enchant a bunch of picks and hopefully get silk touch,
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but waste a lot of levels and or possibly time,
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Or I could try to get it from a villager,
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but that's also a pretty big gamble.
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Oh, wait a minute!
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NCDs are all over and always have super high tier gear!
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I can try to find silk touch pickaxes for my stone farm.
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Yes!
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Okay, it's been 15 minutes and I already got a silk touch pickaxe.
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I'm gonna give myself 10 more minutes to find some more and we'll see what happens.
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Well, I haven't found any more, but there's no time.
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Let's mine!
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Oh no!
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What?
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Wait!
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No!
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Brother!
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I've just- I've- okay, I just got up,
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and then I had to get a drink and I came back,
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and my pickaxe was broken.
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I was about- I saw that it was like going down under a building,
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I was about to switch it to the other one,
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and- My netherite pick broke!
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I spent so long getting that thing!
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Well, I mean, at least I have two other soap touch picks,
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but dang, that's hard to replace.
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Alright, let's check the chest and- wait, what?!
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Why isn't there any stone in the chest?
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They should be filled to the brim!
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What is going on here?
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Are you kidding me?
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Bro, this hopper wasn't facing the right way so I only got as much stone as could fit in six hoppers.
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I don't have time for this, the clock is ticking!
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Okay, please, please, I've worked. And yes!
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Woo!
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Let's go!
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That feels so good!
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Finally I can continue this thing!
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How is there only 17 hours left?
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There should be at least like 21 or 20- wait a minute.
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Guys, I just discovered something detrimental.
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My plan was to build this statue at a 1 to 1 scale in real life where 1 meter is 1 block.
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I created the build in Creative World and I'm using this hologram display to know where to place the blocks.
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However, I made a few different builds in the Creative World,
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one of them being 4 times larger than the one I was actually going to build for experimental purposes.
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Unfortunately, I accidentally loaded in the wrong hologram,
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and this one is the build that's four times the size it's supposed to be.
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I can't take it down because that would take way too much time.
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My only choice is to continue making it at four times the scale,
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which is gonna take forever also.
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There is no way I can finish this in 24 hours now.
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Alright, this section looks like it's made of like smooth stone,
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so while this stone smelts into smooth stone,
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I can finish making the walls.
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That way, zero time is wasted.
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Alright, the walls are done and so is the smelting.
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Let's smack.
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I've upgraded my building technique because there's literally no time at all.
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This mod allows me to hold down right click on these blocks
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and it places them even if I'm not placing it on another block.
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And I am taking full advantage of it.
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Failure is not an option.
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Unlike bending the rules, that's always an option.
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Oh no!
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So my biggest issue is running out of stone,
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and I just realized that I could have used smoothstone slabs and had twice as many blocks for this layer.
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Luckily, I still have some left so I can turn the rest into slabs.
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Mmm.
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Actually, placing this is way slower than placing it the other way,
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because it won't let me do it with the hologram there.
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Is it even faster to have slabs in if placing them is way slower?
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Guys, I spent the last two hours gathering stone, coal, and smelting stone.
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I don't have very much time left!
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There is no way this is possible!
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I even did crazy parkour maneuvers to help me mine faster.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Anyway, I decided to not use slabs because of how much faster I can place the full blocks.
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I have no idea if this was the best decision,
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but I'm sticking with it.
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I'm not even gonna put mending on these pickaxes.
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I'm just gonna repair them with diamonds because it saves time.
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Anything to save time, I'm guns to use.
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Um, uh, hold up.
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I think, uh, I think you missed a spot all around over here.
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Ha!
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You moron.
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Look at this image.
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Happen to see anything that goes around in a circle, square type shape?
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Like, for example, these squares?
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Oh man, I'm out of stone already.
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I'm not even halfway done with the squares.
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This could not be good.
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Oh no no no no!
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There's no dark grey concrete!
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There's no way I have enough time to make it and I need like four stacks!
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Wait a minute!
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Nobody breathe.
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I could use this smooth basalt.
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It's kind of the same color and seeing as I don't really have any other option...
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Yep, that looks great.
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Okay, this layer is tricky because there are giant window hole things in the walls
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and I don't really have time to measure them out and get perfect fit,
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so I'm just kinda guessing where they go.
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I hope this doesn't end up looking terrible,
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but if it does, I do not have enough time to fix it.
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Alright, the walls are complete,
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but unfortunately, as you can see,
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I need a ton more smooth stone.
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PSYCH YOU MORALS FORGOT I'M A GIGA GENIUS AND WAS ALREADY SMELTING SMOOTHERSTONE THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS BUILDING THE WALLS!
