Minecraft 1.21 | Lights Out With Copper Bulbs!

[@ViIvaNunner]

the new design looks a lot more survival viable to make. i wonder if any bulb based minigames might appear on hermitcraft next season; i feel like there probably quite a bit people could do with them

[@BitlinMC]

Could be an interesting vault lock as well.

[@ScareSans]

The best part about using copper bulbs for this is you can manually set up levels just by using buttons on the front of the bulbs, though having built-in levels is way fancier and cooler, which makes that old contraption all the more impressive

[@Koronosavilon]

The copper bulbs can make an easily programmable feed tape that you could use to make levels easy to add or remove at any time for others to try.

[@kikivoorburg]

IIRC with lights out specifically you’d have to be careful to make an arrangement that’s solvable (due to parity, 50% of arrangements can be solved and 50% can’t be). Actually this could make for a fun prank if someone has this built in their base: just go up, put a button on one light, and toggle it. It is now unsolvable!

[@Hawkeye_King_Pup]

One good way to make a possible scramble is to just spam the floor buttons for a little bit. If you don’t keep track of which ones you are pressing, then it’s now scrambled!

[@Drago_Whooves]

@@Hawkeye_King_Pup could also attach lines to all the inputs and setup some RNG generators (dropper plus hopper?)

[@isaac_aren]

Normally old redstone is completely broken in new versions, but it gets to a point where redstone is so old that its simplicity makes it still work

[@uvibalcey]

I'm honestly impressed by the 2011 design, it's very smart and easy to understand

[@CraftyMasterman]

you can also make a floor design pretty easily with sculk sensors. each pixel is just a column ~8 blocks tall meaning the sculk sensor will only activate when the button is pressed, detect that with an observer chain, and you can make that power bulbs at the top again

[@QUBIQUBED]

awesome!!

[@kikivoorburg]

Wouldn’t a similar setup work horizontally? The observer still only triggers for sounds a certain distance away right? Neat design either way!

[@Carma281]

this aged well

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

Honestly I'm impressed with how compact redstone has become. I would love to see a comparison with a lot more redstone contraptions because it's really fascinating.

[@Naruto200Man]

I imagine piston doors would be the biggest leap in compactness right? Even modern ones get pretty insane depending on what you want to do?

[@mistercheeks]

Never...in my 42 years on this earth, would I have thought someone else had that Lights Out game and mention it on a world wide platform. I used to love playing Lights Out in the car when it got too dark to play my Game Boy! Thank you X, for bringing that wave of nostalgia to me.

[@EVLfreak666]

That older lights out redstone is still impressive to me 😮

[@gferrol118]

Its great seeing redstone get more compact, but I do kinda miss the days of huge redstone wires everywhere. It just looks so much more impressive

[@thetafritz9868]

a cool change I think would be cool to the copper bulbs is to make the fully weathered waxed copper bulbs to not produce a light level so there aren't any light level updates in redstone contraptions, and fully weathered copper cant weather any more so you don't need to wax it either for decorative purposes

[@flomegames7662]

You know I also feel like copper bulbs also make redstone stuff look way cooler

[@caligusto]

Definitely, that mobius strip lookin observer line with the bulbs looks sick

[@OllysCoding]

I remember when this came out - very cool at the time & ever now! I would love to see more videos where you re-visit some of your old contraptions & games, and see how they could be changed with "modern" redstone!

[@ImmortalAbsol]

I'm a 90's kid but I didn't know it was a physical game. Of course it's been a mini game in many video games, hacking or power distribution or what have you.

[@carn109]

What a throwback, 2011 really was a simpler time lol

[@HeartGamer26]

Oh I remember trying to play and failing to play lights out at my grandparents. I never could win

[@monatae9725]

Right? I always ended up flipping lights at random until eventually a solution occurred on accident! 😂

[@HeartGamer26]

@@monatae9725 LOL exactly. I would try get frustrated and let my cousins or sibling play with it instead as I went to play the NES. Makes me wonder if they still have the game or did they get rid of it

[@Eliazos]

For me, my min comment states I haven’t actually played it, but I do understand how that feels, as when I play chess with my grandparents I can’t get much before checkmate.

