Breaking Minecraft's Longest Redstone Record

this is abh 37 and may hold the

longest

world

record

in Minecraft history in 2014. He claimed to have made this a 4x4 vault door, the smallest possible, with 160 blocks of volume, a world

record

that would last until 2014 15 16 17 18 and it looked like it was UN breakable, the record survived two of the largest Redstone upgrades ever released, even with 20 other Redstone components, no one could make it smaller, even with the Observer, the block. most powerful in the game, no one could make it smaller. one even came close, but one player was more stubborn than the rest and he asked the Redstone community a simple question: why isn't it possible?

Well, this story starts before this question, even long before abh is the world record, we have to go back to the end. In Minecraft Beta 1.7, the update that added Pistons, the trailer only showed giant working changing walls, moving water valves, bridges, strange blocks, cycling things, and most importantly, hison doors, these things became extremely popular. , people made doors, trapdoors, stairs if it included an area that could People were making them go from 2x2 to 3x3 to 4x4, but of course the large sizes became very difficult to make, so Redster started creating simpler door patterns that were not completely flat.

In fact, the second 4x4 door uploaded to YouTube uses the vault pattern we know today at the time, although it didn't actually have a name, it was simply called a 4x4 piston door which would change almost a year later in April when a creator known as Doc Redstone coined the term today I am. I'm going to do a tutorial on how to make this 4x4 vault door, that's what I've been calling it, as you can see, that's how it opens and when I cross from here to this side, that's how it closes, this thing finally had a name. and it became fashionable, but giving it a name did something else, it set it apart, it made it a category and when there is a new category, there will be a race to be number one, so what made abh qualify for a world record ?

How to define it? a quote in quotes the best piston door well, there are three basic ways to classify a piston door first, it has the most obvious size: 3x3 4x4 6x 7 11x 17, what are the dimensions of what it is opening? Next is the type, is it one? flat door a flush door a hatch a vault door when opened it is perfect so no Redstone is shown or it is not perfect where you see pistons on the wall and the last thing is that the register itself is the total volume of the entire door circuit. smallest it has ever been and the Holy Grail of the size record is the design size, meaning the entire Redstone fits within the volume of the door piston design.

One design for a 4x4 vault has one piston ring for the front layer and some doubles. piston extenders to remove the center blocks, the smallest possible volume this design could achieve was 160 blocks, so with Finish Line Now configured, let's first meet the contenders for the world record. Minecraft malan releases an absolutely tiny 324-block design using the double-sided vault shape while a player called fren was busy in the background cooking up his multiple versions, but then absolutely killing them both was Deco with the smallest 2-width design in At that time his record seemed quite difficult to break and almost lasted an entire year.

Until a bombshell dropped on the Redstone community, 2013's Redstone 1.5 update saw Minecraft's first explosion onto the YouTube scene with Redstone following, more people are making 4x4 vors than ever, including big names like mumbo jumbo, which which helped make the category even more popular and the record was broken again by Sydney on September 26, 2013 with a whopping 180 blocks in volume in just over a year, the 4x4 Vault got 50% less competition, It was fierce, but despite all that, no one achieved the Holy Grail of this world record. The layout size gate in 160 blocks, Sydney was just a layer of 20 blocks away, that's how close I was to getting there and then it happened.

I remember seeing that layer at the top and the fact that there was so little Redstone up there got me thinking. might be a block shorter, the Eureka moment was definitely the little Hopper dropper near the top for that last pulse on the dual piston extender. It took me a lot longer than the rest combined and getting it working felt great Apr 4, 14, abh 37. would create the first 160 block 4x4 vault door, all the wiring would fit inside the piston design, meaning that physically it couldn't be smaller than the way it did, the aforementioned hopper dropper circuit and to understand how we should talk about dual piston extenders, these pistons here.

Control the blocks in the middle of the door by moving them two blocks away from the wall. There are two ways to make a circuit like this. You can constantly feed all the pistons, all at different times, with

redstone

dust, two ticks and four ticks. repeater in the extension, the front would go first, then the rear and finally the middle one. The rear piston pushes the front piston on the already driven Redstone Dust so it will fully extend on retract because the front is driven first it will be the first piston to retract the rear piston can now pull the front piston in the path of this four tick repeater that gives the front piston its final pulse.

