How To Never Die In Minecraft Survival/Hardcore - Defeat Creepers, Lava, Wardens, Fall Damage & More 

Your channel is amazing. I'd never played Minecraft until my son wanted to try it. Neither of us knew what to do at all so we've been watching lots of your videos together, and playing together and it's really brought us much closer and we both look forward to spending that time together. Thank you for what you do. It's more impactful that you might think at first glance.

For me, the biggest danger of creepers is that they can sneak up from behind you and blow up before you have time to react. This is why I'm really strict w/ my spacial awareness in hardcore. Make sure to keep the door to your house closed (iron door + buttons helps a bunch). Avoid walking around at night, and if you do, keep moving and watching your back. It's even good to keep this in mind during the day. Anything that keeps you facing in one direction (specifically crafting + dealing with other menus) should only be done in areas you know are secure.

Been playing MC for years and I never knew you could hold an Enderman in place with a staring contest

Advice for the warden from someone who cleaned multiple ancient cities in hardcore: Build multiple nether portals in the ancient city, place them smart and use them as your way of escape. After teleporting away, the Warden immediately loses sight and will dissapear immediately after you return back... if you keep sneaking/making no noise ofc.

Ender pearls are always a good thing to have next to your water bucket in your hot bar. In many of these dangerous situations you talked about, teleporting away is a sure way to escape the danger. For example, the Warden. If you don’t have elytra, you can just teleport away instead.

10:45 Another alternative guys, you can sometimes just mine a block below in front of a lava flow, especially when you're mining in a tunnel. It wont get to you.

Literally keep dying in my hardcore worlds so this video is coming at the perfect time. Fun fact: did you know that skeletons can shoot and agro through powdered snow blocks? I didn’t. An almost 100 day hardcore world gone cause of powdered snow and a skeleton.

A couple notes here: 1: in Bedrock 1.20.40 the boat clutch has been enabled, boats now negate falldamage on both versions. 2: In Bedrock the trick of staring at Endermen does *not* work at all, you'll get yourself killed if you try (like I did ages ago)

21:35 There actually is another way to stop yourself from drowning really easily, and thats placing sugar cane on a dirt, gravel, or sand LEDGE. Even if you are in a stone cave or something just put a dirt block downon a flat surface to create a ledge, and place 2 sugar cane on top!

For skeletons, on bedrock, the arrows will even bounce off the shield and damage the skeleton. So it's worth it to get closer to them if you're unarmed. To allow the bouncing arrow to hit the skeleton. I've killed a few this way.

My theory is players die in Minecraft because of creepers, but some players die in Minecraft because of creepers without knowing that there's a creeper near or behind them. (in my experience, i die because of creepers because i wasn't aware that there was a creeper because they creep up behind you hence the name, creeper

Once again, a comprehensive and practical guide! Didn’t know about the powdered snow in the nether trick! And now I have a bunch of MLG moves to practice! Thanks again for all the great info - best RU-vidr ever!! 💚🌲

You can also use hay bales to reduce fall damage, very useful to take to the Nether especially as you can also use them to make backup food in emergencies!

Trident drowneds have been my newest killer. I have had my boat hit by a trident then been hit by the trident twice before I've had a shield a few times, in hardcore. I need a training hall with "The Worst" in my practice world, I think.

My favorite tip for dealing with wardens (and sculk sensors): You can actually sprint jump WHILE sneaking! Simply start sprint jumping, and then, before your feet hit the ground, hold sneak. You’ll be quite fast and undetectable! Even faster with the fast sneak enchantment.

1. Thank you for your work, I really need someone to patiently explain minecraft to me, and I feel I’m getting better at the game. What is more, this helps me a lot, as I am very scared of mobs, bad villagers, caving, nether etc, cos I’m scared to die. So yeah, it helps me a lot, I feel safer thanks to you. 🙏 2. I LOVE that you describe everything so calmly, you have a vibe of Animal Planet narrator, e.g. ,,As you can see, I got closer to the mob and I died.” And I absolutely ADORE it 😂❤

I genuinely think we all pretty much check daily for new eyecraft vids. You make the best MC content on RU-vid Eye! I’d love to more and more vids and definitely livestreams again! Much love Eye🤍

I usually use the “running away from warden” method also. However, sometimes I’ll run into a cave that has a dead end in it. And the warden will come and kill me…

One tip on bedrock with elytra deaths is to deactivate it using the jump button then reactivate it. This instantly reduces your speed making it so you don't hit the ground very hard 😁 I use this technique pretty much every time I use elytra.

