Minecraft 1.20 REVOLUTIONIZES Anti-Elytra Technology

In this Minecraft video, I test out the new Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tales snapshot and experiment with the Callibrated Sculk sensor in order to make a simple Minecraft anti-elytra defense system. This Minecraft redstone weapon is very simple, reliable, and easy to build. Use this Minecraft Java Edition anti aircraft system to defend your base from a Minecraft nuke, or base invasion. This redstone weapon is perfect for Minecraft civilization experiments, factions servers, and anarchy servers.
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[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

The evolution of Minecraft videos: 2013: How to build a rollercoaster! 2024: How to build anti-air flak cannons!

[@yololinsken3045]

There is also a tutorial for building an orbital strike TNT cannon

[@sharpsrain8302]

Na Seth bling/the old heads did crazy shit too

[@EnderMega]

If you see, anti-elytra technology is something really important, there isnt much you can do about elytras in this game. Nice job mate.

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

What's the problem with elytras? I know this game for more than 8 years and I still cannot get it.

[@EnderMega]

@@user-oq7xc5qp3y Elytras are op, simply. You can avoid fights, that only occur on ground.

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

@@EnderMega log out button does the same, enderpearls do the same, enderpearl stasis does the same.

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

@@EnderMega what makes elytras special?

[@EnderMega]

@@user-oq7xc5qp3yMost servers punish you for combat log; enderpears statis, yeah, nothing you can do about that. But preals dont do much, it used in cpvp alot, if your oponent preals away you can preal back to him, but if your oponent FLIES AWAY, no, you cant get him on the air. Minecraft air combat doesnt work.

[@kerbalengineeringsystems7415]

I feel like there has to be a way to use sculk sensors to triangulate a player's position and basically do guided attacks. Maybe some kind of smart TNT cannon combined with sculk sensor detection could be used to reliably hit players, but I feel like any redstone computation needed to do the actual math to make that work would be so complicated and slow that it wouldn't be practical

[@theredsaurian]

cool idea. you can do a lot with zero-tick nowadays, although i assume you would need computation of sine and cosine and i'm not sure if that's possible

[@Ice_elite]

maybe four or more to get basic tracking

[@SWRDMaster]

Based on the needed precision sin can be pre-computed and accessed with a lookup table. Cos(x) is just sin(90-x); if working in degrees. Music disks can store 4 bits of data so might be usable for table storage. Have toyed with the idea of an automated 'no fly/no go zone' in my head for quite a few months but don't have any of the details worked out. (Sky sensor network relayed downward to an instawire mesh below ground, each step down of sky sensor layer increases the number of sensors tripped at the ground determining height & position, use multiple tnt stations that accelerate a single arrow at different times/places to computed coordinates based on best fitting Bezier curve fitted to at least 3 sensor readings, ..., multilayer regenerative walls and 'ground' to prevent access to the computer from the ground) Would be fun to build and try to get working one day.

[@theredsaurian]

@@SWRDMaster if accelerated arrows are your kill method, you might have trouble given that by the time the arrow reaches the computed position the target might have moved out of that position - unless it's fast enough to hit them immediately after the sensor goes off, which might be possible, i don't know enough about technical redstone

[@SWRDMaster]

Completely agree. Charging tnt for launch would also be time consuming. Figure a few accelerated arrows should clear the air and save the sensors/ground from tnt damage.

[@Voidwalker07692]

Not to mention calibrated sculk sensors can be hard coded to only detect elytra passing

[@Ice_elite]

i forgot about that lol

[@MiPeru-pz9qg]

El que hizo esta construcción en gran cantidad en un servidor y se olvidó de dormir por tres días 💀

[@Ice_elite]

what@@MiPeru-pz9qg

[@poppinlochnesshopster3249]

See weird stuff floating in the sky, fly near it to check it out, hear an explosion ahead of you, go "huh that was odd" realize the contraption does nothing, fly past it.

[@J0hnB09]

Or the tnt was nearer the edge of the skulk sensor’s range and you die

[@poppinlochnesshopster3249]

@@J0hnB09 Much less likely to happen than it just blowing up randomly not on you. You wouldn't fly past some shit like this at full speed ignoring it.

[@munashemanamike4217]

😂😂😂😂

[@youtubealt243]

This was a one-direction mine, you can make Omni-directional mines just by repeating the sequence both on the sensor and in all directions from the sensor. More expensive but expense is not an issue in late game Minecraft

[@poppinlochnesshopster3249]

@@youtubealt243 And you can easily fly above the build limit with elytra, There is a tiny chance this works on 1 person once on a server. Then its design is known and people will just fly over it. This is a novelty, no actual function and it would be insane to actually build these surrounding a base.

[@SaraGemZ]

I wonder, if given enough time and practice, one could learn to fly through the holes in the circles and avoid the mechanisms

[@Malorem]

Probably, but I only built it like that so it would have a nice grid pattern. You could always just put the mechanisms closer together to make the holes smaller. Might make an interesting minigame though

[@danielsieker9927]

You could, if you see these contraptions, fly close enough to trigger, then fly away, wait for the explosion, then fly on through

[@celsiusnebula]

@@danielsieker9927 or fly in the other direction

[@danielsieker9927]

@@celsiusnebula yeah but then whoever set up the traps won without using them, you champion. The point is tricking the defence, not giving up

[@celsiusnebula]

@@danielsieker9927 i formulated my point incorrectly. the traps only work if you fly in a certain direction. if you fly in the opposite direction, you can trigger the trap without dying. (or use blast protection 4, but im not sure if that would work)

[@mikh_kovalev]

I don't know how, but it's the third time you upload a video with a working contraption a day after I come up with an idea of pretty much the same thing. However, everytime you do it much better than me... Anyway, good job

[@Malorem]

Great minds think alike, I went through quite a few bad designs myself before eventually coming up with this one

[@tertsv7746]

work together! engineering is best with a team!

[@puppergump4117]

@@tertsv7746 Engineers aren't exactly team players

[@mantvydaskazakevicius2121]

A firework crossbow can manually detonate these bombs, they could only serve real purpose when camouflagued in mountains or jungle trees but that would be too specific and ineffective.

[@J0hnB09]

The point is to stop flying, and when you are flying, you can’t do anything against the traps.

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

@@J0hnB09 Step 1: get few stacks of TNT. Step 2: use tnt to destroy the wall. Step 3: ravage base of the player who built the wall, just for sake of it.

[@J0hnB09]

@@user-oq7xc5qp3y the same person who builds anti-elytra defenses will probably have an obsidian base with almost every other defense they can make.

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

@@J0hnB09 cannot make it wither proof. Except for chunk banning whole base, but it is just paranoia at that point.

[@asierx7047]

The sculk sensors are probably calibrated to exclusively look for elytra flight

[@regalbien6058]

great design, but what if the elytra-player just slow down just closer enough to trigger the calibrated sculk sensor ? There should be another TNT nuke right next to the calibrated sculk sensor

[@Malorem]

Yeah I considered that but didn’t add it in for simplicity, I’ll probably bring it up in the tutorial

[@WhatIsMyPorpoise]

consider the use of trapping something like a nether tunnel, if it doesn't have a iceboat track, people will be using the elytra to navigate through it. It would be child's play for calibrated sensors go under the tunnel to set up a trap like this. by the time they hear the sensor go off, they're dead.

[@sluin]

​@@WhatIsMyPorpoiseor just adding it in an area of the nether which isn't that high

[@brownfamily1892]

that's actually really smart@@WhatIsMyPorpoise

[@gearhead743]

Why bother slowing down though? The defenses are super obvious and can be totally countered by either flying over or flying parallel to the wall, triggering many of the traps in short succession, thus costing excessive resources for rhe defender, for very little risk to the self. Tbh, these things are the sort of thing that would only work once or twice.

[@VadascovinichRagen]

waterlogging the sculk sensor will also make it undetectable so victims wouldn't know what triggered the trap

[@cappsMUSIC816]

minecraft literally now has factories, anti air technology, artillery, tanks and planes.

