Why I Removed 30,000,000 Blocks
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2022
- I dug a giant hole in the ground and built the end in it's place.
This took me over 1400 minecraft days.
The goal of this series is to create the GREATEST HARDCORE WORLD on CZcams BABYYYYYYYY
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World eater • Honey Block World Eater
This series is inspired by Wadzee and Luke TheNoteable and Sandiction Hardcore Minecraft Series, as well as Mumbo Jumbo and Grian on the Hermitcraft server. yes I did steal this paragraph from Sandiction, he's too good. I make massive projects and spend tens of hours on each video similar to Jahita or most others. This is minecraft hardcore and has insane mega builds and bases.
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This took over 1400 minecraft days...I LOVE MAKING VIDEOS BABYYYYY!!!
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You gotta sleep man
My guy could have made a whole series out of it but didn't that is cool that he doesn't sell out. Like if he did 1400 days
When you said you were making the end island I did not think you were making a end island○_○.
Senselessly killing my wandering trader friends... This will not go unnoticed.
1st like
hi mog! Really like your videos, i was wondering how much do wondering traders actually help you in your world, what percentage of your builds would not be possible?
eyyy my guy mogswamp
@@InkLyned just check their trading tables and take out items which are possible to be obtained by other ways
@@sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555 yeah but i dont like reading
Bro... this is a legitimately incredible project. You're nuts!
Youre also Incredible!
*Watch him 1 up himself 10 fold and remove his entire world just to play skyblock*
When AntVenom comments on a video and it only gets 4 likes. Also, I love how many comment sections you’re in, you have over 5 million subscribers but I see you everywhere, it’s pretty cool.
AntVenom
@Desolator Are you serious?
My man destroyed 30,000,000 million blocks and still doesn’t have an iron farm at his base.
Okay hear me out….Mining a 1000x1000 area to bedrock with only fists….
Absolutely, I bet it's totally doable in a lifetime. You should try it.
I'd really like to see a Minecraft CZcamsr create their "own"/new dimension. How cool would that be? Like, you go into the nether portal, but it leads you to some crazy looking creation in the nether that looks like a totally new dimension.
Anyways great video as always :)
Dude don't say that. Beepo would do it. He shouldn't suffer more xd.
Skavio made something in that style like 2 months ago
people have done hta tlol
@@butterflytr3077 it’s too late now he saw the comment
U got the idea from 2b2t right?
This is the crazyest thing I ever seen you are insane. The commit to this Earns you lots of respect this is my first video I have seen by you and I subbed so quick . Keep it up and you will be the best CZcamsr in the world great job. Also 1400 Minecraft days is crazy. BBBBYYYYEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Anyone else notice how he has clean walls on the perimeter even tho he didn’t use the method used to make clean walls???
The fact that this man has steak instead of totems is crazy, keep up the good content!
Lol
he said it was to troll the newcomers
The lava was sussy baka
20:00
Steak is more tasty than a rock hard totem wouldn’t it? jkjkjk
19:34 His last arrow, so poetic. As he falls, he notices, his life is coming to an end. All that he can think is revenge, so he shoots one last shot, but it misses, and he dies without purpose, just being another pillager.
its not that deep bruh
It really ain’t that deep 💀
so deep made me cry 😢
haha pillager goes brrrrrrrrr
@@shlatt7620 he said it's poetic not deep
I am so happy you blew up dunno when but i tuned in to your channel after a year and I'm pretty sure back then the views on these type of videos weren't that much EPIF
You have earned another sub bc this is hella crazy!!!!!! I still cant believe that someone would even try this in a hardcore world. Well done.
Edit: If you update to 1.19, use Sculk blocks for the inside of the End Portal. I think it would look much better than the Polished Blackstone does.
hes on 1.18
Hes playing on 1.18
He is in 1.18 my guy.
Man, I was going to say that
I didn't know that he was on 1.18. If he updates to 1.19, he could use Sculk.
Next video idea: I Transformed The End In The Overworld 😂 Great video, insane dedication
Sorry skavio sir please don,t do it I have seen tone of transforming videos in CZcams pls do some work on other projects by the way I love your videos 💓 💓 💓
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But he destroyed the end Island
@@Directed2212 he means as in putting a ‘chunk’ of the end in the overworld.
@@bird123pg3d chunk of the overworld in the end
I felt burned out just watching this
He was watching Psych while building it!? I love that show!
you should use sculk blocks as the thing inside the end portal it looks pretty good when compared to the actual thing! also black concrete may work too
Came to the comments to say this
@@charlieweitzenberg9587 same but I think I’m a bit late
me too
I was gunna comment this
was just abouta say this lmao
Great video man! What an insane project 🙌🏻
Hey thanks so much!
