You are the first youtuber that actually goes through their thought process and explains what they are thinking out loud instead of just showing the final result. You are wildly underrated.
Another fun kind of wire to try building gates with is what's known as "greenstone," a cactus-sand-torch-sand modular wire mentioned in the Minecraft Wiki's Rube Goldberg guide.
This fiddling with soul sand and water stream to time the armour stands actually has a parallel solution in computer science. Basically, all of the circuits are connected to a control armour stand named Clock via an AND gate, so that every output is dropped at the same time (when clock arrives). Amazing how much parallel there is between Minecraft gates and actual CPUs :)
Actual CPUs are made from very small logic gates that might have different form but behaves exactly the same as logic gates in Minecraft(or any other games or simulations that has logic gates) That's why your able to make a whole CPU in minecraft
Yup, and often times the clock speed of a physically large chip can be limited by the time it takes for that signal to cross the chip. For example something like the 6ghz 13900KS can't physically go much faster than about 10ghz no matter what you do to it. The silicon will hit other limits before that, but the die size should will set some hard upper bound.
Some important distinctions: 1. The clock signal in electronics is almost exclusively used to synchronise flip-flops (these are called synchronous), *not* the inputs to logic gates (which are asynchronous). Electronic logic gates are reusable and memoryless, and generally don't need their inputs to arrive simultaneously. We just ignore the output until it has stabilized. That's except: 2. In cases where it's important for the output of a logic gate to never switch back and forth before it has stabilized, this is called a *hazard*. There are various ways to work around this, but a very common way is to make the output synchronous by adding a flip-flop and a clock signal. The relevant Wikipedia article is called: Hazard (logic)
small tipp if you use often commands. Build a datapack it makes stuff like switching all minecart with chest minecarts way more easy you can just select all and then do it ones
If you're building a datapack, you could maybe do something like 'place x entity above every block of y type with z offset', meaning which entities are placed is still encoded within the build, and not as much within commands
Awesome demonstration! You not only showcase the final result but also walk us through the issues hit during preparation! To me, those issues hit and the way you resolve them value no lesser than the final result! Great work!
When I heard no redstone, I automatically assumed no components either, so I was super confused until I saw the tripwire hooks and pressure plates. That said, this is amazing, I regularly design my own redstone gates to fit different needs, but there is absolutely no way I could have made something like this. Great job!
I don't think it's possible to provide signals without using redstone, since fluids don't behave like they do in reality (my other guess would've been a water gate) @@Denastus
there was already an 8 bit adder with fence gates and tripwire, which used zombie path finding by pi314159265358978 its pretty old by now and may not even work anymore!
this video also reminded me of the best use of furnace minecarts. ilmango's scicraft episode 69 if anybody hasn't seen that true technical minecraft classic (just like pi's pathfinding computer).
It's funny you mentioned irl water gates as your inspiration, because back in the pre-alpha days before there was redstone we only had Minecraft water logic gates. The original redstone came early in alpha, and then 4 days later the way it worked changed to how it is today, and now with so many more blocks like repeaters, pistons, and apparently even fences! It's awesome to see the innovation and advancements along the way. Very cool video 🙂
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and let me just tell you: You're going to be one of the greats soon. The quality and efforts are top notch.
I will make a prediction, by the end of the year jazziRed will have 100k subscribers and by the end of the next year around about 750k subscribers. Hopefully you will reach one million soon!
as an electrical engineer currently studying this stuff in college, this tickles my brain in a way i can’t really explain with words! the way you tackled each problem by breaking them down into simple steps feels very familiar and comforting, what an awesome video ❤
I recently learned that every logic gate can be made with only AND and NOT gates and i find that incredibly impressive. And the fact you did this without redstone is so cool
This is pretty true for actual wiring too. A (bad) OR gate can be made by just tying two wires together. In reality you need atleast two diodes and a resistor. An AND can be made with the same components just connected differently. I'm not personally aware of a way to make xor with just diodes, resistors, and no transistors.
man, this is exactly the kind of content i needed; very original :D it gave me nostalgia from when i learned about logic gates like a decade ago. you've become one of my favorite MC youtubers just with this video
I gotta admit, I'm surprised this doesn't have more views. I love this video and I kind of picked up how a logic gate works with the way you were building it, and your explanation. I think I might try and do this myself, one of these days! It's so cool seeing people do something this complex in a game meant for entertainment!
Just learned about logic gates today in my college Architecture and Assembly programming class. This was not only insanely interesting to see you think through how to make gates (such as the XOR) but pretty helpful too!!
