I come from a small town and am currently taking highschool.
I play minecraft in my free time, and I notice a lot of plugins and mods to do things in minecraft like dig big holes, transport things, and ect.
My goal is to prove these things for sh*t. To an extent. I do like these mods, don't get me wrong.
I want to create machines with redstone that can do these things that the mods can do, and show everyone that you don't need industrial craft and buildcraft to get things done. I want to do it simply, so others can build these inventions as well, and prove to people all you really need is a few stacks of redstone dust to do fantastic feats.
For my fellow engineers, you can use this thread to post your own inventions, or ask for help with them. As for everyone, I DARE you. I dare you to dare me. Tell me to make a machine that fits a specific purpose (within reason, I can't make a machine that makes an iron ore into iron dust....) and I'll do it!
The machine pictures, tutorials, and descriptions will be posted here: (Updated! 8/27/12)
Note: Leaving these machines on, especially if they use an engine that sends looped signals, may cause bugs or cease to work if you leave the game or unload the chunk in game. Use these machines at your own discretion.
Looping Redstone Engine
This redstone engine is easy to make and can be resized for particular machines. You will need atleast 4 redstone and as many repeaters as you want, depending on how slow you want the signal to be.
First, place redstone on the corners of the area you want the engine to be. Then, place repeaters between the gaps and connect the corners. Make sure the repeaters you place can accept the signal from behind. You can see this by looking at a darkened arrow on the repeater's texture. The arrow points to where the signal is going. Place a lever next to one of the corners after adjusting the timing on the repeaters to your liking.
Now, simply flick the lever on, then quickly off. This will send a redstone signal down the engine, which will take time to pass through the repeaters, then loop back around. The signal will keep looping even if you start a new redstone line off of the corners.
This engine is also good for sending as an emergency for others to see, as it flashes on and off.
Cobblestone Generator
What you will need:
-atleast 4 redstone repeaters
-approximately 1 stack of redstone
-a bucket of lava
-a bucket of water
-one NON-sticky piston
-a few stacks of building supplies (dirt, wood, cobble, iron blocks, ect)
-atleast 1 block of obsidian
-atleast 1 lever
This is an advanced cobblestone generator:
To make it, first start by building a space of 3x3x1 on the ground. Place redstone around the corners of the shape, and place redstone repeaters in the middle of all the sides on the square. Make sure the receiving ends of the repeaters match up.
Set all the repeaters to the third setting for this particular engine. You will see why you need to do this later on in the tutorial.
Now, make a 6x3x3 block off of the pre-existing 3x3x1 space. Near the corner of the 6x3x3 block you made, demolish 1 block on its corner that is near the 3x3x1 space, and place redstone on top of the space you made from the demolished block, and the next one on top.
Now, match the picture and create the depression in the middle of the 6x3x3 block.
Ok, the next step is to put water by the part of the depression that is 2 blocks deep. The lava should go on the other side, and cobblestone should form one block in front of the lava source. Demolish the 2 blocks on the sides of the newly formed cobblestone block as shown in the picture, then replace the block you demolished nearest to the redstone with a piston with the extending end facing the cobblestone. If you noticed, the repeaters from the redstone engine slow down the signal passing through so the piston won't try to push the cobblestone block before it has formed.
An overhead view:
Now, make a platform one level below with the cobblestone. Extend it as far as you want. If the platform is less than 13 blocks long, you will need to place an obsidian block lined up with the cobblestone.
Now place a lever near the redstone engine that you first created, so you can activate the engine. You can do this by running redstone to the lever and putting it on that level, or placing the lever on the wall where there is redstone dust on the same block level.
Congradulations! Now, just flip on the switch, then flip it off quickly, and watch as your cobblestone automatically forms! It will no longer fall in lava! You can also seal or beautify your generator to make it more of a building, and make it look something like this:
It is possible to make an off switch simply by using a piston to block the redstone current when it travels to an upper level without taking off the redstone from the block. You then just connect the piston to a lever, and turn it on, which will stop cobblestone production, but keep the initial engine running. You may want to add a maintenance route into the engine room.
3-Way Door Switch
A 3 way door switch is fairly easy to make. You can do this most likely by following the picture, but I will provide outlined steps as well.
First, you need to build a workspace of 9x9x1, at a bare MINIMUM. Place an iron door on a block 2 levels above this workspace, floating.
Place a block next to the door, but this time 1 block above the workspace, so 1 block level below the floating block with the door.
Now, on two parallel and opposite sides of the workspace place a single block in the middle, so the block should be on the edge of the workspace and have 4 blocks extending from either side of it. Place a redstone torch on both of those blocks, on the side facing the inside of the workspace, toward the door.
Connect these by running redstone all the way around on the edges, except on top of the blocks with the torches.
You now need to connect a redstone line to the block with the redstone torch that is next to the door, and must do it separately. Run the wire that is nearest to the block to its back, then take the other line, and run it into the side of the block. Make sure you place a block 1 level above the workplace where the redstone line would otherwise hit one of the torches that you have on a block on the edge of the workplace, and run the redstone line above it, making sure it doesn't get activated in the process.
Next, all you need to do is place levers so that when you press them they will activate 1 redstone line.
Now, make the redstone hidden from view. Make the door have a doorway and incorperate a room into the design. Enjoy your new prison/stronghold/house!
Note: Be careful when using this method of making a 3-way switch. The door can only be used a certain way. For an example: if you enter with the switch, you can close the door with the switch inside. You must then use that switch inside to open the door, and the switch outside will not activate it until the inside switch is pulled again. This can be used as a good locking mechanism for bases, but must be used with caution if you live with others that like to enter and leave freely, as you could get locked in yourself.
Request: Quarry (Simple)
You will need:
-some kind of switch
-some building materials
-TnT
The quarry in minecraft is actually a very simple thing to make. All you need is a lever and some TnT. Basically, all you need to do is build an elevated platform above where you want to dig. Then, place 1 block off the platform, and put a lever on it.
Put TnT in the wedge and flip the switch.
Watch for water hazards, as they severely reduce explosive damage.
Do this about..... 20 times. Then you have a reasonable sized quarry.
NOTICE: I will not make an advanced quarry tutorial. Why? Because any way you look at it, you HAVE to put the TnT somewhere, so even if I made a loading mechanism, it's completely pointless, and inefficient. This is the best method to make a quarry.
meta's Mega Auto-Builder
So I think it's time I start naming my machines. This one is called meta's Mega Auto-Builder. Want to know what it does? You guessed it! It automatically repairs itself as a tower. Best part is it's compact, efficient, and doesn't use much resources compared to what it puts out!
Finally tutorial! Here goes: Start by making a 13x13 flat area underground. Plan this so that when the house comes up 14 blocks above this level, you will have the height you desire. Next, placea 2 block high wall on top of the pre-existing edges of the workspace, and construct a 5x5x1 area in the middle.
Great. Now, place pistons on the edges of the 5x5x1 area in the middle.
The next step is placing water on the highest blocks on the 2 block-high wall you made on the edges, making sure the water flows downward and doesn't make it onto the pistons. Note: if there is only 1 block between the pistons and the wall, increase the workspace area by 1 block on all sides and move the wall one block-length back.
Now, put lava all on the blocks behind the pistons toward the middle, excluding the 3x3 area in the very middle, which you can make a platform to cover if you wish, as shown here:
Next, line up the blocks with the pistons on them to just outside of the workplace. Dig a 3x5x3 hole on every side like here:
Connect the 4 tunnels underground. You will probably need a light source to do so.
Now you need to activate the pistons initially, so you need to place redstone torches below them. To do this, make a wall extending from one end to the other, having the redstone torches facing the middle. Place blocks in a row 1 block away from the edge of the opening to the area were all the halls connect, and place redstone torches, again, toward the center.
After that, place a single block under the torches, leaving a space below the block with the torches and above the blocks you just placed. Place these blocks as the second ones from the edges, leaving the sides of the hall, and the middle open (this is easier to see in the picture). Then put a column of 2 blocks one block behind the row with redstone torches facing the middle- I know this is getting confusing, so here's the picture:
Place torches on the blocks like so:
For the near last step, the best way to explain this is to show you the picture. The elevated redstone line should lead to the columns. Set all the repeaters to the 3rd setting.
Now, just connect the redstone lines and run them around, connecting them with the others:
Place a lever down, flick it, then watch as your tower builds itself!
If you want an off-switch, place a stick piston to push a block near an area where the redstone descends or ascends, blocking off the signal, like so:
Glad to hear from a buildcraft and industrialcraft user! I hope you'll give me some critique.
