We've entered a whole new age of redstone. From the piston, to the Observer, to the Crafter age.

Finally! we can make fully automatic dried kelp XP farm that uses only kelp! Both as fuel and materials.

Imagine mojang making a single block that can replace entire redstone machines

When I saw the autocrafter in the Snapshot, I instantly thought: Cubic is gonna make an epic video about it

This is the best thing since hoppers and pistons Also I’m glad Mojang made it only work with external circuitry because I fell like it would be boring if it you could just set the recipe in the crafter

Honestly the crafter is probably the most revolutionary thing added since arguably the piston. It single handedly made 1.21 a 7/10 for me.

I think you realized this by now, but I'm still going to say it: Creating a universal autocrafter is completely possible and surpisingly easy. This is because the auto crafter always tries to distribute the items evenly instead of stacked. I'm pretty sure that there will be amazing systems that go beyond what was possible with modded autocrafters before.

Very interesting point about the difficulty with filling the crafter with 9 inputs. Wonder if there is a strange work around

9:00 just add a buffer in hoppers. One hopper for each slot/item type. Once all necessary items have been inserted they will be sent yo the crafter. This can be slower but it's the only way.

Automatic bartering farms are probably what I'm most excited for with this feature. So much potential!

I think that the limitations make it a fun design challenge. This block will be enough to get me interested in designing new builds and thus playing Minecraft again, even without the quality of life things most technical minecrafters have suggested. The idea of mixing farms for crafting purposes, re-thinking storage. I think the practical application is that it saves a very small amount of tedium and time for anything outside of mega-builds, since the amount of crafting you could do in the time it takes to add an auto-crafting setup is quite a lot. But for the imagination it is fantastic, and making your builds and farms interact more with eachother.

Now these contraptions going to start a new era of minecraft.

Tbh, this is absolutely incredible. It could start a whole new Redstone Era. The only thing I can think of that would revolutionize redstone on the same level would be a block placer.

I suggested on the feedback site that it might be good if the crafter kept the 0-9 strength for filled/locked slots but then gave 15 if the items inside make up a valid recipe. That would be something of a best of both worlds, and would also allow things like, if you're using filler items, detect strength 9 as the cue to unlock the hopper below to pull the filler items out. And it would even unlock a way to do things like sort shulkers by colour by seeing whether the shulker plus a particular dye is a valid recipe or not! (Currently that wouldn't work because for some reason it _is_ valid to dye a shulker to the colour it already is, but that seems like it could probably be changed pretty easily)

personally I like the 0-9 redstone strength because it is more awkward to have irregular jumps in redstone strength, and 15 usually implies filled to the brim (even per stack) while it is more useful to count on "slots occupied" rather than "inventory space filled" in this case.

the fact the crafter can loop around when being filled means we dont have to have timed output and stuff. we could just left an item in a slot and turn them into a filter. neat, im really excited about this feature

I think they want it to be limited on purpose. When they implement requested features they often nerf them heavily.

You and all your videos on auto crafting was my immediate thought when I heard the announcement of the crafter! I even have some of your auto crafters in my world all ready!

the fact that his favorite thing became vanilla is WILD

I think the main reason they havent done movable tile entities yet is because of the backwards compatibility issue, think of how many builds would break thatbuse containers around slime and honey. I think blackstone variants of droppers and dispencers would be a cool solution...

Once the copper bulb comes out, you NEED to explore the data storing capabilities from it's bistable nature. It's a 1 block t flip flop, and if it could be movable you could literally make a computer with external storage in bits (or even use a base 4 system since it has 4 states on its own)

Glotz asked gnembon if he can add qc to the crafter and he said that only 2 of the java devs know how qc works.

Very cool video! Though I still think that the crafter shouldn't be quasiconnectible since usually most of its faces would be occupied with other redstone blocks, especially hoppers, that would make, say, powering the topmost hopper much less easy and the whole setup much clumsier

The red border thumbnail made me think I had already watched the video

I've actually already built a universal autocrafter in Java, using subtick hopper priority to fill the grid in just three redstone ticks. I made it originally for dispensers, but then realized I could do it with anything. Just need to put a clock on it.

