The crafter in the thumbnail is based on a concept by @Megatronic_. He has a video on the topic that explains the basis of the function (mine is slightly different, but the principle is the same).

Im glad the crafter doesnt have that "modded" feel. It perfectly difficult enough to use to make it seem vanilla

The dispenser recipe was wrong, but you used it so confidently that made me question myself

What I like the most about the Crafter's implementation is that it shows Mojang listened and gave us exactly what the technical community asked for pretty much. The functionality is very similar to the carpet mod's auto-crafting plugin, but with a few tweaks. Previously, it has seemed like Mojang has gone out of their way to make their own original ideas when a popular community suggestion would've worked much better. I've often felt that suggesting a vanilla feature, or making a mod of things i'd like to see in vanilla could doom that feature to never be added as Mojang wouldn't want to copy someone. But this clearly isn't the case with the crafter.

To present yet another layer of depth to the potential complexity of crafting systems, you can even consider how deep of a crafting tree it uses. Take dispensers for example, you probbaly won't see most people having chests full of bows. but rather a prior crafting step of turning bows and string into bows. Additionally, crafters have the quirk of spitting their entire output out at once (i.e. 4 planks from a log). This also works when pushing into other inventories, which makes it possible to use crafter to insert items faster than hoppers or even droppers. So instead of waiting for hoppers to push 8 planks into a crafter for a chest, you can actually instead store logs and with only 2 secondary crafters fill the main one immedietlly.

In between the Universal and Item Specific classifications I'd add Shape Specific multi-item crafters, for example note blocks and jukeboxes just substitute a different item in the middle of the recipe. And using a temp item that gets filtered out before crafting you get the chest recipe too. (and this way you get 3 categories for each level of your 4:00 diagram!)

If I could change one thing, I would add that if the crafter has two items (or an unstackable one) in each slot, the output would go above 9. Yes, this would allow to lay out most recepies and make a crafter that only creates one item easy, but I think we should not forget that not everyone has a degree in redstone. This simple change would allow for easy use by a general audience while keeping most of the difficulties for more advanced techniques

I had thought about it working like the loom with scrolls for different recipes but this seems much more interesting

there were actually 2 competing vanilla like auto crafting variants: 1. The crafting table became block entity and has now an inventory where only 1 item could be placed in the slots by a hopper and slots couldnt be disabled. 2. The auto crafting dropper by gnembon, which is likely what the current implementation is based of as he is a mojang employee. Its basically a dropper in front of a crafting table which when activated will craft the item corresponding to the recipe inside. And again no slot disabling. The lack of slot disabling had the challenge of putting in dummy items and getting them back out.

I think “perfect” is a strong word; most people seem to think the comparator output should be tweaked, and I agree. But it’s extremely good

This block will change the entire functionality of farms in Minecraft

I like that title, much love to the team who keep developing the game. Minecraft adding features is a risk but it really keeps the game going and going.

i think crafter should work with qc, i probably feel like this because it outputs items like dropper and dispenser

I finished a universal autocrafter yesterday, but it definitely needs some work to actually be useful because of how slow it is right now

The only thing I wish it had comparator level for if you enough more than 1 of the result, giving it the potential to be used in a "simple" configuration, or be used in a "flexible" configuration at the same time without an additional block.

this block, is COMPLETELY balanced, it's perfect

I think making gold or even better copper ressources used to make the crafter would have been the better call as these have no real uses other then for specific rails and lightning rods where iron is in pistons, minecarts, rails and hoppers

Pvp update was one of the best. If you like the "fast clicking=winning" logic you should grow as a person

The new quality of your videos are amazing!🤩

so true the new update is absolutely incredible, just like your videos!!😊

Nice video Nico! I agree with you, the new update looks really really good to me. I saw already people tackle the design that works for any recipe (including myself) but also saw a design that could craft a dispenser every 4 gameticks. So much uses that can be changed and adapted to personal needs, fantastic!

in my eyes, this implementation of the crafter was between the two ideas I had, one being the set and forget, and the other being how carpet does it, where you need filler items to add holes into recipes. With this system, you can disable slots instead of using filler, but if you want multicrafting, you need a system to recycle placeholder items

Mojang is neither underappreciated nor gets too few praise. The last few updates were mostly lackluster while adding things like new EULAs, chat reporting or changing things nobody ever wanted to be changed besides all the small little things they messed up during that time. If they actually make the game better that's really nice but my attitude towards them changed since I understood that they are not our friends anymore and maybe never were. It's just another big company that would sell out their community if it makes them more money long term. A block people wanted to be added for 10 years now and always got ignored and turned down will not change that.

