Trying to do Redstone in 2011 Minecraft Beta

I’ve been playing minecraft for ages not quite as long as some people i know that some of you have been playing since classic fair play to you i started on the tail end of alpha but beta is really where i began to fall in love with this

Game oh by the way i’m not being rude it’s just front-facing cameras weren’t a thing in this version and this version as you can tell from the top left-hand corner is minecraft beta 1.8.1 in my opinion one of the most important updates in minecraft as it introduced a

Bunch of things that completely changed how the game was played creative mode was added sprinting was introduced and the food system was overhauled to the system that we have today it was a total game changer like a complete a complete overhaul and today we’re going to try

Our best to do some redstone in it now i should i should be familiar with all this redstone because this is really the update where i started really experimenting with redstone but it’s been a while the hidden crafting bench for anyone who played minecraft back in these days you will know how

Much of a big deal it was to have a hidden crafting bench in your base this was like a go-to redstone contraption for some reason even though crafting benches really aren’t that valuable there’s no real reason to hide them anyway i’ve tried my best to create a circuit

That i thought was going to work doesn’t look like it does so after a lot of fiddling i’ve managed to create this little thing and that is all functional it seems to be to do with the fact that if i place redstone on top of this look if i place

A redstone torch to one side it seems to redirect it and that that is causing some issues with my circuit so i’m definitely gonna have to work around that but i gotta say i am curious does this work it does even back now like even back then

Back when redstone was all over the place doing all sorts of weird stuff this still works the color combination lot when i first started my youtube channel these were my jam these were absolutely my jam and you know what we are actually gonna make it a little bit

More complicated i’m gonna try my best to make a small color combination lock in minecraft beta 1.8.1 i’m getting scared just saying it oh boy that’s gonna make oh oh it does work wait hang on does this only work in one direction wait a minute am i going crazy here or

Did that not work a second ago because i tested this out on the floor oh you can’t place buttons on top of blocks it’s directional that is so typical of old minecraft redstone contraptions would work in certain directions and be totally broken in others so to those of you who are

Complaining about bugs in minecraft 1.14 try playing back then hey this is minecraft 1.14 is a breeze i just realized i’ve built up everything everything is working the piston feed tape is fine and then uh yeah there’s no there’s no cauldrons there’s no power blocks or anything like that so i can’t actually

Send a redstone signal out from my feed tape so it’s it’s fundamentally flawed from ground zero whose idea was it to play in such an old rubbish version of minecraft my word redstone was weird back then i don’t remember any of this stuff being a thing i seriously don’t

Remember this being a thing i’m sure that’s useful but well see what i mean it’s just weird and after dealing with that weirdness for quite some time i eventually come up with something that works amazingly enough so this is my color combination lock it has 100 possible combinations it runs off of

Piston feed tapes and it looks rather lovely doesn’t it i mean look at this check that out i’ve managed to do some serious compact redstone right here and if we hit this button a couple times we can see that the colors cycle round and i believe that is the correct color

For this side and then if we just hit this and hit this you can see we have the correct combination and our little piston has extended now if i made this back in 2011 or 2012 right now i will be giddy with excitement i will be booting

Up my recording software to make a video on my brand new combination lock that i’ve designed that’s super compact modular tileable all that sort of thing in a way i kind of wish i could go back in time and just be a genius a redstone you know people wish they could go back

In time to invest in companies that have done well or pick the lottery tickets and things me i just want to go back and make the best redstone contraptions i’ve just remembered we can build old piston elevators piston elevators actually work in the beta versions of minecraft at

Least i’m fairly certain i think it was minecraft 1.3 official release when they made a change to the single-player client to allow land worlds and that stopped piston elevators working properly although that could be all totally wrong now i’m hoping it should be as simple as this so all we

Have is some redstone torch towers and then we have some repeaters running into the back pistons and it should kind of zip us up to the top at great speed that is the plan not 100 certain it’s going to work because as i say these are currently quite unreliable

In minecraft like if you build one of these in minecraft 1.14 there’s like a 50 50 chance you’re gonna get to the top but i believe they were more stable back in the day believe it or not oh my word i had forgotten that at one point there was no such

Thing as an upside down half slab that that has blown my mind how did how do we survive a minecraft without that anyway this is totally totally hasn’t worked so i’m gonna go back to the drawing board because clearly i’ve done something wrong and after watching a video that i

Made in 2013 i found out that i had done something wrong so i built that design and it’s it still doesn’t work yeah no still still doesn’t function it is all timed perfectly and we just get stuck so maybe there was a sweet spot i think there was a sweet

