Minecraft Snapshot 13w01a Review

Welcome back Seth Wing here Mojang has just released its first snapshot of 2013 and who boy is this one a doozy this one adds a lot of new stuff that I am extremely excited about uh so let me get to it I’m going to show you comparators and Hoppers and redstone

Blocks light and heavy pressure plates and some more stuff there’s and trust me these things are all just amazing okay first thing is comparator so this is the kind of Capstone Block in the idea of signal strength matters and what that means is uh basically this compares the signal strength of two

Lines so here’s this block of redstone this block of redstone emits a signal a red Zoom signal just like a redstone torch so you can see you know this is 15 this is 14 13 12 11 10 9. so we have a signal an input signal of strength nine

Here now if I put more Redstone Dust here the output is also going to have signal strength nine it looks exactly the same color as this the thing is though if I put another redstone block right here it’s going to turn off the output however if I bring

This dust out a little bit farther and put the the block over here the signal is still going to have that output strength of 9. so what this does is it takes the signal that’s coming in from behind the comparator and it compares the signal strength from the

Side if this one is greater than or equal to the side input then it out it repeats the signal strength of the the back input so it and then it’s supposed to have this other mode where when you right click it uh whoops it has uh it’ll uh

Basically bump it up to 15 signal strength I think this is a bug that it doesn’t do that right now uh yeah right now it’s it’s just always outputting the save signal strength as the input if the input is is stronger than the side line I guess this is

Called input a and this is called input B the side one so that’s what it does and that’s really really useful for a lot of things but to be honest I think for right now my main uh my main thing that I’m really really really really really really excited about is if that

If you chain them together it’s instant wire so I cannot understate sorry over overstate I cannot overstate that’s the one how important this is you’ll notice the second that I put this down the instant that I put this down the signal makes it all the way around here

And in here and you’ll notice it’s still signal strength 15. so I guess I could also replace every other uh thing here with dust I bet I could even use some blocks in the middle anyway it’s not going to lose any signal strength as I do that it’s still making it 15 blocks

Here and it’s still going to be instant yeah this is really really big because it is this is a legitimate form of instant wire it doesn’t rely on any bugs and you can you can almost guarantee that this will persist unless it’s a bug that it’s instantaneous but I don’t

Think it is because I had talked to dinnerbone before and uh and he seemed to indicate that that this was intended Behavior so that’s just absolutely incredible that is that is so awesome uh okay so I’m going to move on now to Hoppers which are also just amazing

Blocks all right so if I uh let me give myself a big stack of things if I drop some items on top of the hopper oh right it’s uh it’s rejecting them I forgot to take out these things okay so Hopper has an inventory of five stacks

And now if I now if I drop items onto it it’s going to suck in those items from above so now it’s it’s got all those items in its inventory if I drop an entire stack onto it it’ll suck up all of them at once so it’s got all those in

There now if I put a chest underneath it uh it’ll start filling up that chest uh it does about like three items per second I think so there we go um so yeah it’s basically obviously super awesome because uh because that means that if you have automated Farms you can

I mean you you can uh you can you can have them fill up chests rather than just having them sit around so they won’t despawn so you can have automated Farms going while you’re away but that doesn’t even scratch the surface of how awesome this block is uh let me grab

Another chest and I’m gonna put this chest on top of the hopper and I’m gonna put items in here now oh this isn’t working okay it does I guess it doesn’t work with chest that’s interesting I thought it did oh there we go I guess it that’s weird I

Guess it was only it only does one operation at a time okay I didn’t know that so it’ll only pull in or distribute one item at a time so yeah you’ll notice it’s going about half as fast as it was before and so you can actually get items from

One chest to another now we still haven’t covered half of it because uh you know having static chests here like this is fine but you can’t move any of these all of these blocks can’t be pushed with pistons however you’ll notice these mine cart rails uh

Let me grab my self a storage mine cart storage mine carts are now going to be extremely extremely useful we still have some items in this Hopper it’s filling up pretty fast let me grab a rail here so if I put this storage my cart underneath the hopper

You’ll see it actually picked up a couple items if I can get it to well if I can get it as a stop in the right place yeah so it’s actually going to be filling up with items uh just like the normal chest did but this is something

That we can actually move around and and control with you know pistons and and powered rails so for for chest Management systems storage mine carts are going to be the new thing but it doesn’t work just work below it also works Above So if I put an item a

Storage mem card up here and put it above I can now have items coming from this storage mine cart and going into this one through this item Hopper which I like I can’t even fathom all the possibilities you can have you know systems that automatically sort all of

Your items for you using various techniques you can oh my God it’s just amazing okay let me let me not fond over this too much uh that’s not all you can do with these it also works with dispensers and Brewing stands so for instance one thing

You can do here is if I put a brewing stand right here and I’m going to need another let’s see uh I guess I’ll just use some random blocks another Hopper which is this WIP icon here I’m sure they’re still working on it but it’s definitely got a lot done

