Starting My Crazy Potion Brewer! - Minecraft Hermitcraft Season 8 #13

Today I showcase and start work on my concept for THE COMBREWTER 2.0 Potion Brewing System! Now with Extra Flingyness!!!
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Season 8, Episode 13.
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[@skulldaisygimp]

That opening "time travel" bit with the menu is just the apex of understated comedy. Bravo.

[@jessiepapabear4272]

That is Correct Sir, you win a Baby Doll! 👶

[@fashnek]

I would not consider that understated, maybe you are missing the ones that are understated.

[@MisterItchy]

It certainly got a good snort from me!

[@kenta03]

@@fashnek yeah the patreon promotion is the one that understated

[@creeperjones651]

So true. I bust a gut laughing. Lmao!

[@Aranel_Alasse]

As a professional time traveller, I can confirm that the time machine used in this video was definitely a REAL Time Machine. In fact, I used that very same model to travel back in time to post this comment before the video was even released! The Combrewter 2.0 is incredibly complicated, inefficient and fun, so it's perfectly Zedaphy!

[@MrCommentGod]

Yee

[@bajhi_]

yes

[@maryfreegirl2029]

who won the mob vote then?

[@godslayer8464]

@@maryfreegirl2029 glare because it was rigged

[@maryfreegirl2029]

@@godslayer8464 NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Ithenna]

"What do you use to align items?" Me, who knows absolutely nothing about to make slime block launchers work: Cactus. My alignment problems have now completely vanished.

[@bobdagranny7431]

This joke is so good once you read the last sentence a couple times kekw

[@speculativemusings3593]

Zedaph! Don’t throw away your apple flinger designs! Sell the blueprints to another Hermit, they could be a great base for mini-games! I can already picture both a betting game about where the most apples would land, as well as a catching game where if they land on the ground a hopper gobbles them up!

[@justcallmeness]

Observation 12: it looks like news of Zedaph's testing on Hermits has spread, as Grian conducts his business transaction through the glass. Zed may need to resort to other methods of recruiting test subjects... perhaps a hidden pit that swallows the unsuspecting hermit and deposits them in the Chamber...but there may be some more brave souls that will volunteer before that's necessary. I have explored the previous season's base. The combrewter is quite a marvel if the steps are done in the correct order. Other Hermits had less success due to not reading instructions, and I will be eager to see how Zedaph will take human error out of the equation. There may be a childlike joy in watching things fling through the air, but the precision needed for the apparatus to work properly took some doing. It's been a good look into the mind of subject Zedaph as he worked this out. I'm waiting to see how he programs this version to brew on demand.

[@totallynotbot8686]

I like your funny words, science man

[@shazba1020]

I love these comments

[@freezezone6547]

Ah yes, observational person I’ve been waiting for your long word

[@karl3karts183]

A Zedaph-Impulse collab would be so cool this season, esp with the whole willy wonka theme. Zedaph's wacky genius is exactly what Impulse needs for that factory!

[@Dalenthas]

Did you miss Impulse going through the Mite Maze?

[@SunDry_Marchy]

@@Dalenthas that was a one time sadly, and nothing came out of the collaboration

[@BigGayIncorporated]

Or Zed and Doc! Science overload :D

[@m1tthrawnuru0d06]

Now that you are messing with mixing chemicals you should observe some basic science safety and have some bicarb (Bonemeal renamed) to neutralize acid spills and a fire extinguisher (bucket of water) in glow frames on the wall.

[@nazrarain1452]

I come here to take a break from Chemistry class only to go into lab safety class... noooooo

[@jh29a]

Zed : Chemistry Doc : Quantum physics

[@KR_Kosmik]

It seems after living in isolation, zed has forgotten the value of diamonds

[@wolframstahl1263]

14:10, Zedaph accidentally invents a new kind of randomizer.

[@mishirish]

That new, flightier flinger is a thing of brewty.

