why not go for 100 million

Rare occurrence where the sequel is better than the original LETS GOO

The fact that in the process he got a pretty impressive speedrun time is the funniest part to me

I really think if you do this again you should think about spawnproofing the farm by putting light sources in the ground- would be absolutely worth the slight melon loss to save time on dealing with mobs while your iron farm runs. Also- I'd make every block around your iron farm into path blocks to be sure they ONLY spawn inside the hot tub

Watching him turn his game to peaceful on 16:02 hurt so bad because I knew the zombies in the iron farms would despawn and it took him ages to realise.

The reason you had mined less dirt than you picked up in the statistics menu is that some of your shovels didn't have Silk Touch, meaning that when you mined a grass block it would drop dirt, counting it as having picked up dirt but having mined grass.

Absolutely awesome content. Gripping and fun. Some thoughts on the farm(s): - Slime farm worked great it seems. Provided enough slime with minimal effort. I dont think a slime chunk farm wouldve been better due to excavation time. - Iron farms could have been more robust i think. Thats hindsight after seeing rates and needed materials tho. - As pointed out elsewhere, i think spawn proofing the melon farm would be a good idea in any future tries. I would consider leaves or slabs for this task. The slabs may require reworking the farm. Or use buttons (not sure if minecarts are bothered by them). - Human-hoppering is easier with as empty an inventory as possible. - Other melon farm designs may be more suitable, but they may require resources that are outside the scope of this challenge. - Building a manual melon farm above or below to manually farm while staying around to keep it all in render distance.

This guy needs to have a survival series where he makes a farm for every item

Yet in his dismay, he hadn’t realized he mined 3.9mil. 2.9mil more than his previous goal with the same timeframe. True dedication

Hey, this might not be helpful, but I noticed that you had to count all of the melons by hand. The 'carpet' mod for fabric by mojang employee 'Gnembon' has a feature that allows you to count large numbers of items for farms. Not only would it show how many melons you've farmed, it would also show you the average amount of melons produced per hour, allowing you to figure out how much longer it would've taken to meet your goal if you fail. Love the video, great concept! :D

I LOVE watching you. youre so dedicated to every single video and its just super fun to watch you. keep going!!

24:33 bro WHAT!!!,had to replay this 5 times to get over how happy he was

So we get a third melon video. Excellent. They get better each time.

rekrap is the technoblade of melons, trying to find the most efficient way to not only farm them but also everything that leads up to them

RIP Freddy 2023-2023

Can only apologise I didn't know of you sooner . This video alone was the reason I subscribed ❤ can't wait to check out the rest of your channel

I would love to see this done in multiplayer with an even higher goal. But who could you possibly convince to grind melons with you for this long?

13:18 My best guess is that grass blocks (he had over 14k mined) drop as dirt blocks unless you have silk touch, which he clearly did not

you are probably the most determined and levelheaded person ive ever even heard of

31:24 his genuine happiness oml

I can't believe how you modified the farm last minute to reach 10 million and 1 melons. Truly one of the top 10 moments of all time

The reason why it showed different numbers for dirt mine and picked up is cause grass block don't count as dirt blocks mined, but if mined with regular shovel (no silk touch) the drop as dirt.

This is a good video man keep up!

This is a great video rekrap. You are the best UKpostsr with funny and original content with a unique editing style and I have learned so much from you. Keep up the good content

