Terry Pratchett once said: "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time", but now we've got artificial stupidity! How will we cope?!?!?!?

Zed in S7: Cave of contraptions Zed in S10: Whacky Cracky

4:31 love the bdubs height "joke" there We know its not a joke ❤

"bang the sheep", "what color is the baby?" This episode is full of very dangerous sentences

Whenever you explain the redstone I like to nod along and trick myself into thinking that I’m understanding a single word of it

I’m sorry, what?! What are we doing to the sheep?? 😳

What a great combo, with mumbo's balls and zedaph's rods together they'll make the hottest magma shop on the server

This game is nothing short of shear genius

Fun random fact for y'all, Zed's subtitles are done by someone with the name Dot_Dot_Dash, in morse code dot-dot-dash is code for the letter U, or for this episode, EWE (the name for female sheep). An obscure and dumb chain of logic? Certainly. Kinda satisfying to know? I like to think so!

4:29 “Exactly Bdub’s height” had me rolling with laughter.

Oh I thought it was a 50/50 on what color baby sheep are. You learn something new every day

"We should use the proper adjectives!" XD I hope cub steals that for a horn.

That sheep was definitely looking at me

Zed: "Why aren't my shears working?" Sheep: they're not?

The laughter meter was high on this one. All the little one liners just make me so happy 😁 and of course the quick cuts help the delivery. This season's gamifying idea is perfect! Keep em comin'

Getting snowcone and pinky to the second floor was quite the facepalm lol Watching the elevator and blocking up while the set of stairs is in frame cracked me up

“A-good a-baa!” Ah! All the puns! Love it!

best idea I can come up with might actually be hard to track - trying to get ALL the sheep sheered as quick as possible. you win when they're all wool-less. combination of luck and skill! buuuut you gotta peek in the holes to make sure they're all actually waxed.

Glad you saw Bdub's beauty of a base!

Sadly looks like the hopes, dreams and desires for the dig down were a little to the left today. The shear-a-sheep game was really fun, I think for a single player it just needs to be quicker or maybe a wave of them all popping up? Something to get them moving quick. Maybe harder if they only can shear a certain colour when it's faster, too. Lose points for shearing the wrong colour?

2:00 that deserves to be a horn lol :3

9:10 BDubs reminds me so much of that story of Jeff Goldblum, where at a party to everyone he was introduced to he clapped his hands and said "oh, of course!" BDubs just makes everyone seem like the most important person in the room in the funniest way. Bless him

Servers calculate minecart locations more accurately than player positions, so if you want to make it work 100% of the time you could modify the system to use minecarts/boats that get launched instead of

I am waiting for the "huh! I got sheep out of my ears!" horn

Always a good day when it’s a Zedaph day

10:55 that is the funniest thing I have ever seen in minecraft, LMAO!

30:18 Someone should totally make a datapack that lets you shear players heads and it creates a transparent playerhead with just the outer layer from the sheared player (hair, sunglasses, etc). Then the sheared player would temporarily render without that outer layer until it "grows back" after a minute or so. They could always wear their sheared bits as a hat, or some other player could do the same, or two players could swap! It would lead to some pretty crazy hijinks!

Hearing "sheepie" so much is making me smile. Lil shweepea sheepies

loll zed dangling the sheep off the elevator when theres a staircase three blocks to the right is a perfect visual representation of the whole season tbh

I love how Zed completely ignored the staircase in favor of dangling the sheep up to the platform

Zedaph plays Minecraft in such a unique and amazing way and I love it

"I've got a sheep coming out my ears" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Possible single player option: A lever turns the system on and off from the sheep room and the timer adds an item to a chest for every time the sheep pop up. The aim of the game is to shear a the sheep in the least number of pops.

Singleplayer version: ideas 1. Easier to implement: reuse same timer from multiplayer, score is determined by amount of wool gathered, but with one color (ie whichever one you currently need in the shop) worth more points than the other. 2. Harder: modify timer to make this fair, but the farm runs continuously. You have a fixed number of lives (3?) and lose a life if you don’t shear a sheep when one pops up, and your score is determined by the wool collected before you lose that last life. Maybe with the different colors worth different points, as mentioned in 1.

As a 2 player game, you could also award more points for pink than yellow, and both players are aiming for all the sheep. For single player, I think sheep could get locked out of the randomizer, and eventually all the sheep stop popping up

Zedaph: "Something-something and gates... never zero, never four..." My brain: FIVE IS RIGHT OUT!

20:30 so with this design, you'll never have an output of row 1 and row 2 turning on. it'll only be 1 & 3, 1 & 4, 2 & 3, or 2 & 4. because the options are set at either 1 or 2, and either 3 or 4. good enough for a simple minigame, and beyond my creativity level for sure :D, but it does limit the output a little. could be cause for some strategic planning

22:32 If only gem knew... That Scar was thinking about doing Redstone because all of the Redstoners have been doing building this season.

