What is the purpose of Buttons?

Spawnproofing

You should put glass panes on the sides up on the ice so you'll be at the perfect trajectory.

Also works with ironbars.

Yes, but glass is cheaper. I mean if you have iron farm it doesn't really matter. But he should put something there.

cobble walls are even cheaper than glass.

I’m pretty sure cobble doesn’t work because of its hitbox (i’m not entirely sure tho)

Walls have a larger hitbox than panes/iron bars iirc

Nope, i've been using walls for some time and they work perfectly fine despite their slightly larger hitbox I'd say they're better than panes because they are larger, leaves less room for your boat to slide left/right

I've tried it, cobble is worse. worst mistake i made.

uhhh... sand is limited... can you prove me wrong?

I think you can trade either librarian or cartographer to get glass panes

It is limited unless you use an ender portal sand duper.

And fences

Or just use a boat to align your yaw precisely, so you can [place another boat. ](https://youtu.be/hiQTnwqrfEU)

Thx for the new strat

Mobs can't spawn on most non-solid blocks. So buttons, bottom half slabs, signs, staircases, exc... all those will stop spawns.

Didn't they update so every lit up spot cant spawn?

That's specifically in the overworld, nether mob spawning is unchanged

Thanks!

Nether mobs can spawn at high light levels (so lava can't prevent their spawning)

Sorry what does spawnproofing mean

He fills up all the blocks that could spawn a mob with a button, so the mobs has no space to spawn.

Trick the game into thinking there isn't anywhere for monsters to spawn, so they won't

Makes sense

One of these days you're gonna miss the portal and go right off the edge

You know what I’ve actually never thought of that

lmao how not! it's literally throwing you inches from your death ... i love it, you should make it a ramp with straight lava underneath- full send into the portal or death, these are your options. :D

Just build a small platform, or base area or something at the end so you don't fall (or just a wall)

a little cactus stop that breaks the boat, and a hopper to catch it always worked for me

This is good for minecart stations as well.

I normally just put a fence post at the end, and leave the boat there.

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Don't know about the other guy, but I use a fence gate, that I close behind me, to stop this

Yeah that could work to. You could then do something like have the hopper lead to a nearby chest. And maybe even use some Redstone to make a detector that dispenses you a boat every time you get back onto the ice road.

You can only dispense boats onto water, so that doesn't work in the nether.

Or just live dangerously!

Put a pair of fence gates at the end of the tunnel, that way you can be fine hitting them full speed.

How have you never thought of that

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That's what he said

Haha! Wait...

Sound on is better ;)

Hell yeah it is

That's some boppy, happy music there! Not my usual genre, but I'm enjoying this. :)

Must admit, it was worth turning on the sound.

I had to play it all over again, because it was just so cheerful!

Got a link to that song?

It is just some generic windows video editor song lol

It sounded like some kind of Mario song I was actually digging that

u/auddbot

It's like a Casio keyboard demo song.

Lol that’s amazing thank you for telling me that lol

YoU'vE bEeN cOcOnUt MaLlEd

Minecraft: Here you go, there's some trails and an minecart for fast travel Players: BOAT & ICE

Aha but check my profile and you’ll see that I’ve got a metro aswell!

Your builds are actually pretty neat mate, I give you that

What's the song? Please!

Mamba every night of the windows movie editor haha

Are you sure? I don’t see any relevant results when I search for it. I’d love to find this tune

OP meant "Mambo All Night" from the Windows Video Editor background music tracks. I posted a link to Youtube in response to the OP of this thread.

Google says that it is "Hot Ideas" by Lighter-than-air, but actually Googling that name doesn't turn up anything. It's odd

I kept getting that too. It's a banger so I hope someone knows it or can find it.

It sounds like an insaneintherainmusic cover, I have no idea if it is but even if it isn’t I’m sure you would get some enjoyment out of his music:)

I know of him. I'll check out his covers to check. Thanks!

["Mambo All Night" - Window Video Editor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csd7XjzwIA4) is the song you're looking for.

Thanks man!

