Shadowing Practice: Skyblock, But Every Block I Place Copies Everywhere - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creating lesson...
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- I installed a mod where if you place one block, it places them in every single chunk.
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Then I put my friends and I on a sky block.
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Meaning that everything we do in this island copies over to the entire world.
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Can we build back the overworld in 90 minutes?
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Let's find out.
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And this is MonatsuSecret's second channel.
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So if you're seeing this, you're probably not subscribed already.
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So if you could do me a favor and check if you're subscribed down below, it'd mean a ton and we'll get back to building the cobblestone generator.
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Water there and lava there.
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- I think you don't have to worry about making infinite cobble.
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I'll tell you that much.
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- Um.
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- And there we go.
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- Oh my God.
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I don't think this is the way that cobblestone is meant to be generated, but you did make an infinite amount of it.
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So today our goal is to bring back the whole world.
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This is bad because now every island has lava on it, and I'm worried about that jungle one.
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Maybe if I just do this.
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There we go.
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We fixed it.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, I think one...
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oh, there you go.
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Nature's healing.
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We can get to the next island now.
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Oh, thanks for the crafting table right conveniently right in front of me here.
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I can give you a chest too Okay, and then look if I put this sapling by Jay it's in there.
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It's in the chest.
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I could grab it We have
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and our chests across the world my god up with the lag We were gonna speed up the tick rate
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so that the lava and water would fall out of the world faster a faster tick rate meant faster Night time.
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Oh, and there's a lot of surface.
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That's dark.
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Oh No, no indeed
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It's gonna hold us back creeper and blow it up.
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Maybe, but then the blocks are just gonna fall.
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Wait, it did, but it fell into the wood because we're in sky block.
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We can dupe with creepers!
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Woo!
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Jay, humor me.
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You go to another chest and just mash left click on this dirt.
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Can we like force duplicate it?
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I'm trying to pull up the link cable while you're trading.
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No, so we can't duplicate it, but we can remove them because I put in five and now we have two.
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application well we have less exact opposite of what I wanted
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to do good news is we get a billion saplings oh
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That's right cuz all of the leaves could have dropped lots of infinite apples yeah, yeah infinite apples infinite saples We're gonna be hey things are gonna be alright.
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We're gonna have a good weekend.
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Did we overwrite all of like the other outside?
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Islands I'm going to go find that out right now.
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Oh, yeah, if you hit M structures do load Oh, if you hit M it looks a little bit like a face oh The chest has,
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ooh, iron nuggets, flint, and obsidian!
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Yeah!
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It's assuming we even want to go to the nether.
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Yeah, I just want to fix this world back to spiff and clean, dude.
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Yeah, we need more dirt.
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Anyway, yeah, we're getting dirt.
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Did we lose all of our other dirt islands?
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Well, I can't-- you're going to be embarrassed.
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I can't remember how to get home.
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What is home?
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Home is anywhere.
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Not just that, but the world has stopped generating.
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It doesn't generate that far out.
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We've reached the far lanes.
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- In Parkour Civilization.
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- In Parkour Civilization, no one leaves a floating tree.
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Wait, but the trees are back!
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We got wood again!
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- Oh yeah, we have to go to the unloaded chunks.
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We have to jostle the machine a little.
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- I do have 23 saplings.
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So I mean, there are easier ways.
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- Too late, already getting wood.
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- There we go.
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- Can't hear naysayers.
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- Certainly have a lot more than 21 saplings now.
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- His original name.
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- 21 saplings.
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- Yeah.
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- That'd probably be Birch.
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My alter ego.
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This is cool.
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Uh, I have a gold axe with Silk Touch.
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This is huge.
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Silk Touch allows us to go and spread the grass blocks throughout the world.
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We have to be careful.
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If we destroy all the ones from the central island, we'll never get any back.
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I think our plan should be to get a second layer of terrain underneath the dirt.
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Oh yeah.
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And then we trick some creepers to come by, explode chest skulls of dirt.
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Yeah.
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And then that's how we repopulate the world.
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I like the cut of your jib.
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Thanks.
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I know.
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My name's Dan.
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I see someone.
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Uh, it's Skip.
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Hello, Skip.
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Hey, what's up, Jay?
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It's you placing down these blocks, lagging our life.
