Thats single correction of "wires cannot be on or off like in Minecraft" unironically solved 3/4ths of my wiring confusion. It's all clicking now. Thanks!
@@shearnos I briefly had a similar issue with wiring when I started playing Terraria, it's not uncommon to take knowledge you have in other games and use it as a basic level of understanding to another, I bet if I put a Call of Duty player into Planetside 2, with their first fight being one on an open field as an infantrymen where the engagement ranges can be in the hundreds of meters without telling them that the game has bullet drop, odds are they'd take a short bit to figure out that they need to account for that, and some people will take longer then others to do so.
me at start: "oh ok, thats why my statues dont spawn stuff. because other things to close" me later: "I JUST WANTED TO BUILD A ONE-WAY DOOR. NOT A COMPUTER" great video, learned a lot of stuff i didnt know i needed
lmao i woke up, this was released seconds later, i put this on and went straight back to sleep. well at least thats free watch time for sorbet cafe, especially since im sure ill be back to watch this and not fall asleep some day
I'm only 7 minutes in, and I've already been giving enough information to start wiring. I couldn't even figure out how to use the wrench before. This is an insanely dense video, but it doesn't feel overwhelming at all. For every piece of technical information, there is a practical and or fun application that makes it easier to understand the concept. Amazingly done.
Something to note about using echo coating for teleporter doorways: You can achieve the same effect earlier by shadow painting both the background wall and the teleporter.
i'll be honest a small part of me took psychic damage when Crab Statues were labelled useless i literally thought to myself "have you not heard about Crab Engines???" also you can use zombies, skeletons, or hoplites for a full-auto dart line (i forget the specific setup, but ik it used skeletons) EDIT: color me a liar, i only just now got to that part
This has actually practical use besides collection when playing a mod like Fargo's Mutant mod, which lets you craft some rare drops(including even more statues for faster farming if you need a bunch) with banners.
@@Izzythemaker127 You say, as if collection is ever a practical endeavor. Some people just like it. And I say it’s good for them to be in the game for people who want to enjoy an easier time farming banners for otherwise really annoying enemies.
Even if some enemy statues dont drop loot, they give banners, so you could farm one or more banners then use the banners on an actual farm. For example, you can safely kill mimics then bring the mimic banner to your underground farm
This video is absolutely phenomenal. Youve done an excellent job of portraying everything visually with simple and concise setups, with narration that guides us through. I feel like it might go a little unrecognized just how much effort has gone into the production of this, so I want to highlight it, and commend you for an awesome video!
Now that we know how to wire, we just need a video on how to build aesthetically pleasing buildings efficiently. Going all out on base defense with hoiks and automated defense systems while making a cool build out of it is quite a challenge that I think requires a video.
Terraria has many speedrun categories, and I feel like this video unlocked a whole new category of " Freshman Logic%". At the start we're just learning basic 'if' and 'when' functions, and by minute 50 we're already building a base-2 to base-10 decoder (and making it look pretty with no error messages). That's basically a whole year of Logic 101 condensed in a single hour, in a format that's perfect for my ADHD brain to follow.
Ive wanted to learn wiring for a few months now but ive ended up forgetting about it whenever ive gotten the chance or just wanted to do something else in the moment, thank you sorbet cafe for giving me an hour long video to come back to whenever i want to learn more wiring
This is absolutely incredible, to make over an hour of purely educational content, none being filler information, is absurd and nothing short of amazing, thank you sorbet cafe
Yooo actually such a sick video. I gotta ask cuz I’m kinda jealous u talked abt this, did u learn the dart shooting the pressure plate trick from me? Or the active stone block shimmer for timers from me? 😭 I’m assuming u didn’t but I showed both in a vid of mine and thought I was the only one who knew😢😢
I didn’t, I was talking with wiresnstuff/JAY about the dart traps and the shimmer thing I don’t remember, it’s just something I’ve vaguely known about for a long time.
