First Look At The Crafter! ▫ Minecraft 1.21 Update, Snapshot 23w42a ▫ Creative & Survival Gameplay

Mojang has released the first snapshot for Minecraft 1.21!
After learning about it at Minecraft Live 2023, Snapshot 23w42a brings us a hands-on look at hands-free crafting with the new redstone automation block: the Crafter!
I've been preparing for the Crafter by setting up an automated factory for redstone components. But now the Crafter is slotted into the system, does it work how I expected? We look at manually fed auto-crafting and how the block interacts with hoppers and other inventories. We set up a simple pair of Crafters to compact bones into bone blocks through the middle stage of bonemeal - perfect for your skeleton farm!
Then I turn my attention to a factory design which dispenses the ingredients for redstone components into a hopper, and discover that timing is crucial for using this block - since items grouping together in water streams or inside a hopper can lead to the ingredients being added in the wrong order.
We also pay close attention to the texture and sounds of the Crafter - then jump into a Survival world to discover the crafting recipe and see how quickly we can acquire one!
Check out the full snapshot changelog here: www.minecraft.net/en-us/artic...
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[@meowtain9566]

When they said we would get snapshots with new features in the coming weeks I wasn't expecting this week!

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, I was expecting it to be next week at least. We got a quick snapshot for 1.20 features last year, but I was very keen to get first-hand experience with the crafter so this is awesome

[@OrigamiMarie]

Me neither! My guess is that they're expecting a whole bunch of bug reports about the Crafter and other redstone stuff, so they want to get started on the fixes early.

[@goodrabbi7176]

The quick implementation makes up for the lackluster Live. They got burned saying too much and “disappointing”(I’m thankful for everything they add, so not me) the community over and over. Now are rebutting the “Lazy” argument. I think we are lucky there are people attached to this game, that really care about it.

[@mariamjohn6068]

Same bro! I thought they said in the upcoming weeks but it's already out! Sadly I only play on my Nintendo switch, so I can't get the snapshot

[@erikparszyk]

To me a good redstone feature is one that can be used both on a very advanced level but also in very simple and "primitive" ways. The crafter is the perfect example of that for me

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, it's easy to use but it's got a very high 'skill ceiling', which makes it super rewarding to use

[@KitsukiiPlays]

I believe people who were asking for “inventory solutions” don’t realize how big this is!

[@Pixlriffs]

It certainly answers one part of a larger problem. Very excited to see what people do with this.

[@zachwillett5853]

The very first thing I thought of when I saw the Crafter was gold farms. Instead of having a vast storage area full of gold nuggets, pass them through a couple of crafters, and your AFK farm is storing gold blocks. With the space you're saving packing the gold down, maybe now's the time to salvage the gold swords you can get from these guys, toss *them* into an auto smelter, and dump the nuggets you get from that back in with the nuggets you're getting normally.

[@PhilipOConnell]

Yeah this is my exact thought as well I actually have a really fast gold farm and am considering trying to setup a crafter system using a world backup..

[@zachwillett5853]

@@PhilipOConnell Mind if I ask you a question then? With the added space gained from packing nuggets into ingots and then blocks, do you think it's even worth it to bother with the weapons? Or not?

[@Joker-fj8hg]

Or craft into gold ingots then barter with piglins directly.

[@bubbaberriboo]

i didn’t think i’d use it, but the skeleton farm idea made me realize i can automatically turn the iron from my iron farm in iron blocks and not have to worry about it overflowing as often

[@Yirggzmb]

Yeah, this kind of stuff I think is going to be the real bread and butter of the crafter. Sure, some people are going to be automating everything, but I think most people are going to use these to compress stuff into storage blocks.

[@brandedfate]

You'll also be able to use it in a Zombie Piglin Gold Farm/Piglin Trade Hall combo. Turn all those gold nuggets straight into ingots and ship them down to the greedy piggies for all their good trades.

[@vthib]

As someone with chronic hand pain who loves redstone, I'm so excited for this. Repetitive motions of crafting bulk items is painful for me and for a long time I've wished for the ability to use the spacebar to autofill the last recipe used in a crafting table just like you can use space to auto fill the last item traded with a villager. The crafter is such a cool surprise and will save me so much pain and allow me to play the game for longer and in more ways :)

[@AKA_Kira]

I fully agree that the spacebar should be used to repull the last recipe I have similar issues

[@RidneY]

Not to take away from the excitement of the crafter but if you play on java there is a mod called Inventory Profile Next which, among its many functions, will autofill the last recipe for you. You might find it useful

[@vthib]

@@RidneY I'll look into that, thanks! I've been looking for a mod that can do this for a long time now.