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You guys really underestimated me and thought that me,
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of all people, the greatest Minecraft player of all time,
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ME, really didn't plan ahead- Uh,
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oh, I'm already out of smooth stone.
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Great.
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Okay, I've got all these furnaces smelting stone.
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However, I'm running dangerously low on coal meaning I have none Um,
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uh, that doesn't look like coal.
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That looks like you're getting bamboo Well,
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stupid idiot coal takes too long and mine bamboo is like instantly
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and I get a ton super fast
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And it's a way better fuel source in like every single way imaginable so suck it
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Oh Takes four bamboo to smelt one stone.
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See I told you guys bamboo was a terrible fuel source You see this?
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Notice the brownish hue?
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Yeah, me neither.
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Anyway, the closest block to that color is packed mud,
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and lucky for me, there is a biome next to me
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that is packed full of mud that I can turn into packed mud.
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Now, how do I make packed mud?
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Oh.
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Do I actually not have wheat anywhere?
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What?
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Oh man, I don't think I have any wheat.
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Oh wait, I think I can trade for wheat with one of my villagers.
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Um, okay, oh, I can trade for emeralds with wheat.
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Yeah, I definitely don't want to do that.
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After searching around for a while,
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I found ten wheat, and that will get me approximately ten-packed mud.
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Great.
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I don't have a wheat farm,
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and making an efficient one will probably take you far too many hours.
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So, what if I...
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Aha!
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I'm an ultra-mega-giga-genius big-brain boy.
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It's been 20 minutes, I already have two stacks of hay bales,
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and so if you calculate how much wheat that is, you get.. um, a lot.
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Well, there goes my entire stock and this isn't even a tenth of what needs to be done.
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Hold on a second.
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Hold on a sec- HOLD ON A SECOND!
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For this farm, I need one dirt block for every mud block I want,
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which I have to get by mining it.
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So instead of just going to the mangrove swamp and mining quickly,
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I'm mining dirt, then converting it to mud,
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and then mi- How is this possibly faster than instamining mud?
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What kind of tomfoolery is this?
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FFFF HAAAAAAH wait, what? guys,
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I was just flying around getting more wheat
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and I just found a random nether portal out here I'm thousands of blocks away from spawn let's go in
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and see what's on the other side oh,
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wait, it looks like I've been here before interesting oh, snap!
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these bones give me an idea if I mine all of these,
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and put the seeds in my off hand this could be a faster method nope,
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that is definitely slower remember when I said the only block that works on this pedestal is packed mud? me either,
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but it's not true anyway The last block I need is brown mushroom block and where do they reside?
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Ding ding ding on the nether roof.
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Alright, let's bone meal this bad boy up Huh?
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Maybe these ones are in the way, huh?
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Alright, let's grab a piece of dirt and try it on that.
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Hopefully this works Maybe they just can't grow the- Oh yes, okay sweet.
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Alright, bet.
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I'm just gonna farm a ton of these for I don't know an hour
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or so Because I need a ton of brown mushroom blocks.
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Alright, I got a couple sugar boxes full so that should be enough and let's do it Um,
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well, uh, turns out that was not even close to enough brown mushroom blocks. Or mud. So, yeah.
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I still got a big ways to go,
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but look how far we are.
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This is what it looks like at the beginning,
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and this is what it looks like now.
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Look at all that progress we got already.
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Alright, I need a ton more wheat.
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Well, that should probably be enough wheat.
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Alright, now I just have to do this entrance part.
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And if I turn on the hologram, uh, bring that down.
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Yeah, that's what it looks like so let's do that.
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Alright boys, check it out!
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Everything's finished except for...
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Well, I mean I have to do the statue on top of course,
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and then I have to do the stairs down below.
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Unfortunately, these stairs are white and the only white stairs in Minecraft are quartz,
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and quartz is really hard to get.
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So this is gonna take a long time.
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Alright, I got a ton of quartz, so let's start building.
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Niiice!
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Okay, the pedestal is fully completed,
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however I still have the entire statue and only 5 hours to do it in.
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If I'm gonna finish this thing in time,
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you know what I'm gonna do.
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Hit the speed run button, baby.
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First off, I need stacks and stacks of copper blocks.
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So let's do the smart thing rather than the dumb thing
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and make a copper farm rather than just go mining for it.
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I found one online that uses a little-known mechanic called social spawning.
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I don't really know how it works and it'll take too long to explain it.
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So instead, hit zombie, more zombies spawn,
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turn to drown, kill drowned, get copper.
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Boom.
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Okay, I finished the farm in record time and now all I need is a sword with sweeping edge but not sharpness.
