How to dripstone used for in minecraft
DRIPSTONE ESSENTIALS! Must Have Farms + More!
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hi everybody it's me waddles the british
version
today we're going to talk about drip
stone it's a pretty cool looking block
and has a couple different uses
in this video this one right here we're
going to talk about those uses and some
farms
you can make with this stuff this video
is going to be a little bit different
than the normal ones i make
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talk about drip stone
absolute basics this is drip stone drip
stone comes in two forms
a block form and a pointed form absolute
mad lab beginning i know drip zone is
pretty interesting stuff for years
players have been asking for pointy rock
blocks and finally it's here
drip zone itself is great for decorating
but it's also great for farms
because of drip stone lava is now
actually renewable now if you're looking
for drip zone you're gonna have to go
under the ground
you should be able to find drip stone
generating in small patches under the
ground
it's not necessarily the most common
stuff in the world it definitely won't
be in every single cave that you find
but at the same time it shouldn't be too
hard to get in 1.18 this stuff gets the
whole bottom it's going to get way
easier to get
so this is what it's going to look like
when you find a generating i didn't
build this or anything this is literally
just what it looked like and actually
check this out like i was saying it's
not too rare here's another patch over
here now this patch is actually a little
bit more significant it looks a whole
lot better it's on the ceiling it's on
the floor
when it comes to the wide range if
you're looking for this stuff a lower
limit and upper limit good news
it seems like as long as you're under
the ground you're pretty much good so
this stuff generated at y17
up here this patch is a little bit
higher i'm guessing this is going to be
in the 30s yup
y36 right there in the 30s here's
another cluster that i just found it's
got copper ware on the wall iron ore
down there amethyst geode in the
background an absolute vibe for sure
and it's at y49 so yeah you can find the
stuff actually pretty close to the
surface
in survival good news if you want this
you can literally mine it with anything
even a wooden pickaxe if that's all that
you have
drip zone is very easy to mine if you
can't get a pickaxe for some reason then
you should consider a different game
okay okay just kidding but you can buy
pointed drips on from the watering
trader
scammer we don't talk about them when it
comes to tips for locating drip zone
unfortunately i really don't have any
other than just going to the caves and
start caving let up the caves do
something else and hopefully eventually
you'll find this stuff
i got lucky in my survival world and
actually first found it generating
inside of a mine shaft
so yeah as long as you're under the
ground it seems that pretty much
anything is a go
pointed drip stone is some pretty useful
stuff there are a couple different farms
you can make with this stuff that we're
gonna talk about in a second or you
could take four pointed drips don't put
it in the crafting table and make the
drip stone block
now once you've done that you can't get
it back so make sure you're sure about
it
this is the drip zone block it looks
pretty cool but honestly it's just
decorational it does have a use in some
of the farms but yeah
it's just a decoration block kind of
looks cool ancient debris gives me like
a cinnamon roll vibe
drip stone gives me like a cinnamon roll
that hasn't been cooked up yet vibe
and pointed ripstop goes on the ceiling
or the floor this is a stalactite up
here this is a slag bite down there
i definitely won't remember that after
like 30 seconds but that's how it is
oh yeah and two more cool things about
drip zone you can make it as tall as you
want uh from the ceiling or the floor as
long as there's room
and you can water log it you can put it
under the water too which makes it great
for decoration
farm that uses pointed drip zone number
one word of advice don't build this farm
it's a waste of time what this thing
farms you
is literally all around you in the world
you don't really need a farm for it but
if you want a farm for it here it is you
need like four things for it a cauldron
some building blocks point to drip zone
a water bucket
unless you're like really really clever
and you set it up in a way where you
just have a water source then you have
the water source good on you
but i'm going to do the water bucket so
you're going to want to start by placing
a cauldron on the ground or
somewhere less than 11 blocks away
directly above it you need a pointed
drip stone so i could do it way up there
i could do it even higher i could do it
like right there above the cauldron it
doesn't matter as long as it's less than
11 blocks away the block that the
pointed drip zone is hanging on
also doesn't matter it could be actual
proper drip stone it could be calcite it
could be dirt block
it literally doesn't matter you have a
cauldron on the ground less than 11