[@rays45678]

@@vthib I've found modding to be really helpful for accessibility. I also recommend the mod 'Mouse Tweaks' which lets you do a lot of stuff with less clicking like dragging items to fill the crafting box.

[@vthib]

@@rays45678Thank you!!

[@desislavad6239]

23:34 "Don't talk to me, or my crafty son ever again!" I love that so much, and the crafter's texture does look like a cute face with a big mustache.

[@Van-dq4sw]

Even without the practicality of the block's functions, the fact that the block itself is a) able to be placed directionally, and b) different on all 6 faces (yes the sides are just mirrored but the directionality remains important), means that it's also going to be a fantastic little building piece as well. I can already see people lining up the back of it as a reinforced foundation for a wall, and the bottom of it mirroring things like the stonecutter or the furnace/blast furnace with the outline almost makes me wish you could place it upside-down just to use that as a flooring. They've put care into the block, so that not ONLY is it going to give the redstone players more options, but the builders as well. An excellent little fellow.

[@TheRealWormbo]

Maybe you could try something as simple as powder snow in front of the droppers to keep the items mostly separated.

[@Pixlriffs]

Ooh, good suggestion. I haven't really played around with how powder snow affects item movement, I'll give it a try

[@svoidsofinfinitechaos9367]

I love the amount of enthusiasm in this video. I’m not even sure if I’ll use it and I’m excited for this to get added to the game. There are so many items that get crafted in bulk that something like this makes total sense to add to the game. I wish the stone cutter could have functionally like this though, especially on bedrock.

[@Pixlriffs]

Honestly even if you aren't planning to use its function, it's a cool looking workstation. I can see people using the front of the block as a robot face, like how the observer gets used for statues

[@pottierkurt1702]

Enthousiasm? This dude fell in the pit of boring at birth..

[@Pixlriffs]

I'm so happy you still decided to comment on two videos even though you found me boring! Engagement like this helps my videos find a broader audience.

[@svoidsofinfinitechaos9367]

@@Pixlriffs I don’t find you boring. You’re probably my favorite Minecraft KZbinr. I’ve referred to you as the Bob Ross of Minecraft. I meant no offense I swear. 😅

[@Loswaith]

Keep in mind most stuff the stone cutter makes can be done in a normal crafting table. Abet less efficiently, but still achievable

[@kjeldgaard0]

It would be good if you could somehow leave the last ingredients in the crafter, so you retain a template when the crafter starts up again. Then you don't need to worry about the order of the ingredients. Can you lock the crafter somehow?

[@luviana_]

you could lock the hoppers when there is X amount of items in the crafter so it always leaves one of each in the crafter

[@silvinity4939]

I don't think you can, but it only crafts when it's pulsed, so with a little effort you can make a setup that only pulses it when the last item for a given craft has been placed in, instead of just running it on a timer. This lets you leave a template in place that never gets pulsed.

[@twinkyoctopus]

you can probably take a comparator output and make a stack like the one for Item sorters to keep a recipe in the crafter

[@fatarsemonkey]

If you set up a crafter for each item you want then it wouldn't matter. Personally, I think crafters will end up in multiple layer storage systems. Primary product followed by secondary and so on.

[@Loswaith]

just take a comparator reading from whatever feeds the table and stop the creation trigger when it gets lower than the minimum to make one or two items.

[@jcwolves]

When this was announced I looked at my husband and said "The madmen did it. They actually did it. They added autocrafting to minecraft." Crazy excited to see what the technical community can do.

[@rayexyes8083]

The best solution for supplying items in the correct order would be locked hoppers that are locked and unlocked by a clock so that each hopper sends and receives only one item simultaneously. IlMango did a 42 furnace array using this method, but for different reasons. This is exciting tech to add to the game. Great Video.

[@Pixlriffs]

I can imagine a much more sophisticated system where instead of having pre-set recipes like my redstone component factory here does, you have a row of droppers with basically every crafting ingredient, and the player input kinda 'dials in' the recipe. It'd be much more versatile but quite tricky to program!

[@rayexyes8083]

@@Pixlriffs The biggest issue is the randomness of droppers. if you had a line of droppers each facing into a hopper, one pulse would dispense all the items into the hoppers in the correct order. then all hoppers are locked with a line of redstone across them all. This line of redstone is pulsed so that each hopper passes on and receives the next item and all items are delivered to the crafter at the end of the line.

[@haz6908]

@@Pixlriffs I imagine Sahara but for autocrafting! That would be an amazing project!

