What's The BEST WAY To Farm Amethyst Geodes In Minecraft? Amethyst Geode Farm Tutorial!

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The 1.17 Caves and Cliffs Update is here for Minecraft! What is the best way to farm a amethyst geode in Minecraft? The answer is NOT redstone or automation, sadly! There are much faster, easier, and cheaper methods, that result in WAY more amethyst crystals than any form of automation can! I hope you found this video useful, and informative! If you liked it, consider leaving a like or maybe subscribing! You'll be supporting the channel and helping us reach 400k! 😁💕
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@mabatch3769 2 жыл бұрын

Filling the geode with water is a pretty good idea. I’m still going to automate a few of the buds though because, well, it’s Minecraft and that’s what I do.

@uhohhotdog 2 жыл бұрын

I really hate they made it impossible to move the budding amethyst. Would’ve been great to be able to make a gigantic crystal farm

@synthraofficial5366 2 жыл бұрын

Your telling me! Even if it was its own special enchantment. I live on an island in the game. I don't get anything else done. Good thing that I can just afk while I work on my writing so that I'm not actively wasting my time.

@izzy3120 Жыл бұрын

@@synthraofficial5366 I think its really funny that this implies that farming amethyst is more productive than working on your writing

@Hussienberkznuts_420 10 ай бұрын

Yeah but I know a x ray glitch so I can find infinite of geodes.

@shrdedcheeks 8 ай бұрын

@@BigBNolanno i cannot

@catsdogswoof3968 3 ай бұрын

I mena they spawn super common ther has to be a reason to find more

@milohobo9186 2 жыл бұрын

Its neat when manual farming is best, it happens so rarely!

@silentwisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! 1.17 is kinda designed for manual farming sadly. Not much good at the way of automation

@TheForeverRanger 2 жыл бұрын

@@silentwisperer For those of us who aren't good with redstone it is nice to see this. For the average player they made it to where you don't need to make an iron or gold farm as long as you can get Fortune 3.

@josh71293 2 жыл бұрын

@@silentwisperer I can't find any diamonds in a world created after the generation was supposedly "fixed". Do you have any ideas why?

@josh71293 2 жыл бұрын

@@silentwisperer I am in bedrock.

@Shuckstar1975 2 жыл бұрын

@@josh71293 There still there you have just been unlucky.

@steveminecraft4364 2 жыл бұрын

I just removed everything that wasn’t bussing amethyst and placed some scaffolding to get around easily, so glad I have fortune and to be honest I never thought of using water to get around, that’s the most beautiful thing about your videos, the infinite ideas you seem to come up with

@zachh3937 2 жыл бұрын

@@zakshei6967 amethyst be bussing 😳😳😂

@steveminecraft4364 2 жыл бұрын

@@zachh3937 bussing crystals 😳😳

@TheValenberry 2 жыл бұрын

imagine if there's _Fortune 3 Piston._

@santiagocorrea1139 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. Thanks Silent. I always love how you don’t only make farms or say something is better,, you explain the mechanics and that’s really helpful. Thank you!

@TheWisme 2 жыл бұрын

Its gotta be manual with fortune right? Edit: or maybe an afk farm using the fortune pick? Edit 2: Thinking about it more, if you made a water track to harvest some buds, the best direction to be looking is up.

@red3331 2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@jobkorteweg3875 2 жыл бұрын

I think you would be abel to harvest the geodes that way, but it takes a really long time for the geodes to grow and they are placed quite random. You would need a really long and complex water stream to harvest them all.

@chckenisfoodfood8045 2 жыл бұрын

Thts actually clever, because you could have a loooooooooong redstone clock then it would set you on the track then. Back to your afk spot then back on the track again. Thats actually REALY clever. Thank you for the idea

@mrlawd1237 2 жыл бұрын

Depending on the buds would be hard

@akiempow 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that is I already drained my ocean geode, and now I have to flooded it back.😂

@hyplexz2304 2 жыл бұрын

@URAsoreloser1 2 жыл бұрын

Why would you need to drain something that does not generate with water on the inside?

