There's actually another kind of animated map which allows for a 4 frame animated loop, much more similar to a GIF. It relies on placing the four 64x64 frames in each of the corners of the map, with each frame rotated 90 degrees from the last. When the map is placed in an Item frame and right click is held down to spin it, the animation will play in one of the corners.
Yeah, I saw some examples of that. I consider them as optical illusion as they are still images. Here's another example of it: th-cam.com/video/xUzbpMONaG4/w-d-xo.html
@@jonasgrill1155 I've tried that myself and it does kinda work, but you have to put the stair case a block in front of the block the item frame occupies, because placing the stair directly in front will cause the item frame to pop off the wall. Honestly the main issue with using a staircase is just how small the viewport is, since you're looking at an image 1/2 the size of a block, standing 3 blocks away from it.
The fact that it only changes when a player loads the chunk means you can create an alarm system notifying when somebody has been to your base, you can keep a map of your base on you and you'll know when someone is in your base if it changes, you can set up an alarm system on top of the neher highway roof to tell you if somebody was near it and have a bot ping you when it happens and you can track them down instantly, pretty insane stuff what you can do with this
Wonder how long it’ll take for someone to make an animated rickroll and a seizure-inducing map on 2b lmao Maps advertising shops sounds cool, if map artists go that route i think itd be really interesting to see how they format and actually animate it all :0
@@JamesTDG alright so we just need 2bees to be backdoored again and then we can have a working rickroll epic lesgo i got vape client loaded an ready- Maybe stickbug would be a workable meme then though? Since its just left right leg motions
I'm certain on anarchy servers such as 2b2t, as this becomes more prominent, someone will do bothosting, and implement scripts where bots use fly hacks and unbreaking efficiency tools and blocks to make very animated gifs. Instead of redstone, they would use a bunch of bots to transform parts of a 2x2 chunk area to make a more animated or noisy animated map.
Idea: You and your friend have a base together, and a secret second base far away in chunks where nobody else lives or travels through. Set up a very subtle animation (like, only a block or two) so that if one of you is there, the other will know because the animation's playing and not frozen. I'm thinking that could be cool for something like the Dream SMP where /msg could be a bit bland as far as lore is concerned. You could even have multiple secret bases all with their own maps. That way, if someone is in hiding and needs to let an ally know where they are, the plan still works even if one base is compromised. Idk, I just love this kinda stuff. I think it'd be so cool to actually utilize my ideas for a story instead of just in a lonely singleplayer world lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You could also use it as a radar to know if anyone is in those chunks... I could see that being useful on servers like 2b, it’s a constant monitor. If the animation is playing someone is there
Idea: link a map art into an industrial district (or even put them together) and make gauges for each farm. (Ex,, in a mob farm, when a certain amount of chests are filled, a bar will be filled slowly until the whole storage system is filled, that way you know when to unstock and/or collect the materials gathered from the farm and either use them or transport into a different storage system [in server case, sell them]) also, i wonder if armor stands update maps... That would be cool! Another idea: Tamagotchi! An animated pet in a map, (i dunno how it can be interacted with, maybe use something like the item activator that docm77 built from player-item hotbar update reader and blockers, but) it can be just an animated pet that moves constantly inside the map
Etho implemented the first on his Nexus, and built a redstone machine for the second. I'm blanking out on what he named it but I keep thinking Wilson. He needs to feed it and all that with a complicated system where it can even get sick which requires "medicine" (golden Apple). Wouldn't take much to port it onto a map animation since the most complicated part was trying to fit it all into his base without overlapping his many farms and redstone builds.
@@lazylazerrsp8781 ohhh that's so cool! I'm an etho fan but i've never heard that before. Where did he put 'wilson' btw? I wanna see how he made it. (Hermitcraft or EPM? I think i somehow missed it or sumthin)
@@runic6452 it's in the man cave, you can find it much easier in his most recent world tour. He built 1-3 years ago, but still takes care of it. I forget the name but I keep thinking it's Wilson because I remember him referencing castaway's Wilson volleyball.
Awesome vid! i am actually glad you made a minecraft vid kinda outside of 2b2t (even tho the vid has a little bit of it) because i always said, ''This whould be one of my favourites youtubers if he uploaded more outside 2b2t'' and well, one step further !
