This is the best survival series on KZfaq. As someone who grew up on Survive and Thrive, this scratches the same itch more than 10 years later.

A good slime farm in the swamp starts with a spawn platform covered in brown mushrooms and darkened. The brown mushrooms produce a light level of 1, stopping most spawns except slime. Then you add an iron golem with killing chamber below. Done. Just be careful how high you place the spawn platform, they only spawn between 51 and 69 in the above ground swamp. Place the platform at 68 and afk 125 blocks above the bottom of the killing chamber.

43:50 "For the enderman, not for me". A true Professional

...I am a little shook lol. I decided to make a slime chunk farm literally yesterday and was just searching for good tutorials. I was watching the tutorial from the 1.18 Let's Play last year, and then this video popped up like magic haha. Pixlriffs providing exactly what I need, as always lol

It might be worth mentioning that the idea to limit the number of spawning platforms is only really viable if your spawning platform is actually at Y=-63 (or Y=0 in the nether or end). Each tick, the game picks a random Y-level between the bottom of the world and the highest non-air block, which with 6 blocks of bedrock layers below the spawning platform has a 1 in 6 chance to actually hit a Y-level where there is a spawning floor. If you add a second spawning floor 3 or 4 blocks higher (big slimes can still spawn and move perfectly with only 2.5 blocks vertical room), you suddenly get a 2 in 9 or 10 chance for the spawn algorithm to hit a valid Y-level, which is better than the single layer. With 5 layers you get a 5 in 25 or 5 in 20 chance for the algorithm to hit a valid layer. A single slime chunk, especially when using portals, will not hit the mob cap, if no spawnable caves are available. So if this is still to slow for your taste (and you don't mind obtaining even more obsidian), go ahead and fill up the chunk so you are standing with your feet at or below Y=39 on the highest spawning floor. Top slabs with 2.5 blocks of air gap will allow you to make even more floors. You will probably not want that farm near your base then, as eventually its storage will overflow if it gets loaded passively all the time and cause unnecessary lag from all the slimes, iron golems, and items the backed-up hoppers can no longer pick up. It's usually better to make a more efficient farm and AFK at it for a bit, than to have a less efficient farm running constantly.

One thing I've found with swamp based slime farms/single player is that you really don't need a large one to get more than enough slime. In my world I had a sliver of a swamp biome near my base (less than 3 chunks in size, of that 170ish blocks are actually swamp biome) And thought I'd give it a try. (I usually dig out a chunk as you do) I built a single layer mushroom based farm over it. Despite it's small size, I still got more than enough slime for my needs, in a single overnight AFK session. I won't need to AFK there again for quite a while. So while perhaps not as fast as a chunk based farm build down at bedrock, it's a lot faster/easier to build, and still get enough for most peoples needs. Having said that, digging out a chunk is also a great resource gathering exercise, so still has some merits.

Did not know that portals actually load chunks around them even jn Survival… very interesting sightful! Thanks Pix

I've been playing Minecraft since 1.14 but I still learn a lot of things every episode. Hands down, one the best survival series out there! Your consistency is unmatched, Pix! (Also, my 8 year old dog recognizes your voice. ♥)

omg I was so confused by the moss carpet over the powder snow thing until you explained it😂

This style of farm is still good if you have a long lived world. I made one near a mooshroom island but still needed a decent amount of spawn proofing under the ocean. I eventually made a swamp one but it's only a single kill chamber. The chunk one was producing allot more so I end up using it more often.

OMG!!! I'd noticed the change to bats but thought I was imaging things!!!

Your explanations are always so good!! Your videos are my go-to always. Thank you so much for all your work!

That you're one powder snow bucket short of filling the killing chamber annoys me more than it should, fantastic build and video none the less.

Hey Pixl, WOW that rates is very good. Thanks for the streams and eps can't wait to see the slime edstone tech you build. Thanks and see you in the next eps, Cheers

Good call on the moss walls, it does look sharp.

