Impossible Minecraft Illusions that make no sense

I like building impossible things and no that doesn’t mean building up big redstone contraptions that seem impossible these are builds that actually look like they shouldn’t exist the sorts of things that cause a record scratch on your brain you know your brain sees it and just goes Oh everything’s wrong allow me to give an example this little thing right here you know when you first see it you go okay it’s a triangle but that’s slightly strange because we are playing Minecraft and oh if I if I follow this round it doesn’t it doesn’t make any sense now the way

That this trick is achieved is by making use of perspective if I line myself up perfectly it creates this slightly strange shape I posted a short about this fairly recently and it was incredibly successful everyone seemed to really enjoy it and it got a whole ton of views and I certainly like things

That get a whole ton of views so I thought it would be interesting to return to a few more impossible Minecraft Builds as well as take a look at a few different Illusions and all sorts of strange brain breaking stuff and this first one certainly is a brain

Breaker I spent far longer than I care to admit working on this build but I think that’s for good reason because I could look at this thing all day you know it’s it’s completely baffling I mean I’m amazed that I actually managed to get it to work this is a take on

Mcs’s infinite waterfall and it is just it is so ridiculously cool so in case you’re not quite following we’ve got ourselves a waterfall that flows into a river that never seems to increase in height but then it goes back to the top for the waterfall and just to add an

Extra little bit of spice into the mix I decided to Chuck in those two pillars which also don’t make very much logical sense like the geometry of it all just doesn’t line up none of it makes any sense this is what’s known in the industry as a complete baffle job now of

Course this is a trick of perspective there are a number of splices in this build that allow it to come together and if you want to see how this is achieved you’ll have to wait to the end of the video yeah that’s right I actually just

Did that this next one is a bit of a cheat but it ended up working so well that I want to include it in the video I thought it’d be interesting to see what would happen if I grabbed an image of an optical illusion and imported it into being a Minecraft map and

Yep definitely hurts the brain I I can’t actually look at this for too long to me it looks like there’s a hollow sphere kind of cut out in the middle of this map here I’m kind of seeing inside it’s like the inside of a Half Dome

Uh oh that’s a lot but then it’s weird when the the map is tilted down suddenly it looks like the sphere is actually popping out of the page there’s a lot of stuff going on here there’s a lot going on now after the incredible success of

This first map I thought I’d try another one and it totally failed it’s meant to look like it’s moving but it really doesn’t so let’s move on to 2011 when I used to build these all of the time so currently this looks like a regular expressionless

Face but if I go down here suddenly we’ve got a very happy looking one and I’ve actually started smiling myself which is interesting it shows how contagious smiling actually is let’s see if the opposite is true because as I begin to fly up past the neutral face we

Then get to the sad angle and I I can’t help but feel sorry for the guy you know what’s what’s happened to him somebody write a short story down in the comment section the Great Adventures of twofold the guy who can look happy or sad depending on how tall the person

Observing him is Sundance Film Festival here I come there’s something wrong with this block but I can’t quite put my finger on what’s wrong with it maybe if I move around oh no that’s that’s behaving very wrong okay so moving backwards and forwards didn’t work what if I move side to side that’s

Oh oh I feel oh oh that’s making me sick I personally think the sea lanterns work the best for this I think it’s the slightly rounded edges on them but I have seen people do it with furnaces as well and but yeah it’s definitely oh it’s definitely there’s a lot wrong with

That in the words of Phoenix SC that is definitely cast I don’t know why seeing that made me so uncomfortable but it did this one on the other hand this one just makes me happy I really enjoy these perspective based Illusions I just think they’re great this one’s pretty obvious

In the way that it comes together but that doesn’t stop it being really satisfying to look at as I’m sure many of you have guessed the front section of this cube is slightly shorter and if you line it up perfectly it looks like it’s connected to the back section and to the small

Handful of people who are really concentrating on this block I placed it by accident and then I got myself into the perfect position and couldn’t be bothered to remove it so it just stayed there your frustration brings me pleasure and now it’s time for me to

Flex super hard if you combined all of my diamonds into one giant diamond block this is how big it would be look at it it’s an absolutely gigantic diamond it is absolutely not oh oh that’s embarrassing all right fine I’ve only got nine diamonds okay nine diamonds is more than seven yeah there’s

More than three how many diamonds do you have before you go and judging people on their YouTube videos and things I know how you feel foldy boy I know how you feel that was slightly strange and bizarre and this is quite strange and bizarre I can’t quite put my finger on

Why this hurts my brain because there’s no real crazy illusion going on there’s no feeling of depth and I’m not seeing anything move but it’s making my head hurt especially as I move and rotate I don’t know what it is it feels kind of 3D and foldy and we can actually take

This a step further as well this build right here is in a fairly similar vein but it’s a slightly different setup and it is really quite cool the way that that square in the center feels like it’s popping out at you I know it’s very satisfying to look at and it actually

Got me thinking these would make some pretty cool floors so I experimented with a few different block Pilots obviously on the left we’ve got the standard black and white but one of my favorite color combinations is gold and Blackstone and that works really quite nicely and then for Minecraft 1.17 of

Course we’ve got oxidized copper and quartz I mean this this is seriously cool if you have a glass floor in your base that looks down at something way below I would definitely consider building something like this now we couldn’t possibly do an impossible Minecraft video without featuring one of these a good

Old-fashioned Penrose stairs arguably one of the most famous optical illusions this creates an infinite staircase that always seems to be going down and despite the fact that it’s pretty obvious how this thing works is still incredibly satisfying there’s something about these perspective based impossible structures that I just can’t look away

From but this this is how it all comes together and on the topic of satisfying things there’s something about watching the illusion dissolve as you shift the camera angle they will just never get boring for me and on that note let’s return to the first one my take on mce’s

Waterfall now I know MC Asher sounds like a Minecraft username but it’s not he is a very famous graphic artist who was born in the 1800s far before Minecraft ever existed he is responsible for a huge number of absolutely mind-bending works of art they are stunning and working on this project in

Minecraft was incredibly enjoyable for me so let’s break the illusion there it is that is how I managed to pull it all together so this bit makes its way around the back and goes across there it then connects up to this segment right here which gradually winds its way

Around then this bit connects up with that bit which then all splices together to form the waterfall back up but at the top now all of these segments are all done to make these pillars function properly but the pillars also do a pretty good job at hiding some of the

Slightly awkward seams like that one up back there and all of these perfectly placed elements all come together to merge into one final form I absolutely loved working on this project it took me many hours but it was so so satisfying to watch it come together and

I’ll probably end up doing more of these in the future so I really really hope that you enjoyed this video as much as I enjoyed making it and hopefully I’ll catch you in the next one see ya I would of course if you can’t get enough of the

Illusions then down in the description are a whole bunch of links to the various websites and images and things that I used for inspiration for this video a lot of these Illusions existed outside of Minecraft beforehand and I converted them some of them were Minecraft already so they are all down

In the description please do check them out because man it’s just so interesting it’s too interesting