Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 301: XP Overload 

"It SHOULD be safe... I'm pretty sure." -famous last words

Poor Etho actually sounded a bit upset :/ good thing he doesn't know the definition of quitting. Keep on keepin' on greatest RU-vid MineCrafter

*makes tnt powered mob farm *use only low blast resistance blocks

I like how it goes from really calm while enchanting some books then it cuts and it's like: "OH GOD IT'S ALL ON FIRE AHH THE HUMANITY!"

This might not be the most efficient enderman farm, but it's probably the coolest-looking.

Episode 301: Etho Ends Ender Ender You always fix things marvelously. Persevere!

Hey Etho I have watched all of your lets play episodes now and I love them. Thank you for inspiring me to experiment with the technical side of minecraft

The only thing I can think of would be that the TNT was being lit too high up in the air and was blowing up before it hit the water?

Etho, can you do a Redstone series branching off of your main LP? Like, whenever you do redstone you don't record, so I think it would be awesome if you did record it and explain as you go, and post it as another series.

Getting back into MC and watching your vids again, have no idea where i left off, so i'll just go from here.

Thank you for continuing the series!!

Congrats man for making 300 let's plays

The terrifying moment when you realise you remember this being uploaded

Etho ! Not sure this is even an issue (depends on how the game updates LC compared to F3 screen, which updates after relogging the world), but when your top floor's spam system fires, LC jumps to 143 in your comparator's chunk. I got it fixed by just adding 2 "roof" blocks on the first blocks of the 2-wide gap (on the spammy system side). Better prevent than heal. Please up so Etho sees, he likes technical stuff :)

Only Etho would think of count the layers in such an awesome way.

when you talk about redstone, you always have me so cunfuzzled

"You know how when you build stuff you can usually remember how you built it..:" No ;_; I'd say remembering every block you placed is a pretty good extra skill of yours!

I just watched 300 episodes in 1 week. I'm so lonely :(

Awesome , Etho , I love it! I wonder if someday I will be good at minecraft like you...

Hey Etho, love your vids, you're by far my favourite youtuber. I love the technical stuff and keep up the awesome videos!

Guys... The 6"2' was a joke.. To non-Americans, that's 1.88 meters, and EVERY minecraft character is exactly that height.

I want to see him build more buildings than projects

Etho you are the most amazing person ever!! I just want to thank you for making these awesome videos that are helping me get through depression and being sucidal, but I just want thank you so much if I didn't find your channel I would probably be dead

its 2020 now and this video is still great

Etho needs to work on his library

5:34 Crouching or something?

the noise as he fell down and counted each layer was so funny oh my gosh

Good to be back Etho, good to be back.

You are so tall!!!!!@@

I have a survival world that i have had since 1.1, and i still play it today.

I love how Etho has motivation to keep stuff going, like, I'd probably quit the Ender Ender for like a week if it blew up on me

ender ender looks great man :) i especially like the glass, and was thinking that you should make something unusual, a pirate ship made of glass. Keep up the good work!

The TNT is exploding before reaching water

This is a bit late, but why doesn't he use a dispenser to dispense the tnt directly into the water?

Wow I can't believe your 'Ender Ender 2.0' actually blew up on you like that! When you cut back to having Minecraft paused at first and reacting all like "nooooooo!" I actually thought you were about to fall down that hole when you unpaused it :o but thankfully you managed to survive that blast... and the 2nd one too haha! After the first explosion and repairs/fixes done to it, I guess it was the 'Ender Ender 2.1' at that point, until it blew up around you again... so it'll end up being the 'Ender Ender 2.2' next time! :P I'm not quite sure why the two different water setups (1 block and then a 3x3) still caused it to blow up after a few shots, but I'm guessing the fire arrows getting stuck up there and bringing a 2nd TNT down, seems to be the most likely cause! I think you got off lucky though, considering that if that had happened when all the TNT was still near to the water area like you said, then the whole thing might have gone off like an explosion of fireworks! D:

Etho, what is your favorite movie of all time!! Keep up your AMAZING videos :)

Your counting 11 12 15 14 15 16 17 HAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA your my fav youtuber

Etho You are my first youtuber who play let play until 300+ Thx :D It so intesting

Back here on my binge journey

Use inverted sticky pistons with fences on top to make sure you stay in the middle. Add a tripwire like the ones in your stables to unpowered the pistons.

In this episode Etho gets an XP Overload, and the fishing shack still keeps its torch overload.

Etho, I'm sure you've figured this out by now, but I noticed the xp orbs are actually triggering the iron pressure plates which was in turn triggering the trapdoor. Just thought I'd mentioned it, since I prefer the trapdoor setup as well ;)

I'm not sure if anyone else figured out the problem. However, I believe what happened was the arrow wasn't sticking to the first TNT it hit, and was continuing it's journey up! *As shown when he was shooting the stone* Normally, it would stick to the first TNT, even when it becomes an entity and falls and then blows up later

Etho I was like you know.. goofing around with TNT and I saw that the arrow that I shot at dem TNT's the arrow went THROUGH the first TNT and ignited the second one. I guess you already figured this out but I thought I should say this. Love ya bro

Hello Etho! I know you probably get this alot, but I just wanted to say thank you for making amazing videos. Whether I'm having a good or bad day I can always look forward to seeing your videos, having them entertain me and making me laugh and smile. Thanks again! Keep up the great work!

Wanting the pudding??? Etho must be getting ready for the festive season...

Good day, Etho. Have you considered two possible easy solutions to some of your troubles? 1.) For your Ender Ender 2.0, maybe you could use a set piece of redstone with a button up, as I've noticed that on occasion the flint and steel (or fire chargers for that matter) tend to sometimes be inaccurate 2.) For a way back down the elevator, maybe set a simple pit of water you and your horse or donkey could jump down. Keep up the excellent work!

2022 and it's still enjoyable

Etho, wouldn't a simple, albeit not the prettiest, solution to your Ender Ender Boom Boom (I couldn't resist) problem is to use dispensers to drop primed tnt at the push of a button, instead of priming the tnt with a fire arrow. This would allow for the secondary benefit of increasing your tnt reserve capacity, as well, so you'd have to refill it considerably less. This increase could be further bolstered with a hopper and a chest. Love your episodes, please keep up the great work!

It might be just as easy to use a dispenser at the top of the tube using a redstone torch chain going to the top. Since the dispenser won't let out more than one TNT at a time, it shouldn't cause a back fire and it still looks cool to have the tube. Also, with hoppers, u can store many more stacks of TNT.

The donkey dismount is related to the minecart dismount, careful in the Nether, a 3x3 tunnel is a little unsafe for minecarts now... It places you at 3rd block out, and searches from 7th inward, diagonally, this means you might be placed outside your tunnel...

For the ender ender, have a line of TNT set horizontally and make to so when you press a button it pushes only one TNT above the player so that way there's only one TNT above the player at a time and to reset it you just refill in the line of TNT by the pistons

Etho, for the Ender Ender 2.0 you should make a dispenser with a flint and steel lights the TNT and have signs that are labeled with the level and maybe even a inverted lamp system that turns on or off when you have already hit that button, and a manual reset for the lights. Or, better yet, you could just have a dispenser send out TNT! Thanks for reading, if you did. ~Mike

your ender ender 2.0 looks like a power station thingy or a tower of terror with added creepy sounds

According to the Minecraft Wiki, the PrimedTnt entity is a cube with an edge length of 0.98. I think what is happening is the TNT is barely sliding through the ladder block, but similar to how the XP in the XP reserve looks like it's coming towards you but it's really not, the TNT looks like it's in the correct spot, but it's really on the ground.

Maybe the fire arrow ignites the tnt before it drops, igniting the tnt above it. You could make a button with a redstone torch repeater column and locks on it for each level of tnt to space it out, but that would require quite a few buttons, and you'd still have to space the tnt out.

Started from the beta now we here.. Started from the beta, four whole years..

I wish we'd gotten footage of those explosions.

No, the TNT landed outside of the water zone in which it is safe. It always retain the same delay so the length of fall is not altered it wouldn't explode before hand.

Endermen = half a heart due to fall damage. Etho: Full health and armor, also shielded by blocks

thats a really good design

I found another way Etho. Use flint and steel to light the tnt instead of bow and arrow. Disadvantage is you need to plant the tnt each time you want to use it. Put the tnt 1 block above the water. Advantage is you will never have repeated tnt fired

I've noticed things like this happening since 1.7 where arrows aren't embedding into surfaces all the time now not sure if it's something mojangs put in and not mentioned or if it's a bug but it might be the collision is registering with the TNT before the embedding is registering on the arrow so it's lighting before embedding so it passes through the entity version of the TNT rather than embedding and consequently falling on ignition

dang, that's an awsome vanilla project i should try something like this in my world.

I'm surprised Mojang haven't offered you a job, the amount of amazing things that you would introduce

Zisteau made a great design for a tnt magazine using pistons way back in the day may you could do that but in the last row of the magazine u only have it one long so the arrow would have to travel in a upside down u shape in order to hit the next piece of tnt

Interesting fact: level 22 is halfway to level 30 due to the fact that larger levels need more xp

use a little redstone and make a tnt piston loader , where you stand opposite side of the enchanting room set a piston facing up on the other side of the glowstone 2 blocks out stack tnt to just above the water and use a sticky piston behind a regular piston pushing the tnt on top of the water block place a active lever on opposite block where the tnt loads to ignite it. Then you can reload/ collect xp/ enchant all in one spot

happy 301

A falling block becomes an item if a partial block, such as a torch, is beneath it. But, falling sand/gravel are both entities and entities can occupy the same space or can pass through each other, nullifying your idea of providing an obstacle.

Ehto, maybe something changed since the previous snapshot that prevents the fully functionality of EnderEnder 2.0; one example of this changes would be the arrows that don´t stay attached to the roof.

I LUV U ETHO I THINK UR LITERALLY THE BEST AT MINECRAFT PVP WISE N EVERYTHING.

It could be the TNT when lit noclips inside a block, thus nullifying the water blast resistance and causing the explosion. My only suggestions would be to use actual blocks as a blast dampener

I set up a simple platform like what you have with a stack of TNT on top of it so I could test a little. One thing I noticed was that sometimes it triggers two pieces of TNT at the same time and that blows up the platform. It seems like a completely random chance that this happens so I'm not sure how you could attempt to fix it.

IT'S ALIVE

1.You can use obsidian and quartz slabs for better protection of the farm

An expensive but still a good way to protect your EE2.0 from losing resources is to make the bottom layer obsidian or another block with a high blast resistance

I think that the TNT turn into entities so that it randomly rarely it moves on 1 of the heavy pressure iron plates so it xplodes outside the water causing it to ruin the plan and snapshot caused a few bugs on the real product so arrows bounce with old enchantment dunno

Etho, all sounds centered around the Player are controlled by the player volume. That includes the XP sound.

Hey Etho, it may not look at nice but I tested it and if you put iron bars instead of pressure plates around the water, it seems to contain the TNT and keep it in the water even though there is a visual glitch of it being halfway out of the water. I'll keep doing some tests to see but that appears to work.

use a upside down trapdoor, it'll land on the trapdoor where with the ladder, the lit tnt is small enough to get stuck in the ladder and it blows up. like with those really old hybrid cannons.

Etho, I got my snacks ready for the video today but you didn't say get your snacks ready so I put them back:( I miss when you say that but you are awesome and keep up the super amazing work

Awesome Ender Ender xp farm thx for sharing

Etho, please do another tour of your world I have missed quite a few episodes and I am sure other people have to

Etho put two pistons at the top of the elevator to push you out so you don't have to jump!

This happened two years ago!!!! It feels like not even a year ago

What about the XP orbs? Maybe they are moving the TNT entity off to the side, so it causes the damage.

You have to ignite the TNT manually (flint and steel, flame arrow) to get the xp from mobs.

If the minecraft world uses real-world physics, then we should be able to know the maximum height for putting the TNT. According to the Wiki, TNT will explode in 4 seconds (if it's manually ignited). So, h=s=ut+0.5at^2 = (0)(4)+0.5(9.81)(4^2)=78.48 Given each block is 1m, then the maximum height for placing TNT is 78 blocks above the point of explosion. (h=height, s=displacement, u=initial velocity, a=gravitational acceleration, t=time)

ETHO! Are you using your new computer yet? If so, how do you like it compared to your last one?

ONE THING I NOTICED ETHO. DO NOT use a trapdoor to stop water from flowing down. The trapdoor will result with the TNT falling to meet it thus blowing it up again. SO unless you keep it open at all times, it will not work. ALSO do not use a water source block in the tube because it will end up with the arrow not lighting. THE DESIGN STILL WORKS. Just without the 2nd source block. So one more guys PLEASE THUMBS UP.

The TNT tube in your creative world isn't as tall as the one you built in your survival world. I think the TNT might be falling too far and it doesn't make it into the water source before blowing up (resulting in the damage). If your base gets wrecked every time you have lets say, 4 TNT blocks in reserve then that 5th TNT is too high. To test it you should just be able to build a really tall tube in creative and keep shooting it until it blows up the surrounding area again. Hope this helps!

301! RU-vid's magic number!

You can still shot the TNT just put slabs around the water will hold the water and prevent the TNT from faling out

Etho!! You should use 2 blocks of water so the TNT won't mess up your building thing

Doubtful, the tube isn't that long. What is happening, and i believe Etho has said this already, is that the arrow glitch causes two to get lit and the first one to blow blasts the second one out of the water area before the second one explodes.

No, just the oposite. it works as if he uses a bow. the dispenser dispenses only one powered TNT and he won't have any more truble with the TNT bug.greetings

This may seem like a dumb idea but can you put a solid stream of water from the tnt hole to the hole in the floor then it shouldn't matter how many tnt get released and the overall look should be the same.

What minecraft beta do you use? Example 1.5.2 1.6.4, I like your vids, and how do you come up with the designs?

You could use a dispenser with TNT in it instead of that pillar in the center wich is buggy if you want to still use your bow use a button on the dispenser up there