> (which I don't think existed at the time anyways)
This surprised me at first because I remember using Python to create Minecraft maps early on, or at least in the beta.
But it seems like redstone was added in the alpha, and the earliest commits of pymclevel (which I think I used) also dates back to the alpha. So there might indeed have been a time window of a few months in which redstone was available but not tooling for creating maps.
I remember starting playing Minecraft Beta, that was around 2011 maybe?
Even if tools to programmatically create maps were available, I wouldn't have known how to program. So this is more about my lack of knowledge of tools of the time.
This surprised me at first because I remember using Python to create Minecraft maps early on, or at least in the beta.
But it seems like redstone was added in the alpha, and the earliest commits of pymclevel (which I think I used) also dates back to the alpha. So there might indeed have been a time window of a few months in which redstone was available but not tooling for creating maps.