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Chapter 369 Redstone Computer: Playing Minecraft in Minecraft? (Subscribe)

The Red Rock competition area provides a good starting point for discussion.

The animation competition area has emerged as a new force.

The construction zone came from behind.

Only the speed pass area has remained unknown.

Game speedrunning means that under certain conditions or rules, players complete all levels of a game or achieve specific goals in the shortest possible time.

The goal is to pursue the ultimate in speed, challenge yourself and others, and enjoy the sense of accomplishment when setting a speedrun record.

Game speedrunning not only tests players’ gaming skills and operational capabilities, but also inspires them to conduct in-depth exploration and research into game mechanics and processes.

It provides players with a brand new gaming experience and challenge mode, allowing players to enjoy the fun and sense of accomplishment of the game in the process of pursuing speed.

At the same time, game speedrunning also promotes communication and competition among players, and drives the development and growth of the gaming community.

In my world speedrunning area, there are clear rules.

Once a player posts his speed run video, it is very likely that other players will discover his optimization options, leading to him overtaking others and making things easier for them.

Therefore, during this period, except for a small number of contestants who know that they are not strong enough, they will post their speedrun videos in the speedrunning area in an effort to gain a certain amount of attention.

On the contrary, other top players in the speedrunning area have been quietly studying the rules and processes of Minecraft, and constantly making various attempts, striving to achieve perfection and complete the kill with one blow at the last moment.

As time goes by, there are only three days left before the end of the regional activities, and there is not much time left for speed runners.

Speedrunning masters no longer hide their knowledge and choose to release their competition videos.

Gao Tianyang, the top speedrunner from the Zhengjiao Cult, the Hydra Speed ​​Serpent Head, came to the border between the desert and the land at the beginning of the game.

He immediately used the third-person perspective to check if there were any buildings nearby. While collecting wood, he discovered a village not far away.

By the time Gao Tianyang synthesized the workbench, one minute had passed.

Arriving at the village, Gao Tianyang walked into several houses and collected four or five beds. Then he collected straw blocks in the village and went to the pile of stones. He made a wooden pickaxe and began to upgrade to the Stone Age.

As we all know, the durability of a wooden pickaxe is only three. After collecting enough stones, Gao Tianyang made an axe, a shovel, and a sword respectively.

He made bread out of straw blocks and used sand blocks as stepping blocks to block the attack range and kill the iron golem.

In 2 minutes and 30 seconds, 5 pieces of iron were obtained. Then Gao Tianyang went to the river without stopping, collected gravel in an orderly manner, and then used the iron to make buckets and flints.

While searching for a mine, Gao Tianyang discovered a desert temple and a lava pool. After collecting TNT, he obtained four golden apples, an enchanted book of Loot 3, 3 diamonds and gold in the treasure chest.

After leaving the desert temple, Gao Tianyang entered the mine and used TNT explosives to collect iron ore. After encountering the Enderman, he killed it with the diamond sword and obtained the first pearl.

By the time he collected enough resources in the mine, the time had come to 6 minutes and 20 seconds.

Next, Gao Tianyang made several furnaces. While firing items, he also made bows, arrows, shields and other weapons and protective gear. He directly made anvils out of the iron blocks fired in the furnaces.

After finishing everything, he came to the lava pool and entered the Nether through speed building at 9 minutes.

Before entering the Hell Fortress, Gao Tianyang used a golden pickaxe to quickly mine nether quartz to increase his experience.

After reaching level 7, Gao Tianyang placed an anvil to enchant the diamond sword, and then detonated three explosives on the way to the fortress, picking up the dropped blocks on the return journey.

At ten minutes, Gao Tianyang arrived at the underground fortress and used Loot 3 to complete the collection in 10 minutes and 25 seconds.

Gao Tianyang immediately returned along the same route and arrived back to the main world at 11 minutes and 15 seconds. He synthesized the Eye of Ender as soon as possible and continued to kill Endermen and collect pearls while heading to the underground ruins.

At 16 minutes and 52 seconds, Gao Tianyang arrived at the underground ruins, and at 18 minutes and 11 seconds he arrived at the end of the world.