[@penguinpingu3807]

Welcome to Minecraft's industrial revolution!

[@atomf9143]

We've gotten Mach 4 claymores, strategic bombers, guided anti-air weapons, and so much more. Next thing you know someone will figure out how to accurately recreate a chlorine gas attack in minecraft.

[@cappsMUSIC816]

@@atomf9143 minecraft sclieffen plan goes hard ngl

[@venator-fb7yy]

​@@atomf9143Would multiple splash potions of harming recreate the chlorine gas to some extent?

[@atomf9143]

@@venator-fb7yy If you find a way to launch them several hundred blocks en masse, like the original WW1 chlorine shells, 100%.

[@SomeRandomPerson_IDK]

What'd be impressive is just a whole wall of these and those red circles. It just looks like a giant shield to me

[@superubergoober]

reminded me of evangelions a.t. fields lol

[@outlawthesecond7597]

"a suit of armour around the world"

[@andrew-know]

Minecraft energy shield💀

[@humourlessjester3584]

This is unrelated but the title makes me think that a mining fatigue like effect on elytras can actually be really good for the game, something with the same debuff as mining fatigue but with the same radius as a beacon. It can set up isolated areas in the world where elytras are rendered useless and therefore the player is forced to either go around it or do whatever challenge there is in that area. It may also be great in servers where you want a base that's only accessible through walking to showcase build sight lines. For pvp this can be very interesting since it can restrict access to the elytra and force the player to finally use their chestplates for once.

[@user-wy5ih2iz3t]

Bros out here making anti air weapon in minecraft 😂😂😂

[@VexxenCreations]

Me: Flies above build limit

[@Alex-R164]

Using elytra in combat was always so rewarding I’ve gotta get back into it

[@mace1234]

figured this video was coming!! big improvement with the upgraded calibrated sensor range :)

[@MidnightDoom777]

some flaws are the gaps in the circles, but odds of someone making it through without that being highlighted is slim. But what happens if someone slows down or stops short of the tnt?

[@syrelian]

Those gaps can be covered by just arranging the sensors in a denser pattern The slow-down is an issue but if you consider the entire configuration disposable Just add more TNT scatters along the detection rod's length, you can also make the rods strike at any of the four axis by just making it a cross with the sensor at the center rather than a rod

[@the-dn3zw]

@@syrelian Another flaw is that you can just... go over it?

[@syrelian]

@@the-dn3zw I mean, yeah, this isn't particularly practical for open-air defense, but its probably pretty useful for trapping common zones, especially things like transit tunnels or aerial exits/entrances, the configuration itself can work on any mode of movement that generates noise by just reconfiguring the crystal skulk and adjusting length and delay for normal speed as well

[@totallyrealname8849]

Didn’t expect this to be a legitimately viable strategy good job

[@jamesshaw3500]

What about launching tnt... kinda like serface to air tnt? That sounds really cool. Basically make a flak cloud using skulk sensors.

[@CaptainTimeStories]

Quite impressive!

[@nobodyimportant4778]

"Oh cool what are these things?" *flies and lands next to sensor. Other side blows up*

[@casev799]

I wasn't aware there was anti elytra tech in-game now. I gotta know more!

[@Quillbee]

Very impressive!!

[@mrexperiment_al6094]

you gotta be my favourite minecraft youtuber, really like your videos!

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Great work!

[@moritzmuller3196]

keep it up man

[@600do]

this is a cutting-edge idea I haven't seen before.

[@birdbeakbeardneck3617]

so aor defenses, orbital canons , faction canons, chunk activation based traps, wireless redstone, teleporting arrows... cantwait for minecraft: warfare edition

[@HellhoundIW]

This protects from Elytras. Ghast cannons protect against flying machines. Landmines protect the ground. And of course, spamming F3+A will detect underground players. WE NOW HAVE FULL BASE PROTECTION WITH JUST 2 PLAYERS REQUIRED!!!

[@volochaevka249]

Malorem if possible, mind making a Redstone tank? Well I'd suggest making the box tank which is the French ww1 tank Saint Chamond or the German ww1 tank the A7V

[@ShadowDancer1000]

We’ve done it lads. We now have military grade anti-aircraft weapons in Minecraft. We’re leaving the Stone Age and sprinting to the modern era.