@QuadrMan1
An automatic building iS pretty simple except for the roof. It becomes more of a self-repairing house. The roof with definitely be the challenge. If i have time it should be in by the end of the week.
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An automatic building iS pretty simple
*snip*
You haven't seen sh**. No offence, but I had to use a stronger word than "anything yet".
Here's the thread with a PROPER automatic building: http://www.minecraft...ilding-house-2/
About transport, piston trains seem to do the job.
I've made a lighthouse with somewhere between 2 and 3 stacks of redstone.
(imgur is down, I'll post it later)
Avid redstone engineer, mostly with pistons. Latest thread: Piston Trains Revived If you find my post useful, click the +1 button! It shows other people that the post may be useful to them. Of course, it's completely optional. *cocks gun*
I can make a self building house very simply. If you want one that can retract, then it becomes about 10x more difficult, and goes into things I've never done before. I'll have to make due, though.
@118Andrew
A quarry you say? That can be easily done, as long as you supply the TnT. You could make amazing things if there was some sort of out-of-crafting table crafting, especially things like this.
I've been working on the repairing house for HOURS now... and I've actually made an innovation that I think is completely new! Atleast the design will be. It's not finished yet, though. I'm ironing out the bugs.
I agree, it's so much better to make things without mods, because that actually requires skill. There are a lot of people who just go like: Dude, your (insert complex redstone machine here) sucks, I can make one which is so much better (shows a mod which does it)
I have a build for you: an automatic wheat farm. not any of that push a button and then you get the wheat, i mean it will harvest the crops itself, no human interaction needed.
and if not, an automatic sugar cane farm. (which i am currently working on.)
Challenge accepted. Sorry if it takes long, I'm juggling honors classes, plus 2 other threads that I put updates on.
@General Public
I haven't abandoned the thread! I've been trying to get the tutorial in all weekend, but haven't had the time, as it's a big freaking machine. Anyway, I'll try my hardest to get it in tomorrow.
Looking at the thread, I still don't understand. You need to try to explain instead of just trying to use pictures. In my tutorials, the pictures either support the steps or the steps are so confusing a picture helps reinforce what I'm talking about. You need to do one of these. Talk about the picture, or talk about the farm and have the pictures help.
I come from a small town and am currently taking highschool.
I play minecraft in my free time, and I notice a lot of plugins and mods to do things in minecraft like dig big holes, transport things, and ect.
My goal is to prove these things for sh*t. To an extent. I do like these mods, don't get me wrong.
I want to create machines with redstone that can do these things that the mods can do, and show everyone that you don't need industrial craft and buildcraft to get things done. I want to do it simply, so others can build these inventions as well, and prove to people all you really need is a few stacks of redstone dust to do fantastic feats.
For my fellow engineers, you can use this thread to post your own inventions, or ask for help with them. As for everyone, I DARE you. I dare you to dare me. Tell me to make a machine that fits a specific purpose (within reason, I can't make a machine that makes an iron ore into iron dust....) and I'll do it!
The machine pictures, tutorials, and descriptions will be posted here: (Updated! 8/27/12)
Note: Leaving these machines on, especially if they use an engine that sends looped signals, may cause bugs or cease to work if you leave the game or unload the chunk in game. Use these machines at your own discretion.
Looping Redstone Engine
This redstone engine is easy to make and can be resized for particular machines. You will need atleast 4 redstone and as many repeaters as you want, depending on how slow you want the signal to be.
First, place redstone on the corners of the area you want the engine to be. Then, place repeaters between the gaps and connect the corners. Make sure the repeaters you place can accept the signal from behind. You can see this by looking at a darkened arrow on the repeater's texture. The arrow points to where the signal is going. Place a lever next to one of the corners after adjusting the timing on the repeaters to your liking.
Now, simply flick the lever on, then quickly off. This will send a redstone signal down the engine, which will take time to pass through the repeaters, then loop back around. The signal will keep looping even if you start a new redstone line off of the corners.
This engine is also good for sending as an emergency for others to see, as it flashes on and off.
Cobblestone Generator
What you will need:
-atleast 4 redstone repeaters
-approximately 1 stack of redstone
-a bucket of lava
-a bucket of water
-one NON-sticky piston
-a few stacks of building supplies (dirt, wood, cobble, iron blocks, ect)
-atleast 1 block of obsidian
-atleast 1 lever
This is an advanced cobblestone generator:
To make it, first start by building a space of 3x3x1 on the ground. Place redstone around the corners of the shape, and place redstone repeaters in the middle of all the sides on the square. Make sure the receiving ends of the repeaters match up.