YESS He's Back and in full energy. I could just sense the redstone community celebrating when they announced autocrafting. Glad to see your up to the challenge.

The design I made can autocraft anything in the 3x3 but the real issue is disabling slots for specific recipes. if you want an all recipe auto crafter you would need to have multiple crafters with different amounts of slots enabled.

The crafter can be quasi-powered, but it's locational and directional

I think the limitations of the autocrafter can make it a more interesting block in the long run. The modded implementations were made by people in the technical community who likely set out to make it a mechanic as useful and convenient as possible. This highly effecient design philosophy can remove some of the tinkering required to make it work the way you need it to. Similar to how dispensers give a random trajectory to the items they shoot out. I could see a technical minecraft players' implementation of dispensers remove this feature for the sake of reliability. I am looking forward to all the contraptions you come up with using the autocrafter! I'm certain I'll be amazed!

For recipes like dispensers or pistons, the order that items enter the crafter is extremely important. The 9 signal as opposed to 15 allows the crafter to activate the next dispenser with the next item only when the item that should be before it actually is in it. For that the 9 max signal makes more sense because it allows a row of dispensers over hoppers to self regulate their input into the crafter and prevent items from entering it the wrong way

6:18 Mysticat has a good system in his autocrafter video where the detection of a full crafter is handled by a lectern, comparators, and observers; Have a lectern on page 8 and comparator running into a piece of dust with another one from the autocrafter, when the autocrafter's full it'll raise the power to 9 which can be detected by an observer.

For the signal 15 issue, we just need to give it a +1 signal per extra time all the item slots are filled - when they all have 2+ items signal 10, when all have 3, signal 11. When all have 7 signal 15

For the 0-9 issue, using a lectern and a comparator fixes it super easily, just set the lectern to page 8/15 EDIT: a full composter also gives an output of 8

The was a really good and indepth analisys of the Crafter. Nice job!

In school rn, but I'm really looking forward to seeing this. You always manage to make something epic.

One suggestion I've seen floating around is a signal strength 15 output for a completely filled crafter (i.e. a stack in every slot). This allows the usage of signal strength 15's unique properties for one-wide tileables or just compactness in general, it allows easy ways for a crafter to remember the recipe it is being used for (activating it on ss15 rather than ss9 or a timed circuit), and would be very intuitive for newer players to redstone, and keeps the intuition of the current ss9 functionality. Interested to hear what you all else think!

You know, now that we can use crafters as basically large storage for unstackables, couldn’t we now use it for tnt farms/ contraptions using tnt mine carts? Because they’re exactly centered on a block when dispensed. And mine carts are just easier to align than tnt

6:27 it’s actually really easy to get a clean solution to this, take a comparator output from the table into a single piece of dust. Then on the opposite side of the dust put another comparator going back into the dust (both comparators pointing at the same dust) and put something like a composter so the second comparator gives a signal strength of 8. If you put the dust on top of the face of an observer, it will flash when the crafter fills and when it empties. The red stone dust will change from signal strength 8 to 9 when full and then back down to 8 when you use the observer’s signal to power the crafter. The 2nd flash should be fast enough to not cause any issues with accidentally crafting the wrong recipe.

I knew you will do a video about it! Love it.

Pushing and pulling chests, hoppers, dispensers, droppers in bedrock. My design turned out a lot like that tape thing you showed.

A universal autocrafter is still possible (see mumbojumbo's video for an example) by sequentially sending items into a hopper line, just not at the scale that the carpet version can achieve due to timing requirements.

ngl I was pretty happy to see that the crafter can't be powered via QC. QC messes up so many designs that *should* work, were it not for this unintuitive bug that I keep forgetting about

I could imagine that a different solution to not being able to have 9 inputs could be that the auto crafter could pull from hoppers out of order. We see that it will fill each slot 1 at a time. So they could make it pull the correct item from the hopper when it needs it even if it's not the first thing in the hopper

I actually like the output signal equalling 9 for a full crafter. it's a signal strength of +1 for each slot that is either locked or contains items, meaning, everytime the crafter (REGARDLESS of recipe) outputs a redstone signal of 9, it is ready to craft. And there is "direct" translation beetween the redstone signal and "how many slots" are NOT empty.

