Hardcore Season 3

fWhip's ***Hardcore Minecraft 1.18/1.19/1.20 Survival Let's Play : Building a Fantasy World!*** is his third and current hardcore series, starting with the 1.18 "Caves and Cliffs" update. The series has become oriented towards mega projects, featuring some of the biggest builds fWhip has ever completed in Minecraft.

So far the series has lasted 54 episodes released semi-regularly over 25 months, spanning at least 6,000 Minecraft days.

The world seed is "building with fwhip" (generated in Minecraft 1.18). 1,440 days in, the series updated to Minecraft 1.19, and later Minecraft 1.20.

## Projects

### Farming valley

fWhip has had a longstanding tradition of planting one new field per episode he releases.

Starter house (ep. 1)Diamond mine (ep. 2)Bee house (ep. 5)Farming village (ep. 5)Animal barn (ep. 5)Moss farm (ep. 5)Iron farm (ep. 6)Sheep barn (ep. 6)Dog house (ep. 6)Lumber mill & storage room (ep. 16)Wheat warehouse (ep. 32)Porky day spa (ep. 48)Mooshroom mill (ep. 48)An allium farm
### Overworld tree

*Videos: "I Built the LARGEST MEGA TREE EVER" (#14), "I Built the LARGEST MEGA TREE EVER... (again)" (#47)*

### Wilderness

The spire-shaped mountain range has been an ongoing project since episode 25. The adjoining monolith atop a whale-shaped rock adds to the world's mysterious lore. The range also disguises a ghast farm, a regen beacon, and a nether fungus farm.

The custom biome unites the monolith and the birch forest into a seamless transition. The birch trees dwindle into a rocky plain, and rivers coming off the hills incise the terrain.

From the time when Mojang announced they would overhaul Minecraft's birch forests, fWhip decided to build his own vision of what it would look like. In the forest interior is a hunting lodge.

Monolith (ep. 25)Monolith, backsideCustome biome (ep. 28, 0:54; ep. 28, 13:19; streams)Birch forest (ep. 17)
### Capital city

*Videos: "I Built a MEGA City Gate" (#21), "I Transformed a Village into a CITY" (#25), "I BUILT a MANSION" (#26), "I Survived 100 Days Building Interiors" (#27), and world tour appearance; "I Built an Industrial District" (#32), "NEW BIG BUILD" (Stream, 24 Mar 2023), "BUILDING A CITY" (Stream, 7 Apr 2023), "I Built a Copper Factory" (#33), "Touring my 3600+ day Industrial District" and more (See galleries below)*
The **capital city** wraps around the base of the World Tree. Some elements of fWhip's city are partly inspired by Stormwind City from the game *World of Warcraft*.

fWhip built nearly an entire industrial district in one 44-minute episode (#33). The district economically revolves around the brick industry, with mud farms, toolsmiths, warehouses for soils & sediments, and places for workers to live all supporting the Brickworks at the top of the hill. There is also a harbor, a stables, and a general smithy.

#### Central district

Statue (ep. 39, 4:38)Bamboo Bookstore (ep. 39, 12:18)Back corner (ep. 50)Shop (ep. 50)Wagon spot (ep. 50)Hardcore S3 Capital City fWoliage Market.pngfWoliage market (ep. 51)The Drip Lounge, inspired by fWhip's tavern the Drip from Gobland, *Empires SMP* season 2 (ep. 53)Bean farm building (ep. 53)Hardcore S3 Capital City Lava Farm.pngLava farm building (ep. 53)
#### Industrial district

Harbor (40:22)Mud farm (4:57)Bridge (13:43)Toolsmith yard (33:26)Brickworks factory building (21:28)Brickworks yard (stream)Warehouses (28:36)Stables (35:14)Smithy (36:50)Residential building (39:11)Water mill (ep. 33, 6:56)Copper factory (ep. 33, 15:29)
### Port village

*Video: ep. 10*
fWhip's second major project and the first episode of his series to go viral.

### Dwarven city

*Videos: "I Built a MEGA CAVE VILLAGE BASE" (#4), "I BUILT a MEGA VILLAGE in a CAVE" (#12)*

The **dwarven city** is located in a cavern near fWhip's mountain castle. The city has villager trading halls for every trade as well as a super smelter.

Entrance (ep. 50)Cave interior, without shaders
### Village with blue roofs

*Video: "I Transformed a VILLAGE" (#30)*
fWhip transformed another Minecraft village. The village temple was centered around a sapling from the mega tree.

Houses for stonemasonsInnToolsmithFarmhousesTempleMarket
### New Papyrus

*Unofficial playlist:* Building New Papyrus
The desert city of New Papyrus harks back to fWhip's first ever published survival city, from his *Building with fWhip* series.

RiverSea pickle oasisCamel barnBoatShip (ep. 45)Axolotl pool (ep. 45)Fishing village, rough planFishing village (ep. 46)Village gate (ep. 46)
### Coastal fishing village

*Video: "I Built a FISHERMAN Village" (#54)*

BeachStreetGoat pasture
### Mountain castle

This castle houses a hall of maps, each a snapshot of fWhip's world at a different date.