Wow man. You have an incredible head for mathematics and problem solving, on top of your ability to clearly articulate what is being done. Keep making gold like this, and you will have earned every sub you get (which is sure to be a ton)! I am blown away by all of the intelligence and combined talents I have seen in this video!
a while ago i experimented with making a water based computer that pushes armor stands around, and it was quite similar to this though not quite. this reminds me of that
Great video and concept, if you allowed pistons it might even be possible to make the whole system reusable. Instead of moving the armor stands between the logic gates you could have a series of tripwires where the first one activates a piston which pushes an armor stand into the second one and so on. If the system then deactivates when the input is removed or changed all armor stands can return to their starting position through gravity or a single block waterstream.
All 7 logic gates: *[NOT]* _>Active if no inputs are Active_ *[AND]* _>Active if all Inputs are Active_ *[NAND]* _>Active if any Inputs aren't Active_ *[OR]* _>Active if any Inputs are Active_ *[XOR]* _>Active if exactly 1 Input is Active_ *[NOR]* _>Active unless any Inputs are active_ *[XNOR]* _>Active if all inputs are on or off_ _(No mixing of on or off)_
Or: This or this and it doesn't mind both And: This and this, its very strict Not: Is how you use it in english not true is false and vice versa Nand: Its just not and Nor: Its just not or Xor: Demands only one and not more Xnor: Cant be all or nothing Everything wants true
Awesome stuff! Minecraft redstone has always been interesting to me and i spent a whole lot of time developing my own mini-systems but this a refreshing take on this topic. Well done!
Very interesting video, great job on it! Would suggest using AND gates rather than time delay streams for coordinating signals arriving at OR/XOR gates at the same time, and more tripwires to have other pre-set armour stands to drop.
Awesome content! I just binged your older videos and they are also all great. Keep it up, you really have the potential to grow as a technical minecraft youtuber, especially because I think the technical minecraft community is growing.
I didn’t think it was possible to impress me with minecarts, fence gates, and water. I was wrong, and I know I was wrong because I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Kudos to you man.
you should add a water pathway for the xor gates so that once the armor stands drop they then get carried back to the top with some delay so if they are both their it wont give an output until it has added the numbers
I remember back before Redstone was added to MCPE, people would come up with these ingenious "redstone" contraptions using sand/gravel, signs, and sugarcane. This reminds me of that. Amazing video!
I can't remember if armor stands collide with each other, but if so; for the XOR gate you could theoretically just have water flowing into a center point, leading to a 1-block drop. If both armor stands get placed at around the same time, they'll bump into each other and prevent each other from falling down. I realize this doesn't use fence gates though lol
That's what I thought of immediately when watching this video. Tried it out in-game; unfortunately, as Shenlerel said, armor stands don't have collision. However, minecarts do. In fact, you could redesign the entire thing with minecarts, which is what I'm doing right now, and it's more compact yet still functional.
This is incredible! If you could somehow get your gates to reset, you could probably make a turing complete system, totally without redstone. Also a great showcase of race conditions, the way timing effects the output. Excellent video!
Newomaster already did use water to make a redstoneless adder many many years ago. Here is a link for those that are interested: ua-cam.com/video/lsae2Hq_vCc/v-deo.html 9 years ago is more than i expected, i thought maybe 7. Time flies.
@@jazziiRed Thanks man I'm glad to hear that! You definitely should as I think that video might have been one for your best performing videos. I've seen a lot of people comment that you can send more data in a shorter amount of time or something similar, but additionally the distance is extended so you can have longer spaces between the telegraph and if you waterlog them you can have them underground as a secret communication line well!
First computers literally implemented logic without electricity or at least "informatic", so for example they would use electricity to spin a physical gear. Although you said you haven't *seen* anyone doing it, so I guess that statement still holds true.
next up is gonna be making a computer out of logic gates, maybe? 😂 and then make it into a quantum computer and make it run a simulation of string theory 😊❤😅🎉😮😂😊😊❤ and then launch it into space and make it develop artificial intelligence that trains itself and then make it destroy earth 😋😋😋😋😋😂😂😂 minecraft guys
I absolutely love this video!! Last year I actually came up with a way to do arbitrary computation without the need to manually reset the system, using only water, blocks, boats, pressure plates, and trapdoors. I would love to show you how the system of computation works!! It's so gratifying to be able to make a computer using only water and wood lol. Keep up the amazing videos!