blocks away you have a solid block with
pointed drip stone on it and then on top
of that solid block you're gonna have a
water source or something waterlogged so
that could be
this right here that could be this right
here doesn't really matter we'll just go
with that
now all we do is wait this pointed drip
zone is now dripping
literally dripping into the cauldron
eventually after a while the cauldron
will fill up a little bit
and then it'll fill up again and then
it'll fill up one more time i think
there's three layers to a cauldron and
eventually
you'll be able to get water it's pretty
exciting now you're gonna have to be
patient with this process here according
to the minecraft wiki this will take on
average about a day
to work like in game like 19 minutes so
yeah maybe not the best way to get water
but away the only place that i could
really see this thing being useful is in
like maybe
1.17 skyblock you need more water or
something you could farm it like that
which is pretty cool
but uh other than that completely
pointless that's how it's done though
farm that uses pointed drip zone number
two this is an amazing farm don't sleep
on it definitely build this thing just
like pointy rock
this farm is something that people have
been wanting in the game for like so
long
same materials basically except this
time trade the water source out for a
lava source
so we're going to start the same we have
a cauldron less than 11 blocks away we
have a solid block
we have pointed drip stone hanging from
that block now what we're going to do is
go up here and fully block this block in
all the way like that remove that
and then put lava bucket right there and
then we wait again
check out the pointed rip zone this time
it's not only dripping but it's dripping
lava this is so amazing
cauldron right below it i could be
closer could be a little bit farther
as long as you're within 11 this
cauldron is now going to slowly fill up
with lava this is amazing one of the
best 1.17 things
lava is renewable lava cauldron it's so
amazing
now just like that pointless water
generator that i showed you a second ago
you're gonna have to be patient you're
gonna have to wait this process is a
slow process
it could take a minecraft day or even
more but it's so good you could actually
generate lava from one lava source
comes so many on its own this thing is
cool and honestly better than nothing
but where this thing truly starts to get
good
is on larger scales if you can get like
a bunch of lava sources
line them all up put a bunch of pointed
drips down below those blocks and then a
bunch of cauldrons below there so you
end up with something that kind of looks
like this but maybe even a bigger scale
this is great you have a whole lava
growing operation
which is amazing it's sad but there's no
way to speed this thing up even if you
build it on a larger scale it's still
going to take just as long
there are no blocks that you can put
around it or above it or anything like
that that will speed this up
make sure there are no blocks in between
the pointed drips on the cauldron it all
needs to be air even if you were to put
something like string above the cauldron
it's in the way
and it's not going to work anymore and
one more thing to know about the lava
farm in the water farm so the cauldron
needs to be within 10 blocks from the
pointed drift stone
and the pointed drift zone cannot be
more than 11 blocks long
so unfortunately for us that's gonna
mean something like this right here what
i'm setting up right now
is not going to work for a lava farm
you're gonna have to redesign the thing
if this was your aesthetic
i mean it's an aesthetic that's all that
i can say but yeah point to drip stone
hanging that long
with cauldron below it even though the
cauldron is below it it's not going to
actually work that pointed drip stone is
way too long for this to work
another cool thing about these lava
cauldrons and water cauldrons they give
off a redstone signal when hooked up to
a comparator
an unfortunate fact about this though
worse news all day here and minecraft
1.17 1.17.1 dispenser and cauldrons
don't work together so if i put a
dispenser right here hooked up to the
cauldron it's facing it i put a bucket
inside of it and then pretend i did
something different with the redstone so
maybe
once the signal is three it powers the
dispenser so
boom i just toasted the bucket that's
literally all that it does the dispenser
doesn't know how to take anything out of
cauldrons with a bucket if you didn't
believe me we'll try it again with the
water one if i put a bucket inside of
here power with this dispenser
the bucket is literally spit out that's
it it doesn't work
so what does all that mean unfortunately
there is no easy way to fully automate
this process
that would be amazing it would be so
cool and hopefully the future dispensers
get this functionality
because to me it only makes sense but
yeah right now dispensers and cauldrons
they don't work together
there's no way to automate this you're
just going to have to pay attention come
back and check this thing every once in
a while
and harvest your lava or or your water i
guess
i guess your water pointed drifts on
farm number three is the final and by
far my favorite pointed drip zone farm
that we're taking a look at in this
video
this thing is so nice don't get me wrong
i like the idea of renewable lava it's
really really nice to have
but this thing is better so to build
this farm you're gonna need three things
you're gonna need a water bucket you're
gonna need pointed drift so to get the
thing started and you're going to need
one drip stone block these other blocks
up here are optional these could be
replaced with like cobblestone or glass
or whatever
but the one down here below the water
source is definitely a must-have
so this is the start we have a water
source above a drift stone block like i
just said
all of these blocks around this water
source are just holding it in it doesn't
matter what they are
water source drips on block pointed drip
stone and then land right here not too
far away
this drip zone right here the pointed
one needs to be less than 11 blocks long
i recommend keeping it short just like
that
and then we give it time this drip zone
like all of the other drips on this
world
most of it is dripping humble for sure
doesn't really look like much but this
thing is actually amazing
this is a pointed drip zone farm the
full farm is complete right now
now if we're going to drip zone to grow
we need to meet a couple conditions
condition number one
water source two blocks above the
pointed drip stone condition number two
drip some blocking between the water
source and the pointed drip zone
condition number three
pointed drip zone isn't too long
condition number four within 11 blocks
we needed a solid block
this block right here is definitely
solid and within 11.
now down here if we had pointed drip
stone sitting on the ground or even a
hole that's fine that'll work but if
this were waterlogged
that will not work we need to have no
water down below the ground here
if we did have water down below the
ground here this thing will still work
pointed drift zone could grow right here
like it could get a little bit longer
but we won't be able to grow anything on
the ground so solid block
if we have the setup set up just like
this right here we have two spots so we
could actually grow pointed drip stone
on the ceiling right there or on the
ground on the solid block right below
time this thing is insanely slow if you
thought that lava cauldron farm was
really slow which by the way uh one
cauldron is fully filled now if you
thought that lava cauldron farm was slow
or the water cauldron one was slow well
uh make one of these things
this is really small every random game
tick
there is a small chance of 0.011377
seven
seven eight yeah i think that's the
right amount of sevens
for a stalactite or stalagmite to grow
uh one block
this fact is sad but true but that's
gonna average out to
about one single growth step every five
in-game days i waited for this to happen
in my survival world it was painful it
was really rough it takes a long time so
i highly recommend
optimizing the setup which means leaving
a solid block open right there
making sure this block on the ground
isn't too far away and also making sure
the pointed drip zone is not sitting
like this
like this right here there's one block
in between the pointed drip zone if this
happens
i don't think the drip zone will be able
to grow anymore if you're actually
trying to farm a lot of drip stone then
i highly recommend
going around your world and finding more
drifts on blocks and more pieces of
pointed drift stone because this will
take a long long time if you need a lot
of the stuff
fast well first off uh you're gonna be
let down prepare to be let down because
it's not going to happen fast
second off you need more of this stuff
like as big as
possible this right here is six seven
yeah that's not even going to be very
fast for sure without any question the
bigger that you make this thing the
better
even with this thing being very very big
it's still going to be slow
just like with the lava cauldron the
water cauldron there is no way to speed
this process up
all that you could do is meet all of the
conditions and wait and be patient
if we were to set up a bigger operation
here we might get a better chance of
actually seeing one of these things
growing on camera
but it's unlikely most likely this is
not going to happen
and it's just going to take a long time
something like that though that's
starting to get there
if you can make this thing bigger that's
going to be better though so if you're
looking to get more pointed drip zone
for pointed drips on things
this is the way to go that's the farm
that you're gonna need to build
then you're just gonna need a lot of
time one more cool thing about this
though uh check this out so we have a
piston right here we have pointed drip
zone that maybe grew all the way up to
there
power the piston drift zone breaks which
is good news for us that means we could
actually automate this whole setup if we
wanted to
automation is amazing if you can
automate something definitely automate
it for sure and this farm right here is
the ideal farm to be automated because
it takes so long like imagine standing
here and just watching the stuff grow
yeah it's like the most boring thing in
the world so automation for sure
i threw a quick automatic point to drip
stone farm together i've tried to work
out all the problems that i've been
having with the farm this is what i came
up with it's one tile of the farm
for good rates you're still going to
want to build this farm over and over
and over again make it bigger
because it will run insanely slow so
here's what i have going i have water
source drip stone block
pointed drip zone hanging right there
then two blocks of space piston
resin dust on a block observer right
there the observer is going to basically
power the whole farm
down below to pick everything up
hopefully we have a hopper now i haven't
run a test run on this quite yet
hopefully this is going to work i think
it should i mean it ran a couple tests
on broken designs but hopefully this one
isn't broken
and to be clear quick disclaimer if i'm
not quick enough and i can't get the
block down and point to drip stone gets
out
it's because i didn't get the block down
usually this would be fully closed up
but uh anyways pointed drip zone
eventually grows
and gets harvested and it goes up there
okay but one of them went down there one
of them went down there that's the issue
that i've been trying to work out here
i'm not too sure why but pointed drift
zone seems to get thrown all the way up
i don't know if it's because of the
glass or what but point it drifts and
somehow climbs all the way up to the top
okay so simple fix get rid of the glass
maybe it was a glass elevator that was
happening i'm not too sure
drip zone it grows a little bit more and
okay okay that's really good let's get
all the drips on out of the chest uh
we'll put that back and
just do it again drift zone good two in
there oh that's perfect that's perfect
it was a glass the glass was
the problem i hate glass glass caused
all of our issues
i think getting rid of the glass fix the
entire thing so don't build it out of
glass and
it works it seems like it's going to
work so here's the farm
you could definitely make it look a
little bit better and like i said for
good rates you tile it over and over and
over again
and here i've given the drip zone a
little bit of space because i was having
issues with the drips on being thrown
out
honestly now that the glass is gone i
might be able to compact that a little
bit more
and then down here a little bit of extra
space too i put a staircase that i just
got rid of above the chest
build it all in with solid blocks if i
counted all the blocks right you're
trying to recreate it
these are all the blocks that i use for
this tile right here
i hope i counted everything right it
should be good but that's basically
everything when i tried to compact the
farm down a little bit more even with
solid blocks so i have something that
looks like this
i ended up finding more pointy drips on
top of the water so to fix that
uh i just did that two pointed drips on
to start the thing then it keeps growing
down like that
and it should work every time as long as
you have it fully closed in to wrap
everything up today drip stone pointed
drips on there you just set up a
gigantic farm for
what is it for well like you said
earlier pointed drip stone turns into
drips on block and right now
nothing else there are no other recipes
for drip stone or pointed drip zone at
all it's literally just the drip zone
block
so these two things right here they're
pretty nice looking which means
building when it comes to building with
pointed drip stone and drip zone there
are so many opportunities especially for
pointed drip stone because it's so
unique looking
there are so many different potentials
for this stuff here that this honestly
could be its own video
if you like the sounds of that and you'd
like to see a video like that leave a
like anyways though here are a couple
different ideas pointed drips on makes
amazing teeth
the stuff is sharp and pointy yeah make
a face put the teeth in the mouth
pointed drip stone when left small makes
nice rocks too
definitely pointy looking rocks but
rocks it looks nice
if you have some type of cave base or
any type of cave setup going on
then obviously pointed drip zone on the
ground or maybe on the ceiling hanging
down to create stalactites and
stalagmites
looks pretty cool the drip zone block
itself might be a little bit tricky to
work with but try putting it on a roof
it could make a nice roof block or maybe
in a path or something because of the
texture it might make a pretty nice road
really like i said there are so many
different building potentials for
pointed drip zone and drip stone
one more use that isn't really for
building maybe
a mob farm so when you fall and land on
pointed drip zone you take damage more
damage than normal
you could definitely set pointed drip
stone up at the bottom of a mob farm
somehow
and use it to actually automate your mob
farm drop them out to the point it drips
on you wouldn't even have to raise them
in normal super high amount
and it'll work drip stone yeah the stuff
is pretty cool
that's going to do it for today's video
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