Elevator stops are for pansies. A paternoster is an elevator with cars constantly moving in a loop. Real paternosters don't move this fast though! This one has to pause at the top and bottom to give you time to get on. 2 ticks per level for 5m/s vertical movement speed.
Can be scaled to any height, although this design isn't very refined and I wouldn't recommend building one. It's ugly, loud, buggy, laggy, and bloody enormous!
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Can you turn it on and off without breaking it? That would cut down on the loud and laggy at least.
It does have an off switch, but the stone blocks have to be removed before it stops else they bunch up and punch holes in things, so turning it on and off is a bit of pain.
Do you think there can ever be a "practical" application for any of these elevator designs?
IMO.. by the time you've designed it, gathered all the resources to build it, built it.. rebuilt it 'cos you messed up.. tweaked about with it till it's just the way you want it...
You might as well have punched a couple of trees, built 64 ladders and used them several hundred times.
For my money, they're all just for "Show off" value and the intellectual challenge ... nothing "practical"..
but that's why we build them... right? :wink.gif:
Does this still work in 1.7.3? I'm trying to build such an elevator but it doesn't work and 1.7.3 made it even worse.
1.7.3 doesn't seem to have affected it in any way.
I've managed come up with a much neater and more compact design (11x7) however it still suffers from the same reliability problem that the original design had: the ascending side jams occasionally requiring replacement of the pistons. As far as I can tell it's caused by the "feature" that allows pistons to receive power from a block adjacent to the block above the piston; so long as that feature remains in place I don't think this can ever work reliably at full speed.
Why not use sand/gravel when going down, and just use a simple water cushion to go down elevator-wise? Then you only have it go up then get pulled to a pit, and besides, people need that shower of water, people in minecraft usually go for months without showering.
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Can be scaled to any height, although this design isn't very refined and I wouldn't recommend building one. It's ugly, loud, buggy, laggy, and bloody enormous!
Edit: Schematic for improved version (cleaner and smaller but still buggy): http://www.mediafire.com/?xtdh5jrsg1knzbi
It does have an off switch, but the stone blocks have to be removed before it stops else they bunch up and punch holes in things, so turning it on and off is a bit of pain.
Right! :smile.gif: Ladders are boring.
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It is not hard to think about it. But building it must be very difficult.
1.7.3 doesn't seem to have affected it in any way.
I've managed come up with a much neater and more compact design (11x7) however it still suffers from the same reliability problem that the original design had: the ascending side jams occasionally requiring replacement of the pistons. As far as I can tell it's caused by the "feature" that allows pistons to receive power from a block adjacent to the block above the piston; so long as that feature remains in place I don't think this can ever work reliably at full speed.
Schematic for the updated version: http://www.mediafire.com/?xtdh5jrsg1knzbi
Edit: Oh nice a schematic
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