[@0th_Law]

Obviously, the solution is not to detect when an item is launched, but rather to know when it _will_ be launched. You can establish a predefined sequence of items and time how long it takes to go through the whole list. Then make a Redstone clock that pushes a block into position only at the beginning of the sequence, allowing the signal from a pulse extender to travel through for but a moment, causing the "closing" sequence to begin, a sequence defined by the order in the series. Alternatively, you can have a constant stock of "dummy" items that will never be used in potions cycling around, and when at potion is selected, put the items for that potion into the sequence, triggering the trapdoor after x amount of time, where x is the time until they get to the front of the queue (rename the dummy items so they don't stack with the actual ingredients). I'd tend to prefer the latter solution, as it allows for greater control over how the trapdoor operates (for instance, you could make the ingredients staggered in between the dummy items), doesn't require measures to respond to the expenditure of items in the sequence, can have a greater amount of variability in the items that are flying (you can actually make them random, for instance), and can start immediately after the potion is selected.

[@rowanhensley3615]

The second solution sounds very effective. I think I may use it myself.

[@heathercampbell9378]

Impy needs these in his candy factory!!! I can just see it! Walking down a golden path as a rainbow of candy launches from either side arching overhead.... 😻 🌈

[@Dragon_The_Cat]

That sounds so cool!

[@adeptusmedicus]

Thanks for pointing out those 4 pixels on the sticky piston Zed, can't unsee now...

[@mikeus69]

“Can’t have a number 2 without having a quick number 1 first” 🤣 Add it to the Zed quotes

[@nathanjenkins2112]

Sir, you get a thumbs up for that opening "Time Machine" alone.

[@hiwaga7399]

The most hilarious part of Zed's interaction with Grain was knowing that was slime stolen from Impulse's farm.

[@MrToby11]

Stolen? Boatem is pretty laggy ya know?

[@andiv_r]

Grian would never steal! It just... lagged into his inventory!

[@codex4046]

Maybe you can use your timemachine to travel to the future HC8 world? That means you wouldn't have to think about it now.

[@MrCommentGod]

Yee

[@SJ_Real]

@@MrCommentGod please stop saying yee

[@MrCommentGod]

@@SJ_Real yee

[@SJ_Real]

@@MrCommentGod just stop

[@merkaronisalad9501]

@@SJ_Real yee

[@BrankoVT]

That stop motion part was really well done!

[@notmedontkno]

0:46 - I paused, and literally have tears from the giggles. Zed is awesomely creative, wholly devoted, and full of SO much delightful humor.... Thank you Zedaph.

[@oklol7799]

That was genius

[@another_jt]

Amazing! The secret to time travel was hidden in the loading screen all along, and we never knew.

[@lynneti]

Ohhh Zed…always brewing up crazy inventions and ideas. That was an impressive par-apple-a.

[@StjerneRoo]

Mr. Zedaph, you could use a closed fence gate instead of the iron trap door at the top of the item alignment system. Similar hit box to a fence post without connecting to the face of the dropper.

[@SpacedMonkey6]

The Combrewter trap door system as is would make a great mini game with different items as points and something else worth negative points.

[@grondhero]

The time travel bit was hilarious. I thought the stop animation was going to show different bits of the actual mining, but it was still good stuff. :)

[@Septicor]

Not going to lie, that stop motion time lapse was brilliant on so many layers. Blew my mind in a positive way. :)

[@mechatengu7368]

The combrewter would fit really well in impulse's candy factory. Zedaph's base is pretty whimsical

[@Nioureux]

Could you use a closed fence gate instead of a fence, to avoid the issue of it connecting to the dropper, while still getting the same item alignment? It should be more effective than an iron trap door.

[@Dalenthas]

You know, some Hermits get really dedicated to the storyline of an episode. Some don't give a hopper. Zed? Zed's somewhere in the middle, vacillating between keeping up the kayfabe and breaking the fourth wall, whichever is funnier in any given moment.

[@CheshireKyle]

God your videos are always so entertaining. You show off cool redstone without overexplaining, you’re sticking to a super fun theme, and each episode is so different! You’re one of my favorite hermits to watch!

[@andpeggy8719]

Ooh, this seems like a really good game idea! Things are flying, and then people have to control what they get to complete an objective

[@TomasPiliponis]

Zedaph, this is amazing! Funny thing that you and Doc are both totally crazy when it comes to contraptions but you both are unique in your own special ways. :) This is extremely interesting and entertaining content at the same time. Thank you!

