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Imagine you're a moderator and you suspect that this person, BananaMan590, is using X-Ray.

They mine straight to every single ore.

First the coal, then take a turn directly to the redstone, then mine up for the gold.

This is so obvious, they must be cheating.

But wait, they just passed the diamonds.

Why would an X-rayer pass the most valuable ore?

They just did it again!

It wouldn't make sense for them to cheat but not mine diamonds, so, huh, I guess they're not.

And it was this hypothetical scenario that gave me today's idea.

See, if I obviously X-Ray for diamonds, I'd get banned within five minutes.

But would I still get banned that fast if I didn't go for any of the valuable stuff and just mine coal?

That's what I want to test today, because I have a theory that if we don't ever mine a single diamond, we can be as obvious as we want X-Traying for coal,

and we will never get banned.

So, I donned on my disguise, BananaMan590, joined one of the largest survival servers, and started testing my theory.

Look at these diamonds.

Look at all these beautiful diamonds around us.

Time to mine some coal.

But I did not realize how much coal I was going to be mining just

because the ore was so common and then when I got to an ore vein, they were massive.

But the biggest help, obviously, was being able to see where all the ores were.

Whoa, whoa!

Look at the size of that vein!

We're gonna be mildly wealthy.

But like, this tunnel we're mining is such an x-ray tunnel, but it's not at diamond level.

So like, who's gonna be like, oh yes, obviously this is x-raying.

X-raying for what?

Now, each coal sells for $2, much less than the $75 per diamond, but if I craft nine into a block, I get a 20% bonus.

So, we can sell 40 blocks of coal and get $880.

And with that $880, we can not even afford half a stack of wheat seeds.

Okay, number one issue for why I wasn't making

that much money is I was stuck using an iron pickaxe because I couldn't mine diamonds to get a better one, so I looked around if anyone was selling a diamond pickaxe, but everything was so expensive.

Kyber crystal grapple gun bread, but I found a person selling a shulker of diamond gear including a pickaxe for $50,000

so I kept on mining to afford it you can see

I was still being incredibly obvious yet wasn't being banned

But I believe there's more to me not being banned than

it just not making sense why someone would x-ray for coal see Moderators are busy.

They don't have time to teleport to

and watch players in the off chance their x-ray instead They have a system

that will notify them every time someone mines an ore and

if they receive enough notifications from a player in a short enough time, they'll teleport to see if they're blatantly X-raying.

But it's not that I think a mod wouldn't get suspicious from cold ore pings, I don't think they'd get notified for cold ore at all, because why?

So I believed I was safe from surveillance.

What, wait, what are they making me do?

GFTM7?

What was that?

Surely that wasn't because they think I'm X-raying, right?

Was that just random or was that because they thought I was X-raying?

But look at how obvious my x-ray tunnels were.

I truly believed my theory that I could be as obvious as I wanted.

I did not try to hide my x-ray at all.

So I sold more coal blocks making $2,000 but then I found in spawn there was a forge that sold diamond pickaxes.

$825.

Well spent.

Yes!

Doesn't Minecraft look so strange without the x-ray texture pack?

There we go, fixed it.

Now let's try out this new diamond pickaxe.

Oh, look how much faster we're moving.

That's another one coal.

Four coal!

One, two, four coal, four coal!

So it's like every single ore we're mining, that's six dollars right there.

That's like another six, another six, another six.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

But we could still mine even faster because in the forge, I also found it sold mining boots that when worn give permanent haste too.

With those and our enchanted pickaxe, We could insta mine stone taking how obviously we mine coal to the stratosphere

But it cost sixty thousand dollars and even with a faster pickaxe

and fortune three money was still coming in slowly

So I came up with a new money-making method

So this is deep slate coal ore some of you guys know this is a sort of rare item

But because we have x-ray it's much easier to find

so I have a silk touch pickaxe You can't sell deep slate coal ore

which means you also can't buy it

So I bet there's a market of people out there who would like to buy this

if we sell it in both Now it is kind of hard to find

but one thing I learned is if you free cam and then okay boom Here's like three deep slate coal ore.