Hey Farzy
hello Farzy
HI FARZY
fardzy
I love your video format and humor, it's endlessly entertaining
dude you are very funny, the "i am going to use it for weeks maybe days" and the TNT to the beat of the music earned a subscription
now that 1.19 has come out, sculk blocks look really similar to the endportal textures so you can switch the slabs for sculk
edit: gotta appreciate the dedication for this tho. i wouldn't have had enough patience to go forward with this kind of project. i salute you
ooh that's a great idea!!!
i was gonna say that to
Great idea bro
@@johannisaiahdeleon660 Same lol
I too commented this
A heads up for anyone building a honey farm: build it either in the nether or end dimension. Bees won't make honey at night and these two dimensions don't have night cycles so they're always producing rather than only half your afk time. Now get crafting out there! :)
im just sitting here in awe that im pretty sure that pit is the size of old console worlds....
Already knew that but ok....
@@TYRANT_RICE Then it isn't for you??
@@TYRANT_RICE well it’s for people that need help not everything is made for you.
@@TYRANT_RICE then why did you reply
This shows so much insane dedication it’s so awesome (also you can place the end crystals on obsidian and break the obsidian it without breaking the crystal to get them on different blocks)
THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME!! So cool keep it up man
22:25 you can place end crystals on that block. All you have to do is place obsidian on the same level, break it, and place the deepslate under it.
good one
Ikr
@@kour3l 4 mins ago lel
@@jamieschultz9676 5 hours ago
@@NeoKev366 1 hour ago
“Just because you put syrup on something, don’t make it pancakes” has got to be the most inspirational quote I’ve ever heard in my life.
I remember that quote from an episode of psych, so idk if that's what he got it from but either way its funny
now that i watched further into the video I can confirm that he got it from psych
@@yeeter_meter6171 was gonna say the same thing lol
Bro started making this video with baby Jesus💀
this is a wild project, good on you, i''m glad your video got that many hits cause god damn bro
What takes hundreds of ruthless 2B2T players a year to accomplish... this man does in mere days.
I applaud your effort!
They try to do this but other players gref it
@@tannerclarke3536 How do you grief a griefing? 😂
@@JoBot__ they find a way
@Reapiu You almost sound like a 2b2t player yourself.
2b2t players didn’t actually destroy the entirety of spawn, they summoned hundreds of withers every day to cause mass destruction.
you forgot to mention how you definitely took all the time to make the walls perfectly flat
and break ALL overhead bedrock by hand. But bruh, one trillion pistons right?
Thats what the /fill command will do ;)
@@rohanbell5162 well you cant be sure
@@doodoosharkk can when he has admitted he cheats.
@@doodoosharkk Why shouldn't one cheat? For ethical reasons? While trying to make money off a youtube channel?
not even 5 minutes into the vid and i already liked and subbed :) GREAT personality bro, i wish there were more youtubers like youu
14:33 YOU JUST EXPLODED DIAMONDS LIKE IT WAS COAL💎💥
this guy and kolanii should make a hardcore world together. wonder what they could do
Yes!!!
Is Anyone concerned how the walls became so smooth and he didn’t even mention it
It looks sus, even water looks like he has used cheats to remove blocks
@@fracta7 7:47 he even said it by himself
@@bensoontm5244 you cant take it for granted, he just cut it, no timelapse or anything. You dont know for sure
at the end with the walls being completly smooth, most defintatly cheated. I recently built a 432x432 perimeter (only I know what I'm doing) and to achieve flat walls you have to mine a one wide trench down to bedrock on each side by hand and make a water wall so the tnt doesn't destroy the wall. He did not do this, and didn't even build a proper world eater which would have saved him a lot of time yet somehow everything looks smooth. I dont doubt he ran the "manual" world eater legitmately and did remove all the water source blocks and lava by hand, but the smooth walls no way, especially not after running the world eater without a water wall, it takes a stupid amount of time and he would have needed to "copy" the tnt blown wall with the exact same cave blocks or dug each wall out to where the tnt hadn't been blown and there's no way he did that, that'd be so much extra work and like 7 block trenches dug by hand down to bedrock, which could be believable in previous versions but not with deepslate and the new y-lvl, he wouyld have been so much extra work and he didn't even mention it
@@secondsecond6950 yeah, thats what i thought
brooklyn 99 and psych are the best shows of all time. I love your vids, dog. also, where's that 300 days zombie apocalypse? we all want it badly. i got that last zombie btw so now ur at 69,420 zombies, my dude
yay your the first legit minecraft youtuber that commits to it loved the vid it was first time watching and now im subbed love ya mate
Insanely well put together this video, the editing, the effort, the humor. Well done! Props.
Btw, with shaders you can modify the colors of the sky so you could make it really like the end! And you should try pushing slabs in the end crystal blocks with pistons
Or make a massive black glass + concrete box
@@kelpdock8913 yea
Hey sorry if unrelated, do you by any chance know what shaders he’s using?
Oh wait, I think it’s SEUS Renewed if anyone’s wondering
@@Alexciaooo ok
I respect swapping worlds to see the design of the world eater rather than using an overlay mod. Mad commitment
I show this to my bedrock friends who have never built a piece of redstone. They now don't install any java apps or touch the colour red.
Don't know what else can top this in a hardcore world... first time watching you and you've gained my full respect. +1 subscriber!
*cough* *cough* lockdownlife *cough* *cough*
He doesn't care about subs, as long as he gets that money bag
Love the fact that you matched the block breaking sound effects with the music during the time lapse! :D
Yes bro
I like the idea of the rogue sweepers continuing their journey all the way to the world border, free from the dominion of man and earth.
idea for the "portal blocks" instead of using polished blackstone, you could make a small section in the hollow of the island directly under the portal and put layered colors of green and purple maybe black glass with end rods in-between and lava at the bottom of all the glass to give it that starry affect
first time watching one of ur videos and i thought i would get bored bc its a long video but it was very entertaining and funny :D new sub
sculk block
@@PWD__ my man you read my mind
Agreed
FYI I'm a 14 year old im just using my grandma's acc
@@PWD__ I was gonna comment that
Or sculk
How does someone have this much dedication, I could never do something like this even though when I start a world I start planning out something crazy like this
Good job man
Docm77 did it on a server too the world eater is crazy
Money
Joe Biden's Husband
yeah as if he actually did this
@@octosaurinvasion well he showed how he did it
You're insane, and that's amazing
i love your videos, probably one of my favorites now😭
22:50 I don’t think you had the update by the time of building this, but I recommend using Sculk in for the portal blocks. Dig one layer down and then place a few, it looks similar to the portal texture.
y e s
You can also use maps on itemframes.
@@nasusmedicado7792 I was thinking about it
SAME
Early in the video he said the first world eater he tried making was for 1.15 and then he said he was playing on 1.18.2 and Sculk wasn't released in 1.18.2
14:37 i like how the tnt explosions are in sync with the music
What music was it?
im glad im not the only one who loves psych im proud of you
i'm proud of you!☝️
this channel is so good you have just earned yourself a sub
I like how you make the machines sound really complicated but still simple.
That's what happens when you don't understand how they work and you just paste them in with world edit then use the fill command to remove blocks.
Just stumbled upon your channel, and even tho I doubt you'll see this, just wanted to say I love your energy and thanks for the entertainment 👍 I really enjoy your content so far
U thoght he no see lol
He saw it!
Lol be Poo is the self-torturer
14:28 anyone else vibing to the music and the rhythm? GG dude, I watched it a couple times because it was such a vibe-
literally the greatest and funniest youtuber ever i’ve watched this video three times now and it’s funny every time
(before you say anything i had like three months in between each time)
Amazing editing, good job and the exploding is PERFECTLY timed with music, so good
Amazing work, though I admit that it's weird to see an end island where the pillars don't extend all the way through the island.
I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't say that 😂
You could do a fog effect for the end portal for the island, either way this looks incredible!
you’re stupidly entertaining, instant sub.
this is the first time ive seen a video of you and i gotta say, your edits are amazing :D just the fact you take the time to put the tnt explosions on top of the music is crazy. Not to mention the funny (but actually good) freestyles and um probably thousands of hours just for a video its just crazy. heh new sub achieved :D
can't forget to mention the funny bro good thing u said that
Same my first vid
The editing on this is insanely well done
Not good enough to hide the fakeness
As beppo stops recording he climbs into bed crying himself to sleep knowing that he brutally unalived a baby strider.
i love the sound of obsidian being placed fast foward
Next project: design the sides of the hole around the island. Waterfalls, lava falls, slopes, so it looks natural.
Project!
23:38 bet it has a nice personality
him: "oh, and the strider suddenly disappeared. wonder how that happened!" The bow in his hand: "I'm bout to end this mans whole career"
this is one one the best mc vids ive seen in ages its so funny
aww shit here we go again
I'd have gone with the stained glass trick for the portal in the centre personally, like... place some end rods on some of the layers so it looked like the portal a little more than blackstone on the middle. Would've been a bit of a pain to do like, but end result would look really cool
Ik im late af, but this vid has been all over my recommends for so long. So sad i didnt watch it earlier! This is awesome! Love the fun lil kinda jokes and stuff like that and it rly improves the video. 100% subscribing!
It’s the most hardest thing to do in Minecraft, redstone is always the hero!
I have officially binged all your videos after seeing this one. Love your dedication to the videos you make and you have an absolutely great personality on the videos and I’m guessing irl too. Keep it up and I hope subs keep coming u deserve them.
This video was posted a month ago...
this comment was posted a day ago
@@TheQwertt Okay so?
@@Midoriya_Izuku838 you see, Beppo has not posted a single time for a month.
@@TheQwertt and thats prob why tbh-
Ayo, new watcher here and I just wanna say that I love your humor and content already. Gotta appreciate the dedication towards the time investment for the glorious *content* and when you matched the explosions to the music.
Same here
@@Survivor-ns1bl same here
Same here
Same here
@Pradipta Dwi Ramadan same here
It's not often I find a video. That just flat out amuses me. As much as this video. And best part. I have no idea why I was amused. Hahahaha good job
Beppo at the beginning: brutally murders a chicken
Also Beppo: Oh no, he’s dangling the llama, this is animal cruelty!!
8:36 how you know a man has completely lost his mind
imagine spending 2-3 years on a build and there being a probability you will loose it all if you die.
this is some effort put into this build and i love your vids keep up the good work and never give up you are doing supper well.
It wasn't actually 2-3 years but it was like 2 months
My sister when I touch her food : 24:41
This is awesome! FYI, you coulda used scull as the portal blocks
22:21 you could of placed obsidian, placed the end crystal on it then broke the obsidian so you can place the deepslate under the crystal.
This guy is the most underrated Minecraft CZcamsr I can’t even imagine how much time it took to make and edit this video
about 490 hours.....
Repent to Jesus Christ “The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.”
Proverbs 23:24 NIV
@@HasanAli-vh1mu 69,420 hours I think
hmm yes it takes aloooot of time to use worldedit haha
@@HasanAli-vh1mu türk
I knew I was getting into a great video. Yep 100% it was funny. This vid made me subscribe :3
That's An Insane Project W Beppo
Amazing video. Recreating an ancient city would probably be for you a piece of cake!
Damn, wait, this is some of the highest quality mc content I've seen, you totally deserve to be bigger. You can see all the effort put into the video.
part of my base overlaps several slime chunks. I've created a mini army of iron golems to patrol the area. then, added an allay holding a slime ball that drops them at a note block collector.
This insane god damn! Makes me wanna play Minecraft again. I just got to thinking that It would be so cool if this was buildt at the stronghold in the overworld. Then you could have the endportal at the center, but just you know reversed. Maybe someone else will do that tho.Anyways, Sick project!!!
this guy makes videos refreshing and super enterning compared to others love it
the editing of the video and the building in the game are both astounding
Challenge Idea:
Make a zoo that has contains EVERY single mob, no matter how rare is it (including mooshrooms and the ender dragon)
Goodluck finding a way to cage an enderman ;)
legend says the sweepers are still flying away one block at a time
3:59, ARE WE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW SICK THIS LOOKS?!?!
Looks like 2b2t lol
It’s 2b2t
It looks like the far lands
No we ain’t
Fr
This was awesome, really inspires me to make more massive builds
I don't think the warden was added yet around that time but skulk would be a nice placeholder for the portal
I’m so glad by the midway point of the video you mention binge watching psych.
“Just because you put syrup on it, don’t make it pancakes.” is a top 3 favorite Shawn Spencer quote of mine. I was going to comment on it earlier when the video first started! ❤
Also, insane work dude! I know I’m a year late to the video, but stuff like this never ceases to amaze me. You’re a madlad at Minecraft, Beppo!
my favorite show ever, and the cause of my love for pineapples
21:15 Finally, Daylight in The End
9:31 this is my favorite part because it kind of reminds me of me when I find diamonds and i'm looking for coal or iron
SB737 be like: "That's me."
Eh diamond sucks nethite is good
@@NeZa_YT SB737: "diamonds are for peasants"
I don’t know who you are, Beppo, but I am enjoying all the Psych references in this video
10:22 got me dying😅
Also you should’ve made the portal blocks sculk
Loved the video Beppo! Just a few suggestions. Firstly, if your world is updated to 1.19, you could use sculk blocks for the portal blocks. You could also make some bedrock map art to put on the fountain, although that would take a long time. Finally, you can move end crystals with pistons, so they could be moved to a block above the towers, and then a piece of deepslate (or a block covered in bedrock map art) could be placed below them. This would completely make your end realistic. Still, an amazing video, and I am in awe of the marathon you went through to make this video for us. Earned a subscrition!
And a like.
this is a really smart idea! i’d love to see him do this. as you said, an insane video, i’m in awe. crazy stuff lol
You can just place one block of obsidian, place the crystal, and replace the obsidian with the deep slate. Its easier and turn on hitboxes to avoid hitting the crystal or just go 1 more block below to be safe