[@rustypaladin]

zed is so under rated, he makes so many cool contraptions

[@betterlifeexe4378]

20:46, all you would have to do is lock the camera, and capture a frame for each stage you want showing.

[@notryan7220]

Oh, zedaph, zeddy, Zedrick (can I call you that?) You need to make the flying apples into a mini games, I think hermits would love trying to catch apples flying at them

[@Set_your_handle0-0]

Zedaph at 8:32 : I am expecting to hit the roof with this thing Launcher: ok Zedaph at 8:40: I wasn’t expecting it to go up there on the roof. Look at that!

[@thomasw4422]

That exchange with Grian: perfect example of social distancing. Very safe from the virus of you

[@henrylonghead]

When zedaph said 4 pixels i had flashbacks to the SCP 096-1-Alpha incident.

[@ninjamagic004]

Zedaph, I'm still catching up on Season 7 overall, so I've seen the Combrewter 1.0, but I closed my eyes when you were in the rest of your base so I would avoid spoilers. Apologies that my watch time is not the full video, I'll be better in the future, I promise

[@ReederOnTheRun]

I love the plan with the brewer, and it also doubles as a really cool minigame - manually trigger the trapdoor to brew the potion requested. Timed of course, and if they catch the wrong ingredient, they do have to take time to get it out before trying to grab the right one. I'd play that.

[@Lumaraf1]

Interesting start for your new brewer system. You could send out the ingredients randomly and use an item comparator before shooting them across the room to detect if that is an item that should be caught. Having random stuff fly around and having to wait for the machine to find the right ingredient should be more fun to watch than always having a fixed order it rotates through.

[@0th_Law]

Why mess with detecting items in a sequence of random items when you can just insert items into an equally random sequence?

[@NormogGaming]

The Green screen stop motion was well done. Would love to see more 🤘

[@Lyarrah]

this is exactly the kind of hilariously extra nonsense that only you could do XD I one thing I'm worried about is continuing to have the order be correct after you've pulled one item out? like if you pull a netherwort, you have to make sure another one gets put into the rotation so that the order doesn't get messed up!

[@AethirMordu]

Jesus this project feels absolutely insane as far as timing, crisscross patterns and actual wiring potential goes. Absolutely nothing but respect, this is a step beyond my level of considered crazy.

[@williamlazenby314]

Omg. Ally urself with Doc. Istg, ur creativity and Doc's technical skills would revolutionize Hermitcraft.

[@kiwikatt12]

i love how last season he was a mad contraptionest in a cave and this season he is a mad scientist with a proper lab. My how he has grown :D

[@allenbuddy3101]

Another absolutely wonderful zed quality that I love outside his clever contraptions is his clever editing. Things like the stop motion mining and the yes wings club recreation a while back are so unnecessarily complex but so so appreciated

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

A lot of the stuff you've been building feels like it could fit in with Impulse's Candy Factory. The tubes could move cocoa beans, and I picture using these launchers and saying "I will send this chocolate bar from one end of the room to the other" and there will be "millions of little pieces" flying through the air😃

[@DaftSandwich]

Omg imagine an impulse and zed Collab 😁

[@adelphoslp]

I looooove the idea for the Combrewter 2.0! Could you perhaps have 4 trap doors on the ceiling which open to block the item just on the edge of the hopper? That way you could have 4 streams of items flying through the air from all 4 directions! Some very delicate timings would be needed, but it would be so cool

[@gozzilla177]

This also seems like a fun mini game make a potion request and a player has to make a specific potion by flapping that door down 😂😂😂

[@ochatea584]

Things like the combrewter is what makes Zedaph one of my favorite hermits to watch, so fun!

[@ososthepotato8410]

I will analyse the intro. I will especially analyse the part, where he leans on the h. He leans on the h, it tilts, he makes it untiltet and leans back on it. Next I want to look at the definition of crazyness: do something over and over again, and expect different outcomes. So in the intro he repeats the act of leaning on the h , wich resulted in a negative experience, but he doesn't care, because he does repeat the action. But this time its another outcome, wich results in a crazy never give up morale.

[@maybebecca7513]

I think the Combrewter was my favorite contraction. I just wish I understood redstone well enough to make my own. This is beautiful.

[@sebastianjost]

You can use a mob head to align the items coming out of a dropper. Just place it on the block opposite of the dropper. The gap between the mob head and dropper is just enough for the items. An even more reliable alternative is cobwebs, but you need to use the dropper horizontally.

[@shatterdragonhail4318]

That is one heck of a project to bite off, Zed, I can't wait to see you pull it of with your inspiring redstone wizardry

[@Mistiyy]

You know it's a good day when Zedaph uploads

[@tygoboomsma9892]

Coke

[@Skizza_wizza]

@@tygoboomsma9892 aine

[@brandenjones716]

Dude your a genius. I swear at the beginning I had doubts that it could get any better. But man once I seen the whole trap door idea of blocking the items you want to fall, I knew this was gonna be gold. I love this so much. Your a man that thinks outside of the box and I love that about you!!!!!!!

[@ryplays]

I am so happy to see a 2.0 version of the combrewter! I loved the concept last season, and it's only getting better! :) On a side note, that intro slayed!

[@thecambunctious]

Zed, you're an absolute mad lad and I can't express enough how much I love your videos and your sense of humor :)

[@LolaGume]

You could totally make a mini game with trying to flap the trap door at the right time to make the potions. You saw how hard it was and it could be fun! Or you could use the first erretic design for the flinger to do a catch game where they are trying to catch certain items and avoid others from several dropers. BEST YET, combine the two! Try to catch the correct ingredients, and then put everything you catch into a precise flinger and have to trap door it into a potion!

[@Vortex001]

I'm so excited for this, Zedaph always makes the most interesting kind of stuff, love how he does his potion brewers!

[@oasisunknown]

*Loved* the [stop motion] idea. I would enjoy seeing more like it.

[@mitchellsavage6933]

Loved the “time laps” and the episode zed. Keep up being amazing

[@emberstreshinsky5167]

It almost sounds like this could be built like a note block song, and changing the potion you want to make would make momentary alterations to the central catch-all sequence

[@jacobkeltz3584]

The arc is always parabolic. Anything launched follows such a pathway

[@vannanalabomba]

Zedaph casually designing a fun mini game while designing a technical feat such as the combrewter 2.0. Unreal. Good show lad.

[@Scanlaid]

Catching those apples looked like a really fun mini game. Could be something cool to make, go for a high score, maybe while dodging other items

[@eclogues_]

I was thinking of doing tihs too when 1.18 comes out, the Create series kinda put the idea in my head. Seems like a great way to transport items through a base in a big cavern.

[@dionelr]

The sciencey word for leeway is “variance”.

[@Mysda_]

I feel like water streams and bubble columns are much better for the flinging. Water is also able to flings them without any cooldown. (it is also the best way to align from a dropper)

[@Ligands23]

Water onto ice is a nice easy way to align items! You figured out the first part, use a water stream to push them into a corner- then all you need is some ice with something above it to hold back the water but let items pass (like an open fence gate), and voila :)

[@HeyStack17]

The whole opening made me laugh so much. Great job Zedaph!

[@SurgeXs]

Yes, the apples were in a parabola. The reason for this is because this is exactly how the physics of that work irl.

[@tetsujin_144]

7:40 - Ah yes, just like in that classic scene in "Captain America" where Steve bought slime blocks from a bunch of bullies

[@Nizart]

When you are about to win an argument with your parents: 5:07

[@uniwolfgamer1094]

I was thinking iron bar for the alignment then fence gate. Never did I think of water or cobwebs. This is why Zedaph is the inventor. Always thinking outside the box. I look foward to seeing how he manages to tell the 'computer' when to flip flap.

[@Somebody-qo9ob]

It would be interesting if there were 2 or 3 different streams of ingredients and there are three trap doors that stop the ingredients before funnelling them down. I guess each for each potion parameter. However this may be for the third edition

[@rileycone4939]

That's... Totally insane. And I love it. Gonna need some tutorial on how to build this myself, cause I love the idea.

