Thank you everyone for 10k views! I really did not expect that. It seems that the more effort I put into a video, the better it is. Who would've thought 🤔 It took me hundreds of hours practicing Bastions and one and a half months for the video alone. I'm planning the Trial Chambers next, but I'll start on the project once the first release candidate drops. Hopefully I won't get burnout on the project. Love you all 💜 Edit: The Trial Chambers are going to have more fixes in 1.21.2 as further finalized changes to the structures are planned! This means that I will have to postpone my upcoming video as well to keep it updated. 2nd June: 50k views, holy cow! 20th July: 100k, I am on vacation and speechless.
this is such an incredibly in-depth and noob friendly tutorial for someone like me who gets cooked by brutes in bastions 99% of the time. Thank you for the effort in this guide!
it sounds like that simple hi really brightened your day sometimes a friendly greeting can make a big difference in how we feel throughout the day it's wonderful to encounter moments of warmth and kindness in our interactions with others even in something as small as a greeting friendliness has a way of creating connections and fostering positive interactions when someone says hi in a friendly manner it not only acknowledges your presence but also communicates a sense of warmth and openness in today's fast-paced world where interactions can often feel rushed or impersonal a genuine greeting can stand out and leave a lasting impression it's interesting how such small gestures can have a significant impact on our mood and overall well-being research shows that positive social interactions even brief ones like a friendly hi can boost our mood and reduce feelings of loneliness these moments remind us of our shared humanity and the importance of kindness in our daily lives moreover noticing and appreciating these moments of friendliness can enhance our own sense of gratitude and positivity when we acknowledge and reciprocate these gestures we contribute to a more positive social environment it's a reminder that simple acts of kindness can have a ripple effect influencing not just our immediate interactions but also the broader community around us in a broader context moments like these underscore the significance of empathy and understanding in our interactions with others they remind us of the power of positive communication and how it can contribute to building stronger more supportive relationships by valuing and nurturing these connections we create a more inclusive and compassionate world so next time someone greets you with a friendly hi remember the impact it can have whether you're on the giving or receiving end of such gestures they contribute to a more connected and empathetic society let's continue to spread kindness through our words and actions one friendly greeting at a time
Fun fact… on bedrock at least, you can shoot piglins with a rocket crossbow and there is no agro… from the pig you hit or any of his friends…I don’t think you get xp either… but 8 minutes of invisibility and a rocket crossbow is the way to go if you want to clear the brutes out safely…
That's very interesting. I have almost no knowledge about Bedrock, but I do know some niche stuff here and there. I do envy the Wither boss mechanics though :)
@@Johnden you gotta be accurate gotta be fifty blocks away or eighty depending on gunpowder used to make the star but it works … lava works better tho I’m testing this as we speak lol
I made a 4 by 23 nether portal and went through it to see that I was right infront of a treasure bastion, I looked up a video to help me and found this masterpiece. Thank you!
I did NOT expect a video of this quality to come from a channel with 251 subs (at the time I'm writing this) I honestly thought it was a channel with around 10k subs until I checked your channel
@@Johnden This is absolutely the quality of an experienced tutorial based content creator, I could easily see you riding the algorithm to 1 mil subs, stay committed and you'll see the gold that bastions don't give you ;)
This video has so much quality I thought this was a video from a 100k channel! Very informative and straight to the point and with many examples. You earned my sub bro.
About this time last year, I investigated bastion structure/raiding as I thought this structure is relatively new and underrated. I was unable to find a comprehensive guide for it or any information regarding the exact position of the loot. So, after viewing some speedrunner's guide to bastions, I loaded all parts of the bastions with structure blocks and remembered the positions as well as patterns for the loot. I did not come up with a well honed "route" for each bastion but instead remembered where loot is and how they are connected. I also did not look into mob AI for easier raiding. These two points presented in the video are invalueable as no one ever covered such topic before. I have some tips that I believe should help. 1. "Routes": For treasure bastion, I have a different strategy in terms of raiding the treasure cube room that i think is viable for more conservative players. First approach from the lava moats, and go to the right of the bridge, count 3 blocks from the start of lava moat and dig into the treasure room. If a chest generated on this side, you should bump right into it. From this position, observe if there are any more chests(way introduced in the video) and bridge toward them following the basalt. This procedure should be relatively safe as this layer is quite seperated from others, and only has few piglins guarding the chests. Furthermore, there should be gaps that the piglin(brute) cannot pathfind through. Then, retreat from the hole in the wall and go two blocks from the lava moat. Dig down and count y level so you don't fall into lava if the bastion generates above lava lake. Then, at the right y level, dig forward and emerge at a corner of the bottom floor of the treasure room. At this position, no piglins can reach you, and you can utilize your bow or the mob pathfinding mechanics in the video. Then, after all is cleared, approach the treasure section, remember that as soon as you cross the line dividing the treasure area and the lava, the spawner will be activated. After filling the spawn space of spawner with blocks, you can do whatever you want as even strong aggro will not cause piglins to be able to reach you. If you approach the "gold block area" from the back, you can see most gold blocks directly and never face any piglin. 2. Tips: Use hopper if you are very conservative as breaking or opening them will not aggro piglins Use invis potion if you want to be 100% sure, as there is a special interaction with players under invis and piglins If you feel unsafe, place boats in junctions so you can run through them while piglin brutes are stuck If you want to be more sure, place a block on top of the boat so whatever normal height mob that is in the boat suffocates automatically If you want to be extremely safe, use lava bucket and fire res potion to demolish all piglins with no skill. If you place twisted vines in open areas, you can clime them in a sticky situation, as mobs are not motivated to climb if there are no blocks next to the vines. Don't try to place down soul fire related stuff to scare off piglins, as this fear is overriden when they aggro onto player If you think piglins look scary, try to think their nose as their eyes.
Thank you for such neatly written comment! • The AI of the Piglins seemed pretty misunderstood and I've never seen any bastion video on the topic, so I'm happy to see I was one of the first ones to test it. Mainly because people often get discouraged raiding a bastion once they've experienced the brutes jumping even if pillaring up. • That's a really nice way to loot a bastion, I might give it a try. Especially if playing with the VR mod or possibly on Bedrock Edition (except the AI there is completely different). My approach is more "speedrunner" style with minimum resources, where you haven't even been to a nether fortress to acquire blaze rods, therefore invis potions. During the end game, the Bastions can be sweeped through with decent armor and an elytra, but I think that would make the video not only boring to watch, but confusing at times. It also motivates people to loot the bastion without requiring end game stuff. • The tips are very beginner-friendly and I like it. I only utilized the lava which is the safest option. • Back then I couldn't see it at first, but when reading a comment one day I saw the pig-chan and didn't see anything else for months. Nowadays I see the snout, but viewing any screenshot I see a piglin hoodie 😁
Hello from Greece (sory for my english i don't speek so good). I shared your video eith my friends and all of us have to say congrats for your job. You helped us a lot. Neither shulkercraft nor eyemc are So helpful and specific. Keep going
They told me that the ones who help the most can be the small youtubers, those who teach you such specific and very useful things... Everyone was right ❤
I always get through the treasure bastion by dropping from the ceiling and using a bow to take out the brutes I see and using blocks to get down. Then, I take the loot and build back up to the top from the center to escape back through the ceiling
I love this. Guides like these is what both impresses me but also makes me appreciate these structures more, despite they're difficulty. This guide honestly feels more of everything you need to know about Bastions rather than how to just raid it. This isn't some cheap, boring guide, this is just pure perfection. Absolutely amazing my man! I would love for you to cover Ancient Cities, although their loot isn't the best (you only really care for the trims and echo shards), the structures themselves as TOUGH as hell! If you don't know how to deal with it of course. I'd just be super interested in your take/guide for Ancient Cities. I can understand if you don't really want to do one, especially given the very mediocre loot. Hopefully they add better loot in the future. Thats about all I wanted to say but when I first saw this, I was so impressed, and still am. Well done! 🎉
You clearly have a very good understanding of bastions and I appreciate you making content like this for newer players such as myself but you haven't done so in a particularly friendly manner for new players. For example at 19:40 the start of the Housing Bastion and you start it off by saying starting at this block facing a wall which looks like every single wall in the entire bastion. A guide starting from the outside and doing a full explanatory run would be much easier imo
as a HC player, I go with the third option when looting the treasure bastion. Since I go from top to bottom by clearing out all the piglins and brutes first then proceeding to go down a floor until none of them will be attacking. Then on the other side of it, I just pillar up to the chests and gold, create a small barrier for crossbows, and take them from a distance
Actually Sending that to my other friends(even the ones that just speak portuguese) because this is life saver, so much so that i started to enjoy looting these again like the first time i found them
Ive been working my way to raiding a bastion and just haven't got the guts to do it yet but this video will help so much! Ill return to this comment when i have the Smithing template:)
@@Johnden i have done it! I got lucky and got two smithing templates after rading a housing and a bridge. Didnt even need to go to the Treasure. Nice little surprise since i thought it was only possible to get the smithing template at treasure. i now have full netherite armor and tools, Thank God you can dupe them
@@league6767 Should've included the chest loot. In treasure it's guaranteed while in the other chests it's a 10% chance to find one. In any case, congratulations on beating one of the hardest things in the Nether.
@@Johndenchest loot was about 25 gold blocks, a silk touch diamond pick, about 40 nether quartz blocks, a few stacks of arrows, 30 magma cream, 14 crying obsidian, 30 obsidian, 20 iron blocks, 24 bone blocks, some chains and the Netherite smithing templates
Thank you so much for the kind words. I don't feel the need for the channel to grow up but I know it helps. I just want to put out information for others to share. And that thought alone brings me so much joy. 💛
@@Johnden that's awesome , but seriously the video is the most helpful guide for a person like me who want to loot the bastion at its 100% , hope to see other guides in future (maybe ancient city or any other structure)
I started playing Minecraft again after a couple years and my hardcore world had a nether portal right inside a bridge bastion and had no idea about brutes or why they randomly aggroed against you and how they hit 2 hi this information is greatly appreciated
This could have saved me 40 minutes of tunneling for the loot to be 3 pigstep disks in total hahah(house variant and awful luck) Btw, I didn't know about the gold helmet being as good as the iron one, I'd always stick to gold boots because of the price being one less gold ingot, but now I might consider making the helmet instead Anyways, thank you for this guide, it helped me a lot
@@Ixion125 also an interesting fact about armor differences is that going from gold to iron, the best gear to upgrade is leggings not chestplate. From iron to diamond however it is chestplate.
i love your videos so much, all the needs and tutorial are explained with absolute detail, thank you so much because that's useful for me! keep up uploading more videos! anyway, the "hi" is so green flag😂 8:20
The trial chamber video is in the works right now. There will be changes to the structure in the upcoming version 1.21.1, so it will take a long time to finish. As for the Ancient City, I think I'll plan on making one.
johnden if you see this i am going to attempt to loot a treasure bastion. ive rewatched your section on it about 35 times and i can never force myself to do it in fear that i will die (even tho i have an entire shulker full of totems) i think if i just keep on memorizing where all the loot is and the strategy ill finally be able to do it. (im on bedrock) im scared to try but thanks to this video im going to attempt it. you did such a great job covering everything, and even though the video is long, its worth it to watch every single second. and i know my username makes me feel like a bot comment, but im not. im just bad at making usernames and im a fucking stupid teenager, but honestly this video made me really happy. thank you so much for making amazing videos and being honestly a good person. as soon as i watched this i immediately clicked a youtuber's favourite button: da sbusribec
For bedrock edition most of the stuff stays the same apart from the AI which is very different. So Piglin Brutes in Bedrock do less damage than in Java, but are still dangerous. If you have totems, you are more than ready to fight them off. The structure itself generates the same way as in Java. Good luck!
@@Johnden I DID IT JOHN! I did your exact strategy! My friend was too scared to join me, however we are late game and wish to get netherite. I used your strategy and i learned that yes the AI is COMPLETELY different. I went into the hole structure thing for the ram part and mined the gold block and they were not even mad. So what i did instead was find piglin brutes and lead them to the trap so i could kill them with lava. It worked like a charm! I ended up using the enderpearl strategy that you showed off, and instead of going on the main bridge i went on to the bridge near the left. I ended up getting hashtag! I would lure piglin brutes and lava trick them. I fell in lava a bunch but luckily for me I have fire protection 4 on my chestplate and boots (i am scared of fire) and i ended up getting netherite armor. I mined 64 ancient debris it took like 2 hours lol
just finished learning 60% of all the keyfour bastion videos and watching your video help me a lot with how to deal with brute . may I ask why some rsg run on yt has no brute ? is there a version difference which affect brute spawn ?
That is because speedruns are in 1.16.1 where Piglin Brutes were not implemented yet and bartering with Piglins had a better chance to give ender pearls.
I am just looking for the upgrade template, i know the treasure bastion have guaranteed, but are the others worth looting or should i find a treasure bastion? And how many chest does the three other bastion types on average have?
Other bastions have a 10% chance for the upgrade template. Bridge can have 3-7 chests. (~5 on average) Housing can have 6-25 chests. (10.2 on average) Stables can have 4-28 chests. (10 on average) So the best one for chests heavily relies on RNG. Housing and Stables seem to have more chests on average. The max value is insanely rare because not every chest has the same chance of generating. The chance to get max stable chests which is 16 chests 22.2% chance for each. That’s like 1 in 28 billion.
Ancient cities aren’t that complicated as Bastions, but I do have a couple of tips on it. Many people have more trouble finding them than looting them. I could answer it here, but am unsure if I will make a video about it. But I might do the upcoming Trial Chambers.
After i "prepare the distraction" in treasure, the piglins glitch out a bit on which task to focus on(killing me or get the gold) and after a while of runing back and forth they still kill me. Does anyone have a solution?
Is there anything to be known about getting gilded blackstone? I have a build I rly like that requires a lot of it and thats the main reason i go to bastions
From what I've gathered based on functionality of Jigsaw blocks, there's a thing called the processor list. It basically first generates the bastion as it is from templates and then gets processed with things like cracked blackstone, gilded blackstone or air. This makes the bastions look unique and randomized looking. From what I know the amount of gilded blackstone is random.
i have been playing a nether only survivial, i was wondering if "mending" is an enchantment that can be obtained in the nether, because i have explored dozen of fortress and bastions and havent found single mending book.
@@Motivation13429 Sadly not. I was inspired from a pre-existing datapack made for 1.12 version that never got updated, which meant I had to manually remake it to work for 1.20. And it broke yet again in 1.21. I think if you search block highlighter datapack, you could find one.
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