I enjoy making farms farms and more farms so an autocrafter will make everything allot easier and can craft materials for building while I build so i can just keep grabbing them and rarely need to restock

I may not have the technical know how of the Minecraft Redstone Community, but as soon as I saw the crafter added into the game, I thought of a general raw material sorting system, I.E. Bare minimum materials list to everything in Minecraft, that could be crafted into whatever we need. For instance, take your computers File Explorer. That's a system to allow you to search through your computers files. Quite similar to how we as players may utilize sorting systems. However, what if the analogy was literal? Take Wood for instance. We could make an entire system for all recipes that require wood and build it to specifications like we would when creating files within files in the File Explorer. Then we could take Stone and do the same thing. Iron, Gold, Diamond. The list goes on until we have every raw material in the game with it's own subdivisions of recipes. Now I am fully aware that there would be some serious spaghetti redstone once other materials are added to other recipes, but here's where things get interesting. Once you have everything you need, you could have a universal call button for each material in the system to be transported to a specialized crafter or better yet, build a separate crafting system that can be given programs to read from and produce the output automatically. How would we do this? Shulker Boxes. By utilizing Shulker Boxes and Crafters, we can essentially write our own programs for the Crafter to run and copy. For the sake of an example, say for instance we need a piston, a dispenser and a daylight detector. The first row of the Shulker would be the components for a piston from left to right top to bottom. Ex. Shulker to Crafter would be like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 v 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 It could be like that for all three rows of the shulker. One recipe per row. And there's your program on a thumbdrive/USB Stick. Once inserted into the machine, it could dump all needed resources for those recipes into their corresponding crafters/nearest crafter available and then when your done crafting, you could flick a switch to lock specific hoppers, thus preventing any extra materials from entering the crafter and allowing it to clear for the next program to be run. I would think this would be the endgame of the crafter tech tree, but there's likely lots more to discover about the block and it's Redstone intricacies.

i agree, im glad that they made it more of a small part of an overall redstone system rather than just one block that does it all, perfectly balanced! i already had a system for a completely different project that i thought i could use to make a universal crafter and it sort of does! My goal is to store the recipe in a minecart chest, have it unload into the crafter and then have it craft a certain amount, the recipe storage already works, its just getting the extra ingredients in there that im having trouble with. Been fun and frustrating to mess around with, which is good cos thats how complex redstone systems should feel! :)

and your composter can sometime replace by a crafter as signal input

I wholeheartedly agree. This was the best way they could implement an autocrafter into the game! Well done Mojang! If I were to give some feddback, it would be to let it work with QC for Java edition, because it closely resembles a dropper and other redstone components. So it makes sense to keep it consistent. Apart from that, would be to make it work from 0-15 in signal strength instead of the 0-9 as it is right now. This is not a huge deal, but rather a minor QoL, to streamline it to behave like other containers in the game. All in all, awesome work Mojang

Tbh I'm just saying bravo to gnembon. This and the copper bulb had to have been primarily his ideas.

2:30 - you cant build compact rom anyways.But u could build rly fast rom.

this vid spoke my mind :), I feel like the texture of the block is weird looking at the rest of the blocks in the game. But maybe I just gotta get used to it :)

4:08 I'd say "Bravo, gnembon!" for all those in the know ;)

me is making a crafter capable of putting out 62k items per hour no need to lock slots instead use filler items very smartly for user friendliness and capable of crafting every single item in Minecraft(except for uncraftables) production has begun and design if fully thought out!

2:50 - its pretty easy and compact enough for 14 or less ingridients.

now we need a way to sort non stackable items like weapons, tools, armor and books

the end of the video is foreshadowing

I am chomping at the bit to get my computer set up again so I can play with the Crafter.

The Main thing I hope they change is scaling the comparator output of it to 15 instead of 9. I think it threads quite well making it useful to the common community with toggleable slots, although it does remove some of the challenge of dummy items (which were made easier compared to e.g. the Carpet Autocrafting-table addon due to the fact you don't pull the output out the bottom with a hopper) - I think it's generally good to get it more used though does feel a little bit modded imo.

I am defiantly excited for the update but I personally prefer the way quick carpet did it... However maybe Mojang has a good balance here between complexity and simplicity. Either way I am definitely ecstatic that this is FINALLY HAPPENING.

I would love a creeperfarm tutorial like the iron farm tutorial

If the crafter was perfect, it would have QC in java, though...

In response to the title, yes it is. Also hello again Mr.KZfaqr-who-I-forgot-was-a-KZfaqr-and-not-just-the-owner-of-the-discord-server

Auto pumpkin farm or auto golden carrot farm i can not wait to make

crafter is the coolest feature added since netherite

Ooo I'm early. Can't wait to see what the Minecraft community can do with the crafter!

