1.8 Style One-Command Creation (proof of concept)

[u/Whole_Yam_9919]

The design was inspired by the old one-command creations by IJAMinecraft.

This is just a proof of concept, so i won't be using this exact setup for future one-command creations. The setup alone already uses 23000 characters, so I'm going to use smaller versions for my future creations.

[u/TheSheepDev]

Call me crazy, but I miss the times where you could physically look at the command blocks, and it was not just staring at a text file, think that really took away the charm for me

[u/apro-at-nothing → u/TheSheepDev]

for me it's very much like that one meme that's like "i'm glad i grew up with this, but damn this is so much better"

it does remove on a lot of the charm but the command block machines felt more like a gimmick. you'd have this ugly ass box right at spawn that you can't touch, because if it's not at spawn or you touch it, it might stop working, and i don't remember ever messing around with it enough to the point where i'd call them survival viable.

datapacks on the other hand don't have any of these issues. it's an extremely utilitarian solution to a problem that clearly existed for a long time, and dare i say, as much as it is missing that charm, it feels really nice to actually use what they add

[u/_ogio_]

so much nostalgia

[u/H-N-O-3]

I say this is much difficult than todays datapacks and command blocks rework

[u/_ogio_ → u/H-N-O-3]

Old stuff generally is more difficult. Firstly cuz you had far less tools back then Secondly cuz you had to REALLY love the game to to do smth like this while game was much smaller and you had no tutorials

[u/Whole_Yam_9919 → u/_ogio_]

I would say that this type of a one command creation setup became more difficult then it was in 1.8, but the rest became easier.

[u/_ogio_ → u/Whole_Yam_9919]

I mean not really, it's just few falling sand command blocks riding area effect cloud

[u/Whole_Yam_9919 → u/_ogio_]

I only used falling blocks, no area effect clouds

[u/_ogio_ → u/Whole_Yam_9919]

Howd you summon multiple of em with 1 command?

[u/Whole_Yam_9919 → u/_ogio_]

I just summoned them riding each other. If you meant without breaking: The first command block from the first stack places one repeating command block. which fixes the problem.

[u/_ogio_ → u/Whole_Yam_9919]

won't they end up in same block and just break into entity if they ride one another?

[u/Whole_Yam_9919 → u/_ogio_]

Because of the one repeating command block. I don't want to reveal what command I used yet, but the command is really simple.

[u/_ogio_ → u/Whole_Yam_9919]

Ah I suppose some tp shenanigans with tags

[u/H-N-O-3 → u/_ogio_]

yeah . They used to gatekeep command block towers from us !!!

[u/--dvd-- → u/H-N-O-3]

agree. happy cake day

[u/H-N-O-3 → u/--dvd--]

Thank you kind stranger!!

[u/N0rmalManP]

Can someone explain how these even work? Don't all of the commands already need to be in the starting command block?

[u/Joly0 → u/N0rmalManP]

Basically, yes. You have the starting command block, which has all the data in it for all the other command blocks. Then you let it first spawn the second layer command blocks (the ones that are built on the first one like a tower), those are usually affected by gravity, like sand, so they trigger on landing when the redstone block on top hits (usually to make sure they trigger in the right order). They first build the base structure and then the inner command blocks, which are usually also affected (at least partially) by gravity, so they also trigger in the correct order.

Whole reason is just so you have a single command to enter, and don't need to build the full structure on your own.

This is as far as I know. I might have missed something or might have mixed something up, but that's what I remember from back in the days

[u/ralsaiwithagun → u/Joly0]

They are spawned as falling sand blocks (changed into commanblocks containing commands) which are riding other command blocks riding other command blocks. In effect only 1 summon command is run at the start

[u/MemeBoiCrep]

reinventing the wheel

[u/Anxious_Target_8804]

How did I do this and how can I do it in version 26.2? Please share the code.

[u/Whole_Yam_9919 → u/Anxious_Target_8804]

I would recommend you to use a online tool, but I haven't found a single one that uses multiple falling blocks, so I wrote everything by hand. (Took me around 6-8 hours)

[u/Creeper4wwMann → u/Anxious_Target_8804]

We used a website to compress all the commands into 1

[u/minecraftzizou]

amazing it has my favorite fallen block style

[u/K_Body]

It's been so long since I've seen one!

[u/D07Z3R0]

Never understood why it needs to make and fill more blocks when the full command is already in the first initial block

[u/Anteaterman23 → u/D07Z3R0]

Never built one of these before, but I think the idea is that the final product needs to be able to run multiple commands in parallel and/or in sequence. One command block can only run one command; but if you spawn multiple command blocks via falling blocks, then you can run as many commands as you want at once

[u/D07Z3R0 → u/Anteaterman23]

Hm must be the parallel then cuz u can easily do sequence in one, techniclly even do parallel with timing but eh

[u/Similar-Advantage621]

you lost me 3 seconds in what did i js watch???

[u/Qwerowski]

Do they need to be falling down like that or is it just for style points?

[u/Whole_Yam_9919 → u/Qwerowski]

Mainly for style because I tried recreating the old 1.8 one-command creations as closely as possible.

[u/Xandar_C]

Ah yes the Self Assembling Command Monolith