Surviving With Create 0.3.1 :: E12 – Automated Potion Brewing

What is going on guys we are back playing s’mores surviving with create 0.3 and today we are going to be going over automated potion brewing now right out the gate i know a bunch of you are going to be asking why should you use create to set this

Up instead of going with a very simple very compact vanilla brewing setup and i will tell you there is one main reason and that is create will give you 33 more potions for the same amount of resources meaning you will get the most bang for your buck if you go with this

Setup now obviously that’s the name of the game when you’re going to be brewing a ton of potions because it will save you a bunch of resources in the long run and then on top of that this setup looks extremely awesome and it’s a ton of fun to make because it

Is relatively complicated so i think it’ll make for a good video today and a lot of you guys have been requesting this so it’s gonna be a little bit of a long one so i would buckle up because we are going to jump right into

It and we’re not going to be doing any crafting today because there is so much here that we need to go over so i’m quickly going to run through everything you need and then we will jump into setting this up so for the actual setup itself we are going to need seven redstone

Five cog wheels three droppers four depots two redstone repeaters two andesite funnels four shafts eight hoppers one blaze burner one spout a mechanical mixer a powered latch a smart fluid pipe three chests two brass funnels one large cog wheel a redstone torch two vertical gearboxes a clutch nine fluid pipes two deployers two

Mechanical pumps three redstone links an item drain a comparator a button and a basin and then on top of that you’re going to need whatever potion you plan on brewing in its final state all the different materials you are going to need to make that potion some empty glass bottles two buckets of

Water and some coal or whatever you plan on fueling your blaze burner with once you have all that you can grab it out and if you guys could not already tell there’s so much here it’s not all going to fit in my inventory so we’re going to grab all this out and

My goal would be to get both water buckets out so we are going to leave this oak here and i think we should have pretty much everything we need to to go start setting this up so i have this nice area over here cleared out and ready to go for this setup

This should be more than enough space if you’re clearing out an area in a wall somewhere you probably want roughly 10 by nine by seven obviously we’re outside so the ceiling isn’t really going to be an issue but that should be more than enough room

To be able to work around all of this and move around to put down all the different intricate parts you will need because you are going to need to orient yourself specifically and a lot of this setup to get it working properly now once you have that the only other

Thing you will need is some form of rotational power coming in at 30 rpm or higher we have the setup from the furnace engine and flywheel bringing in 32 rpm rotational power which will be more than enough it’s just important to be over 30 because we have the mechanical mixer

Which as we all know because we are all create experts that it needs 30 rpm or higher to actually start mixing now the rest of this setup we’re just gonna run it at 32 rpm because really it’s not going to require that much stress capacity i believe even with everything at 32 rpm

It only needs 640 so that’s just a couple water wheels hooked up shouldn’t be too much of an issue and so it’s just going to be a couple deployers and stuff that need it most of this actually doesn’t need rotational power so the first thing we start out with

Once we have all of that good to go will be the droppers and we want to put these where the input and output is going to be so you first want to decide on that for me i want it to be right in front of us here we’re going to

Reconstruct this wall once we’re done and i want these to be a part of the wall so we can simply stand over here hit a button that will eventually go there to initiate the setup and we’ll put in the ingredients here when we need to refill it and we’ll get

The potions right here so once you’ve decided on that we’re going to come out and place them facing away from where that is and we’re going to stack them on top of each other so we’ve got three droppers right here and these are going to have our three

Potion ingredients in them so for the potion of swiftness that we’re going to use today we are going to have the netherwart then we’re going to have the sugar and then we’re going to have the redstone in the top one and these all need to get put into the basin to be mixed

So we then need to put down the basin which will basically be the center of this entire setup so we’re going to come over two from where those are and down one and that’s where we’re gonna put down the base in now we need to use a bunch

Of hoppers to get all the items in here so we’re gonna put one going directly into the basin at the bottom and then we’re going to pillar up and put three more down that all go into each other just like that and what this is gonna do