Holy we found the mother load of deep slate coal dude Imagine if this was a trap and we're getting banned, but no no nobody cares.

My gosh the mother load and it's

so much easier to find with x-ray It's actually broken like

I genuinely feel like like this is like honestly this might be more profitable than diamond you Copper ores in my way.

I had to go over that

Look at

that giant patch of it right there This is probably what

I felt like to strike strike gold back in the day 13 14 15 16 24 25 26

27 after getting my stack of deep slate color.

I put it on the auction house for $50,000 So if purchased we could afford the mining boots boom advertisement sent.

Now we just wait for the money to come in.

But it seemed there wasn't as much demand for Deep Slate Colour as I hoped, even with all my advertising.

So when a player teleported to me, maybe they'd buy it for the 50,000, but now I was desperate enough to sell it for even 40,000.

Please want to buy from me?

Ah!

Here you go!

Um, here, take all of it, man!

Yes!

We can finally afford it!

The hundred million dollar stack of bread And now we can buy the mining boots Permanent haste to effect.

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Oh my gosh.

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It's unfair.

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It's actually unfair So like look and then we just

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and then we just pop a corner

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and now we're at the next door vein with this pickaxe I was more obviously x-raying than ever.

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I was getting from coal vein to coal vein in record time.

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I ended up mining so much coal that I built an entire castle.

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Now this may look like proof for my theory.

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I was able to obviously x-ray for thousands of coal and not get banned, but that's not what my theory stated.

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It stated I could be as obvious as I wanted and still not get banned, and I want to become the most obvious x-rayer ever.

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Like what if we just started admitting to it?

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Honestly, I don't even think that would get us banned.

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I want to experiment to find where's the line, how much can we get away with if we only x-ray for coal.

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So the first thing I did was change my username from banana man 590 to x-ray anaman 590, like naming a child John Arson.

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Then if someone was wondering how I got all this coal, I built a giant x-ray sign over my castle.

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But these two things wouldn't be enough to get me banned if I didn't bring attention to myself.

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Here, here, free coal!

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Guess how I got all that coal.

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Guess what, even the rich deserve coal.

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Here, take all my coal blocks.

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WHAT?!

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Get back here, get back here!

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna stand for that.

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There you go.

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Hey, do you want coal?

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Do you want coal?

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Guess how I got all that coal?

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Guess how I got all that coal?

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There's various ways.

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No, don't give it back!

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I give it to a new person, and they hit me with a thank you!

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Exclamation mark.

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But then I give it to these rich people and they think they're too good for my gift.

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I worked hard for this coal by x-raying for it.

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Here, you get more, you get more.

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Thanks for being appreciative.

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Bread!

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You're giving me bread!

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That's like the most valuable thing ever.

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I once paid a hundred million so I could have bread.

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Here, here!

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It's like nobody probably cares that I'm x-raying for coal.

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But I think people would care if I was x-raying for coal and then being annoying about it in spawn.

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Nooooo!

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Do you not accept my gift?

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Get back here!

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But this gave me an idea to run a quick social experiment.

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My main account, Yadjarin, has YouTube rank, so I wanted to see if the players who threw out the coal would keep it

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if it was given to them by a prestigious account.

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Did I keep the coal if I give it to them?

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Social experiment complete.

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Nobody cares about XrayAniman590.

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Thanks?

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Thanks!

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Hi, Jaren.

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You are not on first-term basis with him.

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I am!

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I know the guy!

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Who are you?

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What is going on in spawn?

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This has not happened any other time I've been on the server.

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Ungrateful?

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You?

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You calling people ungrateful?

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Take my coal blocks!

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You're boring?

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You're boring?

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You want me to clap like a monkey for you?

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Me me me me me me me me!

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I'm getting out of here!

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Eeeh ha ha ha!

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They're all following me!

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Nooooo!