Set all the repeaters to the third setting for this particular engine. You will see why you need to do this later on in the tutorial.
Now, make a 6x3x3 block off of the pre-existing 3x3x1 space. Near the corner of the 6x3x3 block you made, demolish 1 block on its corner that is near the 3x3x1 space, and place redstone on top of the space you made from the demolished block, and the next one on top.
Now, match the picture and create the depression in the middle of the 6x3x3 block.
Ok, the next step is to put water by the part of the depression that is 2 blocks deep. The lava should go on the other side, and cobblestone should form one block in front of the lava source. Demolish the 2 blocks on the sides of the newly formed cobblestone block as shown in the picture, then replace the block you demolished nearest to the redstone with a piston with the extending end facing the cobblestone. If you noticed, the repeaters from the redstone engine slow down the signal passing through so the piston won't try to push the cobblestone block before it has formed.
An overhead view:
Now, make a platform one level below with the cobblestone. Extend it as far as you want. If the platform is less than 13 blocks long, you will need to place an obsidian block lined up with the cobblestone.
Now place a lever near the redstone engine that you first created, so you can activate the engine. You can do this by running redstone to the lever and putting it on that level, or placing the lever on the wall where there is redstone dust on the same block level.
Congradulations! Now, just flip on the switch, then flip it off quickly, and watch as your cobblestone automatically forms! It will no longer fall in lava! You can also seal or beautify your generator to make it more of a building, and make it look something like this:
It is possible to make an off switch simply by using a piston to block the redstone current when it travels to an upper level without taking off the redstone from the block. You then just connect the piston to a lever, and turn it on, which will stop cobblestone production, but keep the initial engine running. You may want to add a maintenance route into the engine room.
3-Way Door Switch
A 3 way door switch is fairly easy to make. You can do this most likely by following the picture, but I will provide outlined steps as well.
First, you need to build a workspace of 9x9x1, at a bare MINIMUM. Place an iron door on a block 2 levels above this workspace, floating.
Place a block next to the door, but this time 1 block above the workspace, so 1 block level below the floating block with the door.
Now, on two parallel and opposite sides of the workspace place a single block in the middle, so the block should be on the edge of the workspace and have 4 blocks extending from either side of it. Place a redstone torch on both of those blocks, on the side facing the inside of the workspace, toward the door.
Connect these by running redstone all the way around on the edges, except on top of the blocks with the torches.
You now need to connect a redstone line to the block with the redstone torch that is next to the door, and must do it separately. Run the wire that is nearest to the block to its back, then take the other line, and run it into the side of the block. Make sure you place a block 1 level above the workplace where the redstone line would otherwise hit one of the torches that you have on a block on the edge of the workplace, and run the redstone line above it, making sure it doesn't get activated in the process.
Next, all you need to do is place levers so that when you press them they will activate 1 redstone line.
Now, make the redstone hidden from view. Make the door have a doorway and incorperate a room into the design. Enjoy your new prison/stronghold/house!
Note: Be careful when using this method of making a 3-way switch. The door can only be used a certain way. For an example: if you enter with the switch, you can close the door with the switch inside. You must then use that switch inside to open the door, and the switch outside will not activate it until the inside switch is pulled again. This can be used as a good locking mechanism for bases, but must be used with caution if you live with others that like to enter and leave freely, as you could get locked in yourself.
Request: Quarry (Simple)
You will need:
-some kind of switch
-some building materials
-TnT
The quarry in minecraft is actually a very simple thing to make. All you need is a lever and some TnT. Basically, all you need to do is build an elevated platform above where you want to dig. Then, place 1 block off the platform, and put a lever on it.
Put TnT in the wedge and flip the switch.
Watch for water hazards, as they severely reduce explosive damage.
Do this about..... 20 times. Then you have a reasonable sized quarry.
NOTICE: I will not make an advanced quarry tutorial. Why? Because any way you look at it, you HAVE to put the TnT somewhere, so even if I made a loading mechanism, it's completely pointless, and inefficient. This is the best method to make a quarry.
meta's Mega Auto-Builder
So I think it's time I start naming my machines. This one is called meta's Mega Auto-Builder. Want to know what it does? You guessed it! It automatically repairs itself as a tower. Best part is it's compact, efficient, and doesn't use much resources compared to what it puts out!
