Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 584: Endless Redstone Ocean 

The beginning of the episode nicely shows how great the autocrafter will be

If you see this Etho, you'll be pleased to know that development of Thaumcraft 7 is going quite well, and it'll probably release for minecraft 1.21. Seems to be leaning more towards Thaumcraft 4 in its systems, but lots of unique stuff too.

I used to, and sometimes still do lol, follow redstone builds block by block. One of the most enjoyable things is when I actually understand what's happening and how. To the point where I told myself a little while ago, "hmm I'm going to make my own (insert farm here)" so much trial and error but omg when it works WOW that triumphant feeling! This is in response to your conversation about the auto crafters. 😊

Etho getting in parkour skills with the redstone building.

I always love how communicative etho is about his channel. He won’t just post anything on Twitter, he just tells the people who watches what’s happening and respects us enough to not lead us into some false sense of hope. It’s nice

Ethos been feeding us well recently

This might be one of the best etho lp episodes of all time, at least in context. He covered a CRAZY amount of work and playtime, while still being technical and creative in his unique way. He kept it super entertaining too. There's definitely something super impressive and satisfying about etho putting this kind of video out right now. With decked out, secret life AND vault hunters going on he has to have been SWAMPED, but he's still finding time to do what he loves. It also feels like a great triumphant return (and even a step up) with his high labor projects after the outside life trouble he encountered earlier this year. Thanks for this great video etho! It's always a huge pleasure not only to watch you but to see you enjoy playing and working!

The golden age of Etho continues to reach new heights

Watching Etho build redstone feels like a Rocky training montage.

I like how the beginning of the episode really shows how much Etho’s editing style has changed over time. It’s the perfect amount between the near-raw videos we used to get and the over-the-top editing some other creators do. It’s just the perfect amount to give us context into what he’s doing

It sounds like you're kinda WHELMED right now etho. As many others, I too enjoy the serious onslaught of etho-content pouring into my feed, but do take care not to overdo it. As long as you're enjoying all that you do we're more than happy for you, but don't feel pressured to "keep to your schedule" as you mentioned in this video. Take care, much love :)

Etho, I know that you think the ramble about the crafter was 'boring' but I can honestly say that it was one of the most interesting things I have listened to in a long time.

Don’t know why, but this ep gave off really strong old let’s play episodes, probably a combination of building in the end and the single focus project for the episode. Got that nostalgic quality this ep

This intro is the proof that the Crafter is a very needed change

You can't just casually drop in the middle of the video that you did a map with Beef and Pause!!??! I haven't been as excited for other any youtube series for years! ( Although all your videos are top 3 of most excitement )

The broken stone brick at 22:22 with the "I'll fix this later" sign is hilarious

No way we are also getting a LP this week. Thank you Etho!!

11:05 There's actually a reliable way to get blocks like these back, 100% of the time. All you need to do is have an opaque block in your off hand and place it where the block you want to get back is as soon as you remove it. It glitches out and jumps to the surface because of the blocks' tendency to jump up instead of down when broken, so all you're doing is removing their capability to fall down.

God....i decided in my free time I now have in adulthood, to check out old youtubers I use to watch and Ethos actually watched 12-13 years ago when you first began I believe and just seeing you still lively and well, enjoying such a beautiful game still has brought me to tears to how life really was for me back then. Decided to look back to the very first episodes you uploaded and gained so many memories again. Thank you for being you, and I hope you continue being happy and making others happy and thank you again

Hey Etho. I'm really liking your style of editing, utilising the map to show images and book and quill's for additional text. I haven't seen anyone else do anything similar.

You know it’s gonna be a good episode when Etho starts it off with an insane build that no-one else would be crazy enough to think of

New CTM series with Pause and Beef?? Oh heck yeah 🎉

It's truly incredible just how much work and time Etho can pack into a single 25-minute episode.

I liked your point on individuality while discussing the autocrafter. I think there's a lot of truth in what you had to say concerning the uniqueness that can be achieved through any Minecraft player's need for something that the autocrafter can help with. One of the reasons I'm inspired by your work, Etho, is because the projects you make are the best for your own needs. Innovation and uniqueness is what makes things interesting, not simply having the same project be block for block as others. I've learned that it does me much better to create my own solutions for things I want to solve in the game, such as specific resource farms. Not only is making your own design for a farm more satisfying, it creates a story around everything you build. It's a lesson many of us should have learned a long time ago, for instance the first time we turned cheats on in a video game to find that the game was no longer satisfying when it wasn't a challenge anymore. I can only imagine that your approach of uniqueness to the things you do in Minecraft are the only reason it's remained your favorite game, and a game you can still play after more than 13 years. I think you can help players use the autocrafter to suit their individuality by building some integrated into various projects across the spectrum of Minecraft activities. I think the trick will be to create the automatic resource farms needed for the item being crafted at the build location, or at least being able to automatically transport the items needed from a loaded farm, which will certainly a tall challenge. Sure, autocrafters will be great to put into farms to compact resources down into more manageable loads, like attaching one to an iron farm so that you can store iron blocks instead of ingots. But I think the real goal here is to be able to use the farm to support a build that's right there, rather than using an autocrafter elsewhere and having to manually stock its input with resources from a farm that's built somewhere else. At that point, the autocrafter adds little value as it's still necessary to spend time stocking, crafting the resources manually and simply stocked the crafted item is simpler. What I'm visualizing is something like an autocrafter making and dispensing items automatically when a player enters a build. For instance, delivering a stack of fireworks to the player at the entrance of an elytra flight course, a stone sword and iron armor inside a PvP arena, or a minecart track that produces its own minecarts. Unfortunately, since a lot of items can only be farmed in certain places, it's going to be unrealistic to assume many people will try something like it, especially with complex recipes that require some mob or block drops. So I guess the key will be to start small and expand once we've learned what we want. Ultimately, I think this could lead to to a new way of playing survival--rather than build one large resource farm, such as bamboo, that serves the entire world's needs; it will be a lot more fluid to build several bamboo farms that supply wood to autocrafters in different areas for various projects. It will surely be more work, but cutting down on transportation time will be a huge bonus and something that I think may help the constant inventory problems. Because of this, depending on a large central storage system may not be as needed. Storage is only a means of holding onto items for further use, potentially at a different location. If every project site supplies its own materials needed to operate, storage won't be required anymore. This is how I see autocrafters creating individuality in worlds.

I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the auto crafter during the montage. It feels very podcast-like. I know you’ve mentioned struggling with speaking in the past but if you ever get a chance to be a guest on a podcast (*coughs* Imp & Skizz perhaps?) I think you’ll do really well! Good to see you back on the Let’s Play world, Etho. Thanks for these amazing videos as always! :)

0:42 I love the idea of using a map as a frame for the picture! Also, Tip for you Etho: If you hold the map or a written book in front of blue concrete, you can use an ultra key filter to cut away the blue color and get an edge that follows the shape of the map. I did it on a book in Premiere, and it worked well. I don’t know how it’s done in Resolve though

Ergo thank for doing the montage to replace the mining off camera meme. I love to feel like we are going on the journey with you to feel equally involved in on your projects. It feels like better storytelling than summarizing off camera work. Thanks again for the great content

The fact that Etho has been designing and building his "Ultimate endgame storage system" right as the crafter was announced just confirms a future "more ultimate ender game storage system that now has autocrafting"

I love every iteration of Etho's storage. Every single one has evolved from past ones. One day a whole Etho's world will be a storage system. I can't wait!

We really appreciate you updating the let's play even when you have so many other projects and collaborations! Please no there's no pressure - every episode is a gift and a delight :) Also, as a non-redstoner, I appreciate your thoughts on the crafter and other items in the new update!

Hey Etho ! just a little something for you to think about, I previously tried to have Soul soil as the floor of my storage room as well and one thing I didnt quite think about was that it uses SO MUCH durability on the boots, I actually broke multiple pairs of nice boots without realizing it before I decided to remove the soul soil floor. I tend to run around my storage room a lot just thinking about what materials to use sometimes, and I would just constantly be breaking my boots.

Alright there Etho.. 43 year old daddy here, been watching you since the days of beta, along with doc. Now my wee fella gets to watch your videos with me as well, you are uncle Etho. Thank you for all the entertainment and laughs, you are the most down to earth RU-vidr out there.

WE ARE EXPERIENCING A GOLDEN AGE OF ETHO!

Thank you etho, I've been really struggling recently with my mental health. But I've been trying to occupy myself with other things, I've watched a few older team Canada series and your Project Ozone 2. You've really helped me get myself out of the hole I've been in. I've been watching your videos since the Mindcrack server but more recently I have appreciated them more than ever. Thank you so much Etho. So much thanks.

Etho you deserve all the love in the world. I can’t convey how excited I get to see one of your videos in my feed. I’ve been watching for over 10 years and I get excited every time!

Most players are forgetting about or giving up their Minecraft world, but Etho is still keeping his decade old world, what a chad...

15 seconds in im already speechless. This series is truly transforming into a new era before our very eyes. What an insane project.

