Can Villagers Perform Binary Addition?

[@captheobbyist6434]

it's pretty funny that the pathfinding algorithm used to move these villagers is far more complex than the two bit adder. calculating two bit adder with all the background calculations of pathfinding is just funny

[@EmdyMC]

Your first mistake was assuming villager ai is reliable and consistent 😂

[@michael23b]

Lmao

[@MrFiveHimself]

i love how computational redstone is becoming more mainstream and your average minecraft player is getting a good understanding of binary

[@rubixpotato1301]

Villagers being the master tradesmen they are, you'd expect them to be able to add just fine. Then again, you used librarians, and their prices for a given book wildly fluctuate... I'm starting to think they're guessing the value...

[@NotBigSurprise]

i love how the carry is literally a villager running over to the next adder

[@Wallemations]

Finally, villagerstone

[@MrPeepa]

Dang thats a really cool concept! I think adding walls to the paths might break their line of sight and prevent the villager talking issue. Also i guess you could use beds to reset the adder once it becomes night time.

[@whyttestar]

I love your idea here, entities being turned into logic gates is fun concept especially using villager A.I. I can’t help but notice the flaws in the system that Steve Mould and Numberphile also had where you can’t output a false signal since no signal=false and you can’t flip bits from 0->1 back to 0. This makes your half-adder only needing to have 2 different outputs of of carry false and sum true and carry true and sum false (which you accounted for), where as a real half adder has a third which occurs when both inputs are false with sum false and carry false. Also the temporal issue of requiring both inputs to run at the same time to cause an output is not in line with Boolean logic. I know none of these are super big problems and the accomplishment of using villager A.I to make logic gates is still mind blowing to me, but I do wish there were some way of getting around them. Then you could build a true computer. Thanks for the video.

[@gosh5557]

very fun concept, nice video as always michael!

[@Theinatoriinator]

Kinda crazy how you ended up needing to design in delay lines using the cobwebs. When programming an FPGA, the compiler and synthesizer will work in tandem with a timing analyzer to build delay lines into the logic.

[@Hacker1MC]

I like how you mention Steve Mould and Matt Parker, and then proceed to give more simple explanations for half adders and full adders than I've heard from either of them XD. Additionally, I'm sure this wouldn't work at all in Bedrock, and the villagers would just spend their time stealing each others' workstations that they can't access.

[@nakoskyranos4080]

Love the chill jazz in the background

[@TheArtOfBeingANerd]

As a math nerd, it was quite a pleasant surprise to see Steve's and Matt's faces! 0:18

[@DarkMikatron]

What a clever way to add numbers! Reminds me of that video where people made an adder using dominoes.

[@LoneAssassinC]

This is only the beginning of the Villager Computer revolution. They will be Borg, resistance is futile

[@TInyHackerCalcs]

When I clicked this video I in no way expected the monstrosity at the end 😂

[@helphelphelphelpmehelphelphelp]

You missed the opportunity to use villagers instead of armor stands for the activation mechanism

[@luitmeinen1902]

Very interesting idea! I've seen many unnecessarily weird binary adders, but this is definitely in the top 5 :p I was just wondering though; might the problems with inconsistency have something to do with the villager range? where they can't detect a station if it's too far away? maybe the beds would be more consistent too, as they really seem to want to reach any bed they can at night. I really enjoyed this video though, and would love to see a follow-up :)

[@SeanStClair-cr9jl]

Really cool work!

[@chills_tiny_mom]

I’m learning computer engineering and this is so helpful in learning what you could do with the logic gates!

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

9:55 I wonder if the guy wasn't moving is a limit to how far they can passively search for the lectern but when you replaced him it did a bigger check, maybe you need to provide extra motivation by making intermediate lecterns that they can go to but will have the floor get swept out from under them when they do causing them to fall to another path with the actual lectern.

[@michael23b]

I fixed the issue by implementing an OR gate later on in the video. I believe the issue was that the other villager had already targeted the last lectern, so the other guy had no lectern to target. Implementing the OR gate solved this, but it still doesn’t resolve other things like the unreliable villager reaction times

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

@@michael23b Interesting, this comment didn't show up in my messages, but rather as I was scrolling down through your comment section my comment and thus your reply showed up again, good timing! That could be the case, but what I said might still have been a factor, or if it wasn't it could be worth looking into none the less.

[@electra_]

It should be possible to make a carry-cancel adder if you have a one way of some kind.

[@zealotoffire3833]

prob unreliable if the villager feels like it wants to be blind as ig it would sometimes :/

[@_BangDroid_]

Imagine if electrons were this inconsistent

[@23bcx]

I would say pressure plates into fencegates are Redstone

[@Tony-op6xf]

Take a sip of coffee every time Michael says “and” 😂

[@Artyomann]

Finally, a bio-computer

[@TALLPUP]

Cool vid! 🐶

[@kyleyoung2464]

the first thing i said when i saw this is "wtf"

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

awesome video!

[@DragonBorn]

love seeing silly content like this.

[@dhaneshabhipraya]

I built a binary adder recently

[@KatzRool]

now you need to make a full cpu :)))

[@zealotoffire3833]

um sry to burst your bubble but it wouldnt work since he has to manually reset villagers and a cpu is specificly built to be able to have a specific part (ALU) to do all the artihmetic used multiple times for different functions. it could be possible if u somehow had a way to transport them back after each calculation but i don’t know if its possible without dust :/

[@LisaMiza]

This is so dumb, I love it

[@OctagonalSquare]

This is so stupid. I love it!

[@chefkawrg]

this is crazy!!!

[@ZappyRedstone]

Water?

[@annatheelephant1937]

Drats. I was wrong.

[@PersonManManManMan]

Forcing villagers to do basic math is funny for some reason

[@smhsophie]

i read your title as “are villagers nonbinary?”

[@killianobrien2007]

Yes

[@ZappyRedstone]

Yo can you use bread?

[@ZappyRedstone]

Dispense bread and then the closer villager comes and gets it

[@TheRedReid]

You can't use dispensers/droppers. They use redstone in their crafting recipes

[@ZappyRedstone]

Hmm true

[@TheRedReid]

@@ZappyRedstone That said, you could always throw some bread on a trapdoor to make a sort of redstone-less dropper. If you're okay with resetting it every time and need fewer than 5 minutes to perform the calculations, this could work too.

[@PersonManManManMan]

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[@stirrain]

at 5:16, this video is too smart ror me