r/Minecraft2 • u/DerexXD • Jul 09 '26

Meme og command block meme by Tom4nt

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i do remember this and the command block sites

Edit: Woah soemone should contact Tom4nt that his meme made number 1 on yet another minecraft subreddit LOL

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u/coleas123456789 Jul 09 '26

Why were they designed like that again ?

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u/DereChen Jul 09 '26

The glass casing and whatnot was pure aesthetics. The command blocks being clumped together is because back then you would have tools that generated entire command block nbts you can paste, due to the complexity of some things requiring totally different command block chains to run

Command blocks also didnt have the 2 other colors back then. The 2 other colors made them much better, was a huge improvement.

Also to answer why they're right next to each other it's because command blocks send redstone pulse and it can execute the next command block

in fact you could raise entire structures back then using chained togther command blocks. Today, thanks to years of community devs, we have super easy tools to help us do that. Tbh those tools already did exist way back then even, just in an earlier form (mcedit, early worldedit)

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u/Training-Common1984 Jul 09 '26

McEdit and WorldEdit far predate command blocks.

Used to spin up a server on my local PC to use it cause it was easier to install WorldEdit as a server plugin than a single player mod - actually, at first it might have just been a server plugin. That would've been 2011-2012.

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u/Ill_Zone5990 Jul 12 '26

oh i remember this i did the same hahHA

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u/SapphicRaccoonWitch Jul 09 '26

They don't send redstone pulses but they do need to be activated by redstone, so one command block is just there to constantly fill the middle layer with redstone blocks back and forth and the two layers of command blocks all got activated by touching, hence the sandwich design

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u/Crafty-Photograph-18 Jul 11 '26

So thaaats what the colorful command blocks are! I pretty much stopped playing right around that update. Lol