Etho MindCrack SMP - Episode 146: Death Counter

[@ToryK13]

The whole encounter with Anderz was fantastic, haha. I also really love the transportation idea with the boat. I thought it was majestic. I might use that some time. I also believe Bdubs was the best guy for the job as far as the arena. He really has some great ideas with the design and the overall mechanics. Great video!

[@JosheJade]

Etho! For the death counter use the design "Even Smaller Signal Strength Counter! (2x2x5)" by DicoTheRedstoner It's perfect for what you're looking for! Very Compact, it has addition, subtraction, a reset, and an inverted reset! Guys thumbs this up so Etho can see it.

[@DrZpook]

"Hey that tree is upside down!" -Etho 2014

[@ConcreteSteel]

he should make that as a t-shirt. i would buy it.

[@LolTuberLol]

For the class selection, you should have each re spawn spot for every class, if someone chooses tank or something, they sleep in a certain bed and as soon as they spawn the auto equip takes place at their specified location for their specified class. Also, just an idea, if you want to try different game modes and rules, have a day light sensor for a time limit, and for maybe demolition, have only their base capture points working and it takes a medium time (I would say 7 seconds if applicable) to capture/plant it, and one person can can capture/plant at a time. Just some suggestions :D Keep up your awesomeness Etho!

[@Balay123]

Etho, the PVP arena should be used once or twice every month. Host a tournament every month and a big reward for every winner. You should also ask them for a small payment if they want to join the tournament, like 3 diamonds per participant. This, plus all just-for-fun, free PVP games. :D

[@SurRainbowGaming]

Etho has always been good with a bow!

[@f0xcr4fted]

death counter = counting how many murders go unpunished.

[@danlexianlord3830]

The acacia wood goes so well with the ice theme! It looks like frozen wood!

[@UGotBrainCancer]

It would be really cool if the arena was both death match and point capturing. There could be an optional death system, and the capture point could give items instead of just a point during the death match. Not sure how much harder it would be, but there would be a lot more redstone and probably be more modular.

[@jacobeader60]

I've watched all your lets plays and your mindcracks. I know you like to progress with the times and I appreciate that but seeing you make the E.A.T.S. Road made me smile. Love it

[@angchen]

Etho: So much posters of Justin Bieber Me: XDDDDDDD

[@CathodeRayKobold]

9 lives per team seems like the games would be really short. You could add a second counter that goes down by 1 every time the first counter reaches 0, so you can pick between 9, 18, 27, etc. lives if you have more players or want a longer game.

[@Tech_Marauder]

But, CATS!!!!!! CATS ARE AWESOME!!!! (9 lives, you know, the myth the cats have 9 lives)

[@SAMfromCALGARY]

See 25:12 in the video.

[@jimpikles]

or you could just play best of three rounds, with 9 lives a round.

[@NickoRobo]

You can make the lives last longer with that overflow chest, as he says in the video, so in truth you could have a chest full longer

[@CathodeRayKobold]

SAMfromCALGARY Yes, I know. I'm suggesting a better solution.

[@AthronYT001]

i like watching you mess with people XD you should do it more often

[@Jack_L]

"Basically if you use an item that stacks to 64, like stone blocks for example, it takes a lot of them for it to jump from one redstone piece to the next one, like 40 items or so, not quite...not...not exactly that. Don't quote me on that." -Etho

[@caieby2]

you little rebel you quoted him

[@AndersNrskov]

God I love it when you upload videos, so relaxing..

[@quinxorin]

Etho, to prevent spawn camping, consider making a two-block-high drop on the exit. This will allow there to be a wider area for players to leave the room, and prevent opponents from accessing the beds.

[@MineKynoMine]

Maybe this could be a mini-game on the playmindcrack server

[@lasegame]

Etho, put your deathcounter outside of the map too so you can have spectators. Also you could make so everybody has 3 lifes or so, then when they lose them all, they get out of the game. Gives it a bit more of a survival feeling and it helps alot more because the dispenser wont have to have 9 sets of swords/bows/armor.

[@FreddyFeldman]

Etho, add fireworks when the game ends.

[@Phoniexgames]

and it should be color coded for fire= red ice= light blue

[@WhosScaredOfDentists]

It wouldn't be Etho if there weren't any fireworks..

[@Dighug]

I really like the difference between your single player and your multiplayer in this season keep up the great videos!

[@geraintwhite]

You should have a bed per class, so the player chooses their class before the game.

[@joeyzalusky9207]

Awww, i almost cried when I saw the eats system.... Man, the memories... Fond, fond memories with my favorite youtuber.

