Insane Auto Crafting Revolutionized!

Hello everyone and welcome to a very special video today we’re going to take a look at the brand new crafter block being added by vanilla Minecraft we’re not only going to see how it might function and create Contraption but we’re also going to think about how it

Might impact the game and how everybody will be playing the create mod going forward once 1.21 finally drops so before we take a look at how the Crafters are going to change the game and what it actually means for the crate mod I really wanted to take a look at

How a crafter would differentiate itself from a mechanical crafter in an actual automated farm so what I have here is an automatic sign Farm where I made one version using the new crafters and one version using mechanical crafter just kind of take a look at the difference

Now the create mod doesn’t actually work with the new snapshot yet so you may be wondering how I have the crafting tables in my game what I’ve actually done is I install the autocrafting table mod which isn’t a onetoone comparison of how the Crafters are going to work in game but

You get close enough um it does have a template and an input but for our cases in this video I’m going to be treating it like it was the actual crafter and actually inputting stuff how it does in game and if you want to know more about

How the real Minecraft crafter is going to work I’ve linked a video down in the description by Zuma void which gives a really good little breakdown of how the block is going to end up working so at the end of this assembly line we’re trying to make cherry signs which first

Is going to start from our farm where we’re then filtering out and then we have our crafter set up to take chair logs as an input and then automatically craft down into four planks now to onun the crafter we do need a clock so what I have is a very simple Redstone clock

Using some of these pulse repeaters you can definitely have a faster clock but this is kind of what I picked for this little test here to kind of just see how everything is going to end up working after that we then need to go into another crafter where we combine sticks

And the Cherry planks so in this crafter first have to input all of our planks and then we can put in the stick now the way I’ve done this is actually really quite simple um we’re just running off the same clock here and we have two of these funnels being activated so our

Signal is reversed it’ll turn off for a second and then back on we’re allowing six planks through and a single stick and then all I’ve done on the other end here is kind of just Shuffle where these are at so the planks are just a block

Forward so they’re always going to go in first because that’s how you would need to put it in in the crafter in the vanilla game so once that’s done in the vanilla game it would just pop out but here we’re using a funnel to then funnel

It out over into a storage unit so honestly this ended up being a lot more simple than I was expecting it seems like the Crafters might not be too difficult to use and then for mechanical Crafters is relatively similar so first you just go into do a single crafter

Which then crafts your item up and that can export directly into an inventory I believe the actual in-game Crafters will do the same however however this mod I’m using doesn’t so we have to use the funnels back to our mechanical Crafters once those are through I’m sending them

To Depot which then goes into a mechanical arm which then places the sticks at bottom and the planks at top it does a stack for the planks and then it places the stick and then it crafts up into the finished sign now the differences here aren’t anything crazy

And honestly I was really surprised at the crafters and I really do think that even though we have mechanical Crafters in the game the Crafters themselves are probably going to change how a lot of us play and how a lot of our Contraptions are built so let’s start taking a deeper

Dive at what this crafter is going to do for us but also why the mechanical crafter and crafting blueprints are still going to be a big part of the game and I don’t see them being removed from the crate mod anytime soon even though we do have pretty much a direct

Replacement here with the crafter so the first thing I want to take a look at is inputs and how they’re going to kind of differ between the crafter and the mechanical crafter so we’re going to look at the two extremes here so first I’m just going to take a look at what if

You need a whole bunch of the same items and I used iron chest piece an example but like this would include like all of like your stone variants your stairs your slabs all your wood variants um there’s a whole lot of stuff that actually only uses a single item but for

The crafter real simple you need a belt with a funnel and then you just have your input and it doesn’t matter which order they go in it’ll automatically fill from top left to bottom right and if you’re accidentally putting in extra it it’ll just kind of Stack Up and it

Won’t really be a big deal and you can just kind of output it into whatever storage you have and for mechanical Crafters it’s really much of the same all you really need is one input and then if you use a wrench on these little points you can actually connect your

Mechanical crafter together and you can kind of have it be one big chunk and so it’ll automatically sort out all the items into every spot immediately and you can then craft up your armor so really here there’s not too much difference in how you would want it in

