- [Vortac] The concept
here is pretty simple.
How long can we survive
in Hardcore Minecraft
without looking up?
(funky jazz music)
What's up guys? I'm Vortac.
Let's get started.
It looks like we're starting
out in a spruce forest.
Let's just do what we can.
My first rule about playing
in a Minecraft world,
especially with others,
is to not leave floating trees.
That rule is the first one
I'm gonna break, alright?
Let's just go ahead and get
ourselves some basic materials
and see if we can survive one night.
That's all I ask.
It's literally all I ask, is one night,
I need more wood,
where you know,
I don't get completely murdered
by either my own stupidity,
or perhaps just some mobs.
Starting tools in hand, we did
spawn right next to a cave,
and it looks like, oh a ravine.
Ok, so I see some coal.
I think we can get our vision, you know,
we can look up just
enough to grab this coal,
and I know it's going to
be hard to see right now.
Let me just get some.
Alright, let's see.
So, I got some granite here.
We'll just kind of make ourselves
a little, well let's see.
I can't jump, and I don't
think I can look up high enough
to get that dirt away from that coal,
so I'll just do this, and try
and grab a little bit more.
Luckily for now, this is at eye-level.
Oh no. This is at eye-level.
Let's try it like, worm my way through.
Oh, dang it.
Ok, here we go.
Yeah, let me just put that right there.
Perfect!
Alright, having coal to
survive your first night,
pretty essential.
So I think we're off to a good start.
So far I think I'm doing pretty good.
Now I found some iron.
We might need to go ahead
and make ourselves a stone pickaxe.
We can actually get that.
And the trick to this so far,
and I've been doing it, like two minutes,
is I think to act like
your neck is kinda broken.
Like constantly, just you
know, default to looking down.
That's the trick to surviving
in this kind of environment
where you can't look up.
And I think I'm doing okay.
Caves, especially when
you're entering them,
not a problem.
Getting back out, I
really rely on looking up
quite a bit to see
where the heck I've been
and where the exit of
the cave is gonna be.
Fortunately, these caves are rather small,
so not a problem so far.
And because I'm sort
of speed running this,
I just quickly made
myself a pair of shears,
because the first sheep I find
is gonna get turned into a bed,
and if I only happen to find one sheep,
which is for me, a pretty typical problem
in (laughs) a new Minecraft world.
I'll be able to hopefully make
a bed out of it pretty quick.
So, I don't know why I feel rushed?
I guess it's because I
have no food or shelter,
and also I can't look up at the sun
to see where everything's at.
Ooh, but there is a village up ahead.
Okay, game changer.
This is great!
Oh my gosh, my luck.
Ah, this is amazing.
I do wish the houses
weren't on top of hills.
Little bit harder to
keep track of everybody
and what's going on. (laughs)
But, you know what? Not gonna complain.
We got villagers, we got beds.
We can definitely conduct
some trades if we need to.
This is excellent!
Alright, I'm starting to get
my hopes up a little bit.
I'm actually starting to believe
I can survive this night.
And of course, the
village does have sheep.
So this is great.
I already have enough wool for a bed.
Excellent.
And there's all kinds of
different work benches
and everything else.
You know what?
If we can chill in this village,
and now we'll have our very own bed too,
yeah, we're in good shape.
Challenge complete, am I right?
Is it too soon to be confident?
Well I want to fit in,
so let's start gathering
up some materials,
and I'm going to try,
I'm going to attempt to
build myself a house.
And I think the way we're
going to do this is,
I wanna actually cut down
these trees properly.
So the way we're gonna do this is
(leaves rustling)
I'm going to kind of
build myself up a little bit
and then continue chopping down the tree.
I don't think I can look up high enough
to get that last log,
so I'll build myself up one more,
(leaves rustling)
and there we go.
Get eye-level with this log.
Perfect. Okay, great.
So because we can turn
logs into planks, there's,
I'm running out of excuses
to leave floating trees.
Let's grab all this up, and
see what we can make happen.
I'm gonna need a shovel
to kind of level this land a little bit.
And from there we will, you know,
be able to build something.
The sun is going down.
I don't quite have a
place to sleep just yet.
I wish to craft, but I've
made a mistake. (laughs)
Ok here, we can fix this, no problem.
There we go, let's get our bed made here.
And it looks like, it
looks like we can indeed
survive a full night in
Minecraft Hardcore mode
without looking up.
That's good news.
I'm just gonna pop this
down in the middle.
This counts as surviving, right?