This is giving me nostalgia for "alternative redstone" in the early days of Pocket Edition where we would use falling sand/gravel, "linked" signs (just signs placed on each other), and cactus blocks. Basically entirely single use contraptions with tons of setup that just caused block updates to send a signal through chains of breaking signs/cactus, and abusing things like trap doors set open automatically closing when a block below them broke. There was even a while where we didn't have actual redstone in Pocket Edition, but we had redstone ore blocks, which you could punch to cause an update, so we basically used those like a single use button. Edit: Oh, I just got to the point in the video where you do your first full test, and you actually mentioned breaking signs lmao Nice
Every once in a while, I come across a video where someone is trying to build some Redstone contraption, but with limited block choices. And the whole thing amazed me time and time again: from how they break down the mechanics & characteristics of each available block, to the possible uses, to other factors (such as how to start the machine that has the starting Lever near the center of it).
That's awesome!, about the duplicator, maybe you could've made something like: A A A P A G B G A = Armor stand P = Pressure plate G = Gate B = Block It's simple and similar to your AND gate. The Armor stand falls into the pressure plate and it outputs 2 armor stands.
I would be fascinated to see a variation with actual water! I know there are mods that allow for water to be drained like irl, so you could do what Steve Mould made a primitive version of.
We need the water logic gates. You could even hook it up to an observer to make it output electrical signals. The immense irony in using what normally functions as the antithesis to redstone, completely destroying it, as a harnessed method of logical computation is utterly glorious
I’m tempted to make a button+fence only version of this now! As a note: XOR is the same as (a OR b) AND NOT (a AND b). NOT seems like the hardest gate, but OR can simply be two buttons by a gate! NOT included timing. Another note: a signal can be split with two loaded gates on opposite sides of a button
I just posted a video showing off an XOR that uses 2 water for slowing a falling armorstand and one tripwire for a NOT gate. If someone figures out a way to do it without the tripwire, pls holler!
I see this is a breakout video, congrats, also you got my sub right at the beginning just because you mentioned Steve Mold and Matt Parker, love those guys
I really wanna see this contraption with barrier blocks instead of glass, and maybe creeper heads on the armour stands to make them more visible. Epic video my guy :)
You are so freaking amazing! I've only recently been interested to logic gates and minecraft atst since i just finished my 1st yr as a computer engr student(never planned to be one though) Haven't been into these kind of stuff till now and your invention here is such a masterpiece. I'm years away from your creativity and problem-solving skills but you're inspiring. Keep up the wonderful content bro, such a great idea
Didn't know what logic gates were for before this video, or what they had to do with binary, but when the machine added up the numbers correctly it completely blew my mind. Now I get why binary is so useful in computers!
I figured out a solution to drop the input armor stands simultaneously, without redstone or worldedit. You mentioned both signs and trapdoors, and I used both! The missing piece was using falling sand to trigger a tripwire - so you break the signs to drop the sand and it falls through a tripwire to open the trapdoors to drop the input armor stands... It feels Goldbergian even though it's just supposed to be the start of the mechanism, but it was really fun to figure out and put together! Thanks for another awesome video, you're really inspiring me to get back into not only redstone, but Minecraft in general!
This is what I like to see, I don't miss the old Minecraft for the textures, I don't miss it for the gameplay, I miss it for the content (the youtube videos) This is some pre-redstone redstone
6:35, simpler solution, just put a pressure plate in front of each gate but hook it up to the other gate, if 1 goes through it OPENS the opposite gate briefly but not permanently, if 2 pass through they cause each other to fall elsewhere instead of the expected location
This is so interesting and cool! I would really like to see another video using this gate logic. And i have got an idea: you could add some water that flows to a soulsand elevator below the "computer" to get the armorstands back to the top. This would make a "battery" and an armorstand "current" so that you wouldn't have to use command blocks to reset it.
If you wish to build more logic like this in the future, for the split signal junctions, just have a pressure plate with two fences on either side with armor stands sitting on them.
Just small tips. You could skip all the timing crazyness by having between each layer gates that will be opened by one master stand (something like clock signal) that way you would just need to make this one slower than others. And as it will introduce taming you would also be able to introduce not gate. With that you can easily replace XOR gate with few NOT, OR and And Gates. Also the "junction" or signal splitter could be easily replaced by one presure plate and two gates on its sides and having prepared the stands on these gates. As stand fall it will trigger the presure plate and thus open the gates and have two stands fall down. The differences between this and yours are that this is smaller and make both of the stands fall at the same time. Thus making the timing more simple.
Very cool! Maybe how to simplify the XOR gate: Have the two armor stands float from two sides towards each other to a one block hole. Maybe they can block each other from falling down? Idk haven’t tried it yet, also would be pretty time sensitive
@@jazziiRed found a setup where you have an armor stand in two opposing water streams. Using pressure plates and waterlogged trap doors you can "turn off" one or both of the water streams using the input armor stands. If exactly one stream is turned off, the extra amor stand is pushed towards the output. I think you can adjust the lengths of the water streams to make it more or less time sensitive
Nice video! Based on my experience playing with logic gates and adders in cellular automata, I think you could probably simplify your design a lot. Specifically, since you already have super-compact AND and OR gates, I'd recommend designing an "AND NOT" gate (where one armor stand goes through only if another has _not_ fallen down) and using the rule A XOR B = (A OR B) AND NOT (A AND B) to make a simpler XOR gate. Or even try to build a compact adder out of AND, OR and AND NOT gates directly.