Input um the strategies are literally the exact same the only difference is the crafting mode at the end so now we’re going to take a look at the other extreme and make a firework star so the recipe we’re using here is a bunch of dye one gold nugget and one gunpowder

Now in the crafter you can’t just put these in willy-nilly because if you do if let’s say you have two red dye in a row by accident what it’ll do is you’ll have two red die in this recipe instead of one and then that won’t get work you

Won’t get the same fireworks star you’re trying to create so for our crafter what I’ve done here is We have basically all of these timed out to release one single item at a time and then I have this belt here which is sped up so that way by the time the

Items get to the end the next item hasn’t shown up on the Belt yet and this could probably be timed a little better and a little quicker if you really wanted to make this system efficient but the way this works is every single item just gets puts in one by one and let’s

Say you’re doing a shaped crafting recipe instead of shapeless like this one is you would this would be the first item this would be the second item third fourth fifth down the line and so you can actually pretty easily get a crafting method and not really have to

Worry about timing stuff out as long as you just kind of have one feeder belt and then we have our clock here that’ll craft it up and then spit it out and for a mechanical crafter we’re doing something completely different you can actually belt to each individual mechanical crafter piece however I’ve

Done that before and it’s not very easier fun um you’re going to have a ton of belt work to do and it’s really not worth doing for a 3X3 crafting recipe some crafting recipes it might be if it’s simpler or you can connect some of these up together but realistically if

You’re doing mechanical crafting you can probably afford a mechanical arm so what I’m doing is I have all these belts with all the different items mechanical arm is grabbing them and then placing them into each spot respectively which then gets crafted up and our fireworks star

Gets spit out so here I don’t really know if there’s a clear winner the mechanical arm is always going to work 100% of the time you’re not going to have to really worry about it messing up where this if you don’t have your timing just right or maybe load and reload the

World on a server or on your game and these get offut you may have to come back in and fix the system where this is just always going to work but with that being said you could replace these mechanical Crafters with the regular crafter and as long as you have this to

Force round robin which means it will always pick the next item and let’s say it’s missing green Dy it won’t skip to the cyan it’ll stay hey I’m missing green and it’ll wait so if you have that on Force round robin you could actually have it input into an autocrafting table

And still use the mechanical arm with autocrafting table and I suppose that being said if you connected all these together you could actually use this system too cuz you’re imp putting one in a time in order now honestly I was expecting to come to a bit of a

Different conclusion here um when I built these two systems I didn’t really think that they could be switched but putting some thought into it yeah they totally could um you can use a mechanical arm for the crafter and you can use this spell system for the mechanical crafter so we’re going to

Call this one a tie if we were putting it down to which one is better and I don’t think the crafter is really going to change how we’re inputting items into our systems so now we’re going to take a look at the speed difference between the mechanical crafters and the Crafters so

What I have right here is nine stacks of iron ingots that’ll be dropping down into both the crafter mechanical crafter got the both pretty much Max Speed I’ve got a really quick clock here and then I have this running at 256 speed and what we’re going to see is what the time

Difference is between crafting a stack of iron blocks and which one is faster and by how much it’s faster so we’ll get this going and see which one is Faster so the crafter was faster which I definitely expected but what I really didn’t expect was how much of a difference there was the crafter took 28 seconds and the mechanical crafter took over 100 seconds to do a single stack which means there was a 75 second

Difference over a minute longer for the mechanical crafter to craft up one stack of blocks um than it would take the regular crafter so there is a significant speed boost you get by using the autocrafting table versus the mechanical Crafters but on that note you do need different infrastructure to run

Both your crafter and mechanical crafter at pretty much full speed so for the crafter you do need some kind of redstone clock so here I have an eight tick pretty simple Redstone clock you can get faster clocks which is actually what I was using here this one was only

Six ticks but as you might have noticed this actually turned off so what happened was I relogged from my game in between um when I recorded that clip and now and it sapped itself when I logged back in so we maybe might be a little bit limited unless you have some kind of

Way to start this or you just have like a faster clock system but realistically very little infrastructure is needed now to run a 3X3 crafting Grid at full speed you need 4,8 stress units which would be 18 small water wheels nine large water Wheels 72 sails or one level two steam engine

Which this is a level one so you need double this steam engine so it’s actually not cheap to power one of these and especially if you have something that needs multiple crafts down a line it could actually get really quite expensive powerwise to actually have a bunch of mechanical Crafters all running

At full speed now I’m going to get really transparent with you guys I thought this would lead to a different conclusion when I was kind of going into making this video I thought that you know the crafter would have some nice things but honestly the mechanical

Crafter would be better in this way and that way and this way but realistically I think in most cases if you’re just trying to go for the most efficient way to build a farm in Minecraft using the crate mod you’re going to want to feed your crafts

Through the crafter I think there are maybe some edge cases where you would want the mechanical crafter um like for example if you were doing a note block Farm you’d want to feed your wood all the way in the edges and then have your Redstone in the middle now this would

Actually be a lot easier as far as the belt work with the mechanical Crafters because what you could do is connect all of these outside ones together feed wood into one of these and then feed your Redstone into the middle where here you’d have to time it out to feed up

Each individual spot one by one and kind of plant it out that way so there are edge cases where the mechanical crafter is better but in most cases like the examples we looked at today the autoc crafter just the crafter from vanilla Minecraft will probably be better that

Being said let me let me walk you through a scenario you’ve just spent the last few hours automating power rails now this isn’t an easy craft you need to automate gold which is multiple multiple steps to crush the gravel and then turn it into sand and then red sand and wash

It and so on so and so on until you get gold and Redstone is not an easy thing to automate you need to go through a lot of different recipes you need to make potions you need to make Cinder flowers that means you need to go to the nether

It’s a crazy craft plus you need to Tree Farm to provide at six and you just spent hours crafting your farm to make powered rails but you finally did it and boy does it feel good but now that you’ve done that what would be more interesting a little block that spits it

On the ground or spits in a new chest and that’s it you know you get your item that’s great that’s what you’re working for or having a beautiful display where you see every single item all filled in then you see them all animate and come together and form a beautiful power rail

At the end and honestly I think this is why mechanical Crafters are still so important not only are they a critical part of the create mod um but they just they look awesome they work awesome and the animations are gorgeous and I I don’t know I just I think they’re cool

And I think that’s what a lot of the create mod is about is to see your little Contraptions come together and be built and I think that has a lot of value even though this is faster more efficient whatnot I think the mechano crafter is still very important plus if

We’re just talking pure efficiency I don’t know how often these are used I know I often forget about them but the crafting blueprints are absolutely the best thing you can do um so for anyone who’s not aware all you got to do in the crafting BlueAnt is you set a recipe so

Let’s say we want ingots turned into nuggets and all I can do here is just right click or I can shift right click and very quickly rip through a whole stack and this is going to be faster than even a crafter maxed out on speed

So if you have a small batch of stuff to create boom I just crafted a stack of iron in a second um but yeah if you have small batches and you’re doing it by hand crafting blueprints are your absolute best friend and are still going

To be needed no matter what but let me know what you guys think do mechanical Crafters still really genuinely have a very important role to play I’m sure they do and I’m sure that the create mod may be updated to kind of have more use for them like you get better output if

You use a pressing operation or mechanical crafters and we may even see some new recipes that require more than a 3X3 grid that will kind of make it so that way you can’t use this to automate some crate components you need to use the mechanical Crafters so let me know

Down in the comments below what you guys think of the new crafter and how you think it’s going to change Minecraft honestly I’m glad to have it I know there’s a lot of discourse and far as like oh it’s making Minecraft too Technical and it’s going to be way to op

In modded Minecraft which it totally is um but I think it’s cool I think Minecraft is taking a big step here and for the first time in years I’m just genuinely excited to see what this next update has to hold and to see where the future of Minecraft is going um I think

That it’s going to be insane and we’re going to see some truly crazy builds and crazy updates going forward or at least that’s what I’m hoping for anyway guys hope you enjoyed this kind of weird video for my channel but I had a lot of fun kind of exploring this new block in

Vanill Minecraft and I’m just I don’t know I’m really hopeful and really excited to see where Minecraft and the crate mod are going to be going from here take care guys Bye-bye