By John Walker on January 17th, 2011 at 9:00 am.
It’s hard not to think that musical blocks weren’t added to Minecraft with the sole intention of ensuring a trillion new YouTube videos that we all can’t resist posting. Double that down with the internet’s endless love for Portal’s Still Alive (how will they ever compete with that in Portal 2?), and you’ve got a post that has to be there first thing on a Monday morning to correctly start your week. And this isn’t a half-arsed job. Incredibly only taking five or six hours to put together, this is a remarkable piano rendition of the Coulton song.
The project, by Tritex989, came after popular demand from his posting of the introduction. He explains that the timing issues are due to redstone lag, rather than setting it up incorrectly. But since the idea of getting two notes to play in order is beyond me the idea that someone may criticise it seems very silly to me.
Oh, and the punchline is lovely.
You can download the map for the tune here.
17/01/2011 at 09:04 mowglie says:
O.o
17/01/2011 at 09:09 adonf says:
“the punchline is lovely”
Wohohoho spoilers !
17/01/2011 at 15:28 jonfitt says:
I’ve not watched the video yet, but since the new update includes cake… it’s not exactly a reach to imagine how it ends.
17/01/2011 at 15:56 apa says:
Lies, all lies.
17/01/2011 at 09:16 Merelia says:
The last bit was fantastic.
17/01/2011 at 09:17 Shadram says:
Excellent.
17/01/2011 at 09:22 DarkNoghri says:
Anyone care to explain how this works for someone who’s about to go to bed and can’t be bothered to search?
17/01/2011 at 10:40 evilbobthebob says:
NOT NOT gates between every note for delay.
17/01/2011 at 17:18 Trans says:
What do you mean; NOT NOT gates? Is it NOT gates or NOT??
Bah, i tried to lean about how to use logic gates from the wiki, but it gave me a terrible headache. I thought “How hard can it be?” Then saw an amazing picture of a “JK Flip-flop” at which point I thought they were taking the piss. But no, such a thing really does exist, and more… it has a purpose. Though I know not what it could be.
I need to sink a few more hours into the game but I have this fear that as soon as I fire it up, it will immediately be 4am in the morning 2 hours before I have to up for work, but because of strange temporal anomolies due to Einsteinian time-dilation theory (or something) it will only feel like I started playing 20 minutes ago at 7pm.
That is what happened last time and all I did was build a glass house and shit myself when I heard a strange noise in the cave…
Brilliant game but I feel rather inferior to some of the guys/gals working on the wacky projects.
EDIT: And btw how can I be posting comments too quickly?
17/01/2011 at 18:23 evilbobthebob says:
I mean INPUT->redstone->block with redstone torch->redstone->block with redstone torch->redstone->OUTPUT. Each of those (redstone->block with redstone torch) is a NOT gate, because it reverses the input’s value. It is called a “repeater” on the wiki, because it is used to extend redstone signals past the 17 block limit. However, the torch change induces a delay which is fortunately almost identical to a double note duration. I employed this to good effect with a pressure plate to make a “doorbell” that goes ding-dong.
22/01/2011 at 05:20 Renk says:
The best tutorials i’ve seen is this series of youtube videos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26wQWrvuiY
He does a pretty good job of laying down the basics of all the gates and such. Beyond that, the next best thing is to make your self a large flat playground in-game, a large pile of redstone dust, some switches, and go at it.
17/01/2011 at 09:23 stahlwerk says:
The pigs are listening.
17/01/2011 at 19:38 icdragon says:
I particularly enjoyed the bovine backup dancer.
17/01/2011 at 09:29 Tei says:
The same dude has created LIFE, life inside a computer, using minecraft. Check his other videos for the conway game of life.
17/01/2011 at 09:48 Teddy Leach says:
:O
17/01/2011 at 10:05 markside says:
And I thought my sandstone tower was pretty good…. Back to the drawing/madly-adhocking board.
17/01/2011 at 10:21 Jerricho says:
Thats incredible. He wins this week’s internet.
17/01/2011 at 10:37 d32 says:
Mooo!
17/01/2011 at 17:37 kororas says:
MOOOOOOOOOO!
17/01/2011 at 10:40 Legionary says:
I’m making a ‘note’ here, huge success.
(I’ll get my coat.)
17/01/2011 at 19:18 7rigger says:
Don’t worry,
I’m not even angry!
