Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 578: Splash Auto Farmer 

This episode is a perfect example of why Etho is such an OG legend. He's so isolated from "modern" minecraft youtube trends, but independently invents insane things regularly

This is a classic Etho episode: utilizing little quirky mechanics to create clever solutions. Nothing better than that.

Insane that you found a genuinely useful innovation from such a forgotten item

Etho just casually inventing a revolutionary method for afk farming mobs with the most useless item in the game, average day for him honestly. Love you Etho!

Now all I need is a BdoubleO episode where he praises Etho for reinventing Mob Farms

Hey Etho, here's something handy to know about breeding horses for their health stat (if you didn't know already). Since each heart of the horse occupies two health points, a horse with an odd amount of health will have their health cut off, since their health bars don't have half hearts. This means a horse with 21 HP will only have 10 hearts! But you can test to see if the horse has an odd amount of health by punching it and immediately riding to see if any health was deducted from their bar. If they are missing half a heart, their health bar is accurate, but if the heart is still full, then they have 1 more health point than it appears. This is useful when you're trying to reach 30 HP (15 hearts) but don't know if your newly bred horses don't have 29 or 28 HP. Hope this helps in your super mule journey!

Grew up in the US watching Ethoslab, and eventually got into Team Canada. Being a kid this translated into "wow Canadians are so cool!" so my mom and I visited Montreal when we got the chance. Having been to Montreal then turned into a foothold that made my parents comfortable with sending me there when I was accepted into university, as Montreal had my best option. Saw this video drop as I sit here in Montreal and it dawned on me that Etho literally caused me to move countries. PS. It's crazy to see all the iterations of the Ender Ender a decade later! Super impressive, thank you for continuing this series--your work is my favorite on YT.

Etho! If you didn't already know, your 26 heart skeleton horse is incredibly rare and no longer obtainable as their existence is a bug that was patched in 1.11. It would be epic if you made some sort of museum for the "artifacts" of your world that can't be obtained anymore.

28:48 - 29:15 Has a very "Software developer re-reading code they wrote 6 years ago and not understanding a single bit including the comments" vibe and it made me laugh too hard

An idea: maybe have a jingle go off if the target block doesn't get triggered for a while so you know when it needs refilling.

This will absolutely be an episode to come back to in the future. It’s an absolutely prime cut of Etho: original use of game mechanics, amazing building, starting a new project & revisiting something old. Thanks for always bringing the best Minecraft content to yt dude!

I really love how ‘the complex’ is looking. The ultimate enchanting set up, the automated villager trading hall, and the future armor trimming room is really going to make this whole build come together. Good thing it’s not a base though

The zig-zag-ness of the wood types makes the gradient look really natural, great job!

15:10 If it's going to be a dead end you should make another mural of sorts. The idea of slowly making murals around the world of key points in the series is cool.

Two let’s plays back to back…we’re getting blessed everyone

14:55 If you decide to make it a dead end, you should add pixel art or some kind of sculpture!

With the Wilson redstone mess thing, a potential thing to reduce the difficulty and make it more visual might be to impliment the coloured block lines like how Tango has for Decked Out 2. depends on how you work, but thought it was worth the suggestion, have a good day!!

Honestly Etho I think it’d be cool if you did something with the fact that skeleton horses can breathe underwater. Like, making a path along the ocean floor between two major places you visit with the path lined with conduits to give you infinite water breathing as long as you don’t stray from the path

Two Lets play videos in the last 10 days? We must be on Etho's nice list so far! :) Thanks my guy Etho, keep up the good work.

It never fails to amaze me how you can see an overlooked item in the game and instead of ignoring it like most people, take it as inspiration for a new project!

Hey Etho! Thanks for picking my comment for this episode’s comment of the day 😃. Could you please add my name to the quote in the comment book? It would mean a lot to me to have my name immortalized in Grandma Witherbottom’s library 😀 Awesome improvement to the Ender Ender 3.0, keep up the great work 😄

This episode really highlights what I like most about you, your content, and how you approach this game. There's a bit of building (really love the wood transition!), a bit of game mechanics with the breeding update + testing, and innovation with not only adding value to an often overlooked item but also exploring a different take on something we regularly see like the typical enderman/mob farm. Thank you for constantly and consistently showing us the amazing possibilities this game has to offer, especially in the singleplayer + vanilla experience. Truly grateful for everything you do, Etho! You make the game and the community better :)

always love the etho episodes where etho makes an etho-like invention

there's something that's an absolute vibe about wilson, like a sort of steampunk inventor type deal going on inside of this massive and complicated contraption that I just love