About the knockback enchantment: I highly recommend AGAINST getting it at level 2, and sometimes even level 1. It makes killing mobs in general a lot harder, since it launches them away, and you have to run after them to finish them off. About fire protection: in both java and bedrock, there is a sort of points system with the protection enchantments, and in each category, there is a maximum amount of points you can get. In bedrock, I believe you can max out all categories with max protection enchantments, but I'm not sure. In Java, however, this is not possible. If you get the max protection level on all armor, you'll be a little short on all specific categories, since protection gives fewer points, but in all categories. Here's the kicker: if you want to max out one category, you can do so by getting protection 4 on 3 pieces, then the specific resistance on the last piece; i.e., if you want maximum fire protection, get protection 4 on 3 armor pieces, and fire protection 4 on the last one. Getting fire protection 4 on all armor pieces doesn't give any extra advantage, and simply leaves you open to other forms of attack, like projectiles and explosions. About endermen: Fire aspect is a no-go. They have a chance at teleporting every time they take fire damage, which makes them teleport around more, prolonging your fight. As long as the enderman is mad at you, you are vulnerable, so you want to kill it as quickly as possible. In fact, fire aspect in general is really only useful for getting cooked food when killing animals. Some mobs on fire can in turn set you on fire, and while the extra damage to them isn't very useful, the extra damage to you is dangerous. Ph1lza learned this lesson when he lost his 5 year hardcore world, and this fire aspect psa is brought to you by him.

I always find moving around the monsters seems to be easy if you just run in different directions, and for the skeleton just move to the side

Glad to see chorus fruit getting some credit, they are valuable when raiding end cities, to escape to the safe ground in an instant.

Another way to avoid drowning is spamming torches against a wall. Every torch gives you a few frames of air so mashing it will slowly let you regain air. Can be helpful if you're spelunking and want to explore/escape an underground water area without slowly digging out air pockets.

I mean yeah this entire video is effectively the epitome of “don’t have a skill issue” but honestly that warden trick of literally putting it in the time out hole is hilarious and I’ll definitely be trying that if I have a fast enough tool. Also, I believe the pillaring up strategy against hoglins is a new thing with the mob reach changes? I could have sworn they had the reach to hit 3 blocks above itself, as I always needed to pillar up 4 blocks and use a trapdoor to put myself into crawling mode. I think some of the tips here too are a bit too dated or specific to be used by most players, and some deaths I feel are much more common in regards to myself and those I hang out with were not shown, such as piglin brutes inside of bastions and poison from witches and cave spiders. Some disclaimers such as Knockback being incredibly detrimental for fighting ranged mobs such as skeletons and blazes along with possibly making it hard or impossible to retrieve their loot, and that basic Protection enchants also reduce fire and lava damage, and that maybe a full set of fire protection is overkill

Most of my deaths come from making a mistake and falling, or just suddenly getting overpowered by a bunch of mobs. As someone who has played bedrock edition a lot I'd like to bring up a few things that may be helpful. 1. He is right, the boat will not kill you in Java as long as your in the boat and stuff, but for us on bedrock. Here's what you have to do, GET out of the boat just before you hit the ground. It's like in mario where you sacrifice yoshi to clutch a jump back up from the cliff before you go offscreen and die. 2. That actually makes a lot of sense! I do the same thing in bedrock edition with my elytra and by SLOWING DOWN and circling around your destination until you land. :) 3. Now here's an important one. Please check out his most recent video about netherite. That video has my comment in it about what I said about netherite mining. If I'm not mistaken I believe it's there. I talked about "fire protection" like he says in this video, you don't have to enchant your whole armor set with that. Just enchant the boots with fire protection, the protection may not be as effective against lava, but the cool thing is that as soon as you build up out of the lava, and land, you can count the burning 🔥, after a few burns... THE FIRE GOES OUT. compared to anything else you can use. I highly recommend having a spare boot pair with this enchantment, so that way, whenever you explore the nether it will be pretty dang hard to die. IVE TRIED IT. 4. Also other ways to avoid lava and fall damage, like when you mine for example, make sure your always sneaking. You definitely do not want to dig DIRECTLY ABOVE YOU, or DIRECTLY BELOW YOU, at any time you have a very small chance of falling into trouble. And what I'm also building a habit for is mining a staircase down to the mine, this is much safer and my habit is staying 1 block backward always while mining a block its a cycling system mine>testfor lava or a hole>then walk 1 step forward, this will save you from from falling, if you end up encountering it from the blocks you mined, which is away from you. But if you are like rushing, just stand right between 2 blocks, and then dig straight down in a 1x2 area. Remember to always sneak. However this is a disadvantage for survival multi-player because if you leave the hole open, in a great area to move around in, especially in an area where theres hills, someone could fall in. So if you do this, be sure you fill in the hole before you continue mining down. I hope that was helpful. Also amazing tips Eyecraft. I actually learned a few things from this. Your content is very helpful and fun to watch. Thank you. :)

Eyecraft, love the guides as always but i thought i should point something out (also a video idea?) 11:52 This has bugged me for a while when i see people do it, but stats like fire protection are unnecessary to have on more than 2 pieces of armor. I watched a video once that explained pretty well how the different enchantments worked, and it explained the different types of damage a player can take (that enchantments can lower). That being standard damage (like a zombie hitting you) projectiles, fire, and explosive. A player is only able to have 5 protection "bars" against each of these types of damage, with each type of enchantment giving a bar for its power. So projectile protection 3 would give 3 bars of protection against projectiles. This is all true except for normal protection, which gives 1 to each bar at max level, and partials for each other. This means that full prot 4 armor would give all protection types 4 bars. This means that if you want to get max fire resistance while still having good on other damage reductions you should have 3 prot 4 and 1 fire prot 4. However I still recommend having all protection 4 on your armor as the damage difference is very little and it helps you reduce every other type of damage as well.

eyecraftMC: Every netherite item is lava resistant. Lodestone: Imma end this man's whole career

For the record, all endermen are named Dave.

This is the first general "death prevention" minecraft video I've seen on youtube so Eye gets a like just for that. The stare at endermen trick is cool (didnt know about that), but it would have been nice to get more tips about protecting against creepers when they are creeping. A vast majority of my creeper deaths are because a creeper snuck up on me or spawned in a weird way so as to be undetectable until too late.

Also anytime you are in areas where creepers can spawn, constantly turning around and looking above and behind you, and not staying in one place, and staying away from places where they can surprise you from around a corner takes away their ability to sneak up on you, and they're very slow, so if you see them first, they're closer to harmless, but still sort of dangerous, but if you know what to do when you see them, so still be careful. Also I recommend enchanting your shield with unbreaking 3 and mending. Then you can always have it ready as long as you keep defeating mobs to repair it with exp.

Another epic video, keep it up man! Gonna continue watching.

Pro tip: that rhythm of balancing blocking and hitting mentioned at 7:35 can be used in more or less the same way to avoid being withered by wither skeletons in the nether. If you let them approach with your shield up in one hand and sword in the other, wait until you hear the *thunk* of your shield blocking a hit and then as immediately as you can, slash with the sword. If you do it right, you won't get withered and you'll damage the skeleton as well as knock it back far enough to begin the cycle again. In fact, if you can truly master this technique, it can be utilised to avoid being damaged by almost all of the attacks mobs can make against you. Like.. ever... The exceptions being creeper blasts, enemies with axes, boss type mobs like the warden's special attack and I think perhaps evokers as well? But for literally everything else mobs can do to you, a well timed block/attack rhythm can protect you from 100% of arrows, zombie hits, tridents, hoglin bites... you name it, you're basically invulnerable to it. So much so that the shield is one of the first items i build when i get iron, and from there i more or less make sure i never go anywhere or do anything away from base without carrying a shield in my off hand. It's saved my life more times than i can fathom.

Dude! I did not know that block trick with a creeper and I played Minecraft for almost 10 years now 💀 Thank you!

