Shocking! Ben Creates Redstone Writing in Minecraft!

Back in august i built my second writing system that was heavily based off of my first one originally built in late 2019 both have some pretty cool features although i’ve learned a lot about lag optimization compacting redstone and building writing systems in general since then so i’ve decided that it’s

About time that i make a faster smaller and more lag efficient version with this version i started from the ground up with only the shapes of the characters themselves staying all other things from previous iterations were completely scrapped the main reason for which i wanted to restart and was dissatisfied with the

Previous versions is because their performance is marginal their cool features and functionalities are obscured by their single fatal flaw which is their speed in perfect conditions there would only be a cooldown of roughly 4 seconds before you’re able to input the next character which isn’t all that bad but the sheer amount of

Lag caused by all the moving parts lowers the tick speed from 20 down to about 3 meaning that instead of it taking 3 to 6 seconds between each input it can take upwards of half a minute before you can type another character rendering usage of this machine insufferable to most people myself included

Another issue with the previous versions they require two players to load the entire thing meaning that if you don’t have an alt account you won’t be able to use it with all this in mind i went to work on the version 3 which fixes both of these issues simultaneously by having the

Redstone be producer based more specifically i use mainly repeaters dust and redstone torches in the logic which causes a lot less lag than having a bunch of pistons moving blocks and droppers another cool feature about producers is that because they use ptix the second half of a redstone tick they’ll work in

The entire rendered area unlike ctx which only work in the simulated area i made a video talking about hat tricks for those of you interested that will be linked in the description simply put having the redstone be producer based gives me a larger area to work with all the while creating less lag

So much so that all you need to run this is a simulation distance of six chunks and a render distance of 10 chunks no alt accounts and no ticking areas allowing it to run smoothly on lower end devices there’s just so much that i want to talk about regarding this writing system that

There’s going to have to be a separate video where i’ll talk about the building process do a side-by-side speed comparison with previous version and give a detailed explanation on how it works with that aside it’s time that i show the writing system in action here it is this thing is actually

Incredibly easy to use you have a wide variety of characters to choose from as well including the entire english alphabet in only capital letters all numbers and a bunch of english punctuation as well as the pi symbol for good measure there is also a clear button a spacebar and a backspace button now

These work perfectly fine although i do have one slight issue with the clear button and that is the amount of lag that it generates and as you can see it does its job perfectly fine the redstone itself isn’t the issue but more the game speed so as you can see

If i place piston and rest a block above it it does take quite a while for it to extend but it doesn’t make the game unplayable i mean the things still working and it won’t crash your game by any means but it’s just a bit slow so whenever

You’re pressing the clear button just be ready for a bit of a lag spike this is caused mainly by the pistons behind the redstone lamps having to retract but also because there’s actually quite a bit going on with all of the redstone there’s a bunch of redstone repeaters and

Redstone lines being powered and i guess that also contributes quite a bit to the lag there is also a slightly similar issue with typing where the more characters you type the more it tends to lag but it definitely isn’t as bad as the clear button let’s begin typing my name so i’m going

To type my entire youtube name so ben space dash space to the human so there’s b e and i just need to wait for this lamp turn back on and and in case you haven’t figured it out already uh how you operate this is you press on a button

Wait for this lamp in the center turn back on and then you can press on the next character so then space and then the dash is right here and i’m actually going to talk a little bit about um how you guys can use this yourselves now one thing that i was really focusing

On with this design was making it 100 expandable yes so in theory if you could have an infinite simulation distance you could type forever which is actually pretty cool um anyways if you go to the far lower right corner you will be able to find some command blocks and each one of

These command blocks has a button on top of it if you press this button it will actually add an extra 3d three displays and these displays are pretty much linked up three ah at a time but more on that later because i need to focus on writing my

Name or else i will mess up i mean actually if i stop it isn’t really that big of a deal since i can just press the backspace button i also want to talk a bit more about the user interface and i want to ask you guys what you think about it i’m personally

Really satisfied with how it works um it’s quite fast especially compared to the older ones it’s not unbearable to type and typically by the time you find the ladder that you’re looking for the lamp in the center will have turned back on anyways that is the final character and

Now i’m going to add an exclamation point and there we go so it also doesn’t take that long for characters to display after you type them it only takes a maximum of 10 seconds and that’s if it’s already lagging quite a bit so there we

Go bend the human and then we wait for the exclamation point and there we go so there we go that is my name and that is the showcase of me typing with the writing system although it is not the end of the video yet i’m not usually want to do this but this

Thing took me about a hundred hours to make and if you really did enjoy i’d appreciate a subscription or at least just check it out for yourselves i really do these things for you guys so that you guys can enjoy them back to what i was saying with the

Expandable feature of this writing system if we go to the lower far right corner as i mentioned you will find the command block so pressing one of these will add an extra three displays why haven’t i done it well i’m running this off of an ipad 6th generation which has a maximum

Simulation distance of six chunks and a render distance of 16 chunks here the limiting factor is the simulation distance because keep in mind that you still need the pistons and the redstone lamps to be within simulation distance although the redstone repeaters and torches and all that that works in the entire rendered area

So if you have a device that is capable of running on a simulation distance higher than six chunks then by all means add some extra displays beware of lag though and you can add three six nine maybe even twelve i’m not sure just how far you can go

I don’t have a device that has simulation distance higher than eight chunks so i haven’t really been able to test it that far another thing just make sure you increase your render distance as well or else the redstone won’t render in and it will not work

Well there you have it i really hope you enjoyed this quick showcase on my riding system version three i will be releasing an in-depth explanation on the redstone so if you want to learn more about this feel free to go check that out that will be coming out within

The next couple of days but for now thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you all next time bye you