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Okay.
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Maybe you don't need to be so mean about it.
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Maybe some of us are trying to make progress.
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Yeah, maybe just trying to help.
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Yeah, I thought we would make a foundation, don't you know?
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And then we could build on top of this
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and we could tickrate and let our grass grow and then we also need to be doing cobblestone generation.
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I mean, this is this is a sky block, don't you know?
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I do know.
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Stop asking me that.
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I do know.
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I know because I'm here also.
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Yep, everyone's super excited.
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It does like a whole title theme for Dan.
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*BRA -DANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANAN The one block that I was on!
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The first thing we're implementing into this new world is LAWS.
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Get here!
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Alright, let me get some stairs and then I can make a cobblestone generator.
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Oh, finally, somewhere to sit.
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Look, there's a way to make a cobblestone generator that's even cooler.
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Skib.
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Yeah?
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I have a question about this.
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Does it involve lava?
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Yes, I have lava in my inventory pocket, don't you worry.
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Is there a pro - okay.
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We were worrying about say right?
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I'm gonna say our first new diverse citizens.
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Yeah I'm gonna have no weapons.
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I should make a sword.
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Oh, there's a lot keep the creepers.
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We can use them for duplicating right?
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Well, we're gonna need another one.
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Don't forget.
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We need a terrain below.
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Oh, right right right right right right?
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If you have any like blocks I can just like place with like build wait wait wait Yeah, here you go build with those real quick.
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I'm gonna keep cobblestone generating for a second Ow, okay.
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Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.
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This is a nightmare!
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Oh, we got an iron!
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Dupe it up.
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Nice.
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Get this guy off me for like one second, Skip!
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Dan, there's three guys in a trench coat chasing after you.
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Oh my gosh, I can't even like help you for it.
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Ah!
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I need to get back to our cobblestone generator.
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Oh my gosh.
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Okay, so now every chest has two blocks below it.
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Oh, sweet.
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Oh, thank you, thank you.
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We should be able to do this.
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I will put three dirt in them.
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Ooh, I could put iron ingot.
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I got an iron ingot in buckets. of, Skip.
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This is exactly what I worried was gonna happen.
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Oh shoot.
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With a wooden lava generator.
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Who could have possibly seen this coming?
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Me and Dan.
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Could have possibly seen them.
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Yes!
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It worked!
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I got three dirt from the chest!
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Yeah!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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Wait, I got a creeper over here.
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Yeah!
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I got an iron from this one!
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Good!
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Now, it's double iron in this next chest, and we're to keep duplicating.
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Yes!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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It worked!
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Oh my god, this works so good.
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Golden Axe with Silk Touch.
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I want that in there.
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And I'll blow up and act like you don't know nobody.
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Yeah!
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Jay, get a picture of me next to my bestie!
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Yeah!
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Yeeeah!
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This is so good!
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I fell.
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It's fine.
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Oh, I died.
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So, uh, it's fine.
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It looks like the creeper got the last guffaw.
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Not the last guffaw.
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That's our job.
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Oh, dude.
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I've got 14 iron now.
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This is great.
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Put the 14 iron in the chest, King.
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That's a great point.
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I was getting a little too, dude.
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It called to me like the ring.
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I was like, maybe that's something my iron. So funny.
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That's three creepers.
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Oh my God.
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That's more than enough guys.
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That's more than enough.
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Oh my God.
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That's four creepers.
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That's so much stuff.
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Okay.
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Now we reinvest.
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Reinvest.
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Reinvest.
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The back of the banks yet the banks are never gonna fail ever never dude.
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They can't they're full of money
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We're running out of daylight how much dirt do we have
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I have three pieces I need to put in this chest before the creeper explodes This is great.
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I put $100 in one bank and then I blew up the other banks and there was still under dollars there
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okay I didn't remember I died oh
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that it did all right well this was a productive night yeah
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that was pretty sweet I gotta say everything's coming up for us we have so many buckets we don't need More buckets.
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Well now we never have to craft it.
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We never have to make any - I guess so.
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Look man, when I put it in there, it was a nice investment.
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It's not my fault that we got so rich.
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Yeah.
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This spider's so chill in the daytime.
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Unfortunately, the sins of its father is way down on its back. And neck.
