This is how Ancient Debris generates in Minecraft.
As you can see, it is the rarest ore to find in the game. It could take you ages to find enough
to make a full netherite gear. And besides that, you will also need the smithing template,
which is even more rare. But don’t you worry, because I will show you 4 ways to find
Ancient Debris for your netherite gear and how to find that smithing template as fast
as possible. Are you ready? Let’s break it down! There are 4 ways to find netherite: using
beds, by mining, using TNT and by raiding bastions. Before we start with these
4 methods, let’s look at this graph, where you can see where Ancient Debris spawns.
Technically, it can spawn in every Y level of the nether, but the chance that you will find
it above Y level 22 is so small that it’s a complete waste of time to look for it there.
The peek is at Y 15 and it equally diminishes going more up and down. That’s why Y 15 is
the best layer to look for ancient debris. Finding ancient debris can take time, but don’t
worry, because you actually don’t need that much of it. You’ll need to smelt 4 ancient debris for
1 netherite ingot to upgrade 1 item. So, for full netherite armor you just need to find 16 ancient
debris. For all your tools, including a hoe, you will need 20. So, to create full netherite
gear, you will need to find 36 ancient debris ores. If that’s sounds like a lot to you, don’t
worry, because you will see how easy this can be. Number 1: Using beds
The first way to find ancient debris is to use beds. This is because you cannot sleep
in the nether, and if you would try to do so, you will regret it soon after your bed exploded. But
this is exactly why beds are the best and easiest way to look for ancient debris early game, if you
take caution doing it. Just take a stack of wool and a stack of wood with you to craft yourself a
lot of beds once you are down there. That’s more efficient than coming to the nether with your
inventory full of beds. You will also need some slabs, 1 diamond pickaxe and some food. Using this
method could give you up to 30 ancient debris p/h. So, get yourself to Y 15, but don’t just start
digging a tunnel yet. Be aware that you don’t mine in a basalt delta biome, because basalt
takes forever to mine and doesn’t explode as easy as netherrack. Make sure that you mine on a
chunk border. A chunk is a 16 by 16 segment of a Minecraft world. The thing is: ancient debris
ores tent to spawn close to chunk borders. So, mining on a chunk border gives you a higher chance
of finding ancient debris. To show chunk borders in Java edition, just press F3 and G. It’s as
easy as that. On bedrock edition chunk borders work the same, but the problem is that you cannot
show them like in Java edition. To know if you are on a chunk border in Bedrock edition, you should
go to the 0 15 0 coordinates in your world. Or just make sure that you can divide your X and
Z axis by 16. If so, you are on a chunk border. Dig a long tunnel on the chunk border. Then
make branches on the sides of the tunnel, but only on the chunk borders. Now, you could just
randomly place and explode beds, but that could cost you a lot of health and it’s dangerous.
But there is a safe way to use beds easily. First, mine all the blocks in front of you,
without mining the ones in front of your feet. Then place the bed as far as you can. There is
now a 3-block gap between you and the bed. Now, place one more block to make that gap 4 blocks
long and dig 1 block down. Lastly, place a slab underneath you, like this cobblestone slab. If
you now stand on that slab, and explode the bed, you will take just minimum damage. Even without
armor, you just take 1,5 heart damage. With iron armor you take half a heart damage and
with diamond armor, you don’t even take any damage. And besides that, you don’t have the risk
that you will get lava over you or catch fire. Now that the bed is exploded, look around for
ancient debris blocks, as these blocks are fire and blast resistant and will stay exposed
after the explosion. You can also quinch some fires around you, because sometimes there is an
ancient debris block hiding underneath a flame. But don’t spent too much time doing this.
When you are done, just continue your path straight. Dig some blocks into the next
wall and repeat this process. Whenever you walk into too much lava, you can turn back
to your main tunnel and try a different branch. Number 2: Mining
Maybe you think mining for ancient debris is a waste of time, but you would be wrong. It totally
depends on the tools you have. You shouldn’t use this method early game without any enchantments
because mining all the netherrack would take ages. But this is different if you have an enchanted
pickaxe. Mining with the right enchantments could give you 40 ancient debris p/h. The 3 enchantments
you definitely want on your pickaxe are: Unbreaking III, Mending and Efficiency II or
higher. The first two are just so that you will only need one pickaxe. The reason you only need
Efficiency level II is because this will break netherrack instantly, just like an Efficiency
V pickaxe. But still, the higher, the better, especially when you need to mine blackstone.
Having this pickaxe will make it very easy for you to dig tunnels through the netherrack. You
should mine like you are some kind of digging machine by mining in circles like this. So,
you are mining a 4 by 4 area. As you can see, this goes really fast, and you will find
ancient debris soon. When your pickaxe needs to be repaired, you can use all the ore
blocks on your way like quartz ores to repair it. Just like with the bed method, make sure you
are mining on a chunk border to increase your chances to find ancient debris. You could mine
in one straight line until you bump into lava. Then you can turn and go different directions on
the chunk borders. When you bump into a lot of gravel you can choose to just go around it, or
use a good Efficiency shovel to go through it. Number 3: Using TNT
The third method is probably the most efficient method. You use TNT to blow up
big areas underground. Similar as the bed method, but with TNT you can keep a safe distance and you
can make a chain explosion of as many TNT as you like. Well, more like as many TNT as you can.
