There is a door I want to build. however, I lack the skills to make said door. It will be a 30 block tall, 10 block wide door with the top shaped as 1 block tall steps (this being a double door looking thing it would be 30 blocks tall, 5 blocks wide, doors facing each other) It will contine until door reaches its width, and then will plunge straight down. It will be made entirley out of diamond blocks. T
he door must open sideways and not upwards. You have unlimited backward room, but as this door will be at the beginning of what I assume will be a LONG corridor hiding the redstone, but almost no forward room. side to side room will be 495 blocks on each side of the door (it will be perfect center of my castle wall).
I present to you masters perhaps the greatest of the challenges you have yet faced. I wish you all luck, and may your skill shine as never before.
If there is a hinges mod, you are permitted to use it lol. However, the hinges must be invisible.
I currently have not started this project (and won't until the XBOX version comes out on May 8th) so you must use your own seed worlds. Video tutorials will be necessary.
How would you get it to close sideways? There's no way to extend a pistons from one side to another ( a 10x piston extender) then do it again somehow so you have an open door. You can't grab 5 blocks at once to be pulled back, and you can't push your gate 10 blocks into the wall then only push the other five out as that's already 20 blocks. Honestly it's not possible in my eyes, I highly recommend just making some sort of piston portcullis. Isn't that what castles have anyway?
and whats the point of having mods when its redstone?
I personally think the challenge is entirely impossible. I see pople oooing and ahhhiiing over 10x10 doors. I only posted it because I figured giving you guys an amazing puzzle to solve, or to disprove a dream of mine. Anyways, I hold the redstone geniuses to high standard, and assume they would revert to the mod only after all of their attepts have failed.
How would you get it to close sideways? There's no way to extend a pistons from one side to another ( a 10x piston extender) then do it again somehow so you have an open door. You can't grab 5 blocks at once to be pulled back, and you can't push your gate 10 blocks into the wall then only push the other five out as that's already 20 blocks. Honestly it's not possible in my eyes, I highly recommend just making some sort of piston portcullis. Isn't that what castles have anyway?
Most castles have both.... They have a door on the inside of a portcullis because the portcullis is to protect the door from battering rams. anyways, you could always just pull the doors sideways one block at a time using some sort of massive sticky piston machine. Move the blocks off the sticky pistons somehow, and then pull a repeating cycle until the door is entirely open. I just can't wire something like that though, which is why I am here. I intend to get the XBOX version, but I'll be adding the door in last, and fully expect pistons to have been added by that point.
Opening it sideways is (as far as I can tell) impossible without mods. There's no way to power the pistons to get rid of the centre blocks. In fact, opening it any way other than a TNT cannon seems impossible without mods
Opening it sideways is (as far as I can tell) impossible without mods. There's no way to power the pistons to get rid of the centre blocks. In fact, opening it any way other than a TNT cannon seems impossible without mods
This...makes me sad. I had really wanted a properly (as much as minecraft can ever be) opening door, and not some top/down system. 1st dream cruhed. Lets see if we can still make the second happen though, which is havinga functioning 30x10 door.
This...makes me sad. I had really wanted a properly (as much as minecraft can ever be) opening door, and not some top/down system. 1st dream cruhed. Lets see if we can still make the second happen though, which is havinga functioning 30x10 door.
look up headshot zealot! He was working on a 100high by 10 wide door, I believe. If you pester him he might start working on it again
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I now conclude that the door is an impossible task without hinges. I'll have to use a less grand doorand just make it look big. Thanks for all your opinions guys.
What you'd do is use a sand belt. Sand blocks would push the diamond blocks sideways, effectively replacing your diamond door with a sand door. Then pistons in the floor would temporarily withdraw, letting the sand drop down and opening the entryway. Then you'd use more sand to push the diamond blocks back into place later, when its time to close the door.
It's more work, but you can design a system that collects and reuses the sand after its dropped down. Or just have a big hopper of sand and refill it occasionally, letting the sand that falls get broken on torches/slabs.
Challenge?
Looks like a "I challenge you to take out the trash" thing
What you'd do is use a sand belt. Sand blocks would push the diamond blocks sideways, effectively replacing your diamond door with a sand door. Then pistons in the floor would temporarily withdraw, letting the sand drop down and opening the entryway. Then you'd use more sand to push the diamond blocks back into place later, when its time to close the door
Ehm... that's so... ugly.
Make you look like a ten year old...
Just sayin'...
It purely for the aesthetic look actually. there is nothing more solid than a 30x10 door of diamond guarding an Obsidian castle. If it looks ugly with my texture pack though, I'd probably just make the door Obsidian too.
One way sand belt is easy, even for 30x10 gate. But, how to give backs diamonds back to gate and sand to place, where pistons will push it again?