08:30 if you want instant trigger of the ender porter, I think a calibrated skulk sensor with a signal of 14 should do the trick, since it detecs players spawning and teleporting

Etho, this is first-class entertainment. Thank you for everything that you do on RU-vid

@11:05 Etho, I’ve found that the best way to get blocks placed like this back is breaking it with main hand and placing another block with off-hand in the same place immediately after. The new block collision USUALLY pushes the newly broken item entity upward, making a much lower risk of losing it.

The amount of goodwill etho has built up is his community is really huge I think.

GRABBING MY SNACKS

Etho would be an amazing manager/ mid level foreman for a company. For how large scale this project is he accounted for so many details, the efficient ways to complete tasks and the ways he could give himself room for mistakes. I know this sounds boring and dumb, but this is one of the most well thought out projects for how large scale it is. Always love your content Etho. :)

Man I miss Thaumcraft. I loved having wands and little wizard robes. It just felt so unique and cool, wonderful aesthetic with a lot of interesting systems. There was a lot to research about the mod itself and what you were supposed to do, so it really felt like you were playing the part of the researcher it was making you out to be.

Y'know, Etho, it's been a whole lotta fun watching you get out of your comfort zone with all the side series you've been doing. DO2 (Iyes, I am separating that out from HC haha)/SL/VH, but let me tell you - there's *nothing* like watching you thrive in your element - vanilla redstone, in your vanilla LP world, where you have the skill & ability to lower the entrance level requirements for everyone alike to be able to understand and appreciate redstone. I felt that when you said you were happy that the Autocrafter may get more non-redstone players into redstone (because it will catalyze creativity rather than block by block tutorials which is lowers creativity in both builders and redstoners, as you illustrated). That's how I feel with the Vault Hunters modpack, to be honest. I have been perfectly content to play vanilla for myself after all these years and watch others, especially you, of course, tackle grindy modpacks I'd never take on myself. But with Iskall's approach to creating a modpack with VH, he has made modded VERY accessible to new players, especially with locking big mods behind research/expertise points. VH is the *only* modpack I have ever downloaded and played. And with the continual updates/patches, it has gotten so much better from the first edition to the 3rd edition and even update 10 of the 3rd edition to now is its peak so far. Thank you for explaining what happened with your modded series. It makes absolute sense that you've lost interest; you shouldn't feel bad about that. I still loved those episodes, you created something special. :)

Etho casually announcing a new CTM series in a throwaway line

Etho, I've been working on a crafter network lately, and I started with the same hopper minecart idea you presented. It runs into a problem where, if the recipe contains multiple of a single item, those items will stack together in the hopper cart rather than filling separate spaces. I.E when you craft a piston, instead of slots 1-3 having planks, 4 having cobble, 5 having iron, 6-7 having cobble, 8 having redstone, 9 having cobble, you'll have slot 1 with 3 planks, slot 2 with 4 cobble, slot 3 with iron, slot 4 with redstone. My solution was to use SethBling's infinite density storage room (based on Minecart chests) to serve as a database of recipes, unpack the recipe from the cart, have the system dispense those items, repack the cart, and return it to storage. It's not a perfect solution, but it does the job.

These past few weeks have been a lot of fun, thank you so much! I hope you are having fun too.

Etho churning out the A+ content! And not only that, but no doubt he legit spent like 30 hours off camera preparing for this episode…

DEWE - drop everything, watch etho. this man is keeping us well fed. I hope this means everything got prepared for winter without a problem, and that the property liquidation went well. I've had a lot of experience talking to people who are going through difficult times dealing with their parent's estates; it's an awful thing to have to do when you're still processing the loss. God bless big E and his family.

I dislike watching youtubers that show that they built something "in survival" but it doesn't feel true. I love that you put the clips in of you actually putting the effort into creating every little thing that you needed for this project because it really shows the effort and planning. I love the question you pose about following a tutorial online because I have followed many redstone tutorials to achieve certain things I wanted. Creating something that is your own idea through learning game mechanics is really what this game is about.

I absolutely love this format. Your "rambling" is super relaxing and fun to listen to! Thank you!!

I love your insights on the crafter. Seeing how much you care for new players trying to learn redstone is very endearing.

The production quality on this episode (both in game and in editing) was amazing!

Etho, after all these years, after I’ve became a cynical old man, when I see one of your videos on my page I still enjoy your content. Thanks for never changing, thanks for never becoming a self centered person who thinks they are special. I think you are just a normal dude doing something they love and I want you to know that I really respect that.

