Hermitcraft S10#8: Making Frogger In Minecraft

one day I'll come here and you'll have a

roof and it cares about the roof you

don't even I went like a month without

people even realizing I I didn't have

them CU we we couldn't fly that's how

unimportant it is it's like wait a

second he doesn't have a roof I mean I

can see the sky through that window but

it's fine it's fine no that's uh that's

blue blocks behind the the window it's

intent

new addition yeah there's going to be a

river here one day maybe if I ever get

to it I love it I love it and a

waterfall maybe even a sewer

eventually maybe yeah we might get to

that uh too many projects okay let's

let's check out the Trident farm so yeah

where is it I'm actually very excited

about this thing I think it's I think

it's pretty cool and you're going to

like it okay yeah yeah okay so you can

check if there's any drowns in stock by

looking through the window here I I'll

dress it up a little better later wait

the little guy has a trident that's so

cool y so there's a big stack of these

guys and each one has a trident pretty

much that's amazing okay cool cool and

because they're in a minecart they won't

despawn so it's kind of like a battery

it's storing up Trident guys uhhuh and

all I have to do is be in my area and

they'll just automatically go in here

and then I just kill them yeah kill them

as you want here

and they should drop you got looting on

your sword right yeah yeah yeah there's

a trend in there that's probably from

you earlier it might have been from

earlier I don't know what the drop rate

is I think it's like 8% or something

it's not super it's not great I can tell

you that from my organic farming yeah

hopefully we'll get a few here though

God okay I'll take your

turn it kind of hurt see though you need

like a slab there maybe oh we got one

you got one

y y nice oh we got another oh we're

almost out of

guys uh-oh I see a leak in the system

too I need to patch

that the red Stone's falling apart um I

put a lot of care into making this work

yes uh-huh I'm sure I mean it looks like

it one little guy got out

okay activator rails you know why don't

they do what they're supposed to do okay

I'll turn this off now it seems like

we're all out what we get only I was

hoping for a bit more but that's okay

that's

okay yeah it's not bad I feel like maybe

I should make another sword that doesn't

have fire aspect cuz maybe the fire tick

is killing them that's fine as long as

you hit them within I think 2 seconds or

something it'll oh there's a cool down

okay well that's good all right so the

guys they all get gathered together here

they they chase a a turtle egg mhm and

they just kind of fall down a hole here

yep they get get automatically put into

a mine

cart and then we have an axel lottle

right over there and they'll try to

throw their Trident at the Axel and then

the bubble stream makes it fly up and

miss the Axel and hit a Target block

instead oh my God they can interact with

Target blocks yeah that trident hits the

target block and then it switches our

Junction here so that they go to our our

bubble column instead of going to The

Killing chamber here

that's amazing yeah it seems to work

really good actually think of that that

seems so good and so these guys that die

do you still collect their stuff the

regular guys yeah but I think they just

drop uh rotten flesh I don't think it's

really worth they don't do anything

fancy if you don't kill them I blocked

his way

yeah they geted AES into a campfire and

then uh the mine cart hits the cactus

and it gets recycled

oh my gosh you make me wish I was good

at Redstone what a cool system I don't

really need Trident myself until later

like I'll probably make a mini game

eventually with them mhm so in the

meantime you can uh use them for your

shop or whatever you want all right

everybody well I'm excited we're going

to get working on our Frogger game again

this episode and I'm hoping we'll get a

lot done and then maybe next episode we

can build the shop and possibly open it

it would be amazing if we can make that

happen but we got a lot to do on this

still so let's try get a lot done today

uh you can see we worked on the road we

got it textured a little bit now um it's

not great but there's not a lot I can do

about that there's not too many options

for slabs that we can use but uh we

tried and then also I found a lot of the

Hermits were having trouble telling

there were five spots at the end there

because we only had three frogs so I

added in two more something I mentioned

at the end of last episode was the idea

of maybe getting rid of the main Loop

for the ravagers and breaking it up into

five smaller loops and you can see that

main Loop is gone instead we got the

five mini loops and it has worked out so

much better now we now have control over

when we want to release the ravagers in

each of the lanes and that allows us to

balance the difficulty much better

there's also a less chance of the

ravagers running into each other due to

like randomization piling up and there's

one more really big benefit to switching

to the five mini Loops instead of one

big main Loop check this out we start up

our

game look how much faster the ravagers

fill up the lanes before we have to wait

like a full minute for them to weave in

and out between each lane one by one and

now we don't need to make the player

wait that time and I'll just show you

how the mini loops work here so each of

the lanes has a holding area so this is

the holding area for the second lane and

then they go over to the right here and

then we can control each of those

holding areas when we want to release

the ravager so they go to the right and

then this is a hold holding area for the

first Lane and they just keep looping

between the two there is a slight

pattern to it you'll notice it like

releases them in a wave and then there's

kind of a gap sometimes sometimes not so

much uh so we have a hopper clock

running for the

main game Loop just six items in there

that sends out a pulse to all the

randomizers 10 in total one for each

lane see it just flashed here and that

goes to uh chain of droppers here this

one has a 1 and six chance of selecting

the shears if it does the comparator has

a signal strength of two and then it can

shortcut to the end here otherwise it's

got to go through each of these one by

one and each one has a four tick delay

between minus one from that so three

ticks uh for between each of these so

one and six chance then it goes to a 1

and five chance then a one and four one

and three one and two and then if none

of those triggered the final one

guarantees that a r gets released cuz if

that didn't happen then another ravager

would run into it and it would mess up

the whole thing yeah so basically what

these randomizers do is they vary the

amount of time it takes for the ravager

to get released from like 0 seconds at

the close randomizer here all the way up

to like 1.5 seconds if it makes it all

the way to the end and that might not

seem like a lot of time but Minecarts

move like eight blocks per second so

that's a variation of like 0 to 12

blocks difference each cycle here with

the rabit

where it makes it very difficult to

predict what they're going to do like

see this guy he's uh he's at the end and

then there's no guy there that's quite a

bit of time Gap right this time he's at

the end and then look this guy's already

going so you play many times in a row or

no yeah so you kind of you got to fill

up the five spots at the end to beat the

level kind of thing so like you just got

to the middle one so then that would

close and you can't take that path again

you have to find a different path how

are you going to make it so that they

actually kill you though which the

ravagers yeah uh I'm going to drop the

player at the start probably get them

down that like on a spike probably get

them down half hit or something then the

magma will kill you such a clean clean

way of doing it I don't think

it's I don't think it's too hard uh too

easy do you think it's too hard at all

or you think it's no within

range the big thing is that it's fun I

guess like do you think it's fun yeah I

do think it's fun yeah I do think it's

addictive I'm still here yeah excellent

aha yeah so we had both iscal and cupan

help us test out the game after we made

the big changes to it and I think it's

in a pretty good place I think it might

be a little bit more difficult than I

would like but we can uh you know we can

give the player more lives maybe instead

of starting with three you start with

five or maybe even more we can also just

add more drip Leaf to the water section

which is what we're doing

now uh and that way like the big reason

you die here is is because you get

locked into where you have to move and

you have little control over that by

adding more drip Leaf it gives more

player control it makes it slightly

easier also add in a couple lily pads

for places where people can rest a bit

longer if they want to okay so I think

today we're going to also try to

decorate stuff a little bit as well so

I'll probably add some sea grass to our

water section here uh in a few places

sea pickles you know just a few things

in the water I also want to try this is

like both decorative and it will affect

gameplay a little bit what happens if we

put um maybe let's space them apart a

bit here some turtles in the water I

don't know if that's going to do

anything it' be kind of funny if they

like tried to climb up on the drip leaf

and actually like affected the game

every once in a while all right well I

think the next big thing to figure out

with our game here is what are we going

to put behind those frogs what kind of

information does the player need how are

we going to display it and like what are

we tracking in our game kind of thing so

so kind of got an idea already I think I

want to try out seven segment

displays it'll be a good challenge for

me it's something I haven't really used

before too much and uh it's a great way

of showing numbers in mini games like

this we're going to do it out of lamps

and a great block to go with that I

think is this black terra cotta it's got

a little bit of color in it kind of goes

well with the lamps but it's not like

super dark like black concrete it also

kind of goes well with the color of

frogs we have here so so first off I

think we just need to give them

something to sit on but then we want to

transition from horizontal to Vertical

so this is going to be like the corner

at the end of our room here where it's

going to start going up now I'm going to

have like an outline out a smooth

Sandstone here for our seven segment

display let's see how that looks if we

go back cuz we got to make sure

everything is visible as

well okay so that's like just at the top

of the frogs from this perspective as we

get closer what happens

okay so the Frog gets a little bit

higher than the Sandstone as we get

closer but I think it's uh it's probably

good there actually so maybe we leave

one block Gap with the black terra cotta

and then we start the seven segment here

it's going to be five blocks

tall well check it out I think we're on

the right track here I like how this

looks and I think we'll have a good view

of the display just imagine though we

got a bit of work to do here we have to

clear out all this Stone

it's walking the view but I think once

that's gone you'll be able to see it

nice and clearly all the way up to here

you get to the middle of the course you

can still see it very clearly I would

say all the way up to about here it

starts getting obstructed by the frogs

they start going in front of the numbers

and you'll probably be able to read it

all the way up to about here and then

it's basically unreadable uh but at this

point you're you're at the end of the

level and I don't think you'd really be

looking at that you're just focusing on

the exit at that point right so I think

that's good um I did uh an outline on

the bottom and the top just to highlight

it but also I added two blocks of

sandstone at the top there so that we

can maybe hang some banners on it with

writing to explain what each of these

digits represents so the one on the

right there it's going to be for our

total score three digits and then the

one in the middle I think is going to be

our timer so it's going to count down

from 9 8 7 6 all the way down to zero

and I think the way we're going to do

this score is whatever the timer is at

when you get to the end is going to get

added to your total so let's say it's at

7 that gets added to your total next

round if it's at five your total score

becomes 12 and uh I think that's a good

way of doing it nice and simple and then

that last one there is for the number of

lives you have left number of attempts

and once that hits zero it's it's game

over but uh yeah we kind of hit a dead

end here until we get rid of all this

Stone in our way we can't really do much

more so that's my next job I just uh cut

out a sliver here I think the way this

is going to go I'm going to just make a

perfectly flat ceiling out of packed ice

packed ice I think is the closest thing

you can get to like Sky color I left in

a little uh thing of trap doors by the

the sign here as well I think we're

going to put lighting over that just so

it lights up our sign a little bit

better below I didn't plan it when we

started this project but this natural

cave we found is actually going to save

us so much work like I need the space

back here for our seven segment display

as well and it's already dug out for us

so that's awesome we just have like 10

blocks or so above the road we got to

Chisel out here in a little bit to wider

as well and I think we're good so I'm

going to I'm going to get Dion

here also I think we'll probably need

about two Shockers full of packed ice

for the sky so I'm going to get that

too the stone is gone this guy is in the

Etho cofed up and the big thing of

course above our head there the seven

segment display our very first one

installed oh boy this this took me a

good 6 hours to design uh but it's

really cool I'm really happy with how it

turned out mhm but the big challenge now

is how do I show you this without making

this episode a big snoozer so I don't

think we can break it down I think that

would take way too long I'm going to

just go over the general idea and I

think uh we'll fly around with free cam

to kind of show it all to you so it's

four blocks wide I'm not sure if it's

tilable I tried really hard to make it

tilable but I won't know until I build

another one next to it and and try it

out uh but it is uh only 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

N9 blocks long kind of 10 there's uh

this and this as well uh where the

bamboo block is is where you input your

signal so it takes a comparator signal

from 0 to 9 and it displays exactly that

on the screen so

comparator strength of five displays the

number five uh which is cool and you can

also skip through numbers you don't have

to go like one after another if you want

you can uh you can put pretty much any

number on the screen and it's about one

block above the screen but the the

chunky part of it is down below it's one

two three four five blocks down because

I had a lot of trouble getting the

number seven into it and that's what

most of this is down below it's like the

last number and I just I just struggled

I I just did whatever worked you know I

wasn't really focusing on compacting at

that point uh but yeah let's fly through

it here so I'm just going to try show

you as much as I can here if somebody

wants to make a tutorial on this go for

it I'm not going to um and I don't even

really recommend you try to build this

like there's there's easier ones to

build I would recommend checking out

maum's games if you're looking for a

seven segment he's got a lot of good

ones um he also uses a different method

than I'm using that's kind of why this

one's so crazy looking is because most

seven segment displays you encode

information into them um so it's almost

got like a built-in memory and based on

like the position of cauldrons or um

Pistons or observers or something you

can tell it exactly how you want it to

show up on the screen but what I decided

to do because I'm

crazy uh and I was looking for a

challenge I wanted to see if I could

just do hard Redstone separate all the

Redstone signals out from each other so

all the digits 0 0 to 9 and then just

directly connect them up to the screen

so there's the screen is inverted and

then I got 22 different connections

going to the lamps on the screen and I

got to just deal with the wires not

Crossing and interfering with each other

pistons not getting butt updated all

that kind of stuff so there's a lot of

stuff going on here and I pretty much

had to bust out every trick in the book

like leaf stone and all that to get it

compact enough where stuff wouldn't

interfere with each other as well um

also pay attention to where the

glowstone lamps like what what state

they're in if you're attempting to build

this also where the redstone blocks are

remember we're on number four right now

so these redstone blocks that one's up

these two are out and just double check

the lamps uhhuh and let's see I think I

showed this there are two barrels here

and each of these two barrels has a

comparator on subtract mode so there's

one over there for it and the other

Barrel is over here again similar

circuits in the barrel closest to the

lamps here we have exactly seven stacks

of items inside and then the Barrel in

the back here we have 11 stacks of items

also I should point out every single

repeater in this is set at one tick none

of them are at two three or four so that

makes it a lot easier to build this if

you know that and also there is a sneaky

Observer which you might miss if I

didn't point it out um yeah so that's

important as well so as far as like

actually hooking up information to this

you can put like a shulker box right

where the bamboo is here or any other

comparator signal or you can read it

through a block like I'm doing just for

Simplicity right now this is a circuit I

think by crafty masterman was the first

one to figure this out where you can um

use Crafters as a counter you craft nine

iron nuggets into an it and then it goes

in here and then they go back down to

the dropper and you can go from 0 to 9

that way very simply and that works

perfect for our

display every time we send that a pulse

it counts by one we can also put a

hopper underneath that crafter to pull

items out if we want to subtract that's

like as fast as it can read it I would

say like and actually show

it um but if we go faster than that it

won't mess things up it just uh just

can't really keep up in showing it on

the

display right like you can kind of see

it was at two there now it's at six but

yeah but when we shut this off it'll be

at the correct thing so it says seven

right now let's just double check the

crafter there's seven in there yeah so

that works oh snap okay so I just spent

some time here installing the four other

displays so they're all done now and oh

this makes me so happy it turns out they

actually are tilable which makes this

design much much better uh and also I'll

probably be using it more in the future

it could use some optimizing in a few

places like I don't know if these

Pistons are actually necessary we could

probably use observers and then they' be

quiet um you know but I I just can't

spend any more time on this this episode

so leaving it where it's at I had to

change one thing to make it tilable

though and from what I showed you and

that's over here it was Observer

Observer Note Block before and we

switched it to Observer Note Block

Observer that way when uh this gets

squished next to it it doesn't

accidentally activate the note blocks on

the other side uhhuh they're kind of

checkered in between each other this way

so that works out great yeah all these

Pistons by the way they are regular

pistons in the design except for the one

at the log here that's a sticky we have

some logical stuff to work out with this

but I'll save that for later I think if

you power the crafter at the top here

though it it stops it from crafting so

then you just send like 10 pulses to

this and then it'll reset the zero when

uh the game's over so that's pretty

simple to do

and yeah we got to finish this sign

don't we okay

so uh let's let's start uh getting back

to building here I'm thinking maybe we

want to kind of give it a bit of a Bend

as well not just like a square shape or

a

rectangle something something like this

I think would look a lot better H well

you know what BDubs always says when in

doubt smooth it out that's right so

let's uh let's try try to smooth this a

bit better we'll use birch as like an in

between as

well and did that do the

trick I think that's good keep in mind

we won't be looking up close at this

thing either it's going to be from a

distance we're going to add trap doors

all along here so it's like an in

between color from the Sandstone to this

black terracotta and it'll just be a

little easier on the eyes I think we

still got quite a bit of building left

to do on this thing and we're going to

need some materials to do it and in

interestingly something else happened

when isll came by the other day what are

you going to do with all your your

wealth you

know investment

maybe absolutely there's some talented

young young entrepreneurs on This Server

you could you could maybe back one of

them H what like gem

Pearl I was thinking you know like the

real cool entrepreneurs on the

server oh okay yeah yeah yeah like Tango

I think this needs Investments you

definitely need some work on the roof

and stuff you don't want to be mining

blocks you want to be using your brain

as a game developer you don't want to

think about diamonds that is why today

here right now I am going to invest

three stacks of dispensers and 30 blocks

of diamonds as an investor I need to

know these things I've seen Shark Tank

uh I need to know how much you're

selling Frog Light for in the shopping

district for which you have the permit

and

how much you would get if you play the

game and win like would you get more

than you would get in the shop or not so

still talking to our analysts about that

one were uh undecided um but you'll

probably get more playing the game than

just buying them for the same amount of

diamonds right mhm is it Maria you got

as an analyst there Maria she she's

taking time off she couldn't handle the

pressure um we got classic Mark but he's

still kind of learning he's not very

good

he's a bit of an awkward man if I'm

honest like have you I don't know man I

don't know it's makes these weird noises

when he talks yeah Mark always misses

the Mark I tell

you imagine being named Mark no analy

you would hear that like 20 times a day

yeah yeah okay well with this said I am

willing to invest uh in a

mere um I'll take 20% say yes that is a

lot of diamonds say yes okay okay 20%

let's go shopping so there is a brand

new shop that has just opened up in the

shopping district and well I guess

there's a few of them aren't there

there's Pearl's purple

shop uh but no I'm of course talking

about the one I'm very excited for here

the big one uh we are going to go check

out Ren dog's diate Depot that's right

it's finally

open oh my

goodness uh-huh he's got his special

Martian terrain or whatever he's doing

here with his explody pods and sulfur

pits and oh it's it's just amazing and

does it have the ren dog

special fancy sounds you know

it one diamond for two stacks that's

actually a fair price uh I'm sorry red I

as cool as this is I don't need diorite

nobody needs diorite I hate to say it