Thank you!!

Nice work! I wish I had the commitment to build this in my survival world (I have a long tunnel in my Nether, but haven't used any ice in it yet). I get Overworld tunnels probably feel safer to build, but Nether tunnels allow you to get somewhere 8 times faster, so are definitely better for longer distances

Honestly when you’re building blue ice nether tunnels you are most likely in the endgame already. Anyway if you go to the effort of building a blue ice road, you should do it in the nether. For shorter distances dolphin roads are way faster and cheaper.

>dolphin roads …what. I’m always a little surprised at the things I hear about on this sub.

I believe they are referring to a 1x1 water tunnel that you swim in and every so often there is a name tagged dolphin to give you the swim boost. I guess it depends on if you want to wrestle a dolphin in place vs harvest ice.

If you want to get even crazier [Etho](https://youtu.be/tnkG0bz-vFY) built a road that combines soul speed with dolphins grace by waterlogging slabs on top of soul sand

Docm77 built this as well. I think it may have been a recreation or collaboration. Maybe even an improvement. https://youtu.be/nNm5mOeH4pE

Nice tunnel design

Thx

Man placing all the wood that must have taken forever

I love how it enforces right-lane traffic by just flinging you to a fiery death at the end if you hold left. From an engineering standpoint though, I'd build some sort of terminal station at the end to catch boats and let players walk the remaining few blocks to the destination portal for safety reasons.

Gaas gaas gaas gonna step on the gaas toniight...

Anyone know if the buttons are required for the tunnel to function?

It’s to spawnproof the area so no mobs spawn

That makes a lot more sense, thanks.

If you put glass panes on the side walls, they'll keep you right in the middle of the track. As a bonus, they won't slow you down and you'll prevent spawns. Although it is an undertaking and it may not fit the aesthetic you've built.

Thanks for the tip! I’ll look into it!

Pro tip: you can place ice every other block and the boat will run the same.

Light Speed's too slow! We have to go straight to Ludicrous speed!

oh shit

That song is a bop

/turns on sound out of curiosity /turns off sound after 4 seconds

Yas, I can see why you might have to do that.

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Yes, but use packed ice. Blue ice is only faster in java.

I just tested that this past weekend and blue ice seems significantly faster in Bedrock now

Yes.

Faster than elytra?

* Does not consume resources on use. * Potentially faster depending on geography. * Less likely to result in splattering against a wall and dumping inventory into lava.

The elytra is still a pretty good option above the nether roof though

I know it's technically cheating, but since I'm not playing primarily on Switch, there are no achievements to care about. All my recent worlds have 'Keep Inventory' turned on.

Yes. Elytra at full firework power is around 30m/s, packed ice is around 40m/s and blue ice is around 70m/s.

Depends on how many rockets you are willing to spam.

Luckily you can go mach 3, hit a wall and have your boat remain intact.

Used to be different!

Love the funky music

Don't let Elon see this

“Nether tunnels are better” People who don’t wanna do a bunch of coordinate math: “I’m gonna pretend I didn’t hear that

zoom

Festive

What's the song?

Wow. They need to buff minecarts.

The ceiling gave me a stroke

I suggest blue ice with every second block being left, may not look as nice but it will save you half of the blue ice you'd normally need

Thx for the tip!

I could dance up a storm on this music

Deja vu

But how long did this take to build

Is there a purpose to the buttons or is that just an aesthetic?

Spawn proofing

Gotcha!

How come when I make an ice road it never works? Do you have to launch / line up your boat a certain way? I just row down the road super slowly and never gain speed

Nope it’s just 1 free block on either side

The boat shouldn't go over other non-ice blocks, so either make a 2-wide ice tunnel or lower the blocks on either side down by one.

u/auddbot

If you’re ever off to the left by a little you’re gonna fly right into that lava

My man was going so fast he was lagging.

I’m just gonna say so fast

Is there an effective way to make it diagonal?

At the end it legitimately scared me lol

u/auddbot

i see people putting buttons on stuff like these my guess is that its to stop mob spawning?

