Mumbo Jumbo – Minecraft: 10 Redstone Projects for Beginners!

Hello everyone this is mumbo and welcome back to another redstone video and in this one we’re going to be doing something completely different in front of me i’ve got 10 different redstone challenges for those of you who are completely brand spanking new to redstone and don’t really know what’s

Going on now the concept really is quite simple i’m going to go up to each one of these i’m going to explain what i want the redstone project to do you’re then going to go away and build the redstone project then i’m going to come back in a

Couple of seconds and i’m going to show you the solution to the redstone project i think it should work really quite nicely and it might teach one or two of you a few of the basics of redstone so let’s crack on and i’ll show you what

I’ve got for you now one thing that i do just quickly want to mention is of course there is a world download down in the description for anyone that wants to download this exact world so that you can play along with me but anyway the first redstone project that we’re going

To be working on today is i want you to make this lamp pulse once when the lever is flicked so when we flick this lever down the redstone lamp should flash on and off and then when we turn the lever off it shouldn’t do anything now this is

Known as a monostable circuit if you need a hand with this one i’d highly suggest googling it because there’ll be millions of results there but i’d suggest pausing the video working on your redstone contraption then i’ll show you how it’s done now the solution that i’ve gone for

Might be a little bit different to yours if it is that’s absolutely fine there are tons of different ways to do all of the things featured in this video but my solution is to run a repeater output from this lever running straight into this monostable circuit here which i’ll

Explain in a couple of seconds and that of course runs into this repeater which runs into this redstone which powers our redstone lamp now the way that this monostable circuit here works is that this block gets powered which of course passes the power walnut to all of the

Further components but then one tick later the sticky piston extends and that’s because sticky pistons take one tick to extend and that pushes the block out of the way cutting off the redstone signal meaning that we only get a very short flash so if we flick this lever

Here you can see we got our flash through the redstone lamp then it turns off and of course nothing happens when we turn off the lever now that is a super useful circuit to remember would highly suggest implanting that one in your brain because it will come in handy

Quite often challenge number two i want you to make this lamp toggle on and off on the button press so when i hit this button here the redstone lamp turns on and stays on then when i hit the button again redstone lamp turns off and stays off hit the button again redstone lamp

Turns on yes you get the idea so this is essentially known as a t-flip-flop or toggleable flip-flop once again if you need a hand with this one would suggest taking to google but crack on with that and then i’ll show you the solution you know earlier on when i said that

This monostable circuit was really quite useful yeah i wasn’t joking the cool thing about these things are is they output a one tick pulse and the interesting thing about one tick pulses is the fact that they cause sticky pistons to spit out their blocks now that might sound just a little bit

Strange but if we take a look here when we hit the button this sticky piston extends but then just leaves his block out there it forgets to retract it it just leaves it out there and that of course means that we’ve powered our redstone lamp permanently now this is

One of the most useful mechanics in minecraft redstone it was introduced way back in the early days to stop sand duplication and i’m so glad that that happened because it’s enabled a large number of things so the one tick pulse running into the sticky piston causes it

To spit out its blocks which of course can be used in the t flip flop for this next challenge i want you to extend the length of the pulse coming from the button now i have to say i haven’t worded that particularly brilliantly so

I’m going to try my best to explain it a little bit better when you hit the button i want the redstone lamp to turn on really quickly but then when the button turns off i want the redstone lamp to stay powered for a lot longer so essentially what we’re doing is we’re

Extending the pulse by using what’s known as a pulse extender now this is a pretty cool redstone circuit i’ll let you start building that one and then once again i’ll show you the solution Now there are hundreds of different ways that you could have done this one using comparators or if you’re going to get really advanced you could use hoppers as well but i’ve decided to opt for one of the simplest and oldest redstone circuits in the book and that is this

Avagate so next to this button we have got some redstone dust and then we have a repeater running into this block which is going to be powering our redstone lamp now as you can see the lamp turns on really quickly but it stays on for a lot longer and that’s because of these

Repeaters out here which also run out and also power this block as well so just as this repeater turns off the redstone current will have made its way around nice and slowly and it will have just reached this block as this one turns off meaning that then all of the

Redstone has to unpower around here before our redstone lamp turns off so essentially what we’re doing is we’re extending the pulse from the button as you can see right here now we are making the move over to some slightly more advanced builds you can see that we’ve got some orange wool up

At the top here that signifies the fact that things are getting just a tiny bit more complicated now this one is the first build to use a little bit of redstone logic and what i want you to do is make sure that the lamp only turns on

When both levers are down now this is known as an and gate once again if you need help with this one not suggest heading off to google but start building then i’ll show you now the principle behind the and gate really is quite simple if all the inputs

Are on then the output will be on as well so you can see here we’ve got one input off one input on we’ve got no output if we throw both of these on then you can see we get ourselves an output if we flip both of them off then we

Don’t get ourselves an output now that’s essentially how all of that works and the way that we’ve wired that up is we run our inputs into redstone torches and then we have one redstone line that connects all of those torches up and then we have ourselves an inverter from

That redstone line which of course means that if we flick one of these levers off that will power the entire redstone line and that means that whatever we do with this lever over here is not going to affect the output into this redstone line because of course we can’t really

Switch off that redstone torch using this lever here it’s quite a simple circuit but it’s extremely powerful in terms of both redstone and also outside of redstone in computing and all that sort of thing but i’m not going to get into that side of things today moving on

From all of that your next challenge is to make this lamp repeatedly flash while the lever is down so when we flick this lever here we want to get ourselves some disco lighting going on and then when we turn the lever off it will switch off

All of the disco lighting now this is known as a toggleable redstone clock google is your friend once again but start building and then i’ll show you how it’s done Now as per usual there are about a million and one different ways in which you can link all of this up but the way that i’ve decided to do it is using what’s known as a toggleable hopper clock so what we have down here is we’ve got two hoppers running into one another

And we’ve got a comparator running out of one of these hoppers inside these hoppers we have got one single item and when this hopper becomes unpowered it will then release the item allowing it to move back and forth between the two hoppers because of course they both run

Into one another which means that it sort of flashes between them then when we take the comparator output from that it means we get a flashing redstone current which runs out into our redstone lamp meaning that we have ourselves some toggleable redstone lighting now as i say there are a large

Number of possible ways to do this one but hopper clocks are extremely useful i use them a lot in my builds so maybe that’s one to remember as well this next challenge is a little bit more on the tricky side of things what i want you to

Do is make it so water is dispensed to while the lever is down so when we flick this over here water pops out and when we flick the lever again water goes away now this might sound a little bit easy it might sound really quite simple but actually it’s a tiny bit more

Complicated because sadly dispensers work on a pulse basis so you send a pulse once and that sends out the water then you send a pulse again and that will retract the water which means you have to use what’s known as a dual edge monostable circuit

Now the way that i’ve solved this one is using one of the simplest dual edge monostable circuits available to us now this uses the fact that when pistons move blocks they temporarily turn into entities which means things like redstone blocks don’t power redstone while they’re being moved by pistons now

That means that while this block is being moved all of this redstone unpowers i mean this redstone torch turns on very very quickly as it’s being moved both back and forth so when we flick this over here you can see we get ourselves some water and when we flick

It again the water retracts and that’s because the redstone turns off quickly every time the block is moved for these next two challenges we’re going to be wiring up a bunch of pistons and everyone knows that pistons are extremely good for use in piston doors

It’s sort of in the name there so the first thing i want you to do is wire up the pistons for this 2×4 piston door and i’ve given you a bit of a hint and that is the fact that i want you to use slabs i don’t want you to use redstone torch

Towers or anything like that because they’re rather slow instead i want you to use upside down half slabs to wire up all of these things so crack on with that one and then we’ll see what it looks like once it’s done Now this is the solution that i’ve ended up going for so we have some redstone going across the bottom that connects up both sides then we’ve got half slabs going right the way up to the top with redstone on top of those now for those

Of you who are very new to redstone you might be sat there thinking i have no idea how any of this works now basically what’s happening here is all of these blocks are transparent so if we place blocks like this and then redstone on top of those and then place a block like

