@bodashka4569
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 :)
@kazsolan
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.
@LukeSmith1984
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.
@thomaskletzl6493
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
@like-sz4fr
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!
@humanperson8418
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.
@ShinoSarna
I love that 50% of the time all of the time, when someone does some amazing engineering in Minecraft, it's armor stands.
@wChris_
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!
@alexslater8408
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
@darth_dub_
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!
@knpark2025
8:14 I studied elctronical engineering in undergrad, and this "roughly the same time" has a real precedence! I remember learning about "propagation delay" on a digital circuit course. Basically, two input signals should arrive at a logic gate at the same time, otherwise it can generate a wrong signal from the signal that arrived first. So, when two input signals for a gate pass through different numbers of intermediate gates, the side that includes less intermediate steps (hence takes less time to pass through) sometimes have to slow down on purpose. It is done by adding redunant logical components that do not change the True/False value. It is important that both signals "propagate" to either inputs of a gate as closely as possible, just like you dropped in two armor stands on the shortest intervals possible.
@Ionee-q4f
ive seen ""simple"" calculators like this in other games before but this is nuts, im never gonna look at my calculator the same way bro
@Mwr247
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 🙂
@autribasu
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!
@jipufix
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 ❤
@nevernether3368
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
@benjadryl_7393
That Xor gate design is so cool! This is probably the coolest (only) minecraft "redstone" contraption I've seen that doesn't use redstone.
@kaloncpu57
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
@funky555
This flipped the switch in my brain on how logic gates and adders work. Thanks
@Gekoloudios