I was so happy when I saw you uploaded, Etho! Thoroughly enjoyed the variety and classic feel of this one :D Watching you work on the EnderEnder 3.0 took me way back, haha! It's amazing that you created such a unique, fun, and versatile machine utilising a splash water bottle, of all things! You never cease to impress ^^ The Enchanter storage hall is absolutely GORGEOUS! The hanging leaves and soft moss floor paired with the wood give it a lush and cosy feel! I love how you made the walls a uniquely shaded gradient; it suits the tunnel shape and floor design, and adds a lovely sense of depth. The red banners at the entrance complement the interior really well! If you do add more areas, it might be cool to assign each its own banners too, perhaps with their own designs? I really like what you did with the place; great job, Etho!! Thanks a tonne for the episode! It's so cool watching you work on all sorts of things ^^ I hope you also take care and have a good day :D

My only opportunity to just say thankyou for everything etho. ❤

Love the splash water bottle idea, just Etho being Etho though, never ceases to amaze me.

This Enderman farm is one of the more genius farms Etho’s made in quite awhile. He’s been on quite the roll lately with the quality of all this content!

Etho, for the main issue with Wilson where you have trouble explaining what's going on with the redstone or even figuring that out yourself upon coming back to the project, why not color code the blocks you're placing redstone on? Seeing Wilson's wiring all jumbled together on a mass of stone bricks reminds me of someone writing all their code for a program in a single method. Good programs usually split their code amongst different methods or functions making them super easy to read since everything is nicely organized. You could do this by using different colored terracotta, clay, or really anything else to represent unique functions. All the redstone wiring pertaining to one function would be on a certain colored terracotta block, another function would be on a different colored terracotta block, and so on. You could then have a reference guide off to the side with a sign on each different block you used either naming the function or giving a brief description. For a complicated project like Wilson, you might run out of unique blocks, but you could get away with repeating some as long as the duplicates are far enough away from each other, so you can still easily distinguish between them. I'm not saying you should do a Wilson 2.0 since that has the potential to be an even bigger project than the Nexus, but if your biggest issue with doing it really is explaining and remembering what everything does, I figured this was a decent solution.

The fact that all of this in vanilla minecraft is always so fascinating, your projects always captivate me

Etho I have been watching your content since I was 14, I’m 21 now and I stil find joy in each upload. Recently I went through a breakup and life has been hard but you remind me to find joy in these tough times and I can’t thank you enough for that. Keep doing your thing man - much love - Skyler

It was very nice seeing the older builds in your world again! I loved the concept of the ender ender 2.0 and the gold farm 2.0 when it first came out.

Man..over a decade of content, all these crazy end of light farms, poppy technology, and STILL Etho comes up with such a unique and useful idea, unreal. Doc might be the GOAT but Etho is the BOAT (Best Of All Time)

It’s honestly commendable that 13 years later that I’ve been watching you grow as a channel. so you’ve been keeping true to one series I honestly think that deserves a reward or an award most people can’t keep one season let alone 13 years of a play through I love you man you put so many smiles on so many faces you were my childhood love you man!

Is there any way that we could ever see another CTM series really miss those used to be really fun series to watch :)

Etho. This is exactly why your videos are my favorite minecraft videos. Your ideas are often unique and innovative. And it's crazy to think that I can make this comment on about half of your episodes. 29 minutes felt something like 10 minutes when I was totally immersed in it. Thank you so much for making quality videos for so many years.

what a great video, etho! watching you ask seemingly silly questions like "what could i use splash water bottles for in minecraft?" and then come up with something super creative and innovative is so cool and it's such a joy to watch you do things like this; you truly are a master of this game. i also Really love the grading/fading effect with the wood colours in the tunnels! especially when you stand at the start of the tunnel & look into the tunnel it gives a super cool effect (like it really draws you in) and it feels much more lively this way.

Etho, this isn't really a question for Question of the Day but... Your project Ozone series is so beloved, and I myself have watched it quite a few times. I would love to see something in the world that shows a reference to that series, and I can't think of anything better but a mural or statue to Taxes. We miss him.

It’s a beautiful Friday and I’m watching an etho video too. It’s crazy that by posting a video you literally make another person on this planet feel better and happy. I’m sure I’m not the only one. I hope you realize that is what you are doing when you hit that upload button. Thanks

Always love Etho's subtle thumbnails. Takes me back to when everybody just chose a frame from their video.

Colours can control how the shape of a room looks. The light wood in the middle and dark wood at the ends makes the room look shorter than it is. You can use colours to make rooms look taller, narrower, or even pull in one side of a room by making it darker. Should be fun to play with that!