the sequel we never knew we needed but always did 😆

The way he is trying to be family friendly, LOVE UR VIDEOS MAN

first: I'd like to say this was a very cool video to watch. I like the idea of hyper farming stuff in minecraft to an extreme degree (and extreme may be too light a word to describe this) but I have a few ideas to improve the situation (were you to try again). also, I'm aware it's been nearly a year since this released and the odds of anyone seeing this are low, but hey: I thought of some stuff, so here we are. 1. it would take extra time, but you could build a villager breeder. this creates more villagers (duh) for the iron farms, but you can also use them for my next idea. 2. this one may be too intensive, but hear me out. in your spawn chunks, build a hut and move 70 villagers there. trade with all of them once, and get them all zombified. this will ensure no more hostile mobs spawn anywhere ever. they take up the mob cap, and since they're in spawn chunks and have been traded with previously, they will always be loaded and never despawn. you do have to make sure you never give them items to hold or nametag them, though, or they won't count against the mob cap anymore. using that method, you could drop some dirt for the zombies in your iron farm so they don't count against the mob cap either. all that will definitely take some time, but I think completely preventing spawns will help with speeding up melon production and also keeping machine failures down. 3. you could use water streams to transport melons faster. again, a bit strange on the face of it, but hear me out. they have to be collected in hoppers for the farm's basic design, BUT you could use observer or repeater clocks with droppers to spit the melons back out, in item form, with synched despawn clocks and in uniform places (so none are lost on the edges). then, you could build water streams to transport the melons across hoppers to grab up the melons and store them in chests, which would cut down on the iron cost significantly (and make storage neater). I think droppers and observers make more sense, since they don't require bows and smelted stone to make and do the same thing here. you would need way more time to build the mob switch, gather redstone and cobblestone to build the water collector, and villager breeder, but I think not having to collect melons by hand would balance out the time. instead of moving melons manually, you have water do it for you, leaving time for the villagers to be bred and converted for the mob switch. there's probably more you could do too, but I can't think of it right now. good luck, soldier o7

It's impressive how far melon harvesting tech has come

wow, that was incredible. honestly cant believe you managed to farm 11 million! fantastic and unbelievable video!!!

If you did a challenge like this again, I believe the new autocrafters would be very helpful for storage space

Tip if U try again: build the melon farm on a mushroom island

suggestion for ender pearling across the end: since snowballs are like ender pearls bring some to practice in the nether so you can safely travel across without losing your stuff.

13:11 it's because you are also mining grass blocks, but seeing as not all of your shovels have silk touch, you are picking up dirt blocks instead of grass blocks.

1 mil in 10 days next? great vid btw🎉

increase thelayer heights by 1 or 2 and add some light sources(glowstone i think is best). would probably only add like 2 hours of irl game time and eliminate your mob problem

the ending made it so much better. cinematic masterpiece. any other outcome and it wouldn't have been as funny. love it

hey Rek, next time you try to get elytra turn on pie chart to item frames to fine the end ship faster. :D

I never knew that the end city actually had amazing loot like that. Might have to play minecraft again.

25:24 You had such a good opportunity to call them "Reb-elons"

I feel like the loss in a few melons from spawn proofing your farm with torches would be more than worth the efficiency gain. By guaranteeing the availibility of your farm, this might actually be possible

