How to Make CHEAP REDSTONE BUILDS in Minecraft!

If you take a look around my redstone testing world you may notice that a lot of these builds really are quite expensive now i know this is a bit of an extreme example but it does illustrate my point quite nicely and that a lot of my builds feature hoppers comparators which are obviously

Quite tricky to get they involve things like redstone lamps sticky pistons which to get a sticky piston you know you need some form of slime farm or you just need to chance upon a slime it’s not very likely that that’s going to happen so all of these components add up to make redstone

A pretty pricey endeavor if you were to do it in a survival world so today’s video i’m going to try my best to show you how to make things cheaper now we’re going to start things off with a really simple trick which is to place blocks before or after repeaters now this

Doesn’t say much okay it saves one piece of redstone dust but when you only have five pieces of redstone dust to your name then that’s the sort of thing that makes a difference one circuit that i use in pretty much all of my redstone builds is the monostable circuit now

This generally is a sticky piston with a block on top the sticky piston extends pushing the block upwards cutting off the redstone signal giving us a one tick pulse now obviously this involves slime and if you don’t have much slime you don’t want to be dedicating that to

Monostable circuits you want to be using it in piston doors and things which means that you can actually construct something like this we have a regular piston with a sand or gravel block on top of it what this means is that you get the same functioning monostable

Circuit but you don’t have to use the sticky piston because of course the sand just drops back down and lands back on top of it resetting the whole thing meaning you can use it over and over again now the only thing that this becomes tricky in is if this

Monostable circuit is going to be firing a lot very quickly in quick succession then sometimes the piston can break the sand so maybe that’s something to watch out another thing that i often use in my redstone builds is t-flip-flops but they often use sticky pistons or they use droppers hoppers comparators all the

Expensive components so this is a really cheap alternative all we’ve got is two blocks two pieces of redstone dust two redstone torches and two regular pistons and when we hit this button it just pushes that block back and forth as you can see when we hit the button we

Get ourselves no redstone output then when we hit the button again it flips back over and we get a redstone output now this is another alternative design unfortunately this one only accepts one pulse length so you have to be using a stone button for this one to function you can’t do anything else

Whereas this t flip flop this will work in any redstone circuit you can give it a one-tick pulse and it will still function this one requires a button press but it is incredibly cheap relying on locking repeaters to function you can see when we hit the button that redstone

Torch is on and when we hit the button that redstone torch is now off and it makes use of this repeater locking this repeater which this is a redstone clock they’re all a little bit strange i don’t really like looking repeaters this one is a little bit goofy it’s kind of a

Half jokey idea but if you really wanted to build a piston door but you didn’t have any slime blocks and you didn’t have too many redstone resources then you could construct this thing if we walk on the pressure plate you can see that our door opens up and then it closes behind us

I mean yeah it’s it’s a tiny bit on the ridiculous side but it does function so what we’ve got is you’ve got two sets of pistons and they’re kind of trading the block back and forth so you can see those pistons attract these pistons then push the

Block across and then when we step off the pressure plate then these regular pistons re-extend and just to point out the way that we’re actually pushing these pistons across is by making use of the sand monostable circuit that we took a look at earlier so as you can see it’s

Pretty useful but if you pop around the other side i’ve also added in a behind pressure plate that also runs into the same circuit so we can now access this door from both sides and it’s a really simple addition to make i have to say it’s not a particularly complicated

Piston door and if you really want a piston door this is a good thing to build world download can be found down in the description for all of these including this one i can’t believe i forgot about this one because i used to build these all the time back in the day

Stand on the pressure plate our pistons open up and they close up behind us this actually looks pretty cool and of course once again doesn’t use any sticky pistons whatsoever and is incredibly simple all we have is a dot of redstone dust coming off the edge of this

Pressure plate running up into a redstone torch tower and then the redstone dust is powering the pistons and for the pressure plates on the other side we’re just running redstone into this block so once again utilizing the same circuit really really resource light and looks pretty awesome anyway

Moving away from doors and things now we’re going to take a look at a few simple redstone circuits that you can use inside your own redstone build that act as alternatives to circuits that i might mention in my redstone build so if you wanted to mimic one of my redstone

Builds in your survival world but make it cheaper then these are some of the ways you can go about it and the first thing that we’re going to take a look at is pulse extenders now generally speaking when i’m building pulse extenders i tend to use comparators that

Gradually lose power over time creating a pulse extender unfortunately you can’t really do that when you’re running low on resources because cause is quite difficult to get hold of you have to get into the nether it’s fairly expensive so you can build things like this now

What i will say is is that the pulse extender is going to have to be pretty massive to mimic the sorts of extension you can get through these comparator circuits but you can do it that way you can also do it a little bit like this making use of locking repeaters but the

Issue with this design is that there is a chance if you create your pulse long enough so say for example we actually extend this out and we want to have a much longer pulse then unfortunately is not actually going to function because if we get some

Redstone dust in here you can see that this repeater depowers before these repeaters run into this one which means that the pulse isn’t actually extended which is where something like this comes in handy because you can extend this pulse as much as you like because all of these repeaters are powering this

Redstone line that being said though yeah you do sacrifice some serious size here that’s gonna be enormous so that’s where something like this comes in if you want a five minute pulse so you want a pulse to last for five minutes then this is the way to do it this is some

Super old school redstone here but when we press this redstone button that item is then dropped out onto the pressure plate and there we go uh it’s going to sit there and that repeater is going to be powered until it despawns five minutes later and then the repeater is

Going to turn off now i will just mention that if you want a one minute pulse and you can dispense arrows into the pressure plate and they will despawn after one minute but obviously arrows are actually quite expensive especially in the early game if you want to mess

Around with cobwebs and dropping items through those to create longer pulses then you can do that but of course that requires silk touch so both of those are fairly expensive options anyway moving on from pulse extenders now we’re going to take a look at toggleable redstone

Clocks now generally in my builds when i create a toggleable redstone clock i tend to use two hoppers running into one another with a comparator running out obviously that’s 10 iron in there and a piece of quartz for the comparator so you’re much better off building something like this

This is a really small redstone clock completely toggleable and it’s actually variable in speed so it’s kind of better than the hopper clock but the only thing is the hop clock is so tiny and it fits in so nicely with a lot of my builds that i

Just tend to use it another redstone clock that you can build if you want a lot of time between your pulses is this thing looks very similar to the pulse extender over there but this has got this additional redstone torch that when this item despawns it will then re-drop an item meaning the

Repeater switches off very briefly and then switches back on which of course means you can then run that out into a redstone torch meaning you get an output every single time the item despawns and i’ll show you how to use that in a redstone contraption now over here we

Have got two very simple cheap farms so this is a really good way to get food at the early days of your world when you really don’t have many redstone resources both of these are incredibly cheap the first thing you should do is you should create an egg farm so all you

Have is a hopper running into a chest and then you have a bunch of chickens on top of it and as you can see this thing has been running for the amount of time that we’ve been in this world these guys have been laying eggs and they’ve been

Ending up in the chest you can then grab those eggs and you could use those to create this chicken farm over here now this may look like a monstrosity of redstone with lots of things going on but it’s actually a really really simple redstone circuit the heart of it is

These guys right here they lay eggs into this hopper which then make their way into the dispenser and because of this redstone clock this dispenser will then fire out those eggs hopefully getting a baby chicken now that baby chicken is going to sit on top of this half slab

Until eventually it grows into an adult in which case it will grow into lava be burned to death and then we’ll get his items now back in the early days when i used to play minecraft you could just leave the lava in this gap right here

And the baby chicken would grow up into it it would die and then its items would be picked up by the hopper but now unfortunately changes have been made and when the chicken dies unfortunately these items actually end up in the lava as well which isn’t particularly helpful

So we need to create another redstone circuit for this which is this system right here now as you can see we’ve got one of those five minute redstone clocks and when this item goes lava is dispensed and then retracted i don’t know if you can actually see that

So there it was it fires very quickly and this makes use of our sand monostable circuit and then a few repeater timings to create a little lava blade works perfectly rather embarrassingly though um yeah uh baby chickens can actually fit through that gap now they’ve changed the

Hitbox of hoppers which means that those guys can escape so i would highly suggest putting your adult chickens off to this side and then placing a block here just to stop a mass exodus of chickens anyway aside from that i think that just about wraps everything up for

Today i’ve shown you a bunch of alternatives cheap alternatives for expensive redstone circuits and i’ve also shown you a way to compile them all together to create a really great farm for the early days of your minecraft world i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please hit that like button and

If you really loved it then make sure to subscribe but thanks for watching guys this has been mumbo and i’m out i’ll see you later You