I don’t know if you have plans for season 10 of HC yet but it would be super cool for you to build this on the next season. The Enderman farm in Hermitcraft has been the exact same type since Season 6 (tried and true design by Gnembon), but it would be so freakin’ cool to see a fancy Etho designed Ender Ender set up like that in an SMP.

etho's uniqueness and ingenuity will never not make my day everyime i get to see the amazing things hes still managing to do even after it feels like hes done everything there is to do he tops himself everytime

Hey Etho! I just got out of an AP test, which I feel super confident about. So glad you uploaded! Huge relief after sitting silently for 3+ hours, this feels like a reward for completing the test 😁

Hey Etho! Question - can you do a similar "use" video for lingering potions? I've only ever seen them for minigames and for pranks, so I never actually make them, but if they were even a little more useful I'd enjoy having an excuse to play around with them!

I love how much you enjoy horsing in MC. Really excited to hear updates every so often on how the breeding is going!

I remember around the time I started watching I remember Etho telling GenerikB on Mindcrack about his plan for super mules. For whatever reason that phrase has always stuck with me so when I saw him gathering so many golden carrots and saying they'll be useful for the next project with the updated mechanics I audibly said super mules at the same time as Etho. Almost a decade later and Etho's still Etho

This has to be the best start to a weekend

Nice idea Etho I think you are at your best when you take an obscure or strange mechanic and utilize it. Great work

I'd love a Wilson 2.0 using new redstone mechanics, purely because I think you've learned a lot more about how to present complex ideas since your first iteration and you could break down the redstone for each feature a lot more, you'd be able to give the redstone a lot more room and colour code the lines/features.

A specific constraint is a great way to inspire creativity. Watching you, Etho, deal with repetitiveness as a constraint is 👌 ...and if I may say so, you nailed it! The fade was beautiful, especially with the leaning transition! 10/7 will watch again

I've watched ethos for almost 7 years, thanks for the great content ❤

Such a cool use of the splash bottles! Such a fountain of fun facts!

Your invention-like nature and attention to detail is a big inspiration in many different parts of my life, thank you Etho.

Etho you are a genius. It’s such a simple idea, and so elegantly executed. Amazing!

You have again single-handedly revolutionized the current MC meta. You never cease to amaze, Etho

❤ man I’ve grown up watching you in the mindcrack series. I’d literally binge all the crews episodes and now I’m realizing how important you where to my childhood and still making me feel like it’s cool to play minecraft 😂. Thank you Etho I hope you get the love you deserve brotha

Every time etho visits his enderman farms he unironically completely changes the entire landscape of enderman farming across the entire community. To the point that when etho builds an enderman farm. It just becomes the new bar or standard. I honestly think this one is even more innovative than most of us realize. As etho was explaining the concept. I feel like there are broader applications that need to be experimented on now. It was really interesting as well seeing a completely AFK/Automated concept come out of someone who is normally against AFK farming.

you are amazing at this game, Etho. I can't even imagine how you make something I can't do (like a redstone) reasonably understandable to me. I understand how this enderman farm with water bottles works, even though I don't know how to do redstone there. Not only do you explain everything clearly, but you also do it in an interesting way. Every aspect of this episode was amazing. from grand projects with villagers, to beautiful building, new floor design, gradient walls and innovative ways to use old mechanics. no one, except you, will even think of using such things, and you will not only make a working system out of it, but also make it in an interesting and engaging way. thank you Etho :)

Wilson's "Death line" should have been called the "Flat Line" I'm sure it would make it more readable

The thing i really love about Etho is his ability to be casual yet at the same time come with both really aesthetically pleasing builds and really cool complex systems to achieve his goals.

Hey Etho, maybe if you ever do work on Wilson again, try using colored blocks like clay or concrete for each separate component/function so it’s easier to keep track of. And if 2 different component or features work off one another use the color that would be the combination of the 2 once they intersect.

That intro was so nostalgic, I used to watch your videos after high-school with 1$ candy and doritos. Happy to see your still in the lab

The trading hall is coming together so nicely! The floor pattern makes it very cozy and inviting. nicely done. I also love how innovative it is with the water splash bottle. I genuinely forgot they exist to begin with.

YAY ETHO! THE MOST WHOLESOME AND LOVELY GUY ON RU-vid!

Etho you should use maps to make a wiley the coyote wall at the end of your tunnel!

Wow, what an incredibly innovative and useful farm, built from old mechanics! You never cease to amaze Etho!

Etho, you are amazing! Your inventions are so inspiring and you avoid any sort of toxicity, grift, or clickbait in your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your playstyle with the world.

You could do Wilson 2.0 in a similar fashion to TangoTek’s Decked Out. Meaning different components in different locations with buss lines between them. That would make it easier to show on videos and be a different style of redstone engineering for you to explore!

I saw xisuma use nether vine to prevent entity cramming 7:10

when etho last talked about this room with all the wood pillars, i thought a gradient with different types of wood would be fun, so i'm delighted to see he did exactly that

I absolutely loved the transition of wood in the ultimate enchanting room!!! I would never have thought to do that in a long room like that!!!

hey etho, gl on the horse quest, ive done it whit a friend on our server to as a friendly competition of who could get it the fastest, to get the perfect one i bred around 700 horses, my friend bout 800 to get to that point, so heads up and good luck c:

Yes! 4hours of Brody and Etho playing Dont Starve Together and then a full Etho Slab episode! I needed these 😊

the enchanting room looks really good, etho! the hall is definitely one of my new favorite builds of yours!

Love the mushroom wall - It gives it a stucco like effect to it!

Etho is love etho is life

Hey Etho, you mentioned in one of your latest episodes that the aerial view of sandy city was pretty plain. It would be neat if you made some of your old pixel art on the roofs using carpet, harvest moon or minecraft icons, since there already is a bit of wool in the build. One of the market stalls in there could be a carpet shop, I forget if there is one already.

When I first saw the video by raysworks showcasing the update to enderman taking damage from waterbottles, I immediately thought of Etho. So glad you covered this!

I love that gradient of the wood going from dark to light and back to dark again so much.

ETHO YOU ROCK

This man is washed up! This man just reinvented water bottles and you say he is washed up!? Thats what bdubs will say in his next hermitcraft episode

So i just caught up to this series just now. I was an original veiwer from episode 1 (chocolate island) but had stopped around episode 350, but had now picked it back up, took a while, but im current now. Great content! Keep up the great work!

Wilson has a very special spot in my heart. I started watching you right around when you started making Wilson (and went back and watched all the way from episode 1) and that has to be probably my favorite redstone concept that you have ever made. To see a Wilson 2.0 would be AWESOME. Obviously you have valid points with not wanting to get so complex that viewers would get confused, but perhaps you can combat that some by color coding the different systems.

SPLASH-O-MATIC

The fact that Etho is actively seeking out items that never get used and finding a fun and interesting purpose for them is literally the definition of "he's done with the main story and just wrapping up all the side quests" lol

Bdubs will love this episode. I loved this episode too. You can see how much you like learning and trying new things. Even if the items have been in the game for years. Thanks for putting together another video for us to watch.

I love the ombré/gradient effect with the wood in the enchanting area, that’s super cool!

I always thought it makes a difference whether you get a perfectly charged jump or just a nearly perfectly charged one (orange but not completely full), but Etho seems to disagree since he discarded the baby donkey without trying to get a perfect jump. Can anyone confirm whether there is any difference?

Etho needs to convince grian to continue the life series

It's so cool just watching Etho walk through his world and I'm like "Wow, I remember him building that. Wait, that was years ago." And then I just get that little nostalgic feeling again that I get so often when I see Etho working on his world.

At the end what you said about the instant damage + looting, that is kind of like the TNT looting systems we see in other farms where you have a arrow in status shot by a mob which now holds a looting sword. That arrow ignites TNT placed by the player and uses it to kill mobs. It also doesn't use TNT duping, which I think you try to avoid, so you could also use that.

The thumbnail is one of the most epic that Etho has made and the content is the same

The bottom level build on the enchanting setup is actually amazing. If I was in your world, I would just be running up and down the hall mesmerized by that gradient with the logs.

This was a really fun episode. I just started watching you like last year so I have no idea what most of your projects are on this world, but I enjoy watching your vids and projects 😊

That’s such a cool idea wow. Always amazes me how etho comes up with new ideas like this

I’m so glad that Etho went back to horse breeding for this update. I remember watching those episodes after this and thinking “man, I hope he comes back to this”

That gradient with the wood is really cool and unique! I've never seen something like that before in Minecraft. It works really well!

The design of the ultimate enchanting room reminds me a lot of designs of earlier mancave projects, but in a style that makes use of modern minecraft building materials and techniques, I think its a nice little example of how the style of this channel and series has both grown and retained its roots at the same time.

Hey Etho I was messing around with ender pearls and figured out how to make the auto re-fill enderporters, you can actually use pistons and sensors without even loading the chunks, you just use water! Needs a 3 block tall bubble stream and then it's just a regular water system, I didn't get it to a point I liked with splitters, but boosting(redirecting) is really easy, you just need a sculk sensor and a counter, you can center a pearl with a backwards water stream I think the closest a booster can be is 5-8 blocks I had just one water stream before boosting/splitting. I stopped working on it because I had to do other stuff and now I've lost the world, but it's really easy so I'll probably remake it soon, I'd love to make some videos and see if anyone can help because I'm not smart enough to get the splitting working good, it did work though! Hope you all have a great day