[@A_Steam_User]

soon we will have CBU and surface to air missiles

[@MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

Now, behold. The flying over y:320 tactic. Still is a useful technology to defend a tight place like a big cave entrance.

[@riley1636]

Make these vertical across the top near y=320. You can go over, but not in. Problem solved.

[@keni4457]

u can do an iron dome with this, only problem, is countered by firework crossbows (similar of how flares and chaff work on aircraft)

[@quoccuongtran724]

calibrated skulk sensor is still omni-directional and as such just a proximity sensor what we need next is probably a directional skulk sensor, whose detection volume is a narrow but long beam

[@cristianemontagner9616]

I swear to god the minecraft community one day is gonna discover tech to make 100% accurate arrow railgun AA batteries

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

They already did that. Without AA batteries.

[@nighthawkgaming2953]

HES BACK

[@Daveir]

Played too much clash of clans now the air mines are in Minecraft..

[@zhuravlevivan4622]

Now we wait until someone designs anti air missiles 😂

[@fineriso]

Wow , I was surprised when saw that , but I have a question. What if I fly not under AAD?

[@rogofos]

wait so if I see this kind of structure I can just fly in slowly and then immediately fly out triggering the sensor but not getting blown up?

[@Nobody-qq4qs]

Well, that's useful. Thanks.

[@Skaffa]

say hello to phantoms

[@TestingAccount-kk1fv]

I like to use the calibrated sculk sensor (signal strenght of one which is movement) to determine motion detection at a given range. It is useful for security for any people trying to sneak up into your base, making you aware of their presence.

[@clainmings7052]

Lol I instantly thought of you when I heard about these

[@angel-memeroftheisles]

What if you use a sensor that detects the Elytra and fires arrows/tnts from multiple spots all at once, so even if the target moves you have a good chance of hitting them if they are still in the area of the cannon

[@itsrudetostare673]

Babe wake up, anti-air mines are in vanilla minecraft

[@ris_kis]

Wow, nice machine.

[@TheTrueMr.Chicken]

You should find a way to make a reloading system, so they're not single use and can take out multiple elytra users

[@invis_potion]

I'm scared to ask your intentions

[@toreole5831]

I mean thats neat but also really easy to avoid

[@bobskanal]

Mojang 2016: We want to fix combat The state of Minecraft in 2024: Totems, Elytras, Netherite... Crystal PVP

[@Caldoric]

These would be easily disarmed... Just do a perpendicular flyby of the sensor ends to set them off, then flu throythe new holes in the grid.

[@modernmajorgeneral4669]

True. You could add more tnt clusters, but they probably wouldn’t be particularly effective at countering. These devices seem better suited for delaying an invasion than stopping one (although that isn’t bad)

[@svendinsvinderlin4569]

​@@modernmajorgeneral4669I feel like a regular wall would delay you more than this tho

[@modernmajorgeneral4669]

That’s probably true. On second thought, these anti-elytra mines are probably best for traps than the backbone of a defense

[@Caldoric]

@@svendinsvinderlin4569 not much. Just fly straight up til you go above build height. Ain't no wall stopping you that far up.

[@svendinsvinderlin4569]

@@Caldoricroof

[@Takamiya_Mio]

Seems we need "wild weasel" in minecraft too...? Like Bow as Anti-Radiation Missile

[@farofaespacial3154]

Like that weird Pinocchio once said: "I love it!"

[@everbita1723]

Couldn't these systems activate if a Phantom spawns nearby?

[@sage5296]

you could just fly along the edge of the perimeter and that would set off all the charges. neat idea tho

[@Memessssss]

Bro nice tech

[@rudrisdeadrightnow]

mojang added sculk senors but minecraft player really made a working tnt anti air missiles💀

[@mrexperiment_al6094]

then i suppose you could hard code it into only detecting elytras. and also with the remote control cat thing that you have made a video on you could make a remote switch for it

[@samisalama3033]

Forget about anti-air flak cannons, this is an airmine, imagine a 1000x1000 area with landmines and airmines.

