Minecraft 1.13 Bubble Elevators - The new KELP meta - Minecraft Tricks 

One hint I forgot to mention: Kelp has a max hight of 25, so if you would make longer elevators, you would have a block every 26 blocks to grow kelp on. Still way easier of course compared to bucket by bucket style.

3:19 he starts building

TL;DR: Put water on the top and fill the colunm with kelp; the kelp will make every single water block a source. After that, you can break the kelp.

Bro you sound like Arnold Schwartznegger if he was 20

My husband says, "This is why the minecraft community needs DOCM - always good content!"

This is going make things sooooo much easier.

Wow, that's really helpful. Especially for early game when ice is harder to find. Can't wait to see what you do next! Thanks Doc!!! :D

Is it possible to "build" a "free water column", without anything surrounding it (only air), in survival (vanilla) and without commands?

I would die to hear you say “GET TO THE CHOPPA”🤣🤣🤣

When the elevator trick with the fence post was patched out, the tech community got upset. And had to deal with making more complicated systems. Now they add in something of comparable simplicity, if not actually more difficult because it requires the water sources, and the tech community complains that it's too simple and they like their more complicated mechanisms. Talk about a complete flip.

Definitely a fan of the "quick tips" style of videos. Super helpful!!

The kelp idea is so smart! Thanks for bringing it up! :D

I know this is a fairly recent comment, but I felt like I was so dumb I had to add it. Tip: don’t use soul soil instead of soul sand. It took me 20 mins to figure out my problem.

Thanks! I can't tell you how many vids I've watched where they just start building up their kelp but they do it on soul sand, which has never worked for me .. my kelp just sits their bobbing like a dead fish. Finally, a kelp method that works on Bedrock 1.17.34

Doc, easiest way is to just pillar upp with ice blocks and then mine your way down without silktouch. You get all source blocks and an easy way down as well :)

Java and Bedrock editions are supposed to be moving closer together, but for some reason kelp doesn't work the same way in both, so you can only use this trick in Java. In Bedrock, kelp will break off in a flowing water block. I used this trick in a kelp farm that doesn't require any redstone... kelp will grow up into a flowing water block and break instantly, and the pieces float to the surface where they can be collected.

I’ve been looking for this video all night bc bubbles weren’t going all way up.ledgend

I had been trying to build one for use as a decoration in my house but had always failed. Now I know what I was doing wrong. Thanks Doc!! (I miss you doing UHC, but it looks like you're doing what you were meant to do all along)

Doc, you and your videos coming back is such a joy. I'm going through the start of a separation and this is exactly what I need. Thank you for making these.

In bedrock the bubble column works in flowing water. No need for source blocks, just have to make sure the column is surrounded. It takes a couple of seconds for the bubbles to reach the top but then you're good to go.

Docm to the rescue once again! When I get stuck with something I always end up finding the solution on your page!

I don't know how anyone can dislike this video because it answered my question. If there was a younger or newer player this video is perfect for them. I am more seasoned and I felt the intro about the "old ways" of water elevators was a bit lengthy, but it wasn't unpleasant. Thanks for the post! I gave it a thumbs up!

-build column out of jackolanterns -nerdpole up with ice -??? -profit

Could you pour a bucket from a ledge leaving a 1x1 of flowing water down to the ground then use the kelp to turn them into source blocks without them updating and flowing out? Save the hassle of encasing the elevator?

Hey thanks man I just discovered u channel a few days ago and am already learning stuff

Great, now how do you make the one that you actually started the video next to? With NOTHING next to it whatsoever

In a one by one tunnel going straight up and down placing a source block will fill the tunnel with source blocks

I was just frustrated in making an xp farm work just because of this! The kelp trick is really neat😀

As someone who can't be bothered to keep up with hours and hours of hermitcraft content, I really do appreciate having separate videos for stuff like this and the fish farm.

What a great little trick! Thanks Doc! Has anyone noticed that kelp (or possibly sea grass...) seems to effect squid spawning? This is just anecdotal, but I feel like all the lakes I filled with kelp and sea grass around my base (old map) no longer spawn squid, wondering if any one has noticed similar?

How do you build a column without the surrounding blocks so that the water doesn’t spill out? Just like the column at the start of the video.

You can also put one source block at the bottom one at the top and put some sand down, it drops to the bottom and shoots back up creating source blocks

Doc, that's awesome! I had no idea kelp did that. I just built a tall bubble-vator in the End to get up to my TNT dispensing machine (wipes out all the end crystals as soon as the dragon spawns, VERY nice), and I made it 1 block too close to a pillar and have to move it now (the pillar regeneration breaks about 12 blocks on the side of it). I wasn't looking forward to that at all and thinking it would be less work to just repair it every time it breaks. Now I know how to do it with so much less work! :D Useful tip of my own: The TNT machine is not my invention and not very new, but not very well known. (Pixlriffs is one who has used it in a video.) But in testing it, I came up with another idea, and my wife and I used it today with great success. First, we replaced the top layer of end stone all around the portal with an area of obsidian about 4 blocks wide. We added "blocker" blocks in the middle of each side just next to the bedrock. Then, as soon as the dragon lands on the portal, you place a bed just beyond one of the "blocker" blocks, so its foot is on the bedrock and its head is toward the central pillar of the portal and the dragon. Stand behind the "blocker" block and activate the bed. BOOM! It takes a MAJOR chunk of the dragon's health, and sends you flying WAAAY up in the air. Have feather falling 4 or just count on dying a few times -- either way, it's fun as hell. And the obsidian layer makes it so all you have to clean up is some fire -- no torn up landscape to repair or trip over during the remainder of the fight. I challenge you to use this to kill a dragon in Hermitcraft 6! I would love to watch that. :D

These quick tutorial videos are so helpful with all of the new 1.13 changes. Thank you for making videos like this!

This video / tutorial really helped my because I was trying to do it for ages and I couldn’t find the right technique and you showed me how to do it so thank you. Also I love your accent :)

......... i wish i had known this yesterday.... i built an bubble elevator and dealt with the annoying boobing from the bubbles and jumped back down to refill my buckets like a noob....... i felt sooooo smart but now i feel silly >.

aaaaaand what about the glass less? does the source blocks stay in place after you build it in glasses, and you can remove it without ever needing the glass anymore?

wish i had known this yesterday, lol. Thanks for the tip, doc!

Is it possible to switch out the soul sand for an magma block via redstone to make the elevator go both up and down? Cool video, nice to know kelp will turn flowing water into source blocks :)

870 likes to 0 dislikes. That is by far the highest like ratio without dislikes I have ever seen on RU-vid. And I just brought it up to 871. Awesome content!

Thank you for this video! I thought putting the kelp in all the way made them all a source block. Didn't realize you had to switch blocks first, but it works now! Thanks again

This has been fixed, simply place soul sand pour water on it and wait for bubbles to power up, no need for this method.

Doc. Love everything you’re doing with Minecraft 1.13. You’re awesome keep it up!

Docm never lets down

Love your mini tutorials. A great idea. Saves me scoring through the hermitcraft episodes to find what I wanted to have a go at building.

Why does it sound so😈 dirty 😈 when doc says "kelp it up /kelping it up" lol

Damn dude, Kelp will make us things more easier. Ty for share it!

thanks, it helped but when I did it I didn't need the kelp i just did the steps put the water then the soul sand then it work I was on ps4 it may not work for others on other things like pc Xbox and Nintendo switch

Side note: If you are playing console edition you only need to use the bucket at the top of the water elevator and the soul sand will bubble all the way to the top creating source blocks.

Another method, when you have a silk pick would be to go grab a load of ice and stack it up then break it on the way down.

THIS. IS. GENIUS.

Thanks for this tutorial. How did you manage to make the first elevator, the one in the thumbnail? I can't stop the water from spilling all over and your water elevator stands in 1 by 1 column with no boundaries and without spilling. Can you tell me your secret, please?

This tip helped me build aquarium in our base. Vielen dank docm77!

Ice?? I mean gathering ice is so easy plus it made that one solution a little cooler

How did you get the water to stay and not flow everywhere? Like at the beginning

btw doc (or someone) have you encountered any mobfarm designs that separate skeletons and zombies efficiently so that the z's can be converted is so wanted? With the new mechanics it should be possible. Wanna make a tutorial on that?

doc, you should do a ufo build where there is a beam coming down from the ufo made of floating water and have a bubble elevator going up, I think that would look cool

I'm in 1.16 and this is helping me out

Love these videos doc makes it easier to go back and find them when you forget

It wouldn't have been possible to make my mob spawner elevator without this trick. Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Thanks so much Doc this was so helpful!

I found out about the source blocks making a small elevator as well and it was a pain thanks for the trick

When I did it, I just placed my sand where I wanted it to and poured the water in from the top. It was easily more than 25 blocks and a 2x2 elevator, but it worked perfectly once the water reached the sand

Something to note: this is likely unintended behavior and won't be in the game for long. On MCPE kelp breaks in flowing water.

Wow, I just built a bubble elevator the other day, wish I knew this then. I'll definitely be trying this

i think your making like a big cube of water source blocks, ice would be easier, just put ice at 2 sides of ur box and mine them

How did you stop the water from flowing on that first elevator shown?

Love these tutorials Doc!! Awesome as always!!

but how do you make them without any blocks around to hold the water?

Wouldn't it just be easier to stack ice blocks and then break them? Just pillar up with them inside the shaft and then look down and just break them. Very little work.

nice, wish i knew that before doing my elevator!

Nice, i was very surprised by the speeds you could do. Now i am going to build a waterpark this weekend, cus with these speeds you should be able to make a nice rololercoater

I've been using ice. Place some ice, break it with a pick, rinse and repeat.

This video made me very happy. I gave my screen a thumbs up. :D

Gotta love those super smart viewers

Thanks for this video, Doc! Great stuff!

I’ve done the exact thing making every block a water source ect ect but it just won’t work with me, I’ve tested it multiple times any help?

See, this is why I watch these... information and inspiration.

How did you make the first bubble elevator without blocks around it?

Thanks it really helped me improve my house thanks again

This is super helpful. This meta is gonna be great.

i mean just say what to do already man, my god. everyone wondering. starts at 4:45. make water fall from the top of a stream of blocks, place kelp all the way up, delete it all the way down. replace regular block on the bottom w soul sand. done.

This trick does make a big difference in my life!!!

for big areas where you need source blocks, could you just place a grid of kelp on the bottom and then let it grow?

Miss you man please be well!

Can kelp be placed on a soul sand block? If it can that would make for some super fast kelp farms. I'm assuming it can't though.

Now here's a video I wish I'd found yesterday...

You don't need this in bedrock edition. You place water at the top, let it flow to the soulsand and it works. Don't need to be source blocks on bedrock edition

Lol, I read the thumbnail as "help."

I bet you can do the Morgan Freeman voice.

You do not need to put all this klep only make a very small elevator and apply these instructions inside the video and then increase the length of the elevator for the distance you want and then put a bucket of water on the end of the elevator and will work without permission to raise the klep all that distance

Doc did you see the leaves transmitting redstone thing

How did you keep the water from flowing without using any blocks??

Awesome tips thanks doc.

Cool solution. Ice works too still!

Nice one Doc!

How does sugarcane interact with water in 1.13? Can it be water logged?

Oooo, full water source all the way.

oh my God thank you so much this is exactly what I was looking for

Thank you Doc...very informative.