AH! you beat me to it! I was just about to say that lol

@@dragonman101 The only problem is figuring out how to avoid killing them with the tnt

@@devinnall2284 repeatedly dispense the item they want to pick up in the back of the machine? Although if that was done the Allay would have no time to fly to the front to collect ores

not getting them blown up would be a challenge! I love this idea

@@devinnall2284 Ya, I was coming to that realization myself. However, I think you would still need the player present and interacting with the bore. You could just have the player sit in a minecart, being pulled by a honey block or something. Then, you could have some sort of trap system set up for the Allays. E.g. push note blocks along with the bore, sound them off at specific intervals, have the Allays path find to them, crossing some string which an observer will detect and then close a fence gate or something. So every time the player, sitting in the mine cart, presses a button (or note block or something), the bore will fire. Then the Allays are released, the player watches them collect and then sounds the Allay-catching noteblocks, the Allay then gets trapped, and the player activates the bore again. Not the most ideal, but at least the player doesn't need to run infront of the bore every time. And the bore could be dispensing water behind it so there's no need to mob-proof from behind. All the player would need is a moving ceiling to prevent dropping creepers. I am assuming the allays do not get attacked by mobs naturally.

Didn't even think about that, but u r absolutely right. A glass tube for the allays secures all the items to be picked up, and they won't wander away.

Me and a friend tried using an Allay in the nether. It didn't do anything at all when given a block and didn't follow us properly.

@@LeviathanGames14 are there any blocks on the ground and who gave it to him and when was this

@@timohara7717 Turns out Mob Griefing affects allays, Imo it's kinda stupid that a mob can be made entirely useless because of a small change in gamerules.

Bringing an Alley with you to the Hell dimension is just not right man.

@darknightoftroy I am not sure about being less laggy than water because of entity but it certainly will be less laggy and cheaper than hoppers system for sure

Lucky for you, they spawn in groups locked up in illager structures so you’ll get about 3 at a time

@@hyperleet4454 but what if he wants to use the other Allays for something else?

You probably will. Considering you can have four spawn in a single jail cell, they're really OP easy to amass.

Look for a Kartograph in a village! He can give you a woodexploremap with you can find a manson easily. I found like 10 in one mansion.

You can duplicate them with an amethyst shard so you could have an army of allays quite easily

Evil pigs aka hoglins are bad enough to deal with, now we've got illager cows???

It is the cows revenge after years of begin hunted

Food no more

Revenge of the cows

I was wondering myself: "Why doesn't he use slime blocks to use around 1 piston per budding amethyst? Is there something that escapes me?" XD

This! And then the bottom piston can be powered by a single observer, covering all 6 sides. There's a nice design by TimBnice showcasing it. This doesn't solve the problem of buds getting in the way of each other, but it makes this jigsaw puzzle easier.

@@Sithoid As productive as these farms are, it's easier to tear out half the budding blocks to make room for more efficient harvesting systems. Geodes are common enough that you can find several within a 128-block radius is you want to make a mega-productive farm out of all of them. A lot simpler too if you're not trying to save every single budding block.

Yeah, infinite loops would be common with that design.

@@wetnoodle5471 a hopper clock that controls a wool block would easily fix that

they work with stripmining

This is what I'm thinking, too - set up a collection point in the middle of the area you want to clear, give 1-2 allays cobble/stone/deepslate, whatever you are going to be mining, and start digging. No more running back and forth to the chests to empty your inventory, just make sure you have enough chests to handle the resources and set up a new collection point every so often when you get out of range.

Seems like the simplest solution would be an in-game way to 'train' the allay to do what you want it to, similar to how we can manipulate cats and dogs by having them sit. Either have them wait at their note blocks/hoppers like they do in that playtesting video, or make it so there's a way to call them when you want them to work. This might be a good use for goat horns with different tunes...

If the allays can't be damaged by the owner then the allay should just overstep the owners actions, as if the allay wasn't there. Like being able to mine blocks even when the allay is in front of the owner, he's immune to his owner attacks, so what's the point on him still having a hitbox?

Allay could be a really valuable replacement for hopper minecarts if the allay are less laggy than a minecart.

I was worried about bamboo landing on stalks when I was building my flying machine based farm, but when analyzing it for improvement, I noticed that because of how fast bamboo grows, the items usually always fall off anyway.

Also farms in the nether, when you can't use water

@@Ravewood The general trend is that newer additions are less laggy than anything that's been in the game for a while, so its promising!