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Otherwise, the farm will only work for a few minutes.
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What?
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Where's my mending book?
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I know I had one before.
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Let me check my villager.
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Brother.
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Okay, this guy sells silk touch books,
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which I could have used 14 hours ago and saved an hour and a headache.
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Okay, I have the cords of my mending villager,
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so let's never travel there.
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Somewhere in this village is a man that sells mending.
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If I was a moron, where would I hide?
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Fiii-fi-fo-fum.
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Ah-ha!
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What?
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My only mending villager is a zombie?
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Alright, heal him up.
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And there we go, mending for one emerald.
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Alright, sweet, I'm gonna grab a couple of these bad boys.
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And now I'm just gonna enchant until I have a looting three sword without sharpness.
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Alright, that little detour costed me almost two hours.
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So the only way to get this farm started is with a few beginning zombies.
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Oh bet, there's one right there.
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Okay, I can't let these zombies die or take any damage,
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so I'm gonna take off my Thorns Armor and replace it with non-Thorns Armor.
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Oh, you just hit me.
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All right, there we go.
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All right, you little nitwit, now just follow me.
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And yes, okay, one's in.
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I think I'm gonna get a few more though, just to be safe.
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Okay, well, I couldn't find any more and I'm running out of time,
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so I've just got to go with this one guy.
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Hopefully that's enough.
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I'm just gonna make him follow me until he gets stuck in the farm.
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Each time you hit a zombie,
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there's only like a 5% chance another one spawns,
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so I need to get a bit lucky and hope that they build up before they start dying.
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Oh, sweet.
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Okay, another one spawned already right there.
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Good.
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I need as many that can build up as possible.
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Oh, no. Oh.
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I killed it died it died before another one spawned No,
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that means I have to go back to the end
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and get a whole new zombie
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that I do not have time for this All right I'm gonna give this guy my diamond armor
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so that he doesn't die and I could just keep hitting him
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so that a bunch more zombies Build up because I cannot have another one die Woohoo!
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Yeah!
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Suck it, zombies!
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No!
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Dead!
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Dead!
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Dead!
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Let's gooooo!
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Alright, so I've been AFKing for quite a bit of time.
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I don't even know how much time I stopped looking at the timer and I got a ton of copper.
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But yeah, I'm not gonna look at the timer until I finish this build,
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because I cannot handle the pressure.
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This is too close!
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Are you kidding me?!
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This much copper only got me this far?!
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That was like 10 stacks!
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Holy cow, I need a lot more.
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Alright, as you guys can see from all these items on the ground and my XP levels,
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I've been AFKing here for much longer,
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and now I have this much copper left.
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So I have a ton of copper.
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Hopefully this gets me close to finishing the statue.
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We'll see.
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Oh boy, guys.
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I'm already out of copper.
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That was two shulker boxes full,
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and I'm not even halfway done with the statue.
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Also, the amount of AFKing time I've done,
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I'm 100% over the 24 hour mark,
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but I'm not going to look at it until I finish the statue.
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Oh, and there's a bunch of little holes here I missed.
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Whoops.
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Okay, I'm now at 779 levels.
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Let's see how much this copper can get me.
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Okay, that's actually some pretty good progress.
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I'm pretty close.
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I mostly just have the head and the torch and some of the arm and stuff like that.
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Also, look at that one part's oxidizing right there.
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And that's why this is actually orange is because it's made of copper
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and so it'll turn green like the actual statue did.
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Um, that's just how authentic I am, so yeah.
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I have now reached 1,000 levels of experience just from killing drowns,
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and I have four shulker boxes completely filled with copper blocks,
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so that should be enough to finish this.
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Alright guys, I've actually almost completed it.
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The only thing left is the torch.
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I just need to place this glowstone and then it'll be completely finished.
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Oh snap boys!
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Check this out!
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I'm on the torch, I'm on the tippity top,
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the highest point right now.
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About to dive down.
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This thing goes up around like 200 blocks,
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something insane, I don't even know.
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Alright, ready to flip it around?
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And, and BOOM!
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Oh, haha, it went out of range, hold on, hold on.
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DUDE!
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Oh, that is clean and mean.
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Unfortunately, I do not have enough time to wait for the copper to oxidize for turn green like the real one,
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because that will take like a thousand more days.
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So throughout the next episodes,
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you know, you'll slowly see it turning more and more green.
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It'll be kind of cool,
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like a little progress thing you can check out.
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Anyway, let's see what the timer says.
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Oh.
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Well, um, yeah, it definitely took me a little bit longer than I thought to do that AFKing session,
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and since the build's four times the size,
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it originally was supposed to be that...
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