[@xAngoryx]

Hells yeah

[@asimo3089]

Grabbing my snacks!

[@SargentBudder]

Hey Etho! I think you shouldn't have the auto equip at the spawn beds. Say, if you had the auto equip in the respawn beds, maybe someone chooses the wrong class they would be stuck with it the whole game.

[@hrrrmmmmmmmm]

Good idea! :D

[@Mike_Martian]

At first, I really didn't like this project for some reason, but lately I've been getting really excited when I see a new video about it from you and Bdubs. Glad you stuck with it!

[@SKK329]

It reminds me of the FTB CoD map they made.

[@DarkPandora]

Hey Etho, for the idea of the death counter, I thought it would be cool if you would make it so when player run out of lives, they would not lose the game but would stop respawning, so the players could have a last stand sort of thing. P.S You're doing great loving the videos :)

[@tronique5736]

You can use a piston tape with solid and non-solid blocks to count lives. When the player respawns, a redstone pulse can shift the tape. Repeaters pointing at the tape could power the lights.

[@daracaex]

Instead of snaking the redstone all over the place to indicate different redstone lengths by using swords in droppers, why not set up a system that uses comparator signals from jukeboxes with records in them? When a death is counted, the system moves to the next signal for whatever length it needs. Using that repeater-locking counter setup would probably be a good way to do it, but I haven't tried this myself, so not sure if it would work as I think it would or be over-complicated.

[@caieby2]

Good idea mate

[@rubixman7x7]

You should use a comparator memory gate that keeps track of the signal strength and have one comparator on subtraction mode. When someone dies, you can allow a small pulse of signal strength one into the side of the comparator and decrease the whole circuit by 1 redstone strength. That way, you can run just one redstone line across the lights. I hope that this helped.

[@andyk1276]

I really hate the 2 people who disliked this without watching the whole thing.

[@anderdragon]

combining a few ideas i have seen in the comments :) for the class selection and the where to equip them here is my opinion: what if you have them select a class at the start of the game by picking their class and walking down the hall under the sign they picked just after they enter the hall they step on a pressure plate locking them into their desicion and they sleep in a bed further down the hall (have like a carpet or pressure plate or something to block that side of the bed from being a spawn point) then after getting out of the bed they have to cross another pressure plate that gives them their stuff and pushes them out side but the "Xth" time they step on it they are pushed a different direction and not given stuff the see a sign saying "you died once too many times" or something like that and put into a hallway leading to a spectator area with a good overview of the map and a kill counter. as i said this all just some ideas i threw together from the other commenters and my own brain (i am not very good with redstone so this is just what makes sense to me) please if anyone sees a problem make edit's and repost them or (obviously) post your own completely different idea! (i just think that a comment train is easier to find and see all of the ideas at once rather than scroll through all the billions of comments)

[@RobadobaChannel]

Hey Etho! Did you know you can dock on soulsand and the boat wont break?

[@jazmanseventeen7894]

I am amazed at the progress he has made. I have watched his old lets play series when it was still in progress and he has gotten a lot better

[@lukewilliams4844]

Anderz is good at finding people because he plays counterstrike. If you would play counterstrike, you would be really op. You are already beast at pvp. The finding people and anticipation will make you a pro. ;)

[@aarondaum1054]

Doc is better at PvP. Just saying.

[@lukewilliams4844]

Aaron Daum Meh. Etho is better at bow.

[@aarondaum1054]

True, but Doc is good at swords.

[@lukewilliams4844]

Aaron Daum It depends on the scenario. If Etho sees him coming. He will most likely win. If he doesn't then it is pretty even. :P

[@jamespfp]

EATS is superior to minecarts (IMHO) because its investment cost is entirely renewable. True - a few boats get destroyed to sticks and planks. But the wood to make them isn't in short supply, and 2 buckets of water make infinite road surface. So... Yeah. Also, thumbs up for Anderz turning the tables. :D

[@TheNayzan]

The people who die and then respawn should be splashed with potions of speed, invisibility, and resistance so they don't get spawn trapped.

[@antversion7447]

The invisible trolling is one of my most favorite things to watch people do in Minecraft. Lol

[@xXemoTi0nalXx]

ETHO!! Did you know if you place a stained glass on top of a beacon (I Don't Know if you place it before you activate the beam) but it will change the beam color ... you can use this in ur game on mindcrack to change the beam color between red and blue!

[@jsdsparky]

While there has been discussion among the community about adding this, it has not been implemented yet.

