The WORST Pressure Plate Ever Designed

[@JustinnP231]

the conflict between wanting a cool well-hidden mechanic for your secret base entrance and wanting other people to discover it on their own so they can be awed by it

[@HeyImCas]

I just build 2 bases to throw them off

[@chaomatic5328]

​@@HeyImCasbuild a third base in their attic

[@rmvw]

The design we used for the entrance of out secret undersea base about 8 years ago is a hopper minecart right under the seabed. You throw any item in a specific location on the sea floor and the hopper minecart is able to reach it through 1 block, passing it to a regular hopper which in turn activates a comparator. Very simple yet effective.

[@squibble111]

Mmm, thats a great favorite of mine too. Easy to setup in virtually any location and more than well hidden enough.

[@arcticzomb]

Not to mention having a custom name for the key item along with overflow detection makes it that much more secure

[@johnweber4504]

I personally love the hopper minecart in the block under a partial block, my favorite being an anvil

[@Haaaaaaaa_]

1:29 "and thats gonna go ahead and open your door"

[@collicou]

I really do love pointlessly overengineered contraptions

[@Brozziest]

The concept of doing elaborately inefficient ways to hide secret rooms is near and dear to me. I’ve made and am currently making puzzle maps with the whole focus being finding these cool methods to hide rooms. My brain is exhausted trying to find concepts, yet your technical expertise and well designed presentation really got me excited and taught me stuff I did not know! I always assumed chains had the same box as rods. Very well done, it’s often the absurd unconventional techniques that are the most entertaining and wonderful.

[@adamhayes4691]

Your channel is growing so fast, last time I checked, which was a few days after the release of your 1,000 sub episode, you had over 4k, now you have over eleven thousand. You deserve every one of them. Good luck.

[@squibble111]

Thank you, its been a miracle all of my content has been getting so much traction. I appreciate the compliments

[@TMinusRecords]

@@squibble111 It's not a miracle, every video you make has some kind of new tech in it that we've never seen before, even if you've been watching technical channels for years

[@Greaful]

I think he just explains things really well and it’s really enjoyable to watch him show his random and funny redstone contraptions

[@SpectreOps]

If you made these videos a couple years ago when Minecraft was popping, you would’ve blown up man. I thought you had a couple hundred k subs based off of your videos quality, until I saw a comment talking about how underrated you are, and I saw you only had 11 k. Anyways, I couldn’t agree more, your knocking it out of the park on these technical builds, and the creativity behind each video really makes them enjoyable watches.

[@pumpkinzz5728]

One of my favorite secret entrance ideas I’ve seen was an underground chicken maze that you would use seeds to lead them through. Not great functionally but a cool concept

[@dannis5165]

the gibberish on 1:27 is actually perfectly transcribed by youtube captions lmao

[@diamantnt]

This channel is underrated, you put a lot of effort on your videos!

[@ourfastestfox1481]

Very underrated, very high-quality videos and contraptions (even if they are useless)

[@bladewake]

1:27 and that's going to go ahead and open your door

[@jaexynn]

This! I'm obsessed with hidden keys! The doors are more or less the same in all my bases, but the keys are all super unique. My most recent one you fire an arrow into the top corner of the room and it'll clip through and touch a wooden pressure plate. Then, to reset (cuz I use infinity arrows), it retracts the whole wall so the arrow falls into the floor, and then it all goes back. It's SUPER satisfying.

[@cal_f10]

This and the first unconventional red stone video made me subscribe, holy crap! Additionally; I love the bump switch concept, it reminds me of secrets in Doom 1/2 where you had to cross a certain line to open a timed door

[@makerofmoon]

Amazing videos and designs, keep up the good work!

[@cosplaysosu6573]

I have come up with a different way to align the minecarts vertically that only involves two minecarts. basically you have a single uphill powered rail and place a minecart on it. since minecarts don't move on unpowered rails you can put a minecart on it and nudge it slightly towards the upper block it takes a bit of trial and error but if you get it just right the minecart's hitbox will be about half way into the first pixel of the upper block and you can place a second minecart above the upper block but not above the rail (so it doesn't snap onto it) and on top of the first minecart. my setup for getting the correct upward nudge is to place another two powered rails on the lower side of the uphill powered rail with a minecart after placing the minecart on the upill rail i then bump into it twice while riding the lower minecart.

