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Has anyone recently built or watched videos and know the specs for the 4 pillar survival with all the new updates? I would like to build the challenge myself. Can't find any videos for the challenge past 2013.

Something like a how to would be awesome! IF I can build it I think I will add the new blocks coming in the next BIG update and come up with some new challenges. Willing to collab on ideas for a guide for a how to build your own.

Thanks in Advance for how to ideas!

Challenges (taken from videos of 4 pillar and mixed with Sky block challenges and a few of my own added)

- These are based off a superflat world that doesn't have a nether fortress and nether quarts in the nether. See next posts for the details. These are the ones I came up with feel free to tweek for your own build.

1. Build a cobblestone generator

2. Build a house 20 blocks from your home

3. Expand the island

4. Make an infinite water source

5. Craft a bed

6. Collect all resources from chests (there are 10 of them)

7. Craft a furnace

8. Make 10 cactus green dyes

9. Make a melon Farm

10. Make a Pumpkin Farm

11. Make a sugarcane farm

12. Make a wheat Farm

13. Make Giant mushrooms (at least one of each type)

14. Make a nether wart farm

15. Mate 10 Cows

16. Mate 10 Pigs

17. Mate 10 Sheep

18. Make 10 Chicken

19. Mate 5 Ocelots

20. Mate 5 Wolves

21. Have a dog

22. Have a cat

23. Create a small lake

24. Make 64 Torches

25. Make 64 Stone Bricks

26. Make 64 Brick blocks

27. Make 10 bread

28. Make a cookie

29. Make a Pumpkin Pie

30, Make a Cake

31. Make 10 Mushroom Stews

32. Make 5 snow Golums

33. Make 2 Iron Golums

34. Craft 10 Jack o'lanterns

35. Craft 10 Bookcases

36. Craft 20 rails and use them!

37. Craft 5 Power Rails

38. Craft a Enchantment table

39. Enchant your armor

40. Enchant your Tools

41. Make a brewing stand

42. brew all potions (good and bad should be 9 all together on console)

43. Collect 5 ender pearls

44. Cook 10 fish

45. Collect or make 10 Black wool

46. 10 Grey wool

47. 10 Light Grey wool

48. 10 Lime green

49. 10 Green

50. 10 red wool

51. 10 Pink wool

52. 10 Orange wool

53. 10 Yellow Wool

53. Ride a pig

54. Have 10 logs of every tree

55. Craft 10 stone buttons

56. Craft 20 paintings

57. Craft a Piston

58. Craft a Sticky piston

59. Craft 16 glass panes

60. Collect 128 arrows

61. Craft 20 slabs of every kind

62. Craft 10 signs

63. Craft 20 ladders

64. Craft 30 fences

65. Craft 5 Fence gates

66. Make a daylight sensor

67. Craft 5 note blocks and make a little tone

68. Craft a flower pots

69. Craft 10 Fireworks

70. Craft Fire stars of each color (16)

71. Craft 5 trap doors

72. Craft a bows

73. Craft Flint and steel

74. Trade with all villagers at least once

75. Build a safe home for the villagers

76. Make a redstone contraption

77. Craft 64 bone meal

78. Craft 10 stairs of each kind

79. Craft 10 levels

80. Craft 5 redstone lamps

81. Craft 10 stone pressure plates

82. Craft 10 wood pressure plates

83. Make and light a nether portal

84. Take a screenshot of your island

85. Craft 64 TNT and get rid of EVERYTHING!!

Step 1. This is on the Xbox 360,I also built in a superflat world which doesn't have easily attainable glow stone, a nether fortress, soul sand and Nether quarts. There can be two variations (or more if you want) To this if you 1. build in a normal seed 2. Build in a snow Biome. These will change the need for snow blocks, nether rack blocks, nether quartz ore blocks and Blaze rods/nether wart/soul sand in the chests and pillars. So you can sub whatever you like.