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I think all I did there was harm X-Ray Animan 590's reputation.

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But in a good way, we want people to associate us with coal.

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Especially because in all that commotion, people were throwing Yadjaren gifts, but I happened to pick up two of them, and they just so happened to be exactly what we needed to get us more coal.

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The first was a trench pickaxe that mines in a 3x3 area.

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This tears through the stone, and I could use to tear through ores if it wasn't for the second item I picked up.

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A netherite pickaxe that is unbreakable with fortune 5.

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6 coal!

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We can get now 6 coal per ore.

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The moderators truly must be confused why I'd use the most powerful pickaxe on the stupidest ore.

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But with these two overpowered pickaxes, I started to wonder if I was getting loads of coal because of the x-ray, or just because I had a pickaxe that mines 27 ore at once.

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So I turned off the x-ray to test.

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But the moment I did, I could not find any coal.

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Even with how many blocks I cleared, it took a few minutes to find just a small vein.

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No matter what ore you're mining, x-ray is still powerful.

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Whoa!

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Look how many blocks we've broken.

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I would say that's scary, but like, I don't know, I don't think the devil's that scary, I'm gonna be honest.

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The real scary thing are the moderators.

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But with this new pickaxe, I mined so much coal.

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You wanna know what's better than a castle?

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A skyscraper!

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And then underneath it, I started an experiment.

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See, previously, I built an x-ray proof secret base, but with how the lava was flowing, it was kind of obvious it was hiding something.

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But because of this new coal challenge we've been doing, I think I found a better method of building it.

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See, if an x-rayer comes by, they're going to think this is just a boring coal ore vein and not realize it's actually my secret base.

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But if you do look around, it is way larger than the other coal ore veins, but like, who goes, OMG, I found a giant coal ore vein.

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But some of my viewers may still think that x-rayers could find this base.

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But do you wanna know how I know they won't?

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Did any of you notice this secret face?

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Okay, a place to store my valuables is nice, but we need to focus up, because even with how obvious we have been x-raying, it still feels like we are far from getting banned.

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I genuinely am like thinking, how do we become more obvious about x-raying?

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I just don't think like the mods care, like they're not gonna notice me,

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and I don't think mining more coal is the solution. were x-rayed.

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X-rayed coal.

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These ones were not x-rayed.

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Psych, they were.

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What are you doing?

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Do you hate me?

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Yes, you get all my riches.

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Yes.

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Wait, is x-ray allowed?

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X-ray is allowed?

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Do you turn on x-ray?

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Yeah, right.

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I know what Alt-F4 does.

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You're smart.

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You're a smart cookie.

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Here's what we do.

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Here's what we do.

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Yes, yes.

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Okay, okay.

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Down here.

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Down here.

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Down here, Firefly.

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Look, I'm going to give you a good pickaxe, okay?

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This is a good one.

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Oh my gosh.

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She's found out about the pickaxe.

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Oh my gosh, you're actually a bop, bro.

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No, see, you don't know how to cave like me, Firefly.

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Here's the thing.

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Now, I might have said, I can't mine diamonds, but I never said anything about...

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Where's Firefly, bro?

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Where'd Firefly go?

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This way.

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This way.

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Firefly.

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Look.

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Look, I found your diamonds!

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There's diamonds!

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Look, I found diamonds!

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Look, I found diamonds!

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All I wanted from this interaction was for Firefly to say that I'm X-rank.

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If someone else snitched on me, maybe I'd finally get banned.

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Do you know how I find so many diamonds?

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Okay, is this it?

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Is he finally gonna say I'm X-rank?

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Come on, say it.

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Say it!

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You have a crafting table!

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I thought you were gonna like...

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Oh my gosh!

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You've crafted yourself diamond armor.

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Okay, Firefly.

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Surely you're thinking something's up.

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See, are you gonna say that?

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Now I'm gonna sit here and like I'm gonna see if you're just gonna say anything.

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Like, are you x-raying?