@akiempow 2 жыл бұрын

Just thought some fancy thing could be build in it. Infact, I got spare geodes laying around so losing one doesnt matter to me.😁

@wovivuori2992 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making this. I need a lot of shards to make a lot of stacks of tinted glass for a farm and I was just flying around hoping to find geodes in my world and have little luck, but after watching this video a few hours ago and following the steps I've managed to get so many more stacks just from one location alone and it's great. Even if it is a bit of AFK'ing, it's still so much faster and efficient than searching for geodes and hoping there's a decent amount of amethysts there. So thank you, thank you, thank you for making this, it helped so much

@athyrsonmr 2 жыл бұрын

Silent, you're a genius! Hope your tutorial gets known and credited in all community.

@empireoftheclucks1452 2 жыл бұрын

You’re farms are the most reliable on KZfaq! Love your survival series btw, keep uploading!

@samuelcelovsky6013 2 жыл бұрын

Your

@aytoad 2 жыл бұрын

Your, and yes, truly bedrock is amazing

@grimtermite191 2 жыл бұрын

I actually prefer automatically farming them. I have found some desent ways to harvest them with pistons. The thing is with my automated system I can afk overnight or whilst I am away from home. But with a manual farm I would have to wake up every 3 hours or something to harvest them. That being said for many players a small amount is enough and manual farming is probably easier for them

@thealarm7057 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of don't have to cone back every 3 hours cause manually you get about 8 times as much. One time manual is probably more then two whole nights afk.

@vizdracviz 2 жыл бұрын

I recommend using an iron pickaxe with fortune 3, so that it is very unlikely to break any budding amethyst.

@WyldWolfDragon 2 жыл бұрын

Why not wooden lol

@vizdracviz 2 жыл бұрын

@@WyldWolfDragon I know that you're joking, but just to make it clear, wooden pickaxe is too slow, and doesn't have much durability, even with unbreaking 3

@11_iqrulmukhtafa26 2 жыл бұрын

Iron? Wood? Stone pickaxe Take it for deal

@sirmant1651 2 жыл бұрын

nice, because one of my librarian villagers are selling fortune 3 for one emerald (using zombification)

@athenaxufuris6575 2 жыл бұрын

Iron and below drop half as many as using a diamond pickaxe.

@DexTag 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Silentwisperer, I made my own Amethyst Geode farm using Slime Blocks instead of a ton of pistons. It allows you to easily adjust to the sides of the Budding Amethyst and thus avoids a ton of clusters created by the pistons and redstone. I really like your approach with water to avoid breaking the actual blocks and allowing you to farm with fortune, but most manual farms eventually got replaced by automatic farms.

@Blue_Phoenix24 2 жыл бұрын

Just want to express how amazing you are Silent! I very much appreciate how much expertise and ingenuity you share with amateur 'Crafters such as myself.

@yisus.avocado 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't think about the water, that's amazing! Great video :)

@torxio2650 2 жыл бұрын

automation is constant, you can easily set up a clock or even detect when the crystal is fully grown through observer's and comparators, although personal harvest yields higher amounts you have to be there constantly, if you had something nearby you could be harvesting crystals, while doing other work. but i mean most people don't need that many crystals anyways, but i still don't think its fair to say automation isn't worth it simply because its more complex

@silentwisperer 2 жыл бұрын

the resources and time it takes to automate, and the rates you get from it, just are not worth it. if you don't need many crystals, then just manually harvent like 1-2 times and your set for life. no need to invest in the farm, yknow? farming is great, but geodes are designed to be bad for farming haha

@biggorillaglue1176 2 жыл бұрын

Man your channel has been so helpful thank you

@marounhelou8175 2 жыл бұрын

the best you and your farms I was about to quiet minecraft bedrok but when I discovered you it just changed.thx you thx you and thx you keep up the good and hard work I wish you the best luck in life

@OmNom1206 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t it be easier to fill and harvest if you tore down the basalt and made a rectangular capsule? That way you could fill the top with water and then grow kelp and the crystals would float to a smooth ceiling that makes it easy to find the crystals.

