Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 570: Underground Monsters 

"I'm not a bee expert" Feed The Beast Beetho would like a word with you today Etho.

“Etho invented asmr” is my new favorite piece of Etho lore

Etho, I feel like Sandy City is missing aqueducts. That's definitely something an ancient city in an arid environment would have

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Seeing Zisteau in those Terraria screenshots brought back some memories 🥲

At this point it's just nice to hear Etho's voice.

I love how Etho is using screenshots from his own Terraria series with Zisteau. Good times!

Thank you Etho Slabs for inventing ASMR and the hopper clock 🙏 his contributions to society are glossed over

"I'm not a bee expert. Anyways, we've got 240 hives here now and.." made me genuinely chuckle lmao

It’s so impossible to explain the extent to which you’ve touched people with your content. The persistence and dedication you’ve shown is an inspiration to many, I hope that you won’t easily forget that.

Etho: "I don't know what I'm ever going to use all these frog lights for..." Also Etho: Doesn't light up the area he works in with all the free frog lights he has.

Bro it’s been years, I used to watch all your videos when I was 14, I’m 20 years old now and the nostalgia still hits me like a ton of bricks 😢

Planterras Theme on noteblocks would be amazing and really fitting

I feel like adding some orange stained glass to the honey could make it look even better. Maybe make it look more like a liquid? I'm not sure if that would work tho.

Its hilarious how Etho let out the loudest scream and sigh of relief followed by continuing to explain his build in the calmest manner like nothing ever happened

One cool honey effect is to put bee hives full of honey in the ceiling, and then it will drip honey particles all the way down. You could also try punching out some of the glow berries behind Plantera to help it stand out more aginst the background - the vines alone don't give off light.

imagine being a bee and your entire existence is being trapped in a machine in a place that is always nighttime

The man, the myth, ladders returns!

20:52 for smoother transitions between block types, it's helpful to either: A) sprinkle in random block types, such as a random path block in sand, and a random sand block in path region, OR B) have streaks of block types that "intrude" into the other type, such as a row of sand into path/dirt (as if sand was blown over by the wind) Other block types that could be used in this transition is logs: perhaps birch (sand), oak (path), and spruce (coarse dirt).

for the floating turtles, you could have them on leads attached to fences, and see what happens if you push those with flying machines

You know I never really thought until now how much the lush caves resemble the Terraria underground jungle. The hive and plantera parts look really nice

Nothing compares to the excitement of getting an Etho notification. It's like a surprise birthday but better.

Etho truly is the greatest of all Minecrafters. Wholesome, technical, aesthetic, creative, passionate, chill, wonderful in general. Thank you for all the good content over so many years, hope you and your family are doing well now. Been praying for you guys.

20:55, to blend sand and dirt, i would always use the inside of mushroom blocks. but i’m also curious to see if packed mud will make a good transition now that we have that

Etho, I have a suggestion for the flying turtles, simple but still cool. Put the turtles on a single glass pane and have them float like that.

Some idea for a grass to sand gradient: Let the grass bleed over to the desert, so it can look like it's drying out and dying. Coarse dirt, regular dirt (as long as it's protected from the grass), brown concrete powder, brown mushroom blocks and the 'under' texture of mushroom blocks is what I like to use for a gradient

When you have two drastically different biomes meeting, I think the best way to naturally separate them is using a path/road! Instead of trying to blend the sand into the grass, try and expand the pathway network even if the roads don't go anywhere yet!

I found you years and years ago.. You've helped shape me into a respectable, and happy young man. I now have a daughter and this is one of my only happy places left, I can't wait to share all of this with her. Thanks, Etho!

Looks like the Warden grabbed a snack for the episode...too bad the snack was Etho

I really appreciate the insight into the voice thing. I've thought a lot about my own voice and how to make it sound better while also sounding personal and genuine. One of my pet peeves is when voices sound too "professional" because they come off as cold and lifeless, but some of that is probably necessary in order to maintain a good sense of flow and to be easy to understand.

