Comments on: Etho Plays Minecraft – Episode 306: Sickening

By: Epic Narwhals

Epic Narwhals — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:39:26 +0000

Hey Etho another awesome vid :) just a suggestion about the wilson thing
you could use a different chord for how Wilson is feeling eg. You could use
a G chord (G,B,D tones) for a happy feel or you could use Em (E,G,B tones)
to make a sad sound… Hope this helps keep up the awesome work!!

By: Ronin

Ronin — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:39:05 +0000

Etho you can create custom sounds with resource packs! Check out sethblings
500th video special. He used command blocks but you can do the same thing
just by editing your resource pack

By: purplejuice476

purplejuice476 — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:44 +0000

You could use or make a resource pack to make Wilson speak or just make
sounds if you wanted, not sure if that is what you were looking for but is
just a suggestion:)

By: Zythain SMOC

Zythain SMOC — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:34:50 +0000

To get the creature whimper you could use command blocks and record your
own resource pack then use he pack and play sounds (that u created) with
the command blocks

By: Julius Brummelman

Julius Brummelman — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:31:10 +0000

Hey Etho, The cow proximity detector your building doesn’t work the way it
did before. The range was updated to about 127 blocks in all directions (a
square). However by using more detectors, you will still be able to detect
in a specific small area. Furthermore the pressure plate way of detecting
cow movement is better to be replaced by a tripwire above the cow and the
cow standing in a water block and therefor constantly jumping up into the
tripwire. Please vote for this comment, so Etho can see…

By: turmz0rz

turmz0rz — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:30:52 +0000

just tought of a interesting challange for the wither on mindcrack
fight it on the roof of the nether or in a jungle with bdubs both wearing
death games armour

By: WryRai

WryRai — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:27:04 +0000

He’s created a pulse tone dialing system. (a phone dialing system
implemented during transition from rotary dials to the touch-tone phones
that are common today, still works for dialing but not for automated menus)

Bravo Etho

By: Heaven Builder

Heaven Builder — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:27:00 +0000

Oh yeah, and i had an idea for Wilson’s awesome dining. Have like a chicken
farm above the ground somewhere close to Wilson. Have like a wall of
dispensers with arrows in them, and the ground with a whirpool pushing
thing in a hopper. Now, when you press a button, trapdoors activate that’ll
let lose the chickens. A tripwire will activate that will make Wilson start
firing arrows at them. Depending on how much chicken ends up in the hopper,
he gets happier, fed and heavy. Also, to obtain the seeds to breed the
chicken, you have to play this other mini-game with Wilson: there’ll be a
layer of pistons and a layer of tilled dirt with wheat. Your mission is to
break as much wheat as you can before the pistons fire and break the wheat.
There will be also hoppers mixed in with the tilled dirt so that if the
wheat gets broken by a piston, it’ll go in the hopper and you’ll lose
seeds/wheat

By: Max Sceats

Max Sceats — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:25:52 +0000

Hey Etho!! I was wondering whether you and the team were going to be
continuing UHC?? If not why and if so when?? Best regards

By: Matarelegacy

Matarelegacy — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:23:52 +0000

On audio.

Psychologically speaking, music is a piggyback rider of verbal
communication. Thinking more in terms of how you speak, such as
quessssstions? And STATEMENTS. More so then actual words. The ups and downs
are definitive of communication. So sad would be descending and happy would
be ascending.

As far as timbre for note blocks, I’m not sure much ambiguity could be
produced unless you route up a ton of note blocks to fire at the same time.
Then you have the aspect of time, the notes are firing on a tick system so
you’d have to blend many percussive notes of different note values firing
off simultaneously and evolving and off shooting in descending or ascending
manner.

To get something you’re looking for, if it’s possible to do, would require
a TON of noteblocks and quite a bit of space. You’d have to jumble up such
a complex tone that you can’t pick out at any one moment that you’re
hearing a percussive instrument.

I think it’s feasible though, it just has to be well executed. You’d have
to look outside scalar reasoning to do so though, otherwise it’ll mimic
music moreso then communication.

What I would recommend would be a more musical approach to Wilson’s audio
side, playing some emotionally cueing music instead will be easier. Such as
a descending melody for sad, ascending for happy, lower bass melody for
angry.

As far as saying “hello”… Good luck lol I wouldn’t even know where to
begin with mimicking an actual word using noteblocks. If someone can figure
it out though, I’d be impressed.

Talking about this makes me want to make an audio engineering mod for
minecraft, importing better synthesis sounds for noteblocks. Changing the
noteblock distance at which you can hear it, maybe even add in reverb
capabilities. I’ve seen someone on youtube already made a working drum
machine. Man that’d be totes badass.

Anyway, have a good day etho :)