I can picture it in my head, I'm just not sure how to do it.
See, I want to make a huge glass column, with a pillar of glowstone at the center, and a flow of lava and water corkscrewing around the middle, kinda like DNA.
I know the top, where the source blocks are, will kinda look like this (middle row is the source blocks and glowstone, lava and water are flowing clockwise):
My problem is, I'm uncertain how to arrange the glass layers under the top layer so it will spiral properly without either flow touching... I might need to make it bigger, I'm not sure yet - geometry is not my forte.
What I mean is to make it corkscrew. Put barriers below the liquid to make it twist like that. xD
To begin place a barrier all the way down the middle the height you want it to be, minus one (so if it's 10 blocks tall, place 9). Lay your base for reference (don't make the full glass tower, it gets in the way).
(I'm using glowstone/sea lanterns for reference now so it's easier to see what I'm doing, replace that with barriers.) Place one block above on either side. Then just follow the picture, doing a staircase pattern, until you hit the bottom. Raise the walls and put the water and lava in, and replace with barriers if you used blocks. Should work.
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I can picture it in my head, I'm just not sure how to do it.
See, I want to make a huge glass column, with a pillar of glowstone at the center, and a flow of lava and water corkscrewing around the middle, kinda like DNA.
I know the top, where the source blocks are, will kinda look like this (middle row is the source blocks and glowstone, lava and water are flowing clockwise):
My problem is, I'm uncertain how to arrange the glass layers under the top layer so it will spiral properly without either flow touching... I might need to make it bigger, I'm not sure yet - geometry is not my forte.
I found a picture of one if it helps you any. I think your's is too small to work. (Someone feel free to prove me wrong on that)
Who am I? An outside the box thinking person with a passion for creating custom maps.
Oh wow! Yes, that's exactly the sort of thing I wanna do! Where did you find that? Do they have instructions?
Unfortunately I found no instructions, I'm sure you could ask the guy who made it though.
Website: http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/spiral-tower-of-lava-and-water/
Who am I? An outside the box thinking person with a passion for creating custom maps.
Use barriers, not glass. They're invisible. /give @p barrier
Tempting, but I like the way the glass looks, especially with the connected-textures thing active.
What I mean is to make it corkscrew. Put barriers below the liquid to make it twist like that. xD
To begin place a barrier all the way down the middle the height you want it to be, minus one (so if it's 10 blocks tall, place 9). Lay your base for reference (don't make the full glass tower, it gets in the way).
(I'm using glowstone/sea lanterns for reference now so it's easier to see what I'm doing, replace that with barriers.) Place one block above on either side. Then just follow the picture, doing a staircase pattern, until you hit the bottom. Raise the walls and put the water and lava in, and replace with barriers if you used blocks. Should work.
To sort of create spiral where the liquids seem to be floating... I always kind of wanted to find out how to do this...