Shop idea for Blaze rods and magma blocks: "Hot Stuff" themed after a burlesque dance club. Make the "stage" out of magma blocks and possibly hire Cleo to do some armor stands dancing around a few poles made of blaze rods? Payment should be in the form of hoppers under the stage. When people toss diamonds onto the stage, it will dispense either magma blocks or blaze rods based on how many diamonds were collected. Added fun if it's random which they get (neither will likely sell a ton, but this way it will force people to buy a mix of both whenever they come by).

As I was watching this I had a brilliant thought... you can dye sheep with a dispenser! This could add some nice randomization into the game. For a single player - you could have red and blue. You want to collect the blue and avoid the red. Then just use a timer a sound prompts like Mumbo mentioned. The dispensers can help vary the sheeps color so people aren't camping the same spots.

8:26 For the record, Bdubs isn't *that* bad at the game that he's missing his swings at point-blank range against a stationary player-sized target. I'm pretty sure he was 'missing' because you get 5 seconds of damage invulnerability when you respawn (or log in!). 11:35 I'm pretty sure you could solve the bumpy floor by making the whole thing out of walls, fence posts, or adding snow layers, to get it to a consistent 1.5 blocks. Which would totally ruin the aesthetic, but it is *a thing you could do.*

An idea for both the timer and the single player aspect could be to make the timer jukebox based. You could add a chest that gets blocked when time runs out where the wool needs to be stored to count, so players need to listen to the music to know when to stop sheering and bank their points.

Maybe putting slabs (possibly bamboo slabs to make it blend in) on top of the hay bales could get rid of the bumping issue (I mean that is if it is an issue and not a feature lol)

Someone call cub the horn business is gonna profit really well from the first 3 minutes alone

For single player whack a sheep: Idea 1: have barrels for wool deposits with a comparator to detect a certain wool level and a dropper timer for a time trial. Sort of a how many items did it take you to get 16 pink 16 yellow (avg 2 wool per sheep) in the correct barrels. You could even make a leader Baaa-graph. Idea 2: quick draw. Use a faster clock with a dropper timer and a kill switch. Sheer all sheep as fast as you can while they pop up and down wildly then hit the switch when all sheep are sheered. Then have a leader Baaard. A sheep statue made of pink and yellow wool with the player head of the current leader amd a sign name tag with the time to beat.

Really love how much you colab! Might need more Mumbo and Zed. Yall have really complimentary comedy.

It was real rough watching you struggle with getting the sheep up there with the staircase right next to you the entire time 😂

Now I just imagine a group of executives signing a multi-million contract and then going to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate playing whack-a-mole 😂

For the single player version, you could still only collect one colour but shorten the time the sheep pop up for so it’s more fast paced and make it so every wool block of the wrong colour counts against your score, maybe -2 for wrong and +1 for the right? Love the content, keep it up!

Zed you do a very good job of explaining the redstone! It’s very helpful, thank you!

You should put carpet on top of those fences, that would fix bumps

Love your quirkyness it never fails to bring a smile to my face ^^. Expetialy today after a 5 hour exam.

The repeaters placed at 20:14 need to be lowered by one block to have the desired effect. As it is, the leftmost randomiser is activated on every pulse. The left triggers independent of the right 1/4 of the time, while both trigger 3/4 of the time.

The single player game could have a quota, where if you don’t meet it, all of the wool gets burned. OR maybe you need to match the number of pink wool to yellow wool.

A simple way to make it a single-player game is to play with the same timer as 2 players, then check how many of each you have and press a button to randomly dispence what colour wins. If you have more of that colour, you win! Random chance of winning no skill required, lol.

I'm pretty sure minecart movement is calculated server-side, so maybe if you redesigned the sticky kicky to make you ride a minecart, it'd be reliable

Bdubs being so great at building- his forests look like they came straight out of modded- And as always- zed is super fun to watch. Always having crazy cool ideas to make minecraft less mondaine. I know i personally dont like playing minecraft for too long cuz it gets too repetitive and- boring (?) But zed makes it seem so cool and interesting and new! So fun!

The grid Redstone is genius! super simple and elegant! this inspired me to make a disco floor for my minecraft cyberpunk city.

Something I didn't know baby zombies did was ride cows. I saw one jump on a cow and ride it. Not a baby cow, it was an adult cow. It might be easier if a baby zombie was in a fenced in area with a bunch of cows. That's how I did it by accident.

this is off topic but I love the attention to detail of including captions on your videos, they really help me understand and enjoy the video better!

zed you should make a landing pad for the kicky sticky that launches you back up

I have, never in my life, understood what and gates were actually useful for until this 15:38 moment.

ah, Zedaph... Always such a pleasure watching your videos. I quite envy you creativity I must say. For the sheeps games I think it comes down to the number of times they pop up. Build a etho hopper clock and swap one of the hoppers for a droper and you get a neat counter. You could have two buttons, for different difficulty level. In single player, you have to select a colour at random before you start and only shear that color. I would also suggest a lever to raise all the sheep so you can check how many are sheared or if they all regrew wool.