[@juicedsky688]

I’m thinking that you dial in the ingredients in the correct order and that determines which slot they will be fed into

[@AshPotato]

@@haz6908 almost like a storage system that could autocraft for you! honestly i've never been into redstone, but this is making me excited. i'm sure something like that will be completely doable.

[@vaibhavmishra5179]

Mojang finally added the most awaited feature

[@Pixlriffs]

I've been awaiting this for like... 3 days since they announced it lol Genuinely didn't expect them to add something that would automate crafting.

[@juicedsky688]

This will bring a few, at least, a few, back from the create mod

[@AT-il4xl]

Pixlriffs thinking he's CaptainSparklez at 4:36

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

Imagine setting a couple of these up with a cobblestone generator near your string farm, and just slowly having it generate dispensers in the background, as long as you keep it fed with redstone and wood. Or the most ludicrous use: a self-packing shulker shell farm that creates it's own shulkerboxes.

[@kyleyoung2464]

You can put the items in at any order if you always have the slots filled.

[@danielgysi5729]

Yeah the trouble it's hard to tell if you always have the slots filled since the comparator signal only changes when one is empty so you have be extremely careful with the timing to make sure you don't craft too fast or too slow. So I guess it's a trade off between needing to be careful about item order or needing to be careful about timing. Personally I prefer item order, timing is too annoying but maybe it'll be more powerful

[@kyleyoung2464]

@@danielgysi5729 i love how there isn't really a right way to use the crafter. I can see many unique designs being made in the coming months.

[@jamesduehring2770]

I think that one of the best ways to use the crafter is going to be with shulker loading and unloading. Basically you can have a redstone machine that loads up a shulker with the exact items for the recipe, then you move the shulker to a system that unloads it into a hopper into a crafter. By doing this you can have a system that could craft any item on demand. Since the crafter loads items one-at-a-time top to bottom left to right theoretically you could put all of the ingredients for a cake into a shulker box in that exact order but in reverse and then when the shulker goes on top of the hopper it would put the recipe in the exact order to do one craft of the item.

[@yoko3182]

I'm excited to see what happens when people like Etho, Mumbo, Impulse, and BDubs play with this.

[@yoko3182]

Omg and DocM.

[@zachwillett5853]

@@yoko3182 I've already seen Xisuma build a decent sized layout with crosshatched resdtone for some advanced encoding. I can imagine that Doc is going to need to get the Perimeter in full swing as a legit industrial district for a fully operational autocrafter. DUDE! Think of what this thing would mean for Sahara 2.0....

[@RFDN0]

I am looking forward to Hermitcraft season 10 because Redstoners are going to be going crazy in the economy with this.

[@ruralkracken3000]

If they'll ever stop playing decked out

[@juicedsky688]

I’ve got the chips and drink ready

[@Pest789]

4:33 Apparently it doesn't make wobs. 9/10

[@goodboi650]

Pretty good but unplayable if I can't craft wobs.

[@kektics3074]

Combo farms are gonna be amazing, I can’t wait! Squid farm over at my guardian farm, creeper + sugar cane, maybe even string and honeycomb with some flower farms to make candles!

[@squiddorito]

An amazing idea just struck me. Does anyone remember the boatbomb that Grian unleashed in Hermitcraft season 8? I think we’ve found a way to streamline the process…

[@Korra228]

I love how Minecrafty the crafter is. It really belongs in the game.

[@AKA_Kira]

have it convert bonemeal into a boneblock silo, then have it stay there until you want to use it with the farm where it will uncraft it and use it for your farm as regular bonemeal compacting your storage needs :)

[@vikcraft7429]

It would be cool if there are two 3x3 grids in GUI. The first grid will be used as template & second grid will contain actual items for crafting. The 2nd grid slots will only allow putting corresponding items as in first grid. This will also remove the requirement of disabling slots.

[@BlookyBeat]

that sound of the crafter failing to craft makes the PERFECT clock ticking sound! you could place an empty crafter behind a custom clock build and hook it to, appropriately, a redstone clock! get bonus points by giving it a pulse every real-life second :) already such a great redstone block with some unexpected ambience opportunites!

[@YuuseiKurobane]

The adventure to figure out the crafting recipe was really fun to watch, felt like intentional slander that minecraft is a game that u need a wiki to learn and can’t just play with in game knowledge..

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

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[@charlesnicholas6206]

I would love to see some kind of ability to dynamically assign the blocked slots. My first idea was to make a autocrafting contraption that allows you to input 9 stacks/shulkers of items each corresponding to one the 9 slots in the crafting grid. But currently, this would be limited to full 3x3 recipes. I think having renamed items as a temporary slot blocker that get fired out with the crafted item could be a cool feature.