So far uh so I have a brewing stand here I’m going to put a rail here and so I’m going to fill this one up with items let’s get these couldn’t pull it out of there I’m going to fill this up with uh just awkward potions just for the time being so

And then if I get a minecart with a chest and I’ll put um uh let’s see water bottles oops didn’t mean to put that on top yet ah all right I’m gonna put three water balls in here one two three and then I’m gonna put uh nether warts

Okay so now when I push this on top of the hopper It’s Gonna Fill Up those items into this brewing stand and start brewing and then if I also had say let’s see a ghast here that could have also been in the cart so

If I had that as my fifth item in the cart um so we’ll see the brewing stand is brewing eventually this Nether wart will disappear because we finished Brewing these awkward potions and then automatically that gas here gets filled in so we have fully automated Brewing here

Now the reason that I filled up the hopper beneath the brewing stand is because if I didn’t then it would start sucking out the items from the brewing stand it would start pulling out the the awkward potions first and then and then whatever was in the recipe spot so the

Idea for this automated Brewing System is when you want to grab the potions because you know they’ve all finished Brewing you send in another storage mine cart here and and that’ll pick up all the items so uh and we’ll finally get those potions regeneration so you all

You only want it to stay there for long enough to just pick up three items so that it’ll you know fill in those three potion slots and because this item Hopper will need to stay full let me show you what I’m talking about if I put like an awkward potion whoops

If I put this in here it’ll go into the hopper it’ll go into the brewing stand and it’s already made its way into this Hopper so items won’t sit in this brewing stand if if the hopper beneath it isn’t full but anyway so I’m I’m yeah you can have fully automated Brewing now

From items and chests and going into items and chests so um yeah that’s just insane and of course you know if you had an automatic netherwart farm uh you know putting items into chess and then maybe and yeah uh automatic uh I guess you can’t automatically make the the water

Bottles but anyway you can automate a whole lot more now about everything you do and so that’s really really exciting these Hoppers are just awesome uh I think that’s all I have to say about Hoppers for now but you can expect you can expect more videos from me about

These things they are quite exceptional and uh okay so we’re gonna move on uh next thing is trapped trapped chests and Vex is going to love these so we have a normal chest here and a trapped chest here so if I put them next to each other

First of all you’ll notice I can put them right next to each other which is awesome this is going to you know double your storage efficiency or maybe not double but it’s really cool you can put them next to each other this is a feature I think a lot of people have

Wanted for a long time uh you’ll notice this one has a little bit of red around it’s uh it’s lock locking mechanism this one doesn’t and when you open it up you can see even more red here so it’s just got a slight tint to it but uh the idea is when you

Access the chest you can see this here let me uh let me grab a repeater so repeat that signal uh so you can see that the repeater turns on when I open the chest now the signal strength is one but normally you can see uh only one of

These Redstone Dust is actually lighting up and emitting those particles I am not sure what would cause it to go above one I suspect it might be the number of people exiting the chest but it doesn’t seem to be activity with the chest putting items in or taking them

Out or the number of items stored in the chest or anything so that’ll take more experimentation I’m not really sure there but but yeah Vex is going to love these but but they’re definitely awesome and and you could have a chest that say uh you know when you access it it fills

It up a little bit more or something like that very cool oh you know one thing I forgot to mention with the Hoppers is uh you know it’ll take items from the ground and you know put them into the hopper but if you want to get them back from the hopper

Out onto the ground just use a dispenser you know put the items into a dispenser power the dispenser and you can get the items back out onto the ground so it works both ways you could have you could have your mob trap feed arrows into a dispenser and have that shoot arrows out

Too so many possibilities okay I need to I need to move on from these things okay so that’s that’s trap chests that’s pretty much all they do but I mean that’s that’s really useful and and that signal strength thing is uh is a is a common theme that we’re seeing all right

The next one is daylight detector so that’s this one so this output signal strength depending on uh on the amount of daylight so right now it’s full uh I’m setting the time towards night let me do a better job of that I think 12 000 is probably better yeah so

We’re going to start to see this signal strength Decay as as the sun sets uh whoops I have my automatic uh thing that oh whoops okay so yeah the signal strength is decaying here you can see it just jumped down a bit and as it gets more and more towards nighttime it’s

Going to drop down towards zero so right now it’s at uh was it four yeah is it four address dropped to three in a couple seconds it’ll drop down to two this is just really cool uh you can have your base defenses turn on at night or have a bunch of lamps turn

On at night by just you know you could uh actually I don’t know if it Powers the block below it let me try that out right now because if it does then okay it doesn’t power the Black Bullet so yeah if you want a uh some sort of

Lamp that only turns on at night you just invert the signal from the daylight detector and then put that into a lamp anyway so it’s at one now it’ll drop down to zero so this only detects uh actual sunlight it it knows the frequencies of light