For the transition, I found that dithering the grass/dirt/ coarse dirt into the sand was best, but also adding some dry bushes, flowers and more plantlife to the transition zone helped sell it. maybe 7-10 blocks deep

You're knocking it out of the park every episode Etho! Stealth Zedsteau at12:20, Man Terriaria is Ezed is such a dang good series!

Ooo….I like that frog light farm! Sand transition to grass: random “clumps” of tall grass a few blocks out from where you want the grass area to be, smaller clumps farther away. The grassy area needs to be a little “scruffy”, not “mown”. See images of Assateague Island campground.

So happy to see a shoutout ianxofour! All his builds are incredible, anyone who hasn’t seen them yet should really check it out.

21:30 You could flatten out the half near the pyramid and build a practical wall to hold back the hill, and have 2 paths, one above and one below and some stairs connecting them!

Hey Etho! The sandy city really needs more desert around it, because it seems out of place. You should expand the biome and make it look a bit more natural on all sides. For the transition you might want to just mix grass and sand, make it look like they blend into each other. Huge rocks or dried trees will also make the transition smoother.

Was having a pretty rough day, but now I have a whole Etho video to look forward to for later! Instant day brightener.

Beetho-Time 🐝 🍯 Best way to end (or start) a day, especially with the Terraria reference 💛😎👍

Etho saying lesson learned with the warden and sneaking gave me Double Life flashbacks 🤣

Hey Ergo! I liked what you did with the Plantera boss in that underground cavern, but the way you described it made me think about how cool it would be to design a pseudo boss fight in the underground. Kind of like Evil Wilson or Spaz with a health bar, you could have a crazy redstone contraption randomly do different attacks while you have to do something to damage the boss. I thought it would be a cool thing to try out, but it seems like a lot of work. Love the video!

Interestingly enough I was just watching the episode where you built the bee farm in the End. Really glad to see it now and the progress that's been done. Amazing episode as always, Etho! You've been missed! :)

Loved hearing you talk about hiding your videos in the beginning! You have built so much of a community Etho!

Loved the long q&a this episode. You mean a lot to all of us Etho, thanks for doing what you do

I love the evolution of sandy city. It’s looking awesome

Hey Etho, Those terraria screenshots sure did stir up some nostalgia! I know it has been asked before, but would you consider a new terraria let's play? I think that the upcoming mod called Starlight River looks like something that would make the game feel fresh and new! It also is something that you could be on top of right when it comes out so it doesn't feel like it's been done by too many others to be worthwhile.

well, today is an amazing day suddenly! Its amazing now fast my day gets better whenever I see you upload Etho. Thank you for being you

some structures or "natural" formations will help transition between desert and grass. I love building in desert cause I'm a Dune nerd, so I'll often add water streams, some acacia trees, and small gardens or farms, to create a sort of natural oasis look. Nothin big, just enough to stand out on it's own and hide the biome transition. Small structures to give life to the outer walls like maybe a wagon caravan with tents underneath ancient archaeology, will hide the grass to sand transition, too.

being someone who absolutely loves terraria, it makes me so happy seeing this amazing build from one of my favorite creators.

“Turn this into a terraria underground jungle feeling area” Speaking of, ever plan to do a 1.4 play through with ze?

I just want to say the honey rivers look so good, my son came in and asked if I was watching Terraria!! 😃

I love how you made planterra ! Its more accurate than i thought possible !

Blocks that 'interrupt' the border will make it look less unnatural - like large trees and rocky formations,. Also, in real life sand spreads through wind (so you can get some beautiful windswept streaks) so you could implement that for a 'less clean/more natural' edge of the desert.

Every now and again i come back to watch an episode of this lets play as I used to watch you all the time back in the early days of minecraft but holy smokes I'm blown away as to the ever growing list of new items, block, biomes, enemies etc in this game now...Last time I played myself was back in 1.8 beta. Still got a love of love for my fav minecraft RU-vidr tho, love and missed ya Etho!!

No longer just a usual boring day, its a etho's video day. Perfect day.

