There hasn’t been a newGuitar Herogame in nine years. Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has mentioned in the past that he wantsto bring the series back, but the point is that people have been waiting a long time for a return to the classic rock rhythm series. So, one dedicated fan took it upon themselves to make a new Guitar Hero, sort of.
They built a working version of the game inMinecraftusing nothing but redstone. Blocks on a giant guitar move down towards a gold line, each row represented by a different item (carrot, diamond, gold ingot, raw beef, and scute) that you switch to by pressing numbers on your keyboard. Pressing numbers at just the right time counts as a ‘hit’, therefore increasing your score, while misses are flagged on a giant board just underneath.
The game registers that you’re holding the right item through villagers, who “emit a detectable sound if you hold an item they trade.” These villagers are placed behind you on the viewing platform.
Given that it’s built using redstone and not command blocks or mods, _GergYT claims that you could recreate this entire minigame in survival mode. If you’re itching to try something new in your world, maybe a giant game of Guitar Hero is the answer. Granted you have the enormous number of resources at your disposal and a little know-how.
I’m not great at redstone - I can’t even put together a decent piston door without a tutorial. But I’ll attempt to explain why villager grunting is useful for a contraption such as this.
Since they make a noise if you hold an item they trade, they set off sculk sensors, blocks that detect vibrations which in turn send a redstone signal. It’s essentiallywireless redstone. So, if you place a sensor near a villager and that villager makes a noise, you can connect that to your system.
You can use it to make themed doors (i.e. holding a gold ingot opens a door made out of gold blocks), toll booths where the right item will unlock the gate, or even security systems that fire arrows if you hold the right item. These seem more up my alley than building an entire video game in Minecraft.
As for the music part of _GergYT’s Guitar Hero - an essential part, really - that’s simple. Minecraft has records and record players. You could probably make your own song out of note blocks, but _GergYT opted to use the existing tracks.