This is what Sydney Gate did. If you follow the repeater chain, you may see the same pattern 024 or option number two. a monostable circuit, this option is quite similar, we have the dust repeater and two ticks for extension and retraction almost works the same, the only difference is that a separate circuit sends a short pulse to the front piston for final retraction instead of four. tick repeater, that circuit is known as a monostable circuit and can be made very easily with the new dropper and the Hopper block, which is exactly what abh did, so the world record of 160 blocks stood there in all its glory without possibility of improvement.

I wasn't a big fan of Chey's entrance, well then there was a flaw with Ab's door. At the entrance, the lever was placed in a very awkward place and the only way to move it was to make the door a little bigger by placing two pieces of red stone. dust, this was something the Redstone community would call a bit embarrassing, but just a few days later another redster named mauma made his own 160 block 4x4 vault door now with a non-Derpy lever and that's where the development seemed finish a few years ago. More doors of the same size appeared on YouTube, but they weren't really notable.

He came out 1.8 and added slime blocks, but it still didn't get any smaller. 2014 went into 2015 and then in 2016 1.9 came out, which changed the way comparators worked, which meant. that having

redstone

blocks next to it would shut them down, meaning basically all 160 4x4 blocks would no longer work except, ironically, the oldest abh one, but 2016 would end with something really promising: a new redstone block in November. Minecraft 1.11 was released adding The Observer, this thing was huge to this day, it's probably the most influential block Minecraft has ever added, no joke, you could pretty much use whatever you wanted as input and it would generate a single tick pulse, two properties that were very attractive for any piston.

Door Maker and it wouldn't be long before a vault door was made using them just 3 days after the update came out the space walker climbed a door using spotters using this new dual piston extender the hardest part of the entire door had now been reduced. At six blocks, the barrier to entry to make the smallest possible 4x4 vault door has never been easier, even Mumbo made his own size design thanks to the observers and even though Redstone was easier than ever despite adding a block that had obliterated all piston door records in its history even though there are more people in the Redstone community the record never fell, it was impossible, how could you make a door smaller than one where all Redstone fits within the Piston design?

Three words change the design. doors and is about to share an update on one of his latest creations, yes, I'm almost ready to give this door to whoever wants to try to finish it, the project he was talking about, an attempt to beat the record of 160 blocks he had. He came up with a new piston design that, in theory, would be smaller rather than a row of pistons controlling the lower blocks. The entire bottom row would come out of the left wall and for the opening all the blocks would be pushed towards the left wall by the right wall, if you don't understand it don't worry, the only thing you need to know is that this design is much more difficult than simply pushing a line of Pistons, what they shared the hits was a half-functional concept that needed a lot of work, so a group of redstoners got together and did a lot of work for about a week, from July 27 to August 2.

Quei Door Maker Reds wiring and would require timing so precise and impractical that it wouldn't even be worth trying, so the first thing they did was rotate the design so it was vertical in the hopes it would be easier to finish when that didn't work, they made variations and more variations and there were more variations, but when things started to work, there was always something that didn't work. This, combined with other side projects being worked on, meant that motivation to continue was at an all-time low, so after a week of trying to break the puck they dropped the project you guys want another Ultra DK skin for This if they have something easier, probably the irony is that what they were given, what everyone considered impossible to wire was exactly what they needed, okay, so let's go back, this is the design that Buffeting originally published as mentioned above, What makes it so difficult is all the precise timing required, but something I never mentioned is that the original group of Redstoners never attempted to rewire the design from scratch, yeah exactly, we didn't look into it. so much and I think we wanted to keep it relatively clean, it would take another 5 months before Door Maker and now a new member of the project, Ourway, would try to break the record again after over 9 years of abh 37 holding this. seemingly unbreakable record after an attempt with some of the smartest door makers in Minecraft that lasted only a week before they gave up after returning 5 months later, despite all the odds against them, they made a vault door out of 4x4 that measured 11 blocks long and seven blocks. high and two blocks wide with a total volume of 100 54 blocks after 9 years the record was broken with only six blocks