Finally someone who isn't shitting on Mojang. I get that to most people they might come across as lazy, which is totally fair, but it's not like we know exactly how everything is going down behind the scenes

there's some stuff that could potentially be improved. For example, now if the crafter has all slots either locked or filled with at least 1 item, it outputs a signal strength of 9 which is rather clunky to detect in a 1wt design and either requires a toggle state, or pulses twice with each item crafted which depending on the item type and input speed could be quite the issue. Yes, you absolutely could figure out the exact timings to block the second pulse but that's not really about creativity but more of an annoyance. If changing the scale to 0 - 15 (which is easily detectable) isn't gonna happen, then perhaps using the signal strengths 10 - 15 for indicating any aditional items might be a good idea. Apart from this, I have no complaints. They REALLY have done a good job.

Mojang did really hit itnout of the park. Having a full crafter ouptut ss15 would really increase the potential for more comact contraptions though.

Now the only problem is of you want to do anything with "special" redstone you're simply out of luck when it comes too bedrock edition

I think you got the dispenser recipe wrong?? Isnt it supposed to be redstone at the bottom, or does your recipe also work?

now if they give us movable entity I will stop asking them where is the bluestone

he got the dispenser recipe wrong at 1:09

Insane

can they be used for sorters s

yeah

the one problem i have is given lag, this system could easily be broken and you'd have to reset it a lot if you have a generally bad connection, or high tps server like a lot of technical servers are. There needs to be some way to hold the recipe, even if its just once there's more than one item per slot, it outputs 10 redstone signal or something. if you want it to be able to change recipes whenever you want, you can just craft off of the 9 block strength signal. that and i can see a lot of average players not wanting to or being able to figure it out... over 70%~ of console players haven't ever gotten the nether achievement and 97%~ never completing the game, even after making it easier and all the hints mojang has implimented in recent updates....

now... the only big thing missing is renewable sand..

I guess that eventually we will get a recipe slot in the crafter(maybe advanced crafter) where you can make a blueprint and put it in the machine. Also, I wouldn’t mind if we got the block placer/breaker from A.F. snapshot.

did you seriously just say you didnt like the other concept of the crafter because it was easy to use

I'm not really into this sort of problem-solving If I'd like to have a universal crafter for practical use, I would install a mod like ae2/create and be done with it. You're capable of crearing insane interconnected systems as soon as every step does not require a complex 10-chunk contraption.

Woww

Feed a high-speed bow crafter into a high-speed dispenser crafter. Attach a bamboo farm, spider farm, cobblestone farm, and witch farm if you're really serious about it. Done. AT LONG LAST, FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF BULK CRAFTING IMPORTANT ITEMS WHICH INCLUD NON-STACKABLE ITEMS IN THEIR RECIPES!!!

Adding buttons to block out slots in the UI is pure genius.

I think it is a cool addition but can't see where it would be better than manually crafting something :/ Can someone give some ideas?

0:10 sounds like a skill issue to me

They should make templates/molds out of copper or something that can remember what recipe u wanna craft, so it’s like a compromise to each side or whatever (also u messed up the dispenser recipe)

are you talking through a snorkel?

W update

I really like the crafter but something i slightly dislike is the innovation. after you design the simple stuff there is no more innovating imo. for example. you designed a good 1wt crafter for a farm to craft blocks so you create it as small as you can which is really simple to do and theres no real reason to make it faster since to make the crafter not be able to craft that fast you need items to be inputed faster than 8x hopper speed which wont happen in a 1wt slice and if you 3wt its just that. no more innovation. both compactness and speed is somewhat simple to do and speed in most cases not really necessary. for example. a day after the crafter was released i made a 1wt repeater crafter. i tiled it 10 times. and the machine was able to craft 26k repeaters per hour. the mechanism wasnt very big and im pretty sure even very technical minecraft servers dont need a system to create that many repeaters an hour. the only innovation kinda that exists is making a crafter that can craft multiple recipes but thats also not really needed or practical for anything.

Crafter is perfect, but even though it is, I feel like it's too simple and hard at the same time

im ngl, autocrafters made more sense in rust than minecraft

IMO this just makes things complicated for the sake of being complicated. The “Casual” version would be much nicer as just a QOL thing. You would be accomplishing the same thing with the template version, you’re just saving yourself time

They gave up on trying to make it intuitive to beginners/casuals (Sidenote: I mean casuals as people that engage in redstone casually. Not a pretentious, self righteos term) Weather this is a good or bad thing depends on your perspective.