[@krisztianveiland4546]

1:29 is the best laugh i've had in like a month

[@koolerpure]

The boat door is actually kinda useful in one of my builds. I made a prison/dungeon for my mob spawner and that could be a neat shortcut between areas

[@draco18s]

8:45 - escaping the confines of the pixel There is technically a vanilla block pre-chain that has a fractional pixel height. A depressed pressure plate. It doesn't help here, but visually, it's only 0.5 pixels tall.

[@squibble111]

There is also the lilypad, which also proved to be unhelpful for the worst reasons.

[@MacroAggressor]

Nice! Using the boat door in my Jigsaw block dungeon rework. Now if I can just figure out how to extend the 7 room size limit, lol.

[@crangado]

i swear youre one of the best for people who are learning about technical Minecraft. you should make a video called Intro to Technical Minecraft 💀. you explain things so well

[@sniperpickaxemc]

Keep the good work up. hopefully one day one of your vids will go mega viral.

[@squibble111]

Thanks, i too hope that one of my videos really does go viral

[@marball]

Have you ever made a secret door with a tripwire update detector? Tripwires update when a new tripwire is placed in front of them within ~45 blocks (can't remember the exact number) even when there's not a string connecting them, or there's one or multiple walls in between! This makes for some really cool designs, since it's wireless and the door key can be quite far from the door itself. I discovered this randomly when i was like 10 a decade or more ago and still love the concept as an adult

[@SuperGamersgames]

This is really neat. I never knew I'd enjoy a video about the fractional placement of minecarts and boats! :D

[@polyaddict]

1:29 "and that's gonna go ahead and open your door"?

[@squibble111]

something like that i think

[@axerity9212]

also heres some timestamps since i saw another comment asking for some, i'd appreciate it if you added them to the video 0:00 Intro 1:18 Some context (Rail key door) 2:00 Netherite key 2:15 Bone meal key 2:38 Bump switch 3:55 The final design and how it was made 6:39 RaysWorks' spreadsheet 7:11 Trying to get the right alignment 9:20 How the design works 10:52 Outro

[@mooing_cowmilk]

using a cart on sloped rail, trigger a pressure plate, acting as a chunk based player detector, creating the right setup you can make it so the door only opens if the players go through the right order of chunks

[@VicExe_]

2:50 it looks a bit like my design, but if you came up with it yourself, congrats xD

[@moneyraymondottv]

A cool one that I've been using is having a observer looking at a upside-down stair block that you water log or un water log it to open the piston door.

[@12magner05]

Bro called me out. I do end up showing everyone

[@warriorsabe1792]

I wonder if with some potential refinements, particularly for durability (perhaps with even more alignment shenanigans allowing mid-side carts to be restrained enough while still pushing detector carts?) this could be used as a player sensor that is dependent on the direction of motion. I also wonder if it could be somehow done in a way that makes it silent, so it can trigger a far away mechanism that the triggerer wouldn't even notice without luck or foresight...

[@christopherwinqvist8149]

I bursted into tears at 1:28 😂

[@Deatzi]

that's the coolest door-key I have ever seen! I hope development drives it more useful in the future

[@greencurve699]

Love your videos so much! I have been finding myself interested in redstone at last this summer, and channels like yours really help to fuel my curiosity towards the possible wonders of could be done with it! anyway, have you been thinking on establishing some kind of community contact (like ds server) ?

[@squibble111]

I have, and you aren't the first to ask. Its possible that I may setup a discord server at some point but also that might be a little further in the future. Servers require moderation, and thats something that id have to figure out. Perhaps expect it at some point, but I wont give any hard promises

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

One thing worth adding is a torch key that can work on a flat plane

[@alexandrecosta2567]

I like your marginally delusional contraptions

[@CauseOfBSOD]

Idea: for the rail key you showed off around 2:00 have a delay on the reset to prevent someone from using it again for a short period

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

That's a unique and cool contraption nonetheless. I mostly use a frost walker detector that only activates when I'm online via a cat detector

[@Greaful]

The most important thing that I look at for keys is simplicity/ease to access because your not always gonna have frost walker on your boots and if you die then your definitely not going to have frost walker on your boots

[@archniki_]