The evolution of Etho is really phenomenal, he is always improving at things. There was a time when Etho would have said he wasn’t great at building or note blocks and know he is insanely good with them. He has a very unique style of building and is still one of the best redstoners. All this while maintaining interesting content. What ever you do with your life Etho you’ve made such a huge impact on so many lives.

All those B-Dubs crossover episodes helped you develop your excitement voice

I’m so happy to hear etho mention Ianxo4. His designs are as clever as etho’s. Sometimes I just need to see great recognize great on the internet.

Absolutely LOVE these fun building-oriented episodes and the Terriara Undergrond Jungle Build! So cool!!

Sometimes I watch your videos several days after they come out, when I know I’ll really savor them the most. Like a good dessert you’re saving for when you know you’ll really enjoy it! Thanks for the upload.

Last episode had some comments on having cold opens again, very nice to see Etho following up with that idea again.

I like that you revamped the froglight farm and the bee farm. It is always most exciting to see your own creative spin on things. Now I am VERY curious of what you are experimenting with the wardens!

To transition from the sand to the grass, you could build a low stone wall.

You have to combine the course dirt with other things like patches of dirt sand grass, rare gravel patch, pits, tall grass, tiny roadside hills and paths that connect to an infrastructure. Random path blocks out in the middle of nowhere don't make sense since they are trodden grass and implies that something often tramples the grass in the area and disallows healthy growth

Hey Etho, I started watching you part way through HermitCraft Season 7. When I looked into your other content I went back to episode 500 and started watching this series from there. Recently illness has left me more or less bedridden, so I went back to the beginning of your lets play season 2, at the beginning of the year, and have finally caught up to current day. I just wanted to congratulate and thank you on all of the work you have done to your world. I think my favorite part was the biome enhancement project, where I got to see the world slowly develop from the boring standard Minecraft world into the world I was familiar with today. So thank you for producing so much entertainment. P.S. Good job finishing all of those projects, keep up the good work.

IanXO4 is awesome. Particularly his cheap raid farm design is really impressive. Glad to see you found him too!

I actually like the honey caves. I wasn’t super sure about it but looks so beautiful with the lush green around it. If you added some glow stone under some of the honey blocks that would be a close match in color and also add some ambience with lighting play.

Two feelings from this episode: 1. the fact that Etho is making this really shows how much terraria means to him. which is cool because we usually just hear him talk about minecraft. But it's cool he's dedicating his time and creativity for this design. 2. crazy nostalgia hearing him talk about terraria. that was years ago. so much has changed since he made that series. and also makes me think of Zisteau a lot. I remember the final episode they turned on each other and fought 😂. thanks for the awesome memories Etho.

This Minecraft series will be remembered as a true classic of Minecraft content

That Honey farm, and the honey cave are some of the coolest things I've seen in Minecraft in a while.

Hey Etho! About the lag concerns of your bee farm: You mentioned that lighting updates are particularly laggy. Light updates have been multithreaded for a long time, and you can light up the area with normal torches/glowstone/whatever to make that a non-issue. It used to be a problem when it was on the main thread, and especially with slimestone where skylight is expensive, but as long as you light up around your redstone torches, that should be a non-issue. That doesn't mean torches are great, they are hard to use with rails/observers (cause they need a longer pulse), so often they are avoided because of dust, but repeaters and torches shouldn't be a lag problem. I've also heard that pistons (can) be laggy when there is a very large number of tile entitites (cause moving blocks are a tile entity, the game keeps a list of tile entities, and changing that list is expensive when it’s long). I would reccomend trying out mixing noteblocks into your observer chains to make them less laggy, cause half the observers means half the block updates, but really the main lag source here is going to be the hoppers, droppers, and dispensers, and all else will be negligible. Anyways, trying to lag optimize things can be a fun exercise when scaling up builds (I've done that a lot), but I don't think it's necessary in the context of honey farms, unless you want chests of shulkers of honey blocks for fun (which, while an acceptable goal, I don't think that's your goal) *TL:DR;* Torches not bad, pistons complicated, observer + noteblock > observer, doesn't matter anyway cause tile entities.

The honey river looks absolutely sick!