Thank you, sharing this video is SO much easier than trying to explain most of this to people, and they tend to absorb the info better, and i can fill in any microgaps as needed
A single logic gate on its own may not seem That much different for a basic use at first glance, but, you can use them to safety proof various builds, have farms run only as needed, and more; but, their real strength, is when you daisy chain them together. Having various logic steps go through eachother can let you create very complex coding
Bro, so much value and info compacted and nicely sorted. I'm going back and forth the video while building and learning along. Thx so much, if you were doing videos abt a bigger game you'd have x100 more subs. Gratefull for having you 4 Terraria though.
this is also lowkey a good video to watch to revisit basic electronic engineering concepts lmao (i may or may not have not learnt anything in my course until I crammed the entire syllabus the night before the exam)
Silly Balloons, place 5 of them in the shape of an arch and hammer the two lower ones then place Actuators and activate then remove, you may or may not have already found out but it'll be here for anyone else cuz I was really curious about this too and I watched the rest of the video but my mind was just on this lol
Could you one day also do a Comprehensive Guide on Fishing? Fishing also has a lot of weird mechanics and most people don't even realize is in the game.
Fanciest wiring I've done (still do once per world, if it's not a challenge world) is a raised building over lava grinder, that also has a bird/bat timer hooked up do some dart shooters and stuff. I usually build it a couple screens to the right or left of spawn, so natural invasions still detect it as 'center' _enough_ when they show up. I can sit in the house and it auto-mercs most invasion mobs, and prevents the ones that go through most blocks from getting up to me - except mothrons who just fly right in anyways. It's tall enough it 'catches' Dutchmen on the corners, but low enough I can go in the belly of the building with a Coin Collector or Treasure Magnet, and get stuff out of the lava pool below it. Once I have that built, then I add enough lava off to the side to reach past the spawn-rectangle I would have from anywhere within the building I made. Then I put a layer of actuate-able blocks over it, and wire everything up so I can toggle blocks on either side off and on, and literally turn off world spawns if I want to, just from sitting in the house and flipping a few levers, ["Pull the lever Kronk." ... "Wrong LEVer!" ... Why do we even HAVE that lever!?"] Or I can only toggle one of the levers, and cause the spawns to only come from one direction. And voila, a Terraria SMG (Spawn Management and Grinder) system. ;) Used to build it to pass blood moons by, before they made it so Sun and Moon Dials reset any time a natural eclipse or Blood Moon happens. You know, put any crafting tables I might want access to in that building, maybe put all the extra crafting materials over there I might think about using. It doesn't take much to grab all but one of the ores and -ights I've been collecting at my main spawn, and put them over by all the fancy crafting machines and go to town crafting things for later use, all while waiting out the blood moon, or exclipse. While it looks complicated, when it's all said and done, it's actually rather basic wiring.... Only three levers in the building: one to turn traps on and off, one to close off platform gaps in the building, and one to change the whole structure from "lava pit of doom that kills anything that walks into it" to "perfectly passable terrain with platforms for players" ... And then two more levers that toggle each side's lava-based spawn switch. I can do the whole thing with just red if I want, but I usually do with red and green. Even then I don't really cross any wires. All that being said... I look forward to learning more from this video. Guess I should un-pause it from the 30 second mark, and actually start watching, huh? LOL
Logic gates can seem daunting, but just throwing one down and playing around with it a little can go a long way. Ignore anything that isn't an AND gate and treat AND gates as a way to only send a signal if something else has also happened. So, if you want a player to shoot 2 pressure plates before opening a door, link up both pressure plates to the lamps on an AND gate and the gate itself to the door.
28:24 i just noticed the logic gates are also hidden, now last i checked thas not possible, does echo coating work on them? i know you mentioned modded and it might be a modded feature, but i hope its vanilla, and if it aint, why isnt it?
wouldn't it make sense if the mechanic could also sell a workbench to let you craft wire? imagine using copper and something else to craft wires of different color, thus giving copper/tin a mid/end game use?
Um, Id rather buy it. I will say that I run out of Tin/copper a lot mid/late game because I love the Copper/Tin Plating for building. I add paint to make them into different shades but you get me?
