I Built a MOUNTAIN CASTLE! Ep 3 : Minecraft 1.18 Hardcore Survival Lets Play 

Hope you enjoy today's episode on the hardcore world! What do you think of the castle base?! I'm loving it! I did want to leave a note that Empires and Better Minecraft are returning soon, just enjoying the holidays and the new update currently ♥️

1:45 you can see a Azalea tree between birch and dark oak trees, there’s a possibility that there’s a lush cave right under SO PLEASE EXPLORE IT!!!!

fWhip, the only man crazy enough to not only build a castle in episode 3, but stop in the middle of it to make a valley with a custom river. Mad lad.

YOU ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!! 😍😱

Love how the pink sheep was looking for Gem. Gotta love the references

Fwhip building skill never makes me feel disappointed.

Now that insane mountain ranges are naturally part of the game, thinking about how much building space and capacity that frees up in you and how your already incredible builds are going to probably evolve and become that much more epic is making me squeal

Hey fWhip, if you haven't done it already, perhaps the area beneath the elevated river could be adapted into a flooded cavern of sorts? Could make a cool place for axolotls!

When Fwhip doesn't make a video really quickly, I don't think "Fwhip won't make us videos!!!" I think instead "Fwhip is building us something huge and awesome!!!"

17:15 Fwhip: "look at the view!" also Fwhip: *puts a transition over it blocking 90% of said view's good bits*

Fwhipsanity in full effect! When you said you’d put more time into these videos you weren’t kidding! Awesome job on the castle

Another suggestion of mine which I haven't seen in other series yet, have you considered making a sort of 'valley village'? Maybe houses raised up on platforms, and bridges stretched out either straight or even mimicking rope bridges across the gaps to connect different areas? It could be so cool to see colorful buildings when you look out from the castle While houses built into and on top of mountains sounds really cool, I think a hanging village would be so interesting!

fWhip is freaking insane man, a whole castle on episode 3? Makes me so excited for the rest of this series. Hopefully you'll finish the interior of this castle as well 🤣😂

Fwhip this really reminds me of the burg eltz castle in germany. I'd reccommend looking at rhine valley castles for more inspiration!

fWhip in his next hardcore series be like: to start off the first episode, let's build a megabase

You should put lightning rods on top of the walls on the towers, would be cool to see lightning hit the castle towers :)

Awesome! (Also, Gem, you better go grab Dandy. She wandered a bit too far...)

Can we just appreciate how he called something some of us would die to be able to build especially in the early game a "glorified cobblestone box" love it fwip😂😂

24:34 "The Beacons of Minas Tirith! The Beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid."

fWhip says: “I’ll do the interior later” Everyone who’s watched his last hardcore: “Are you?”

This is literally 5 million subs worth of video. Im so grateful im able to watch these quality videos from you fwhip, thank you a lot for all the time you put into these videos

"Have you seen Gem? I'm lost." That is one long and magical trip you made there pink sheep. From Gem's grove all the way to FWhip's world!

This is my third time watching through all of your vids in the hardcore playlist - they accompany me as I strip mine and chop trees. I love that the trend of massive progress starts as far back as episode three.

Fwhip: And in just 40+ hours Me: Trues to rebuild it *One eternity later* Me: Yay I finally finished the first tower Edit:Thank you guys for all of the likes on this comment

build idea: an underground goblin city, that has waged war on what I am sure will become Fwhips city. This would of course inspire many more builds, such as perhaps another castle made for the king (Fwhip) and maybe a goblin castle made for the goblin king. Also, a barracks for both sides would be a must. Btw Fwhip: This vid was epic.

Idea for the trees: Dig out a big space in a lush cave (potentially converting more of it to moss), then plant a huge underground fairytale forest! You could even make a trading area for villagers and make a cool fairytale village.

The bridge over the river leading into a castle gave me strong Windhelm vibes. Respect

9:09 for a screenshot doodle that looks EPIC I do that for so many builds and it's super cool to see FWhip showing us the planning process

It's so cool to come back here with the knowledge of future episodes and builds to see where things will be and connect

this is seriously impressive, and on episode 3 too! i love the build style, this season is gonna be so great!

