Mumbo Jumbo – What’s Inside a TNT BLOCK in Minecraft!?

So, as you guys know on this channel we really like looking inside of things I’ve looked inside myself, I’ve looked inside of Grian, xisumavoid, Iskall We’ve looked inside the creeper, the villager, the enderman and a whole bunch of other different things, but so far I’ve never looked inside a block. Well today,

We’re going to be changing that. And what better block to start off with than TNT? Now as you can see, there’s all sorts of things going on I think the first place that we should start is how the TNT actually explodes.

What actually causes it to explode? And for those of you who have built a creeper farm before, you might recognise this mechanism, because these things are actually creeper spawners. These are creeper spawners on the corners here.

We’ve also got another two out the back and as soon as you place in the block of TNT Those creepers are going to start spawning and that’s what’s actually going to cause the explosion of the TNT

So it’s not the Gunpowder in the sand that you put inside the crafting grid well that will do is that will create the shell and then as soon as you place in the TNT is going to fill up with creepers

And that’s going to provide the actual explosion fuel that is going to cause this block to be destructive Now of course these spawning platforms do actually work They work considerably faster on the inside of the actual TNT block, but just for demonstration

I’m going to show you them functioning on the big TNT block so if we just set ourselves into hard mode and then take a bit of a fly around We’re gonna have to do a little bit of loading here

But we should begin to see some creepers spawning on the inside of these areas and let’s take a look We don’t have any there, but we do have one creeper one creeper is spawn inside the spawning platform And as I say in the actual TNT block

It’ll be considerably faster, and there be lots more of them But that’s not all we’ve got going on inside here obviously we need some way to ignite the creepers that have spawned And the way that we do that is using the ignition core now

I’m going to warn you I am gonna have to head inside the (great) TNT contraption And as you know this place is incredibly loud, but this is the activation circuits We’ve got all of these sticky pistons running in here with redstone blocks on their faces

And then they kind of split off out like this and go towards here and also down towards the bottom as well You can see those sticky pistons and the redstone blocks on their faces Those are all part of this circuit

And if we were to ignite this TNT by flicking this lever up at the top you can see that everything extends and the redstone blocks can move across Activating the redstone lamps on the top and bottom of the spawning modules and what that essentially does is

Tells these creepers that have spawned inside this area here Hey, it’s your time to go you have now got to ignite and blow up this wonderful TNT block here, so whatever you’re thinking

That’s all well and good but what on earth is making that horrendous racket that is been going throughout this entire video That would be the sand creator so as I mentioned earlier on the sand on the Gunpowder that you put inside the crafting grid

Isn’t actually enough to make a fully functional TNT block? It just creates the framework you place in the TNT And then the TNT block actually creates the rest so what this is doing is is rubbing two bits of stone up against each other

Very quickly and little bits of stone rub off and that is the sand that actually collects up down at the bottom And is then used for the explosion now, I’m going to be totally honest. I’m not a chemist I’m not an explosionologist, and I’m not an anarchist or anything like that

I have no clue what part the sand plays in the TNT explosion I just know that this important and clearly we need lots of it Now while we are up at the top here there’s something that I want to point out that I think is really interesting

Something that I really see on the inside of the TNT block So for those of you who have played Minecraft for a very long time you may remember that you used to be able to ignite TNT with your fists

So you’d place down a piece of TNT and then there’d be no way to remove it from the world You’d have to just punch it, and it would explode now Thankfully that was removed because that was a massive pain in the backside but clearly the feature still exists on the inside of the TNT block so what these are these are armored stands which would have

Detected that punch there to detect the punch and it would kind of knock them around a little bit They’ve moved forward in the water stream, and then they’d go through this tripwire here

And then that would send a signal out towards the activated core or the ignition core, which will then cause the TNT to explode? But as you can see, they have now been blocked off So these things can no longer move and obviously we’ve got lots of signs and things and some cobwebs as

To the fact that this has not been used for a long time, but it’s just quite cool that that’s still in there It’s a bit like how humans have a tail bone even though. We don’t have a tail anymore

Anyway moving on from that one we’re now going to head down to the bottom of the TNT block to one of the most Important circuits in my opinion which is the water detection system now for anyone who’s built a redstone contraption

That uses TNT you all know that this is an incredibly important circuit because if you ignite TNT inside water It doesn’t blow anything up it blows up But it doesn’t destroy any blocks which is amazing because of course that means you could reuse the redstone contraption involving TNT

Now the way that the TNT actually detects the water is we have got a few little holes on The side of the block right at the very bottom, and then we have these ol armor stands right here so if some water was to flow in

These armor stands would be pushed around and then then end up on top of the pressure plates And you can see that extends out all of these Pistons, which then activates these redstone lines right here Which then activate the dispensers?

And it dispenses out water to stop our creepers from actually blowing up at the surrounding area so these things they’re going to explode It’s all going to look very traumatic But they’re not actually going to destroy any blocks and then once the water goes away all of those water

Will be retracted from the dispensers, and then it will continue to destroy things. It’s quite a cool little circuit It’s really smart so we have it guys. Those are the innards and gizzards of the TNT block I hope you enjoyed this video

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This has been Mumbo and I’m out I’ll see you later