Man ilmango is just a content making machine. So many new videos.

"we used this cactus farm in scicraft in order to provide us cactus for a bigger cactus farm" lol . . . I love that sentence

24:55 ngl that farm is so satisfying to watch

I build a kelp farm that detects every second growth and pushes the kelp against ironbars, so they drop down into a waterstream. its a 1 block wide modul and you can build it as big as you want to

For kelp collection: have you considered using scaffolding instead of signs? They are easier to place, items can go through from below and can't from above.

stuff like this makes me want to play minecraft again then i realise im no where near as good or as committed

Can't you use the triple observer kelp farm, but just have the flowing water a couple blocks higher? That way even if the kelp were to grow every tick the piston could punch it out before it grows to the top and transforms your flowing water into a source block. It would make it bulkier but it would be less effort than placing signs.

A+ for starting the episode in the Strand Bar 🙂

It feels like Mango is working on his content 19 hours a day!! Thank you for your hard work big bro, you are amazing 🖤

I'm falling in love with this series every episode 😁

This guy is an absolute machine! Loving the series just don't burnout lol

A self repairing flying machine will work too. I did this once and it worked but was some effort to get it working. You basicly use obsidian to run redstone over the pistons to restart a stuck fly machine. You may loose a cycle but in the end it is much less effort than the tons of pistons and observers needed. A other option would be the stair design by mumbo

Building a 12k/hr cactus farm just because... wow... thats insane. You and the scicraft group truly take Minecraft to the next level, every video is an inspiration. I do not know how you keep up this upload schedule while putting this much effort into every video. I envy your dedication, but also make sure to not burn out on the youtube content treadmill!

This made waiting for the train so much easier

What about using allays to collect the kelp? That way you could maybe also let the kelp grow a little bigger. But I dont know how that is going to infer with the fact, that kelp can stop growing at some point.

I love that at 4:26, ilmango has a schematic of a build limit cactus farm with just two double chests as the storage

Maybe hooking up the slimeblock kelp farm with a chunk loaded detector could work/prevent it from breaking. (simple design is cart on tilted rail with fence at low end with pressure plate ontop of the fence)

I wanna see ilmango on 1 million subscriber

For the kelp farm: you could put the observer above the piston, power a block behind it with redstone dust underneath. Now surround the dust so it powers the piston and the blocks beside it, powering the pistons the next row over. That design would use a lot less material but might cause a little more lag because of the used dust. The good part is that its more or less stackable, you simply have to push it back one block and tileable, since you can just repeat a 2 wide slice. It also wouldnt break when unloaded. The only disadvantage i see with it is that only half of the plants are observed so the rates might fluctuate a bit...

I always love how big the difference is between Mango's "small" and regular player's small. Also two videos in a day! Let's goo!

24:15 You can use a layer of ice instead of dirt. After you've put the water streams on top, you can just break the ice with a non-silktouch pick, it turns to water and you can just place the signs in that water, automatically water-logging them, saving you a few steps.

Its incredible how fast you manage to do all these things, as all these videos are great and come out super consistently. Amazing job

am i the only one that would love to see Ilmango do a solo Create Mod series? id love to see how crazy he could go with the extra mechanics the Create Mod allows.

man I really love this series so much

Your videos are so zen. I've enjoyed every single one of them so far in this SkyBlock series. I love the chill and systemic progress. German engineering 100%

Sorry for my bad english... I have a crazy project idea, a 3D printer in minecraft, afk autocliker that place up to 16 block(2^(4) for the easy coding). the 1° problem will be how to load the player with a single block each time and i thought it can be made by a roof made of droppers and hoppers with a serpent shape stream made of ice and fences (or orher blocks that can be moved and allow block to fall thought), and a macchine that redirect the right dropped block on the serpentine with flowing water and ice. The 2° will be how to place blocks mid air, probably the solution is adding another bit on the string code (the recipe that the printer has to read) to code the emptiness and traslate it with a falling block where a support for a block on top is needed, 3°problemS are all the remaining work of making all the code related instruction for the printer, sincronizing the different parte of the machine and making the 3d printer actuallu usable by making a flying machine to move the product away. Sorry for my poor language but i hope that could inspire simeone more talmente than me at redstoning to expand this comunity

I was always fascinated by your dedication and precision when you're crafting a new machine and building them. Learned a lot about minecraft from you and build a lot of your machines in my single player world, and it's a lot of fun to understand them. Keep up the great work and greetings from Germany.

im not sure if you are familiar but borkon's "reliable harvester" is like a flying machine but it fixes itself after it breaks. i always use it for example for bamboo farms and im sure you could use it for kelp too.

I'm very impressed with your consistency

You want a ultimate challenge for your Skyblock world? So you know all the areas in between all of your paths to the farms and such that isn't just open void? Try filling them all in with lower slabs, it would be amazing to stand in the middle of that massive expansive completely flat area and just look out in every direction! Would make for a really nice mini streaming series for the skyblock world!

Idea for the kelp farm: Skip the signs, but keep the water level one block higher. That way if a kelp grows one block too high, it doesn't break the water stream.

Great episode, like always Been a pleasure to watch that beast of a farm being built

@ilmango, Hi! :) There should be another achievement :) Trade with a villager on a top of the world :) Your water elevator will help with that :) As well as you have villagers right in front of elevator :)

Thank you for the awesome content and great video!

The cactus farm will block the view of that normal terrain chunk you planned to build. Maybe you just build it next to your new base as a background feature.

great video as always!! it might be cool to have a to-do list board somewhere in the world, just as a little visual indicator of future projects!

Loving this series. Best series around.

I like the elevator, great view

What a cool machine. I've thought of challenging myself to build only in one chunk. All the machines I could need have to fit inside. Really enjoying your time lapse music too

23:45 That idea could totally work, just have a wall of blocks down the middle so that the items can't land in-between the water sources. It's a bit bigger, but probably a lot less effort than water-logged signs.

This was incredible! I loved the music during the time lapse

For the collection of the kelp farm, maybe using allays could help? I don't know how much you would need and how much lag they would create... Good luck though!

23:53 I think you should test this out, if there are actually items that would stay in the middle. Because I don't think there will be any, it's like an unstable equilibrium. One tiny lateral movement and they get flushed to the side.

Always love another cactus farm video!! They're super fun and satisfying to watch, keep it up :D

13:47 water bucket in hotbar moment

I hope you don't get burned out..your killing it dude..your are my #1 sorce of technical minecrafting

Man he keeps pumping these banger vids out I can’t stop watching them😂😂

Nice to catch a Skyblock episode early for once. :D

The creative content pf your videos is so RELATABLE that i can't begin to understand why people don't like it.

The Kelp farm I built was a hybrid between your flying-machine-farm and the observer based one. I took the item-collection part from the flying-machine farm but staggered the kelp in such a way that each plant gets harvested by a separate piston. I also made the water tank tall enough that a plant can never grow into the flushing water at the top, ~40 from the ground plate to the top. This design is tileable but if you don't want to overengeneer the redstone for the pistons you need a repeater every 15 blocks.

I had a funny moment when he was troubleshooting his first detection based kelp farm where I said "he'll need a layer of waterlogged signs" right before he said it. If you're still taking a poll, Ilmango, I love the creative side of this series! The troubleshooting and seeing your thought process is really entertaining and helps me diagnose my farms :)

I’ve been waiting for so long to see you go to the end and get shulker boxes, maybe even make a shulker farm

For the kelp farm. Your design with water flushing over pistons is good. You just need to remove one side of the module, thus eliminating the problem of items stuck between 2 opposite water flows by removing one of the flow.

My favorite KZfaqr of the past year by far, thanks for all you do.

Signs would probably be more practical, but you could let the double Kelp growth happen and remove the extra water sources with occasional Piston pulses

I have to say, I'm really liking how the skyblock design is almost starting to look like a city? What with all the high-rise buildings... It's a really cool aesthetic that just naturally came about I guess, but it's cool!

you can also swim down the bubbles not super useful but good to know for the onetime you need it

I swear, even when you're aware of the issues of farms staying loaded, you're going to break one eventually anyways. I built your earlier moss-based bonemeal farm with the double-speed stone generators on my SMP. Turned it on just to test it out, without a chunk loader in place yet. Of course it's at that very moment that the server decides to disconnect me, after a stable connection for hours. I log back in in a panic to see water going everywhere, lava turned into obsidian, and a bunch of blocks pushed out of place. Cue a half hour of repairing it. 😩 Though I will remark, sometimes farm builders in general have a tendency to neglect the concept of failing gracefully. I was able to add some unpushable blocks in various places around your design that mean that even if it breaks again for some reason, it'll do so less destructively (only the stone generators may need resetting but no blocks will go out of place).

good job - loving this series

Use one observer and a cactus as the timer for harvesting the kelp, Saw Tango do that worked great for my kelp farm, and if you want you can tie it to a flying machine, and I think it won't break then.

Here's an idea for a mod: load regions. Basically, if one chunk in a given region is loaded, then the entire region is loaded. Only when every chunk is marked for unload will any of them actually unload. This would be cheaper than perma-loaders. I don't know how feasible this is because I don't know the details of the chunk unloading algorithm, but it seems like it'd help greatly with huge, complex farms that span multiple chunks. It could save needing a fakeplayer if a player is near any of the chunks or if one of the chunks is a spawn chunk.

You dont want to use an on/off switch for the farm. Then automaticly chunkload the whole thing with some kind of a player detection system.

You could maintain the water stream by having a ceiling that lowers to block the spots that shouldn't be sources and just extend and invert the signal from the existing pistons to retract the ceiling. Even if it gained new source blocks, the next lowering and raising would self fix.

I love how you are trying to make things look fancy!!!

Mango i don’t know how you do it but you pump out high quality videos at astonishing rates! (Especially with 11hours of cactus farm building, holy crap) Love the stuff, keep it coming 👍 (but don’t burn yourself out)

Wow, a lot of hardwork. Nice video. Keep it up.

Every time I see or think of a cactus farm illmango pops in my head

Kelp farm: 1) either have the top glass blocks not by the sources being pistons and they will destroy any newly created sources, or 2) for the flying machine, have the triggering observer read the side of the tank and have the block it is swiping being target blocks or similar you can change state of. Then a hopper clock can re-wake the machine if it is stuck

This is such chaos and I love it

Wait for new skyblock ep. Always worth ❤

oh that's so cool! we're making a kelp + cactus based xp farm on my server too, we use the flying machine one because it's not launching often (every 10 minutes or so for us), so it's quite unlikely to unload while it's running, and even if it does, it's a very simple machine to rebuild if needed. And also, we turn it on / off when needed, it's just a support for an ice farm, so we turn it on and off with the ice farm Also, one simple thing to do to boost the kelp drying is to use smokers, that's not often we got a use of those, but they cook the kelp twice as fast as normal furnaces, so we need twice as less of those. And they look cooler than normal furnaces too :p

I think I've had a good game idea, If you put a hopper under a cauldron filled with a fluid ie water or lava over enough time it has a chance to drain the fluid out of it into the block below the hopper

"after six hours I was over it.. so I went for another five." Man, I have so much respect and appreciation for you, mango.

I play such skyblock since 1.16 (it was other carpet skyblock those days), not every day, sometimes I get a break for months. Flying machine kelp farm was one of the first farms I build when I got redstone, and It bkoke like 2-4 time for a 2+ years playing in a singleplayer world. It's not that bad in my expirience. But I have to note, it is close to my main storage and I can see if it breaks, so there will be no situation when it breaks and I will see it week after.

Thanks for the new skyblock episode, ilmango.

About that kelp farm: i had 4 V shaped kelp farms (Basically kelp top of previous row observer, piston 1 block above and then above that observer. Kelp floats up and drops middle of the "V") in square formation so they all feed in middle where i had my furnace array. I dont really remember the rates (built it like over 4 years ago) but i liked how they looked. just an idea to consider/test how it performs and if its usable or not. :)

You could use Allays for the Kelp collection

If you build your kelp farm tall enough, you don't need to worry about it breaking the waterstreams. Although that does mean more building relative to the rates you get. As a taller kelp plant doesn't grow faster than a short one. Which isn't an issue if you have oceans to build in. But it isn't really useful for skyblock.

