Redstone is one of the most important parts of minecraft yet its history is well unknown so in this video we’re going to be taking a deep dive into the history of redstone minecraft classic tnt was added the first redstone related item the way it could be activated was by Punching which would make it blow up 2010 notch adds gears into the game they could be placed on walls and were the predecessor to redstone at the time though they served no purpose and were later removed alpha 101 redstone at the time called red or dust was added in a secret friday update Along with red or dust block but when you stepped on them they would break this feature was super annoying if you’re working in a very tight area luckily that was removed later along with redstone and redstone ore came buttons levers iron doors and wooden stone pressure plates and also redstone torches before Repeaters you would have to invert redstone torches back and forth to make redstone signals go far distances now one would think that you could do very little with just redstone and redstone torches but computers are also made of only simple processes called logic gates with a few pieces of Redstone you can make a and gate add even more and you can make a basic calculator and add even more and you get the picture on september 28 2010 the internet for the win posted a 16-bit alu computer in minecraft it was quite revolutionary at the time And was the catalyst for the start of the redstone community unfortunately this was around the time survival was added so it was deemed cool but was mostly ignored and irrelevant alpha 104 red or dust is renamed to redstone and also along it was the compass and the clock which now could be derived From it 1.2 dispensers were added a key part of many redstone contraptions at the time they were basically just droppers but later they were given extra features like being able to play spawn eggs and place water and lava and many more in the future beta 1.3 repeaters were added and Redstone wouldn’t go on forever this was a very important part of minecraft and was definitely needed this also made it possible to make note block music and much more speaking of which noteblocks are also added prior and the block placed beneath them would determine what sound they played And putting a block on top would stop them from making any sound beta 1.5 power rails and detective rails are now added making wide scale transportation possible before powered rails you would have to use this thing shown on screen to be able to move faster it was the only way back then Beta 1.6 trap doors are added beta 1.7 pistons a game-changing item is added to the game they lead to many innovations and make automation possible with the addition of pistons many glitches and duplication glitches were found on the java edition and as well as on the bedrock edition later fun fact On the java edition pistons can’t push tile entities but they can on bedrock edition piston doors are now possible and they get a lot crazier later Fun fact pistons were derived from a pre-existing mod official release redstone is changed from a cross to a dot a quite controversial change update 2.0 redstone bugs were added in april fool’s update they would spawn whenever redstone was activated and if you had a big redstone machine then these critters could spawn In the hundreds redstone could be used to make potions last longer also you can no longer explode tnt by just punching it you have to either use a flint and steel or a redstone signal redstone lamps were then added to the game fun fact when redstone lamps turn off they have a two Tick delay along with tripwire hooks and also command blocks command blocks at the time were in a very basic form and have gone through a long history themselves but that is for another video and now redstone was gonna get its biggest update yet the redstone update produced redstone blocks droppers hoppers weighted pressure Plates daylight centers trapdoors and comparators comparators and hoppers would be game changers fun fact the original hopper recipe used stone and a chest instead of iron in the chest comparators can also detect a wide range of items from chests to cakes to under eyes now picture yourself back in 2013. Everyone is talking about this crazy redstone update and now redstone is a necessity if you want to survive so you would search on youtube on tutorials and tips this gave massive exposure to the redstone community which really started its big growth people were searching like crazy for youtube tips Which led to the rise of many redstone youtubers such as mumbo jumbo who got his early starts as a redstone youtuber fvdisco made the temple of notch a legendary minecraft build that’s still remembered to this day 1.8 slime blocks are added this leads to a new revolution Of slime block creations and slime block flying machines fun fact rabbits can’t jump on slime with pistons slime blocks and later coming observers it was now possible to make easy slime machines and in 1.11 observers are added originally in pocket edition and now with the upcoming skulk sensor it’s interesting to see How far redstone has come and with that Video Information
This video, titled ‘The Incredible History of Minecraft Redstone’, was uploaded by Dragonic on 2021-03-08 23:43:56. It has garnered 67258 views and 2004 likes. The duration of the video is 00:06:22 or 382 seconds.
The incredible history of Minecraft redstone
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*Correction: After Dispensers should be Versions Beta; Target block should be there. Credits to bill wurtz for the idea, Mumbo Jumbo about the Walking House in Minecraft, and FVDisco made the Temple of Notch.
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