The History of Minecraft's Super-Computers

Creator of the CHUNGUS 2 here. Really enjoyed the video! I do have a couple nitpicks: - All of mattbatwings' creations, while extremely impressive, are not actually CPUs as they are dedicated to run one particular game/purpose - There have been quite a few other CPUs built in the period after the 1.5 update before the QCPU that use techniques such as pipelining to achieve very high clock speeds (>1Hz), although these aren't particularly well-known as they didn't run many meaningful programs Other than that, very well researched!

Redstone shortage is insane, can't get any new GPU anymore

2000: My CPU is overheating! 2010: There's a creeper in my CPU!

This is just straight up history repeating itself. Computers start off slow as all hell with barely any specs, and now they're slowly getting better and more compact

I was originally going to say: “I won’t be impressed until I can play Doom in MineCraft” but these are impressive

10 years later and I'm still working on my unfinished redstone computer. it'll be awesome when it's done, one day

I love how from the computers perspective, it’s just doing what it already does, but in a very very round a out way… like “Wait… this feels familiar…what the hell?”

Computers in minecraft can store 100 bytes of virtual memory on 3GB of physical memory! What great rates!

Hey everyone! Thanks for checking out a non-skyblock video of ours, it really helps us get into making more variety content. We haven't stopped uploading skyblock, and we won't stop, but we wanted to do something different for a change. I worry that this video doesn't give the redstone complexity of these computers in the video enough justice, so please head over to the uploaders channels and give them some love, and if this interested you in any way, get into redstoning yoursefl!

I study computer science and I don’t know how can they build a super computer in Minecraft. It really blows my mind 🤯

It’s really interesting to see the parallels between Minecraft computer development and IRL computer development. It’s super impressive just how versatile Minecraft is as a game that people can develop stuff of this caliber. Makes me excited for the future!

Hey, I am a builder on ORE and I have to agree, everything that goes on in the computational redstone community is absolutely amazing.

I'm baffled by the fact that my dad (a computer engineer) managed to make storage some time before 1.8 I think.

Glad to see you branching out from other than hypixel content! Hope it goes well :)

Since making this, sammyuri and a couple of his friends have built minecraft within minecraft using a modified CHUNGUS 2 computer... Please go over there after watching this video and show them some love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I

Creator of the Redgames (and Commandore 32) here. Some notes: I know most of the original downloads for the Redgame 1/2/3 and Commandore 32 are probably dead now, but if you want some of the old world downloads I'd be happy to provide them. There's manuals/programming guides for how the architecture works of each of them and a couple demo programs for each, but indeed not all that many people wrote programs for them. Regarding 8:30 : I can't speak about other redstone computers, but all Redgames including the first had the functionality to display arbitrary pixels from code, including 'hardware acceleration' for things like horizontal/vertical lines, and hollow and filled rectangles, all in 2011. Later redgames increased the resolution, and the Commandore 32 added resolution, color and 2 extra screen buffers (using command blocks though). Regarding 10:00 : Again, I hate to toot my own horn, but for reasons of historical accuracy I'll just point out that the Commandore 32 I built in 2014 had the same functionality several years earlier. Also a custom programming language (/compiler/assembler) with tools to upload it using minecraft console commands. Admittedly this is a command block based computer so it could be argued it isn't "true" redstone, but nor is a compiler outside of minecraft so eh.

For the longest time the biggest mystery and interest in the game for me were those redstone computers. I was not expecting YALL out of all people to drop such a banger of a video, but I am very greatful you did

Unironically a super interesting video. This is the first Minecraft computer video that is simple enough for me to understand. Nice job!

The cool thing is that this is pretty accurate to real life too. Started out very slow with limited technology, then evolved to be faster, bring more features and functionality, and finally be more compact. Still, there seems to be a current limit due to how fast vanilla redstone is in Minecraft, and in real life there is the physical limit of process node shrinks, albeit these two are not directly comparable. This is really cool

It's crazy how with just a bit of research on how these things work, you can start to work with at least basic binary, I built a machine that if you inputted binary, it would output the number associated with that binary in the form of a certain lamp with the number on it, super simple to learn and build and only took me a week using a slow crappy mac with only a trackpad