[@Vidzaes]

You can have a hopper underneath that will take out filter items. It’s what illmango/scicraft did with their autocrafting pluggin

[@Inksaver]

Can't wait to try this with ccTweaked (Computercraft), which can already be setup to autocraft with a turtle and Lua code. It will allow a combined storage system using ccTweaked network cables to transport materials and place the items directly into the correct slots, using a computer interface to make a simple request for the item and quantity required. At it's simplest the only components needed would be a couple of chests or barrels, a computer and one of these crafters to make anything...

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

Bhai maine new Minecraft ke Survival series start ki hai please use dekhkar comment karo 🙏❤

[@humourlessjester3584]

It seems to me like the most reliable method so far is to keep the crafting recipe in the crafter at all times while a slow clock tells it to craft, making sure that the items never get fully drained out of the crafter, so that some are always left behind to be refilled (think item filter logic). To do thisI had a repeater clock slow enough that it'll never drain everything out in one go and then stop the clock once the hoppers stop receiving items. It gets very complicated when you tell a crafter to craft multiple things at once because of timings but this set up where you tell a crafter to craft just one thing repeatedly seems simple enough.

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

Bhai maine new Minecraft ke Survival series start ki hai please use dekhkar comment karo 🙏❤

[@screamer22222]

We can finally craft a WOB automatically 😁

[@spritemon98]

A what?

[@marcy1232]

@@spritemon98 a wob is a backwards bow - like at 4:33

[@jacyjacobs3407]

You could add a filter item to take place of empty slots and filter them out once all spots are filled before firing the crafting pulse

[@jacyjacobs3407]

Also, to solve your ingredient timing, you could have droppers with single type of ingredient pointing into horizontal hopper lines

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

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[@zachstrahan]

I think that this thing is going to mostly be a “compressor”, used to squash down farm outputs that can be made into resource blocks, with a few fun auto-crafting situations for items needed in mass bulk.

[@TheRealWormbo]

I see several categories, or "tiers" if you will, of applications. 1. Farm output compacting. The required circuit for this is relatively easy, and apparently even 1-wide tileable if people want to insert it into their filtering and box loading setup. This applies to a lot of farms - melons, wheat, iron (even the nuggets from bartering which were never really worth it before), gold, redstone, emeralds, sea lanterns, … 2. Combining farms. A creeper farm and a sugarcane farm can be combined into a flight rocket factory using only two crafters. Add a stone generator to a witch/raid farm to produce various redstone components automatically.* 3. More efficient automatic furnace fuel production. You can pack dried kelp into the blocks now, or turn bamboo into a more efficient fuel source by crafting it into bamboo planks. You could even use a "playerless" nether tree farm to produce viable fuel now, by crafting the stems into sticks or ladders, which *do* burn. Even the sticks from a tree, witch or raid farm could be "compacted" into ladders for fuel usage this way.* 4. Utility crafting. Build a machine that handles the annoying crafting tasks. Need a shulker box of pistons (or two) for a piston bolt? Input boxes of raw materials (logs, redstone blocks, iron blocks, cobblestone, optionally also slime blocks) and get the packed up (sticky) pistons out after some time. Sure, it's slower, but you didn't need to spend time messing with the crafting UI. 5. Storage supplies restocking. Empty shulker boxes take up a lot of space. Fortunately, by packing up shells and logs/stems in a 1:1 ratio, you can auto-craft them on-demand now. But what to do with those empty boxes after takign out ? Well, cactus is always an option. ;-) 6. Mini game restocking. Have players enter arenas auto-equipped with unenchanted iron gear. * Nether tree farms and stone generators unfortunately still require TNT to break the blocks. If you're okay with TNT duplication for that kind of use, you are good to go, otherwise TNT ends up being a consumable supply, but TNT-efficient blast chambers are still a thing. There's one that can break up to about 600 blocks when fed constantly, although its item collection depends on it running at a constant 18000 blocks per hour. Otherwise 240 blocks broken per TNT are the common case.

[@marcy1232]

@@TheRealWormbo even though I know they're renewable now, it still pains me to think of dumping shulker boxes onto cactus lol fuel production was the first thing I thought of when the crafter was announced. kelp farms could already be pretty much self sustaining except they needed a player to come in occasionally to compress into blocks, the crafter can automate that final step now to make a kelp fuel farm a truly infinite cycle

[@jamesduehring2770]

I really want to make a system where an iron farm and wood farm feeds into a crafting Redstone factory that makes a full set of iron armor and iron tools and bow and sword and then loads all of them into dispensers so I can just walk onto a pressure plate and have all of the items put into my inventory automatically every time that I die and have them infinitely created in the background you can even incorporate some potions and foods into this kit machine

[@fatarsemonkey]

Ooooo imagine storage systems now. Have a heap of farms feeding into a primary product storage system that then feeds into a secondary product storage followed by however many levels of storage until you get to the most complex item. This is going to be mad.