This was the best episode of the Season 3 !

Awesome episode!

The description of the height-based spawning mechanics isn’t quite right. The game chooses an X-Z location, then finds the highest block of any kind in that column and picks a random Y value between the bottom of the world (-64 in the overworld) and the highest block (inclusive). It then tries to spawn a mob at that random Y value between those two points. With a platform at Y=64, that gives you a 1/129 chance of getting a mob on your platform. At Y=-59, it’s a 1/6 chance, making a spawn attempt ~20 times more likely to succeed.

Those moss walls look great!

Aww that slime cameo at the end.

I would note that portal farms in servers often need another player loading the other dimension unless you're the only one on. I have a lot of them on my own server

Yoooo!! the SHEILD just got smooshed by the slime 😅😅

Always a surprise to find a slime chunk, I don't like using chunk base but not against people who do 😊

I managed to squeeze a small slime farm in a chunk underneath my base, which has been produced more slime than I could ever use while I'm pottering around building. I'm very much looking forward to 1.21 so that I can revisit lots of my farms-not least my slime and iron farms-to add Crafters in order to automatically compress the drops and save on storage space!

Shout out to MumboJumbo, who made a slime farm so bad it inspired DocM77 to revolutionize slime farming in an attempt to make it work

34:31 my pixel's.......... dont mess with slimes, duly noted!

1:16 They remind me of Zubats from Pokémon >.

and from that one little farm, now the world can be covered in slime!

A good way to increase rates would be to dig out five blocks around the platforms from the bottom to top of the farm (obviously the golems will still need something to stand on) as that would increase pack spawning. That would give you 20-30% more spawns.

45 minute Pix video, must be my birthday

FYI: In Bedrock, powdered snow will eliminate fall damage. Also, if you like living life on the edge, hay bales will reduce fall damage (I'm not talking about placing them as you fall, but already being in place when you drop). You only receive half a heart of damage from a height of 26 blocks, and 0 damage from 10 blocks or less (the only two heights I checked with hay bales & there's no good reason why I picked those two).

When the auto crafter block is in will you be able to use a hopper to send slime into the crafter, craft blocks, and send those into a double chest? Exponentially expanding available storage

A few slime block launchers to bring you to your nether portal in the nether would be pretty cool instead of the ladder, and fitting since its a slime farm

pls can you finish the interior of your storage hall soon? I love your buildy//more creative episodes :D

Nice

"pix please bring back the one chunk build series" Pix: SAY NO MO

I wanter to build the ultimate mop spawners so I mined a hole 125 blocks x 125 blocks all the way down to bedrock. Just so happened a slime block was about 2/3rds inside my endeavor. As I reached the - 30's and - 40's slime started flooding my mine... I fought those things for 2 weeks!!! After 3 full double chest of slime balls. There are only a couple of things these are good for. After that, I have a lifetime supply, thank you. Z Same goes for glow squid. I have a double chest of these and now discard... :/ Keep up the great videos. Love your approach to building contraptions. 👍

After one the last 2 updates to Bedrock the powder snow drop does now work

The shield!

Niceee

I noticed when I went fishing on top of ocean monument during the new moon is when i got the most enchanted books.

Not sure if you're aware of this but, you can set up a minecart ladder for fast vertical travel in the nether instead of just ladders.

You missed a good opportunity to get the 'Caves & Cliffs' advancement. (freefall from max build height to bedrock)

41:16 also for getting up from the farm you could install a minecart elevator, they work in bedrock too so no concern there. It would be significantly faster than the ladder of course

Ilmango: Swamp slime farms is the way to go since 1.18

will this farm work at would spon like the iron farm?

pov me building this and finding out the deep dark is in the chunk, few hours for nothing, we love minecraft

It seems like a bit of overkill for a single player world. It’d be nice to see farms that just produce a few stacks at a time but are less of an investment up front.

i found a slime chunk, later checked it on chunckbase but when i go more the 23 blocks away after half an hour nothing has spawned

Would replacing the torches on the spawn platforms with glowstone blocks increase your spawnable area? It would light above and below, but can slimes spawn on glowstone?