2:47 I literally said "Oh hi Dandy" when I saw the sheep

Can you construct a town at the bottom of the valley? Castle Keeps were often the center point of large, powerful cities.

fWhip, I'd just like to say that you are crazy. In the best way possible. The amount of progress you've made already since 1.18's release is just madness! Props to you man, a serious inspiration to myself

I absolutely love the castle you built. It's beautiful.

I love how the pink sheep and the creeper have little speech bubbles to give them personalities!

Every one of you from empires does such an insane job at creating depth in tiny structures that are often only 3 blocks wide on the interior and somehow 5 blocks wide on the exterior. Ive been trying to imrpove, hopefully there will be some juicy seeds of information to learn from in this series

These episodes are getting more epic every day

THE FACT THAT U DID THIS ON SURVIVAL AND HARDCORE IS INSANE

"Look at me, I can see my house from here" xp The excitement in his voice brought a proper smile to my face

Only fWhip would make an entire castle, river, and terraform in episode 3. IN ONE EPISODE someone tell fWhip it’s episode 3

I really hope you lean into the whole kingdom thing. Having different stories and plots could be really interesting!

"My brain is firing on all cubes right now because I don't know what a cylinder is yet." LMAO that's amazing

Fwhip : " my brain is firing on all cubes because I don't know what a cylinder is " Also Fwhip : *builds cylinder tower* :)

Starter base??? No no no we do starter castles around here :) fWhip you amaze me. Your building skills are incredible and I can’t imagine doing what you do 😂☺️💖

Literally nobody: FWhip: I built a castle on episode 3! This is why we love FWhip, epic builds, always

What the heck fwhip!! At first I thought you were just gonna plan out the castle this episode, then I thought you were just gonna do the bridge and other side, and then I thought that you were just gonna do a bit of the main castle, but nooo, you finished the whole thing! I am almost concerned for your sanity, but I'm more impressed with your tenacity. GREAT JOB FWHIP!!!!!!!!

I don think I've seen someone progress so quickly in hardcore. Diamond armor and a castle on Ep. 3 ??

Fwhip, I have a little interior tip for you. If you make an entire an area completely filled with concrete and make some maps it would make a monitor. I think if you place it on your wall, get some black stone walls and get a black stone button it could make a very convincing PC setup Edit: I have tried this before but it will be a big problem with a big map so I think the smallest setting is best

Me: takes 100 years to place a block Fwip: MEGA BASE ON EPISODE 3 YEAH

Gotta love the dedication fWhip has to this new series it’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it ❤️

This looks great and I can't believe how much work went into this one episode. For my liking the epiodes can be a bit more slow and with less singular clips, but you do you! Maybe do the interior next episode?

This is crazy man! Episode 3 and were already on with terrains and castles.... how OP can you go?🤯

Man you're the freaking G.O.A.T of Minecraft's builders !! WHAT A PROJECT this early in the game x) Keep entertains us fWhip, it's insane !!

This episode inspired my own first bridge build. I’m so proud of it and I really appreciate your hard work on the episodes!

Let's go love this series and it's only 3 episodes in 😃😃

Build idea - finding that huge cave behind the keep, you should expand the castle into it and make a lush paradise, and possibly a dungeon in the too :) Also Love the Castle!

Over 50 hours of building in 4 days that’s 12,5 hours a day… plus editing the video and uploading it for us. Gotta respect the grind, thanks for the vid fwhip

Watching your videos make me instantly want to play minecraft. You are GOD.

Keep on the lookout for granite with a lot of copper in it, and in the deep slate layer tuff with a lot of iron in it!!

Next Big Challenge ------> Get a Mending Villager. Also Castle Looks Amazing

Just so you know, you can repair your pickaxes instead of enchanting new ones every time. Just make a normal diamond pick and combine the broken one with the normal one in an anvil. It will repair the new one, but cost a few levels.

Fwhip, here is the idea for your next build, i hope you read it 😁 : 1. A dungeon underneath your castle with a sewer system that go all the way down to the river. 2. I think you need to changes the river underneath the bridge into a custom lake, because i think the river is to small with the size of the bridge. 3. If you done build the custom lake, maybe you need to build a fisherman town beside the lake with a fisherman house and a dock, and maybe add some ship that cross the lake

Fwhip you are so underrated, you spend so much time to make content for us. We all love and appreciate you

the "Have you seen Gem? I'm lost" really cracked me up much more than it should have xD

For the next episode: 1. Full netherite 2. Getting an elytra 3. Villagers 4. Automatic farms I think these would be the best things to do if you want to survive the longest

I used to have these videos in the background of me playing my minecraft series but now I just enjoy watching these haha

whip this was extremely impressive, the sheer commitment in such a short amount of time, thank you so much for this content!

you are an INSANE BUILDER! I’m soo sticking around for this series

This is so amazing, and my worldbuilder mind strated to tickle when you ended the building of the castle. I suggest that in this small valley where your civilization started to be build, i think you should separate everything into districts that are specially builded and designed to add an important part to society: Like your starter house can be part of an farming district and the castle (that still looks great but for me looks more of an keep) in a protection and army kind of district.

A castle on episode 3? Wow, what a great start to a hardcore season

Normal people: Building their mega base on episode 20 something Fwhip: Mega base on episode 3😱

I like the new roof style you did next to the lake. Really changes it up

this whole build is amazing enough, but the fact that it has been done in HARDCORE is even more insane. I couldn't even do this in creative. kudos, fWhip

Hi fwhip! I just wanted to comment that I started following u when u had 30k and while I haven’t seen ur videos in about a year, I’m super proud and happy to see how much you’ve grown! ur videos give me a sense of peace 😊

Between you and Wattles. Thank you. You guys both rock!

Also your builds actually blow my mind, that castle and valley is like 1000+ hours for me 😂💚

Flip seriously put so much freaking effort into this episode and it really payed off the castle looks amazing and it really shows just how dedicated you are, I think next you should either work on the interior of the castle base or work on villager trading, maybe even a villager hall near the new castle ? Can’t wait for the next episode

As for a manual tree farm.. the build heigh limit, restricts tree growth. Ten blocks below build limit seems to work well in bedrock edition... Just have to be vigilant about spawn proofing as you build the platform... essentially you could have as many short trees as long as there's a platform.. be weary the platform for me created a dark spot on the ground even though the platform isnt visible

mans a legend episode three and he's full diamond and a castle in a relatively new update that changed EVERYTHING

It's easy for me to feel intimidated by your designs and progress. But when you mentioned you've put 40+ hours into it, I felt a bit better. Between working and chores, I don't really have the time to play for a long time. So I'm gonna just take my time and see how it goes. I just started playing a couple of months ago and this video has helped me a lot to learn the mechanics. Thank you so much.

you should do a villager trading hall or js a village in general but do it in the big old cave section you found

That project is amazing! Normally I'm not a friend of time laps, but here they make sense. Greetings from Germany.

I also love to do big maps of my kingdom. I’d recommend putting banners with the hight of each mountain on each peak so you have a visual representation on the map.

Now you gotta make the valley itself into a small village, three or so clusters of buildings, with dots of farmhouses and ranches, all coming from the river, keeping many of the trees and creating a cozy feeling

The bridge is incredible, it looks like something out of Wynncraft and you built it in survival

My man is trying to make an exact replica of the world by episode 5. Stay tuned guys 😂 your city's is next.

I would love to see you clear out the caves and make a crypt/siege bunker, or and old mine.

Great castle. Great video. Maybe a small village with villagers at the castle

most people: finishes starter base and gathers diamonds on episode 3 of hardcore lets play Fwhip: makes floating custom terrain and builds giant castle

Have some trading ships in the lake, make a river leading to the sea

Fwhip you have realy outdone yourself this time, we're only at episode 3 omg

Fwhip:" it is abso- Nope thats a sheild." Me:" Welp at least you know that the sheild does not belong there, though the thing i am dissapointed in is that there was no fish in your inventory, you could have gotten the kitty then. :-("

This hardcore series is insane and my favorite by far, just watched your recent video of transforming your flower farms and making tulip fields and I had to see your start from the beginning!

This many things just in one episode? Man that's so cool!

That bridge is insane love the castle fWhip

fun to watch series KEEP IT UP ! definately want to see a mega base SOON PLS !

Excuse me sir it's still episodes 3 and you build a castle ....your insane and legend ..WOOOW😮😮

Ive never focused so hard on a HARDcore series as i am now, fwhip has me intrigued by how he talks and builds 🙏 (I am now realising my pun is horrible-)

17:36 LMAO! i thought u were going to make that a window!

The guard posts actually resemble hardcore hearts, nice detail touch