- The only reason I ended up persuing Electronic Engineering at University, or eventually becoming an FPGA Engineer, was because I spent way too many hours playing with redstone in Minecraft as a teenager. Seeing a Verilog compiler for Minecraft is like seeing my career come full circle.
- This is an amazing timeline. I still remember the day redstone was added to Minecraft. I spent the entire evening and many days afterwards on the forum brainstorming how to implement various things. I think I had one of the first if not the first T flip flop, it "took an entire room" and was slow. It has been crazy watching things get compacted, repeaters getting added, pistons, comparators. I remember when BUDs got discovered and then eventually just added as a block.
Now* we have an entire HDL.
I honestly stopped keeping track of things around 2012 so I am completely lost looking at modern redstone contraptions.
*8 years ago
- Related:
Verilog to Minecraft Redstone Synthesizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25195802 - Nov 2020 (12 comments)
(Reposts are fine after a year or so! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
- I wonder if this takes account of any of the quirks or quasi-connectivity in redstone?
Mumbo Jumbo recently got a lesson in, and made a video about, computational redstone. Some seriously impressive builds in there (like ms paint). One of the major design constraints is tick/lag. The recent addition of copper bulbs turned the t-flipflop into a single block solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZaUz8bYW8
- I wrote a 8-bit ripple adder when I was 16 one night; I thought about this idea then but it seemed like a massive undertaking.
With all the additional redstone items/capabilities however I could imagine most circuits could be more and more compact..
All in all, really cool
by eirikbakke
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- In case anyone needs a minimal CPU implementation in 65 lines of Verilog:
https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/fic/
https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/fic/code/Fic.v
(I wonder if it would convert cleanly to a redstone circuit...)
by paulwetzel
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- Super cool project :)
Just the right level of, objectively useless - but really fun!
- Optimizing passes for this would be interesting.
Describing a flip flop as a villager minecart with some number of NaN minecarts beside it seems challenging to pick when to use it vs a copper bulb.
- I’ve been looking for any reason to relearn Verilog and this might give me my first idea.
Such a cool idea. Thank you.
by throwaway290
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- Minecraft circuits can't have feedback? That's pretty sad:(
- (2017)
- Amazing project!!
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- > A 2-bit 7-segment display decoder in action (the display itself was not generated by MinecraftHDL)
Lame!(/s)
I did this vanilla Minecraft(1.12?), including the display itself.
by lesser-shadow
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