Unfortunate, I’ve had the idea of this for almost 2 years now, but never made it a reality. Congrats to the creators, looks insane. Might get back into that idea thanks to this video.
I’ve seen this idea taken to the next level with plugins. Plugins can take full control over the data sent to the client so can send arbitrary map data. Maps aren’t directly tied to the world and static plugin-generated map art has been a thing for ages. I’ve seen this taken to an insane level on callmecarson’s new server where his entire stream is animated on maps in the server.
That clip from Sethbling takes me back, we were making similar interactive map based redstone games like Conway's game of life, checkers and general screens out of redstone from early 2011 up to this day. The server we did it on was called RDF, which now flies under the banner 'open redstone engineers'
I can't wait for redstone televisions to become a thing! Modern electronics are already making their way into minecraft anyways with such marvels as skulk powered telephones.
These designs are amazing! Animated maps are so cool. I made a map of my base where my moss farm is, and I noticed that when I hold the map I can see the stone being converted into moss and then the moss being replaced by stone again, I think this could be a useful mechanic for animated map artists, as it creates like a little green plume/blossom effect that then disappears and repeats. I also notice grass being eaten by sheep this way too lol.
@@Jacks-vk5tb nah. It takes me about 1 hour to build one map art and making it more complex with redstone, even for 1x1 with little details is going to be a pain
I never documented it, but back in 2015 I remember after re watching the Sethbling map changer, was able using block changers and piston feed tapes. The server we had it on used the map as a full 24 hour day clock as to keep sink with the world and server.
This video is what sealed the deal on making me fall in love with Constantiam, some years ago. Then I got to see it, honor it, and preserve it. And then finally yesterday, I had to nuke it myself. To preserve it, for the last time. RIP
These are good for in-game communication of image based information. I would use them to make a constantly updated list of market prices. Player's buying and selling prices are visible for everyone, and this would stimulate the economic activity within the world.
imagine someone makes a playable gameboy, and puts the output on a map. with the player controlling it through chat, commanding a bot to play the game. theres so many possibilities
just got an idea for a tic tac toe game. for those that want to make one, in theory i think you should have a 3 by 3 grid and have 3 different colors on the left side and 3 different colors on the top. that way you can say (Red,Green) and the account at the tic tac toe game can set off the dispenser for that coordinate. instead of having x and o’s you can have lava and water
Our pirvate group made one on all of our base. So all the group members with correct map would be able to see when someone is on the base. Everyone should make one, our is just a little word offline/online.
They are not in the infancy, animated maps have been a thing since forever. I definitely remember that map series "the Code" where they did an Antichamber style progression map using the staircase method. There have been server newspapers that utilize the unlocked map thing. People generally don't do much with it because map arts take forever to build already, animating them is even longer. And once you build it, you have to load it. Building in spawn chunks - usually prohibited. Building a chunk loader - usually prohibited for performance
I knew we could do something like this which is why I was confused when I never saw any big TH-camrs in the past trying to atleast make a water one but I'm happy it's happening now, just sad it's this late
Would be great to mark place (I know you can use like minimap) but I like waypoint you know cuz I always forgot where is my base so waypoint is useful for me
It might become possible to have each pixel customizable. The toughest part might be solvable in the Y coord update, which raised min/max height. You could make a map in which each pixel can be whatever color you want. Though still limited to the smaller maps. Basically, an inverted pyramid so that you don't have the redstone showing on the map, using the stair case method. Have columns of each pixel color with pistons pushing certain blocks then have the next column set to block the redstone and so on, so forth. You could also just make the world's slowest etch and sketch, where the controls move the line one or so blocks at a time.
I have an idea: you can attach animated maps with redstone computer. Instead of making giant vertical display for a computer, use just one or four maps. This new map display is also wireless.
why is it still kinda funny to me every time he says 2B2T just because he pronounces it as "Two bee to tea" and he always does it in the exact same way like some TTS voice I don't mean this as a insult btw it's just funny
Aaaaa, a fun idea for a group Minecraft series would be a team based Go game. Where each team has their color and they compete in challenges to place a piece on the board. The best part is that it's easy to timelapse it as an ending piece to each person's video where they discuss the flow of the go game outside of the stop and go challenges.
I had an idea to attempt to make a computer in game using a combination of command blocks/data storage and animated map art, but I never continued with it
Here are some recent animated map arts:
TV Static: th-cam.com/video/rlEUr7dyiAs/w-d-xo.html
Earth Rotating: th-cam.com/video/UxER9BCrHUM/w-d-xo.html
The Discord expired.
More of those coming up. Stay tuned, vincent ;)
@@Reelix789 message me on Discord when it's revealed 🤔
It's surprising how the first animated map was created all the way back in 2011, yet I've never heard of animated maps until now.
sethblind was ahead of its time!
Its pretty cool
Its poggers
i saw the sethbling one in the Minecraft handbook thing
Completely agreed
There's actually another kind of animated map which allows for a 4 frame animated loop, much more similar to a GIF. It relies on placing the four 64x64 frames in each of the corners of the map, with each frame rotated 90 degrees from the last. When the map is placed in an Item frame and right click is held down to spin it, the animation will play in one of the corners.
Yeah, I saw some examples of that. I consider them as optical illusion as they are still images. Here's another example of it: th-cam.com/video/xUzbpMONaG4/w-d-xo.html
@@fastvincent1 I think he's talking about that instead
th-cam.com/video/5M8hoTczTxI/w-d-xo.html
@@victoreuntai I imagine if you do that method you can also block off the other frames with a staircase, so you only see the correct frame, right?
@@fastvincent1 what if animated maps were combined with this. Dunno why you'd want it, but it sounds cool
@@jonasgrill1155 I've tried that myself and it does kinda work, but you have to put the stair case a block in front of the block the item frame occupies, because placing the stair directly in front will cause the item frame to pop off the wall. Honestly the main issue with using a staircase is just how small the viewport is, since you're looking at an image 1/2 the size of a block, standing 3 blocks away from it.
The fact that it only changes when a player loads the chunk means you can create an alarm system notifying when somebody has been to your base, you can keep a map of your base on you and you'll know when someone is in your base if it changes, you can set up an alarm system on top of the neher highway roof to tell you if somebody was near it and have a bot ping you when it happens and you can track them down instantly, pretty insane stuff what you can do with this
They need to hold a map
Ahh yes, another attack vector for 2B2T players. Great
Will tnt cannon destroy that? Calculate unloaded location... But obsidian wall will protect it...
Big brain
@@Gagaboubou that's what an alt is for
Wonder how long it’ll take for someone to make an animated rickroll and a seizure-inducing map on 2b lmao
Maps advertising shops sounds cool, if map artists go that route i think itd be really interesting to see how they format and actually animate it all :0
That's what I imeddiently thought of
I can already see a fitmc video about this lol
@@qq3xy347 On the oldest anarchy server on minecraft,p layers managed to make a rickroll gif on 2b2t
sadly, an animated rickroll would be impossible due to the frame count, closest you can do are command blocks placing each frame
@@JamesTDG alright so we just need 2bees to be backdoored again and then we can have a working rickroll epic lesgo i got vape client loaded an ready-
Maybe stickbug would be a workable meme then though? Since its just left right leg motions
I'm certain on anarchy servers such as 2b2t, as this becomes more prominent, someone will do bothosting, and implement scripts where bots use fly hacks and unbreaking efficiency tools and blocks to make very animated gifs. Instead of redstone, they would use a bunch of bots to transform parts of a 2x2 chunk area to make a more animated or noisy animated map.
@Tungsten Dioxide Yes yes yes!
Oh no
I think there was a 2b2t newspaper that was like this
"the dog"
*angry Toby fox noises
*You feel the space in your inventory rapidly shrinking
*You are carrying one to many Toby fox maps
*Megalovania starts playing
*We’ll be right back*
kinda cringe tbh
I started a war below, proceed with caution
@@EmbeddedWithin You dare insult Undertale?