A semi-automatic tree farm with tnt duping (if you allow glitches) might help! EDIT 2: You can spawnproof the farm (in 1.19) with 378 glowstone. Math at bottom. EDIT: I think trading for glowstone and redstone, (later lapis, xp bottles) from clerics could efficiently solve your iron, redstone, and mobs-destroying-things-and-dislocating-hopper-minecart-if-you-don't-turn-off-iron-farm problems (maybe also xp/lapis) by lighting up the farm (make it high enough up that mobs don't wander into it). Math estimate: Naively 60,000/(15*Pi^2) = 85 glowstone blocks to light up all the dirt. Assuming it's actually ~4 times that because of spacing problems and melon taxicab light blockage, but subtracting some since a block in the floor can help illuminate two layers, you need ~340 glowstone. Each farmer(sell them melons for emeralds)-cured cleric pair gives 24 glowstone/day, and you can easily make 3 with the six iron farm villagers, for ~72 glowstone (and a bunch of xp) per day. Set them and the iron farms up before your dirt shoveling, and even if you use fast method to get only ~60,000/(7000 dirt/day) = ~8.6 days of dirt shoveling, you still get 576 glowstone before you even start building! In practice, you'll probably do most of the trading while building the farm, only needing as much glowstone as needed to build the next section, since by then you'll have many melons to feed the farmers. But the excess emeralds can go to purchasing redstone, lapis, and xp bottles from the clerics---since you can get up to 48 redstone/cleric/day if you have the emeralds for it, and get some at the start of levelling, I think this solves your redstone problems, your iron problems, AND your mob problems (and maybe your need to return to the end for enchanting xp), which could very well make this worthwhile. (Make sure to practice infecting/curing villagers first though, it takes some skill to do cleanly). EDIT 2 math: This works only if you have 3 air blocks in between each layer (haven't worked it out for 4+ air between layers, but at most it requires twice as much glowstone). I saw 7 open "slots" in each farm layer, so it has 8 11-wide rows per layer and 4 layers. Since you need 60,000 dirt, 600000/11/8/4 = 170.45; divide by 9-long sections per water block for 18.9something water blocks per row. Round up to 19. To visualize the places the glowstone goes, go down the empty slot between each 11-wide row, and place a glowstone in the formerly-air-block-in-the-slot every time you have a farm water block to directly off to your right or left. Do the same with the two equivalent "slots" parallel to the 11-wide rows on either side of the farm; similarly extend the pattern 1 more glowstone block forward on the front and back of the farm. This takes (19+2)*(7+2)*4 = 756 glowstone. Now, destroy every other glowstone, making sure to stagger the destruction between each layer and row--leaving 378 glowstone. That's where you'd actually place the glowstone. I tested this in creative with worldedit, it works even when every melon-eligible slot is occupied by a melon. The same positioning works with torches, actually. 95 coal and 95 sticks might be faster to obtain on its own (especially if you pick up a fortune 3 pick), but I'm not sure it's faster overall considering you'd have to actively mine it. You can test that one :) Also, congrats on answering the question from the first video in the affirmative--it IS possible!

He may not have achieved his goal for the video, but he nearly quadrupled it from last time. Good job and I am definitely excited for the next one

actually one of my all time favorite videos

RekRap: Holds the last piece of food Also RekRap: I'm o-fish-ally out of food

"A failure"?! Screw you xD This gameplay is literally insane! The amount of work and dedication put into this project is admirable! 10 million was indeed a bit too much for 100 days, but c'mon! 3.9 million melons is quite an achievement D:

The reaction at the end was ever delicious and worth the wait

now that rekrap has learned how to butterfly, i would like to see him do 1.8 pvp

Just for next time rek, remember to make your farms and machines robust - because spending a lot of time error-proofing your farm is much better than fixing and repairing it every 5 minutes

I like the casual reference to Pirates of the Caribbean at 10:47

13:20 the reason why u have more dirt collected than mined, is because it counts grass blocks as a separate block but whenever u pick it up it is a dirt block.

rekrap is legit one of the most dedicated youtubers ever and u deserve 2mil more than anyone >3

rest in piece freddy. I'm so glad you were able to get this goal, the amount of dedication was incredible rek.

you should use glowstone underneath where the melons grow on to combat some of the mobs

Bro that was one of the best Minecraft videos I've ever seen go for pumpkins next and trade with villagers lol

Honestly really impressive! I think if you got some of your friends together (or even just one friend) and did this you could really stand a good chance of completing it. Having someone collect dirt, iron and slime while you focus more of your attention on actually building the farm could certainly help. Not to mention not having to worry about getting more gear all the time

The effort and dedication rek puts in these videos is just crazy!

This video ia actually a pretty good demonstration of entropy

watching this made me realize how I love minecraft back then and I want to play again tho

The amount of dedication and editing and passion for this video is unreal! We love you rekrap and want to see more videos like this! But take as long as you need!

I would look into the zombie-less iron farm by Phaestus the next time you plan on doing this challenge (or future challenges where hostiles are not the focus). It only works during the daytime but you can offset that by making more of these farms. Very simple and relatively painless (moving villagers >:V) Great video!

