Now I often get asked down in the comments section "Mumbo, what is your favorite redstone circuit?" and to that I think
I mean
Well, there's a lot of them
Obviously there are certain circuits that I use all the time for example this or one tick monostable circuit here
you'll probably see in pretty much every single one of my redstone builds and that is because it's so simple and
So easy to create, but it's not particularly interesting then you have the TFlip-Flop. Which is actually made up of that one tick monostable
It's cool. It was one of the first Redstone circuits that
I actually learnt and I've always quite liked the name 'TFlip-Flop', and then of course we've got this sort of thing
I just like this thing because it's smart I use it all the time on the Hermitcraft Server auto dropper circuits
Yeah, they're pretty nice, but I mean none of them are particularly exciting
And I definitely wouldn't put my finger on any of them saying they are in fact my favorite
You see the issue with favorite is that it's not necessarily
The one that's most useful and it's not the one that you use most frequently
It's the one that you like the most and that's actually quite difficult to come up with but one
Definitely comes to mind and is one that I personally really enjoy using in quite a handful of my redstone builds
I'm sure at least some of you can guess it. In front of me. I have got a piston feed tape
it's called piston feed tape because pistons feed blocks around in a circular or at least a
Minecraft circular motion going around like that when we hit this button right here, you will see the pistons fire and then the other
Pistons fire causing the blocks to be pushed around infinitely
We could do this until the end of time nothing would change and that's because these blocks are being cycled about
Now this has got a handful of absolutely brilliant uses
And I've been using them for a very long time indeed in fact let's pop back into the history books
Now it all started in the early days of my Youtube channel way back when there weren't too many people in the redstone community
But one of the top guns was a chap called CMB Minecraft now
He made incredibly good videos his tutorials were really clear and easy to understand and to this day
I still take inspiration for them. Five years down the line
So I guess that shows just how ahead of the curve he was. And the video we're going to be talking about
Is one where he built a working digital clock.
Now when he started talking about the fact that he was going to be
Rotating blocks around and those blocks were going to make up the memory reel which would then display the number on the screen it
Completely blew my mind and from that moment on till about two months later pretty much every single redstone contraption that I worked on
Involves some form of piston feed tapes. I mean I developed about a hundred different combination lock I had all sorts of piston doors
I developed my own seven segment displays. I just went completely crazy with it and to this day
I'm still going completely crazy with them
I mean
So those of you who call the hint earlier on in the video this guy right here is essentially a very big and very fancy
Piston feed tape, I mean sure we've got a lot of redstone logic going on and we've got plenty of circuitry
There's really very interesting, but the main heart of it is
The face the face that rotates around showing different emotions
depending on what sort of resources you have inside and the way that we do that is of course using a
Piston feed tape and this thing right here is probably one of my favorite Redstone builds in general
Now, there are a number of different reasons why I like these things so much
But number one has to be the fact that they're very good at storing information
And they're very easy to understand way of storing information
So you can store memory in Minecraft in a number of different ways by using latches and binary arrays and things like that or
Alternatively you can use the mechanical piston feed tape so inside this thing
We have got all of the instructions to do a triple piston extension
So we have got a cauldron that is powering this comparator. Which is powering these pistons
We hit this button right here
And you can see that now these two cauldron right here are powering both of these pistons, and we hit the button again
We've got all three cauldrons powering all three of the pistons and now it's times the complicated bit which is the retraction
so there we go that one retracts these two are still extended and
Then there we go
we've got some retraction going on we have some even more retraction going on yet more retraction and
The final block retraction everything retracted and we've gone back to normal
How cool is that? They can also make very good and very big block swappers
I mean that's kind of what they do as you can see right here. We have this rather strange looking fella
I mean, he's got lovely hair absolutely fantastic hair really nice nose
But the bit is a little bit strange so we can hit this button right here
And that will swap out all of the blocks, and it will give us a new one hahahahahahaha
I love this Redstone contraption definitely another one of my favorite builds
But, as 2012 Mumbo will tell you the best thing about piston feed tapes is the fact that you can combine their block swapping abilities and
Their memory storage abilities to create a combination lock so here we have a blocks swapper
And we also have a memory reel which is storing the information about the combination lock, and as we hit this button
Not only will the blocks swap
But also the memory reel will swap as well
Now when the memory Reels match up
The Cauldron is in front of the comparator
which will deactivate this redstone torch which is running to the and gate when the memory reels match up of all the combination locks and
All of the memory reels are doing this that means that the colours are in the correct
Location and that means the door should open up
It's a really interesting concept
And is one that I messed around with a lot back in the early days of my YouTube channel
Which brings me quite nicely onto the final point of this video,
Which is that piston feed tapes kind of nostalgic for me which is a little bit strange
But I would say they're one of the main contributing factors
Into getting me into the world of redstone and getting me interested in this rather strange side of Minecraft
That seems to be ever-expanding
Well at least as far as my redstone testing world is concerned
I mean look at the size of this place anyway, I seriously hope you enjoyed this slightly different style of video
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