Make a couple holes two blocks deep that's 2x2 blocks square.
Put a wooden door in on each block. How the door is placed depends on how your facing the block at the time of placing it. Test placing the doors different ways until you find something that you like.
There is going to be a lot of red dust and a couple switches involved, I'm sure someone will post a blue print for it.
Urgh... I thought it looked simple, but the interaction between redstone and multiple adjacent doors is not remotely logical, as far as I can tell.
Well it is logical, it's just a PITA to build with if you want something that looks nice. Here's a top down on an entry-level setup for 4 doors (:Red: = redstone, = redstone torch, = door, = switch):
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This makes sure that your redstone is actually pointing at the door it controls and has no interference with other wires. The torch is needed because the reversed part of a double door responds to levers in reverse. If the doors stay open constantly with this setup just put the torch on the other door.
The doors as drawbridge idea is clever... too bad it looks so ugly! I actually might use this in my next base, though, if I can get a lava moat working underneath. Having creepers standing right at the front door watching me makes it hard to sleep at night.
Amazing. I am going to make one of those for my HUUUUUUUUGE castle/fort/town combo thing. The walls are 10 blocks high and cover an area of 80x80 blocks :biggrin.gif: And of course I have to make a supersized version with iron doors!
The torch is needed because the reversed part of a double door responds to levers in reverse. If the doors stay open constantly with this setup just put the torch on the other door.
nice idea too bad water can't pass through doors or it make a nice addition to a mote, also the redstone lever idea looks semi solid, one side be normal the other reversed(not a redsone genus) but for a 4x4 with levers on both sides? hmm....my brain hurts im going back to my cave.....xD
I think you'd have to run a separate moat underneath the doors, but it seems like it could be done. The redstone wires would have to be bridged across separately, a couple of blocks away from the doors.
I was thinking of a lava moat underneath these doors with a drowning moat everywhere else. If I hadn't deleted my old worlds and started over I'd try it tonight...
If you look at the pic there's only a 2-high opening, so you can't jump it. This does actually work! The problem is that even with a guardrail you can fall off the sides of the doors. Walking across a lava moat would be pretty nerve racking.
It turned out to be surprisingly simple to build. First you set 2 sets of double doors back to back as in the OP's pic. Then you just wire them all up to one lever so that they open at once. Here's my proof of concept - the wiring can be cleaned up considerably and probably also shortened.
http://i31.tinypic.com/kbou13.png
But i don't know how it works
2 switches each lead into 2 paths to close the 2 doors on each side!
All you do is...
Make a couple holes two blocks deep that's 2x2 blocks square.
Put a wooden door in on each block. How the door is placed depends on how your facing the block at the time of placing it. Test placing the doors different ways until you find something that you like.
There is going to be a lot of red dust and a couple switches involved, I'm sure someone will post a blue print for it.
Well it is logical, it's just a PITA to build with if you want something that looks nice. Here's a top down on an entry-level setup for 4 doors (:Red: = redstone, = redstone torch, = door, = switch):
[] [] [] []
[] [] [] []
This makes sure that your redstone is actually pointing at the door it controls and has no interference with other wires. The torch is needed because the reversed part of a double door responds to levers in reverse. If the doors stay open constantly with this setup just put the torch on the other door.
The doors as drawbridge idea is clever... too bad it looks so ugly! I actually might use this in my next base, though, if I can get a lava moat working underneath. Having creepers standing right at the front door watching me makes it hard to sleep at night.
Edit: sorry, forgot inverters.
I see... how obnoxious.
Nice!
proof?
Wait.... Can't you just jump the gap?
I was thinking of a lava moat underneath these doors with a drowning moat everywhere else. If I hadn't deleted my old worlds and started over I'd try it tonight...
If you look at the pic there's only a 2-high opening, so you can't jump it. This does actually work! The problem is that even with a guardrail you can fall off the sides of the doors. Walking across a lava moat would be pretty nerve racking.
It turned out to be surprisingly simple to build. First you set 2 sets of double doors back to back as in the OP's pic. Then you just wire them all up to one lever so that they open at once. Here's my proof of concept - the wiring can be cleaned up considerably and probably also shortened.
Open:
Closed:
Left side:
Right side: