Barefist Steve won't make it into Minecraft Dungeons II

Pixlriffs' short challenge question passed 100,000 views in sixteen hours, while Survival Guide episode 140 hooked a single piglin to a gold farm.

Channel: PixlriffsStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Can You Beat Minecraft Dungeons II Without Using Weapons? #minecraft #shorts #challenge

"Can You Beat Minecraft Dungeons II Without Using Weapons?" is a short with a sad answer on Pixlriffs, the Minecraft guide and tutorial channel. Its whole description is one line, Barefist Steve asks the real questions, and the comment section took up the cause. Several viewers point out that the first Minecraft Dungeons gave players an achievement for just that kind of fistfight. Others mourn Barefist Steve, or offer workarounds: armor that hurts mobs when you run into them, a borrowed artifact from a friend's world, or a run that never upgrades the starting gear. The short passed 100,000 views in about sixteen hours, far beyond anything else on the channel right now.

The week's other upload is the steadier Pixlriffs staple. Episode 140 of the Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 attaches one piglin to last episode's gold farm, and through bartering the farm now turns out twenty new items, from quartz and gravel to crying obsidian, dried ghasts and Soul Speed books. Copper golems help sort the storage, and the description promises a way to lock the setup when he wants plain gold ingots again. It opened with more than 23,000 views on its first day.

Behind them, an eleven-day-old essay on the Dappled Forest biome from the 26.3 update, which argues that size doesn't matter, keeps adding a couple of thousand views a day.

The channel ran a little above its usual daily pace, with subscribers holding at 979,000. Among the Minecraft creators nearest its size it sits third by subscribers, level with Sharpness, while LookOut2DD had the busiest week of the group and Shubble and YaBoiAction were quieter.

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The videos drawing views on Pixlriffs right now

Piglin Bartering Is Like Alchemy ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 [Ep.14…29,151 views · 2026-10-02 Let's Talk About The Dappled Forest139,572 views

The numbers

Here is how the Pixlriffs channel and its newest videos stand right now.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

LookOut2DD

8,337,570

CashClips

6,132,773

Freshlol

3,506,637

Sharpness

953,660

Stay Wild Gaming

918,787

That Chief Guy

707,327

Pixlriffs

316,878

Shubble

128,297

YaBoiAction

93,800

subscribers

979,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

294,443,598

views per day

55,337

typical day: 49,313

this week's videos (first-day views)

Piglin Bartering Is Like Alchemy ▫ Mine…

23,472

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

CashClips

1,070,000

Shubble

1,020,000

Pixlriffs

979,000

Sharpness

979,000

Freshlol

974,000

YaBoiAction

960,000

LookOut2DD

947,000

Stay Wild Gaming

945,000

That Chief Guy

867,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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