If every Teleporter without any fancy tricks can support up to 8 other teleporters, I wonder if using a Binary Decoder you could double that number. In theory I don't see why it isn't possible, since while it might be tedious to use, having 16 destinations from one hub would be a godsend if your playing on a large world especially if it's modded as having near instant access to any biome from your base I'd imagine would be far more convenient, especially in Calamity where the Abyss is a Biome you need to kinda roughly chew your way through as it's split into 3 layers and much like Bitter Black Isle in Dragon's Dogma, each one is harder then the last, and having instant access to each layer from a central location would be incredibly useful without needing to potentially daisy-chain teleporters, and if you do start chaining teleporters you can keep them more localized if using the Decoder's set-up does indeed allow you to effectively double your teleportation locations, while also rigging every Teleporter to act as it's own return option, or access to a more localized network that is independent of the "Heart", so Abyss Layer 3, could have options to RtB, Layer 2, Layer 1 & Sulphuric Sea without need of the Decoder(s) that is used to program the central teleporter's destination.
Thank you Sorbet Cafe for teaching us how to wiring (Terraria)
Thank you ISAB for popping the bloons
@@I_Am_Walls4ueverywhere I go I see this 😑
@@I_Am_Walls4u Gosh
im afraid of isab fans
@I_Am_Walls4u why is isab here
Thats single correction of "wires cannot be on or off like in Minecraft" unironically solved 3/4ths of my wiring confusion. It's all clicking now. Thanks!
are you joking?
@@shearnos I briefly had a similar issue with wiring when I started playing Terraria, it's not uncommon to take knowledge you have in other games and use it as a basic level of understanding to another, I bet if I put a Call of Duty player into Planetside 2,
with their first fight being one on an open field as an infantrymen where the engagement ranges can be in the hundreds of meters without telling them that the game has bullet drop,
odds are they'd take a short bit to figure out that they need to account for that, and some people will take longer then others to do so.
me at start: "oh ok, thats why my statues dont spawn stuff. because other things to close"
me later: "I JUST WANTED TO BUILD A ONE-WAY DOOR. NOT A COMPUTER"
great video, learned a lot of stuff i didnt know i needed
Finally I will become a profesional electrician in Terraria, thank you, Sorbet Cafe
You explained this quite literally the best you possibly could and I'm still hopelessly lost on advanced wiring.
You don't have to for the first time. You can rewatch it as many times and as slow as you want:)
@@purplehaze2358 well, in your defense, advance wiring is just straight up programming
@@Fakedis That's because it actually is programming
Thank you Sorbet Cafe for releasing a video essay for me to sleep to
lmao i woke up, this was released seconds later, i put this on and went straight back to sleep.
well at least thats free watch time for sorbet cafe, especially since im sure ill be back to watch this and not fall asleep some day
Thank you for the video for me to awake to
Yup. Best part is I can watch it later and it will feel new.
I'm only 7 minutes in, and I've already been giving enough information to start wiring. I couldn't even figure out how to use the wrench before. This is an insanely dense video, but it doesn't feel overwhelming at all. For every piece of technical information, there is a practical and or fun application that makes it easier to understand the concept. Amazingly done.
Me: Learns wiring
Sorbet Cafe: Good, you learned it. Now I can finally post a video on this topic!
Something to note about using echo coating for teleporter doorways: You can achieve the same effect earlier by shadow painting both the background wall and the teleporter.
Even the less practical enemy statues have a use. They're pretty good for farming enemy banners.
I’ve always wanted 10 pigron banners 😔
@@rfurthegamer3412 You don't need 10, you just need one if you want to collect them.
i'll be honest a small part of me took psychic damage when Crab Statues were labelled useless
i literally thought to myself "have you not heard about Crab Engines???"
also you can use zombies, skeletons, or hoplites for a full-auto dart line (i forget the specific setup, but ik it used skeletons)
EDIT: color me a liar, i only just now got to that part
This has actually practical use besides collection when playing a mod like Fargo's Mutant mod, which lets you craft some rare drops(including even more statues for faster farming if you need a bunch) with banners.
@@Izzythemaker127 You say, as if collection is ever a practical endeavor.
Some people just like it. And I say it’s good for them to be in the game for people who want to enjoy an easier time farming banners for otherwise really annoying enemies.
Been playing for 11 years and I still needed this so badly lmao
Even if some enemy statues dont drop loot, they give banners, so you could farm one or more banners then use the banners on an actual farm. For example, you can safely kill mimics then bring the mimic banner to your underground farm
This video is absolutely phenomenal. Youve done an excellent job of portraying everything visually with simple and concise setups, with narration that guides us through. I feel like it might go a little unrecognized just how much effort has gone into the production of this, so I want to highlight it, and commend you for an awesome video!
For anyone studying computersience: this is the best learning video for that.
thank you frozen fruit restaurant for providing me with the necessary knowledge to wire
awesome video, this is essentially the bulk of my electronics CS class condensed into one video. love the little scugs!
11:38 That quack scared the crap out of me lol
This is an absolutely insane video. Your guides are more clean and informative than actual textbook topics, let alone those for a video game.
Oh THATS what the faulty logic gate does!
No-one ever explained what the heck it did, you are the first.
Now that we know how to wire, we just need a video on how to build aesthetically pleasing buildings efficiently. Going all out on base defense with hoiks and automated defense systems while making a cool build out of it is quite a challenge that I think requires a video.
Terraria has many speedrun categories, and I feel like this video unlocked a whole new category of " Freshman Logic%". At the start we're just learning basic 'if' and 'when' functions, and by minute 50 we're already building a base-2 to base-10 decoder (and making it look pretty with no error messages). That's basically a whole year of Logic 101 condensed in a single hour, in a format that's perfect for my ADHD brain to follow.
this video felt relaxing
Thank god you uploaded this video, I was about to read a guide. Imagine reading.
i love these extensive guides that cover everything. i need more :D
Ive wanted to learn wiring for a few months now but ive ended up forgetting about it whenever ive gotten the chance or just wanted to do something else in the moment, thank you sorbet cafe for giving me an hour long video to come back to whenever i want to learn more wiring
This is absolutely incredible, to make over an hour of purely educational content, none being filler information, is absurd and nothing short of amazing, thank you sorbet cafe
I already know basically everything about wiring but I’m still gonna watch this all the way through while I play Castlevania SotN
holy shit 1 hour
@@99dwi he did say comprehensive…
watching the entire video knowing damn well that I won't be able to recall anything past the 23 minute mark
Never before have I been so inspired to make something I know I'd be incredibly proud of while having absolutely 0 idea of what exactly to make lol
This is what terraria is about finding creative ways to do unnecessary but fun things. This is also very useful and neet.
Thanks for the video, it’s amazing how much seemingly complex info you put into this hour long video
Yooo actually such a sick video.
I gotta ask cuz I’m kinda jealous u talked abt this, did u learn the dart shooting the pressure plate trick from me? Or the active stone block shimmer for timers from me? 😭 I’m assuming u didn’t but I showed both in a vid of mine and thought I was the only one who knew😢😢
I didn’t, I was talking with wiresnstuff/JAY about the dart traps and the shimmer thing I don’t remember, it’s just something I’ve vaguely known about for a long time.
I love how prehardmode is farms and contraptions, and hardmode is computer engineering
Inputs: 0:53
Outputs: 5:41
Teleporters: 9:27
Statues: 11:30
Logic Gates: 18:22
Game Ticks: 29:27
Binary Counters: 33:28
Shift Registers: 34:40
Transmissions: 39:23
Timers: 42:30
Binary Decoder: 50:12
Counters: 56:04
Binary Coded Decimal: 58:19
Animations: 59:07
Storing Data: 1:03:23
Randomizers: 1:04:37
Exploits: 1:05:27
Farms: 1:07:30
I have just realized all of this is in the description xdd
thank you cheese boy
omg new vid from my favourite terraria creator just dropped!!!
now I will be able to wire myself a new job. Thank you, King
All these guides are so useful and easy to follow. A great service to the community
Thank god the helpful slugcats are here, I would be so lost
What a great video!! Thanks for putting in all those animations to explain everything!! Also I thought the spawn box effects were cool!!
Thank you, sharing this video is SO much easier than trying to explain most of this to people, and they tend to absorb the info better, and i can fill in any microgaps as needed
Learned more from this than any of my high school computer science classes lmao
Sorbet, you always help me so much with your Terraria content. Thank you!