8:45 "you need to reset it manually so it's not exactly reusable but hey, neither were the dominoes so I think its fine. Please forgive me." This was genuinely *EXACTLY* what I was thinking.
the fact that you muted the "hey google" so people using speakers wouldn't be affected is such a cool detail
Yeah it's something I've seen a lot of techtubers do, and I really appreciate it when they do
Now if only we could get people to mute their Discord notifications...
@@jazziiRed Don't mute it, hahahahaha
@@jazziiRed ❤️
@@DFPercush is it really that scary?
You are the first youtuber that actually goes through their thought process and explains what they are thinking out loud instead of just showing the final result. You are wildly underrated.
Stampy does that on his second channel I think.
Mumbo Jumbo does that too but in a more “theatric” way
MattBatWings
how u gonna disrespect the goat gbembon like that
Lying to meat ride is crazy
Another fun kind of wire to try building gates with is what's known as "greenstone," a cactus-sand-torch-sand modular wire mentioned in the Minecraft Wiki's Rube Goldberg guide.
Interesting... I'll have to take a look at that
You just activated really old neurons in my brain with those words w
Now I miss doing good old redstone
There's also leafstone, where observers can detect logs being put next to leaves
@@softpaw6234 yea i tried to get that to work in a redstone contraption, used walls instead though bc i probably did something wrong with leafstone
@@chickencurry69420 leafstone has a fairly limited range, I think it's the same as leaf decay for naturally generated/grown trees
This fiddling with soul sand and water stream to time the armour stands actually has a parallel solution in computer science. Basically, all of the circuits are connected to a control armour stand named Clock via an AND gate, so that every output is dropped at the same time (when clock arrives). Amazing how much parallel there is between Minecraft gates and actual CPUs :)
If anyone is wondering, such circuits are called synchronous
I was just thinking of how he could do that exact thing, I didn't even consider that CPUs might also do that.
Actual CPUs are made from very small logic gates that might have different form but behaves exactly the same as logic gates in Minecraft(or any other games or simulations that has logic gates) That's why your able to make a whole CPU in minecraft
Yup, and often times the clock speed of a physically large chip can be limited by the time it takes for that signal to cross the chip. For example something like the 6ghz 13900KS can't physically go much faster than about 10ghz no matter what you do to it. The silicon will hit other limits before that, but the die size should will set some hard upper bound.
Some important distinctions:
1. The clock signal in electronics is almost exclusively used to synchronise flip-flops (these are called synchronous), *not* the inputs to logic gates (which are asynchronous). Electronic logic gates are reusable and memoryless, and generally don't need their inputs to arrive simultaneously. We just ignore the output until it has stabilized. That's except:
2. In cases where it's important for the output of a logic gate to never switch back and forth before it has stabilized, this is called a *hazard*. There are various ways to work around this, but a very common way is to make the output synchronous by adding a flip-flop and a clock signal.
The relevant Wikipedia article is called: Hazard (logic)
small tipp if you use often commands. Build a datapack it makes stuff like switching all minecart with chest minecarts way more easy you can just select all and then do it ones
Cool, thanks for the tip 👍
this case specifically would be perfect for structure blocks
@@magica3526 yeah i use them all the time, they're awesome
@@magica3526 i would not say that the problem is you would ned to save it every time you build one block different
If you're building a datapack, you could maybe do something like 'place x entity above every block of y type with z offset', meaning which entities are placed is still encoded within the build, and not as much within commands
Awesome demonstration! You not only showcase the final result but also walk us through the issues hit during preparation!
To me, those issues hit and the way you resolve them value no lesser than the final result!
Great work!
Thanks, that's the goal!
I agree, those learning opportunities are just as if not more important
You put it into words, thank you
When I heard no redstone, I automatically assumed no components either, so I was super confused until I saw the tripwire hooks and pressure plates. That said, this is amazing, I regularly design my own redstone gates to fit different needs, but there is absolutely no way I could have made something like this. Great job!
He technically failed his own challenge. Tripwire hooks and pressure plates are classified as redstone, as they provide power to other components.