*You're gonna have a BAD TIME*
@@stsddsod :/
Idea: You and your friend have a base together, and a secret second base far away in chunks where nobody else lives or travels through. Set up a very subtle animation (like, only a block or two) so that if one of you is there, the other will know because the animation's playing and not frozen. I'm thinking that could be cool for something like the Dream SMP where /msg could be a bit bland as far as lore is concerned. You could even have multiple secret bases all with their own maps. That way, if someone is in hiding and needs to let an ally know where they are, the plan still works even if one base is compromised. Idk, I just love this kinda stuff. I think it'd be so cool to actually utilize my ideas for a story instead of just in a lonely singleplayer world lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You could also use it as a radar to know if anyone is in those chunks... I could see that being useful on servers like 2b, it’s a constant monitor. If the animation is playing someone is there
_infinite iq_
imagine thinking dream smp has lore xD
@@commanderhubert5659 ?
Remember, it only animated if someone is holding the map there.
Ayy Constantiam on top! I love these maps! I guess i also need to make one now!
♥️
♥️
Constantium
@@iamhorus804 👀
Nah to laggy! I am with 9b9t on top!
Idea: link a map art into an industrial district (or even put them together) and make gauges for each farm. (Ex,, in a mob farm, when a certain amount of chests are filled, a bar will be filled slowly until the whole storage system is filled, that way you know when to unstock and/or collect the materials gathered from the farm and either use them or transport into a different storage system [in server case, sell them]) also, i wonder if armor stands update maps... That would be cool!
Another idea: Tamagotchi!
An animated pet in a map, (i dunno how it can be interacted with, maybe use something like the item activator that docm77 built from player-item hotbar update reader and blockers, but) it can be just an animated pet that moves constantly inside the map
you would only be able to have max two or three colours wouldnt you?
the static "off" colour, and one or two colours depending on how it works
@@racdiecoon4994 wdym? Are you talking about the bars? If that's the case u can just label them separately and divide them accordingly 😅
Etho implemented the first on his Nexus, and built a redstone machine for the second. I'm blanking out on what he named it but I keep thinking Wilson. He needs to feed it and all that with a complicated system where it can even get sick which requires "medicine" (golden Apple). Wouldn't take much to port it onto a map animation since the most complicated part was trying to fit it all into his base without overlapping his many farms and redstone builds.
@@lazylazerrsp8781 ohhh that's so cool! I'm an etho fan but i've never heard that before. Where did he put 'wilson' btw? I wanna see how he made it. (Hermitcraft or EPM? I think i somehow missed it or sumthin)
@@runic6452 it's in the man cave, you can find it much easier in his most recent world tour. He built 1-3 years ago, but still takes care of it. I forget the name but I keep thinking it's Wilson because I remember him referencing castaway's Wilson volleyball.
Wonder if powered snow could be used to place a white "Pixel" instead of being limited to just orange and blue from lava and water
Smart
Vincent you just made the community 100x better! Good job man!
If lag is your big concern, I think that minimizing redstone dust would be an even bigger focus than minimizing pistons
Unless lighting lag is fully squashed, let's not forget lighting up the redstone, too!
Observer wires should be good, they don't light up
Plus you can make clocks and delays and all that jazz with them, they do have a 1 tick delay though
"With text saying Good Night"
*Shows the picture saying "Sleep Tight".*
Finally something new and interesting for 2b2t without any updates
I remember seeing the animated map in the red stone handbook around 6 years ago and it’s always been in the back of my mind
Awesome vid! i am actually glad you made a minecraft vid kinda outside of 2b2t (even tho the vid has a little bit of it) because i always said, ''This whould be one of my favourites youtubers if he uploaded more outside 2b2t'' and well, one step further !
I plan to do more videos outside 2b2t soon!
@@fastvincent1 pog
@@fastvincent1 :)
hehehehe I helped with the map shown at 9:03
Hooray for the Minewind representation!
Unfortunate, I’ve had the idea of this for almost 2 years now, but never made it a reality.
Congrats to the creators, looks insane. Might get back into that idea thanks to this video.
I never even knew animated maps even existed.
I’ve seen this idea taken to the next level with plugins. Plugins can take full control over the data sent to the client so can send arbitrary map data. Maps aren’t directly tied to the world and static plugin-generated map art has been a thing for ages. I’ve seen this taken to an insane level on callmecarson’s new server where his entire stream is animated on maps in the server.
Animated 2b2t map art idea:
An message, if your base is attacked it shows a text saying "Danger!"
It works with some detecters
I love how the map art was ON SCREEN, and he STILL said what was written, wrongly.
That clip from Sethbling takes me back, we were making similar interactive map based redstone games like Conway's game of life, checkers and general screens out of redstone from early 2011 up to this day.
The server we did it on was called RDF, which now flies under the banner 'open redstone engineers'
Cannot wait to build one of these!
hiya cap!
Was waiting on this one for a while, nice video!
This is a really cool concept and it'd be cool to expirement with it! great video!
when he said that the first animated map was in the redstone handbook, i grabbed it off my shelf and flipped to the right page first try. i am a god.
Knowing 2b, NSFW map art animations is going to be the next big thing.
Don’t give them any ideas
Requires too much redstone to make anything quality. Believe me.
@@smindt high quality level 4/4 animated map, it'd be causing a little lag
@@Todija ok but still, it will be really complex
@@smindt It'd take at least a small team of redstoners or someone with skill like mumbo jumbo's and plentiful of patience, both being very unlikely.
It's just perfect this is the most underrated Chanel ever , keep up the amazing work.
Wow this is really cool, but you should see the other animated map arts on other 2b2t clones.
2:42 "This is art. You will hear a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the art" [BUZZER]
I can't wait for redstone televisions to become a thing!
Modern electronics are already making their way into minecraft anyways with such marvels as skulk powered telephones.
These designs are amazing! Animated maps are so cool. I made a map of my base where my moss farm is, and I noticed that when I hold the map I can see the stone being converted into moss and then the moss being replaced by stone again, I think this could be a useful mechanic for animated map artists, as it creates like a little green plume/blossom effect that then disappears and repeats. I also notice grass being eaten by sheep this way too lol.
Love your vids vincent. Watched pretty much only your vids for like a week straight. Keep it up🙏
Sounds like a cool side project for me. Now do I go all out or test the idea first?
go all out, it's worth it
@@Jacks-vk5tb nah. It takes me about 1 hour to build one map art and making it more complex with redstone, even for 1x1 with little details is going to be a pain
The fact that it needs some player to update the map in order to animate is the most limiting factor.
Yo, what mod/resource pack are you using to make skin layers actually extruded? That looks sick
Blockbuster by McHorse. You can find the mod in the description
Wonder when we’ll see sponges being used to suck up the water, to create more fluent animations
The Tic-Tac-Toe idea is genuinely intriguing
I never documented it, but back in 2015 I remember after re watching the Sethbling map changer, was able using block changers and piston feed tapes. The server we had it on used the map as a full 24 hour day clock as to keep sink with the world and server.
This video is what sealed the deal on making me fall in love with Constantiam, some years ago.
Then I got to see it, honor it, and preserve it. And then finally yesterday, I had to nuke it myself. To preserve it, for the last time.
RIP
And here I thought noteblock compositions were the most complex thing that you can do in minecraft.
Redstone comparator: Amatures
"The first one was done by Sethbling"
Oh my aching heart, don't remind me how old I am
this feels like the 80's demoscene all over again, it's so cool
These are good for in-game communication of image based information.
I would use them to make a constantly updated list of market prices. Player's buying and selling prices are visible for everyone, and this would stimulate the economic activity within the world.
If only I was smart enough to make an animated mapart, const on top!
if i can make one, anyone can
I am very disappointed that he referred to the annoying dog as just a dog
imagine someone makes a playable gameboy, and puts the output on a map. with the player controlling it through chat, commanding a bot to play the game. theres so many possibilities
FitMC in five years: how animated maps nearly destoryed 2b2t
it's weird that constantiam mods will remove big redstone and such. Because on their website it says that their is "No admin interference"
thank you for the shoutout!! great video man
Loving the Octopath Traveler OST in the background
If your willing to do it minecraft has so much to do and the amount is increasing with every update
Maps are definitely one of the cooler way of communicating in Minecraft great for servers
Omg this is crazy I was chasing you on saturday now I am watching your video haha
Ayy
i think animated map art is noe of the best thing Minecraft community do over the history
just got an idea for a tic tac toe game. for those that want to make one, in theory i think you should have a 3 by 3 grid and have 3 different colors on the left side and 3 different colors on the top. that way you can say (Red,Green) and the account at the tic tac toe game can set off the dispenser for that coordinate. instead of having x and o’s you can have lava and water
Update: On wavetech server, they managed to make a working chess game using map art
Cool
Our pirvate group made one on all of our base. So all the group members with correct map would be able to see when someone is on the base.