You have pistons create a gap in the floor beneath the gate, so the sand gate falls down. Then it enters an underground piston conveyor system that stacks it back up to push the door again in the future.
As for pushing the diamond blocks back, that's simple at least in theory. You have a system designed to accept diamond blocks and move them out of the way, then stack them back up ready to be pushed out again.
For simplicity, the gate closing system can avoid using any moving blocks other than diamond blocks. You can have more diamond blocks than necessary to make the gate, and use a diamond block conveyor belt. Basically, the diamond blocks to be used in the next closed gate can shove the diamond blocks for the current closed gate into place. That's easier because when the gate opens, the currently used diamond travel in a loop and just go to the back of the line.
If you want to conserve diamonds, you can make a system that uses any other moveable block to shove the diamonds forward. Then the diamonds would shove those blocks back. That's a bit more complex because you need a piston conveyor system that works both ways. It's not that much harder probably though.
Lol. I don't know why i made this. I think i just wanted to test myself in making next useless mechanism =(
Only thing you must do is to refill sand storage with 330 sand =D.
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Very impressive!
I'm sure there's a way of collecting the sand that falls, transporting it to the top of the mechanism, and reloading for the next use. But it would no doubt be a nightmare to build.
he door must open sideways and not upwards. You have unlimited backward room, but as this door will be at the beginning of what I assume will be a LONG corridor hiding the redstone, but almost no forward room. side to side room will be 495 blocks on each side of the door (it will be perfect center of my castle wall).
I present to you masters perhaps the greatest of the challenges you have yet faced. I wish you all luck, and may your skill shine as never before.
If there is a hinges mod, you are permitted to use it lol. However, the hinges must be invisible.
I currently have not started this project (and won't until the XBOX version comes out on May 8th) so you must use your own seed worlds. Video tutorials will be necessary.
and whats the point of having mods when its redstone?
and whats the point of this?
I personally think the challenge is entirely impossible. I see pople oooing and ahhhiiing over 10x10 doors. I only posted it because I figured giving you guys an amazing puzzle to solve, or to disprove a dream of mine. Anyways, I hold the redstone geniuses to high standard, and assume they would revert to the mod only after all of their attepts have failed.
Most castles have both.... They have a door on the inside of a portcullis because the portcullis is to protect the door from battering rams. anyways, you could always just pull the doors sideways one block at a time using some sort of massive sticky piston machine. Move the blocks off the sticky pistons somehow, and then pull a repeating cycle until the door is entirely open. I just can't wire something like that though, which is why I am here. I intend to get the XBOX version, but I'll be adding the door in last, and fully expect pistons to have been added by that point.
This...makes me sad. I had really wanted a properly (as much as minecraft can ever be) opening door, and not some top/down system. 1st dream cruhed. Lets see if we can still make the second happen though, which is havinga functioning 30x10 door.
What you'd do is use a sand belt. Sand blocks would push the diamond blocks sideways, effectively replacing your diamond door with a sand door. Then pistons in the floor would temporarily withdraw, letting the sand drop down and opening the entryway. Then you'd use more sand to push the diamond blocks back into place later, when its time to close the door.
It's more work, but you can design a system that collects and reuses the sand after its dropped down. Or just have a big hopper of sand and refill it occasionally, letting the sand that falls get broken on torches/slabs.
Looks like a "I challenge you to take out the trash" thing
I was going to say that. Awesome design IMO
It purely for the aesthetic look actually. there is nothing more solid than a 30x10 door of diamond guarding an Obsidian castle. If it looks ugly with my texture pack though, I'd probably just make the door Obsidian too.
So what? The gate is made of diamonds
You have pistons create a gap in the floor beneath the gate, so the sand gate falls down. Then it enters an underground piston conveyor system that stacks it back up to push the door again in the future.
As for pushing the diamond blocks back, that's simple at least in theory. You have a system designed to accept diamond blocks and move them out of the way, then stack them back up ready to be pushed out again.
For simplicity, the gate closing system can avoid using any moving blocks other than diamond blocks. You can have more diamond blocks than necessary to make the gate, and use a diamond block conveyor belt. Basically, the diamond blocks to be used in the next closed gate can shove the diamond blocks for the current closed gate into place. That's easier because when the gate opens, the currently used diamond travel in a loop and just go to the back of the line.
If you want to conserve diamonds, you can make a system that uses any other moveable block to shove the diamonds forward. Then the diamonds would shove those blocks back. That's a bit more complex because you need a piston conveyor system that works both ways. It's not that much harder probably though.
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id like to see it when(or if) it gets done.
Use the reloading mechanism from this video, plus another set of pistons to go in reverse:
Problem solved.
Very impressive!
I'm sure there's a way of collecting the sand that falls, transporting it to the top of the mechanism, and reloading for the next use. But it would no doubt be a nightmare to build.