My idea is to having a line or calibrated skulks. That will activate a door that is deep. So even if you discover it will be too far to dig

[@The_Power]

Now lets hook up the preassure plate to the Land Mine V2 for true unnecessary precision bombing

[@Greaful]

I just realized that if you could somehow compact this a ton (I have no clue how cuz I’m not a redstoner but I do enjoy trying to understand it) you could make this into a trap but as he said in the video everything in it is really important and if someone knows about f3a then it probably wouldn’t work but I might try to do something like this with my limited redstone knowledge

[@GRADE..]

you can make the same allignment for the minecart with an enchanting table with a boat on top, then the minecart. im not sure if this was already mentioned in the video so apologies if that is the case. just want to make sure you know this edit: i see now how the parameters would interfere with this haha, mb, good video though edit 2: thought there could be some improvements so i made one myself, got one down to 3x2x7 blocks (contained) so 35 blocks in volume haha

[@squibble111]

could it work with a boat, then 2 minecarts? Because then you may have found the solution i was looking for.

[@ert54210]

@@squibble111 I found a design with a boat, then 3 minecarts that I think works reliably? If you have the enchanting table setup, you can put the minecart on the corner of the boat and up against the top of a fence to prevent it from sliding backwards. Then if you have that bump into a minecart on a ender rod which is up against a trap door which bumps into a minecart on a path block, you can reliably reset it by pushing the 3rd minecart with a piston.

[@GRADE..]

@@squibble111 i could send it over discord if that works (if you have a discord server i would do it there, just dont remember if you have one or not). sorry for the late reply to this i dont really check youtube that often

[@GRADE..]

@@squibble111 i have just realized something here and i apologize for wasting your time, i had assumed that as long as it was within that 0.0125 block range it would be fine, as i am now thinking about this again, it needs to be somewhere in between or z-fighting issues will arise edit: i found another way with minecarts on slanted rails, still a work in progress

[@GRADE..]

@@squibble111ok one last thing and ill stop bugging you haha. this took a while to upload to youtube but heres a smaller design that i found works: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6OXZHWset59bqs

[@youtubeguy8796]

Touch screens and red light green light. The fragile part makes it accurate with the series.

[@RandomGuyPlaysKSP]

1:29 I think you were saying to “go ahead” and open the door.

[@lessar2721]

Such a cool type of redstoning

[@supersmiley5587]

Its actualy possible to use a pufferfish to push a pressure plate. How? Basicly you trap it in a minecart and nuge it si that when the puffer fish enlarges it presses a pressure plate. Basicly a larger more silent version of a skulc sensor

[@mooncatcher_]

You can also aling minecarts height by having it on a sloped rail bumping against a boat. You ca achieve any height this way

[@squibble111]

Damn. Thats genius actually. didnt know this

[@Unleashed75]

I have a video that I feel is the best hidden switch. Yes, you need a key, a trident, but it can trigger redstone not just through a wall but through 2 or more walls and a room. A design I came up with long before sculk sensors. One I shared with Grian and Xisuma from Hermitcraft. I'm just saying, in case someone passes it off as their own and doesn't give credit.

[@JoaBro]

Just as a heads up, RaysWorks' spreadsheet is missing a lot of values. If you're interested in an alternative that also lets you filter the blocks with tens (hundreds*, depending on how you count) of properties, then I'd like to shamelessly plug the Minecraft Block Property Encyclopedia :) You are of course able to filter and sort by size, too, and the size units can be converted under settings. I would link it but you probably have a link filter enabled

[@squibble111]

Oh my god, what a resource. Thank you so much for letting me know, Ill be using this in the future.

[@kinghenry_ix3559]

what was that door that the creeper fazed through? love your vids!

[@727_chips]

at 1:28 you probably tried to say "go ahead and open your door"

[@johnweber4504]

Well now I feel obligated to build the minecart switch

[@janKoloja]

Well it isn’t completely useless! It’s an almost invisible, quiet pressure plate. You could definitely impress some people, but have you thought of this for mine activation? It would be different from a sensor because you don’t hear it as much, but that might be completely ruined by subtitles

[@tomozbot]

Great video. Although the night time shaders look cool, it makes it difficult to see what’s actually happening. I think a video recording in day time would be much clearer.

[@squibble111]

I'm trying to strike a bit of a balance, so your input is very much appreciated. Many preferred the night over day based on a previous poll but maybe i need more lights (perhaps using the Light block will help)

[@syystomu]

This design is delightfully ridiculous

[@dereiziger3433]

imma use that bump switch for a really nice display

[@DunlinDolphin]

I love the ideas. They are very creative. Sadly, I am not sure if the boat push trigger is valid, since amethyst buds are unobtainable in survival, but maybe a the half side of a stair could work? Or a skull, those are even close? Finally, perhaps the far side of a grindstone stand? (though quite annoying to build, it is possible in survival, so it’s valid) Also the minecart floor trigger really bugs me because it can quite be small and isn’t fool proof, so I’m going to see what I can find for that. I was lacking inspiration, so thanks for the idea. I also agree that chains are a game changer. They are great for aligning entities in my doors (I build mainly observerless, so there tend to be a lot of entity shenanigans XD). They also work great for aligning armorstands for detecting a falling edge of a pisten with a solid block underneath it. It by far the nicest block to do that with (if I remember correctly, I have only found a grindstond as an alternative, but grindstones are immovable and the armorstand has to be inside it making it a nightmare to build. Tldr, Great video. Love the chains too. And thanks for the inspiration.

[@squibble111]

amethyst buds are obtainable, you only need silk touch. Also there are other options, only the amethyst is the most convenient. Thank you for the well written comment, and the minecart floor trigger was never meant to be used in a practical sense, only a prototype to pave the way for possible future designs, I encourage you to experiment with the many possibilities.

[@DunlinDolphin]

@@squibble111 thank you. Amethyst crystals are obtainable with silk touch. Amethyst buds aren't. At least that is the case for 1.19.2, and according to the wiki. I know the trigger was never meant to be practical, but nor are my piston doors with dozens entities and circuits where it takes 10 min to align the entities in creative mode. It is the fun of designing the builds that matter and the tricks we learn along the way.

[@DunlinDolphin]

@@squibble111 I found an alignment that I think works perfectly. It's two minecarts on top of a minecart with a medium slime on top of a bed. Slimes only make sounds when they jump, and the slime can't jump because it's in a minecart, so it's still silent. I'm playing with this idea now. Also going to check out if I can make it more rigorous and not have it break.

[@madhavraghu]

​@@DunlinDolphinmaybe you're thinking about budding amethyst which is the block that amethyst grows from. Those blocks are not obtainable but the actual amethyst buds that grow from those blocks are definitely obtainable with silk touch. The wiki even says they could be obtained with silk touch since 1.17

[@DunlinDolphin]

@@madhavraghu Those are called amethyst crystals. I'm not talking about those. I am talking about the buds. Though you are right. They are obtainable. I probably just misread the wiki. And the world I tested the silk touch in had doTileDrops disabled. On the one hand, I do feel a little bit stupid now, but on the other hand, I can use the buds in my doors now for aligning entities which is great because they have some really useful hitboxes.

[@justaboringperson]

next mumbo jumbo?

[@arnevandamme7733]

Amazing as always, would love to see a discord server

[@opal9583]

Could you share the Alignement chart by raysworks?

[@squibble111]

Its under any video where he talks about new blocks in any given update. I unfortunately can't provide a link right now though.

[@moonyl5341]

8:15 what is that block

[@AlexTRM_]

3d dripstone

[@jotarzan1171]

i really enjoy your videos keep going

[@henrynguyen8482]

What shaders are u using? I really like the shaders in your videos

[@squibble111]

complimentary reimagined

[@axerity9212]

would it be possible for you to make an instant kill nether portal trap with an end crystal?

[@louisrobitaille5810]

5:18 This is "less than": < This is "greater than": > Just wanted to point this out.

[@gavin5410]

To stop the minecarts falling off the wither skull, it looks to me at first glance you can just make the top slabs at either end into full blocks. Is there a reason that doesnt work?

[@tbrickman]

“The thing is is that…”

[@squibble111]

the more is's you put the more is-er it is

[@soulfire_shardmc6527]

could you make a video about things such as breaking down keycard readers? Ive made them before but I would love to see a simple and compact version

[@schino]

reinventing the pressure plate be like

[@de_g0od]

Why didn't you feature a CUD with a container attached?

