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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, computing stuff. In theory anything your PC or phone can do.

Like writing a comment on Lemmy. Or watching YouTube. Or playing Doom.

It will be slow as hell and you'd also have to implement a lot of stuff that has been created IRL for decades, but it's possible.

A CPU is a CPU, it can do the same things all CPUs can, some are faster, some are slower.

I guess you could eventually run out of space to build the in-game CPU, but I also heard the maps are ridiculously large.

There are mods that allow redstone to run from chunks that are further away than render distance, but I don't think it's going to scale that far. I wonder what the actual limit is.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

the redstone machine can't have access to the internet though.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To paraphrase a section of what was already said above:

Once you can make AND, OR and NOT gates, you can do everything. Everything any computer does is done with those three.

In Minecraft you can build AND, NOT, and OR gates.

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago

As you say, once you can build a nand gate, you can go everywhere.

If OP wants to know how, I suggest this way which I found useful and entreating:

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I've seen a video of someone building a text recognition algorithm that predicts the numbers of drawn digits. I've also seen someone run a Minecraft-like game inside of Minecraft.

[–] Toes@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

In the early days before rednet I built a functional computer network by building a shared bus with a LUA script that waited for addressed triggers.

Very laggy but I had fun.