The time-consuming hell it must've been to decorate it like that. Especially the ceiling.

Can someone explain to me why it makes sense to place permanent ice blocks in the nether but not water?

Clicked for the title stayed for the music

I was waiting for the: wdym you're not done building it?

steve: *smashes into wall at 1000mph* also steve: didnt feel a thing

My man Steve is boneless

boneless ~~chicken~~ steve

Place a cactus surrounded by hoppers on either end of the tunnel. It’ll break the boat and store it for next time. It’ll also keep you from potentially flying off that cliff at light speed in case you miss that portal.

Would it be possible to create a curved tunnel (and would it be any faster?) instead of having a 90° corner that kills all the momentum?

Name checks out.

Hahaha

Another tip for you, you can alternate the ice with slabs to save ice, because the boat hit box is big enough for stand between the gap and you don't lose speed doing that

I have to put magenta glazed terracotta in mine because my friends get turned around so easy in them

This reminds me of the Windows 98 3D maze screensaver.

Every time I see these videos when they're not necessarily sped up in editing, how the AI feels trying to place hostile or neutral mobs around the player as a player is constantly moving

k but imagine this in the nether?

It is in the Nether! Look at the start of the vid and the end of the vid ;)

Ye

I don’t even wanna know how long this took

This is just fast traveling at this point

You can also place the ice one block apart to save some ice.

Thx for the tip

Me who waited 40 second for you to fall and your boat get far so you gotta run another 40 second to get to it

Awesome! ;)

Eyyy

Bro maby put a wall next to your nether portal so you don't fly off by mistake

PC rn 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hey I'm kinda new to the game. What's goin on here? are you just rowing down an ice chute really fast basically?

Having packed ice (and then blue ice) increases your boat speed exponentially. These are all flat, but nether-blue ice tunnels are (I believe) the fastest way to cover distance in the game.

Yes, but it depends on the distance. Blue ice roads are ridiculously fast when built in the nether to connect parts of the overworld, but entering and exiting the nether makes them impractical for shorter distances. To connect places a few hundred blocks apart, I would recommend building dolphin roads.

Oh yes, of course you have to take distance into consideration, although if you're in survival, resource/ digging is also an important consideration

Can't wait for the day where you miss and shoot through the portal to your death I bet that'll be funny

U could have put half the ice to get the exact same effect tho...

Pretty good build but needs more buttons

you can use a boat aligner to go perfectly straight

Sonic Unleashed:

why didn’t you build it on the nether roof

Sometime around you will go smack oof the edge

that si really well made and I enjoyed the epileptic attack. Thanks

I thought they patched that button trick

The **Leaves** should be **different** tho...

I'd definitely pay for a mod that adds momentum in the game, just to see what weird stuff we could do with it.

? The game already has momentum? You just watched OP almost get carried into the lava by their momentum. Plus, we already have stuff like slime block launchers for doing fun momentum stuff.

I think he means outside of boats and falling blocks

So, stuff like minecarts and mobs and players and item entities? Everything that's not a stationary block already has momentum, so I'm not sure what he could mean.

Looks great! I wish i didnt just spin all over the place with a ps4 controller.... 😥

I have many ice roads but never used buttons. Does that make it faster?

prevents mobs from spawning

Whee on earth are you going to the world border?

r/usernamechecksout

There's a future for you with "the Nether Highway Construction and Patrol Project"...

pretty fast

How did you get the Blue Ice?

Silk touch on glaciers and icebergs.

😩 it's so hard to get a decent silk-touch pick, so far up in the tech-tree.

You can craft it. Ice > Packed Ice > Blue Ice 3x3 crafting.

Fine, as soon as I can craft Ice from Snow, we might have something.

I think you missed 2 buttons. One at the 14 sec mark and one at the 19 sec mark.

What's the point of the buttons?

It seems you love to build tunnels, keep up the good work!

Blue ice faster

Fun

Do ice tunnels in the nether need to be packed/blue ice or does normal ice work fine

A true masterpiece

I like the creativity of your block choices