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Jonny Casto-Ardern (born: May 17, 1987),[1] better known online as Pixlriffs, or Pix for short, is an English gaming YouTuber focusing on Minecraft. Pixlriffs is the co-producer of the Hermitcraft Recap, along with ZloyXP. He is also the co-host of the podcast The Spawn Chunks along with Joel Duggan.
Series[]
The Minecraft Survival Guide[]
Season 1[]
The Minecraft Survival Guide is currently one of his main focuses on series for his channel. It is all about things you can do in Minecraft, and tutorials on how to play. His first few episodes were about the early game of Minecraft, where he walked you through playing the game including "How To Find Diamonds," "Into the Nether," and "Starting a Nether Hub."
Since then he has made farms, explored each new update, and built massive projects, like a mountain. This series started on his channel since July 19, 2018, and it had 364 episodes before it ended. His 101, 202, and 303 Episodes of the survival guide where all about answering question given to him by the community. His Survival Guide S1 ended on June 8th of 2021.
Season 2[]
He started the Survival Guide S2 on 30th November 2021 and it had 122 episodes before it ended on 5ᵗʰ June 2023 just before the release of 1.20. He says he ended the series early because he felt it was boring as he didn't like the random seed.
Season 3[]
He started the Survival Guide S3 on 8ᵗʰ June 2023. Notably, this is the only season of the Survival Guide so far, to use a set seed.
The Hardcore Survival Guide[]
The Hardcore Survival Guide is an 'advanced' version of The Minecraft Survival Guide. Beginning in the Caves & Cliffs Update Part 1 (1.17), the aim was to skip the tutorial fluff and show the Hardcore experience of Minecraft
Skyblock 1.16[]
Skyblock 1.16 is a series where Pixlriffs goes through the Skyblock experience, making farms, and building structures to show how skylock is played differently and the same as vanilla Minecraft. He uses the 1.16.1 Skyblock map by DrTrog.
Cobble Clicker (Ended)[]
A Minecraft Bedrock series, produced in collaboration with ZloyXP. The last episode was uploaded on May 5th, 2019.
Hermitcraft Recap[]
With ZloyXP, Pixlriffs is one half of the Hermitcraft Recap team. The Recap is a weekly show that covers events on the popular Hermitcraft server. They don't cover livestreams. He and Zloy are co-writers of the recap, while Pixlriffs voices it.
Empires SMP[]
Season 1
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Season 2
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Season 1: June 12, 2021 — January 29, 2022
Empires SMP is a 1.17 survival multiplayer server where the objective is for players to start their own empire to trade with other empires for goods and resources, or go to war with one another. He founded his empire "Pixandria" in the desert biome and mainly exported copper. He ended up abandoning his empire before the end of the season to focus more on his Minecraft Survival Guide series.
Season 2: June 25, 2022 — May 30, 2023
Season 2 is very similar to the original season, but with new empires and set in version 1.19. This time Pix founded a ruin-themed empire called "The Ancient Capital" in the savannah biome. He acted as a traveling historian but largely does not participate in the heavy roleplay. He instead helped the other members of the server with their lore, similar to a Dungeon Master in Dungeons and Dragons. He was in charge of froglight exports.
In Season 2, there was a crossover with Hermitcraft and Empires through a rift that was in both of the servers.
Other Videos[]
Pixlriffs also uploads other content, including Minecraft maps with ZloyXP. He is a member of the Decidedly Vanilla Minecraft server. Pixlriffs also has a series of One Chunk Builds.
Other Content[]
Livestreams[]
Pixlriffs livestreams Minecraft on Twitch. He uploads the VODS to his second channel, PixlVODS.
The Spawn Chunks[]
With Joel Duggan, he is the co-host of The Spawn Chunks, which is a Minecraft podcast. It is posted on a weekly basis. They recently surpassed 100 episodes.
Quotes[]
- "And then I fall off, of course because I´m a dingus..." (The Minecraft Survival Guide Ep.80)
- "And remember a bucket of lava can be your best friend as long as you don't burn yourself in the process." (The Minecraft Survival Guide 2)
- "Do I have a co-host now?..." (Zombie stands beside him)
Trivia[]
- He has a degree in Music Production, and studied at the University of Leeds.
- He had a cat, Pickwick, who is sadly deceased.
- His YouTube profile picture was drawn by ZloyXP.
- He does not own a car despite having a licence and being allowed to drive.
- He started his Survival Guide S1 on the same date as Hermitcraft Season 6 started.
- He is married and has joked on stream about his spouse being "MixlRiffs."
- He married his spouse in 2011.
- His YouTube profile picture is his skin in Minecraft.
- His favorite non-flying bird is the ostrich.