Hey Etho, i just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed your videos over the years. I've been watching since I was in elemery school. I'm in college now and in the army and still make time to watch your videos. thank you for all the memories. Also yes I used to and sometimes still watch your old videos to go to bed too bc of the asmr-ness. keep up the awsome work!

I think it would be pretty cool if, for the plantera arena, you actually gave it some depth, with platforms at different angles and depths, so it still gives the distinct vibe of a terraria boss arena, but feels a little more organic to the world

Etho I'm pretty sure you don't need to lock the hoppers at all, since they don't do their laggy checking when there's a block with an inventory above them (the beehive in this case). This is why big builds often have a line of composters or furnaces above hopper lines :)

I'd say for the flying turtles- all of the above. slimeblock launchers for up & sideways dropping them with horizontal momentum (from a slime block for example) maybe also dropping them with slow fall potions. it would be best if they come from many different angles and go in different directions, as they always do that in terraria. you never know where one will come from

i’ve been watching you for 8 years now, you helped me through a lot and i always enjoy seeing you. thank you for being you and providing us with content we all enjoy, no matter how or when it comes.

I have synesthesia and that makes me love Etho's voice even more than I would otherwise. It's so vivid and colorful and changes in color a lot, it has layers to those colors and they twirl and shift and change and Etho is really the only person ever triggering any sort of audio-based synesthesia for me. It makes it so easy to visualise what he's describing in bright vivid colors and it's just such a nice experience

Thank you for making time for us. We all really do appreciate you. You're doing great my man!

I think launching the turtles diagonally with slime blocks would really replicate that scary feeling of you minding your own business and a turtle flying 30 tiles from the floor and smacking you in the face xD

Ianxofour has the simplest farms that work so well. Easily one of my favorite Minecraft channels.

My favorite part was when Etho said “ It’s Etho’in time” then proceeded to Etho’d all over his enemies

Would be a cool project/challenge to have the turtles slow-fall from the ceiling and levitate back up from a shulker projectile!

For transitioning the plains into the desert, I think the best thing you could do is extending the grass further into the desert as it slowly turns yellow from the biome color. Also the further you go into the desert there should be added more and more sand into the mix, so it is slowly transitions from grass to sand

I was just talking to my wife about how I've been watching you since I was a teenager. You were the reason I went and bought Minecraft. I tend to play with your videos playing in the background cause it's almost like I'm playing along with you. Love all of your videos!

Every day your videos bring a smile to my face, etho, never forget that for us

The plantera looks amazing! And I like the honey area too, though I think the honey comb blocks make it look very busy, maybe adding in a plain block like yellow terracotta or concrete here and there would help it out.

I started watching etho when I was in primary school. His mindcrack, hermitcraft and let's-play videos helped me through my stressful highschool classes. And now I'm a young adult watching in my very first week of medical school. Thanks for everything etho!

You make me smile. I love your story about how you progressed thru the years on youtube. keep it up

That arena is awesome!! I laughed out loud with joy when you cut to the finished product.

Thank you Notifications! I will not be able to finish this during my lunch break but I’m glad I saw it got posted. I will enjoy the first half. :)

Love the honey in the cave! Running lava and dripping lava also looks like honey, could be cool to use

So thankful for all the great content over the years. Still my all-time favorite RU-vidr after a decade+ of watching

Etho, you should make the Amethyst farm into an underground hallow biome! It'd give the area a different colour and feel

For the heart lanterns, maybe you could use the spore blossom? They won't look too good up close, but they'll be much more visible from the path than the current ones.

About the turtles - you could set up a system with the turtles underground, and when you press a button, piston doors open up from under the cave and the turtles get the levitation effect. Alternatively, you could hang them on leashes

The best Terraria deaths are turtles flying out of no where. Having a chain of slime blocks to bounce turtles around the area would give that affect, sometimes seeing a turtle flying in the corner of your screen. Just a thought

A new Etho upload always makes my day so much better!

the terraria jungle idea is so freakin cool. launching the turtles seems most true to terraria lol

Love the more personal chat at the end, smart dude interesting to hear your explanations

8:56 "I'm not a bee expert." -Beetho