### Sunset-vibe village and tulip fields

*Video: "I Transformed a FLOWER FOREST" (#29), and "I Transformed a VILLAGE" (#30)*

### Racetrack

After the Minecraft Java 1.19.4 update, which changed the way horse stats are handled when breeding, fWhip built a massive horse stables and racetrack. The layout of the track is modeled after the F1 Circuit of the Americas track in Austin, Texas. Much later, fWhip added a sheep farm inside a barn to the racetrack area.

TowerStandsBarn (ep. 53)
### Pillager castle

In episode 52, fWhip converted a pillager outpost into a keep. It was meant to have been moved into by the pillagers rather than built by them. In the plains below is an ancient stone henge, originally built to decorate a raid farm which was later covered up on stream. Once the pillagers moved into the castle, they assembled a massive army in the plains below.

Pillager castle (ep. 52)Pillager castle (ep. 52)Nearby farmhouse (ep. 52)Nearby henge (ep. 7)
### Coastal castle

After the Minecraft 1.19 Wild Update released, fWhip designed a castle that featured the new mud brick blocks. The lore was that the fort defended the adjacent river against enemy ships.

### Nether portal cave

*Video: "I Built a MEGA Nether Portal" (#11)*

### Nether hub

The **Nether hub** is fWhip's catch-all hub with all the Nether farms he could need. It has a hoglin farm, a zombie piglin farm, a magma cube farm, and a ghast farm, as well as piglin trade stations. The center of the hub was punched out to open into the Nether cavern below, using TNT and pistons.

Expanded colosseum look (ep. 51)Ghast farm (ep. 9)Hoglin farm (ep. 19, ep. 51)Piglin barter farm (ep. 51)Hole to the Nether interior (ep. 19)Original Nether hub (ep. 19)Blown-out perimeter with wither skeleton farm (ep. 24)
### End transformation

*Videos: "I Transformed the End" (#20), world tour appearance*
fWhip started **transforming the End** by defeating the Ender dragon a total of 24 times to unlock all 24 portals. He then tore down the End island and constructed in its place the extra-dimensional equivalent of the World Tree.

### Guardian farm

*Videos: "I Drained an Ocean Monument" (#15), world tour appearance, "I Transformed an OCEAN MONUMENT" (#31)*
fWhip built a **guardian farm** in episode 15. Several months later, he tore down the surrounding Minecraft structure and built it up into a walled-in palace, though he described his original vision as a grand, Atlantis-style city with interconnected towers and bridges.

## Farms

* Triple spider farm (ep. 2)
* Villager breeder (ep. 4)
* Sugar cane farm
* Squid farm
* Bee farms (ep. 5)
* Carrot & potato farms (ep. 5)
* Egg farm (ep. 5)
* Moss farm (ep. 5)
* Iron farm (ep. 6)
* Wool farms (ep. 6)
* Cactus farm (broken)
* Raid farm (ep. 7, later replaced)
* Blaze farm (ep. 8)
* Ghast farm (ep. 9)
* Amethyst farm (ep. 11)
* Super smelter (ep. 12)
* Wheat farm (near spawn, features allays)
* Pumpkin & melon farms (in city)
* Glow lichen farm (inside tree)
* Enderman farm
* Slime farm (ep. 19)
* Hoglin farm (ep. 19)
* Froglight farm (ep. 19)
* Magma cream farm (ep. 19)
* Zombie piglin farm (ep. 19)
* Piglin trade stations (ep. 11, ep. 19)
* Wither rose farm
* Wither skeleton farm (ep. 24)
* Flower farms (ep. 29)
* Nether fungus farm (ep. 30)
* Raid farm 2 (ep. 31)
* Mud grinder
* Clay grinder (ep. 32)
* Manual copper aging field (ep. 33)
* Bamboo farm (ep. 37)
* Sculk farm (ep. 37)
* Sniffer farm (ep. 38)
* Sea pickle farm (ep. 44)
* Mushroom grinder (ep. 48)
* Honey farm (ep. 49)
* Drowned copper farm (ep. 49)
* Mangrove tree farm
* Creeper farm (ep. 53)
* Pointed dripstone farm (ep. 53)
* Cocoa bean farm (ep. 53)
* Tall flower farms (ep. 53)

## Trivia

* One of fWhip's goals is to disguise all of his redstone farms.
* Another goal is to connect everything in his world by road. Every now and then, he plays with the idea of traveling everywhere by horse instead of elytra.
* fWhip plays with the Minecraft gamerule doFireTick turned off, so he can safely build with fire without the risk of losing hours to days of progress.
* fWhip's primary sword is named "Sword of a thousand and one truths" after a legendary and fictional *World of Warcraft* item called the Sword Of a Thousand Truths, from the *South Park* episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft."
* fWhip is constantly battling his "shulker monsters," disorganized piles of shulker boxes that need sorting into

## References

1. ↑ Episode 1
2. ↑ The *Fishing with fWhip* episode where he had Shubble & LDShadowLady as guests
3. ↑ ep. 52 raid army
4. ↑ "UNLIMITED IRON in Minecraft 1.18 Hardcore Survival Let's Play : Ep 6"