Don’t say “bravo” mojang yet. Im confident they will find a way to fuck it up, they historically almost always have :)

The main thing we have to work on now is distilling crafters to their most basic machinery in a given build, if you're crafting a storage block from items that can't make anything before all 9 of them are input, please do bot use comparators. Just clock the freakin thing. Sick of seeing comparators every single time someone uses a crafter

dude no like elytras?

the same way that there are two versions of the skulk sensor, I think it would be fair to make two versions of the auto-crafter so we can get the template style too. I still like the current crafter though so I don't mind waiting a few updates.

Maybe to introduce a Block placer Block in a way that "feels like Vanilla" it will place the block, but in a random place in a 10*10*10 area around it, even replacing pre-existing blocks but won't place on or around an immovable block. Then you'd have to use immovable blocks everywhere to prevent it going in the wrong place, thus making it more difficult to use.

:D

I think Nico got lost again

I ask you this; what's the point having a brand new block in the game when I can't even figure out how to use it?! Can't we have a mix between recipe-lock and the current design instead?

Tbh all the new mobs feel completely useless, but the blocks and crafter look great

We would never get the second version, Minecraft is a simple game, its basis has to be something simple, and keep in mind simple isn't equals easy, like binary, binary is simple but it's harder to count in binary than it's on decimal... and Mojang follow this rule of simplicity very strictly, and I like it, it keeps the game design consistent, and in case of redstone makes it a lot more useful than if it was a easy system to use... ~the only time they broke this rule on all these years was with the Armor Trims, to this day I hate the way you craft a copy...

It's so funny to see this being blown completely out of proportion when modded exists

I'm still furious/angry with Mojang over not giving the crafter quasi connectivity. Like, really??? But yeah, I am also very excited about what it could bring. But also, Mojang, please make the max comparator output of the crafter 15, and give it quasi-connectivity.

I don't think it's well balanced, way more OP imo, but I'll take that as a compressor. Not OP in this way.

The fact that Mojang was able to pull off AUTOMATIC FRIGN CRAFTING without making it feel like a mod is just phenomenal!

I hope the crafter has a fuel source, just like brewing stands. Something like redstone dust would work well I think

I remember when mojang said they would never add the crafter because they didn't want the game to turn into infinifactory. The utter ignorance and tone-deafness to the playerbase by essentially saying "you cannot have fun with our game, you can only play it the way we want you to" (not helped by there *still* being no modding API to this very day). I basically gave up all hope on the game and considered it a featureless game engine for mods like Create to build a real game on top of. I'm glad they finally got their heads out of their asses and listened to people for once (that wasn't about a goddamn log texture or voting on which mob to implement because they're too lazy to just do all three). I actually have hope for the game for once, despite Microsoft's despotic decisions recently.

I personally couldn't be more against the Auto Crafter. I don't think it's a good thing that it's turning into Factorio. If i wanted to play Factorio, I'd play Factorio.

NO TO MOB VOTE

I haven't been playing Minecraft for just over a year because tbh it just feels grindy, which, _to me_ is boring. I've wanted auto-crafting forever, but this just seems to be more work, so I'll probably never even see one. Well, at least someone's having fun. . . _Asides:_ Also 90% of players are just going to copy designs from some hardcore player's KZfaq, like so many other things in the game, so I guess double-yay for KZfaqrs. Sucks though when you constantly have to leave the game to go do research for every simple thing. And before anyone says this is just me being lazy, I would much prefer to find fun in coming up with brand new and cool ways to put the block to use, rather than even more grinding, spending my effort solving an unnecessary invented problem, just to get the block to actually even work as advertised in the first place. For example, if I decide I want to use the block in some novel redstone supercomputer or something, I'd rather spend time building the computer as opposed to debugging the stpd block. I kinda want my money back now. I actually can't believe I've grown to dislike Minecraft, but I guess such is life.

IMO the crafter should be more expensive. Its crazy that you can start autocrafting before getting diamonds; it should cost one to craft. (it literally just costs some wood, cobble, iron, and redstone....)

Don’t get me wrong I’m thrilled we got the crafter, buuuuuuut… Crafters are redstone related and something a LOT of people will rush to use; this will result in massive autofarms, massive redstone circuits, and crazy high levels of lag for both single and multiplayer. I genuinely fear this will be another update that splits servers- the ones who won’t update, or block the crafters use to limit lag; and those that do allow crafters and try to work around the above problems. Crafters will not work on servers with an economy system- if blocks of hold, iron, emerald, and copper can be auto crafted with almost 0 player interaction, then what’s the value of them? Why sell a gold block when everyone can get free gold blocks automatically? Piglin trading will be easier with gold farms, redstone easier with iron farms, villagers easier with emerald farms, copper worthless with copper farms- it’ll be interesting to see but overall very chaotic

you sound like notnico which make my ear bleed