[@acenovaYT]

Idk this is probs only usable for megabases (im envisoning some kind of honeycomb tunnel wall if you dont know the right one you get blown up), but at that point killing them once would do little to stop them from griefing you when they come back so pretty useless (well it might be good if you shoot the tnt upwards and put the trap in the ground then its a pretty good trap for random travellers) One way the trap should be changed is detecting if someone comes from the wrong side (or goes sideways aka triggers an adjacent sensor to the side that would disarm the trap)

[@thespacementv1506]

Finally, a flak canon!

[@ItsMeAgain.]

After reading the title I had the image of someone using an elytra getting obliterated by a flak cannon

[@Redactedredacted5837]

In 2025: Hey guys, I made an integrated air defense system in Minecraft.

[@nessy3098]

It is just from that single direction though, wonder if there can be one for any direction

[@manuelchalarca5350]

And a defense mechanism that works with explosives fireworks? And ground - air sistem whit elder Warden defendind the dispensers and some skull sensor in the sky to active a array of dispensers with explosives

[@HellhoundIW]

You could cover it with fighter jets and have a fighter fleet protect your base!

[@BlightCosmos]

What is the skull sensor detecting? If it's calibrated for the rocket noise, then it's extremely easy to just get over the trap just by not using it at all when near the trap or flying over build limit to overcome the obstacle altogether. Though that is only assuming the target already knows about the trap. Regardless its a interesting trap

[@omegaentertainment01]

According to another comment, you can calibrate them to detect _only_ elytra sounds.

[@user-oq7xc5qp3y]

Exactly, this is done against elytra players because: "whaaa, I am too bad to use an elytra, whaaa, bows and crossbows don't exist, whaaa"

[@IMPERIALOZ]

Anti aircraft missles and radar exists despite aa guns and sight​@user-oq7xc5qp3y

[@poddias3773]

Zakviel's anti-air defense worked even before that, but was more cumbersome

[@cewla3348]

but can it defend from an Orbital Air Strike (theoretically infinite range, can send a literal nuke or tnt down to bedrock ANYWHERE on a server, can be programmed with MULTIPLE payloads, FULLY automatic, survival friendly)

[@svendinsvinderlin4569]

obsidian roof?

[@micalobia1515]

@@svendinsvinderlin4569 way it works i'm not actually sure it would matter, it teleports the tnt into unloaded chunks

[@svendinsvinderlin4569]

@@micalobia1515 I have absolutely no understanding of how they work but I've never seen the feature of it being able to hit things underground. Would be super cool if it could though

[@invis_potion]

Anti Air Technology is beautiful

[@animatoraoi3672]

Ah yes anti air weapons a find addition to my redstone base that I totally would build in the next couple decade

[@sparking023]

Bruv is talking like this is some serious warfare advancement, and I'm all in for it

[@chaomatic5328]

Grian: * spams rockets in opposite direction*

[@Tactical_Assault_Pelican]

Those modules could be made even better with wireless redstone available in create mod

[@JohnJohnson-jr6hp]

The radar dodging mission in ace combat seven

[@goldietheswagbear8288]

the biggest downside is that they only work once, though they don't seem that expensive to restoke if you have a gun powder farm and a iron farm, not exactly hard farms to make

[@strangemajesyyt3697]

they added flight duration three again? let's go

[@bigcouch_smallchairs]

the minecraft engineers are getting NASA level of ingenuity

[@that_Dominic_guy]

This is really when the face of warfare changed forever

[@dIancaster]

So? Approach from the side, pass through the detection radius, then retreat. Allow the charges to detonate then pass through.

[@damienrey8216]

havent played this game in a few yrs and now mojang is pioneering echolocation technology

[@user-rizzwan]

wasn't the flight duration 3 always there though

[@plane_a]

Lol, three protections IV and no blast resist, I wonder if you put one item with blast resist IV, will it deal enough dmg?)

