Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Type out messages to be displayed on a large billboard. Big display of 2x2 or 3x3 pixels, or more. But the main thing is how I store characters using water bottles and swords.
Arranged somewhat like a modern computer (post 1980s). The character data is read by a decoder which puts it into columns of video ram. Characters are stored in shulker boxes using sequences of water bottles (bit 1) and swords (bit 0). Waterbottles are useful here, because they're unstackable and also easily detectable by pushing into brewing stands. Much of this could be optimized, but I kept it simple.
If you build this, please be careful on the character memory part. I set this up using non overflow-proof sorters, but you should probably not do that, and manually place the items into the sorters.
The "keyboard" part I didn't fully explain. Items are stored every other hopper to avoid an update order issue. I left some notes in the world download on proper use as well. Mainly, if you send a key before you should send one, it can really screw up things - but if you use it right, this won't be an issue.
DL: mega.nz/#!sgQSWapT!Qb0-wXjp6st58eFdQ6eu-hUzAqwL_homEjwo6EATvdo
Type out messages to be displayed on a large billboard. Big display of 2x2 or 3x3 pixels, or more. But the main thing is how I store characters using water bottles and swords.
Arranged somewhat like a modern computer (post 1980s). The character data is read by a decoder which puts it into columns of video ram. Characters are stored in shulker boxes using sequences of water bottles (bit 1) and swords (bit 0). Waterbottles are useful here, because they're unstackable and also easily detectable by pushing into brewing stands. Much of this could be optimized, but I kept it simple.
If you build this, please be careful on the character memory part. I set this up using non overflow-proof sorters, but you should probably not do that, and manually place the items into the sorters.
The "keyboard" part I didn't fully explain. Items are stored every other hopper to avoid an update order issue. I left some notes in the world download on proper use as well. Mainly, if you send a key before you should send one, it can really screw up things - but if you use it right, this won't be an issue.
DL: mega.nz/#!sgQSWapT!Qb0-wXjp6st58eFdQ6eu-hUzAqwL_homEjwo6EATvdo
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