Is have the items drop into the hoppers and then go down into the basin and the reason this is so important is because this right here helps us avoid one of the huge pitfalls and over complications that all the other setups that i’ve seen uh fall prey to and that is using three

Different basins one after another kind of going down into each other to brew these you do not need that you only need one basin and the way we get around the idea that we can’t really filter out the different recipes we want is we are going to make it so that when

The nether work goes in it goes in first then the sugar being the second ingredient goes in second followed by the redstone going in third and if you guys don’t know what this will do is the basin once it starts mixing will mix the water we put in

And the first ingredient first thus guaranteeing it will always mix the netherwart with the water first then the sugar then the redstone meaning we can do it all in one basin we only have to heat one and it makes the setup way more compact so

I think that is super cool that you can do that it’s a really nice workaround to some of the larger setups that you don’t really need so now we need to put down the blaze burner because if we look at the recipe for the potion of swiftness that we’re doing

And go to the create portion of it you can see that the automated brewing that’s done in the mechanical mixer in the basin requires it to be heated for every step of the way so we need to get this set up so that it is going to be heated whenever we want

To brew one of these potions and that’s pretty easy to do with one interesting mechanic and that is using the redstone comparator so we’re gonna put this going away from the blaze burner and for those of you who don’t know the blaze burner emits a comparator signal when

It is burning so this is super useful because this will allow us to tell when this is fueled and when it’s not and we need to input new fuel so what we’re gonna do is put down two regular redstone right after this a redstone repeater and then we’re going to put down

Our toggle latch right here and then finally we are going to put down a where is it in here a redstone link on the side right here a regular redstone dust right here and then finally a clutch right here that will go into a deployer that is going to go right over here

So that was a lot of stuff all at once but it needs to all be down so i can explain it to you guys because there’s a lot going on here so basically if you guys don’t know what a toggle or a powered latch does basically when you input a redstone

Signal to the portion of this that is perpendicular to the powered latch so this side right here it is going to flip the lever on thus emitting a signal out of the back of this and that will stay on even if this signal goes away until you input another signal from the

Side being where this redstone link is so the idea will be that we’re gonna have to jump start this once and this will power the clutch so that you are getting no rotational power to the deployer because the clutch prevents the transmission of rotational power through it

When it has redstone signals given to it so this is going to end up being on once we jump start this preventing rotation going through and nothing will be taken from the deployer and used to fuel the blaze burner but when we push our button for our

Setup that’s going to be hooked up to this this will send a red so signal into the side it will turn off the lever thus turning this off allowing the deployer to fuel the blaze burner thus giving a new signal here and then re-powering this to prevent this from firing a second time

So we don’t waste any coal or charcoal or whatever fuel you want to use so this creates a really cool loop here that you can use to make sure that this only goes off once every time we want to brew potions now one other thing is you do not want a repeater

Right here we want redstone dust because when we have the blaze burner going if you guys don’t know there’s actually three stages to the blaze burner there’s fully fueled about to burn out and then this right here which is not fueled and the only one that will emit a

Redstone signal that makes it to this repeater is fully fueled when we have it as partially fueled and about to burn out that will not be strong enough to make it past this redstone dust so this will no longer think that this is fueled which is exactly what we want

Because if this is at partially fueled and we start another brewing and it doesn’t get new fuel we run the risk that this will burn out before all three mixes are done and we will get stuck in the setup and it won’t be able to complete the potion brewing and then you’re gonna

Have to come in here and totally fix everything so this is exactly how you want it to set up to prevent that from happening the last thing we need to do is simply empty our hand shift right click on the redstone link put in some redstone dust for frequency

One you can make it whatever frequency you want you just need to make all the redstone links in today’s episode the same and now this should be done pretty much we’re not gonna put a filter on this because everything that we input into this is gonna be burnable

So to do that all we’re gonna do is grab out a chest come up here and then put down a hopper into the internal inventory of the deployer and then put down a chest here so when we input our fuel into this chest it’ll go down here