[@nathanpenrose8465]

"Maybe I'll just go and hang my..." :o "head in shame." *phew*

[@wanderingtrader1147]

Zed should make a mini game called catch the flying apples. Stacking up a few side by side shooting apples would be funny to watch the hermits run around

[@yesyes1181]

I always love watching your shenanigans combined with science! Best part of my day

[@alikazi2167]

Putting a backward upside down stair in front of the dispenser will make sure the items always land in the same spot after being shot out

[@SunDry_Marchy]

It won't unfortunately. They still get weird if they manage to phase through or get knocked back too hard.

[@alikazi2167]

@@SunDry_Marchy hmm maybe that's just on bedrock edition then, they loose all x and z momentum

[@ClairedyCat325]

i feel like there's a lot of fun mini game potential with the randomly flung items, or controlled flings at different spots... maybe something with catching only one desired item out of many different ones, or seeing how many you can catch? on a floor made of hoppers so you can't pick up items you missed catching? anyway i just love all the item flinging, it's very impressive looking! as someone who doesn't understand redstone very well, i'm very flung-moxed by it :P

[@potato305]

That timelapse just blew my mind , that's the craziest thing I've seen in a while

[@mikefranco5627]

Was eating while watching. The time machine intro made me choke on my cereal. Chef's kiss. Good show.

[@andrewmirror4611]

Zedaph, all ballistic trajectories are parabolic. Even if considering for wind/air resistance, it becomes parametric, but still essentially parabolic. That's like the whole thing.

[@ninjamagic004]

The portal themed thing above the portal is perfectly Zedaph. It's silly, it's stupid, it's horribly inefficient, it's incredibly clever, it's awesome, it's very handsome, it's... wait what were we talking about again?

[@Vanessa-qp3sr]

Love the subverting of expectation with the time machine 😂

[@Fjalll]

Never thought I'd ever see a flinging potion making machine again!

[@gozzilla177]

I dont know if it will matter as it is directional but instead of a fence post you can put an open gate under and a cake with 2 bites out of it to get the item a smidge closer to the lower flinging pison. Being closer they might go that much further this is the closest I could get items to the flinging pistons. Unfortunately cakes are placed and lose bites in specific directions so only one side could use this method.

[@smilysht238]

Zedaph is like a college student running experiments with an unlimited budget

[@Vortex001]

That's such an accurate description tho

[@nuloom]

the apples were making a parabolic arc, you are correct! Well, except the air resistance. But we can ignore it, like everyone always does.

[@j.griffioen1415]

Use water streams and sea pickles to Line the items up! Ask some other hermit (impulse!!) To explain it. Bye the wat, this video made my Day!!

[@anand_bhasme]

The whole video was very satisfying but my favourite one is at 19:12

[@amauryclain-lamarque5835]

I love your science :) cheers ying PS : maybe you could use this unprecision of the dispenser for a little game ! With items to catch, other to NOT catch ... It is indeed really satisfying to watch !!

[@kire9891]

When you said "look at that" at the sticky piston, I immediately noticed there was a Zedaph eye on the left side of it :o

[@respectrealperson290]

Zed sounds like you need some new test subjects! Test to see if they can remember potion recipes, and at the same be able to flip that lever in time to put the ingredients to brew in the right order!! That's a fantastic build, and I think Impulse should hire you at the factory to help build the zany candy making machines like the fizzy drink candy in the bottles. LOL He also needs some chickens that lay golden nuggets, but when a bad egg comes through it's sorted to a furnace! Someone needs to tell him a flying machine elevator would be cool. And your the best scientist to collaborate with him. Thanks for your amazing videos!!!

[@arcanezeb3392]

4:00 Zeds door mat just says "No monsters alowed thankyou."

[@cosmicreciever]

Parabolic is the correct work :) anything that has a ballistic trajectory will move in a parabolic arc Fun fact: one of the earliest video games evolved out of technology used to calculate ballistic trajectories

[@wchasec]

"You can't do a number 2 without doing a quick number 1 first" SENT ME hahahaha

[@v3nomgaming751]

0:22 that's a genius quote