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, people can do so much with these. Really curious to see if anyone commits that hard

[@fatarsemonkey]

@@Pixlriffs The Scicraft guys.

[@AnthanKrufix]

It is now my personal goal to fill an entire doublechest filled with shulker boxes, all filled completely with Crafters... Where none of the items or components were put there by hand... A cobblestone generator and redstone from a witch farm combine to make droppers... The droppers are combined with iron from an iron farm, along with some of that redstone.. and meanwhile a bamboo farm makes bamboo -> bamboo blocks -> bamboo planks -> crafting tables.. which are used to make crafters. Meanwhile some of those bamboo planks are also used to make chests, which combined with shulker shells from a shulker farm will make shulker boxes... Automatically dispensed and filled with the crafters, then automatically broken and sent to the storage.

[@CapObv]

Said this on Ray's page, but the obvious way to dramatically improve the crafter would be to allow locking an item to a slot, not just locking an empty slot. The "locked recipe slot" would not take up a stack count and would use allay logic for what can go in that slot. This means locking a bow would allow any bow to load into that slot, etc. This would also simplify item sorters with tons less redstone needed because the crafter could double as an item filter, even for "unstackables".

[@TheRealWormbo]

But is simplifying the crafter really necessary? You already get slot blocking, and you can prefill the crafter. As long as the input hoppers are not empty, you can let it run on a clock running at 8*[number of slot]/[number of hoppers] game ticks.

[@CapObv]

@@TheRealWormbo Is it necessary? Not for simple uses, but that single change DRASTICALLY simplifies everything, and works for far more use cases than some overengineered hopper system.

[@corrosiongod]

Perfect for so many things but I love the thought of never crafting a melon from slices again and the snow block is tedious.

[@BurningLance2]

man that big redstone auto crafting 0_0 who knows how crazy inventions someone can make with the crafter. i might just use it for bamboo blocks, dried kelp blocks, bone meal, the simple stuff

[@xflame5179]

This item is revolutionary

[@answeris4217]

I don't see how they couldn't just add in the crafting book and look in the recipe. And you could use the comparator output from the auto crafter to dispense items when it's full so you don't need the clock. The auto-crafter is just that an auto-crafter.

[@erin.anderson]

Autocrafting feels like one of those things that Mojang has said for so long that they had no interest in doing that when they showed it at Minecraft Live, I didn't really believe it. I am happy to be proven wrong there, and agreed; this opens up so many possibilities for more complex automation and functional factories.

[@nifft.3115]

On the contrary to what you said around 4:34, I’m happy to know I’m not the only one who switches the recipe for crafting bows. I swear, I do it every time and I’ve been playing since Beta! 😂

[@A11V1R15]

This is also good for transport, like, you can make the bone blocks in your bone meal farm and send them to turn back and use in the tree farms

[@fishlemontek189]

Love the vids pix, can always count on ya for a solid look into alot

[@oaksparoakspar3144]

The water stream is what is messing you up as items in the stream have their innate magnetism to "group up" pulling them out of order. You need a slower and more consistent method of item movement - I've seen hopper lines also grouping as well (messing up X with his tests, especially when unloading and loading the area/world). Hopper lines with "dead" extra hoppers to create spread, slow dropper lines (also better alternating with dead hoppers in the line), and the like will work better. Looked down and saw that Ravenstoner said pretty much the same thing. Oh well.

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, the items bunching up in the water stream and the input hopper was throwing off the recipes here. This was my first time playing around with these mechanics though, lots to revisit and try again!

[@everknight1185]

Finally, I've been waiting for so long for autocrafting

[@sassychip26]

Imagine a gold farm! Linked to a bartering system!

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

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[@D_4_N_]

I think there's a missed opportunity to make this block function far better, and be far more intuitive and useable. Would be really cool if you could use the recipe book to choose which item you want to automatically craft (sort of like a preset) and then just pump the regular items into it, and have it place the right items in the right slots.

[@spritemon98]

Exactly!!! As a way for it to permanently remember the recipe

[@ConnorFlashwing]

Could still happen, remember this is the first look at it.