Needed blocks for challenges above

39 Coal

65 Clay Blocks

89 Iron ore

12 Blocks of snow

5 Diamonds

14 Obsidian

10 Gold

325 Sand (or 277 if you have Sandstone in your pillar)

1 Flint (From Gravel)

48 Nether Rack or 12 Nether Brick

51 Nether Quarts ores

25 Redstone dust (photo is wrong, 25 dust is ABOUT 8 redstone ore assuming they all drop 3)

5 Glowstone blocks (keep in mind that glowstone doesn't ALWAYS drop 4 dust so place more then 5)

Step 2. Starting island I have seen these three different ways this is the design I settled on.

Hehe My husband and I's collective creative name is BS'n because of the first letters of our first names. Make a welcome sign on the land under your starting island for a spawn point (this helps with the ability to place lava later.

Three layers high with a chest placed on its own block. Make sure the top layer has at least one grass block. ALL chest are up to the creator, This is how we started ours. The string can be subed with Wool, Jukebox and disks can be deleted if you want.

Middle bottom block is bedrock with a chest directly under it. I have seen Ocelot eggs in this one, we put super OP armor and sword up to you.

20 blocks above ground all pillars are 3 x 3 except the two layers that contain a villager and the spire which is 10 blocks.

Pillar #1 This will pretty much be the same for everyone.

You need 325 Sand for the challenges above, you can add more or less if you want to do something more then required with sand (or do sand stone)

You need 39 Clay blocks

I did this pillar first because it contains the most of one material which made the rest easier.

I added 6 sand to fill in the layer

I added 6 Clay to finish the spire (10 blocks)

At the bottom of the clay put one in the middle of the sand layer to prevent villager suffication lol

The next layer is 4 sand blocks on the corners with fence posts between them on each side. Villagers face should be looking out the fence. I put my Priest in my sand pillar.

Pillar # 2 25- 30 blocks away from Pillar #2 Try and space them all evenly, I used brown clay blocks to make sure the top, bottom and villager lined up on each pillar.

EAZY Same size as the Sand pillar but its ALL dirt. Villager is a Farmer in this pillar.

Pillar #3, this is where it starts getting tricky! I have two layers of Snow blocks, if you build over a snow biome you can skip this.

This is my Ore pillar

NEED

5 Diamond

8 Redstone

39 Coal

10 Gold

89 Iron

Added

I added 40 Diamonds for filler

I added 35 Gold for filler

I added 52 Coal for Filler

I added about 45 redstone ore (stopped counting and forgot to write it down sorry lol)

(-You can take some of these out and add lapis if you like (since it will be need soon to enchant!)

Villager is at the bottom of the iron layers, this one is a Liberian. I forgot him so he is one layer too high lol

Pillar # 4 This was the hardest to fill, I have seen a pillar made almost all of Obsidian but really how much do you REALLY need?

Nether pillar, This pillar holds my Quartz ore, nether rack, Obsidian glowstone needed for the challanges. I added Mossy cobble to fill in some of the space that I didn't feel like filling up with the other stuff. IF you have this in a normal world (not superflat) You can do this pillar anyway you want.

Anyway

NEED

14 obsidian

48 Netherrack (or 12 Nether brick)

51 Nether Quartz Ore

5 Glowstone

1 Soul sand

1 Gravel

ADDED

32 Glowstone

31 Obsidian

15 or so Nether Rack

18 Soul sand

18 Gravel

I didn't count the mossy cobble I think it was 18 layers from the soul sand layer to the quartz layers so a couple of stacks.

Keep in mind also you can use glowstone in Potions!

And last but not least Villager is in the Quarts layer

It is a Butcher

OK so that covers the basics, Now for the 9 chests. Again this up to the creator, There is only four things I know for sure are in the original series and that is 9 Golden enchanted apples, Ocelot eggs, wolf eggs and 4 emeralds. I know that there needs to be a second water source and mycelium in order to make giant mushrooms so here is 4 of the last 9 chests we have. The 4 in the pillars (about 10 layers down from the villager) put whatever in, I used them for Blaze rods and and egg in each pillar. We put way OP diamond armor and sword under the start base.