They should add a special new piston that can move entities, call it a heavy piston or something

I've been refreshing you and Ilmango's channels for days waiting to see autocrafting things.

I think the Crafter could be revolutionary, especially for farms, wheat farms can auto craft into hay bales, iron farms can auto craft into iron blocks (and for those who don’t want to waste poppies, red dye), and many more uses

I mean, the crafter doesn’t necessarily have to be moveable for universal crafting, you could simply order the items in hoppers. Granted this would be slow, but you could scale it up to happen with multiple crafters

I didn't tested this yet, but if the autocrafter doesn't inputs items in random slots, then one could simply use the comparator signal to build a dedicated autocrafting machine for the most used redstone components by using a hopper filtering system on the input, connect it to a item counter, and make an amount selector using redstone hopper timers

I think the redstone should be more accessible without a visit to wiki almost every time. 0-9 pulse strength making much more sense in general. Although quasi connectivity is beneficial in many circuit, it is a lot more confusing in general. I agreed with movable block entity. But again, it’s a problem with block entity itself in java not the crafter. If the crafter came out like the Gnembon’s suggestion video a while ago where you have to do many specific circuit just to use it properly like remove the dummy item. It will be lot more worse.

Minecraft has now finally become a real automation game like Factorio and Satisfactory and technically competes with games like that.

With just a few more changes to the crafter, this block could be game changing. Excited to see what you can do with this block Cubic :D

After playing around with it for a while I was able to make a nice 3 deep / wide universal crafter design; but it runs at 1/9th hopper speed because it relies on feeding in the items in order top left to bottom right. Though I think it actually runs at 1/nth hopper speed where n is the number of items in the recipe, for single item output recipes. So Shear would craft at 1/2 hopper speed, while Natural Stone Slabs would run at 1/3 hopper speed.

Storage tech is about to blow the f* up

QC would actually be radical for crafters. It's not immediately obvious but if they give us QC for crafters, we'll see eventually see some really sleek designs throughout the community

I just thought about something that will be so good, but also so hard to implement If you add the crafter to the giant storage system at the Wavetech server, you can make it so if someone needs a crafted item, they press a button and the system automatically crafts a shulker of that item using the right ingredients and sends it to the player

A universal crafting setup is trivial with this new crafter. You can let 9 droppers feed items into a hopper chain going into the crafter. If you need more speed, just build multiple instances of that setup.

Landmark video and update Cant wait to see what you make

I actually really like 0-9 signal strength, since it means it doesn’t skip a value, it’s also not too difficult to detect, just use a signal strength stabilizer

Imagine if Mojang purposefully implements the quasi connectivity bug for the crafter, just to make it consistent with droppers...

Now all we need is a Placer block and we could probably make a Von Neumann Machine in vanilla Minecraft.

The issue of filling the crafting table with different items can be solved with a dropper/hopper tower

1.21 is already shaping up to be a revolutionary update and there is likely a large percentage of the update thats yet to be revealed

It is interesting how simple it is to make a machine to make a single unchanging item. I think the most practical technical use for this is not a general purpose auto crafter, but you can literally have a single hopper tower that fills a crafter tower. It is slow but takes 3 blocks per auto crafter and you could just be crafting every recipe in the game 24/7

One way they could enhance this block is add a switch/toggle to the GUI (comparators have subtract mode) that prevents the crafting if any slot only has 1 item. A lot of people are requesting better ergonomics for fixing the recipe and limiting what can go in, and this would be a solution. There are edge cases for non-stackables like the bow in the dispenser, but almost all other cases could take advantage of it. Or maybe this toggle can be per slot.... So each slot is either disabled, open always, or open but disables crafting if only 1 item.