[@acenomadic]

I don't think it's a missed opportunity so much as one they deliberately rejected. If it's too easy then it doesn't feel like Minecraft, and honestly a lot of the uses for the Crafter are pretty intuitive as it is. People are going to have to put in some work to make Dispenser autocrafters, but there are already a couple designs for even that floating around now

[@spritemon98]

@@acenomadic I wouldn't say easy. Its more practical if it remembers the recipe

[@Weetunet]

I believe it was a deliberate choice from the developers to leave that functionality out. It forces players to have to do a bit of engineering to get the results they want.

[@Endie05]

This is crazy, this'll be revolutionary for automatic farms! Can't wait for it to be added

[@rav3nston3]

i wonder if using hoppers instead of water streams would work better for keeping the order, in xisuma's vid they seemed to have a bit of an issue but maybe just spreading the droppers out and having a delay between them would fix that (like your tower of dropper-observer-dropper-observer) and the crafter can push items directly into a hopper too so you wouldn't even need a barrel first for stuff like bow crafting, just straight into a hopper and into another crafter primed for dispensers good video though! really showing off some more of the utility in an easy to understand way, and showing how simple it could be to get one pretty early (although you did get pretty lucky with that village)

[@Pixlriffs]

The most important thing seems to be avoiding letting the items group up in a water stream or in the input hopper. If items are allowed to stack together before being added to the crafter, it messes up the order. Spreading them out so they're at the same speed as (or slower than) hopper push timings is essential

[@rav3nston3]

@@Pixlriffs maybe using a torch tower to lock the hoppers between the push times could help, or if it's horizontal just a line of redstone i guess, best thing about that would be the ability to queue up multiple recipes at once, locking all the recipe storage hoppers between crafts, and also like x said you could use a filler item to not need to lock slots so there wouldn't even need to be any player input at all (obviously requiring an extra system to pull the filler items out once the crafter is full, but with the directionality of the crafter and the ability to push directly into hoppers allowing you to make them output to anywhere you want that's really not an issue) you considered maybe the items group up on the input hopper because they can't be picked up fast enough? if you're married to the water stream maybe you could use a hopper minecart to insure everything's picked up as soon as possible and immediately pushed into the input hopper below (also the random nature of items from a dropper does kinda mean you need to worry about some of them being slower or faster on their way down the chutes)

[@rav3nston3]

@@Pixlriffs hi quick update, i got an design using hoppers (that doesn't require locking slots, instead using an item filter and filler items) to work consistently, it looks? modular? and like you could input as many recipes as you want into it? i haven't tried to go any further than the recipe queuing system instead of using a tower of hoppers and trying to slow them down, i alternated hoppers and decorated pots to slow the hoppers down enough to not let things get bunched up, only problems i've noticed so far is making the delay between "crafter full!" and "activate crafter" too short makes recipes with a lot of filler break but that's just trial and error, and there is the issue of items possibly getting bunched up if you use a vertical line of hoppers (because of the whole push And pull issue) coming out of the pot/hopper/pot/hopper line but i haven't noticed Too much of a problem with anything after solving the delay issue also i used decorated pots because not only are they pretty simple to craft (just 9 pots, or 36 bricks per recipe you want to automate, rather than trying to use droppers which take cobble and redstone) but also the single slot does make them convenient for Hopefully not letting recipes get mixed up setting up the filter to pull out the filler items once the crafter is full was simple too, just checking the input hopper for items and extending the pulse (can't really check the crafter because the filler items would be pulled out before it registers), and the timing for the delay in my experience needs to be more than 7-8 repeaters on 4 or maybe 9-10 items in a hopper clock sorry if this was a bother, i was just excited that i had solved a problem like this entirely on my own :3

[@elpsycongroo1702]

Ty for the idea for the crafter as silo design i managed to make a 2x4 wide design with it ❤

[@pyrosousa]

It'd be cool if you an lock slots after putting an item in, so that slot will only accept those items!

[@Satwr]

that would make it to ez

[@Pixlriffs]

You can kinda do that by just making sure the crafter never outputs its final item. Theoretically possible, since you can measure its contents with a comparator.

[@GiodoAldeima]

Great video! I can't wait to see the creations made with the Crafter, and your factory seems very interesting. This reminds me so much of the create mod

[@QuotePilgrim]

I'm thinking there must be a way to use signal strength to fill the items in the right order. Read signal strenght, if it's zero, drop an item from the first dropper, if it's one, drop an item from the second dropper, and so on until you have filled as many slots are required for the recipe in question, and then you craft the resulting item.