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I don't even know what I'm trying to get out of this.

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I just- I'm just trying to be obvious. Do you have sticks?

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You gotta be kidding me!

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Do you not recognize what's going on?

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Do I do this?

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So, what's with the weird tunnels?

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What's with the weird tunnels, Firefly?

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Are you x-raying?

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Beats me!

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No?

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It sure looks like it.

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Sure looks like it.

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I'm not?

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Tell me what you think I'm x-raying.

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These tunnels go straight to diamonds.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Sorry, I'm new.

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I didn't know.

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That's okay.

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That's okay.

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We all accidentally x-ray.

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What just happened?

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They just admitted to x-raying.

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But they're not x-raying.

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So we have now x-rayed in front of another person, and it wasn't just that they didn't realize, they ended up taking the blame for it.

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I think we're close to proving my theory correct, because how more obvious can we be?

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Unless, I don't know, we started posting proof of us x-raying?

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So I joined this server's discord with my disguise, Don Cheadle, to post proof of us x-raying.

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Do not trust that which cannot be trusted.

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Bars.

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Now it is ironic

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that I first made this account for a video where I exposed someone for cheating That's why it's named Don Cheetle,

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Don't Cheetle, and now we're using it to cheat But in this discord we can send messages and photos, so I found a giant deep slate Kohl Lore vein

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and took a screenshot with it I didn't want to be too obvious so x-ray is turned off,

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but in the corner I have a little indicator saying that I have it installed There we go.

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We have now sent our first piece of really incriminating evidence.

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But then I started going through previous discord messages and found a lot of people have been banned for x-raying.

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This guy straight up posted an image with it, but others also claimed to be getting spotted fast.

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10 minutes?

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Dude, I've been doing this for days now.

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This felt vindicating.

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It was great proof of how undetectable mining only coal was.

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I might never be banned.

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But then someone saw my screenshot.

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So x-rayers can't see.

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Oh my gosh, wait, wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, we're getting someone.

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Someone's typing in chat.

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Holy bro.

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Am I cooked?

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Am I cooked?

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Is this it?

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Did they go, It's X-Ring.

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We got a banner.

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Oh my gosh.

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Oh my gosh, that's a mod that just saw it.

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Oh, I'm logging off.

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I'm logging off.

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That was a mod that was typing.

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Is this it?

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Is this it from Banana Man 590?

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Dude, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete!

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH And I vanish into the wind, never to be seen a...

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Am I banned?

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No, we're not banned.

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Did they not notice?

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I dinked around on the server a bit more to see if a mod would log on and ban me, but no, I was safe.

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Which, by that point, I had another player following me around while I x-rayed.

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This time, I was more just trying to prank them, but they were so unaware of their surroundings, you couldn't prank them because I had no idea what was going on.

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Where did that hole come from?

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IDK?

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Oh, yes.

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The idea for the prank was I'd use my x-ray to avoid every single ore so we'd get nothing, but they didn't notice that we didn't get anything because they were too busy.

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I don't know.

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Hiking, Kaz!

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What are you doing back there?

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Get over here!

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This prank isn't gonna work if you're always five miles behind.

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Let's keep mining, everybody.

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Come on, we got this tunnel.

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Let's keep mining.

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Let's keep mining.

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Let's keep mining.

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Come on.

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I feel like I'm the one getting pranked.

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Oh my gosh, this guy's gonna x-ray.

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Bro's x-raying!

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He's x-raying!

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You x-rayed to those!

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You- What are you doing?

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You x-rayed to those diamonds, bro!

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Nah, you x-raying!

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You actually- Ah, there's a baby zombie!

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You definitely are x-raying, bro!

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You're going straight to those diamonds!

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Oh my gosh, this kid is x-raying in front of us!

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Oh my gosh, he's gonna- he's gonna find those diamonds.

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Oh my gosh, he's thinking about finding those diamonds.

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You know what, let's get this, uh, D1 Treven in.

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Let's just- let's just get everyone in these tunnels, bro.