Could we get another part of this if there arent other videos planned? This was very helpful for my friend that’s getting into the game. Thank you!

something i learnt from this video that will definitely be really useful is that you can put yourself out with powder snow in the nether so thank you for actually teaching me something new in this video!

The memories still hurt 😢 losing all my stuff to lava or a ninja creeper. But we learn and we get better at the game. Thank you for the tips 😊

It doesn’t happen as often but falling into lava hurts a lot more because you not only lose all your items but also your experience which can be devastating if you spent a lot of time getting those items and experience.

A few more that deserve a mention imo: -Piglin Brute: Bastions have very little space to fight and there's lots of brutes, very easy to get stuck in a corner and die -End Void: Your ender pearl hits the side of an island and you fall to your death -Elytra in tight space: You aren't wearing your chestplate and get killed by mobs, usually on long-term hardcore worlds like Ph1lza in the cave and Jon and Dan to raid farm vexes -Iron Golem: You either build your 3-tall tower near a hill that they then climb to hit you, or you try mining a block but accidentally hit them and either die in 1 hit or can't escape

What I use for falling early game is the MLG relog. No damage for a few ticks right as you spawn in. Works best in single player.

Thank you very much, my friend. I have watched a lot of videos on your channel and I have benefited a lot. Thank you. You deserve a lot 👍❤️

Amazing video thanks for the tips!!

If you have motion sickness for spinning around, you can look up to slow down then look back to the front for a smooth landing👍

Hey eyecraft can you pls continue the survival live series you did on that snowy mountain where you had a green parrot named Grannysmith i enjoyed watching those series a lot

Blast protection is a great enchantment to deal with surprise creepers, so make sure you have that on your armor if you are going into caves if at all possible. This is only possible after getting an enchanting table though, and that requires a diamond

You were a huge help throughout my time playing Minecraft and I greatly appreciate it.

One of similarly unfair death is falling with gravel or sand generated without sustenance. Especially in nether, when you are above the lava lake. Needed to be aware of as well

THANK YOU EYECRAFT MC ! , this is exactly what I was just looking for !

Your videos always help me. Thank you!!

I realize that your voice has become more lively compared to previous videos (too monotonic in the past). Great job!

Once again another amazing tutorial/guide wonderful tips and tricks love your videos

Wow you always tell me something I never knew I should take to heart. Great vid Eye me and you are just the same I die in MInecraft by fall damage and creppers keep up the good work love you ❤

Thanks for the new content EyecraftMC🎉🙌

11:50 heyy eyecraft i learned that special protection enchantments are actually useless to combine if of the same type! meaning maximum specific fire protection is already reached with a fire prot IV armour part! you can still increase it by putting normal prot on all the others though :) aside from that ofc thank you very much for the help!!

I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS THANK YOU

Blazes: what really works very well for me is instead of placing the barriers for wither skeletons all 2 blocks above gound, place 2 of them 1 blocks above ground. That will create a perfect protection from blaze shots and lets you eat and recover

great video it helped a bunch. I do think that you might have gotten the sharp angles confused with obtuse/soft angles, unless the angle you're referring to is the one that wraps around from your back all the way to the sky and ahead of you. idk just seems a bit unintuitive, not that it matters that much as you did demonstrate what you meant.

thank you for your kind tips and tricks

I didn't know that warped fungus trick!! That's going to help me so much! Thanks!

I learned 2 things in this video, and one being that u can make a toy for the warden, where he'll get more focused on that. Which is incredible!

I really needed something similar to this video! Because I am so afraid of the Nether and I need a guide to help me conquer it!

Holy shit I remember when this channel was small, good job on growing the channel :D

I lost my hardcore world very late game (essentially infinite totems from raid farm) due to several piglin brutes. They popped my totem, I had to equip another, and then they broke that too. I didn’t have any more readily available in my inventory so tried flying away, straight into a block. I “experienced kinetic energy while trying to escape piglin brute.” Late game hardcore death messages are almost always so specific

Always remember for boat clutches that certain few fall distances break the boat and still make you take fall damage

The boat method to reduce fall damage works of bedrock now too! They changed it in the new snapshot released today :)

I always keep a cauldron when I go to the Nether, if you catch fire you can place a water bucket inside and go into it to stop the fire. I find it more convenient than snow buckets (especially when fighting Blazes) because you can use the same bucket of water to stop the fire multiple times before it completely dries out

Thank you so much! I’m doing a survival world with my brother and my friend, and I really don’t want to die! Do you have any tips to getting to the Nether without ANY ravines or obsidian nearby?