Spot for piston elevators where they didn’t work in minecraft 1.8.1 because everything was just all a little bit broken you know pistons had only just been introduced in the previous update so they were still a tiny bit all over the place and then at some point these things

Became possible and then they broke again whatever let’s build a 2×2 seamless class piston door shall we now as a bit of mumbo jumbo trivia information that all of you or at least a lot of you have heard about a million times over this is one of the first

Serious redstone contraptions that i worked on and one of my first popular redstone builds so naturally it holds a very good place in my heart i forgot what the saying is it’s something i don’t think it was that anyway i’m sure you’ll let me know down in the comment

Section stage one is done which is to get this oh oh oh i’ve forgotten about that you could get fast presses on buttons if you like you you the button press depended i’ve forgotten about that so you didn’t get consistent button presses you could press the button in a way

That was shorter by moving around god i’m glad they fixed that because that is that’s a nightmare and i know i totally failed to demonstrate it there i tried my best but it used to happen every now and again and just ruin stuff i am so close to getting this done oh it’s

It’s almost painful all i need to do is extend out this pulse right here but i can’t add any delay so normally what i do is place a transparent block here and then put some repeaters around that’s all good because the redstone signal wouldn’t be able to go back round

Creating like an infinite powering loop but in this version of minecraft although we can place redstone on top of glowstone glowstone is considered a solid block so redstone signals can actually travel down it which they can’t normally do in later versions of minecraft so we can’t use that it’s i’m honestly i’m so

Confused by redstone redirection in this version of minecraft it it makes zero logical sense to me you know what as much as i’ve been complaining about this version of minecraft and how strange it is it’s actually been really really fun just trying my best to problem solve using

Such few components like nowadays you have a lot of options for what you can do if you run into a problem it’s like maybe if i use some observers here maybe if i use some some comparators and hoppers you you have to slime blocks you have the whole lot whereas with this is

Literally you’ve got redstone you’ve got a repeater and you’ve got a redstone torch solve it i’ll tell you something else that i forgot about how useful it is that we can hold shift and place blocks on things that have inventories and things like that like if you’ve got a dispenser

You literally can’t place redstone on top of it so redstone can go on top of it but oh what did we used to do that yeah you used to have to do that and then to get a torch on the side of it i think yep that was it so you had to

Right click on a glass block which obviously you can’t put a torch on the side of and then it will go onto the side of the dispenser anyway my door’s done and it’s pretty small it’s i mean it’s a lot smaller than my original seamless glass piston door i can promise

You that that thing was absolutely enormous whereas this four blocks wide it almost fits within its own footprint of pistons it’s uh yeah it’s quite small it’s pretty fast as well if we hit the button you can see everything moves out the way everything pushes back down we hit the button again every

This is what i mean about the buttons this is what we had to work with so as i was demonstrating this is the opening come on work yes there we go and the closing good i wonder what happens if i build up the regular bottom of a 3×3 piston door

I’m honestly just really curious to see what happens here i’m not expecting much i can promise you that i just i want to see what occurs wait a second hang on the first bit actually works hang up we might be on to something the second part is alarmingly close as well

I know that doesn’t look like much but that’s almost the beginnings of a double piston extender i think if we okay let’s let’s think about this so if we add more delay here what happens i almost think we need less delay so if we have less delay i am literally just Oh my goodness so i’ve tweaked around i’ve messed with some of the redstone look at this i don’t believe it i i don’t believe it i think six years late i mean i this can be cleaned up for sure and it just oh i’m at a loss i i can’t

Believe it actually works so if i just fill in the surrounding blocks here we have got ourselves a fully functioning 3×3 piston door in minecraft beta 1.8.1 working real fast actually i mean it’s yeah it could be made a little bit smaller but for the most part look at it

This would have been groundbreaking back in the day honestly i wish i had a time machine just so i could flex flex on the original minecraft redstoners with my tiny piston doors oh well this has been a lot of fun i’ve heavily enjoyed recording this video

It’s been it’s been a real blast from the past for me i mean this is this is what this is where i started out making redstone videos pretty much in this version of minecraft so tons of fun really do hope that you enjoyed it let me know down in the comment section if

There’s any other versions of the game you want to see me do redstone in anyway i hope you enjoyed it i’ll catch you in the next video see ya and i gotta say this video has got me curious as to what version of minecraft you guys started

Playing in because i mean obviously i started as i say i think i caught the last version of alpha and then got the transition into beta and then beta really was my jam um but i’m sure there’s some of you out there who are proper old school like minecraft classic people