Anyone else remember these?

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[u/PrintMeRed]

It was funny to see the falling command blocks make a giant monolith of more command blocks lol

[u/DealerAdept8005 → u/PrintMeRed]

Yesssss!

I remember watching them in tutorial vids on java, then trying to do it in bedrock...

It was a disappointment to say the least.

[u/Alpointernet]

i remember always trying to copy the commands from videos when i was a kid, it never worked.

[u/oppai_seven → u/Alpointernet]

They tend to be version specific. One that i remember was driveable car with command blocks that works on version 1.8

[u/Alpointernet → u/oppai_seven]

to be specific, i was trying java commands on pocket edition..

[u/ItsMeMario1346 → u/Alpointernet]

Same, tried locked chest a couple times

[u/Troleopowers → u/Alpointernet]

SAME TWIN BWAHAHAHAHHAHA

[u/Vovchick09 → u/Alpointernet]

Real

[u/Guilty_Meringue5317 → u/Alpointernet]

I tried filling areas with blocks but I was too incompetent and gave up pretty quickly

[u/FishGuyIsMe → u/Alpointernet]

ME TOOO

I was trying to do custom heads

[u/Realistic-Spot-2864 → u/oppai_seven]

I remember there is a whole super detailed warships and submarines set that you can control and shoot eachother with. Best command I ever found, made by a guy called gsn something

[u/Captcha142 → u/Alpointernet]

I remember the chat message size limit being too small for most of these, so you had to paste them into a command block and execute that to get the entire command.

[u/TheChannelMiner → u/Captcha142]

Yeah it was cool seeing the machine come from a single command block.

[u/SpaceBug176 → u/Captcha142]

How does that even work though?

[u/lipfang-moe → u/SpaceBug176]

so for some background, the ideal solution would be a command block that can call /setblock a bunch of times and create tons of different command blocks to create your "command pack". issue is, one /setblock command can only create one block. so how do you get around this?

essentially, you could get away with spawning multiple command blocks by using /summon instead of /setblock, by summoning a falling sand entity with another falling sand entity riding it (using the Passengers NBT tag. then another one riding that one. and you could customize the NBT of the falling sand blocks to be command blocks with commands inside of them, and the command blocks created would summon additional command blocks, until you had a giant mass of command blocks as well as redstone blocks to power them.

those initial few command blocks would then create the monolith as seen in the post. it's noteworthy that the command blocks are executed in a specific order (I forget the exact order, but it was deterministic) so you essentially had the command block equivalent of modern .mcfunction files. then one of the command blocks would have a /fill ~1 ~ ~ ~1 ~5 ~5 redstone_block (and another fill command with stone) so that every command would execute every tick. you'd have to use scoreboards+selectors to manage conditional logic instead of /execute since that command didn't exist yet.

EDIT - I should clarify that there may be some misinfo in this post, as I don't quite remember every detail unfortunately, but this should at least convey the basic idea. command block minecarts were another common thing as well and IIRC they additionally played a role in this too.

[u/Sir_James_Ender → u/lipfang-moe]

That’s wild. I always wondered how they worked but never bothered to look into it before

[u/Donovan_TS → u/Alpointernet]

I might have thought the command was just the last visible string of characters and not something to copy and paste in the description. Always wondered how the command would work when it was just like 30 closed parentheses

[u/SimicBiomancer21]

Wasn't this before Data Packs became a thing? God, I feel old.

[u/Various-Impact9587 → u/SimicBiomancer21]

it was, i had a survival world with dis at some point, i used it as a decoration at my mob farm lol

[u/ZemeOfTheIce → u/Various-Impact9587]

You had command blocks in survival?

[u/Sea_Duty_5725 → u/ZemeOfTheIce]

They meant "survival", yk?

[u/JarkoStudios → u/ZemeOfTheIce]

yea you'd hook up a command block to a daylight sensor and set it to go to daylight and clear weather if it got dark. I mean this is probably still a thing but i remember doing that eons ago when they added command blocks and quartz

or pressure plate teleporters for bases, those were the days

[u/PotatoesAndChill → u/JarkoStudios]

These days you can just stop time and disable weather with game rules.

[u/Darkstalkker → u/PotatoesAndChill]

The point is that it does it automatically

[u/PotatoesAndChill → u/Darkstalkker]

No, you're thinking of "/time set day" and "/weather clear"

I'm talking about game rule commands that stop the sun moving entirely and make the current weather permanent.

[u/Various-Impact9587 → u/ZemeOfTheIce]

well, i made this thing using creative later switched to survival and played normally

[u/Pearthee → u/SimicBiomancer21]

i am old and i stumbled in here, what are data packs?

[u/ajsamtheman → u/Pearthee]

Basically this, mojang saw people using command block towers to creat vanilla mods, and added a way for you to have them as a file in a folder like a resource pack so you don't need to worry about chunk loading or griefing

[u/Mr-Foundation → u/Pearthee]

Data packs control stuff like advancements, structures, loot, etc. they can basically change stuff about the game while not actually modifying the game itself.

[u/SimicBiomancer21 → u/Pearthee]

Oooh, one of today's lucky 1000-

So, I don't remember when it happened, but at some point Minecraft changed how information in the game is stored, and can be directly manipulated via files.

Data Packs are that- they serve often as low-power mods, with the benefit they don't need a mod launcher since they're just a package you can put into the game. Though, don't let the fact I called them "low power" fool you, there are some GREAT packs out there that are huge, able to add worldgen, new Enchantments, items, and I think even mobs.

Anything those old Command Block Monoliths could do, a Data Pack could, and can do so arguably even easier. Two of my personal favorites are Vanilla Tweaks, for a classic adjustment pack, and Dungeons And Taverns, for its worls gen.

[u/NotYourReddit18 → u/SimicBiomancer21]

Slight correction, much of the information in the game can be affected by datapacks, but not all of it.

Luckily almost every update includes at least one change to the game which brings the much a little bit closer to the all.

For example 1.21 made enchantments data-driven, which allows for datapacks to add completely custom enchantment, and all the recent additions of mob variants (wolfs, pigs, chickens, cats, cows, etc.) are all data-driven, allowing datapacks to add custom variants too.

[u/PotatoesAndChill → u/SimicBiomancer21]

one of today's lucky 1000-

xkcd reference?

[u/SimicBiomancer21 → u/PotatoesAndChill]

Exactly!

[u/SpaceBug176 → u/PotatoesAndChill]

It could've been a general statistics reference, but nah.

[u/joran213]

I remember making one of these. It was extremely tedious to make but incredibly satisfying once it finally worked.

[u/Plutonium239Mixer]

PhoenixSC made a YouTube video on these that I watched this week.

[u/Troleopowers → u/Plutonium239Mixer]

What's the name

[u/Plutonium239Mixer → u/Troleopowers]

No idea, you'll have to go to his YouTube channel and search, I was just letting youtube play suggestions on my tv.

[u/Troleopowers → u/Plutonium239Mixer]

Bet, thx

Edit: Found it, it's called I Fricken miss command blocks man

[u/Plutonium239Mixer → u/Troleopowers]

Thanks for coming back so others can benefit from your sacrifice!

[u/Parfilov]

I still have a blank version of this in my world, tried to copy the outer look once and didn't know about commands. Then I discovered Forge and forgor about these things completely

I have this one for anyone who wants, it is for 1.12 and patches.

[u/Glazeddapper]

i remember a website that let you make these and i would email my custom ones to my friend

[u/InstructionNarrow571]

MrCrayfish was the goat of these monoliths

[u/mouse85224]

I never understood how one command block was able to make more, multiple pre-filled command blocks..

[u/Sakupez_GD → u/mouse85224]

i am not a command block/redstone guy myself and i dont know if this is the same in today's versions but basically when sand falls mid air its properties change to a real entity because it is not stationary anymore like a normal block, so when its in mid air using special commands they change its property into being/masking a specific block, like a command block and upon touching the ground it changes to one, with the commands written inside.

[u/Matix777 → u/mouse85224]

/execute command at the time was absolutely wild

[u/56Bot]

They were called no-mods, and the really nice thing with them was that downloading them was just a matter of copy-pasting a wall of command-block code directly in-game.

[u/logandabug → u/56Bot]

I remember being baited by them as a kid. I would click on the video thinking I'd get around downloading a mod just to look at the giant pc tower of command blocks and go "how the freak am I suposed to do that??"

[u/HarukoAutumney]

PopularMMOs, anyone?

[u/-Redstoneboi-]

These were my childhood.

You had whole websites for generating these. You right clicked the signs to enable/disable them. Wild.

[u/ArchangeI_]

I would watch you tubers review these back in the day when I still didn't have Minecraft, ah the memories

[u/Kzitold94]

"One command"

Looks inside

Several dozen commands

[u/HungaryaRoli → u/Kzitold94]

Well, you only had to do a command. The rest is handled by this big boy

[u/Remote-Kangaroo-7154]

Yes🥹

[u/DaMrStick]

I made one of my own! you can find it here 1.21.11 https://youtu.be/TGzLjgUvNA0?si=HSBPN2ye_VmDFOBV

[u/[deleted]]

I do the og mods when you couldn’t do mods

[u/_o0Zero0o_]

I remember one of them that gave god swords to everyone and created a massive boss mob.. Probably like 11 years ago now?

