The Insane Hidden Feature of Copper Bulbs (THAT GOT REMOVED - check comment)

This feature has been devastatingly removed from the game for literally no reason. They straight up made the copper bulb less useful. I'm probably gonna make a short video talking about it. maybe on sunday.

Extremely useful!

This really doubles down my theory that we're going to see lots of copper gates and circuits coming in. I can see them pitching that anyone can build a computer in Minecraft without needing to learn "Redstone-isms".

It’s wild that copper bulbs are so much more revolutionary than the thing that automates the main mechanic of the game

I genuinely thought that "redstone tick" was a real concept, with certain things only updating on even frames. Had no idea it was just a side effect of the lack of redstone components with odd tick durations.

Another thing people haven't really talked about in regards to the copper lamps is that, because they are toggled on and off and can be moved while lit, This makes them able to function as a RAM system. You can store data by moving the lamps and then pulling them back to a readable position when you want to use them for data.

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They really need to call this Gnembon Update. The little things he snuck that are game changing to redstoners is fantastic.

I think probably the reason the tick freeze and unfreeze commands are separated is to make it easier for command blocks to set the state of time instead of just inverting it (so that you can be sure what state its in). It does make it a bit more clunky for redstone users however.

I remember Agnes saying she’s in charge of what Minecraft will look like in 5 years and I hope those Swedes intended copper to be synonymous with red stone in the near future, eliminating its general lack of utility

I think whats really exciting about the bulb for me is how much more accessable general redstone will be. Theres always been a gap between the casual "flick a lever" redstone and the more complicated "what the fuck is a comparator" redstone, and Bulbs are a great way to bridge that gap by simplying a very common component and reducing points of failure. It makes redstone so much less daunting, and more approachable, wothout losing sny of the complexity that makes redstone... Redstone.

separating freeze and unfreeze into 2 commands has the advantage that you don't have to guess if the command will freeze or unfreeze the game. Compared to the carpet mod freeze command, which would tell you in the chat if the game is now frozen or running normally, that's an information available... to whoever looks for it, which means that some people would miss it, which isn't possible with 2 separate commands. That makes it a (slightly) better tool for its users, especially newcommers. Better as in easier to learn the tool

Even if mojang doesn’t add a single other redstone component: this is one of the best redstone updates in a very long time

Your explanation of redstone ticks and in-game ticks was really good. Very understandable. Physically showing what it means and what the differences are from the current solutions were really good as well.

The ability to construct fairly complex circuits for normal players without sophisticated redstone knowledge is dramatically expanded with this block

The only issue with this block is the lighting updates it creates. It would be useful to have fully oxidized copper produce no light in order to make massive redstone contraptions not lag out the lighting engine.

wow, this update really makes it seem like Gnembon took over the whole dev team: first the auto crafter, then the tick commands and the copper bulb actually being useful and not just being a reskin of the redstone lamp edit: from the bottom of my heart, fuck you Mojang

You forgot to mention that it's also a 1gt updater, which is very useful in doors

Honestly, the 2-block T-flip-flop will likely cause a small revolution in computational redstone. It makes things sooo much simpler to get into, and the 1-tick will definitely speed up a lot of stuff as well. Also, how do you redstone people deal with light sources? It could massively reduce the cpu load on copper bulbs if they allow to disable their light generation somehow.

Normal people: oh hey a lamp that can be toggled with just a button Redstone engineers: