This Minecraft Map Will Melt Your Brain

Today we play The Terrace 2 which is the sequel to The Terrace 1 which was also brain bending.
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[@siddeney]

Hey, mapmaker here! Sorry to hear all your distressing complains about possible solutions 😢. This was an early stage of the map and if you're thinking of playing it again, make sure to reinstall it with the updated version. It fixes al lot of missing solutions and makes it actually possible to complete the map. Thanks!

[@KayEnFX]

Dw, it is fun map, maybe a place for players to post solutions that you may not have thought of?

[@jursamaj]

Is Jordan right that you're just matching known solutions, or does it test algorithmically?

[@siddeney]

@@jursamaj He is, however, in future versions, all puzzles with be tested algorithmically.

[@roowco1]

@@siddeney that's good to know, it kind of sucks the fun out of the map when you know you have a valid solution, but you don't have the "correct" valid solution, so im looking forward to the future versions were as long as something follows the rules, it'll be correct

[@Newt2799]

Still a great map my dude. I really liked that idea for the bridge building section

[@straightvibin6972]

38:50 "Is it that?" Jordan Sparklez ~ 😂

[@Probba]

The main problem with this map is that it takes ideas from Taiji and tries to teach you them too quickly. In the original, these puzzle mechanics were slowly taught over the span of dozens of puzzles.

[@BreadOnInternet]

and theres about a thousand solutions that should work but dont.

[@IAmUnderscore]

There aren't any solutions that should work but don't, given the actual rules. It's just that some of the rules aren't communicated well enough to the player either because 1) there aren't enough "teaching" puzzles or 2) the "teaching" puzzles leave room for misunderstandings or 3) the fact that solved puzzles cannot be reset means that alternate solutions can't be tested to discern rules. @@BreadOnInternet

[@elizathegamer413]

It feels like they're just copying taiji honestly

[@siddeney]

Hey guys. I'm sorry to hear your distaste for this map. To answer your question, if I added more puzzles to teach the player the mechanics, it would make the map way longer than it actually is. It's already pretty long with the average play time being 3 hours and I didn't want this map to be something you had to complete in many sittings.

[@siddeney]

​@@IAmUnderscore Actually you can actually reset almost all puzzles. All you need to do is drop nether star.

[@IAmUnderscore]

him not understanding that a region is just orthogonally adjacent tiles is KILLING ME

[@injuringflea727yeet]

aaaaaaa

[@injuringflea727yeet]

Uhhhhhhh

[@LetsWIN.]

1:13:47 I was screaming Yes every time Jardon said no😂 that was a wish full send help through screen moment

[@dhi_holo]

Jardon not understanding that regions are defined by the shared edges hurt, but I think what would really help out with the coloured dice dot puzzles especially is having a "not" block In Picross/Nonograms, you can put an X into squares you know are negative space to help process the information easier. Having black glass which would fill that general concept (but isn't required to be used to solve the puzzles) would definitely help with mapping stuff out

[@Bat3p]

I think the main problem is that it looks like each puzzle is being compared to a list of puzzles vs each block in the puzzle being tested against some rules

[@Len923_]

Not even two minutes in, and we've already forgotten instructions.

[@Jeffguy55]

Right click signs to read their message *Sees first sign* That's useless.

[@IAmUnderscore]

That intro text is basically the script from The Talos Principle

[@jakemichalowicz1403]

Fantastic game

[@tylisirn]

I was surprised to not see Talos Principle in the list of inspirations because of that.

[@christopherbradley6235]

“Screaming at a prerecorded video is not a good use of your time” -my therapist 33:00

[@drumming_cat]

Sure do love it when I overcome trails!

[@shakewell42]

I just started replaying The Talos Principle, and my mind got real confused for a second when those first bits of dialogue appeared lol

[@Jan-sp9zn]

38:50 had me rolling lmao

[@Nigolasy]

The instant delete of everything made it even better lmao

[@realStrombilly]

That happened to me on the puzzle at 48:44 and it's a viable solution too

[@thormalakowsky]

It's so painful watching him take so long to understand such simple concepts, and forget how to count. I feel so proud of him every time he understands something right away.

[@noiseisgold3n42]

yeah, this is exactly why its so hard to watch people solve puzzles.

[@zeebo30]

watching him mix up the filled in square and the empty square symbols multiple times was infuriating

[@christopherlim3109]

The difference between jardon’s playthrough of this map vs aliensrock’s playthrough of taiji are so different lmao

[@fobsessed08]

I was so confused when I watched this stream live but now watching the vod, I’m screaming at my tv pointing where he should place the blocks

[@ZonieMusic]

If the mapmaker can make this possible, then I suggest: Implement the algorithm in the map, not the solutions themselves. This prevents many possible valid solutions from being overlooked

[@royal_zaffreknightx3445]

Or run the algorithm outside of Minecraft to get a full list of all possible solutions and use that in the map

[@ZonieMusic]

@@royal_zaffreknightx3445 that too, yeah

[@isobarkley]

26:30 "Heeeh!?" and the ensuing confusion is incredible

[@stokhosursus]

38:51 WELL IT’S NOT THAT!!! 😂

[@epicgeometro]

1:02:14- CaptainSparklez loses all sanity

[@jursamaj]

Well, he didn't have much to lose…

[@GuyFromCanada]

This makes me want to see Jardon play outer wilds

[@MarquisKurt]

Would be interesting to see you try Taiji, as a lot of these puzzles seem to have originated from that. Might also make some of the puzzles more understandable

[@therealperegrine]

"This is good for a KZbin video so you get to scale up." Me who looked away for literally half a second and have no idea what's going on but don't want to rewatch a part: O_O

[@kaedynserak2587]

He has me screaming at my monitor, the colored dots are simple.

[@SMG9000.]

Ye me too

[@shelymarks952]

This entire map was “you thought you know what you were doing… Sike you have no idea”

[@Kevmaster2000]

I hope you play The Witness. It’s great!

[@goosebee]

38:53 pulled a fundy

[@RickyT15]

50:50 i think the blues couldnt be connected for both positive and which was why it was incorrect.

[@edtuckerartist]

Brain melted after ten minutes.

[@dulcerolindeaux9700]

Someone said this was based on a game called The Witness. I hope you'll try the original someday. That would be fun to watch! Oh! Or something from the Rusty Lake series? They're shorter puzzle games that are definitely not horror maps and I can't believe you would think that they were.😏

[@lavaerrordoggo]

the puzzles themselves and the mechanics are mostly based a game called taiji, which taiji itself does have some inspiration from the witness, but the witness was one of the inspirations of the map.

[@Kevmaster2000]

The Witness is great

[@TekExplorer]

oh hey, Taiji

[@isobarkley]

why is this so insane

[@ryemiranda6800]

I can see these Taiji Puzzles in the start

[@impulsive_dad]

At 43 mins my brain was like 🤯 💥 🎇

[@luketurner314]

Jordan, you should try solving more Sudoku variants. I recommend Cracking The Cryptic

[@SonOfMuta]

38:51 When the Jewish person makes a Swastika

[@isobarkley]

i love jardon's angry slavic accent

[@TorvaMessorRecluse]

28:26 it is minesweeper but it is represented by how many negatives there are.

[@aceofspades_20]

Yeah I don't have enough brain cells to understand this map XD

[@Saint-8]

I feel like Jordan would like The Witness or at least the joke game The Looker

[@i-am-a-tree592]

oh that's a cool concept tho!

[@SurgeXs]

So the first one was the witness and this one is taiji?

[@AnnaKells]

Im co lnvinced that some of te negative space is just for those of us who have pooreyesight lmao

[@fourtrifiveo4350]

oh my god its taiji

[@CoGames_]

To see someone else suffer, while I know every rule is beyond hilarious!

[@FadhilIkhwan-of5eh]

Me too after watching aliensrock play taiji

[@Lilaichii]

Jordan plays the witness when :)

[@PaulZeroSolis]

He's actually playing Taiji, this time, not the Witness.

[@happygbug]

jardoon needs to play the witness is all im seeing here.

[@abadgurl2010]

Where is the video for the first map?

[@Free.Spirit1]

If this was me I wouldn't continue the map. Multiple valid solutions that don't work is just silly. And the tutorial sections teach you rules that don't carry over because the simplest interpretation isn't correct.

[@epicgeometro]

Who else fully understood the dot puzzles by like the 20 minute mark smh

[@elizathegamer413]

Well I saw a full playthrough of taiji so I understood from that one lol

[@epicgeometro]

@@elizathegamer413 I just catch on really fast

[@dennisi2930]

this looks like a stream from Jesse Pinkman's little brother

[@smarty265]

Dietz Nuts

[@wolfsquared]

When is the 5 head joke going to end? 😮

[@kristenwilliams4726]

try the witness

[@KingChaos121]

If you listen closely at 27:41 you can hear his brain melting

[@creepaze]

X33n would enjoy

[@X_X978]

Anybody else here watch Aliensrock?

[@Jeffguy55]

Yup I do

[@MsPymParticles]

Is there going to be anymore Starfield?

[@th1ccbo1ee]

hope not

[@elliotno]

@@th1ccbo1ee L take

[@ajayvenkatraman4863]

Series was great but its been long enough that its probably dead

[@anthonynguyen1289]

He streamed it on Twitch once more but hasn’t uploaded that vod. Idk if that means he will never, but it’s possible the views on KZbin are not worth it. He might continue to stream it I’m sure he talks about it during that starfield stream

[@martinshoosterman]

its hilarious that he says there is a barrier block, and while i do believe him, it really looks like jordan just kind of sucks.

[@toastr1255]

For the puzzle at 40:00, I think there's another possible solution: ⬜⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬜

[@ZonieMusic]

Yup! That's right

[@daneildorito8568]

woah

[@PlayrR3D156]

woah

[@AbhishKernerVids64]

Got the fun works going in well and playing out nice and amazing but yes the designing being so high and solving things many times being epic to see and have fun with going in well and just awesome overall but playful vibes

[@josephmariostalinlinguinit8727]

Yup

[@ZyraZain8243]

To be fair to the mapmaker on the last puzzle, that was basically the first solution the Capt tried. Before he connected the regions instead of using the diagonal.

[@Azumarill]

@34:20 why's this not work?

[@linkskywalk3r]

As a person who does puzzles, watching him fail hurts me.

[@ASNEthen]

Can I just like and say I watched it? No? Fair Can't miss the quality content

[@emrysgaming6015]

Yayeet

[@trevorromero7741]

I did not hear "terrace".

[@sumongus]

smh my head chain:

[@imperfectimp]

Talking about multiple solutions: I thought smh meant "somehow" but it doesn't, right?

[@stokhosursus]

22:49 It’s always the same rule. You just have to figure out that rule. The earlier ones provide hints to figure out their solutions. Then once you have multiple instances, the hints are no longer necessary, and you have to see the common pattern.

[@benthebardber]

Hey Jardon, I really love the content, but I'm about halfway through the video and I just can't watch anymore. None of this is making sense, and I'm right in the boat with you. I hope you get to the end!

[@toastr1255]

Wow, didn't even take him a minute to forget the game telling him to right click signs to read them. This does not bode well for a puzzle map

[@the_chronicler]

Let's go

[@Kafj302]

I am like number 922

[@NateTmi]

why do people use blocks we can't see as a wall. It is so much better when you can see the wall

[@_Beastie_]

:)

[@EbonyV]

What the hell happend your hair

[@jursamaj]

1:02:10 This solution provides a continuous path across the lake, without hopping across diagonals. All the previous attempts didn't. The 1st "obvious" solution was allowed in order to show you that you needed to create a path.

[@noimnotgoingtoenteraname]

nah, 1:01:00