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You said that in very skip the tutorial voice.
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Unfortunately, the sins of its father weigh down on your neck.
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Our world still doesn't look like much, but with all the chest -difications, we finally had enough stuff to start building something serious.
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Things are going pretty good.
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What I'm going to do is I'm going to start building like the next surface.
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Our top layer.
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No!
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The lava's spreading!
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Who could have seen this?
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Oh, it is actually spreading through our whole village.
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It's gonna - we have a - through our whole world.
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It's made out of wood.
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Our whole world!
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Ugh.
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It'd be a good time to maybe have a furnace.
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Why the hell don't we have one?
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Well, look up!
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Oh, cops are - No!
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Here it is.
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Oh no, our lava turned into obsidian.
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That's actually really bad.
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We're gonna have to go get that remaining lava from the ruined portal.
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Oh god, right?
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We only have one instance of that right now.
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They may have three billion buckets.
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We should be fine.
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Alright, look at this.
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The world already has another layer.
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Oh, the under layer?
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That's friggin' nice.
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Nice.
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It's a little eerie, but I'm not gonna pay too much attention to it.
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Yeah, it's also all made out of half slabs.
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Oh, that's fine, because then there's not gonna be mobs spawning down here which is actually pretty sweet.
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- I did it intentionally.
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- No!
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You did that intentionally too, you asshole!
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- All right, I'm going to build our grass layer on top of this world now.
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- Yes, yes, yes.
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I'm gonna start cutting down the trees for that purpose too.
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- Dude, this is gonna be so weird when it just looks like a regular plains biome.
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- Yeah.
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- We are gonna need torches at this point to get the grass to spread.
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You know what's weird is that there are different biomes.
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old growth forest, we're in a dark forest.
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So we're gonna see different grass color maps across all these things.
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- I guess so, that's cool.
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This is beautiful, by the way.
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Hey, this is beautiful.
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I could be helping by placing blocks down.
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- We made this life together.
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- Dude, we built this.
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And now our kids are gonna grow up and learn to hate each other, just as we did.
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- Just as we did.
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It's really a miracle how that works.
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Okay, the chest is in the ground.
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- It's already looking incredible.
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- Yeah, right?
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- Yeah, this is where the Skyblock Island started at the beginning of the video, and this is where it is now.
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Thanks, Matthew Bean.
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This looks amazing dude cows are spawning what the way nature is turning nature's literally healing it's amazing.
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That's beautiful kill it oh Yeah.
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Later.
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Oh, you know what I'm gonna do?
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I'm gonna break this one.
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I'm gonna make a little hill.
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Make some natural looking terrain here.
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Oh.
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Placing down a furnace.
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Next to this crafting table.
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- Whoa, every furnace activates?
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- Oh my god, light.
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- Yeah.
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- Oh!
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- Food duplication, here we go!
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Well, actually, I guess it doesn't matter.
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- What about a campfire?
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I wanna try it out.
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Do you mind if I cook up some of the logs?
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I'll wait until your furnace is done.
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- Okay.
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- Until your furnaces are done.
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For an eye.
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- Yeah.
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- For no sees.
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- No, no. - That's what we call them, Dan.
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He's right.
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- Okay, now I can cook up charcoal.
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Give us a little bit of light, too.
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That's sort of nice.
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- Pleasant.
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We got charcoal!
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Sweet, yeah, the torches should help, 'cause we do need light.
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I can also tick - tick rate increase.
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Oh, it'd actually be very fun to watch it, like, tick rate increase across the world.
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Alright, I'm sprinting for three days.
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Oh my god, this is great!
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I can't teleport, I'm actually stuck down here.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa!
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Tick rate is up and the creeper was mad!
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Oh man, this is a good one.
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I was doing a panicked cinematic shot and then I got Jay exploding in the bottom left corner.
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Oh, no, I'm actually starting to chop up from you guys just a little bit.
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Let's hope my PC doesn't go a little scary here.
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What are my temperatures at?
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Oh?
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My computer's melting Well, I can't connect to the server anymore.
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Oh, it was not allowed.
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Oh, you guys got fully booted.
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I was like still in the world just letting everything melt I'm simply just patiently waiting now.
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I have to boot up the world.