This minigame would be an awesome attraction at the wool street you should show this to contraption to the other members of the wool collective

Zed uploading on my birthday is the best gift

Zed completely missed out on calling it "Whack a Wool" ;-; still great video

Zed's content is so good I haven't missed a season 10 episode. Not even trying for the clean sweep, its just happening.

For a single player version of wax the sleep you could do it where one color is minus point and the other is plus point put on a pumpkin or have something block the player vison. Or have a randomizer throw out a piece of wool after to decide what would take away points and have the game on a time…. So basically trying to get as much wool as possible then a machine will tell you what wool is good add your points up and try to get higher scores each time!!! 30:31

i am crying at the zed shulker you made. when you made it wave i had to pause the video to laugh

Bro casually explaining Physics Logic gates like it's a redstone mechanic

ZED! brilliant idea (maybe) use all pink wood on your elevators and any blue blocks of your choice for the floor to make the ravine floor look like a river with lotus flowers

If it were larger, you would stand a better chance of an unshorn sheep or two always available. However, that may be impractical. Alternatively, increase the delay between popups, or reduce the time they are able to be shorn each popup. Ideally, the time between popups is randomized from popup to popup, adding to the stress/tension.

The sticky kicky would work on the server if you increased the delay between up and outward, right? Lag's the issue isn't it? The two vectors are getting mangled right, so, increasing their seperation a bit should help, I expect.

That not so subtle dig at Bdubs. LOL

17:00 watching this and realizing that Zedaph just created a k-map within minecraft. satisfying

For a solo mode I'd try the following: Set up some calibrated sculk sensors either below or above the sheep, encase in wool so they only hear one sheep each and set up to only react to the player interacting with them (signal strength 6). Then start the game with a button, have a timer run, and once all the sheep have been sheered once, the game turns off and you get your score.

Looking at that and gate array all i could think was a hermit battleship minigame and zed seems like hed be 1 of the best hermits to design such a game

every time i watch zedaph do redstone my brain expands 50%. my skull is running out of room

died at the And gate joke. fantastic 10/10

The singleplayer game: You could place a prediction on which colour wins randomly and then sheer as many as possible in a given time frame and then after the game you compare it to the random predicition and see if the prediction machine was accurate

You should ask Grian about reviving the whole "take Mumbo's mustache away" thing. I'm willing to bet he'd be into it.

How you started laying out the row & columns with levers had me thinking it was Battleship

for single player, maybe a green light red light situation? sense it with a sculk sensor with wool pushed over it for the green light, with sound queues for each so you can tell which you're on. if the sensor detects shearing it counts up to three. if you got the third shear then the game ends and you can't shear any more sheep until the others regrow

the whole episode I had the shearing sheep song from total drama world tour repeating in my head

I didn't quite realise I say the outro in my head as he says it until the "baah" in a-good-a-bye caught me by surprise

Well, that was a sheariously delightful episode! Ewe really outdid yourself this time D

When watching that Bdubs section I thought of a really weird idea, what if there was some way to give yourself some insane amount of resistance, then you can ask someone to help get your head and they would loose their minds trying to kill you.

This game is hilarious and genius at the same time ☺ an extra row of sheep could possibly prevent too many sheered sheep popping up, but if this is just meant for laughs I'm not sure we need more optimization 😂😂😂

Single player could give you a goal of total wools to grab, and combos, maybe different pieces of paper spit out that say 6 yellow, 9 pink. Or 2 pink, 15 yellow. And each round you have to gather those combos, kind of like phase 10!

2:00 Cub, make this a horn! lmaoo

hey zed, great episode as always, a simple way to make the sheep game single play is to say the coloured wool are 2 different points like one point for yellow and 2 points for pink. so each time you play you would have to try beat your PB or have a small score board for the other hermits to post their so to try and beat. if you wanted to do more redstone you could have a deposit box for the collected wool that goes through a filter system into a counter which could be shown by a redstone lamp counter or represented but the amount of item in a chest or barrel.the wool could then be sent to your storage area

Hotter than Hotcakes is a great name for the shop

i love zedaph's redstone explanations, they make me feel like i understand redstone

I've played Minecraft for years and have watched almost every video made by Etho, Tango, and Mumbo and I never knew you could lock repeaters. Thanks for teaching me a new redstone trick!

Ok, single player rules: You have a counter for how many pop-ups you get (let's say 10) and try to get as much wool as possible in the "time limit". Could also be fun to have 2 sheep be a third color worth bonus points. Of course both of these ideas work for 2 player as well. The real tricky part would be to shuffle the sheep between rounds. Figure that out and you'll have a viral video on your hands.

maybe a single player version could work by beating the last highest score, and you put the wool in a chest after every run so it counts it! Great work Z, keep it up!

You could use an arrow on a wooden button as a timer, cause itll despawn after about a minute, and have an inverter hooked up to play a noteblock tune when times up

I will just say that it would be really funny if you sold wool on the shopping district through this minigame.

4:30 I was drinking water and almost spat it all out 🤣

Pink and Yellow are the best Starburst colors!