Minecraft Special – Useful Redstone Inventions

Hello everyone this is DOM and this is going to be a short episode about use inventions I don’t take any credit for inventing any of them I just use them in most of my inventions that have to do anything with redstone then we’re going to go over very basic concepts for

Example how to turn a button into a switch so you know that acts like a switch you know alarm systems very you know more of a useful look at redstone other than just straight on and off open this door with it close this door with it or activate this piston or

Deactivate this piston now what we’re going to do is start our episode off with a simple memory cell and what’ll what that means is that it stores the state of its input so for example this is an RS nor latch what does it it’s really hard to explain the letters

Behind it but what it pretty much does is it stores the input in the system so as you can tell I hit this button even though the button comes back out and it shouldn’t be powering this redstone it’s still on as you can tell though it doesn’t do anything when I keep on

Hitting it that’s the good part about the our RS nor latch it has a reset almost like button there we go it happens on the same same thing happens on this side to me hitting this button activates this redstone it doesn’t need these this is the smallest for this specific design okay

Also these don’t need to be buttons they could be even you know they could it could be activated with redstone for example even with a switch so switch is on changes to stay the circuit even if you shut the switch on or off the circuit is going to stay in the same

State unless you reset it with the other side and I would take the outputs actually not to be you for these but I would take an output wire off the torch itself just so it doesn’t mess with just doesn’t matte so it doesn’t mess with the circuitry for example if you get

Some sort of feedback into the circuit it’ll stop right here at the torch of course okay so that’s that that’s the basis for a lot of inventions in RS nor latch you can minimize them to your use there’s a lot of different designs check the wiki out it’s great for circuitry really really

Great for circuitry this is a vertical design right here so it works the same way could be powered by redstone or with buttons or switches you you deactivate that this is the NIMH put here and this is an input here or I think you can also

Use this one as well let’s try it yep you can use this one as well this block also this is advantageous because you can power both sides of the block either way you want to do it so it’s really nice but this is another RS nor latch so

It saves the state of the input in itself so anyways continuing on these are really useful for for example let me think you want analyte to turn on in your base when somebody walks in so I come into your base this is just a very not clean look but what will happen is

For example you’re going to have a light turn on whenever somebody walks in so this will be our light okay okay as you can tell it’s off but whenever somebody walks in your base and hits a pressure plate for example it’ll turn the light on and they don’t have any way of

Turning it off even by stepping off the pressure plate hitting the pressure plate again anything like that they’d have to find the reset button or you would have to you know do it like a combo lock or something to reset the circuit back so that’s a very simple

Example of what it could be used for over here is a pulse limiter or whatever you guys want to call it pretty much what it does is it takes a signal so this is going to be on forever unless you switch it back to off this is a

Lever but what it will do is it’ll shorten it to a very very small time and we’ll turn back off so it’ll just pretty much like blink this torch right here is actually going to be the output and I have a piston attached to it to give it

A more visual reference of what happens so what’s going to happen when I turn this switch on the piston is going to extend for a very short period of time and contract so let’s look at it there we go even though the state is always on the

Piston didn’t stay up it just went up and down very very short time so let’s look at the torch here so let’s turn it off and turn it back on as you can tell that torch just blinked so it was really nice okay let’s go let’s look at that

Later after we go over clocks which we’re going to head over to this for this is a very simple clock I think it’s considered a three clock because of the design because of the delay on here which that means is that it switches it activates every three

Ticks so let’s go ahead and show you what that means this is going to be an auditory reference so go ahead and crank up that volume as you can tell this side over here activates it when this side is off and this side is activates when this

Side is off and that’s and it stays at a steady rhythm okay so let’s turn that off and that’s considered to be a clock this is a toggle toggleable clock move long word so that you’d be able to control whether it’s on or off with a

Simple input to this side of the circuit it could be a wire if you want it to be or anything like that so as long as it’s on your circuits off so what you could actually do is go ahead and head over to this RS nor latch over here and connect

Them and make it so when somebody walks into your base they hit the RS nor latch toggle the state of the input allow this to run and then you actually have an active alarm system you can even put blinking lights on and everything so you could do

It like this a bunch of blinking lights going on and sound I don’t know whatever you guys want to do with it that’s what I usually use it for nothing more okay this was me experimenting with noteblocks they actually act sound differently on each one of the different

These different types of blocks gravel sand wood any types of wood sounds different glass stone cobblestone or whatever and dirt and I’m pretty sure it is I don’t know you look it up on the wiki – they sound different though really deep the normal piano like sticks

Like cool snare drum it seems like some sort of like bass guitar or something ok that’s that let’s go on over here this is totally not my design at all but this is good this is used I would have to say a lot for really really large scale

Piston contraptions for a timer and this one actually has an on/off switch and as you can tell it sends out little pulses how you could use these outputs right here boom so it sends off a little pulse and as you can tell it goes around in the circle wherever that gold block

Is I know it’s kind of loud so we’ll turn it off so that each one of those would power some sort of component with Pistons or whatever and it’s all timed perfectly because that’s that’s a clock just like it is over here okay and that’s that for that and as I promised

I’m going to introduce you guys to how to make a lever sorry how to make a button into a lever now as you know a button activates redstone for a short time it’s like 0.9 seconds so for like nine clicks or something but what we can

Do is by integrating a T flip-flop which this is an example of there’s one over here as well what you can do is turn any kind of input into a switch input so you know it looks very vice I know that the blocks look very similar to that what

You do is create any kind of T flip-flop this is the piston version I’m just looking at the Sun for light this is a piston version but what it will do is I have it set up for an example here you don’t need this long wire around or this

Lever but what will happen is I hit this button and it switches the state of that right there and the block goes up now this specific model is a one as it couldn’t scald the means a this is a negative or down slope or whatever oh sorry negative edge triggered I think that’s

What it considered so what happens is it changes States whenever this wire turns off so whenever the state of it is is a not positive rising edge oh sorry leading edge or falling edge triggered that’s what it is so whenever it’s this it switches States whenever it turns from on

Off not from off which the button is right now to on doesn’t do anything it does it whatever it turns off but as you can tell whenever I hit it it activates this wire right here activating this piston and whenever I hit it again the deactivates it so it’s like hitting

Button is like turning on a switch or off a switch on a switch or off a switch so it’s pretty nice this one specific model is done with ooh I think it’s some of the normal Pistons you also can do it with sticky pistons as well I don’t know if it increases the

Speed very much but you can tell this piston for example we retract or this one we were to retract faster than the other one extends when it retracts it pulls back the block so I don’t know if you get like a one tick increase or something the way you can change this to

Where it works faster is by adding some sort of input to make it or by changing the input from just pretty much putting on standard not gate ah yeah not gate on the top or whatever it’s called if you push the button now it instantly changes the piston state over here raising our

Block so you don’t have to wait it just acts immediately after you push the button so it’s real nice so it’s really really nice okay so that’s how you turn a button into a switch and I’m going to be integrating these on a lot of my inventions there’s a lot of different

Ways to make them I just like this one because it is the most compact and it hasn’t been changed even though it was considered to be a bug a long time ago I’m pretty sure how this piston contraption worked here this specific T flip-flop if you guys have any more

Questions about different devices that I’m using I will add them to a second episode of this or I will make one dedicated just to that type of device in the future for further reference go ahead and check out the wiki or the forums under the redstone section especially under the piston circuitry

Section it usually reduces the complexity of the circuit by a lot if you use pistons in your latches and switches and stuff in flip-flops so thank you guys for watching and have a good day