@@Denastus I mean yeah but technically their construction doesn't require redstone in the recipe so that's fine
I don't think it's possible to provide signals without using redstone, since fluids don't behave like they do in reality (my other guess would've been a water gate) @@Denastus
Nevermind this one did ua-cam.com/video/lsae2Hq_vCc/v-deo.html @@Denastus
@@DenastusWhat he meant was that there is nothing with the name redstone in it or that uses redstone in the recipe, as he states in the video
there was already an 8 bit adder with fence gates and tripwire, which used zombie path finding by pi314159265358978 its pretty old by now and may not even work anymore!
Oh! I'll have to check that out.
I instantly remembered that too.
Ahhhh.... Good times in mcyt.
this video also reminded me of the best use of furnace minecarts. ilmango's scicraft episode 69 if anybody hasn't seen that true technical minecraft classic (just like pi's pathfinding computer).
3.14159265358979
is what u meant
Bringing back fence gate redstone functionality from the early days of minecraft , never thought theyd come back into the scene in such a big way
It's funny you mentioned irl water gates as your inspiration, because back in the pre-alpha days before there was redstone we only had Minecraft water logic gates. The original redstone came early in alpha, and then 4 days later the way it worked changed to how it is today, and now with so many more blocks like repeaters, pistons, and apparently even fences! It's awesome to see the innovation and advancements along the way. Very cool video 🙂
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and let me just tell you: You're going to be one of the greats soon. The quality and efforts are top notch.
Thank you so much 🙏
Glad you're here!
@@jazziiRed I think I'll be sticking around. That MIDI video was also really good.
I will make a prediction, by the end of the year jazziRed will have 100k subscribers and by the end of the next year around about 750k subscribers. Hopefully you will reach one million soon!
@@jazziiRed I agree with him
as an electrical engineer currently studying this stuff in college, this tickles my brain in a way i can’t really explain with words!
the way you tackled each problem by breaking them down into simple steps feels very familiar and comforting, what an awesome video ❤
I recently learned that every logic gate can be made with only AND and NOT gates and i find that incredibly impressive. And the fact you did this without redstone is so cool
Or just nand
This flipped the switch in my brain on how logic gates and adders work. Thanks
This flipped the switch on how all of that actually matters for computers for some reason.
I swear to god your channel is so cool like the editing and all I just like it sooo much
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy it :)
That Xor gate design is so cool! This is probably the coolest (only) minecraft "redstone" contraption I've seen that doesn't use redstone.
I love how straightforward the and and or gates are, and how crazy complicated xor is
and and lol
This is pretty true for actual wiring too. A (bad) OR gate can be made by just tying two wires together. In reality you need atleast two diodes and a resistor. An AND can be made with the same components just connected differently.
I'm not personally aware of a way to make xor with just diodes, resistors, and no transistors.
@@Redjd2098 things like that are probably why logical AND is usually written all shouty.
man, this is exactly the kind of content i needed; very original :D
it gave me nostalgia from when i learned about logic gates like a decade ago.
you've become one of my favorite MC youtubers just with this video
Thank you, I am honored 🙏
As a mathematician and a longtime minecraft player, and this just lights my brain up in all the right places. Excellent video
So happy you thought of using command blocks to reset. Was halfway through and going to comment it but figured I'd wait it out a little longer.
You could use command blocks for the reset button
_since they dont use redstone to craft ;)_
Awesome
I gotta admit, I'm surprised this doesn't have more views. I love this video and I kind of picked up how a logic gate works with the way you were building it, and your explanation. I think I might try and do this myself, one of these days! It's so cool seeing people do something this complex in a game meant for entertainment!
Just learned about logic gates today in my college Architecture and Assembly programming class. This was not only insanely interesting to see you think through how to make gates (such as the XOR) but pretty helpful too!!
Wow man. You have an incredible head for mathematics and problem solving, on top of your ability to clearly articulate what is being done. Keep making gold like this, and you will have earned every sub you get (which is sure to be a ton)! I am blown away by all of the intelligence and combined talents I have seen in this video!
Wow, that is some seriously high praise... I really appreciate it 😄
a while ago i experimented with making a water based computer that pushes armor stands around, and it was quite similar to this though not quite. this reminds me of that
Great video and concept, if you allowed pistons it might even be possible to make the whole system reusable. Instead of moving the armor stands between the logic gates you could have a series of tripwires where the first one activates a piston which pushes an armor stand into the second one and so on. If the system then deactivates when the input is removed or changed all armor stands can return to their starting position through gravity or a single block waterstream.
I have no clever way to present this joke, so just... Here.
ArmorstAND gate. ArmORstand gate.
*slow clap*
I've been trying to make contraptions on my Skyblok-ish world with no mob spawning so no way to get redstone. This video was very well-timed.