Gao Tianyang destroyed all the crystals in 18 minutes and 15 seconds. When the Ender Dragon appeared, Gao Tianyang used the bed to rest and combined his hardcore combat ability to kill the Ender Dragon and completed the level.

The speedrun record was set at 19 minutes and 53 seconds, breaking the previous record of 30 minutes and 12 seconds, shortening the speedrun record to an astonishing level.

Once Gao Tianyang's speedrunning competition video was released, it became a bolt from the blue and drew everyone's attention back to the speedrunning competition area.

"Fuck, that speed Snake Head, he is indeed a famous quick shooter in the Yellow Turban Army!"

"Nine minutes for others: hell!"

“My nine minutes: Find a fat tree.”

"Others speedrun in 20 minutes, but I enter the Stone Age in minutes."

"I was still looking for sheep 10 minutes into the game..."

"Should I play games or learn math?"

"I'll be ready to dig three and fill one in eight minutes."

But what no one expected was that Gao Tianyang's move was like a depth charge, which brought out a large number of even more powerful masters.

Xiang Xianchong, the soul leader of the factionless group, released a speed run video shortly afterwards, completing the game in just 10 minutes and 12 seconds, once again breaking the speed run record.

Before the players could be surprised, the Dragon-Subduing Arhat of the Cyber ​​Bodhisattva released a speedrun video, breaking the 10-minute curse and setting a new speedrun record with a time of 8 minutes and 33 seconds.

When everyone thought that 8 minutes and 33 seconds was the limit, in the last three days of the sub-regional activities, batches of speedrunning experts explained to players what hardcore speedrunning is.

8 minutes!

7 minutes!

6 minutes!

As the countdown to the event gradually reached zero, the records in the speedrunning area were broken again and again.

At the last moment of this event, the speedrunning area has become the most eye-catching area among the four major areas.

One hour before the end of the sub-competition activities, what no one expected was that Gao Tianyang released his competition video again.

Gao Tianyang was born again at the junction of the desert and the land. He entered the village with ease and obtained an iron pickaxe and six obsidians from the blacksmith shop.

Then take the simplest route, travel through the village and collect the beds in each room.

Then he jumped to the Nether ruins below, took the obsidian from the treasure chest, used the obsidian at hand to make and ignite the portal, and came to the Nether.

Entering the Nether, Gao Tianyang moved forward with a clear goal, collecting blocks along the way, as if he had done it hundreds of times. He built a portal again and ignited it, and he passed through to the underground fortress, and used vines to block the magma. After entering the End, he reset some parameters, and when the Ender Dragon appeared, he killed it instantly and completed the level.

It only took 1 minute and 48 seconds to complete the game, which redefines what speedrunning means.

However, Gao Tianyang's speed run method still caused quite a bit of controversy. Although fixed seed speed run is the first choice of top players, adjusting the parameters is somewhat unauthentic.

This is equivalent to a 100-meter race. Gao Tianyang and other speed runners are not standing on the same starting line.

When the other contestants informed the judging panel of their demands, the judges, after unanimous deliberation, agreed that although this method was a hack, it did not violate any rules and was therefore reasonable and legal, and the results were valid.

Therefore, Gao Tianyang became the undisputed number one in the speedrunning area.

Players did not expect that the four-month-long "Who Can Become a Millionaire" event would not shine brightly until the very last moment, when the speedrunning masters collectively took action.

Players know very well that a time of 1 minute and 48 seconds is definitely not the speed run limit of Minecraft.

But in the current version of Minecraft, this result is almost an insurmountable gap.

However… just because the speedrunning area has limits doesn’t mean there are limits in the redstone area.

The entry currently ranked first in the Redstone Division rankings is a scientific calculator made by a contestant named [Guan Guan Can Guo].

But the scientific calculator he made was ultimately based on the redstone calculator of the owner of Mingyue Manor.

Therefore, people's recognition of him is not high.

It is already 11 o'clock in the evening, and there is only one hour left before the selection activities of the sub-competition area will end. The players are all looking forward to the appearance of the owner of Mingyue Manor.

Everyone wants to see what the ultimate move that the owner of Mingyue Manor has been holding back for several months is. Can the final entry surpass the scientific calculator and amaze everyone?
Fortunately, Master Mingyue didn’t let the players wait too long. At 11:30, he released the final entry.

【Redstone Computer】

In the air of Minecraft, a huge machine made using redstone technology is displayed in front of the players.

And this huge machine is actually a computer in real life.

The owner of Mingyue Manor also specially made a matching gaming keyboard and game controller. In the video, he controlled Steve to play Snake on this computer.

Player: "!!!"

Contestant: “!!!”

no……

Players play Snake in Minecraft?
The redstone calculator is already outrageous!
Redstone computer, I dare not imagine how exaggerated it is!
Is this the level that players can achieve in the game?
I am young and have little education, please don't lie to me, okay?
Because the entries in the Redstone competition area require that modules be disabled, and players are required to explain the production principles so that other players can replicate them.

Therefore, when Master Mingyue Manor manipulated Steve to play a game of Snake in Minecraft, he slowly explained the principle to everyone: "Making computers in Minecraft is not uncommon."

"If the competition requirements do not prohibit the use of modules, then you can create a computer in Minecraft using instructions or MODs, or you can use virtual machine modules as the basis for creation."

"Of course, it's not impossible to give up the use of the virtual machine module and simply use redstone technology to make a computer. We just need to build the core component of the computer - the CPU - from scratch!"

“Use redstone, a conductive mineral, with relays to simulate the simplest switch and gate circuit in the CPU.”

"As you can see, according to this theory, I have successfully built a CPU in the game. I would like to call this system the second generation of a large new type of computer image processing unit."

"On this intricate little cube, there are a lot of redstones and relays densely packed together, and the final CPU has a performance of 10-tick clock length."

"The four-stage pipeline is - instruction fetch, decode, execute and write back, and it is a 3-operand reduced instruction set architecture. In simple terms, this is a 1HZ god-level CPU that can run completely."

"And I have also completely restored the real-world registers on the CPU. Its function is to store binary code. Please follow my perspective and take a look."

"Next to the register is a component called an arithmetic logic unit, which is used to perform multiple sets of arithmetic and logical operations. Below it is a flag and branch logic."

"The flag bit is the switch component that controls the relay, and the branch logic is a digital circuit that guesses which branch will be executed before the branch instruction is executed. This improves the instruction pipeline performance of the processor."

"Among other things, the computer also features a large math unit, input and output ports, a 256-byte data CPU cache, and more."

As the owner of Mingyue Manor gave his endless explanation, the onlookers looked at the computer in front of them, feeling puzzled and at the same time wondering, is this really something a human can do?

The owner of Mingyue Manor explained: "At this point, you may ask, what can this CPU with a main frequency of only 1HZ do?"

"In fact, with the current performance of this computer, we can easily play games such as Tetris, Snake, and Breakout."

"In addition, this computer can run mathematical formulas and quickly plot the corresponding function graphs."

The owner of Mingyue Manor demonstrated the various functions of this computer in real time. A large number of hardcore gamers looked at this computer with shining eyes, going completely crazy.

To be honest, the performance of this computer is not very powerful, but the problem is that this computer is not a real-world computer, but a computer made by players in the game using various materials.

Even though its CPU is only 1HZ, in the eyes of these players, this computer is a top-level cyber configuration.

Even many players suddenly realized a problem——

The computer made by the owner of Mingyue Manor only has a 1HZ CPU. If a player can make a 4GHZ CPU and add a 3090 graphics card.

Then players can play Minecraft in Minecraft?

When the owner of Mingyue Manor finished introducing the production principle and structure of the redstone computer, everyone fell silent. It took a long time for everyone to come back to their senses until the video ended automatically.

"Fuck! Awesome!"

"Scientific calculators are nothing compared to redstone computers!"

"I want it so much, wow, this is simply the most amazing work I have ever seen!"

"I think this computer with only 1HZ is the best computer in the history of cyber games, bar none!"

“I want to play Minecraft in Minecraft. Is there any expert who can make it happen?”

"The principle is here. I think the Cyber ​​Redstone computer will be updated and iterated crazily in the future. The day when players play Minecraft in Minecraft will not be too far away."

"Master Mingyue, this is truly the best use of redstone technology!"

"It's not the redstone computer that's amazing, it's the owner of Mingyue Manor!"

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