How would they get the bows? Would the skeletons just land on the ground? How many Allay would you need for all the different items that Skeletons drop? I agree that it kinda sucks to manually go through and collect the useful items in a Skeleton Farm but I don't see how it'd be all that easier when you have to factor in collecting all of the Allay and I'm not seeing physically (or at least) practically how you'd even do it.

@@hinder10709 one could sort the arrows and bones, then have a hopper that locks and unlocks in a timer, drop all the junk on top and let the allay collect the bows, then the hopper unlocks and dumps everything in lava, probably some bows would still be destroyed but there is no need for high efficiency there anyways

@@SkyfighterZX Can a hopper drop items? I thought they can only transfer items to other containers like chests and barrels, etc.

I suppose you can use a dispenser. But how would you get only bows into the 9 slots it has without manually doing so? And at that point you're already moving them.

When you sort out the bones and arrows, the rest normally gets dropped into lava, instead you could drop them on top of a locked hopper, let the allay pick bows and then periodically unlock the hopper to suck and destroy everything that was not picked up, ofc this would work on a timer with 0 manual input, tge allay would sort the bows from the junk armor pieces

They could also be used in Tunnel Bores to make mining completely automatic

How would that work, exactly? Would the mob farm just be set up so items just drop on the floor? How would it be set up so the Allay could collect anything?

@@hinder10709 You could make an hopper that would just accept the items you want while the ones you don't just sit up top waiting for the allay

@@hinder10709 Allays can pick items out of water stream, you could just make a short retention area where the stream goes through a series of hairpins that is accessible to an allay array, so that they have time to remove the unwanted items

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZqHosmg1ZOwl30.html. Check out silent whisper, 3 weeks ago he made a tutorial on the first beta. If the overall working of the aloy stays same it could be amazing. Depending on how fast the drops are for none stackable may want to put a chest at end of hopes chain to collect items and not back up shorter. But huge promise for Skelton grinders and raid farms to short totems

All of the automated crystal farms I've seen try to maximize the number of budding blocks/faces harvested, which makes sense from an efficiency standpoint but also makes the farms way too complicated. Geodes are common enough that you could easily find several within a 128-block radius. Tear them down and thin out about half the budding amethyst blocks to make room for redstone to harvest the rest. Overall it would probably be more efficient in terms of time and space and resources used instead of trying to save every budding block the way X did in this video.

Getting them would be difficult but the thing is they can be duplicated so. All you really need is one and you're set one amethyst crystal I believe, a jukebox, disc and you're good to go Every 2 minutes I think you can repeat the process with the same allay and get another.

I highly recommend silentwhisperer for bedrock redstone

we have a few they just don't get any attention :(

TheBowTieMan is like Mumbo but bedrock, go check him out

@@zed.lmaooo Big call mumbo is a god

Dude that is genious on so many levels id love a cool animation with it and perhaps an advancement because its a uniqe and awsome concept

Yeah that sounds awesome! Currently the shrieker doesn’t even summon the warden or give you the darkness effect once you pick and place back down the block, so it would be cool to give it a use

Yeah. Even if it's dirt, I can handle losing ANY items. So it pains me when Hermits just leave blocks to despawn when instamining. I understand why. It's just hard to see.

The way I see it, training them and then waiting for them to pick up a few items takes way longer than the player just picking up those items. 🤣🙈

I know, it was driving me crazy, he placed so many unnecessary blocks.

Bothered me a bit, too. But since he was comparing it to a Java-built farm, it does make some sense to stick close to Java redstone, even if Bedrock allows better space efficiency there.

I guess the question then. Is the allay actually more useful in that situation?

I like the way you think! 🐓

that works in java too

Really? I have to put in the first coords and then the second coords, then the block, because if you have /fill ~~~ ~~~ dirt, you're gonna end up with only one block of dirt.

Ooo. Yes. I like this. Sorting is one of those things that’s annoying and tedious for the player to do but would be easy for the allay to do. I don’t see the point of using them for general collection though, which is how most people seem to be using them. There are faster ways, including just picking up the items yourself.

I could answer the first 2 1: allays can fly underwater 2: allays have perfect pathfinding. They've been tested with a maze and they will always find the most direct and fastest route to their destination.

@@MrSirSquishy they can fly underwater? I thought they would only ever float above the water. How far would they travel, just interested at this point, would they travel 100 or 1000 blocks?

@@havak9831 idk, they *are* still in development.

@@MrSirSquishy How do Allays have "perfect pathfinding" but every other mob is terrible?

@@_BangDroid_ they're programed differently. If you search up "Allay maze" it'll show you what I mean. They allay calculates the most efficient route to its destination, while most other mobs are less direct.