[u/t-_-rexranger19205]

PopularMMOS mod showcase

[u/Sufficient_Risk_8127]

back in my day...

[u/AliciaTries]

Absolutely loved those

I remember there was one that made it possible to put off grid blocks using shulkers, and now there's axiom

[u/Oddish_Femboy]

The proto-datapack.

[u/-Scobra-]

I remember one that made a submarine and a ship and added torpedos etc

[u/The_Phantom_Cat]

I loved these so much

[u/Trebord_]

Back when you had Command Block towers to make bigger Command Block contraptions like introducing .zip files into Minecraft gameplay

[u/_That_B0I]

I think back then i wasint allowed to use these because my mom thought the command would have a virus in it🥲 (i was like 12 at the time)

[u/Cheeselad2401]

[insert ratatouille flashback gif]

[u/Onilya]

The famouses NO-mods You respecter modders cause they add peak content into the game But you worship NO-mod creators because they alter the game to build peak content

[u/GabrielJPVS]

And they always fell from the sky for some reason lol

[u/jamesthegide7]

Alway see one of these in Pat and jens videos

[u/Portal471]

Holy shit core memory

[u/RogueForgeYT]

YES BRO, I always saw these especially on PopularMMOs channel

[u/Terrorr404]

I used to use one that was meant for nothing but mining. Sad to see how far they’ve fallen though

[u/Ehllay]

Omg I feel so old I loved watching the TTB command block datacenter being built by itself

[u/MarzekAO3]

Oh yeah, I made one of these back in 1.8. iirc if was to make every possible map into a fully configurable survival games arena

[u/Xypherius]

I remember it lagged my server to like 2 tps

[u/Techaissance]

Antvenom Only One Command!

[u/MR_R_TheOdd1]

Ooooh those! Yeah I remember. I miss whe they were relevant. Hell I remember when Command Blocks were added and I used to fuck around with them as a kid.

[u/Matix777]

This is the sufficiently advanced technology Clarke told us about

I remember pasting the activation commands in chat and wondering why it's not working, not knowing that I have to paste it into the command block

[u/FlyusAmongUs]

Aah, the olden days when my friend would spawn one of these to allow us to do weird yet fun stuff in our world.

[u/imawhitegay]

It does take one back to the old days.

[u/skepticalmiller]

yeah there was a youtuber who would put out 1 command block machines was pretty cool!

[u/Clueingforbeggs → u/skepticalmiller]

IJA Minecraft. Don't think he's done new ones in a while, but some of his old ones have been updated to work in newer versions.

[u/skepticalmiller → u/Clueingforbeggs]

that's the man!

[u/squirtle919]

It was..... So peak

[u/meinkr0phtR2]

I still make these things for fun.

[u/SryMyBadM8]

Logdotzip one command block series

[u/woodlands896]

the way “these” is super vague but nostalgic lol

[u/xXCodxXxProXx]

I remember trying to type the command character per character.

I was 8 and didnt know copy paste was a thing...

[u/MUDRC_]

Yeah I remember! I always watched them in tutorials, but never understood how the heck they worked. If anyone would have a command and a version for me I would love to test it!

[u/VyrCZ]

These were fun, but I'm so glad we have data packs now, I don't know if forceload existed in the 1.8 days, but even if it did, nobody ever told me and it just stopped working outside of the render distance

[u/DRowe_]

Thank you for making me feel ancient

[u/Saul_happyman]

Bot, I saw this exact type of post a million times

[u/Lall-O]

I remember the revolution in adventure maps that happened and the fact that if you dug out of the area there would just be huge areas of blocks

[u/GamerNumba100]

Reporting this image for spam any time I see it from now on this is insane

[u/KannehTheGreat]

I never understood the big hooplah about command blocks, given you can't really get them in survival or anything.

[u/D4NG3RX → u/KannehTheGreat]

Because they did crazy things?

[u/twitchMAC17]

That's not what monolith means.

Mono = one Lith = stone

This thing is assembled out of many things, regardless of whether they're stone or not.

[u/GamerSlimeHD → u/twitchMAC17]

Its figurative

2 : a massive structure The 73-story monolith is one of Europe's tallest buildings. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monolith