You've got to appreciate how wholly unique Etho's LP series is. Not only has this man regularly been designing & building massive projects that can change how one thinks about the game, but he balances this with a multitude of other projects & series at the same time AND still manages to make it not only entertaining, but informative & relatable as well. Kudos E-man, you've done it again!

OMG It's an LP! Thanks for the episode, Etho!

Thank you Etho for your dedication. You've been spectacular in the past month.

The amount of Etho content is insane lately!! And it’s amazing!!

When I played Minecraft multiplayer, I always would build a cake factory with auto farms for all ingredients. I took a bit of time in creative and built a (almost, milk is the only one unable to be automated) fully automated cake and pumpkin pie factory. It was a bit tricky, because for reasons I had to do it in Bedrock Edition, and in there, hoppers are kind of random, so I had to wire a system to control the timing of the hoppers leading to the crafter.

The amount of work that goes in to every one of these episodes is insane! Keep it up Etho!

The amount of effort you put into your content is insane. Keep up the great work!

That was a fantastic Etho insight into auto crafting.

Can't believe its been 584 episodes and Eth0 is still providing us with content. And Vault Hunters, oh and Hermitcraft, oh AND Secret Life? And sometimes a Mod Pack that will never get off the ground lol. Thank you for the years of entertainment.

Videos like this keep me inspired to continue playing survival after all these years.

hi etho! long time watcher, but i was wondering how do you schedule all of your time? you mentioned working on this project in tandem with all the time sensitive series going on right now, but how do you do it? how do you keep track of it all and have consistently made videos for so many years? Plus the seasonal work you do on top of all that! I've been watching you since I was a kid and now i'm in college, i'm in awe of your time management. You rock!

Etho! I'm a middle school teacher, and I've been watching since I was in middle school! It went full circle today because a student of mine brought up your dragon egg room while he was talking to his friends. He was so excited when he found out his teacher was a fan of you too. Small world!

Late comment is probably invisible, and any number of people likely said something similar, but ... I'm astonished at how quickly this episode seemed to fly by, despite the grindiness of the very large and repetitive build. When Etho comments how long the episode is getting, I was genuinely surprised to find out that not only had I been watching nearly a half hour, but it was almost over!

Congrats Etho! Way to go on placing all those blocks!

ETHO! Much love and many thanks for the wholesome entertainment!

One thing you addressed was that you tackled this over short bursts of time. Some to many of people see this and get overwhelmed. They think people like you just sit there for days, grinding repeatedly. Please keep telling people it is ok to take breaks and break your work down in spurts. Love what you're doing in all areas of your work.

I've been Etho'd guys. I binged the whole series over the last couple of weeks. When I started I was like: "Let's see what all the Etho-fuss is about. ... 400+ EPISODES!!! Nope, I'm out! Ok, one episode. Two, max." But, here I am now, totally understanding what the fuss is about. Thanks Etho for inspiring me and make me love the game so much more.

The traveling rules for your modding were very inspiring. Please keep them for a future series. :)

so much content and it only gets better and better, your consistent quality is mindblowing

this series is a visual book as to why Minecraft is the best game in the world

Etho just causally pre-invented redstone that will change every technical players minecraft forever. He doesn’t even need to use the new blocks to change the game, hats off.

Watching this at 2am on upload or at a time when I can acquire snacks is one of the most difficult decisions I have to make.

Loved hearing your thoughts on the crafter

with all the recent shenanigans etho needed to remind us of his redstone prowess 😏

Finally up to date! Started watching the full season a few months ago after on and off watching for a few years and it has been great

Etho video always makes my day better! Going through a bit of a rough time lately and all the Etho content makes it so much more bearable

Hey Etho! When you were talking about all of the good thing about brown mushroom blocks it kinda made me wonder, if you had to pick your top 5 favorite blocks in minecraft, what would they be? The brown mushroom blocks really just made me notice that there's a lot of depth to your opinions on blocks in the game so I'd be interested to hear some of your favorites.

I agree completely with the sentiment of the crafter. I've played around with it a bit and I think it's easy to see that there are a ton of ways to auto craft. If you look up on youtube a tutorial for any auto crafter (many exist already) you'll see that most have different designs / different strategies to auto craft an item. I saw cubehamster made a video on a pumpkin pie machine so before I watched it I made my own. We went about it in completely different ways and that was really cool to see. I feel like minecraft has that issue with some aspects of the game where there really is one good way to do things (eg. villager trading halls for specific enchantments, as you pointed out the item sorter, mending for all tools where mending is only mutually exclusive with one enchantment (infinity)) so it's really nice to see the crafter, which adds a completely new element to the game, add lots of diversity.