Very good solutions to those mobs, the ones that I hate are the guardians, especially in open water with nothing to block their attacks, or their view of you.

I have well over 5000 hours into Minecraft and have played since 2012. Yet I still watch these videos because of how entertaining they are. Bravo

That Warden trick really helps! I got killed three times in a row because I went back for my stuff. Really tough mob😮

this is amazing ! I love your video they are very help and now I am very good at Minecraft but I only have Minecraft education ( runs on bedrock ) I wished I had Minecraft java But very nice video!

That's a great idea for a video. Will be very helpful to me. Edit: Hoglins being scared of warped fungus is CLUTCH

One thing I'm surprised you didn't mention about skeletons (and this applies to pillagers/pigmen with crossbows too) to help with shield timing is that you can actually see when they are loading an arrow to shoot (that's when you put your shield up) vs when they don't have an arrow ready (that's when it's safe to attack)

Rewatching all these videos because I love this man.🎉

My most common cause of deaths in my hardcore runs. The nether as a whole pretty much. -You cannot bucket clutch due to things vaporizing, if falling on high height to solid, prepare haybales, it reduces 80% of fall damage. Or you could get POWDERED snow which is harder to get, as a substitute to a water bucket. Java boats can negate fall damage when moving, but I'm assuming you fell off by accident and did not ride on the boat on the way down. -Pigmen can screw you over really well. Say you accidentally anger one, and you hide in a wall with a 1 block opening, the babies can still kill you. I carry like nether fences as babies can't jump over that. -Enderman on the end. Never attack them unless under a platform under 2 blocks, and some fences. The fences are for pigmen in case one walks by. DO NOT dig a whole in the wall when attacking endermen, as you won't be able to tell if a pigmen is passing by, and the whole pigmen problem could happen. DO NOT try to trap them in boats, you might miss and just die. -Everywhere you go, to every landmark you go to. Make a cobblestone bridge, 1 block above you, 2 on the side (bottom side), and 1 underneath. This is anti-magma cube, anti-ghast, anti-wither skellys, but not baby pigmen. So as soon as you hit a pigman, barricade yourself and place holes nearby where the babies can fall into. Have some cobble on the (top side) to block from blaze fireballs or ghast fireballs. -Always bring fire-res (which you can get from piglin trading), OR have a golden apple. BOTH can give you fire res when you fall in lava. If you have a fireres splash potion and you're in lava, THROW UP and it'll land back on you. -Most people know that gold armor protects you from piglin aggro. But people forget the other things that aggro them, opening or breaking any container chest/barrel/shulkerbox/etc. Mining Gold. But the biggest thing, is with Piglin Brutes.... Honestly, just run, don't fight them when they'e already aggro'd on you. Run until a safe distance, pillar up, build a bridge until you're over them, and then throw lava onto them so the other piglins don't aggro you. If you can pillar up (up to 4 blocks minimum) WHILE they're aggroing you already, it's riskier that way but less time consuming.

I'm so thankful for this video- I'm trying to stop using /effect to make myself immortal and really need the tips for how to avoid damage 😭

Probably my most common deaths are careless use of elytra in my base (not a big deal) and burning up in the nether. I had a really bad death in the Nether once and now I always carry 3 fire res potions on exploration/mining expeditions

for wardens i find it's best to just sneak away, running or flying is far more dangerous and makes it take longer for the warden to despawn

what kills me the most is blazes. they just end up getting behind me without me realizing. so I will literally go overkill, disable the spawner, and then make a trap with pistons to funnel them down into a 2x2 area so i can kill them without them ever seeing me.

About the drowning: U can also spamclick a torch on a block where ur head is Will give u air over time With turtle shell, it gives full breath after 1 time

fire resistance potions are great for fighting blazes since that will make you immune to their fireballs

it's been a hot minute since I've watched your stuff, and my god I'm so glad you've gotten the recognition you deserve. you've grown by several hundred thousands of subs since I last checked, and I hope you keep growing. Never change, Eye, never change. 👍

Thanks this was helpful

12:00 actually I have only leggings enchanted with fire prot cuz it gives you about 1 minute to get out of lava. Enchanting everything with fire protection is bad, because it don't reduce melee / ranged attack dmg

I never knew shields block a creeper... I feel dumb, yet enlightened, thanks to your video. 👍👍

ty this helps a lot

I heard the song "Dragon Fish" during the warden bit, I love the underwater music!

22:20 (you can also use water buckets to pickup-replace-pickup (rinse repeat) the water block at your head level to replenish your air bubbles, this works on both java and bedrock, and only requires a bucket, how ever when combined with a turtle helmet, everytime you pickup a waterblock from your upper body, you get 10 seconds of water breathing.

For me the most common ways of death are mostly just more rare or stupid kinds of deaths in the late game like dying from Chunks not loading and crashing into a wall or smth while propelling yourself with a trident while its raining and flying with an elytra which can kill you even if you have totems. Theres also dying from being AFK for too long, lets say at a farm and you die from hunger in hard mode or dying by forgetting to put a totem in your off hand and trying to fall off of great Heights or just playing around.

thanks, this helped me stop dying from whiter skeletons

i haven't played minecraft for a longtime. that background music literally took me back to a couple of years back😥

Skeleton are more dangerous than creepers

btw feather fall doesnt help against kenetic damage, u can swap ur chestpiece in 1.19.4+, so u can just swap last second with a chestplate and take no kenetic damage

Lava: *especially* when tunnelling through netherrack, there's no need to carry 'dam' blocks in your off-hand (which I far too often mis-place *beneath* the falling lava, which only makes the situation worse). Instead, since you're obviously already using a (presumably fairly efficient) pick - immediately dig a small hole, directly under or as close as possible to where the lava is about to fall, or has just fallen and is beginning to 'flow'. This only needs to be a single block in size, and below the nearby 'floor' level; Flow mechanics will immediately redirect the path of any nearby falling or flowing lave into this hole. Bonus: the absence of a 'dam' allows you to get one block closer to the lava source, making it easier to collect with a bucket, fill in or close off with a block, at your leisure. Unlike a 'dam' block, you can also dig *around* the lava flowing into the hole, without increasing the spread. Drowning: So long as you have Respiration III (helmet enchantment), you will *never* drown. The air bubbles will still count down (a little slower than 'usual') and the drowning animation will activate, but even 'natural' regeneration (ensure your hunger bar is full) will replenish your health, faster than damage occurs. [Both these tips have only been confirmed in Minecraft Java. I don't play the Bedrock version].

17:02 Its funny that the warden is so dangerous, that u recommend fleeing from it with something else that is so deadly that u warned of it 😂

with aqua affinity on your helmet and a high efficiency pickaxe you can dig yourself an air pocket under water. great way to mine in underwater caves or ravines.

My most common lose of world is: 1 new fresh hardcore world 2 i love using cartography, so i create a map 3 explore that map 4 find a pillager outpost 5 “pillagers are just skeletons with longer cooldown” 6 find out that rush to the top, quick loot and MLG down is hard when they kill you on 3 shots

miss your videos bro, i know there is not much more content in minecraft but i’d appreciate an upload

You can spam right click with an empty bucket at the bottom of the ocean, continuously emptying a block of water before it fills with water again, allowing you to breathe between very short but sufficient intervals (as long as you're spamming). Eventually, you fill up your breathing gauge completely.

The deadliest bit about Creepers is that they make no noise, so they have a tendency to sneak up on you while you're caving. And you only have 0.5 seconds to react in that scenario. Which means the best defense is always just armor. Blast IV set when I'm caving because let's be honest, the only thing dangerous enough to worry about in caves are creepers. Seperate sets for The Nether, Monument Raids, and Deep Dark Raids. In fact, unless you're trying to be as tesource efficient as possible, the only reason you'd need base Prot IV is for Pillager Raids.

ocean treasure chests can have water breath potions and pain of arkopots... that enchant what helps deals more damage spiders can help with creepers too