[@Spectervamp1]

For your bone auto crafting machine it doesn’t matter which slot the bone is in, so you could point a dropper full of bones directly into the crafter, and directly powering the crafter will spit out the bonemeal and put a new bone in the crafter in one motion. In theory at least, my redstone isn’t great

[@Pixlriffs]

Yeah, I mostly wanted to avoid a scenario where the bones form a second stack and it can no longer break them down into bonemeal - but the redstone circuit basically prevents it from breaking that way

[@TheRealWormbo]

Crafting bones into bone blocks has a similar property as crafting logs/stems into chests: The ratio for the intermediate result has the perfect ratio to exactly get one output item from a whole number of input items without any left-overs. That should make contraptions that perform both steps a lot less complicated.

[@paulkepshire5056]

Wasn't expecting another video right after the last one, but it's a welcome surprise!

[@danielrhouck]

4:20 I assumed it was deliberate and you were next going to get into probably the easiest use case where they have a distinct advantage over manual crafting: dispensers

[@that1ej103]

This would be great for a gold farm. When the swords and armor etc get smelted, it gets auto crafted into ingots

[@Pixlriffs]

Being able to auto-craft all the gold uggets into ingots, and from there into blocks, is going to save so much space at those gold farms.

[@TheRealWormbo]

I wonder if we're going to see bamboo farms next to gold farms and/or bartering setups. The space is definitely there, and it'd even be viable to keep nuggets and smelt the boots you get from bartering. (Boots are reliably separable from the other unstackables since 1.20 introduced the chiseled bookshelf.) Would at least finally be a good reason to set up a small blast furnace array.

[@alexandrabyler1492]

4:23 Anyone who says they haven"t done this is lying 😂😂😂

[@Loswaith]

To get items in the correct order I'd think a dropper queue/chain could be the better way to handle it so you have control of one specific item per tick. A bit more effort to power but less chance of hopper stacking issues.

[@sleepyavo]

i am so excited to see what will come out of this !! i def don't understand redstone myself - my brain just seems to refuse to get it, but it's so interesting to watch videos like this bc i can tell it's such a huge thing added to the game. i'm so happy for future tutorials where this is implemented in automatic farms, i hope to one day build it to not have to manually create boneblocks from the bones/bonemeal from skeleton farms xD

[@DemonsDruid]

Probably a much slower means of making an autocrafting array work, but you could also make a single bus line that can be triggered for each individual item, and then trigger them in order based on which recipe the item frame selector is set to, by having a line of redstone with repeater delays that then have a fork which goes to a bus line to activate it. Giving the correct order of items, at the price of speed and size. I'll test it out tomorrow, but I think this could be an acceptable solution. Otherwise what also is possible, instead of a waterway using a dropper/dispenser line towards the crafter and you just fire them in sequence like they are doing a wave and have the items sat above the line

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

Auto crafting kelp blocks for a kelp farm/super smelter combo.

[@martinhartecfc]

I went back to playing on 1.14 as recent updates have taken a turn that isn't for me; but this thing will have me considering updating.

[@Martin02051]

When I first wanted to craft a bow I also did it wrong the same way! I didn't even notice until a few seconds later.

[@drakenred6908]

I heard the Dun-Dun-DUNNNNNN sound when you said it was a game changer

[@GlitchedOutJinx]

It would be nice if there was a way to lock items to certain slots for certain crafts. Like when you use the recipe book, it shows where each item needs to go? That, but it leaves a sort of imprint that you can turn on and off or even rewrite when you want to do a different recipe so that it’s easier to do these more complex crafts. I’m sure kidders will make mods like that if it doesn’t become a feature, but it’s a thought I had since seeing the crafter.

[@se6369]

The texture is cool. You can rotate it to any direction

[@johnramos440]

Pixlriffs trying to make a WOB.

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

Bhai maine new Minecraft ke Survival series start ki hai please use dekhkar comment karo 🙏❤

[@joaopassaro6231]

When I first saw the crafter I immediately thought of crafting dispensers automatically!

[@deryorsh]

The amount of possibilities is so high!

[@QuotePilgrim]

I am definitely sticking a couple of those into my bone farm once it's out of the snapshots.

[@ArturoPladeado]

They need to make it where we can lock in recipes, so a crafter always has 1 item in every slot for a specific recipe and when it has more than 1 item in each slot and receives power it would craft the item while leaving behind 1 one each item for the recipe. It would simplify this so much and make it easier to use and not need these huge messes of redstone behind each one. But this is Mojang and if it's not overly complicated or inconvenient then it's not going to be added, because Mojang hates nice and simple.

[@Commander_Ray]

that's not an angry mouth it's a spruce mustache

[@sgttoxiiczz]

In my head, I'm thinking you could attach something like an item filter at the back of the crafter, input your recipe and, when the item supply runs low in the crafting grid, the filter will lock the auto crafter until more items come in.