[@kaitro7]

I never thought anti elytra tech was a thing

[@thesomewhatfantasticmrfox]

Minecraft: The Military Industrial Complex Update

[@weebrahim]

bro's recreating the iron dome in minecraft

[@tongs1073]

there are flaws to this system though: enemies who comes from the other side of the grid can safely pass and at the same time activating the trap, wasting it. Second, all it takes for the whole grid to be avoided is to disarm atleast one of them, and you got yourself an entrance. This is still a really cool idea though,

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Build Limit Go Brrrr

[@tabithal2977]

This is all well and good until you realize they'd be a pain to make without an elytra to get up to them

[@_imdope]

Is this thing possible to do in bedrock edition as well?

[@Malorem]

Not exactly how I’ve done it, but I’m sure you can make something similar in bedrock pretty easily

[@Voidwalker07692]

Yeah It’d be pretty hard to make an instant line for us bedrock users, I’m guessing you could alter it to account for delay by moving the tnt mine carts further away but idk I’m not an expert

[@DreadMew]

if someone flies slow enough or is curious and lands on the tip, they'll just watch the explosion on the other tip , it needs to explode MORE

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

Minecraft now has anti-aircraft weaponry.

[@itsClaptrap]

these only really work if the Elytra player is flying straight ahead and never decides to deviate their path yes, they could potentially set off another trap trying to pivot up, down, left or right, but all they'd have to do is just... find where the array starts and ends, then fly around it. hypothetically if it were a box, then honestly, it's just a war of attrition and all they'd need to do is just fly up to build limit and go around that way, as it's highly unlikely a player would have the patience to set up an array that expansive on the Y axis that high without cheating, assuming its expansive enough on the X axis to encourage going around it from above

[@qwertyqwert2818]

But won't people just fly over the build limit?

[@NickAndriadze]

This is pretty interesting and could have a potential, but, because of the whole delay mechanism thing, it is... 1. Strictly directional; 2. Pretty unreliable, as you're assuming the player is going full ahead with elytra; 3. Probably really inconsistent; 4. If somebody knows how it works, it's really easy to bait it into exploding and continue on with your day; 5. And the detection range still isn't a large enough of a radius to create an ''unassuming'' looking trap like that, unless it's concealed in a decent looking exterior so that it looks like a base/afk platform or something else. Even then you'll need a lot of them, which is a lot of building and decorating, for a one time use trap that would require near full rebuilding once it's gone off, _if it gets the target to begin with._ Interesting tech, but I don't think it'll have much of a practical use. Maybe it could work if someone's flying in a tight space, where fully concealing it is easy and somebody will for sure be caught in its blast radius with basically no escape, but definitely not in open air.

[@user-wy5ih2iz3t]

Its pretty usefull for Minecraft Civilization server😅

[@jendostromann6744]

one problem with this trap, what if they approach from the opposite side? then it'll create an explosion way behind them, and they won't die. also now that I know what it looks like all I'd have to do is either turn around or go above build limit, and then you still won't be able to stop me. the concept is good, but it wouldn't work in practice

[@yellowlemqn2547]

Why would you stop at making a simple wall? Have it be a full cube. Really the only problems is the detection delay (which can be partially solved with more tnt along the detection rod), and the fact that it’s one use. So there’s just an obvious hole in the system once it’s used once.

[@svendinsvinderlin4569]

​@@yellowlemqn2547I mean if we're gonna go all out and spend probably millions of gunpowder, just make like 10 layers

[@partiallyfrozen3425]

I guess its like, the enemy is coming from one direction, and you know that, because they cant already be inside your territory. I think it would be practical if it was an industrial scale war with actual hundreds of people per team genuinely trying to capture and claim land, but i don't think that situation will ever arise.

[@AndyTheBoiz]

Just put another one facing the opposite direction on the opposite side

[@SAMUELNOOB622]

this bro created anti air mines

[@lagoozri9568]

finally CRAM in minecraft

[@SpaceBear1987]

We need a way to reload these, can someone come up with a design that has TNT duping ??

[@badmanbrad001]

Covering it with random blocks may not work to cocneal it as itll make it eve mor suspicious and avoidable