@catsdogswoof3968 3 ай бұрын

Yea

@Name-xs3bd 2 жыл бұрын

I’d say the best way is having a few in an ocean, pop the ceiling and make them a rectangle, then have them float up into a single layer of flowing water at the surface and have that feed into a collection system

@tidalfan6502 2 жыл бұрын

Tysm for explaining the mechanics

@Scinfinity 2 жыл бұрын

My geode has 60 budding amethyst so with fortune i will have around 5750 shards. yey!

@Howtoplix 2 жыл бұрын

😳

@GaelGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the Farm :)

@asc3nded397 2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you silent I never would have thought about flooding the amethyst geode! By the way, do you have plans for a shulker farm for bedrock using the new shulker breeding system? I would love to build one in my realm but don’t really know how to make one as there aren’t any bedrock farms for it yet as far as I can tell.

@LulyPlays 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Silent!!! This is what I needed ☺️🙏🏻

@theradboi7686 2 жыл бұрын

Out of all bedrock edition youtubers, your videos are most well thought out.... *I am not saying others are bad

@MineCraft-nz9pg 2 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this 🙂

@airpond2893 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch!

@bruj4824 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip it help me so much

@Geoff1928 2 жыл бұрын

Yess! Flooding the room helped massively

@webyankee6558 2 жыл бұрын

MOST EXCELLENT, May I add, For light use an on/off switched Redstone Lamp OR use; Sea Lanterns, Shroomlights, Glowstone, Jack o'Lantern, Lanterns (Regular NOT Blue), Sea Pickle-Cluster of 4, End Rods to name the best ones. CHEAP-O AIR: Use Sugar cane on sand block underwater to re plenish your air underwater and stop drownding (Light up area or mobs will spawn)

@user-ej7sr3ow8b 2 жыл бұрын

I think the most annoying thing is that budding amethyst cannot be moved. This makes designing a farm much harder since usually amethyst geode spawns in cages and would be very dangerous to enter

@Knight_Fury_007 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I was waiting for this video

@PxP_Aquila 2 жыл бұрын

It's the first method that came into my mind, I added a conduit underneath to safely afk into the conduit and to have night vision and water breathing 😊

@AliensearcherPlaysMinecraft 2 жыл бұрын

It would really be great if you did a shulker shell farm tutorial with the new 1.17 mechanics

@knight764 2 жыл бұрын

"can't break or move them" ranboo: are you sure about that

@pandreamonium2739 2 жыл бұрын

did he pick up a bud?

@jacobnealy3588 2 жыл бұрын

If you have an axolotl in a bucket you can use it has an infinite water source by picking up the axolotl every time. I think it works with a fish as well but I haven't tested that yet

@FrostyLava 2 жыл бұрын

For someone in java, it doesn't work. Only works on bedrock

@LitesLAB 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Silent! It was nice to hear you mirror what I said in my video, the best farm is indeed the player :) I love the water method .. looks so easy!

@LitesLAB 2 жыл бұрын

@@silentwisperer I heard the fog was coming back in a future update, is that true?

@whatgoesup9857 2 жыл бұрын

Did you put the water sheet for affect?😂. Love it

@synthraofficial5366 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad that I harvested all of mine with silk touch before watching this. I can still get the maximum number! Thank goodness...

@5_Feathers 2 жыл бұрын

I’m going to get on to do this. And how long does it take for it to grow into a full cluster

@crimsondredd4203 Жыл бұрын

So something i think works As in it should. Like it shouldn't reduce the amount you get is, you can use silk touch, then you get the amethyst cluster, that you can take to the chest you store the stuff in, place it on the ground or something and then go ham with a fortune 3 and put the shards in the chest You cannot take the buds, but you can take the things that grow on them as is Might help if you get too many to fit in your inventory

@greatdanelegend7001 2 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a geode in Minecraft and was very pleasantly surprised at how quickly they grew back in your video. I thought it would take, like, 20 minutes, but according to the Minecraft Wiki, it takes about as long as with cocoa (which doesn't take very long)

@dantemalick2872 2 жыл бұрын

He has tick speed turned way up it's about 1 full harvest for 3 hours real time at standard tick speed

@eljohnricabuerta863 Жыл бұрын

This is a cool build, also proves hardwork pays off better than easy work

@haniyehnikkhoo6420 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sm for your great farms, explanations and tipps! I have a question, how do you drop the stackable items fast from your inventory? I just know Q for non-stackables

@herostebnutpond7705 2 жыл бұрын

This is super usefull

@THELORDMONEYOFMAN 2 жыл бұрын

The way I do it, is to go explore the oceans, find the geodes, silk touch the clusters, bring them back to my base, profit. My world is old, so I have to go out like 6 thousand blocks to find new stuff. And that's after pruning the save file.

@THELORDMONEYOFMAN 2 жыл бұрын

@TheReview Dude I know, but for me, on my world, I don't have anything built out by any geodes, so there isn't any reason for me to afk out there besides amethyst. If I were to build, for instance, another creeper farm out there, then I would probably end up doing the way in the video. But 1 creeper farm is enough (until it breaks, AGAIN, stupid buttons)

@cezarygamer14roblox8 Жыл бұрын

thanks for the tips now i can mass produce amethyst and sell them on my server

@Diamond_ores5530 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for amethyst farm

@celestialbeas9214 2 жыл бұрын

really wish they were pushable with pistions. that would still work okay, with an effort vs reward scale. Want a huge slimeblock farm? gotta push them into place.

@christopherdubus6769 2 жыл бұрын

Found my first geode last night. I was thinking it would be a nightmare to automate. Looks like I was right.

@Jelle3007 2 жыл бұрын

Can you try and make a water draining flying machine? Would really help in my survival!

@princesscadance197 Жыл бұрын

Community: Automates everything Devs: 'Two can play this game.'

@silentwisperer Жыл бұрын

Nuuuuuuuu

@Summer_Skiwi 2 жыл бұрын

I’m still gonna use an automatic farm for it, the tick speed in the realm I’m in is very fast, so automatic is probably easier

@Shepard4711 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, in Java Edition the buds and the clusters have more comparable mining times. You can't one-tap mine the clusters, even with an Eff5 netherite pickaxe. But if you hold down any longer you can break the budding amethyst just as easily. :(

@Terry-hw1ws 2 жыл бұрын

When u and ur friend went and took all the amethyst clusters and budding blocks from a cave so now u need to find a new amethyst cave.

@AnisahRn Жыл бұрын

wanted to ask whats the use of the water. does it make it grow quicker or other reasons?

@loganboehnlein2738 2 ай бұрын

I got lucky enough to find two massive Geodes out in the ocean, so I just plopped my Mob farm out there between them. Three birds with one stone

@itachiuchiha1688 2 жыл бұрын

I think chuck loader by foxy would be a good choice for akfing :-)

@marcus_aurelius_5216 2 жыл бұрын

No, a player needs to be within 128 blocks of the budding amethyst for it to grow the clusters

@hyplexz2304 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcus_aurelius_5216 that's perfect! I have 6 geodes in one area that are all extremely close to each other

@feste31979 2 жыл бұрын

He is a champion

@giresh05 2 жыл бұрын

Can we use chunk loader because amethyst cluster grow based on random tick so I am not sure chunk loader will work

@nunut1200 Жыл бұрын

How come they grow so quick but in my world it takes so long, what in the settings did you change?

@BooksMusicMe17 Жыл бұрын

No shout-out for allays? If you have access to them, using one to pick up any dropped clusters that get stuck on the top of a block is quicker and easier than flooding the whole thing. Maybe just need a little bit of scaffolding so you can reach clusters more than 6 blocks up, but you don't actually need to be able to walk by them.

@dalton7167 2 жыл бұрын

I have a quick Question. Should i be near it So the Shards to grow or its okay to be Far because i traveled 200 blocks to get to an amethyst geode.

@buek.19977 2 жыл бұрын

Thank

@nitinbhardwaj624 2 жыл бұрын

I still have a suggestion, using silk touch actually shows if the cluster is fully grown or not. This way you can save the buds which aren't fully grown.

@leadharsh0616 2 жыл бұрын

I mean you are wierd if you can't tell when they are fully grown. Like crops are similar.

@kairu_aname 2 жыл бұрын

@@leadharsh0616 If you don't play a lot but still wanna have things you may not have a complete understanding of visual differences, not even mentioning that some people play with skin packs on that change what the crops look like

@leadharsh0616 2 жыл бұрын

@@kairu_aname hmm

@tariffictypist7372 2 жыл бұрын

Question, can you move budding amethyst with listens?

@tariffictypist7372 2 жыл бұрын

Would recommend water breathing instead of a conduit so there is no haste

@panda_314 2 жыл бұрын

Is a chunk loader a good option? To keep that particular chunk loaded all the time so that the stuff can grow SB737 did it in his hardcore world Is there any design which can be used for BE?

@rubixtheslime 2 жыл бұрын

You could use a ticking area, but if you'd rather keep achievements you are 100% out of luck. Sadly there is currently no chunk loading mechanic in bedrock, aside from players loading chunks normally and the /tickingarea command.

@jordanpayton821 2 жыл бұрын

Lol I was literally thinking of him in this. He’s awesome tho

@Robertq026 6 ай бұрын

I have a question? Does filling the geode with water affect the speed at which the amethyst grows or is it just for convenience?

@silentwisperer 6 ай бұрын

water is just to make it easier to get around:)

@CB-lw7ty 2 жыл бұрын

I mean the reason to automate it is to get it over time without having to deal with it so you can literally set up a redstone clock in time with how long it takes a cluster to develop and only use 1 side of each bud to stop the resource cost/spaghetti redstone and get plenty over time. If you then need a huge amount in a short space of time then you can just fortune all the clusters you're not auto harvesting, seems a better solution than saying manual just because manual gets more in 1 instance. Would be like saying fortune coal blocks is better than making a wither skelli farm, of course it is, but wither skelli farm I don't have to do anything to get it, same happens in this instance.

@mabatch3769 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt. We can also get a lot more carrots by using fortune but I’m still going to make villagers farm them for me. I’ll probably end up doing what you are and having some automated and some manual sections of the geode near my base.

@silentwisperer 2 жыл бұрын

they grow so slowly, and the redstone needed means you'll likely get like, 8 clusters automated per geode. if you want a fully afk design. whereas you can visit the geode every other day, do a full harvest, and just get mountains of the stuff haha. ofcourse you can do whatever you want tho! Thatst he beauty of minecraft:)

@ElectrickWarlok 2 жыл бұрын

If you prefer manual farming for amethyst shards then that's fine, but to condescend about automation in this case is just a weird flex. Some people (like me) prefer automation regardless of the rates so that we can go work on other projects while resources are continuously being harvested.

@kryptonite702 2 жыл бұрын

I get they wanna make it hard to get but if you updated an old world you can’t get them near your base on bedrock. It should be silk touched but like 1/5 chance it drops or something rare so we have a option

@ethancollins2332 2 жыл бұрын

I did this as soon as the update came out lmao

@reysquadron7820 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry if stupid question, I just jumped back into new update after being away a couple of months. What do you use amethyst shards for??

