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Hate to bring it up, but compared to real digital circuits Minecraft redstone is literally a child’s toy

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Also the meme acts as if the people that did all that crazy shit, like building actual computers in minecraft, aren’t computer engineers.

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They show how to make a NAND, NOR, and XOR gate. And all you really need for functional completeness is the NAND.

This just doesn’t have the semi-analog stuff like DRAM.

But if I had to do my digital design at the gate level for anything more than like an adder, I’d be pretty over it pretty quickly.

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From what I understand, the majority of the most ridiculous minecraft feats are just… writing code to write Minecraft world data for logic circuits, not actually placing the blocks by hand. At a certain scale writing some kind of monstrous compiler to place blocks for you based on a proper circuit plan or programming language becomes easier.

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If it’s still the equivalent of gate level, even if those gates are expressed with words rather than placing each block, it’s still a slog. To get beyond gate-level, I think you’d need to write your own HDL and/or synthesis tool for minecraft redstone, which seems even deeper than what most people developing real digital logic do.

Like, I just write verilog and synopsys handles it well enough for my physical design team to have a good starting point.

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