Insane Minecraft 1.14 Map Tricks by Mumbo Jumbo

So you want to do some redstone in survival well you’ve come to the right place because i have done a lot of survival redstone in my time and i’ve kind of picked up a few tips and techniques that i wanted to share with you to make your lives just a tiny bit

Easier but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy because survival redstone is always a bit of a nightmare and that is why i would always suggest starting off in creative mode now this might sound a little bit counter-intuitive but i can promise you that if you’re designing a bespoke redstone contraption

You don’t want to be designing that in survival mode where there’s mobs around you’re going to be running out of resources it’s difficult to move about you want to design all of it in creative mode and then you want to copy the design from your creative mode world

Into the survival world and the great thing about doing things in creative mode first is that you then have a good idea of how many resources you’re going to need so write out a quick list of all the things that you require gather them up before you start building now if

You’re building this base within some form of landscape make sure that you actually clear out the area first that way you will run into any hazards such as water or lava that could potentially destroy your redstone contraption but more importantly it’s just really frustrating having to clear out blocks

While you’re trying to focus on actually building something quite complicated and of course the last thing you want in your redstone contraption is a creeper so light it up okay i know that i’m a culprit for not doing this and i mean no matter how many years i spend playing

Minecraft i still don’t seem to light up my areas but do as i say and not as i do light up the space now one thing that i would always advise is that you give yourself some breathing room around the redstone contraption so that you can actually move around it so for example

All of these blocks right here are going to remain completely clear this space is reserved for my redstone and then also up at the top these two blocks here are going to remain completely clear because there’s nothing more frustrating than not actually being able to access certain parts of your redstone if it’s

The sort of redstone contraption that’s going to take slightly longer maybe an hour or so i would always suggest building up some form of temporary base make sure you’ve got a crafting bench a furnace some form of chest so you can store all of the redstone but also all

The junk that you clear out a bed and if you have one and end a chest and of course if you have access to shulker boxes then make use of them fill one up with redstone resources chuck it down grab some pick it back up whenever you

Need more just chuck it down again pick up some more take it away i mean it’s just going to make your building process so much more efficient so i think that’s everything in terms of preparation now it’s time to move on to the building side of things now what i would always

Suggest when it comes to building redstone contraptions in survival mode is that you build up from the bottom so instead of starting somewhere random and just starting on a circuit up there i would suggest starting from the bottom and kind of working upwards in layers to

The best of your ability but with that being said i would always suggest building in circuits instead of building block by block now this might not make much sense but what i mean is instead of thinking right i’ve got to place a redstone torch here and i’ve got to

Place some redstone dust there and a lever and then a dropper with a hopper running down into it what you think is okay i’m making a falling edge on a stable circuit here so i’m going to need that redstone torch that redstone in there and this is going to create a

Falling edge on a stable circuit and then i’m going to take a comparator output from the falling edge monostable circuit and run it into the redstone contraption instead of thinking in terms of redstone components try and think of how the actual system is working when you start thinking like this you make

Far fewer mistakes because you recognize them almost straight away i would always suggest that you avoid placing redstone components on top of naturally generating blocks things like stone dirt andesite and all that simply because you’ll probably forget that you’ve done it you’ll come to the area at a later

Date maybe you’re doing some mining underneath you decide to punch upwards and then your redstone line breaks and your redstone contraption stops working it’s never particularly fun so i would highly suggest replacing those blocks with non-naturally generating blocks things like stone bricks or cobblestone just to show that you’ve done some work

In the area and maybe you should be a little bit more cautious another consideration worth thinking about is that you don’t use blocks affected by haste 2 when you’re building redstone because it’s easy to get carried away when you’re mining out things and you’ll wipe out everything now you may notice

When i build redstone contraptions i tend to use all different colors and i don’t just do this because it looks cool even though it does look really cool i do it because it allows me to separate out what circuits do what you see each one of these colors represents a

Different circuit and when it comes to bug fixing or upgrading in the future it’s really handy to be able to work out where each one of the circuits is now in survival mode i probably wouldn’t suggest using world because it’s quite expensive but try using different blocks

For example stone bricks for your input circuits cobblestone for your and gates and a little bit polished under site for all of your rs latches if you’re running really low on redstone resources i’d suggest looking into some cheap alternatives to common redstone circuits for example this is one that i see all

Of the time it is a slimeless version of a one-tick monostable circuit so you can see this one on the left is the regular one with a sticky piston whereas the one on the right doesn’t actually require a sticky piston which is incredibly handy at the start of a survival world right i

Think that’s all my building tips covered now it’s time to move on to the kind of efficiency tips some would call them life hacks if you’re playing in minecraft 1.14 or later then carry your trapdoors it will allow you to bug fix in areas that you never previously would

Have been able to bug fix it’s always smart to use slime blocks for scaffolding simply because they’re great for using in survival mode as you can break them with your fist instantly the only time that i would say you shouldn’t use slime blocks for scaffolding is if your redstone contraption has lots of