The Ending was brilliant

techinally you broke the game so hard by getting into the millions, i consider that a double win

you can hear the joy in rekrap's voice when he finds out he got ten million melons.

This is such a well made video and idea! Great job dude

One: what are you doing Me: nothing just fixing some rebellious melons

You should’ve allied with the allay they could’ve picked up any missing melons or blocks you may have missed.. they’re an underestimated mob.

And if you put it all in a composter you’ll get a whopping 3 bone meal.

If you ever redo this challenge, finding a mooshroom island to build the farm on maybe worth it so the mob dont break the farm

the sequel we never knew we needed 😂

i love ur energy omg

13:16 Actually its because you mine grass too, and grass drops dirt. The grass you break is added to the total picked up amount of dirt, but not broken because it doesn't count as dirt.

12:48 seeing the dropped dirt blocks doing the jiggy in the sped-up gameplay for those few seconds is beautiful

I think the reason you mined 43,000 dirt and picked up 55,000 at the 13:00 mark is because grassy dirt is counted as a different block than dirt when broken, but when broken without silk touch, it drops dirt

I love that your panicked voice is straight up shaggy

14:55 the laugh XD

Rek is on track to be the Techno of melon farming. He just needs to do this on hypixel, and twitter will hate him for it! Yay!

damn man, that was crazy!! You are awesome!!!

Feel like turning on peaceful during the night and going back to normal during the day might be a good middle ground for getting iron but keeping mobs out

Rekrap's dedication is insane, he just casually tries again with an even harder challenge

13:20 its bc u were mining grass as well, that doesn't count as dirt, but when you mine it w/o silk touch, ur picking up dirt.

Could you improve the efficiency by doing the melon farm on a mushroom island so no mobs spawn but you can still run the iron farms?

my new favorite phrase: Holy schnackadoodles!

12:42 "I found a buried treasure chest ... [in a] sunflower plains biome" The pirates 300 years ago: "Arr, Nobody 'll think of finding our treasure this far inland! Everyone thinks o' beaches n' islands but we're a step ahead!" "Yarrr!"

This is exactly what I needed in my life I loved your first video it was probably my favorite video ever and this is also pretty amazing great job!

I’d love to see this attempted again. And if he does attempt it again, I wish him better luck.

Rek, If you even try doing that farm design again... Maybe put some lanterns or glowstone or shroomlights on each layer to help stop the mobs from spawning because there's light.

REK=GOAT love the editing btw. This video was really entertaining.

Man this is relatable as hell, I remember in skyblock I was grinding melons because they would sell for lots of money, and I had made such a big farm that it took up over half the whole world, and my friends understood thankfully, and i harvested those for hours and it took over 50 minutes to harvest it with a efficiency 3 iron pickaxe (the best thing we could get) it broke them crazy fast.

That's a dated slime farm design btw. In 1.18+ you can block all non-slime spawns by making the light level >0 but

Rest in peace freddy… you will be missed 😔

rekrap's speedrunning obsession was all just so that he could farm melons quicker, what a madlad.

The amount of work this took and also for every time you directly talk to the audience you make a whole new world to show your point thank you

The discrepancy in dirt mined vs collected is because grass counts as a separate block, so when you dig grass without silk touch, it adds one to your grass count (not dirt) for mining, but you end up picking up dirt. Leading to a nice ~10k difference over time

“Schnackadoodles” should most definitely be added to the Dictionary.

Nice job! That took a lot of work, but you managed to do it all in the end!

I wouldn’t be surprised if when the next lifesteal season drops he’ll think to immediately beat the game to get Diamond armor really quickly

Others have said to light up the farm but maybe make a mob switch instead? Also bamboo farm for wood instead if youre in higher versions

i have never seen a man go crazy insane for melons in a pixel game

This man’s dedication is on another level. Great video Rekrap!

I think rekrap learned how epic replay mod is with those sick shots!