Finally tutorial! Here goes: Start by making a 13x13 flat area underground. Plan this so that when the house comes up 14 blocks above this level, you will have the height you desire. Next, placea 2 block high wall on top of the pre-existing edges of the workspace, and construct a 5x5x1 area in the middle.
Great. Now, place pistons on the edges of the 5x5x1 area in the middle.
The next step is placing water on the highest blocks on the 2 block-high wall you made on the edges, making sure the water flows downward and doesn't make it onto the pistons. Note: if there is only 1 block between the pistons and the wall, increase the workspace area by 1 block on all sides and move the wall one block-length back.
Now, put lava all on the blocks behind the pistons toward the middle, excluding the 3x3 area in the very middle, which you can make a platform to cover if you wish, as shown here:
Next, line up the blocks with the pistons on them to just outside of the workplace. Dig a 3x5x3 hole on every side like here:
Connect the 4 tunnels underground. You will probably need a light source to do so.
Now you need to activate the pistons initially, so you need to place redstone torches below them. To do this, make a wall extending from one end to the other, having the redstone torches facing the middle. Place blocks in a row 1 block away from the edge of the opening to the area were all the halls connect, and place redstone torches, again, toward the center.
After that, place a single block under the torches, leaving a space below the block with the torches and above the blocks you just placed. Place these blocks as the second ones from the edges, leaving the sides of the hall, and the middle open (this is easier to see in the picture). Then put a column of 2 blocks one block behind the row with redstone torches facing the middle- I know this is getting confusing, so here's the picture:
Place torches on the blocks like so:
For the near last step, the best way to explain this is to show you the picture. The elevated redstone line should lead to the columns. Set all the repeaters to the 3rd setting.
Now, just connect the redstone lines and run them around, connecting them with the others:
Place a lever down, flick it, then watch as your tower builds itself!
If you want an off-switch, place a stick piston to push a block near an area where the redstone descends or ascends, blocking off the signal, like so:
Glad to hear from a buildcraft and industrialcraft user! I hope you'll give me some critique.
@QuadrMan1
An automatic building iS pretty simple except for the roof. It becomes more of a self-repairing house. The roof with definitely be the challenge. If i have time it should be in by the end of the week.
Challenge accepted.
You haven't seen sh**. No offence, but I had to use a stronger word than "anything yet".
Here's the thread with a PROPER automatic building:
http://www.minecraft...ilding-house-2/
About transport, piston trains seem to do the job.
I've made a lighthouse with somewhere between 2 and 3 stacks of redstone.
(imgur is down, I'll post it later)
If you find my post useful, click the +1 button! It shows other people that the post may be useful to them. Of course, it's completely optional. *cocks gun*
I can make a self building house very simply. If you want one that can retract, then it becomes about 10x more difficult, and goes into things I've never done before. I'll have to make due, though.
@118Andrew
A quarry you say? That can be easily done, as long as you supply the TnT. You could make amazing things if there was some sort of out-of-crafting table crafting, especially things like this.
I will make the OP with no color.
Looked at the piston train video. That is an amazing invention!
@General News
The OP has been updated! There are 2 new machines, and 1 new switch! Still working on your requests.
It automatically recycles excess sand, and can hold twenty-something TnT
and if not, an automatic sugar cane farm. (which i am currently working on.)
Thanks for the post!
@Trace1998
Challenge accepted. Sorry if it takes long, I'm juggling honors classes, plus 2 other threads that I put updates on.
@General Public
I haven't abandoned the thread! I've been trying to get the tutorial in all weekend, but haven't had the time, as it's a big freaking machine. Anyway, I'll try my hardest to get it in tomorrow.
Uses buds to detect when wheat is grown, see my post here for how its done:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1388652-intelligent-wheatfarm-prototype/page__gopid__16905896#entry16905896
Looking at the thread, I still don't understand. You need to try to explain instead of just trying to use pictures. In my tutorials, the pictures either support the steps or the steps are so confusing a picture helps reinforce what I'm talking about. You need to do one of these. Talk about the picture, or talk about the farm and have the pictures help.
@General Public
If any of you guys play DayZ, I have a log going on the forums, so that may keep you busy for a while. It's the second installment, so make sure you follow the link on the thread and read the first one! http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/86006-the-logbook-2-blogguide/