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Oh What?
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What? Did the...
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What the hell just happened?
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Like the world like actually isn't in my single player world list anymore.
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Did it delete?
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Yeah.
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No way bro.
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No way bro.
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Dude, legitimate.
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I'm making no jokes at all.
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It's like not here.
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Errors in selected data packs prevented the world from loading.
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You can either try to load it with the vanilla...
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The world corrupted?
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Are we doomed?
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Wait.
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Hold on.
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I know what I'm doing.
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I think it's back.
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So I don't see.
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It's back.
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It's back.
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Oh, that was really scary.
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I've never seen that happen before.
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We can put that in the video.
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Never see that happen.
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I do think this video was screwed for real for a second there.
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I thought it was like, alright, this is where the world was now.
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This is where it is, and it just shows my recycling bin icon.
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Thankfully, the world didn't corrupt.
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Just 15 minutes left.
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It was time for us to save the world.
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We got a campfire.
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We can tell songs.
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I thought you just set the world on fire.
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Okay, so campfires don't copy all their potatoes across every chunk.
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Oh...
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Ow, ow.
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Oh, right!
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I can't make a river that runs across the entire world, because we don't have fluid sink.
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Whoops!
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I can turn it on, but it's gonna be very laggy.
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Right, I was just gonna make a river that just runs across the whole world.
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Well, let's do it.
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Fluids on.
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Okay, now you have to place them down again for it to work.
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Here we go.
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I didn't want to use the infinite thing for every position of the world.
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I just want to build one river like this.
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Oh, a little pond.
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Dude, this water, it's beautiful.
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Oh, it's gorgeous.
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I almost love my life now.
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It's so scenic and beautiful now.
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What's this wooden oak planks thing?
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Is this like a path that you made?
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It's a bridge.
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It's a bridge over the river.
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Oh, nice.
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Let me clean it up a little bit.
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Yeah, please, please.
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Do you like the little bridge?
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This is a little haunting.
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There's definitely a...
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We should maybe lock the doors.
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Run this part of town.
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I'm gonna come back.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Jay, show me how you build your house, my friend.
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Alright.
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We really don't have any cobblestone still there.
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I'd lose my own head if it wasn't attached.
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Well, we should destroy these.
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I'm wrong.
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It's the one thing we haven't generated.
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Yeah.
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It's the most sky -blocky part.
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I will make a new cobblestone generator.
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I have nine cobble.
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Okay.
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Somehow.
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That's what we got.
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Nice.
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What is this formation of chest?
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Oh, that's you, Skip.
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I - surely these can't burn.
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Yeah, that's what you think.
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We just - Are we just.. competing for cobblestone?
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Stop it!
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Stop!
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They're like doing like the ball cup thing with me!
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Mine's burning.
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Oh, they are.. they are spreading.
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Uh -oh.
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Rats.
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That's bad news.
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That is a way for us to make a house that actually is like different from the rest, though.
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A little bit.
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Is to set everything else on fire?
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Or just set the perimeter around on fire, because it doesn't spread to everyone necessarily.
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Oh sure, sure, yeah sure.
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Oh sure!
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Okay, fine.
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No. I thought it was a good idea, but I guess I was wrong, actually.
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I'm tech sprinting a day just so I can go through cobble faster.
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Oh yeah, that works.
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And you've sped up the process of the earth disintegrating.
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Look man, time passes how it's gonna pass.
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I don't have any control over it.
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Oh my god, there goes that tree.
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It just goes away now.
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I was eaten by like bees.
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Yikes.
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Alright, Jay.
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Build that house!
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I need a good surface to build this on, a good flat surface.
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Well, I'll show you my chest.
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No matter where you look, it will never get better.
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That's true.
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That's lava.
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Maybe we shouldn't build near that.
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There's a room for a house in one chunk.
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Maybe we can get rid of or move it somewhere.
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Do we need the cobble gem?
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Not anymore, I don't think.
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Now, I feel like you could have destroyed that in a slightly better order.
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Oh my god.
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Oh my god.
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Wait, things do make weird sounds.
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Well, we'll be able to find our house because we'll be the only one standing.
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There we go.
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That's how I like to bring up my property value.
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Oh yeah, last one alive.
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Oh wow.
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This is so special.
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This is lovely.
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Can we build like a nice, a nice room?
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Oh, yeah, dude.
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I'm on it.
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We're gonna have the nicest little home.
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Everyone's gonna be like, dude, why do you guys live together?
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It's fine.
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It's a nice little home, and I'll be like, because it's good, because it's normal, because it's fine.
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My family's gonna be like, are you guys...
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how's your...
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roommate?
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He's good!
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Yeah.
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It's like a split rent, or like...
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Is he paying you, or are you just doing...
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We have an exchange.
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and it's just like a freaking loser.
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Here's an example.
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Babe, the loser's on TV.
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We're not on any channel.
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Wow, Skip.
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Really like the tall -ass roof.
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Yeah, the IHOP.
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It's really good.
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Thanks, man.
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I'll save this.
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Save this no, you know this um I will help with the design we're gonna call in the fire brigade oh Where's the other chest?
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Everyone else's houses are burning down so ours is looking better by comparison. Which one's ours again?
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I think it's this one.
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It's this one.
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It's the one with the trap doors flipped properly because they don't flip properly across all the other ones.
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Right, that's right.
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Oh dude, I had exactly enough cobblestone for that.
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Yeah!
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Oh, wow.
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Hell yeah.
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Wait, wait, can we get one tick increase to get all these trees growing?
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Yes.
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Slash tick spring three days.
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This is gonna be a real lag fest.
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But when it - oh!
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Oh, we got one!
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Dude, this is kind of lovely.
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It really looks like a town!
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Oh my god, that's a little inconvenient.
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It's in our house and it's in front of our house.
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It looks good for one shot.
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Yep, yep.
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We have one replay of it exactly working.
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That's all we need.
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And nature has been healed.
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The sky of blocks.
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It destroyed our house.
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It broke the house.
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You destroyed our house.
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I can't even see our house broke down.
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And nature is healed.
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Thank you all for watching.
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See you on the next video.
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We will now replenish their expectations of me in a video.
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The tick rate's gonna have to be real fast for that one.
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Oh, man.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And, uh, hey, this video's set to self -destruct in about five seconds, so see if you like this video.
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YouTube thinks you want, and have a good one.
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Alright?
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will practice your English listening and speaking skills by working with the exciting transcript from a gaming video titled "Skyblock, But Every Block I Place Copies Everywhere." By engaging with this transcript, you will improve your comprehension and pronunciation skills, focusing on conversational English as the speakers navigate a unique gaming challenge. This exercise will also encourage you to incorporate key vocabulary and phrases into your own speaking practice, making it a dynamic way to learn English with YouTube.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Cobblestone generator - A structure used in the game to automatically produce cobblestone blocks.
- Infinite amount - Refers to the concept of having an endless supply of a resource.
- Nature's healing - A phrase used to express the idea of restoring balance or beauty in the environment.
- Crafting table - An essential item in the game used for creating more complex tools and items.
- Creeper - A type of character in the game that can cause explosions, often leading to unexpected results.
- Tick rate - A gaming term that refers to the speed at which time progresses in the game.
- Duplicate - To create a copy of an item or resource.
- Saplings - Young trees that can be grown into larger trees within the game.
Practice Tips
To make the most of this lesson, utilize the shadowing technique while listening to the video. Here are some specific tips that cater to the fast-paced dialogue and energy of the speakers:
- Focus on pronunciation: Repeat sentences immediately after you hear them, mimicking the tone and rhythm of the speakers. This will help you improve your English pronunciation.
- Break it down: If certain phrases or sentences are too fast, don’t hesitate to pause the video and replay sections. This will allow you to converse naturally without missing the nuances of spoken English.
- Create context: Visualize the gaming scenario described in the video as you practice speaking. This can help reinforce vocabulary and make your practices more engaging.
- Record yourself: Try recording your shadow speech as you practice. Listening back can show you areas for improvement and enhance your IELTS speaking practice.
- Engage with others: If possible, practice by involving a friend or language partner, discussing the gaming strategies and vocabulary with them. This can simulate real conversation and help you apply what you've learned.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is meant · is done · are done |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has stopped · We've reached · I've never seen |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should be · should make · should help |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | stopped generating · Stop asking · keep duplicating |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.