That the so if I put a lamp or a piece of Glowstone right next to it at night time it’s not gonna not put anything so we can say the signal strength is zero the glowstone here it’s still a zero so this detects only actual natural light

Uh very cool very cool I think a lot of people are going to have fun with that all right weighted pressure plates so there’s an iron version and a Gold version you just make these by putting you know two iron next to each other two iron ingots or two gold ingots next to

Each other these don’t detect players and they don’t detect mine cards I think the only thing they detect are are our items on the grounds but I’m not 100 sure so this the iron one is the light one the gold one’s the heavy one you’ll notice as I put one on

We’ve got a signal strength of one here if I put on two three four we still have a signal strength of one if I put on the fifth one it pops up uh maybe I need six what oh wait is this the heavy one sorry

This is the heavy one okay so with one block it has a signal strength of one with two three four it has signal strength of one when I add a fifth one onto this one it pops up to five and then if I add four more pops up to

Six so it’s like every four or five blocks it pops up to the next signal strength so this just detects how many items you have on the plate uh I can’t think of any really straightforward uses for it but there’s a lot of uh more advanced uses you can make an

Auction system by putting two pressure plates next to each other with a comparator something like this and you could see who won the auction by who put more items down something like that um and then so the the heavy ones are similar uh the difference let me just grab a

Bunch of blocks the difference is it this operates on more so if I spam items onto this it’s not going to increase uh for a while you need uh was it something like half a stack or a stack let’s see yeah so it was like about 50 blocks or something 40

45 maybe before it hit the second one and uh and if I yeah I have to add a lot of blocks in order to make it so basically this detects this this detects on the scale of stacks whereas this detects on the scale of of just individual blocks I

Wouldn’t be surprised to see these the functionality change a little bit on these uh to detect things like mine carts and players and maybe storage mine carts be able to differentiate between all these things because I think that would be a great use for these and I I

Talked to dinner at one point and I think it would make sense anyway but for now that’s what it does and then uh there’s some other some other random things so if you go to the nether you’ll see a new type of ore it’s this nether quartz or

Looks like this kind of like another rack with some nether quartz and it drops this nether quartz here now this nether quartz is used in the crafting recipe for the comparator and I have a link in the video description that provides all the change lists for for

This uh for the snapshot so if you want to see the crafting recipe just look there it’s it’s a lot like a repeater but it uses some nether quartz um also you can uh if I grab a furnace and uh some Netherrack and uh well we can see this nether brick

Here but basically you use uh whoops uh we use the the furnace with another brick and I’ll grab some coal here in order to make it so uh yeah and and you could even dump the the nether brick into the furnace with a uh with a hopper and everything

And or if you want to but anyway so you get uh you get another brick four of these makes a another brick block and then you can use use it to make you know slabs and stairs and everything so that’s cool and you’re if you go to your inventory

There’s a new feature let me let me empty out my inventory actually uh it’s kind of full so there’s a cool new feature so if I pick up a stack and I drag it with left click it will distribute them evenly which is actually really awesome and then if I

Double click it’ll pick up all the items the same type or as many as it can fit so I can go ahead and distribute them all into these stacks and and I could just double click to pick them all up so that was left click if I drag right

Click it just puts one item in each in each slot and then obviously double click to pick them all up so those are really cool inventory management systems if you want to craft you know like a slab of some luck you just drag it across the three spots of the crafting bench

And it’ll distribute it evenly or like bread or or whatever so that’s a really cool Time Saver uh and yeah I mean I think that’s oh right so I wanted to show you so the the Redstone Block here uh is so that that was that was what I was

Showing you earlier with the comparator it outputs a redstone signal on all of its faces and it’s movable so you can actually move it with pistons so this is the first time we have a redstone power source that you can pull with pistons before you could push detector rails

With a minecart on it and that would kind of push a power source you can never pull it and this this works a lot more reliably that that had a lot of bugs with it so this is just something I kind of threw together I don’t know what it does this noise

It’s a noise machine uh clock or something but um but yeah so I’m not too sure what the good what the good applications are of this yet I’ve I definitely played around a bit with uh with detector rails and mine carts and pistons and I didn’t see anything

Too valuable I mean you can do things like you can make you know some certain certain designs that use pistons a little bit more compact but uh yeah I’m sure we’ll see some stuff coming out with this especially with all the new Redstone toys that we have uh

I’m sure there’s going to be some new stuff also it’s a solid block if you need a solid block where there’s a torch that might be useful uh yeah so that’s pretty much the new snapshot very very exciting stuff oh my God it’s instant wire I’m really looking forward to playing

Around with this and you can expect you can expect a lot of videos from me about stuff you can do with with these things but for now I just wanted to give you an overview of all the new features and and the things you can do with him

So that’s about it thanks for watching