A single logic gate on its own may not seem That much different for a basic use at first glance, but, you can use them to safety proof various builds, have farms run only as needed, and more; but, their real strength, is when you daisy chain them together. Having various logic steps go through eachother can let you create very complex coding
This video called me stupid on so many levels
estupido
here's another one.
バカ
Could you timestamp all the times you were specifically called out as being stupid because I must have missed it.😊
this works as a surprisingly good explanation of how programing works
Finally, I managed to be so lazy that a wiring tutorial showed up in my feed FOR me
That opening screen summed up how wiring feels to me... Sat down, note taking 🤓
this is more than my computer science class ever taught me
Trying to understand serial transmissions is gonna turn my mind into cereal…
Detonators have a purpose, they are an input that can be disabled with wiring, and visually relay that to the player
ily sorbet your soothing voice helps me sleep ❤
Bro, so much value and info compacted and nicely sorted. I'm going back and forth the video while building and learning along. Thx so much, if you were doing videos abt a bigger game you'd have x100 more subs. Gratefull for having you 4 Terraria though.
i can listen to you talk about anything i love your voice
I always learn something after watching these vids in the background like 50 times
Learning about specific statues usefulness is goated
I threw a slime and bomb onto my farm and it’s purely more effective
this is also lowkey a good video to watch to revisit basic electronic engineering concepts lmao (i may or may not have not learnt anything in my course until I crammed the entire syllabus the night before the exam)
15:30 not wiring, but how are those background doors made? i know about shadow paint, but the tops are rounded somehow?
Silly Balloons, place 5 of them in the shape of an arch and hammer the two lower ones then place Actuators and activate then remove, you may or may not have already found out but it'll be here for anyone else cuz I was really curious about this too and I watched the rest of the video but my mind was just on this lol
We love our transisters 🗣🗣
transsisters you mean?
@@Geckoreo (It's a play on transistors)
@@charmeleonevolves5553 also trans
11:35 That loud quack in my right ear kinda jump scared me...
New Sorbet Cafe Video? Hell yes. I'm looking forward to these as much as SummoningSalt's videos now.
Thank you for giving me video essays to listen to while doing home work, your voice is soothing (no homo)
You are my God. I'm working on very complex mechanism (elevator) and I was stuck but this helps me a lot.
24:50 so you're telling me, vanilla terraria logic gates are so bad, the community INVENTED TRANSISTORS instead??? LMAO
Throarbin needs to see this
This was awesome, congrats on getting this out!!
10/10 video
Finally terraria redstone viddddd
Instruction unlcear, I became an electrician irl instead...
11:38 That shit actually made me jump
Looking forward to the fishing guide, hopefully
im so gonna watch this while having lunch
Could you one day also do a Comprehensive Guide on Fishing?
Fishing also has a lot of weird mechanics and most people don't even realize is in the game.
I love this video, now lets watch it
This gets extremely complex. I think you accidentally gave us a coding degree. Thanks and kudos :)
2:43 wait, you can put the lever switches on Walls?! That looks so much better than on a block, too! 😮❤
i would love to try this but i am far too stupid.... you are a master
9:20
Oh god I know what the internet is gonna do
Holy fk your smart man...After watching this, I feel like I have the brain of a bluegill! Thank you
This is also basically an intro course to CS lol. nice
Mod looks almost as good as your houses!
But actually thought. You get better every video, thank you
Absolutely wonderful
We boutta build a computer that runs doom inside terraria with this one 💥💥
Can’t wait until throarbin sees this (the elevator🔥🔥)
9:23 oh hell yeah time to make bad apple in terraria's chat 🗣🗣‼‼
Fanciest wiring I've done (still do once per world, if it's not a challenge world) is a raised building over lava grinder, that also has a bird/bat timer hooked up do some dart shooters and stuff. I usually build it a couple screens to the right or left of spawn, so natural invasions still detect it as 'center' _enough_ when they show up. I can sit in the house and it auto-mercs most invasion mobs, and prevents the ones that go through most blocks from getting up to me - except mothrons who just fly right in anyways. It's tall enough it 'catches' Dutchmen on the corners, but low enough I can go in the belly of the building with a Coin Collector or Treasure Magnet, and get stuff out of the lava pool below it.
