User:MinecraftChrizz

I'm minecraftChrizz, I started Minecraft in October 2011. Back then version Beta 1.8.1 was out. I pretty much immediately started playing with redstone. I also made two video's pretty quickly and after that I started playing an offline mode survival server. After a while, that became boring and in a holiday, I started redstoning again. In that holiday I made the smallest digital clock. (There are smaller designs now). In the next holiday I bought a minecraft account and joined the private server from Redstone-innovation. I learned a lot of redstone there, by playing around and looking at other's buildings. I met Sidney and Dico on that server. I started uploading videos frequently (about 1 a week). After a while, Redstone-innovation's server became emptier and emptier; a lot of people wen't to play on the mcaddict server. I also started playing on there and that's also where I made the smallest 3x3 door. I also met user:NikWillOrStuff on the mcaddict server. In August, Cubehamster was going to open a redstone server which I joined before it got released. (I saw the IP on a livestream but it didn't really help me because the world was reseted a couple of times before the release.) On the server I showed my 3x3 piston door to Cubehamster. He asked me if he could feature it in his series: 'sharing is caring'. I said yes (obviously) and he featured me in september 2012 which brought me to 1000 subscribers. In the meantime Cubehamster's server was public now and I was builder (2 ranks higher than guest). Later, the serverhost from Cubehamster's server stole the server files. The server became private for a while but it reopened. Cubehamster asked me and Dico if we wanted to be admin. Dico and I both said yes. I continued uploading videos and Cubehamster started a 'servertour' series where he showed plots from people. I was the first one to show my plot and that gave me another 300 subscribers. Two months later, Cubehamster's server merged with JL2579's fanserver to the Cubekrowd server. In early July, the server went down until the first of August. After the server was back up the coders were still working on getting the permissions and survival to work. Some time later the server was up again, but it never became as popular again as it used to be. On the sixth of august, Nicemark asked me and some other people that I knew from Cubehamster's server if we'd like to play on a survival server, and we were all interested. We've been playing on that server since about 1 week after the idea. Lately though, the server has become less active, so we decided to make a new map with limitations, which we hope will keep us more motivative and creative, we will start this new map when 1.8 comes out.

=About my projects= My favorite kind of redstone projects are piston creations. Sometimes I also do some other kinds of redstone like 7 segment displays or command blocks but I mainly do things with pistons. I finish about 50% of my projects, when I don't finish a project it is either because it is too hard, impossible, too much work or not interesting enough. Sometimes I make things together with user:NikWillOrStuff, Sidney600MC or Dicotheredstoner (I recommend checking them out on youtube)

=My thoughts on how to learn redstone= There are a few things very important:
 * Use redstone a lot. Redstone is not something you learn within hours or days, it takes a lot of time to become very good at it.
 * Enjoy it. If you don't like redstone you shouldn't do it, sometimes someone asks me to make something, but if I don't like it, it just doesn't work.
 * Share ideas and designs. Play on servers, watch videos from other redstoners and (optional but really fun) upload videos yourself to get feedback and give other people ideas.

=The way I work with redstone= Most of the time I work in these steps:
 * 1. Getting an idea. You can improve things from other people or think of something yourself (the hardest part for me).
 * 2. Make a piston setup. This is really important, you can't just add some pistons, then some wiring and then realize that you need more piston on places where you placed redstone.
 * 3. Test your piston setup with levers. Just power every individual piston with levers to simulate how it will be. While simulating this you also have to make sure that it is possible to power pistons where you want to power them. It's very often possible to power a piston but sometimes you need more pistons to do that, also include this in your piston setup. (If you find out that you need more or less pistons or pistons on other places, change it and repeat this step)
 * 4. The actual wiring. Add things step for step and test them. In most cases I test every step I do, but sometimes I'm sure that something will work, in that case I test some steps later. If something doesn't work, look very good to see what made it not work, it may just be a repeater that you just added that needs an extra tick of delay but if something that you made earlier doesn't work anymore you have to look what is interfering. Some common problems are repeaters powering unwanted things, redstone connecting to other redstone, torches accidentally powering the redstone on the block above and pistons being BUD powered. Once you have found what's wrong, try and find a solution, fix it and test it.
 * 5. When you finished the wiring, you can try to improve it. (Smaller, faster, less noisy, cheaper)
 * 6. Optional: rotate your creation to see if it works in both directions, this is less required than pre 1.5 but it still happens that things only work in 1 direction or even at a specific coordinate. If your creation doesn't work in both directions or in all coordinates then you can often fix that by slowing it down.
 * 7. Once your creation is completely done you can make a video and upload it to youtube or post it on the minecraftforum.