And we have the option of using kohler charcoal whatever we want to use this will then be ready to go and it’ll fire off whenever we do the setup and like i said we’re going to jump start this in the end of the episode today

So that we power this on the first time before we actually go to brew the potions just something to keep in mind but now we should be good to jump to the next portion of the setup which is going to be the water filling portion so we need a mechanical pump here

A fluid pipe and our item drain to start this out and we’re going to build off this side of the basin so we’re going to put down our mechanical pump right on this side and the first thing we want to do is check the direction of it because this does have a direction

When we give it rotational power it’s going to pump in that direction so we’re going to right click on it with the wrench to flip it so it’s going into the basin you can see the arrow make sure it’s going in then we’re going to put down a fluid

Pipe and then we’re going to build up here and put down an item drain so that’s gonna go right on here now if you guys don’t know what the item drain does basically when an item goes on top of it it’s like a liquid item depot

When an item goes on top of it with liquid in it it’s going to empty it and then send it on its merry way so this is where we’re going to empty the water that’s going to go into the basin and we want to get exactly one bucket here

So what we’re going to do is a pretty cool setup and we’re going to build out on each side to have a depot one block up so right here and right here and then finally on top of this we are going to put down our second deployer

Facing towards this depot if i could place it down properly we can just flip it with a wrench but we want it facing this direction now we can get rid of all these blocks of cobblestone here and now we’re really pretty much just left with filtering stuff

Out of here so what we’re gonna do is put down a brass funnel on this front of the deployer and we actually need to build out here i guess off this side with a little bit more if we could place it there cobblestone and this will make sense

Because it’s actually going to be useful in the next step but we want to put down the brass funnel on this side and we want to take out a water bucket and put it as the filter because we’re going to use this deployer to fill up empty buckets

At an infinite source of water and then we only want those being put down onto this depot when they are full buckets of water so now we need to make the infinite water source which is going to go right here and grab it from this point

So we’re going to build out one on each side and then we’re just gonna hop up and enclose it cobblestone’s gonna look real gross so maybe use glass or something it looks a lot nicer if you use glass but uh i don’t really care for this

Because we’re not gonna be able to see majority of this setup which is actually kind of sad i guess because the setup looks really really cool when it’s running but there we go so now we’ve got the source right here it’s not going to spill over the depot because the brass

Funnel is taking up that space and now we need to make sure the rest of this is properly being filtered so we’re going to take a hopper and we’re going to put it into the side of this item drain so this depot will drop items into this item drain

And then we need to take the andesite funnels and the first one is going to go on the side of the depot and you need to then right click it to switch the direction that it’s going in so if you see this arrow on the side here it could go in either direction

So it’s going to automatically start by going from the depot to the drain we want to flip it to go from the drain to the depot once it’s emptied out the bucket and then we’re going to put down another andesite funnel on the back of this deployer

And oh it doesn’t want to orient properly so we got to go all the way up there to do this game is really making us work for this so then we need to just build out right here one and we can put it down and again

This is going to be the same thing so we’re going to get rid of that cobble here jump down on the side and this as we can see we gotta flip again to make sure it goes from the depot to the deployer and now we can just get rid of this

Extra cobble and this should be good and if we were to actually put a bucket in i know i keep going up and down if we were to click a bucket in here it should get put into the deployer and once we give it rotational power

It’ll fill it up and then put it into the hopper and come around now at this point we are good to set up the remaining redstone for both the dropper and this portion because these are both going to be connected so the first thing that we need to do is put down cobblestone

Right over here and build out like this and then we can come down right here and we’ll put one here so we can get up but then we want to build right off this hopper two like that and we wanna put down a redstone torch right here

So what this is gonna do is make it so the hopper right now is not going to be able to let items through it this is important because we want to make it so that it only lets the bucket of filled water through once we push the button and then halt it

Again immediately because we only want one bucket at a time so right now nothing will go through it’s given a redstone signal so then we need to invert this by giving it the signal when we push the button so all we’re going to do is line with redstone right here and

Then at the same time we are going to signal the deployers or the droppers i mean to put the items into the hoppers and the way we’re going to do this is by putting a redstone repeater facing into the middle dropper now the reason this is so important is because

We need to make sure it’s a max strength signal because if it is this will also signal the two ones above and below it to also activate meaning that at the same time all three of these droppers will go off which is exactly what we need now what we’re going gonna do

Is bring redstone back here for this and then put down the final redstone link right here and again shift right click and set it to the exact same frequency we had before so to do that we’ll quickly just grab a piece of redstone and then put it back down

So now this will make it again so these droppers drop all the items at the same time making it so the netherwart is always the first one to enter the basin making it always the first one to mix with the water so we don’t accidentally mix the sugar and have an

Issue and that’s what makes this whole setup go round so this should all be good now over here and the last portion of this setup that we need to do is going to be pulling the fluid out and then putting it into the glass bottles

So the way we are going to go about doing this is starting out with the smart fluid pipe and we’re going to put this right off the basin in this direction and then put down a mechanical pump now the reason we have a smart fluid pipe is

Because this is going to have its filter set so that we are only pulling out the finalized potion product because this will always be given rotational power but we don’t want to pull out the fluid too soon so what we can do right now that we have more inventory space is

Quickly run back downstairs and grab out all that stuff before that we needed including the potion that’s finished so we’ll grab these out right here and then we can head back up and we can set the filter properly for this and actually put the ingredients in where we want them

But so all you do is just right click the potion here make sure it’s the finished version and you’re good to go now do not be confused i didn’t think this would work initially just because obviously this is the potion it’s not just the fluid but create is able to interpret that

Properly and pull out the fluid even though it’s not bottled yet now once we have this we’re gonna wait and actually set up the portion over here before connecting it so over here this is going to be the filling station we want to put a depot

Right here and then put the spout down on top of it so we’re just going to shift right click on it and there we go so the spout when we give it fluid will fill any liquid container that’s below it on the depot so we want the glass

Bottles to end up on this depot and to do that we’re just going to come over here and put down a hopper and then we’re going to put down another one of the chests right there and this is where all the glass bottles can go

If we toss them in there you can see that they then end up on the depot waiting to be filled but we want to make sure that we’re pulling those out but only once they are filled so we’re actually going to need some cobble here put cobble down right there a depot down

Right there and then we’re gonna put down our brass funnel right here and to avoid this happening what just happened we’re gonna filter again the finished potion and then we can just put this quickly back over in here and now you can see it’s going to wait until it’s filled

To drop down here so now that we have that we’re just going to make sure that these all get input into a chest so we’ll put a chest right down here and then grab out our last hopper and put it into the chest from the depot

So when they’re filled they will then be input into the chest here and we can grab all our finished potions out from that so really the last portion to do now is going to be taking the fluid pipes and running them all the way up there to the spout

So we can just start coming off of this thing over here obviously we’re making sure it’s going in the correct direction when we supply it with rotational power and then we’re just going to build up and build off of this and all we got to do is just connect these however you

Want to do that and now this setup should pretty much be good once we give it some rotational power so what we can do now is start pulling out all the cog wheels that we need for this some gearboxes and some shafts and we’re going to bring the rotational power in

From over here first to this mechanical pump using a cog wheel then to this one then we need to put down the mechanical mixer on top of the basin really quickly so we’ll just right click on there we’re gonna put down a cog wheel there one right there on that side and then

Finally we’re gonna put down a cog wheel on this other side of the mechanical pump now we’ll start from over here and this one has done its final connection by putting down a large cog wheel right here onto the clutch so that this will transfer power over here

Yes it’s going to decrease it to 16 rpm again but it’s just firing off that deployer so it doesn’t really matter now we need to connect these and a simple way to do it is going to be right next to the basin put down a vertical gearbox