Sir, this is a absolute great discover. Loved it so much, thank you so much Sir.
I'm a programmer (10+years) and I still don't really get logic gates entirely. Kudos this was impressive.
All 7 logic gates:
*[NOT]*
_>Active if no inputs are Active_
*[AND]*
_>Active if all Inputs are Active_
*[NAND]*
_>Active if any Inputs aren't Active_
*[OR]*
_>Active if any Inputs are Active_
*[XOR]*
_>Active if exactly 1 Input is Active_
*[NOR]*
_>Active unless any Inputs are active_
*[XNOR]*
_>Active if all inputs are on or off_
_(No mixing of on or off)_
to be fair, as a programmer you don't really have to know that
Or:
This or this and it doesn't mind both
And:
This and this, its very strict
Not:
Is how you use it in english not true is false and vice versa
Nand:
Its just not and
Nor:
Its just not or
Xor:
Demands only one and not more
Xnor:
Cant be all or nothing
Everything wants true
@@hoodio there are if statements that if true this happens if not something else happens
@@farciarzfunny5326 that's not the logic gate system
Awesome stuff! Minecraft redstone has always been interesting to me and i spent a whole lot of time developing my own mini-systems but this a refreshing take on this topic. Well done!
Very interesting video, great job on it! Would suggest using AND gates rather than time delay streams for coordinating signals arriving at OR/XOR gates at the same time, and more tripwires to have other pre-set armour stands to drop.
I considered that, but I liked the purity of the delays, plus it mirrors the zig-zags in real-life PCB design.
I always love seeing people invent new forms of Redstone in game, it’s always so cool, using gravity, water, and armor stands is a neat idea!
If you do end up making it with water you could use the Water Physics Overhaul mod. It makes water spread and is pushable by pistons!
Awesome content! I just binged your older videos and they are also all great. Keep it up, you really have the potential to grow as a technical minecraft youtuber, especially because I think the technical minecraft community is growing.
Thank you for the encouragement!
Holy crud! How's your channel this small?! Your video quality is astonishing!
Thank you 🙏
Agree
I appreciate your effort to do this and include your thought process. I don't have the energy anymore to figure this out. Props
Unconventional redstone + problem solving. This video goes hard!
Crafty!!! Thanks, I appreciate it 🙏
6 month old comment from Cwafty Mastuwman that only has a reply from the creator? On a REDSTONE VIDEO? Wow. Hi Crafty
I didn’t think it was possible to impress me with minecarts, fence gates, and water. I was wrong, and I know I was wrong because I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Kudos to you man.
You should see a docter
you should add a water pathway for the xor gates so that once the armor stands drop they then get carried back to the top with some delay so if they are both their it wont give an output until it has added the numbers
I remember back before Redstone was added to MCPE, people would come up with these ingenious "redstone" contraptions using sand/gravel, signs, and sugarcane. This reminds me of that. Amazing video!
I can't remember if armor stands collide with each other, but if so; for the XOR gate you could theoretically just have water flowing into a center point, leading to a 1-block drop. If both armor stands get placed at around the same time, they'll bump into each other and prevent each other from falling down. I realize this doesn't use fence gates though lol
They don't collide at all
That's what I thought of immediately when watching this video. Tried it out in-game; unfortunately, as Shenlerel said, armor stands don't have collision. However, minecarts do. In fact, you could redesign the entire thing with minecarts, which is what I'm doing right now, and it's more compact yet still functional.
Ah dang. I thought they did for some reason. Yeah, minecarts would be cool!
This is incredible! If you could somehow get your gates to reset, you could probably make a turing complete system, totally without redstone. Also a great showcase of race conditions, the way timing effects the output. Excellent video!
But can it run doom?
Not yet!
dude it's absolutely incredible! I'm a mathematician and did not expect that in minecraft it is possible in such schemes without the use of redstone
Newomaster already did use water to make a redstoneless adder many many years ago.
Here is a link for those that are interested: ua-cam.com/video/lsae2Hq_vCc/v-deo.html
9 years ago is more than i expected, i thought maybe 7. Time flies.
this is amazing, always thought of mc mechanics without redstone and you did exactly that.
Technically, you can make this run doom
awesome video, man! people building logic gates with inconvenient things (like those literal gates) is certainly one of my favorite video genres👌
21:36 I did my counting wrong a little bit and I thought it said the answer to 9+10 was 21 😭
Oh I love logic gates. I’ve been thinking about these in Minecraft for a while now.
Good video!
Hey I love your channel! Would you consider doing an update to your wireless telegraph video with the new calibrated amethyst block?