The farm will NOT work if you have a player in the nether more than 128 blocks away. The slimes will enter the nether and immediately despawn. That’s the case with all multi-dimensional farms. You will need somebody to AFK near it.

Wakey wakey it’s time for the Minecraft survival guide come on

Great farm. I would put an asterik on it though. On a multiplayer world it will be affected by other players being in the nether but outside of mob render distance of the farm. That being the case the slime would instantly despawn when coming through the portal. Probably not a big deal unless one or more players are permanently residing in the nether. Worth mentioning for potential troubleshooting, though.

I think there is a small geometry problem here. The spawn area is an sphere, so the afk point being 128 points from the bottom and center of the opposing portal of the bottom layer means some areas in the corners of the bottom layer would be in the auto-despawn area. And this areas are larger as you go up the layers. The effect is not big because the 16-20 height is small compared to the 128 radius. But it would probably make all portals in the far away wall of the all layers, except the bottom one, being useless because they would be in the auto-despawn area. A better option would be make the afk point in the middle height of the layers instead of the bottom one. But to make all areas in all layers productive you would have to be a little closer. That would increase the area outside the farm where mobs can spawn, so I don't know if it's worth it.

32:30 distinction here, on bedrock a campfire/soul campfire does actually set you on fire, so if you tried a killing mechanism like this on bedrock it would delete itself

If only pixl made this a day earlier. I just made a logicalgeekboy simple farms slime farm

Hey Pixlriffs. I recently started a new Java world, and I set up base on a couple of mushroom islands. As such I've spend around 300 minecraft days on that island by now and I have noticed that mobs can indeed spawn there. It happens rarely enough that I haven't found a pattern to it. Only once it has been a creeper, which spawned a few blocks inland (well within the bounding box of the mushroom biome) but otherwise it has been zombies. These have spawned around three times in packs of 3-4 in those 300 days, mostly very near me, like within 24 blocks, even had on appear right in front of me. So not sure what is going on there. Also I learned that mycelium does indeed overtake grass, so as you work on your terraforming you have to put a non-dirt block between your grass and mycelius zones.

This might just be me but I dig out slim chunks and just build a few layers and manually kill the slimes I have never run into a spot where I need more that a stack or 2 of slime blocks at once

Them: What religion do you belong to? Me: I am biome agnostic

When are you gonna make a video about the music discs the easiest music disc farm

Do the torches on the ground reduce the spawnable space for the slimes ?

rip to that enderman

Should I spend time making this chat (can someone give me materials list for the exact same layers he used etc

"I'm the slime man! I jump into a world and throw slimes all over the nether!"

And now pix needs a new banner for his shield

stupid question, why do you put a waterlogged chest at the bottom of you safe fall rather than just a water source block?

Survival guide podcast

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Can I build the nether portal for slimes above the nether roof?

I could hear only two hits on your shield, Pixl. How come they have destroyed it all?

Why did the rtx series stop?

Wait - iron golems can be _repaired?!_ I learned something new! Also, I found it strange seeing packed snow in the nether - and on top of soul campfires to boot - when water doesn’t survive there.

I thought they changed the mob spawning rules which is why the witch farms took a hit?

sometimes I think about how insanely hot it must be in the nether... ,(esp with all those campfires lol) I mean, water evaporates as soon as it is placed,,

40:54 surprising you didn’t use a slime block!

LOl im so trash at the game NGL i chunkbase for everything

i found a zombie spawner right on the edge of mine

My slime farm is wheat dough and green dye ha

I play bedrock lifeboat server survival 🧸

Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.

Meow

i’ve got no babe to wake up for the new survival guide that just dropped 🥲

Number one thing about building a slime farm, once you're done building it you'll have all the slime you will ever need. Unless you build tons of flying machine