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People seemed to appreciate my redstone-free afk fish farm, so howzabout I do a series? I’ve got a bunch of other redstone-free semi-auto farm designs that I’ve refined and perfected over the years. This one’s an afk-able steak/leather/cooked mutton/wool farm.

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My second video is up, and I’m significantly less proud of me.

I mean, still pretty proud, because it’s a tiny, stupid cheap design for something that’s usually neither of those things, but still.

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WOW WHAT A DOOFUS

I posted my afk fish farm for minecraft 1.11 like ‘wow it doesn’t need a redstone clock!’ and then just

immediately came up with a design that doesn’t need any redstone at all

who does that, who even does that??

AAAAaaaaaanyway tutorial coming soon.

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My first video is up, I’m so proud of me *tear*

It’s a tutorial showing how to build an afk fish farm for Minecraft 1.11, which, unlike other designs, doesn’t use a redstone clock.

Hope you find it as useful as I did!

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Why AFK fish farms don’t need redstone clocks anymore, I think

In the video tutorial for my minecraft 1.11 AFK fish farm design, I mention that casting against a closed door eliminates the need for a redstone clock. Here’s why I think that is. 

Keep in mind, this is just my theory, I’m not 100% this is how it works. If you’ve got other thoughts, send me an ask, I love talking about this stuff.

Pre-1.11 AFK fish farms had you cast your line when the door was open. But if you just cast against an open door, you risked your bobber going right through the door, without ever triggering the tripwire. If you were lagging it was almost guaranteed. But if the door closed on its own the moment after you cast, your bobber would hit the door and you wouldn't reel it back in right away, giving it a moment to float up into the tripwire. 

In 1.11, you can cast your line against a closed door, so your bobber never gets a chance to fly past the tripwire. As long as you’re aimed at a very precise window, your bobber hits near enough to the tripwire to trigger it immediately without any need for the door to change state.

(...at least I think that's how that works. Pretty sure.)

Anyway, regardless of whether I’m right about why, it’s undeniable that the design without a redstone clock works. I also did some tests to make sure that it holds up against lag, here’s one:

It goes on for way longer than necessary, but my fishing rod was so on the beat I couldn't bring myself to stop it. As you can see, lag causes some interesting visual effects (like looking like the bobber’s stuck in the block behind the water and still catching fish) but doesn’t interfere with the machine’s functioning. Other tests included things like clocked dispensers throwing tnt out of the sky, but those videos didn’t come out as well. 

This has been Introduction to Redstone Delay Effect Theory with the Biggest Dork in the Entire World, thank you for reading

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Oh people. Oh folks I’m so excited. I bring you great tidings of joy for this calm-down-it’s-November season. You know that change to iron doors/trapdoors in 1.11 that broke all our afk fish farms? The ones that have the doors open and close and open and close? Well that change actually simplifies things a lot. I’ve come up with an afk fish farm design for 1.11 that doesn’t need a redstone clock. It’s much quieter, plus super cheap and easy to build. I’ll be putting up a video tutorial for it soon, stay tuned.