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We need to mine.

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No!

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And Hogar just killed him.

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And Hogar laughs.

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Well, I think that's the end of that scene.

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After this failed prank, I really started to believe I wouldn't get banned for x-raying coal, but not because I was sneaky and getting away with it, but it was because nobody cared to even notice.

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So I turned to what I would now call an addiction.

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Going around spawn, throwing coal at random players, and hoping someone would give me attention.

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But this time it felt different because there was a moderator at spawn.

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Can I x-ray?

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It's bannable?

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For how long?

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I just gotta see if the crime is worth the time.

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LOL So that's what I get!

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Nobody believes that I'm x-raying!

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I go, how long am I gonna be banned if I x-ray?

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And everyone's like, ha ha ha, that's funny!

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I'm x-raying!

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I have it on right now!

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I then again asked someone my classic line of, Guess how I got all this cold?

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Not expecting much, but my incessant talk about cheating must have caught this mod's attention.

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Because they then chimed in with, Let me guess, you used x-ray.

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So, this is it!

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They finally caught me!

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They finally believe I used X-Ray and can ban me for it!

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All it took was us naming ourselves X-Ray, giving away thousands of coal named X-Rayed Coal, and then incessantly asking the mods how we got it.

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So, I looked around spawn, seeing it with my X-Ray one last time, as I awaited my ban.

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I'm joking, ha ha ha.

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What?!

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We're still here?!

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Why does nobody believe me when I say I'm X-Raying?!

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You're 100% the dude who dropped me a stack named X-Rayed Coal yesterday?

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How much to keep quiet?

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LMAO, you funny?

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No one thinks I'm x-raying.

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Oh my gosh.

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That meant if we wanted to get banned, I had to pull out the big guns.

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My final idea to get us caught.

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I haven't used it yet, mostly because of how stressful it is.

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But now I had no choice.

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Except first, I needed to make our coal mining more obvious by being even faster.

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So I purchased a custom enchantment, vein miner from this random person.

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Tiger!

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Okay, let's see how this vein miner works.

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I really hope this works well.

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Oh my gosh.

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This is gonna be broken.

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Oh no. We are now the fastest coal miners of the Wild West.

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This, paired with my final plan, is what we can use to finally be banned while x-raying for only coal.

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Oh my gosh, it's them again.

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Infinite coal.

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Oh my gosh.

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You're just giving me free stuff.

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Alright. On to me.

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Keep yourself safe.

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Don't worry, I'd never snitch.

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Here, here.

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This might be my last.

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I think this is my last day on the server.

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And then after that, I will be banished.

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But, an honor.

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Because I will have proven my point.

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Or maybe I won't get banned. Who knows?

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Okay, back up.

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You're getting really close to me.

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Yo, yo, just keep your distance, bro.

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That's a big giant.

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Banhammer?

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Oh no. Is that foreshadowing?

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Um, oh dude I'm so nervous right now.

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So so so nervous.

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Yo, what's up?

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What's up?

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Yeah, you made it to a Yadjaren stream?

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Uh, you know, just plan on a server regularly, you know?

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Why is bro x-rank?

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I'm not x-rank, I'm just mining regularly.

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If I was x-rank, wouldn't I have like way more diamonds than this?

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It's not cheating unless you get caught?

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Well like, what am I gonna get caught doing?

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Have you- Oh, have you heard of the Grian method?

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Oh wait, I think I have heard about the Grian method for getting diamonds.

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Isn't that x-ray though?

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Wait, be honest.

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Isn't the green method x-ray?

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Oh, wait, wait, wait.

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Some of you are saying deep slate level.

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Should I go down and mine in deep slate level?

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Um, I'm not finding any diamonds.

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Sometimes, Jaren, you feel like Icarus the way you always fly too close to the sun.

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If- guys, don't you think if I was x-raying I'd be banned?

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I love your texture pack.

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What is it called?

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Let me show you my texture pack.

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So what is this I just found?

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I mean...