Because even though this is the most efficient method, it’s by far also the most expensive
one. So, you won’t be able to do this until you’ve made yourself a gunpowder farm. But if you
have one, this is the best method to use, cause it could give you over 80 ancient debris p/h.
Using this method, it’s better to dig a tunnel at Y 13 or 14, to lower the chances to get
these big lava falls. Just dig one long tunnel, as long as you like. Then place the TNT.
You could place them all in one line, but it’s more expensive and unnecessary. The
best way to place them is this pattern of 1, skip, 2, skip, 1, skip, 2, skip. This way you get
a maximum explosion impact, with less TNT. Light up the last TNT and get a safe distance. Ones your
TNT is exploding follow the explosions and look for revealed ancient debris ores. Be careful
for big lava falls. As you can see, you will find ancient debris spread around this new big
tunnel that you made. You only have to mine it. But whether you like it or not, you will need to
find at least one Bastion and raid it if you want to have netherite gear, because these are the only
places where you can find the smithing template to upgrade your diamond gear into netherite
gear. It might not be the most sustainable way to look for ancient debris, but while you
are opening all these chests in these bastions, you have a chance to find ancient debris ores,
netherite scraps or even netherite ingots in these chests. Sometimes even multiple netherite
ingots in 1 chest! The chance that you find these varies per type of bastion, but I will
cover all of that in another video. For now, it’s most important to know how to find the
Smithing Template. Bastions are found all over the nether, just like nether fortresses,
except in the basalt delta biome. To find one, you need to explore the nether. However, if you
find a nether fortress, there will be no Bastion close by. An easy way to explore the nether is by
riding a strider on the lava. Place a saddle on the strider and use a fungi on a stick to ride it.
When you’ve found a Bastion, you need to know that there are 4 types of bastions: Bridges, Hoglin
Stables, Housing Units and The Treasure Room. You have a 10% chance to find a smithing template
when you open any chest. However, there is 1 chest in the Treasure Room that has a 100% chance
to contain the smithing template. So ideally, you want to find a Treasure Room Bastion.
You can easily recognize them by their shape: 2 big, colossal black boxes and a bridge that
connects them with these lava pools underneath it. When you enter the lower boxes of these 2,
you can look down and see a lot of gold blocks in one place. In the chest there you will have a
guaranteed smithing template. If you didn’t find a Treasure Room Bastion, just explore the one you’ve
found and open the chests, because you still have a 10 percent chance per chest to find one.
But, if you are a bit lazy, you can use this website called chunkbase.com. You can copy
your seed in here, select the version you have and click on the nether dimension. Here
you can see the piglin icons with the chest, which are Treasure Room Bastions close to you.
Just check the coordinate and copy it or write it down. For more help with finding which
seed you have, check out the description. Bastions are dangerous places, mostly because of
the piglin brutes. They will always attack you, no matter what kind of armor you are wearing.
They are very strong and can kill you in a few hits. And to make it worse, they will disable
your shield for 5 seconds if you try to block their attack! If you hit them, you will also anger
the normal piglins around you and that can make things even more complicated. So, getting to the
smithing template could be very challenging. But you can make it a lot easier for yourself however
by bringing a bucket of lava with you and 1 or 2 stacks of building blocks, like netherrack. Be
aware of your surroundings and make sure you have space to pile up. When you see or hear
a piglin brute, pile up at least 2 blocks, but more is safer of course. Make sure it cannot
reach you from the side or something. Then, just throw your lava bucket on the piglin brute where
it is standing. He will slowly die in the lava, but you don’t anger the other piglins around.
Just continue doing this and make your way to the chest. You can do all of this easier
and safer when you enter from the roof. You make your way down slowly and you will
have enough space to pile up if necessary. When you are down there and open the chest,
you will anger all the surrounding piglins. You can avoid that by placing blocks around
you and the chest, so the piglins won’t see you opening it. In another video I will show you
how to completely raid a bastion, but for now, just take the template and leave carefully.
Now you have all your ancient debris and your smithing template. Now you can smelt your ancient
debris and use the Netherite scraps that come out together with gold to create a netherite ingot.
Use the smithing table to upgrade your diamond gear into netherite gear using a netherite
ingot and a smithing template. Remember that you only have 1 template now and you will need
to duplicate it for every armor or tool you want to upgrade. To do that, you need 7 diamonds and
a netherrack block. If need to more diamonds, make sure you watch my next video where I show
you the fastest ways to find diamonds. Or watch my other videos about finding iron or gold. Thank
you for watching and see you in the next one!
