While not efficient, it's supremely elegant, cheap punch-wood early working, and it's super organic and beautiful. I live for this kind of application of the theory.

1:25 You could use a string in front of a observer instead of a pressure plate

Wow, this is a cool farm. I feel bad putting mobs into tiny boxes, so this much more satisfying to me than a super effective farm.

I love that this sort of stuff is possible. It's probably limited to sheep in some sense, but maybe a mob breeder could be based on this idea

this is a pretty wool farm. it would be cool to see more concepts for pretty farms that still has some efficiency instead of just pure efficiency and then try and hide the oftentimes boring structures that comes from that

This is great! A fully automatic farm that looks natural, unless you look too long at what happens to the sheep!

this would be the equivalent of being into automation but still caring about nature, like the minecraft utopia in terms of society, meanwhile the dystopia of people blowing up giant perimeters for a witch farm and such, and obviously the normal timeline of just playing survival without any automation and the supposed past that the ingame lore has of ancient cities which from what it seems were just starting to figure out redstone before they died

I enjoy using pathfinding for farms, so I always use Gnembon's blaze farm. Looks like I can add this wool farm to my roster. Almost too bad that there aren't any other automated farm options for the other passive mobs.

I hope this channel blows up because that's revolutionary research.

They're like children going down a slide & climbing the hill to go ride it again.

Sheep like going uphill, meanwhile rabbits like committing suicide

this gives me that same feeling like i'm watching etho's first world or sethbling again. such an elegant design.

anyway heres wanderwool

So, I've made the observation of sheep grouping up in a certain part of a closed pen before. In my most recent underground base I happened to place sheep next to a caged frog area which sat a couple blocks above to the sheep area. It's crazy to me that my facetiously asked "why do those idiots always pool up on that side?" actually has an answer! They're pathfinding to be close to the grass blocks in the frogs' cage. There's so many parallels to how the scientific method is used for real world purposes. The only limit to discovery are the fundamental laws, like how the only answer to why those priority equations are used for the passive mobs' code is "because that's how it is."

Reminds me of the afk sheep farm that pi made back in 1.7. That was also using sheep pathfinding. But didn't look quite as beautiful.

Recently I've been working on designing a pathfinding hostile mob farm for an extreme one block challenge that uses nothing but solid blocks, with part of the challenge being optimizing efficiency of both spawning and path finding per block. Importantly it has to spawn spiders because string is needed for wool blocks. My current best is around 40-ish blocks per layer (with every space being spawnable) and depending on floor level can either kill mobs or let me one-hit kill them. I'd love to see somebody else take a crack at it and create something super efficient.

finally, free ranged wool farm!

How do you not have more viewers and subs??? This is the type of nerdy stuff I love!

This is really cool. Looks like an open enclosure type of deal rather than a sheep box

another way that might make them prefer falling into the hole would be to make a path they think is viable behind it, that leads up the mountain. So anytime they would try to pathfinding upwards, they would need to walk over the hole. this could be achieved with open trapdoors

theres no other way i can describe this than purely interesting to someone who didn't know it would just look like magic such a cool application of theory

Hopper minecarts are your friend, you can place them inside blocks. Just wanted to add that to your toolkit if you haven't yet

That's amazing! I love weird and whimsical farms.

I love that this farm manages to be humane, even thoguh it's automatic.

It's things like this that make me miss pre-AI wandering timeout mob behavior. For all it's literally a decade old, it's surprising just how many subtle ways that one change affected the game. Both for mob Ai driven farms, and even for general gameplay, since wandering mobs can go a surprisingly long distance without that timeout.

I just build a farm like this and it works like a treat. It's just an Amazing Idea.

“The shear stream” terrifying !

New favorite minecrafter. U are a madman lol

neat. i'm gonna make one that has all the colors in a ring around a hill now :)

A little late, but you may be able to lock a hopper minecard in the fence with pressure plate and be able to collect that wool

Oh wow that is a very cool idea for a pretty farm

I absolutely love this farm design! Not efficient at all, but tons of fun. I'm wondering if the water stream is necessary at all? Would they naturally gravitate towards the exit of the cave (and ultimately back to the top of the hillside) or would the path finding algorithm be a bit more confused there?

Wool harvested from free range sheep!

Have you tried to use tripwire hook instead of pressure plate?

I love these sort of videos, but let's be real, wtf was that color coding my guy. I didn't even try to understand it, and the explanation still disoriented me. I could see you were slightly confused while explaining it, and you are the one who created it!

Temple Grandon would probly aprove of this farm.

This is such a cool concept!

a sheep named "jeb_" will actually drop it's original colored wool

So cool

Did you somehow just make free range wool in Minecraft

Don't Jeb sheeps drop white wool?

crazy

As cool as this is, I really hope they patch this, and other pathfinding bugs.