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I mean, what is this I just found at this moment and I did not see previously?

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What in the world is this?

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Whoa!

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Whoa, this is crazy!

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Guys?

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Don't you feel that?

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Don't you feel like there's diamonds near me?

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No, no, no- No one thinks there's diamonds near me?!

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Okay, I guess- I guess we'll keep going!

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Ha ha ha ha ha!

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Are you guys on the server?

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I'm just curious, are any of you like joined the server?

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Hello, not a burrito1234 Okay, we got a lot of people in this tunnel.

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How about we start branching off?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone start branching off.

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Yo, you just went right to iron.

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Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, this guy's x-raying.

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I'm getting a lot of cold though.

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Okay, can I keep this up?

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How long do I have to keep this up for?

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Like genuinely this is kind of driving me mad.

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Like I just kind of want to get banned.

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I'm gonna be real.

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Is anyone gonna ban me?

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Hello?

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If you want to get banned just start x-raying.

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Oh my gosh, why did I think of that?

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Anyone found any diamonds yet?

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Guys, I can't keep doing this.

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I can't keep doing this.

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I'm gonna go insane.

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Alright, my goat!

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Alright, alright!

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These are my troops.

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We got so much coal.

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I'm changing this too.

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We are x-raying on a server.

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Please ban me.

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The theory is if I only mine coal, I won't ever get banned.

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And I feel like I'm proving my theory right because we are now live on Twitch.

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A lot of y'all are joining the server and we're still not banned.

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One hour mark?

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It's been one hour.

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Okay, so stream is now we are x-raying on it.

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Oh my gosh Yo, what just happened?

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Holy cow finally Okay, well,

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I feel like we found what you can do you cannot live stream yourself x-raying only Cole and

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Begging the mods to ban you.

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That's the line I can feel it,

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feel it There's something to my, my, my My, my, my, my

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This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “X-Raying, But Only Mining Coal Until I Get Banned”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: coal, raying, ray, diamond, banned. This video has 507 sentences and 4323 words to shadow. The speech runs for 23:06. The speaker talks fast, about 187 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 110 of its 507 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
pickaxe noun	/ˈpɪkˌæks/	A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
vein noun	/veɪn/	A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
spawn verb	/spɔn/	To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
prank noun	/pɹæŋk/	A practical joke or mischievous trick.
cheat verb	/ˈt͡ʃiːt/	To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
moderator noun	/ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/	Someone who moderates.
whoa	/woʊ/	Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
stack noun	/stæk/	A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
discord noun	/ˈdɪskɔɹd/	Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.
teleport verb	/ˈtɛləpɔː(ɹ)t/	To travel, often instantaneously, from one point to another without physically crossing the distance between the two points.
miner noun	/ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/	A person who works in a mine.
mod noun	/mɑd/	An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
texture noun	/ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/	The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
bore verb	/boɹ/	To inspire boredom in somebody.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
get back verb	Return to where one came from.
look around verb	To inspect a building or area.
branch off verb	To diverge into two or more separate paths.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
get away with verb	To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one.
get out of verb	To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
log off verb	Synonym of log out.
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What, wait, what are they making me do?
You wanna know what's better than a castle?
Do you not recognize what's going on?
It's not cheating unless you get caught?
Don't you feel like there's diamonds near me?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if I obviously X-Ray for diamonds, I'd get · If I was x-rank, wouldn't I · if I was x-raying I'd be
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	we've been doing · I've been doing
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being banned · was given · is allowed
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has not happened · we've broken · have been

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 161 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: netherite /ˈnɛðəraɪt/, hypothetical /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, appreciative /əˈpɹi.ʃətɪv/, banish /ˈbænɪʃ/, commotion /kəˈmoʊ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: moderator /ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, appreciative /əˈpɹi.ʃətɪv/, incessantly /ɪnˈsɛs.ənt.li/, incriminate /ɪnˈkɹɪm.ɪ.neɪ̯t/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like gosh, pickaxe, vein.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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