Etho crafting shulkers of dispensers RIGHT before autocrafters are released 😆

LOVE THE EDITING!!!

Etho just continues to deliver, it's amazing. Thanks Etho! :-)

It started with the written books added in post, now we have the "custom maps" pictures added in post. Love it!

Absolutely insane! Mad respect for the time dedication to this project. Another lovely episode of the LP, thank you!

Regarding your thoughts on modded minecraft, I think a lot of progression / late-game issues you bring up are solved by playing a modpack! I know you started Enigmatica 2 Expert with Iskall, and this is indeed a good pack, but one I would recommend you look into is Divine Journey 2. It is a very long and difficult pack, but it is very polished and has received many balance / quality of life updates. I think you could really enjoy it (and so would we by watching you haha)!

Always good to see your username pop up. Hope you're having a great day Etho, keep up the good work.

Omg a famous etho cut right off the bat! I've Been watching through the whole let's play for a few months now, currently around episode 380ish. I've been watching the new episodes too and I felt like there was a big change in the style of content from the episodes in the 300 range and recent ones, but this one feels like a snap back to mid series. The montage with thoughts on the crafter felt like one of the old rare caving episodes where etho would just cave and tall about whatever, like the 1 million subscriber special. I was getting worried he was losing interest or drive in this world or maybe video making, but seeing how much he has done since the last episode, on top of starting 2 other series and hours of decked out content shows the complete opposite of that. This episode, the dedication to this world, the conversation about the new crafter, how much ethos creativity in regards to Redstone contraptions and video documenting/editing has grown over the life is not only a true inspiration, but it is a quintessential snapshot of the entire spirit of minecraft and artistic expression/discipline. I just wanted to say a very sincere thank you for all of the time that you've put in to this game, channel, series and community. It is so beautiful how somebody just filming themselves have fun playing a game can create such an impact on so many people. All that being said, GO INTERVIEW ON THE IMP AND SKIZZ PODCAST WE WANT AN ETHO INTERVIEW!!!! Just video feed in f5 mode from your single player world rather than face cam, it would be hilarious and we all love hearing about your thoughts on minecraft as well as things from your personal life that you're comfortable getting into. Thanks for reading, have a good day

That storage needs a name! It kind of reminded me of the concept of the Global Seed Vault, in Norway, were humanity stores every single seed in the world. The vault is in the frozen tundras in the north, isolated, just like The End. And in your case, it stores every single item in the game! Maybe The End Vault? Just incredible project, excited to see how it develops!

11:54 that huge end island kind of looks like a cruise ship if you use your imagination.

Hey Etho, I bet you must be really excited to play around with the automatic crafter. I’m just counting the days until you make an automatic dispenser farm, maybe you could connect it to that one of the skeleton spawners. Or you could build it in ‘the complex.’ Keep up the great work!

Sheesh, I would have bet you were just vibing of late but, nope, you were slaying it. Now your back showin’ us that rizz and yeeting blocks into the void to build up a valid storage system with some serious drip then dabbing out. This vid is poggers!

Seeing what it takes to build this stuff makes you reevaluate the way you see these gamers. And hearing Etho’s perspective on how the autocrafter will impact Minecraft shows how much depth there really is to being a gamer. I think there are a lot of RU-vidrs just playing games, but there are others who are thinking about gaming in a much more in depth way, namely Etho. I suppose that’s the case in most careers, there are those who are very engaged and those that are just getting a paycheck. Etho, I appreciate the insightful perspective.

I'm a super bad redstoner. But I started to design my basic redstone farms myself recently (iron farm, mud farm, ...) and that way it's finally enjoyable to me. It's spaghetti redstone, but who cares. It's a game.

That's a great idea, Etho, to automatically collect and craft with that ticket in the 10th slot. I'm looking forward to seeing it in action! :- )

I still play Minecraft myself, started a world years ago and I would mostly classify as a builder, yet over the years I have tackled a few redstone projects and its certainly rewarding figuring out how to make something work, or make it compact, but it really isn't my first love when it comes to the game, I've done exactly as you describe and recreated farms from a RU-vid video and although I completely get your point, that it isn't nearly as entertaining as creating it yourself, its still fun decorating a farm and making it fit into your world. What I am most excited about when the Crafter comes out, is not using it myself but seeing what other RU-vids do with it. Impressive video Etho, its nice seeing that you're still having a good time.

Great episode, loving the look of the storage system in the end, and appreciate the thoughts on the autocrafter and I think it was a good analogy with the building. Keep up the great work Etho!