[@Eliazos]

By the way @HeartGamer26 what’s your favorite game on the NES? Mine is called Wrecking Crew (In case you’re wondering my dad kept his NES for a while, so thats how I’m able to play NES games even though I wasn’t born when it came out)

[@HeartGamer26]

@@Eliazos Honestly gotta go with classic Super Mario Bros. We would all play that or Duck Hunt. My grandparents had even the Zapper Light Gun to use for Duck Hunt. I did try to play Dragon Warrior but at the time I didn't know how to play it. But mostly stuck with Super Mario Bros, when we would get stuck we would watch my grandpa play and he showed us the secret pipes so he could get to world 8. And of course as kids it would blow our minds LOL good times

[@Eliazos]

Although I haen’t played Light’s Out, I have played a varient in the New Super Mario Bros. (For the Nintendo DS) Minigames, and I enjoy it profusely. The main differences is one side has a muchroom, the other sides have cape feathers, you flip tiles instead of turning it on or off, and you most of the time have to do it in 1 move, occasionally 2 or 3 moves, and if you can’t, you have 3 tries then game over. My high score with it is 7 I think. However, I haven’t played it in a whle, andso this gave me nostalgia even though I wasn’t born yet in the 90’s. thank you so much, Xisuma! You’ve made my day, and considering I’m having a Monday, that’s an increddible feat, so thank you so much Xisuma! {Sorry if I rambled too much :( }

[@fr_z_n3727]

Copper bulb is almost more hype than the crafter at this point. It's such a simple change to circuitry, reminds me of the addition of the repeater, turning a 3x2x1 component into a 1x1x1

[@entropic-decay]

I think my first introduction to Lights Out was in a puzzle in one of the Submachine games, if anyone's familiar with those. cool to see it recreated in minecraft

[@kchapman477]

It would be awesome to see a video of you making your lights out contraption smaller. Any video of you remaking an old contraption in the current version of the game would be really cool to see.

[@LysineAA]

Wow I still remember making a Lights Out machine in survival when observers came out and it was still massive. Can't believe it is this small now.

[@bowiemtl]

really neat how this contraption still worked. Can't say that for some other "recent" redstone changes unfortunately

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

Like what

[@bowiemtl]

@@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 1.16 changes the way blocks are powered. So imagine you have a stairway of redstone dust with solid blocks underneath and next to that a staircase of redstone lamps. In 1.15 you'd see only the lamps being powered that have powered redstone next to it but in 1.16 you'll that the block that the redstone is climbing on top of will also be powered. Normally this block would be powered the same way as redstone pointing into the block but it was previously inconsistent between redstone climbing on top of another block and only pointing towards a block. This could have broken some various contraptions alongside the changes over the years to pushable blocks like noteblocks though this change you can easily overcome with glazed terracotta

[@killianobrien2007]

​@@bowiemtlThe addition of target block made that worthwhile for me

[@bowiemtl]

@@killianobrien2007 That's not my point, my point is that it could break previously working machines. This might be an edge case but you never know

[@timwoods2852]

Oh, wow! I had totally forgotten about Lights Out. I was still pretty young and didn't have the patience for puzzle games yet when they became obsolete. Still looks like fun though. It's impressive that your old Redstone _almost_ still works. 👏

[@ptc96]

Copper Flopper*

[@arlen7726]

One thing that would definitely be fun is a copper bulb combination lock puzzle that tracks the oxidation of each block, as well as whether they’re lit or not. 5x5 grid of copper bulbs as a keypad, that are off and fully oxidized when you initially find them, but that need to be in the right oxidation and therefore light-level emitting block state to be correct in the combination

[@spencerruston406]

Next time theres a minigame district in Hermitcraft, really hope to see stuff like this show up

[@MNSweet]

Going back that far that's when we knew each other. I miss Eease and the other guys from the minigame crew. (Just in case you don't remember me I'm the AKA|Minecraft guy that was in the Realm Builders group with Mark, Seth, and CubeHamster)

[@JulioMercado]

I made a browser game exactly like this one! In mine I gave a separate grid with a pattern that the user had to replicate instead of just turning everything On! And the grid would grow bigger with every other win! I didn't know about this game 😅

[@ContinuedOak]

The terrain issue u got in with the water and extra terrain is what happpens when you load a super flat world from 1.16 (before) and load it in 1.20 (at least I know it works there)

[@retrolegend]

I wonder if you could use levers instead of buttons, making it so the observers power only the tick where the lever is pressed instead of having to wait a whole second to send a signal down the line.

[@jotasietesiete4397]

Or make the buttons activate on the first pulse rather than the 2nd

[@nickcarnahan5042]

I love this! Lights out was one of my favorite games as a kid. On long road trips my siblings would sleep while I played for hours. Lol I would love to build this on my server.

[@deadfish45films]

Another solution could be placing the interface and display opposite from one another rather than at a 90 degree angle. Kind of like a mirror

[@Wortigon2000]

Xisuma, I saw part of your stream yesterday, and afterwards, came up with a rather compact circuit to transform bamboo planks into bamboo mosaics, also a circuit that works with any crafting recipe of 3 or more slots (as in: slabs and stairs!!) that take only 1 type of input; and they're both reliant on copper bulbs. They're indeed a great addition to minecraft, never before have I seen toggles be that compact. Not even the good old 4-5 block (noteblock -> observer -> sticky piston with redstone block) combo was this small. Both of these are basically the same, except for like, 3 blocks, so even that shouldn't be an issue when fitting them in place. Also, they're lossless, as far as I see, 1 wide tileable, and utilize every bit of input they get. (About being lossless, 4-4 bamboo slabs stay in the system when turning them into mosaics after the first crafting attempt, but they get cleaned out and replaced with new ones on the 2nd, and so on. So technically, you'll need a few extra planks when using them the first time.) I was thinking, if you want all the recipes to work automatically, than maybe being more modular could be an advantage. Maybe using a signal system so modules that require to be filled can send signals for other modules that have the corresponding resource, to start feeding said resource back into the input system, if you don't want all the crafting to be done from bamboo itself to whatever products in one go. If however you'd prefer that, they're all made so they can be connected vertically with a hopper or 2. If there's a location where I can send you the pictures, I can also send them over, pretty handy little contraptions, will be great for 1.21, once bamboo becomes my primary building block for any indoor decoration.

[@stejgaming7060]

I remember lights out X! So much nostalgia I must build this on my SMP.

[@PhreashContent]

I have made lights out using simple programs, really easy instead of each being unique you just copy them, cool that it’s now possible easily in Minecraft, going to waste so much time

[@SnyperMK2000JclL]

Wow... what a massive dose of Nostalgia, i can almost hear the handheld game turning on and making noises as its batteries finally died while sitting in a drawer next to my bed... xD God what a fun game, i spent so many hours playing Lights Out when i was younger.

[@nessunonessun1]

Beautifull all the way, I love old circuits to because from them you can learn alot and then simplify with observers and rails

[@garden_slug]

I love seeing you revisit some old builds. I love old minecraft

[@EternalDensity]

Oh that puzzle... I think I had it on a Palm PDA. Or I had and modified a Python version? I don't remember which it was now, could have been both.

[@NathanHaaren]

You could put the buttons on top of the droppers and just send a signal from all powered droppers to the copper bulbs, this way it will probably be easier to program levels in the copper bulbs

[@Foefii]

very cool thing, i‘m impressed by the old design aswell as the very compact new designs😊 i have a question though, wouldn‘t the input work better with noteblocks instead of buttons? so you‘d be also able to get rid of the 2x button signal problem

[@bran4663]

I am really hoping they take advantage of this update to prove us wrong about the mob vote by adding the Copper Golem. It is a copper-themed update, it makes sense to add it.

[@bbittercoffee]

You expect far too much from Mojang But please, by all means, if they do add it, come back here and call me a doo-doo head or something I'd love to be wrong, it'd give me so much hope for the future of the game

[@micahnightwolf]

You can make it faster and probably less expensive by using note blocks that the player right-clicks instead of falling-edge monostable circuits and buttons.

[@purplestar322]

i am now wondering when they will make colored redstone where you can have three different lines of redstone parallel to one another without interacting or connecting to each other

[@splashbenine]

Won't be redstone anymore 😅

[@rockhoggaming]

​@@splashbenine lmao uve got a point -but it would've been hilarious if the word red was bold.. Won't be -*-RED*stone anymore-** nvm cant have anything next to whatever text ur trying to format. *red*stone wouldnt work but *red** stone would since there's a space before and after the asterisk. lame :(

[@splashbenine]

@@rockhoggaming sorry but I didn't understand anything lol

[@TheEpicFlyer]

Maybe wax redstone?

[@purplestar322]

@@splashbenine i just realize what you meant, what i meant was something along the lines of Blue Redstone Red Redstone Orange Redstone etc.

[@Hezmarglive]

Question, wouldn't a skulk censor make flipping input to display simpler?

[@xgozulx]

wow those voronoi patters in the water are so cool, how could that happen?

[@icypiston]

Yeah, its interesting, one possibility is that they could use it as function to generate terrain features but it still doesn't explain why it appeared on the side of a water wall.....

[@OGgrimmthekid]

Omg I been looking for this game for years I never knew the name of it

[@codystephenson3774]

Wonder how complicated randomizing a level would be

[@GIRGHGH]

When making displays like this you can now supplement poor reactivity with tick rate boosting so it'll run better.

[@Zeckenschwarm]

At 3:24, I'm pretty sure you don't need the bulbs on the corner, you can just use observers all the way.

[@ThomasGrillo]

This is fascinating! Just think. One lightning strike, and poof! 6 hours just gone! LOL. I like the colour coding of the various circuits. Nicely done. Thanks. :)

[@ianweckhorst3200]

The funny thing is, I actually did that once with powdered snow of all things because dispensers bud power, but powdered snow acts as a flip flop when dispensed

[@AerthQuakeWasTaken]

Didn't Hypixel have a game like this in one of its lobbies? It could still have it but I haven't joined that server in a while.

[@Juicepar]

If the redstone lamps where touching each other than it was because the game was made with command blocks or a plugin

[@Naruto200Man]

I wonder how good the other hermits would be at this game (especially like say, Grian and Scar, tango and doc I see making short work of this game) generally I'm ok at these sort of puzzles but I have to reverse engineer them multiple times to actually solve em lol

[@CreatorProductionsOriginal]

I wonder if you could have used the tick rate command to make it even faster

[@mollof7893]

Wow, only 6 hours to make all that! It once took me 3 hours to just make a Piston Door.

[@splashbenine]

Amateurs, it took me 3 days just to make a piston 😂

[@warriorcast8567]

The copper bulb is basically a one bit transistor, so of course it's going to be game changing

[@feierlord]

I made one of these using observer spam a couple years ago

[@gliesegliese1411]

if i got the cybot challenge, i wold have simply moved the bulbs onto a celing above the player, then the simple wiring is intuitive

[@Pentaxant]

As a kid born in 2005 I somehow have a weak spot for these kinds of games (slant is another example). I loved learning about this and made it in a graphic calculator!

[@Blue_Phoenix24]

I'll b interested to see how compact u can make it

[@nighthawkgaming1962]

Couldn't u just increase the distance from display and button matix and have the observers swist as it gets to the display so its rotated 180° so when it curves to face u the buttons match the display 1:1

[@FabriCraftor-fn7fg]

hello Xisuma I am so going to make some farm designs using the copper bulb because this will change redstone forever.

[@johnmillerpere_grin6371]

To flip the input to the display, I would try using sculk sensors since the vibrations' paths can cross without interfering with each other.

[@DracoTheNinja]

Nobody is talking about how you can make new and better screens with this, for like movies or pictures and stuff

[@EnglishMike]

Some channels have already shown simple animated messages, etc.

[@Zreknarf]

there's no way you'd built that in only 6 hours lol!

[@boltstrikes429]

It's uncompactness might have saved it! Usually the more compact builds are more sensitive to redstone behaviour changes

[@SpaikeeTheEevee]

Wouldn't utilizing fence gates along with the observers instead of completely using observers be more resource-efficient? Since a fence gate is less expensive than an observer

[@zxkredo]

I feel it has to be possible to do with buttons on the the lapms iself.

[@EnglishMike]

I was thinking that too -- it's almost certainly possible, though the circuitry likely will be much more complex.

[@Mystery-pd6jc]

Could you use Waxing to play the game on the bulb themselves rather than with buttons on the floor?

[@MartinTreadgold]

Its gonna be a redstone game changer. I can think of several things i can improve with it

[@capsey_]

The fact that the minigame would have been as small as possible if copper bulbs were solid blocks is kind of ironic - just a wall of bulbs with buttons on each

[@Jackred94]

I wonder if the copper bulbs could be used to make Othello in Minecraft

[@ShiroCh_ID]

this update felt like we are back to 2012 again

[@dracoclaw9800]

would it be possible to have the buttons on the bulbs? so it looks and acts like the handheld version

[@Ensign_games]

no joke my version was actually more compact and I made it the day the bulbs came out. Although just like yours it was the basic game logic. but the construction was more simple

[@jonathansauceda589]

They still haven't changed the subtitles for the bulb?

[@4ryan42]

Y'all redstoners are mad crazy.

[@samuelcharlier4118]

Someone made an even more compact version which is 5/5/8 blocks in size

[@wanou_4259]

talking about crafty masterman ?

[@mrdebdeb]

How long until someone makes Conway's Game of Life in Minecraft using copper bulbs?

[@julianmallog5262]

The Copper Bulb version looks like it can not be reset, or am I missing something here?

[@mattmatt2876]

If you put the display above you I think it wouldn’t be flipped

[@e3.14c4]

Does a button on the bulbs not hit adjacent bulbs with it's signal in the same exact way?

[@kacpya3999]

Bulbs are transparent blocks unlike redstone lamps, think of them like glass

[@Naretek]

See 0:06

[@Aj-py8en]

​@@kacpya3999I thought this was changed recently so they were no longer transparent?

[@QUBIQUBED]

@@Aj-py8en yeah kacpya is wrong, they got changed in the latest snappie

[@soulswordobrigadosegostar]

petition for Mojang to make a clean version of the copper bulb just changing the texture so its almost all light and very little detail so the game can be broken even further and make it more presentable

[@txheathen5257]

X, you've got this low-end bass "pulse" on your microphone after every word. Just wanted to let you know. It starts to hurt my head after a while.

[@sethjazz7262]

This is really something, the copper bulb is more intuitive than past solutions but now the red stone community must rewire their brains to incorporate them into future and present builds

[@RolynRoseOfficial]

I designed a version of this on the first day copper bulbs were released, it was made with a checkerboard of bulbs and regular blocks with buttons on them. It worked well but it broke if you pressed the buttons too fast

[@antiisocial]

Wow. Ty

[@dandymcgee]

next video: how to make an observer farm for your Lights Out game 🤣

[@zealotoffire3833]

Crafty made an even better more compact version

[@tito_me_doe676]

Uhhh so why not just have buttons directly on the lamps and forgo literally everything else? Shouldn’t that have the exact same effect?

[@tito_me_doe676]

Nevermind. I downloaded the snapshot and see this wouldn’t work as they don’t pass a redstone signal like a full block

[@lukeydungeons]

bulbs out for harambe

[@xgozulx]

cant you use normal redstone lamps for the cross light effects?

[@iso_2013]

Probably not, because there's not an easy way to have a cross that's off while everything else is on

[@Clashhass]

You could have used nether portal instead of piston in your original version

[@sickdewd5694]

These could be used to make making binary coding in minecraft way easier

[@highcap4952]

Would be fun if you build this in hermitcraft for the hermits to play with!

[@wingedfish1175]

Is it just me or is the mic quality a bit wierd in this vid?

[@Melanie_M]

Cybot is a genius, just saying

[@JenInMinecraft]

From Analog Age to Digital Age.

[@girres43]

thanks

[@justinnamilee]

Neat.