Totally bizarre watching the time-lapse when I watch him do it at normal speed. Even when he is a madmen when building

Considering pathways and elevators and infrastructure in general - even with an elytra - i personally always force myself to make sure i can access areas without having one. God forbid i should die somewhere high up, i want to be able to retrieve my items. But i played on a server where you were only allowed TWO elytras ever. If you lost both of them, no more elytra for you.

Always good to hit the world limits in a sandbox game. It’s a milestone of progress in its own way.

Your world is turning into a big city downtown - Skyscrapers popping up all over the place!

It would be cool if you could loop a cart/carts with a hopper through the water to pick up the kelp and have it land on a track to deposit it into the furnace to be cooked. And then to make things crazy loop the track around to carry the cooked kelp into the furnaces to cook the cacti.

Love all your videos mango. have you thought about including a time stamp in your timelapses so we can kinda see how long stuff takes? I think it’s often undervalued how much time you actually spend on your builds. keep up the amazing content 👊

If you place the next kelp module above and to the side of the first, you can place the waterlogged signs against the back of the 2nd observer. This would put 2-block channels at the top and bottom of the kelp farm, but you can remove the need for glass and make the whole structure more dense.

Could use a design where the piston is under the kelp instead like a bamboo farm which should be safer for against source blocks especially if there's a one block safety gap above the observer

I've got an idea for your flying machine: You can build an online detector based on a cat sitting and standing up on top of a chest all the time. At the moment the owner logs out the cat keeps sitting on the chest. This can be detected and stops the flyingmachine to get launched for the next cyclus. So you don't have to worry about a stucked flyingmachine.

Crazy cactus farm! 11 hours, you madman :)

You might be able to make a waterfall-shaped design: triple-observer-piston modules, but placed two blocks up and one block over from one another, on a diagonal, allowing water to flow horizontally and be in line with the kelp. Basic unit of tiling: [water flowing left] [water source] [water source] [piston] [kelp (in water)] [observer] [observer] [observer]

For the kelp farm: you can place the water before you place the signs using ice the same way that you’d fill the layers with water normally. You might also be able to use scaffolding which would probably make it a bit faster to build.

I want expecting episode on this time of day

For the kelp farm, could you have a piston push a slime block wall periodically to break any source blocks from misbehaving kelp? You could even have the kelp-destroying pistons push a 2 high wall to reset the water stream at the cost of a bit more width to the farm.

So easy solution for the cactus on off switch would be a simple t-flip flop, dispenser and lava bucket to get rid of excess cactus. Or a furnace array to store cactus green to slowly delete the dye to get some easy, slow XP.

13:44 redstone enjoyer trying to get out of a 2 block tall hole by throwing an ender pearl, while also having a perfectly functional, full bucket of water and an axe in his hotbar. also 2:50 RIP that hopper trying to suck up 12.5k items per hour

For the kelp farm, I suggest the stupidly simple but 100% efficient sugar cane farm, just with kelp. Kelp grows, on the block above is a piston to break it, one above that there is an observer to detect when it reaches 3 tall. The observer points into a block that powers the piston by QC, and a redstone line under the block, that gets powered and updates the piston to extend it. thinking about it, the problem this might have is that the piston turns the second block of water from source to flowing, which could make it so the items don't flow up, making the collection way harder. Which would get fixed when the kelp grows one block, and is broken when it reaches the third. At the very least it's way cheaper than the triple observer design shown in the video. Could there be a way to let the items flow up and just stand there and later just push them out with a slime block? If the concept works you just have to push them once every anything less than 5 minutes, so a simple hopper clock would do the trick, and should be safe to unload.

I look forward to these episodes so much!! Thank you ilmango Can I ask do you have a tutorial for how you make your command blocks show farm outputs and throughputs?

24:30 i tried it and you can use waterlogged scaffolding instead of signs, and the items go up through them but when they are on top of the scaffoldings they dont go down

WOOO first time seeing someone use this kelp farm design. I've seen a similar one, perfected it and started building a big kelp farm, but quickly ran out of resources, so there's just 10sb of observers randomly placed in my end dimension since 2020

My idea for kelp farm would be impractical. I would have it collected at the top and washed into dispensers. That would make kelp rain from the sky. And maybe even have some kelp shooting up from the ground.

That bonemealed kelp farm is satisfying to watch