@antemorph66 2 жыл бұрын

The telescope and I believe tinted glass. Look it up

@DarkNght-cl6xp Жыл бұрын

You could actually automate this and it will prove better than fortune in long afk sessions, I saw a design by 1 man 1 guy, you should check it, I made my own adjustments to it to make more use of sides, I guess you shall see it and out your own adjustments to optimize the rates

@crimsondredd4203 Жыл бұрын

What is the max time it takes for basically all the sides to grow an amethyst cluster Trying to figure out how long i should wait before going to harvest. I want them all to be grown but not do it once a year in real time lol

@theswani3 2 жыл бұрын

I built your iron farm in my world a few months ago and with the new update it seems to have broken. Anything you know of that caused this or simple fixes?

@Darkprince-qs3ze 2 жыл бұрын

For me the farm does work... Maybe relink the villagers to their beds and workstations

@Boogman123 Жыл бұрын

Can you move the budding amethyst with pistons?

@logangrimnar3329 2 жыл бұрын

Diamond or Netherite Pickaxe with Fortune III the Shard Breaks and doesn't drop anything on a fully grown shard. Bedrock Edition on PS4

@sirmant1651 2 жыл бұрын

It is probably a large amethyst bud then, large amethyst buds and amethyst clusters look similar.

@ShartFromTheHeart Жыл бұрын

im getting 78 stacks of crystals for a large project, this is gonna take a while

@charlesl115 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please make a creeper farm!

@Pestilencemage Күн бұрын

...Imma have to automate at least 1 crystal. Just so it is always collecting. Cuz if you never use it, and you're always near it... then that ONE crystal auto farm is going to produce as much as you give it room to store vs as much as the geode can produce times drop rate. In short: ...maybe if I need to automate a axolotl breeder of some kind... the reason to do it is so it will work WHILE I do more important tasks of building better farms.

@Pestilencemage Күн бұрын

I'm only 3:30 in. I just hear comments help so I think of something to comment sometimes. Let the thing know someone still finds purpose in viewing and interacting with often older videos.

@Pestilencemage Күн бұрын

Ooh, I got lots of geodes (lush caves surround home) but 1 next to base/spider xp farm... so automation makes some sense. If I need CASH NOW, I can call 1-800-hope over to the two bigger geodes in close range. They're all over, man.

@rokit0402 2 жыл бұрын

You can make a timer to harvest the amethysts

@timsexotics 2 жыл бұрын

Sooo... If I had silk touch on my pickaxe⛏️... Would I be able to collect the budding amethyst blocks?

@ItsLemontree 2 жыл бұрын

watching the video while running to get my fortune 3 pickaxe

@jjeshop 2 жыл бұрын

Best way I've learned to do it? Build your base underwater, near a geode. Fortune 3.

@ThatEnzZ. 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Silent can you do a tutorial on how to delete chunk on mobile without pc. I know that you don't have much knowledge on mobile but we need your help.

@Defnetlynotken 2 жыл бұрын

Wdym

@fizzywizzy0 2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by deleting a chunk?

@stuartcommon4651 2 жыл бұрын

He means he wants to delete chunks... remove them from his world so they regenerate

@Defnetlynotken 2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartcommon4651 I think silent made a video about somethin like that "How to reset the nether"

@stuartcommon4651 2 жыл бұрын

@@Defnetlynotken you can reset a whole dimension or individual chunks

@rubixtheslime 2 жыл бұрын

Silk touch picks should not be able to break budding amethyst blocks period. I think amethyst farming is doomed to be a terrible stressful nightmare in its current state. Sure you can't automate it, whatever, but trying to break the crystals and not the block? Not a good time. Especially if you're on console with any amount of stickdrift, or mobile... period. In those cases you're basically forced to use a wooden pick just to slightly reduce your chances of forever ruining the farm. I think they could easily fix this with a very simple change: Silk touch picks cannot break budding amethyst blocks at all. I've said this before and I will keep saying it. The intent of silk touch is to preserve the state of the block, and with budding amethyst the only way to do that is to not break it at all. At the very least, they should make it so pickaxes are not the correct tool for budding amethyst.