[@SuperDarklord101]

If im going to be honest, the crafter is something I'll be grateful it exists, but I don't think I'd actively use it because I'm intimidated by the technical aspect.

[@hatimkapadia2030]

Hey Pix, a really noob question, how did you clear your creative inventory all at once? I move one item at a time to the X spot to delete.. Please if anyone else also knows do chime in. Thank you.

[@Pixlriffs]

Hold the shift button and double-click on the X, it'll clear everything from your inventory including armour slots and off-hand.

[@hatimkapadia2030]

Ohh.. Wow.. Thank you so much for the reply😀 This will be such a great thing to know next time I am designing something. 😊 Please keep this series going, you were my 1st Minecraft youtuber starting with SG 1 and now can't get enough of MC

[@yetanother9127]

Instead of having to manually disable slots in your multi-crafter, you could use some kind of filler/blocker item (like saplings or something--it can be any item that isn't an ingredient in what you're trying to craft) to block the relevant slots, then pull them out of the crafter just prior to activation using an item filter. You'd have to encode the positions of the blocker items into each recipe, but at least you wouldn't have to manually disable the right slots each and every time you want to change what's being crafted.

[@AntonioZephiel]

This is going to be amazing and rly rly useful! :)) :X Im one of the people who told Mojang about autocrafting and thx to everyone else who did. :) We made them do it guys gj! :))

[@Storm74.]

I wonder if they could make it so you could make a template in the auto crafter for it to follow

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

Bhai maine new Minecraft ke Survival series start ki hai please use dekhkar comment karo 🙏❤

[@Mahiemazi]

Wake up babe!! Ohh you're already up

[@deborahsheets2604]

These are going to be so useful for so many things!! Im really excited to learn how to use them in my world!

[@lenzadlberger]

No longer Goldnugget Crafting at a Goldfarm 👍

[@KAYUMYT-fs7ked]

Bhai maine new Minecraft ke Survival series start ki hai please use dekhkar comment karo 🙏❤

[@christophermorin9036]

I can't wait for Mumbo to get his potatoboy hands on these lol

[@thomasharper9087]

haha i got it to do bows fully automatically, its a fun and very cheap build (just 2 observers, sticky piston and some repeaters)

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

I did the same survival experiment and came soooo close to figuring it out. I was able to make a dropper but i didn’t and called it quits when I couldn’t find the recipe.

[@alwayslearningtech]

Dispensers just became so much easier to craft in bulk.

[@Chorongy-]

Good explanation Riffs, but other than some farmconversion. My imagination reaches it's limit. Excited to see the community do something with it. As it stands, i'm gonna use this in my bamboo and melon farm. We all know melon slices are pain

[@Commander_Ray]

i hope they make the crafter have recipes you can click and lock allowing you to just let a hopper feed in items until it has everything for the recipe and then craft the item

[@jordaannoble3567]

Need to remember all crafting recipes now holy more to remember 😊

[@plainsarahjane1466]

He's got a big bushy mustache❤

[@TheAyrrow]

its almost a copy of the crafty crate from botania; pretty cool!

[@dawnmino]

This absolutely blows my mind.

[@DirkDwipple]

I bet Etho gets a thrill when someone else says " Timeclock".

[@davec1085]

It would be cool if for some special or powerful items you need to find a physical recipe as an item which you insert into an auto crafter and only with the auto crafter you can make it. It wouldn't work even if you knew the recipe and had the items but lacked the 'recipe item'. Who knows you could even find special auto crafters that can craft some items that regular auto crafters can't, but I think that is a bit too much haha

[@davec1085]

Perhaps a way to toggle the auto crafter to craft only a certain recipe would also be useful for complicated recipes

[@IsaacDaBoatSloth]

you got it wrong tis a 1.20.3 snapshot with 1.21 experiments attatched

[@samschmit7181]

And yet, Mojang _still_ won't add right-click functionality to the Fletching Table.

[@Pixlriffs]

You say this as if there's anything worthwhile for the fletching table to do! Any suggestion I've ever read for fletching table functionality is straight garbage. It always boils down to just crafting arrows in a different GUI. Not worth them spending the time unless it does something new

[@juicedsky688]

How about putting a whole stack of arrows in one slot while the other ingredients don’t need multiple copies

[@killianobrien2007]

​@@PixlriffsMaybe if they redo tipped arrow crafting? But i would prefer cauldrons to do that on java more than fletching tables so idk...

[@dukeandnukem9654]

This might be the push to get me into bedrock Redstone lol, Thanks boss