Everyone should make one, our is just a little word offline/online.
prob the most underrated 2b2t channel
Great video. Doesn't surprise me that etho has messed with it.
They are not in the infancy, animated maps have been a thing since forever. I definitely remember that map series "the Code" where they did an Antichamber style progression map using the staircase method. There have been server newspapers that utilize the unlocked map thing.
People generally don't do much with it because map arts take forever to build already, animating them is even longer. And once you build it, you have to load it. Building in spawn chunks - usually prohibited. Building a chunk loader - usually prohibited for performance
2:59
Him:"dog"
Me: well yes, but actually no
Imagine you go in a base and then you see a MOVING RICKROLL with the music made with note block
I used these to make my Christmas portrait in Minecraft.
Gotta love the handbooks
Was already thinking about using this for a computer screen
IronException definitely has a backdoor
Love the video and the octopath music In the background fits it so well.
Thanks!
Haven't even been able to make normal map art let alone, animated map art. This is so epic that this possible in the Game.
I knew we could do something like this which is why I was confused when I never saw any big TH-camrs in the past trying to atleast make a water one but I'm happy it's happening now, just sad it's this late
The music makes me want to explore a forest and kill giant mushroom monsters
Would be great to mark place (I know you can use like minimap) but I like waypoint you know cuz I always forgot where is my base so waypoint is useful for me
U can also use powdered snow now
i have seen this before on someones server, i was looking how to, and now i found it. thank you so much
The first time I saw this was in one of these "Tipps for minecraft" books..
Wow that's awesome and remember the original Minecraft handbook
It might become possible to have each pixel customizable. The toughest part might be solvable in the Y coord update, which raised min/max height. You could make a map in which each pixel can be whatever color you want. Though still limited to the smaller maps.
Basically, an inverted pyramid so that you don't have the redstone showing on the map, using the stair case method. Have columns of each pixel color with pistons pushing certain blocks then have the next column set to block the redstone and so on, so forth.
You could also just make the world's slowest etch and sketch, where the controls move the line one or so blocks at a time.
It's why im so frickin love this game bcs their unlimited possibilities.
Very cool video Vincent ^_^
Thanks Bachi! I couldn't have built it without your guys materials
You’re telling me this guy was going to make a landscape that changed from day to night… then ended up making a blue “C” 😐
Every upload gets better and better
Yep, as if 2b hadn’t already worked out how to weaponise everything in the game, let’s make it easier for them
using powdered snow would be a good tool for animation
I have an idea: you can attach animated maps with redstone computer. Instead of making giant vertical display for a computer, use just one or four maps. This new map display is also wireless.
Welp, I am never doing normal map art. From now on I'm a Minecraft gif map art specialist.
You can also place powdered snow with dispensers
The fact that you have no idea who Toby fox is and misread the text twice honestly slightly triggered me
nice to see constantiam mention
why is it still kinda funny to me every time he says 2B2T just because he pronounces it as "Two bee to tea" and he always does it in the exact same way like some TTS voice
I don't mean this as a insult btw it's just funny
Twobeetwotee
Aaaaa, a fun idea for a group Minecraft series would be a team based Go game. Where each team has their color and they compete in challenges to place a piece on the board.
The best part is that it's easy to timelapse it as an ending piece to each person's video where they discuss the flow of the go game outside of the stop and go challenges.
Good quality content, great voice,great editing, great topics. And not over 100k? Ur underrated
thx for the signed book at the halloween event stay fast homie
Stay Fast
Fascinating! Great video as always thanks.
I've also seen animated maps that work by having a bunch of maps in your hotbar and scrolling through them. But this is cooler, if a bit laggy.
I had an idea to attempt to make a computer in game using a combination of command blocks/data storage and animated map art, but I never continued with it
on my way creating a crash map but an animated one, its gonna be the ultimate crash weapon.
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damn this is so cool! awesome video as always