[@TheLukesterGaming]

LOL at those parts with you and Arkas teaming up to through eggs at Anderz as he was stuck on one of his floating islands! You guys have officially dubbed it as "Chicken Island" xD It was funny watching you sneak up on him with invisibility potions like that too, even if the Anvil didn't actually drop on his head, it always makes me laugh watching you trying to drop it on some unsuspecting victim, er I mean, fellow Mindcracker of course hahaha! I had no idea there was a Minecraft Overviewer map for the new season of the Mindcrack server until now :o and after half an hour or so of searching through the reddit (or sub-reddits, whatever) I finally found it, and went exploring for all the stuff you guys have done around spawn and around the newly generated land too! :P Finally, you've done a great job with the 'death counter' part of your PvP arena there, even if you could have done it better, it still works well the way it does anyway! Although I have seen a few posts on the Mindcrack reddit about how to make it more compact and with the line of redstone running along the top and sticking out by 1 block, instead of 2!

[@sheoldred7177]

etho, Vechs has a massive wool farm, you should ask him for some!

[@Siax28]

Thank you etho! I've been sick and nobody i watch was uploading anything!

[@welshdave1234]

For the lights couldn't u use locked repeaters in some way?

[@HaziqNR]

Counter Strike makes your hearing better. That's why Anderz can hear Etho

[@FooBarBash]

Etho, why don't you simplify the design for the pop-up sheep farm from your LP world, make a version that can be easily built on the MindCrack server? You said you were going to make a simple version of it when you first built it like a year or two ago but you never got around to it. You could put it in spawn village for kicks, or put it by your mountain base.

[@hellobananasparkitechs6650]

Hey Etho! I know, I know, people might say that they said this too, but for the capture points, put red stained glass and blue stained glass for capture points being taken. Create an alternating clock on both sides of the point and then the colored beacon will shine that color. Just a suggestion, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.

[@flyingwolffilms]

10:15 typical etho inventory

[@DigitalDyslexia]

Etho, you should allow anvils for use in the death games, and if you get killed with it you have to pay 5 diamonds instead of just one to your slayer. Seems like it would make for some funny episodes throughout the MindCrack guys.

[@silkenshadow]

Troll Etho is best Etho.

[@RuthlessDutchman]

The Viking defends his home once again!

[@orlanswf]

Seriously, Etho should officially call these two regions Nilfheim (the ice area) and Muspelheim (the fire area). Those are the names for the first two regions of the world, according to the norse mythology. Like this comment if you liked this idea! Also, this would make the Mad Viking way too happy.

[@elKONTEXO]

Hey Etho, Dico made an awesome counter design. You might wanna use that. It's relativly small really reliable and also adjustable

[@Darticus42]

11:08 ROFL XD

[@theNVftw]

"Lots of poster of justin bieber I got to say, he has got some isues" HAHAHAH LOLL!

[@AldirneXd111111]

yay ethsroad!

[@thedarkaffliction8121]

+EthosLab for the death counter, you can have hoppers that are locked, and feed eachother in a line. have redstone torches underthem to lock them, then hook the spawn kill counter to a monostable curcuit and go frim there.

[@yourpalneisly]

It would've been funnier if anders put a horse in it

[@archiesauls3672]

The video posts as soon as my dinner is ready. Thank you Etho, now I have something to watch while I eat :)

[@emmandever4907]

That's what I was going to say

[@para001]

28:14 LOL Etho almost sounds as southern as Guude. Btw if you read this Etho.... id recommend making the entrance to the team rooms resemble an ice cave and a lava or volcanic cave, respectively. But just the entrance, so theres contrast between the cave like outside and furnished technological inside. Keep up the good work.

[@LOLZYMCLOLZ]

Etho, please dont use stone bricks for the respawn room., it doesn't fit the ice feel

[@HazzBroSneakers]

sorry to go against you but.. the color pallet actually does match as grey is classed as a cold or bleak color it fits perfectly in the cold feel bdubs is going for

[@TOMAN334]

Etho you can actually use Hoppers for the Health. The output is linear if you use stacks of 1s. It is 3 blocks per item. Then devide that by 3 and you have yourself 5 stages. Just do that twice with 2 hoppers in a row and you can have 10 Health for each team. Hope it helps you.

[@raginmadmangonecrazy]

Is it just me or was that the old FTB intro?

[@Dalokohs]

Yes it was. Etho must've accidentally put it there.

[@VynaNyx]

the ftb intro is typically used for mindcrack episodes since ftb has stopped.

[@Wolf480pl]

Cheppa I think he did it on purpose. Last few mindcrack videos all have this intro.

[@OfficieelHD]

Wolf480pl i think he uses this intro for redstone videos

[@MichaelHaskin]

have the path out of the spawn points drop the player 2 blocks so once they leave they cannot sneak back in. If there was a door someone could easily camp it and push their way in when it opens from the inside

[@omleypvp1487]

What happened to star bound?????

[@KBC7050]

He probably isn't playing because the next update is gonna wipe out character data again.

[@omleypvp1487]

Thx

[@ExtinctTrain671]

Yes! He is working on the arena some more! I am going to be smiling at the finish product.

[@OuellonT]

IF YOU PUT STAINED GLASS ON TOP OF A BEACON IT WILL CHANGE COLOUR PLEASE LIKE SO ETHO CAN SEE THIS

[@Slashx92]

i just tested it and it doesn't work, and i didn't read anything about beacon changing colors in the various devs twitters or in changelogs

[@92astonmartin]

Hey Etho, Firstly, nice job on the E.A.T.S road. Good to see that back in use and working! Could you use droppers and hoppers for releasing and collecting boats at the end of the track. Secondly, for the capture points, why not make it so that all three pressure plates must be on for the team to capture the point; i.e. that it won't capture with just one or two people standing at the point. Thirdly, for the death counter, what would happen if you used named items that could stack up to a certain amount so that it would only count up 1 at a time? Hope you see this! Keep up the good work! Mr TSB

[@EeynoVations3D]

Hey Etho i would like to give you some advice... If you do the class thing you need to make it so after they get there class they cant get another the way I would do this is make the entrance door a one way so after you leave you cant go back until you re-spawn and when you get a class it pushes you out through another one way if you understand that if not you can Message Me. & Please like this comment so Etho can see it Thanks!

[@makemegood5two]

I can understand Bdubs obsession with JB. Beiber is a good musician.

[@CertifiedDoc]

If you need wool, go talk to SethBling. He's got loads of sheep.

[@Woozz93]

Wow Etho, this game is going to be so awesome... You're putting a lot of effort on it, I hope Mindcrackers will often come to play it.

[@Gigadrax]

I have a gametype idea as well. It's pretty much the a combination of Deathmatch and Capture point gametypes, where the goal is the same as the Deathmatch, reduce your opponents' lives to zero and the incentive to capturing points is that it unlocks better, more powerful classes to pick from, kind of similar in a way to Star Wars: Battlefront (II). Also, I'm not exactly family with the redstone behind the spawn system, but I'm concerned about how it would handle multiple people spawning at the same time.

[@DarknessSwordmaster]

it's not meatball- it's shitball :)

[@viedralavinova8266]

When the team runs out of lives, open up the spawn area for spectating the main arena for the team.

[@cashtonperry2336]

1rd

[@gameguy0174]

I think it's spelled turd. Your welcome.

[@UbisoftAustralia]

st? lol

[@Tech_Marauder]

LOL 1rd, it's 1st, what would 1rd sound like?.....onerd? its First, yeah I know, its weird.

[@TheMan83554]

Lucas Gordon for onrd, it would be fird

[@Tech_Marauder]

Galetie is that to me? because it really is 1st, with your logic (if that comment was to me) then 2nd would be 2rd (twoerd?,twerd?, terd?, TURD!?!?!) or do you also think that it's 2rd

[@Gas_Sn4ke]

Maybe have a Builder class that's equipped with a dispenser, arrows and redstone coupled with a stone/iron sword for self defense. To counter that, you could have a class with TNT or shears to disable them. Just suggesting :)

[@J7Pines]

TNT is a bad idea though, looks like a lotta work is being put in for the setup.

[@Lazerjo2000]

I considered a builder class, but they would have top clean up and any contraptions would be easily avoided

[@RastafarianPilgrim]

When it's not raining on the Mindcrack server, it's apparently cloudy with a chance of meatballs...!

[@robot797]

mmmm one ore 2 meatballs i like both

[@RastafarianPilgrim]

:D Meatballs is good eatin'!

[@juholi71]

Hey Etho! Use the new couloured class when doing the control point system. The beacon beam will chance colour by what coloured class you put on it. Use blue class when ice team owns it and red class when fire team owns it! Hopefully this helps you :)

[@qua11q7]

Hey Etho, i would love to suggest you a new gametype. Because of you built spawn room and it is reachable from outside, it occured to me maybe you can implement another type of game. I thought you can make something like capture the flag kind of game. Putting something in the middle of the spawn room as a flag might be a good idea. The other team try to get it and bring it back to their spawn room as the other team try to bring the other teams flag as well. Because of you will spawn instantly, you will have a second chance to protect your flag. It would be better when someone spawns with a wooden sword for protection reasons. It might be hard to put dispenser to the spawn system but you are redstone expert, aren't you :) I would appreciated if you consider this :) It took long time for me to write this with my derpy English :D But i just wanted to share my ideas with you. And guys if you agree this idea, could you just like it so etho can see it :)

[@connortalbot2687]

Since you are aware of guudeland, you should install a new trivia box for it, with all new questions. Here's one you could use; what can you do with leather armor that you can't do with any other kind of armor. A. make mobs think your a cow. B. wash in a cauldron. C. confuse cows when you kill them. D. none of the above.

[@arjunyg4655]

by *far* the best record, etho that pun was probably unintentional but I'm dying of laughter lol

[@AAAuser1]

For the re-spawn room, you should have a piston door that opens every 10-15 seconds for a 3 second period so there isn't a constant rush of players everywhere.

[@nhnifong]

In stead of detecting when someone dies you might want to just spawn them into a room and detect when they enter the arena. That way, when the team has only a few remaining, they can negotiate who shall use them, rather than it just being round-robin

[@Ayame_Kajou]

Etho-Raise this roof. Me-RAISE THE ROOF!

[@knobtwista]

Etho is gonna get his anvil kill one of these days. The probability is increasing with each try!

[@DARKSN0VV]

Etho how about trying out filling a dropper with items to fill the capture bar. Have 3 droppers pointing to a score dropper that has items that correspond to the capture status (the dropper will have a comparator to show the redstone output), and for every person that steps on a pressure plate a dropper will be adding more items to the score dropper. Also you could have only two droppers pointing at the score dropper and have a locked hopper below it that will be unlocked when the other team is capturing the base. Maybe even use a clock to kind of slow down the droppers speed when one person is capturing and making it go full speed when theirs two.

[@AxxSir]

If you cant fly you run, if you cant run you walk,if you cant walk you crawl, but no matter what you've just got to keep moving forward :)

[@bradleypuckett6634]

Etho I know you couldn't find a way to make the black beacon light so I've been testing a lot in my creative world since you put up the video about it and I'm pleased to say if you put any color stained glass directly on top of the beacon block whatever color glass you have will be the color of the beam. Everyone please like this so he can make his original idea for the arena come true.

[@Smoshman2002]

Etho you could make multiple bed spawns. So, in the beginning of the match you set your spawn at the bed that corresponds with the class they want to be. Unfortunately, you would have to stick with the same class for the whole game... That isn't too bad though, is it? Anyway, that way you could use the auto-equip system and avoid wasting time with setting your class each time you die.

[@ricardo1wils]

Anderz didn't go invisible :( poor Etho, you got so unlucky with that darn pesky minecraft bug. He had all his armor on and was right beside you on the shore line!

[@antonvanes3528]

it may be A big flood, but it will NEVER be THE BIG FLOOD

[@VlogsTomDoes]

Hey Etho, How about for each team (fire vs ice) whenever a player dies, you have a fire charge or a snowball shoot into the air from the main wall where the respawn area is, so each team can clearly see when they've killed a player/ a team mate has been killed? keep up the good work, loving this PVP game so far!

[@vrintex]

cool! nice to see you're adding more ways of transportation on the server.

[@GilWanderley]

As Kurt would have said to that prank: That's-a spicy meatball!

[@TheFinalScientist]

About those different coloured beacons idea you had a while ago, you *do* know stained glass changes the beacon colour right? ;)

[@madamadme6953]

When he said he built something I instantly knew it was an EATS road

[@AzaleaLala]

Probably having a wall between the two teams and having them come out into the arena on opposite ends like you mentioned is a good idea. Otherwise they are just going to start fighting in the spawn room. Or maybe I'm seeing it wrong. It just looks like both teams will spawn at the same place. I smell a spawn trap. For some reason I thought the ice team would spawn on the ice side and the fire team would spawn on the fire side. I don't think Bdubs is using Acacia wood on the Fire side. He mentioned that he will be using Netherbrick and some other dark colors.

[@jonathan90881]

I'm really excited to see the finished product! But wouldn't it have been better to build it at Guudeland?

[@danielanton3672]

With the death counter, you could either use ropers facing into each other and having a comparitor output from them or use locking repeaters