This you can see that the redstone gets cut off however if we use a transparent block like a piston you can see the redstone doesn’t get cut off now that’s basically how this works so this half slab here is transparent so it’s not cutting off the redstone at going up

Like this then this slab here is transparent which means that it doesn’t cut off this redstone then this block here is transparent so it doesn’t cut off this redstone and we basically end up with a vertical zigzagging redstone line that can be used to power all of

These pistons now as you can see if we flick this lever it’s nice and in sync and really quite fast for this next challenge we are basically going to be taking all of what you just learned and taking it to the next level so i want you to wire up all of the

Pistons for this 4×4 ether door and all of it must be in sync they must all open and retract at the same time and also all close and retract at the same time now if you’re wondering what an etho door is it’s basically a blocks going

Around like this with a big hole in the middle so you can see that there would be a 4×4 ether door so that’s basically what i want you to create all of the pistons are there ready you just have to wire them up once again the solution to this one

Looks very similar to the solution to this one over here we’ve got a lot of half slabs running into these pistons but on top of that we’ve also got these two pistons here which have been wired in and also all the ones down on the bottom that are linked up using

Repeaters and as you can see we only have one tick running into each one of these we have one tick running into those bottom pistons we have one tick running into these slab towers which of course don’t have any delay whatsoever that’s why they’ve got a bonus over

Redstone torch towers and then of course the redstone just runs straight into those pistons there which means we’ve got a really simple easy to build an extremely fast piston door here that i really quite like now these final two builds are going to take what you’ve learned throughout the

Entire process of this video all of the different circuits we’ve used and you’re going to put them to the test so for this first one i want you to make the button toggle a disco light hint flip clock so the idea here is that you hit

This button and that will toggle on a flashing redstone lamp and then when you hit the button again that will turn off the flashing redstone light now earlier on we created a disco lamp and we also created a t flip flop so i want you to put those two circuits together and

Create this little system so here is all of the redstone that i’ve created once again we’ve got the redstone running out from the button that goes into our sticky piston with a block on top monostable circuit which everyone knows i think is awesome that then runs into the sticky piston which

Is going to spit out its block due to the one tick pulse running out of that one and that goes into this little hopper clock here which when we hit the button will freeze at the hopper so you can see the redstone block has hit this hopper here that hopper is now powered

Which means that it’s not going to be transferring any items which means that this comparator isn’t going to be taking an output but then when we hit the button once again that will toggle the whole system the redstone clock will be turned back on and everything will be

Back to normal this is a really cool little circuit it’s also really quite compact so there we go this final one might be a little bit on the complicated side i don’t know if you guys are going to be able to complete it but i hope you

Will be able to what i want you to do is create essentially a lever combination lock that runs straight into a piston door so here are the instructions the door should only open when the left is down the middle is up and the right is

Down as well you can see we’ve got our three levers here we also have our piston door out the back ready and waiting now you just have to link up all the redstone so crack on with that one then i’ll show you how to do now essentially what i’ve done here is

I’ve created a slightly more complicated and gate with some of the inputs being inverted mean that we have to have different combinations of lever presses so the inputs for the player are different to the inputs of the and gate the inputs of the and gate all have to

Be the same but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the inputs for the player will have to be the same if that makes any sense so for example where we have a redstone torch the lever has to be down for the input to match up with this repeater for example where the lever has

To be up for that one to be off so the way that we’ve done this is if this lever is down that redstone torch is off if this lever is up that redstone repeater will be on if this lever is down that redstone torch will be off

Meaning that all of this redstone is off meaning our pistons are retracted as soon as one of these is different we will get a redstone output through the system and that means our pistons will extend so that our door is closed now that is how it works i know that was a

Bit of a tongue twister there but i really do hope you followed along so there we have it ladies and gents that rounds up today’s little beginner redstone lesson i hope you enjoyed this slightly different style of video and i hope for those of you who are following

Along i hope you found it useful because i really enjoyed making it and as always let me know down in the comment section if you want to see more videos like this one because i’ve got tons of ideas for beginner redstone projects and things that could really help you guys out but

Unfortunately that is all i’ve got time for today i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please really hit that like subscribe but thanks for watching guys this has been mumbo and i’m out i’ll see you later You