Thanks! And yeah I am thinking about what I can do, but no promises 😬
@@jazziiRed Thanks man I'm glad to hear that! You definitely should as I think that video might have been one for your best performing videos. I've seen a lot of people comment that you can send more data in a shorter amount of time or something similar, but additionally the distance is extended so you can have longer spaces between the telegraph and if you waterlog them you can have them underground as a secret communication line well!
First computers literally implemented logic without electricity or at least "informatic", so for example they would use electricity to spin a physical gear.
Although you said you haven't *seen* anyone doing it, so I guess that statement still holds true.
next up is gonna be making a computer out of logic gates, maybe? 😂 and then make it into a quantum computer and make it run a simulation of string theory 😊❤😅🎉😮😂😊😊❤ and then launch it into space and make it develop artificial intelligence that trains itself and then make it destroy earth 😋😋😋😋😋😂😂😂 minecraft guys
tooo many emojis
i study engineering, you can use functionally complete gates like NOR or NAND to create any type of gates you want
I absolutely love this video!! Last year I actually came up with a way to do arbitrary computation without the need to manually reset the system, using only water, blocks, boats, pressure plates, and trapdoors. I would love to show you how the system of computation works!! It's so gratifying to be able to make a computer using only water and wood lol. Keep up the amazing videos!
That's awesome!
This is giving me nostalgia for "alternative redstone" in the early days of Pocket Edition where we would use falling sand/gravel, "linked" signs (just signs placed on each other), and cactus blocks. Basically entirely single use contraptions with tons of setup that just caused block updates to send a signal through chains of breaking signs/cactus, and abusing things like trap doors set open automatically closing when a block below them broke.
There was even a while where we didn't have actual redstone in Pocket Edition, but we had redstone ore blocks, which you could punch to cause an update, so we basically used those like a single use button.
Edit: Oh, I just got to the point in the video where you do your first full test, and you actually mentioned breaking signs lmao Nice
Every once in a while, I come across a video where someone is trying to build some Redstone contraption, but with limited block choices. And the whole thing amazed me time and time again: from how they break down the mechanics & characteristics of each available block, to the possible uses, to other factors (such as how to start the machine that has the starting Lever near the center of it).
this man has rediscovered the minecraft that existed before redstone
I forgot digital electronics after watching this... But it's amazing fr
That's awesome!, about the duplicator, maybe you could've made something like:
A A
A P A
G B G
A = Armor stand
P = Pressure plate
G = Gate
B = Block
It's simple and similar to your AND gate. The Armor stand falls into the pressure plate and it outputs 2 armor stands.
I would be fascinated to see a variation with actual water! I know there are mods that allow for water to be drained like irl, so you could do what Steve Mould made a primitive version of.
unironically the first source to get me to understand how logic gates could function outside of pure math and theory. 11/10
I'm taking Digital Design/Computwr Architecture rn and being able to fully understand the concepts in this video makes me so happy lol
wow even as a certified understander of this kind of thing i seriously would not have been able to engineer that XOR gate. u r so smart
We need the water logic gates. You could even hook it up to an observer to make it output electrical signals. The immense irony in using what normally functions as the antithesis to redstone, completely destroying it, as a harnessed method of logical computation is utterly glorious
I’m tempted to make a button+fence only version of this now!
As a note: XOR is the same as (a OR b) AND NOT (a AND b). NOT seems like the hardest gate, but OR can simply be two buttons by a gate! NOT included timing.
Another note: a signal can be split with two loaded gates on opposite sides of a button
I just posted a video showing off an XOR that uses 2 water for slowing a falling armorstand and one tripwire for a NOT gate. If someone figures out a way to do it without the tripwire, pls holler!
Jazzii red is now certified a member of baby blue club.
Really love the way you describe the binary adding, simple yet affective
This channel deserves so much more attention. This was by far one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen. Keep up the good word k!
Thank you, I plan on it!
I see this is a breakout video, congrats, also you got my sub right at the beginning just because you mentioned Steve Mold and Matt Parker, love those guys
The unconventional use of tools here is inspirational, and some of it is actually useful. 😅 Thanks!
I really wanna see this contraption with barrier blocks instead of glass, and maybe creeper heads on the armour stands to make them more visible.
Epic video my guy :)
That is so cool, i remember trying to make logic gates in minecraft because i was rly interested at that at that time
You are so freaking amazing! I've only recently been interested to logic gates and minecraft atst since i just finished my 1st yr as a computer engr student(never planned to be one though)
Haven't been into these kind of stuff till now and your invention here is such a masterpiece. I'm years away from your creativity and problem-solving skills but you're inspiring. Keep up the wonderful content bro, such a great idea
That’s really cool!!!! I honestly didn’t understand any of this at the beginning, but you made it really easy to understand!
Anyways, great video!
Thanks!
Didn't know what logic gates were for before this video, or what they had to do with binary, but when the machine added up the numbers correctly it completely blew my mind. Now I get why binary is so useful in computers!
After stumbling across this video a couple days ago, I just binged most of your videos! Great content! Hope you make it!
Thanks! I appreciate the support :)
And that’s why computers are made with electronics and not mechanical parts… great work!! I really enjoyed watching your process
I figured out a solution to drop the input armor stands simultaneously, without redstone or worldedit. You mentioned both signs and trapdoors, and I used both! The missing piece was using falling sand to trigger a tripwire - so you break the signs to drop the sand and it falls through a tripwire to open the trapdoors to drop the input armor stands... It feels Goldbergian even though it's just supposed to be the start of the mechanism, but it was really fun to figure out and put together!
Thanks for another awesome video, you're really inspiring me to get back into not only redstone, but Minecraft in general!
Awesome, I like your creativity :)
So cool and smart! I like the opening-closing sounds very much as well! Reminds me old school mechanical calculating systems
The fact that you actually did this is just amazing XD rly enjoyed the video!
Great design. I love seeing mechanical devices that run logic operations.
This is what I like to see, I don't miss the old Minecraft for the textures, I don't miss it for the gameplay, I miss it for the content (the youtube videos) This is some pre-redstone redstone
6:35, simpler solution, just put a pressure plate in front of each gate but hook it up to the other gate, if 1 goes through it OPENS the opposite gate briefly but not permanently, if 2 pass through they cause each other to fall elsewhere instead of the expected location
This is amazing, new subscription added! Excited to see what else you come up with!
Thanks, and welcome :)
This is so interesting and cool! I would really like to see another video using this gate logic. And i have got an idea: you could add some water that flows to a soulsand elevator below the "computer" to get the armorstands back to the top. This would make a "battery" and an armorstand "current" so that you wouldn't have to use command blocks to reset it.
Great video! I don't understand nothing about logic gates, but it was a very pleasant video to watch. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
If you wish to build more logic like this in the future, for the split signal junctions, just have a pressure plate with two fences on either side with armor stands sitting on them.
Water turned out to be an important component in your design after all (like the Steve Mould inspiration)!
Nice video :)
Just small tips.
You could skip all the timing crazyness by having between each layer gates that will be opened by one master stand (something like clock signal) that way you would just need to make this one slower than others.
And as it will introduce taming you would also be able to introduce not gate. With that you can easily replace XOR gate with few NOT, OR and And Gates.
Also the "junction" or signal splitter could be easily replaced by one presure plate and two gates on its sides and having prepared the stands on these gates. As stand fall it will trigger the presure plate and thus open the gates and have two stands fall down. The differences between this and yours are that this is smaller and make both of the stands fall at the same time. Thus making the timing more simple.
Great video! Looking foward to see your future projects.
Already had my computer science exam... This would have made it even eaiser to visualise..
i was literally thinking “imagine if he used gates and water in minecraft” and then YOU LITERALLY SHOWED SOMEONE MAKING LOGIC GATES WITH WATER 😭”
Dude, i have just claps for you man 👏👏, you somehow made an adder with only entities. Hats off to you dude.
Very cool! Maybe how to simplify the XOR gate: Have the two armor stands float from two sides towards each other to a one block hole. Maybe they can block each other from falling down? Idk haven’t tried it yet, also would be pretty time sensitive
Yeah that's what I also though and it should work
Yes, it would be time sensitive, but more importantly armor stands don't collide at all :/
@@jazziiRed hahaha well yeah, that might be a problem
@@jazziiRed found a setup where you have an armor stand in two opposing water streams. Using pressure plates and waterlogged trap doors you can "turn off" one or both of the water streams using the input armor stands. If exactly one stream is turned off, the extra amor stand is pushed towards the output. I think you can adjust the lengths of the water streams to make it more or less time sensitive
Nice video! Based on my experience playing with logic gates and adders in cellular automata, I think you could probably simplify your design a lot. Specifically, since you already have super-compact AND and OR gates, I'd recommend designing an "AND NOT" gate (where one armor stand goes through only if another has _not_ fallen down) and using the rule A XOR B = (A OR B) AND NOT (A AND B) to make a simpler XOR gate. Or even try to build a compact adder out of AND, OR and AND NOT gates directly.
This is really cool man! You're incredibly underrated. Keep it up!
8:45 "you need to reset it manually so it's not exactly reusable but hey, neither were the dominoes so I think its fine. Please forgive me."
This was genuinely *EXACTLY* what I was thinking.