we also wrote an autocrafter on our server (bukkit/spigot, thus, vanilla clients), and it also filled in minimum slots, but we had no slot disabling, we had user input at least one of each item to determine the recipe, and i dont remember if it worked for unstackable items

Here's to hoping movable tile entities is the next thing snuck in by gnembon

I think it would be so much simpler if you could say, "set" the suto crafter with the items you need to craft. Say for example you want to craft a piston. You could set the planks at the top with 3 wood, the 4 cobblestone on the side, the iron and redstone. Then when you connect a hopper to it you can pass all the items it needs through one hopper and the auto craft would put the items in the spots you set. Maybe this is asking for too much, but I think it would make things very easy especially for those less redstone savvy as the current implementation requires some weird redstone to make complex recipes. That and moveable tile entities lol.

Great feedback (universal autocrafters are definitely possible btw, they are just a bit bigger)

To play devil's advocate on the quasi-connectivity issue, think of all the recipes that form other recipes during "assembly" (e.g. gold nuggets before gold blocks). It could become really easy to accidentally quasi power the crafter early and make the wrong thing. That being said, I think it's a minor concern / a fun challenge. I do think the crafter should support quasi-connectivity and I can't wait to see what you do with it.

5:10 just like using a chiseled bookshelf to make secret Redstone doors, we use the crafter instead as a number pad that has 0-9 and the crafter can also be placed at different angles and the top looks like a number pad

now all we need is a block placer (might aswell add that as a feature to the dispenser)

The crafter definitely has potential and im looking forward to it i hope the implement your suggestions

Next up: -Dispenser mimics all right click behaviours, like placing blocks, tilling dirt, and eating food. -Added a block breaker that can mine any breakable block upon activation. -Hoppers can transport items upwards. -Pistons have unlimited strength and reach. -Vertical slabs. -New dimension accessible via a glowstone portal. -Guns. -Removed the necessity of waiting for the new update. -Just play with mods, not like you can tell it apart from vanilla anymore.

Everyone seems to be missing the insane power of template crafting. Massively simplifies the most basic auto-crafting setup to just leave one item in every slot rather than dealing with sequencing…then just count items coming in & pulse.

i love the new crafter and i cannot wait to use it and see creators use it! But as much as i like the idea of movable tile entities, that could potentially break loads of old redstone designs that use droppers etc in place of obsidian!

Always look forward to your videos

This is such a huge powerspike. First pistions & repeaters Then slimeblocks and it was huge Then came observers Now. Autocrafters. A new era

Quasi connectivity is a bug. also just use the comparator in subtract mode

You can get all the wood into the piston crafting recipe simultaneously by having the input be another crafter which crafts logs into 4 planks. You can also have another side that switches between uncrafting redstone blocks and iron blocks to add 9 at a time so it doesn’t need to cycle as fast. That jus leaves 4 sides for cobblestone droppers which is the amount of sides you have left, and what do you know, you have dropper speed piston crafting by using the crafter to fill the crafter. Probably more complicated than making 2 systems at half speed, but it’s theoretically possible.

A way to detect when it’s full is by having a comparator with a chest it barrel with a strength of 8, going into a rs dust that the comparator that is with the auto crafter is also pointing on it. An observer will detect it and power the machine

FINALLY we can make self-sustaining kelp farms now! let kelp grow harvest with piston water stream/bubble elevator carries it to smoker dried kelp comes out the other end into the auto crafter turns into dried kelp blocks put into double chest hopper takes some of them and uses it to refuel the smoker

Do you think this will allow for the change you mentioned to large storage systems, where instead of storing every item you store the parent items (logs instead of signs, for instance) and you can instead request certain items to be crafted on the spot for you?

real also nice tf2 reference with saxton hale in your banner

I've seen an implementation where we feed a hopper line with the items in order and feed them all in sequence We would be missing on speed but it seems like a simple application for complex recipes

One of the First videos on only the auto crafter, And what it can do. Nice very Nice

It would also be nice to be able to disable slots in other inventories such as hoppers.

you can send the items into a hopper or dropper line with the correct delays such that they end up in the desired order at the crafter.

Now that they've given in, I'm waiting for them to add the Breaker and Placer blocks for full measure.

If you don't mind the player putting the initial items in the crafter to encode the recipe, a universal crafter is feasible. Simply don't trigger the crafter when it would run out of items, leave at least one set in there. Then you can use just one hopper as input, drop items into it in sequence

After the whole playerbase called mojang lazy, I bet they felt real good implementing this just for everyone to realize they single handedly killed an entire technical community who’s been doing this for 10 years

It *is* possible to make a universal auto crafter with more items than the table has faces, and its been done already, by queueing items in a line of locked hoppers/droppers. However, each individual crafter will function rather slowly when its done this way.

Now I'm not much into redstone, but I have a potential solution to the universal autocrafter issue you mentioned, not having enough sides to feed the item. You could first take one item from each shulker box to establish what the stacks are (like reserve it for each item). Then use a hopper minecart for unloading the rest of the items one shulker at a time, and then repeat for each stack, or find a way not to craft the reserve item.

This guy. This guy is the puppeteer behind the strings.

A universal crafting setup is still possible: it just requires some kind of programming that stores recipes (something we can already do) and a dispensing system that loads items into the crafter one item at a time (also something we can do). You could even read the item we need for the recipe, dispense it from main storage into a water stream, hopper it into the crafter, and then wait an arbitrary amount of time before dispensing the next item in the recipe to avoid timing conflicts. It may be slightly bulky, but it should actually be relatively simple in concept.

Im disappointed at the lack of a rant about all the new copper variants increasing the need for a multi item sorter but i guess we have to wait for a storage tech video for that

To clarify, the crafter fills slots like this: - Go left-to-right and top-to-bottom - Prioritize empty, open slots - Prioritize slots with the same item that has the least amount of it (So if you craft a chestplate and all slots except 8 have 5 iron and slot 8 has less, this one is filled first) Also, regarding the 0-15 signal strength aproach: How should locked slots be treated? Like a full stack (64)? And how does the mod handle different stackable items (i.e. minecarts for crafting chest minecarts)?

surely you dont need to have that piston feed tape for this becuase it can have multiple in a stack. you just leave one recipe in there as a recipe filter and then dispense all your items into water stream that feeds into a hopper that goes into the crafter and then you set a pulse delay of how long it takes items to get into the hopper and bam pulse goes off crafts 1 of the item and leaves the recipe filter intact. and because of the nature of even distribution for items when using hoppers and because items cannot go into slots with items of different types your filter will never be removed. (a note for wearyness when developing this system is that the order that items are put in and distributed thought the crafter does reset when exiting the world especially in single player so there would need to be a failsafe implemented for when you log out to make sure no auto crafts are running during that time (discovered by xisumavoid))

Personally I don't think this will ever become a 1-wide design. There's just too many combinations and shapes of recipes. I think it will end up being you have one crafter that you change to your needs, and you have a bunch of one use systems in farms to compact items, or make different items. Also I disagree and think that the 0-9 signal is fantastic. If it was 15 that would be very difficult to do things with. If 15 is filled with 9 stacks, then a signal strength of 4 could be made from a few stacks of items, and one of the items you need to craft could be missing entirely. And how would you know if a recipeis finished? With the 0-9, every single recipe will be created at signal strength 9 as long as you block out every other part you don't need. All you do is use a comparator subtracting 8 from the side. Which you can use lecturns or another crafter if you want. It will activate when it's ready to craft. Also I have already seen a 1 wide tileable by mysticat, however that is for strictly one ingredient recipes. Like iron nuggets, trapdoors, etc.

Wait, wouldn't a hopper suck in objects in order of when they were dropped? My point is that if you would have a grid of 9 droppers representing the crafter's 9 slots, and you would power them in order of placement, you could funnel the output of all dispensers towards a single hopper into the crafter to add each item at each slot (especially thanks to the non-stacking feature of the crafter which would not add the same item to the same slot when encountering a new one ?