Once I have that built, then I add enough lava off to the side to reach past the spawn-rectangle I would have from anywhere within the building I made. Then I put a layer of actuate-able blocks over it, and wire everything up so I can toggle blocks on either side off and on, and literally turn off world spawns if I want to, just from sitting in the house and flipping a few levers, ["Pull the lever Kronk." ... "Wrong LEVer!" ... Why do we even HAVE that lever!?"] Or I can only toggle one of the levers, and cause the spawns to only come from one direction. And voila, a Terraria SMG (Spawn Management and Grinder) system. ;)
Used to build it to pass blood moons by, before they made it so Sun and Moon Dials reset any time a natural eclipse or Blood Moon happens. You know, put any crafting tables I might want access to in that building, maybe put all the extra crafting materials over there I might think about using. It doesn't take much to grab all but one of the ores and -ights I've been collecting at my main spawn, and put them over by all the fancy crafting machines and go to town crafting things for later use, all while waiting out the blood moon, or exclipse.
While it looks complicated, when it's all said and done, it's actually rather basic wiring.... Only three levers in the building: one to turn traps on and off, one to close off platform gaps in the building, and one to change the whole structure from "lava pit of doom that kills anything that walks into it" to "perfectly passable terrain with platforms for players" ... And then two more levers that toggle each side's lava-based spawn switch. I can do the whole thing with just red if I want, but I usually do with red and green. Even then I don't really cross any wires.
All that being said... I look forward to learning more from this video. Guess I should un-pause it from the 30 second mark, and actually start watching, huh? LOL
24:53 No way
Wiring is just terraria's version of redstone and it's even more complex than redstone
i wonder if anyone has made a terraria computer like the redstone ones
When he start talking about gates i die
Logic gates can seem daunting, but just throwing one down and playing around with it a little can go a long way. Ignore anything that isn't an AND gate and treat AND gates as a way to only send a signal if something else has also happened. So, if you want a player to shoot 2 pressure plates before opening a door, link up both pressure plates to the lamps on an AND gate and the gate itself to the door.
i need to know how many hours you have on terraria
Nice, now this is a fib that will help me beat legend zenith seed as a pure summoner
28:24 i just noticed the logic gates are also hidden, now last i checked thas not possible, does echo coating work on them? i know you mentioned modded and it might be a modded feature, but i hope its vanilla, and if it aint, why isnt it?
you can paint them
@@sorbetcafe wooow i guess i never faffed enough with echo paint. tmyk
Very helpful thanks
wouldn't it make sense if the mechanic could also sell a workbench to let you craft wire? imagine using copper and something else to craft wires of different color, thus giving copper/tin a mid/end game use?
Um, Id rather buy it. I will say that I run out of Tin/copper a lot mid/late game because I love the Copper/Tin Plating for building. I add paint to make them into different shades but you get me?
I'm so lost
But like in a good way
sorbet this video exposed me to unsafe levels of battery acid
there are no unsafe levels of battery acid
If every Teleporter without any fancy tricks can support up to 8 other teleporters, I wonder if using a Binary Decoder you could double that number.
In theory I don't see why it isn't possible, since while it might be tedious to use, having 16 destinations from one hub would be a godsend if your playing on a large world especially if it's modded as having near instant access to any biome from your base I'd imagine would be far more convenient,
especially in Calamity where the Abyss is a Biome you need to kinda roughly chew your way through as it's split into 3 layers and much like Bitter Black Isle in Dragon's Dogma, each one is harder then the last,
and having instant access to each layer from a central location would be incredibly useful without needing to potentially daisy-chain teleporters,
and if you do start chaining teleporters you can keep them more localized if using the Decoder's set-up does indeed allow you to effectively double your teleportation locations, while also rigging every Teleporter to act as it's own return option,
or access to a more localized network that is independent of the "Heart", so Abyss Layer 3, could have options to RtB, Layer 2, Layer 1 & Sulphuric Sea without need of the Decoder(s) that is used to program the central teleporter's destination.
I love your guidesss
24:45 TJE TRAMS FLAG FLASh
2D: Geometry Dash (Platform) + Terraria (Mini game) = 🤝
The virgin redstone vs chad wiring
both are chads