Slime blocks in it already because then when you’re breaking your scaffolding you’re likely to break something important and if you leave some of your scaffolding it’s also likely to break something important in that case i would suggest using scaffolding blocks that are significantly different from the other blocks that you’re using inside

Your redstone circuitry actual scaffolding blocks do work pretty well for this the only issue that i take is that you can’t place them on top of a lot of redstone components which makes them quite limiting now i want to ask you a question what is wrong with my hotbar

Right now all seems perfectly in order all seems pretty good no okay no never have water in your hotbar when you’re working on redstone contraptions because inevitably you’re accidentally going to right click it and you’re going to ruin everything i’ve been there and it hurts what definitely

Should always be in your inventory is a bone now this is another example of do as i say and not as i do i always seem to leave my bow at home but it’s probably the most useful thing to have when working on redstone contraptions because if somehow a creeper spawns in

There you don’t want to be getting up close to it you want to hit that thing from range i would argue that this could be the perfect hot bar for working on redstone you’ve got your food that’s in your offhand you’ve got your pickaxe for breaking things you’ve got your bow for

All of your attacking then all the rest is focused on redstone now this may seem like an obvious one but make sure that you utilize those angles when you’re trying to place in directional redstone components for example i want to place a sticky piston facing across on this

Block if i do it here then it’s going upwards if i do it here it’s still going upwards i need to go right to the edge and then i need to go right on that edge and then it will go in exactly how i like it ender piles are always useful

Things to have when working on redstone contraptions just to get you out of some of those sticky situations and if you get yourself really really stuck i mean truly stuck then chorus fruit is also always a good option because well you never know where you’re going to end up i would also always

Suggest having these things in your inventory a crafting bench and then all of the raw materials things like stone wood cobblestone iron and redstone blocks that you can then convert into redstone dust and if you’re really going for it have some spare quartz in there too if you’re ever working on a redstone

Contraption that involves tnt or crammed mine carts then leave those until the end do everything and then install those things because otherwise your tnt is going to go off by accident and your minecarts are i wasn’t expecting that i was expecting them to go out all over the place not

Just jet off into the distance for anyone who has ever had to place long redstone lines you will know how boring it is having to count them out that is one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen repeater you get the drill not particularly

Exciting imagine that many times over what i would always suggest doing is placing a power source at the end and then all you have to do is place in the redstone until it stops being powered and then you know well i need a repeater there and then you just repeat that process

Anyway time to move on to some slightly more technical life hacks if you’re working on a slightly temperamental or very complicated redstone system that fits within a 16 by 16 area i would always suggest building it within one chunk that way when you unload the chunks the entire redstone system will

Be unloaded all at once whereas if you build it on a chunk boundary then that means that half of the redstone system is going to unload before the other half which could potentially cause some problems oh and the way that you get those chunk boundaries up is you just

Press f3 and g now i’m about to say something very controversial here so brace yourselves but sometimes compactness isn’t always best take this thing for example it looks absolutely awesome seriously seriously cool nice square edges just redstone all over the place everything’s super compact and all just knitting in together

I do i love the way that it looks but would i want to build it in survival mode no no i wouldn’t it would be a nightmare it’s just so difficult to get around and see what’s going wrong so if you have plenty of space then go for a

Slightly less compact build give yourself plenty of breathing room to allow access to certain hard to reach areas but with that being said if you don’t have much space then compact away build ridiculous circuit boards like this one try and be at least a little

Bit wary of not creating tons of lag for yourself or if you’re playing on a server for the other members of the server now by this i don’t mean limit your redstone contraptions but just try and be smart don’t create redstone clocks that run at all times try your

Best to reduce the number of lighting updates and wherever possible reduce the amount of redstone dust that you’re using now i’m not saying that you pull a little mango and make all of your redstone contraptions look like train stations but just you know keep it down

A little bit and i understand that this is hilarious advice coming from the person that has crashed the hermitcraft server on multiple occasions due to my very laggy redstone contraptions now if you’re running really long redstone lines then it’s probably good to start questioning whether or not they’re

Actually going to remain loaded while you’re using the redstone contraptions you see there’s a loaded area around the player and if a redstone signal goes outside of the loaded area it just stops it doesn’t continue into the unloaded area it it just gets cut off it’s a

Problem that we’ve hit on a number of occasions on some of the more ambitious projects on the hermitcraft server and the last piece of advice that i want to give for today’s video is don’t panic i know it can be very daunting when you’re trying to start up a new redstone

Project in survival even me someone that’s been building redstone projects for years still gets a little bit scared when i take on a new challenge but you just have to prepare for it you have to make sure that you have everything in place to make your life as easy as

Possible and then once you get going you’re fine it’s just it’s it’s getting started that is the tricky part so make sure that you follow the steps that i’ve mentioned in this video and it will be all plain sailing anyway i think that just about wraps things up for today’s

Video if you have any extra tips then chuck them down in the comment section but i hope that you enjoyed and i’ll catch you in the next one see ya