And then use a shaft to connect these two and these two and now the last thing we need to do is right over here this one’s already getting power so we just need to properly orient a vertical gearbox so that this cog wheel is going into that which is giving power

To that deployer up there now i believe all this should be hooked up so once we connect this we should be able to see everything getting rotational power the bucket we had up here got filled we can hear it it’ll be sitting on this depot waiting for the redstone signal to

Go away for the hopper to pull it out everything else is running properly which is great this one’s uh firing off down here right now but again that’s because i said that we needed to go and kind of kick it off before this setup so what we’re gonna do is put some coal

In right here we can see it gives power flips the latch right here and then that initiates the redstone signal to the clutch and stops the deployer from going now i want to show you guys really quickly what happens when this starts to fizzle out it’s going to take a little bit

But this is the first stage this is the fully fueled stage of this so like i said there’s three stages the next one is gonna be not so bright it’s not totally burnt out but we’re gonna chill here for a second waiting for it um it’s actually probably

Gonna take a fair bit of time but there we go you can see now that it’s switched down and now it’s not giving a signal in here but this is still going to be turned off but if we were to supply this with a redstone signal

This would not kick back on until it’s been refueled now the reason again that this is important is because this one right here puts us at risk of not finishing our mixing so we need to make sure it’s getting refueled if it is at this stage when we

Reinitiate another set of potions coming through so we can just go i guess all the way around here so we can get back up and we’ll just come up here with some cobblestone because we need to now fill up these droppers in the proper order being netherwort sugar and then redstone

It is imperative you put it in in the correct order that it needs to be brewed in otherwise this is not going to work and then finally putting down the final button so we have all the redstone links set up this one we again need to make sure and

I gotta grab it out of here one redstone just to set it to the proper frequency so frequency one if i could get it set to redstone and we can put this back in here we can cover this back up remember we want this one to be on sending not receiving

All of these should be on receiving if we can see the proper little little thing on the side of them that one down there is on it and the one over here should be on it oh i didn’t set that one to receiving i don’t think

Okay so one little mistake oh no i did i just couldn’t see it okay so i didn’t make a mistake that’s right guys apparently we’re a pro here i should never question myself but now that we have that i think the button was supposed to go right here

Uh i hope so there we go and now we should be done i believe everything is good to go so if we hit this button we should be able to see everything fire off and start running just checking that all these are pushing in the right direction

Okay so here’s a perfect example you saw that this was hooked up in the right direction initially for some reason it flipped we need to flip that back i don’t know why that happens but we need to flip it back so there we go i believe the other one should still be in

The correct direction from this yes it is but just double check so now we should be good moment of truth we toggle everything on the item should go in there the bucket should go in here and the mixer should come down in a second and start mixing this

I didn’t put my coal in okay well that got screwed up we can initiate this on our own okay now now it fired off on its own okay now it’s gonna mix sorry slight mistake there we can also drop this in but it mixes once mixes twice and it’ll come down and mix

A third time really quickly oh it probably already mixed all three times i guess i missed one of them but now the fluid is going to be pulled up here and it’s going to go into the spout it takes a little bit of time but if you have particle effects on you’d be

Able to see it coming up and then finally these bottles will get filled and then they’ll go into our chest so there you can see one two three and the extra four and they all go in here potions of swiftness giving us speed for eight minutes

So that is the setup guys i am so happy with how this turned out i think it looks amazing while it’s running if we just again take another look out here i think this thing is crazy awesome obviously the cobblestone looks a little bit gross so maybe replace that with a nicer

Looking block but there’s so much stuff going on in such a small area it just looks phenomenal and i’m pretty happy with all these different redstone setups in here to get it all functioning so hopefully you guys enjoyed the setup like i said earlier i spent so

Long coming up with this it took like seven hours to design and troubleshoot and get everything working properly but i think it all paid off in the end so let me know if you guys set this up in your world what potions you’re brewing with it

And as always i hope you guys enjoyed the video and i will talk to you later you