Hello everyone, this is Mumbo, and welcome back to another Minecraft video.
Today we're going to be doing something a little bit different; because I've just hopped into the latest snapshot that released yesterday,
and it looks really really interesting.
I mean, we've got all types of new blocks; we have bark blocks which is going to be amazing for building
We also have these rather strange looking things
Which are stripped?
Stripped wood blocks, but I have to say I kind of like them
Yeah, those look super cool.
We also have a bunch of other stuff obviously Turtles have been added into the game. something that I personally like is
prismarine stairs and slabs, as someone who has an ocean base based heavily around these blocks. This is all very exciting
We've got kelp blocks and of course here are all of the new mobs for example
Turtles I want to see these things for myself... Wow they look amazing
Jeez these things are also absolutely terrifying
Wow okay, hahah
Anyway, I'm gonna stop messing around with the new features that have been added into the game because there's one thing that really interests me and
That's the new
That's the new water mechanics,
so now when you drop an item inside water
It will float up to the surface
So there it goes
Hmm so if I was to create a system that looks a little bit like this what would happen there
Not a whole lot and I think it's because those items are actually stacking up down at the bottom before they can move upwards
Once they begin to finish stacking up
Maybe they'll start floating
This is all experimental. I kind of like the thought of having this as an item elevator
And it makes me a little bit sad to see that
potentially
It doesn't work......
now, I
imagine this is because the water on the inside wasn't made of source blocks so now I have a non flowing water stream and if
We dump the items on the inside there
yes, they do float up and
I was going to say
When I first built this thing I was going to say that there's no point in building a system that looks like this
Because you might as well do the ones with the blocks on the inside, but oh my word. It looks like a lava lamp
This is the single coolest thing ever
And then look look at all this water. Just floating up at the top.All those items just bobbing up to the top there
That looks amazing!
Okay
as I say it's much slower than
the standard item elevator that we use with blocks on the inside and I'm actually just going to quickly check that that still works because
They've made a lot of changes to Minecraft physics, so if we just place the items on the inside here
Yeah, you can see it's considerably faster to do it this way
But it doesn't look anywhere near as cool and coolness is very important to me
So I'm going to be using water elevators from this point forth...
Now I believe there's a handful of things that Mojang want to do regarding water
Interacting with objects like this because in theory that water should be able to flow underneath this half slab
But obviously it doesn't because minecraft is like that and also it should be able to flow past this sign
But it doesn't that's how it's been for ages
But I do believe that Mojang are going to change that however at this point in time
This is what the system looks like and I'm just wondering
how the items behave in flowing water streams
So if we just send these guys up like this obviously they've gradually thrown up through the awesome item elevators
We have right here, and then whoa! okay They move fast
But they float up to the surface there, which means that slabs are out of the question if anything hold up
I wonder if a slab at the bottom is better
No
so we're probably going to have to make use of signs
I mean they do travel so fast now though
These items are flying through this as if they're on compressed ice before we had to use to compressed ice underneath this
Now they're just flying through and I guess is because they're floating up at the top
There's no friction
But it has got me thinking if they do decide to make it so that water can flow through signs and things is there anything
that I can do to still create water streams that function and one idea that I've had is to do something like this and
Then we cover up that block
There we go
So
We now have a system if we remove these
We now don't have anything here that the water can flow through we have a source block that flows in this direction and
If we place items on the inside you can see they go up through the item elevator as expected
And then they should shoot along this water stream, and we're not relying on any
Cheaty that's what Mojang are referring to her as cheaty water mechanics like placing signs to stop water from flowing through them
It's just it's working like this. We've got nothing there
So just as a quick explanation as to how this works
Water will always search for the nearest hole to flow down so you can see placed in that water source block in
Theory, if that wasn't there it would just spread out in all forms of directions
But because that hole is there it's searched for it and goes down it
But if we now cover up that hole it will flow off like this
But it doesn't update this water source up at the back, which means that we still have a flowing water source
And it just abruptly stops right here
It looks very unnatural
but that means that we can use that inside water streams without having to rely on signs or
Pressure plates or upside down slabs that we used in all of our water streams previously because as I say I think
Mojang are looking into changing the water mechanics so that they don't do things like this and the water just flows straight past them
Now say for example we wanted to raise up our items by one block would we be able to do this
purely using water? So this is a concept that I've come up with and if we were to just throw an item inside here
I'm assuming because that water is flowing down, oh my word
So you can now do it
This is amazing
And it gets even better because we can do it in situations like this as well
You can see the water just flows in and
The items just go shooting straight into that and then they gradually make their way up, through this water here now
This is pretty tall and it's only got a water source block up at the top
Which is a little bit confusing because if I replace all of these water sources going down through this item elevator
If I replace all of those with just a water source block at the top right here
It stops working. It doesn't work at all, look the items just stay down at the bottom
They don't go anywhere
Now I wonder if this has something to do with the items going right the way down to the bottom, but it doesn't
It has nothing to do with that
So I wonder if there's just a maximum height that these items can travel up or maybe if we place some water sources here
How strange I think I've sussed this one out
So I've placed the water source blocks directly in front of our dropper right there, and if we start dropping our items
Then they should begin to flow up and they do so what you need to do is have a water source at the top and
A water source down at the bottom, and then it will work as an item elevator
So let me give the original design another go.
It works! It actually works some items are flowing out the sides
I Feel like we should maybe add a few extras going up like that oh that has fixed it
Ah this is beautiful
Now are any of the items going to struggle to get out of here
Do any of them have some angular momentum that is going to push them out the side
Or is this is this a totally reliable elevator?
Because if it is that makes me very happy the only thing is is some are getting caught on the sides of these blocks
That could be a bit of a potential problem
But, otherwise, I'm chuffed to bits with that one right let's place these going up like this here we go
This is gonna be the one that works
I reckon that should get rid of any angular momentum that these things will have they'll now be traveling directly straight upwards
And they should fit within the glass tube at the top, and it looks like they will
There we go awesome new item elevator now fully functioning in Minecraft
This looks brilliant
This looks absolutely brilliant
I can't wait to get this dotted around in my base
Now one other interesting thing that they've added into the game is the fact that
magma
Magma blocks are meant to create bubble columns
But by the look of things they don't they also stop things floating
But that does not seem to be the case for me. I wonder if I'm going crazy here
I wonder if did they say lava. They can't mean lava because as soon as I place lava here look it turns into obsidian
That's obvious I've been playing Minecraft for long enough to know what happens when lava meets water
So I don't know if that's not a thing or if I'm just going crazy
Either way this video has been super super interesting at least for me because we've come up with well
We've come up with a bunch of different ways in which we can do things in Minecraft like item elevators and things like that
We've come up with future solutions to problems this little thing right here should come in handy
I hope it stays in the game fingers crossed. We've played around with the different water mechanics. We've come up with awesome looking designs
We've also seen some things that potentially don't work as intended
So I'll have to look into that but all in all this has been great for me
I cannot wait for the new update to come out because not only is there a bunch of awesome new features like
All of the different types of trapdoors we now have and the different types of pressure plates and all the new blocks that we can
Play with too, but there's also some new game mechanics that we can use inside redstone contraptions
And that is always a good thing, but anyway ladies and gentlemen
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This has been Mumbo, and I'm out and I'll see you later.