So we did make it through our first night,
which is excellent.
I'm gonna model my house after
that one over there I think.
So, just like these villagers do,
I'm gonna kinda start with a kind of
a cobblestone base like this.
I'm gonna fit right in with this village
because this is gonna be home base.
If I hope to survive here, I need to,
again, I need to fit in.
So I'll have to keep gathering
up some stones and wood.
By now, I would normally
have a lot more materials,
but because I'm having
difficulties gathering those,
it's becoming kind of an issue.
So I'll gather up a little more stone.
I'm just making a cobblestone base.
I don't know if I'm gonna make the floor
out of cobblestone.
I'll try and just grab
enough so I can go ahead
and decide to do that.
So I'll just grab up this right here,
and we'll head right back up.
Oh, this is so tempting
to just move your mouse
just up a little bit more
so you can see what you're doing.
Yeah, why not?
We'll do a cobblestone floor.
I like what they did with their house.
I'm gonna make mine a
little bit different.
I'm gonna, I do like the
logs on the edges here.
Alright, let's try to cut down
some of those spruce trees.
We'll make our house out
of spruce instead of oak.
First I'm gonna steal a
little bit of their wheat.
(wheat crackling)
They have a whole stockpile
here for you know, no reason.
As I look into the eyes of a
(villager exclaiming)
of a (laughs) soon to be starving child.
There's no reason for this food stockpile.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and grab all this and
(laughs) I'm gonna eat like a king.
I think spruce trees have
to be the hardest trees
to cut down with this method,
because I'm just having a lot of trouble.
There we go.
(leaves rustling)
The leaves, the way they stick
out, make it really difficult
to get close enough for my comfort,
but we're managing.
We're definitely managing.
I'm gonna go through, I
think, a lot more axes too,
because I have to,
I almost have to build up
to the height of the tree
to cut down the tree.
So every tree takes
double the amount of axe
to cut down this way.
Which is not efficient.
But nothing about this is efficient.
Nothing about this plan was efficient.
Also, I can't jump anymore,
and I can't look up to destroy the leaves.
Oh jeez, so there's another floating tree.
Alright, new plan.
So build myself onto the top of a tree,
and then cut down the scaffold
that I used to get up here
while also simultaneously
cutting down the tree.
So, we just have to be careful to remember
to cut this down so we
get our planks back,
and this will be maybe a
more efficient way to gather,
Oh no, see? This is why,
I screwed up.
If I can like keep jumping,
maybe I can take away,
Nope. Nope.
You know what?
I'm just gonna leave that plank there.
Gathering update for you.
My axe is really close to
breaking and I have 37 logs,
which is (sighs)
not a lot of logs for,
I think, one stone axe.
The stone axes generally
don't last that long anyway,
but (laughs) I'm not only cutting down
a second pillar of planks
but also I'm cutting through leaves too,
because, you know the urgency to get home
before having to fight any
monsters, is pretty real.
It's pretty tense over here right now.
So I don't want to be
switching back and forth
from (laughs) axe to fist
to properly get rid of the leaves.
I don't care.
I'm just trying to get
as much supplies as I can
together to build this house.
I think I'll feel better,
No, 44, you know what?
44 lives should be enough.
If we can't make a house out of that,
and whatever leftover
planks and stuff we have,
shame on us.
Now to try to build this thing.
So I'm gonna kinda get myself,
How many did they do?
Was that four until they hit the roof?
So, yeah.
Maybe we'll get ourselves up here.
(wood blocks clicking)
One, two, three, four.
Oh, oops. Oh shoot.
Okay, there we go.
One, two, three four.
(villager exclaiming)
All right, this is easy.
Perfect. Okay, and from
here I can actually,
I feel like I can build
quite a bit of the wall
if I wanted to.
Can I? Yeah, there we go.
So we can kinda work our
way from the bottom up,
and I can create walls similar
to how they have over there
with little windows in them.
Yeah, that's easy.
Oh, I ran out of oak.
I definitely didn't run out of spruce,
so maybe I should take back
my oak and use spruce instead.
Alright, I've allowed it
to get a little bit darker
than I would feel comfortable with,
so I'm gonna go ahead.
We're gonna survive our
second night and sleep,
Oh my gosh!
(energetic music)
The instinct there was
to see what time it was,
and it's just, for a moment,
like even saying out loud,
we're about to survive our
second night without looking up,
I looked up.
For anyone keeping score,
you can survive approximately one night
without looking up in Minecraft.
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