[@squibble111]

I forgot those existed! These were only a couple things that I kind of thought were more untapped designs (ofcourse not referring to the torch and lever keys, just as demonstration) If you want an even more obscure detector, you can use a glitched waterlogged block using stickt pistons trying to retract an immovable structure, and the top surface is now a BUD.

[@de_g0od]

​@@squibble111huh it seems my comment didnt get posted, basically i said something about you maybe featuring a design (i posted a 3x2x1 design in the tech archive a few weeks ago ;) ) in one of your videos as it seems like not enough seem to know about it and especially not about its powers (detecting clicks on spots like the empty output of a furnace/an empty dropper slot, detecting a redstone signal going into the air besides it, etc.)

[@upside_you_mop]

I had an idea to use invisible hitboxes as pressure plates too and I'm glad I did not try cuz that's a lotta wiring Edit- after watching ur boat switch vid

[@UnderTheRated]

What mods do you use to make your videos? I've seen you speed up the game speed in several and I've been wondering what mod you use to do so, thanks in advance

[@squibble111]

Carpet mod, it has a variety of uses such as adding rules like creative noclip and tnt not destroying blocks, but I primarily use it for speeding up and freezing time. I also highly recommend Tweakaroo, Litematica, and also Sodium and Zoomify as more cosmetic and less technical things (performance and optifine zoom)

[@UnderTheRated]

@@squibble111 thanks for the info

[@Arthur_TheFishingVillageEngine]

Imagine if someone built a functional one Haha😂 Oh wait no I take my word back I can already see someone doing that 😦

[@vbgvbg1133]

minecraft track but without any rails

[@pumkin610]

Cool keys are good in real life too with the bowley lock uhh forgot which one Oh its the bowley 543

[@Orangeking05]

what door design is it

[@Zedantic]

you down to hop into vc some time? I have a few things I made that I think you'd find interesting. Might give you some ideas.

[@squibble111]

I am quite infrequent and sporadic with when i am on, so perhaps just dm me or something. My handle is @squibble111, but it might take me time to respond

[@Cazelous]

Where can I find this block and entity sizes spreadsheet? Edit: Nevermind, I found his video

[@defloirgreene5428]

First, also Very interesting design choices. Also, still petitioning the ghast powered item destroyer.

[@makerofmoon]

1. i was first. 2. saying "FIRST" is cringy as hell.

[@raoulduke7668]

How exactly does snow interact with entities?

[@squibble111]

snow layers? Snow layers are interesting, I think each layer is 2 pixels, and the height of the snow (the hitbox height) is always 2 pixels below the visual height. So one layer, 2 pixels of snow, is actually 0 pixels high. 3 layers, 6 pixels, has a hitbox of 4 pixels high. Except for 8 layers, because that solidifies into a full snow block taking all 16 pixels, not 14.

[@STA-3]

In what version of minecraft java is this?

[@squibble111]

I play solely on 1.19.2, and will likely continue to do so for a while. Its where my mods are, and im okay without the new features (for now)

[@STA-3]

@@squibble111 Ok. Thanks.

[@tacthib1396]

1:28 What was that x)

[@Mcraft_Studios]

I will suggest you make one with water

[@asoteunh345]

I love your videos

[@SuperLlama88888]

Noice!!!

[@jeremyarmstrong7857]

I swear to God I will switch to apple

[@chasbianco142]

so glad im here early before u get famous

[@helpineedagooduser]

W vid

[@hobknot]

Me who just uses pufferfish

[@Lexiont]

You're cool

[@owlleader2014]

I need a wither birch farm go desgin it no bedrock no tnt duping I know you aint got better shit to do

[@squibble111]

Damn, maybe I would have done it had you asked nicely. Except that already exists, just take a random birch farm like Ilmangos design and attach it to a wither cage (many of which already exist that don't use bedrock). Next time be a little more civil and also don't hound people to make things that probably already exist,

[@bladewake]

Design*

[@stroyz]

Hey, I've got a player specific detector that I'd like to share with you. Perhaps you could improve it and make a video out of that, do you have discord?

[@squibble111]

I do have discord and I'm thinking of possibly making a video about player detectors as well (having recently designed a line of sight based "security camera"). my handle is @squibble111 same as youtube

[@stroyz]

@@squibble111 Friend request sent