17/01/2011 at 10:45 CMaster says:
Quoting myself from here
“I predict that within the next week or so, RPS will run a story where somebody has created a machine to automatically play a well-known video game tune using redstone and tone blocks.”
Pretty obvious, but still feeling kinda smug about the accuracy.
17/01/2011 at 12:40 Shazbut says:
I remembered. Your prophetic ability wasn’t lost on me.
17/01/2011 at 13:00 opel says:
Swiftly guide us into the future, oh wise and powerful prophet. Tell us all that you know. XCOM – good, bad? Deus Ex? Will someone reply with “What a shame?”
17/01/2011 at 15:13 golden_worm says:
Ohh, what’s really going to bake your noodle later on is, would they still have posted it if you hadn’t said anything?
17/01/2011 at 15:35 CMaster says:
@golden_worm
No, not really.
I’m pretty sure they’d have posted this anyway.
17/01/2011 at 16:59 Starky says:
I think everybody who’s been on the internet and reading RPS for more than a week or two probably guessed that within a week of the music blocks going live people would be posting video’s of video game tunes played with them.
Ranked in order of probability would be…
Still Alive
Mario 1-1
Zelda theme
Then I expect to see some Moonlight Sonata, maybe some Canon, then some pop/hip Hop themes.
17/01/2011 at 22:19 DOLBYdigital says:
*golf clap*
Thanks golden_worm for the laugh, haven’t seen that movie in a long time.
17/01/2011 at 10:46 Shadowcat says:
I liked the bit with the jumping cow.
18/01/2011 at 00:50 Sleepymatt says:
Indeed – dancing cows FTW
17/01/2011 at 11:22 rei says:
Neat. Doesn’t exactly fit in your living room, though. Maybe notch will make an LP-pressing machine block that spits out records when you feed tunes into it, somehow.
17/01/2011 at 11:23 radomaj says:
How about this, though?
17/01/2011 at 17:04 Starky says:
That is cool and all. but it is basically just flashing lights – the music was done outside of minecraft using sampled sounds from minecraft.
It’s still impressive, but not as impressive as if it was possible in game (it isn’t – yet).
17/01/2011 at 18:16 PleasingFungus says:
That is… really cool.
EDIT: And now I look a bit foolish.
Ah well
17/01/2011 at 11:39 Spatula says:
Damn it. That tunes in my head now :-(
17/01/2011 at 11:43 DrunkDog says:
I like the half-arsed-ness of the whole thing. It works in that lovely fudge-y way Minecraft does so well.
17/01/2011 at 12:28 Khryses says:
Well that is just intensely awesome.
Now all I have to do is reopen my minecraft, forge new weapons and sprint from ‘Ground’ to ‘Lava level’ through three security doors and find my inventory before it despawns, then try to work out how to make use of my redstone bounty to make sweet music!
…I imagine there’s something in the wiki ^_^
17/01/2011 at 13:01 Tom OBedlam says:
Thats just magic, isn’t it?
17/01/2011 at 13:29 Narcotic says:
Lets not forget this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1jvb9ZUhq0
17/01/2011 at 14:21 nuh uh no way says:
What a… triumph.
17/01/2011 at 15:39 TalonofElysia says:
The cake is no longer a lie!
17/01/2011 at 17:57 Bahumat says:
In before someone posts a link to a working “In the Fire And The Flames” by Dragonforce in Minecraft.
17/01/2011 at 18:44 Wulf says:
@_@
Do want.
Dragonforce fan, yes.
17/01/2011 at 17:59 Bob Lewis says:
Bravo!
17/01/2011 at 18:05 Vinraith says:
Impressive bit of work, obviously, but I wish the inherent restrictions of the system (timing, octave limits) allowed you to make a more… musical piece of music.
17/01/2011 at 18:45 Wulf says:
Hopefully Notch will include other tone blocks with different octaves/sounds!
17/01/2011 at 20:37 Araxiel says:
God damn it Internet! What can you not do?! What’s next? A cat playing Minecraft playing Still Alive?
17/01/2011 at 22:23 Ergates_Antius says:
Reminds me of the time I programmed the whole of the first movement of the Moonlight sonata into my Spectrum 128+2 using only PLAY* commands.
Took a while….
* Marginally more advanced than BEEP
18/01/2011 at 01:20 outoffeelinsobad says:
My life is drab and meaningless in comparison!
22/01/2011 at 23:17 Alwayswright says:
Just sayin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeIIALrEwCQ