After transporting my accumulated wealth of 3 chests full of stone from my mine up to my home, I realized that my row of chests near the bottom of my mine is almost exactly beneath my other chests, since my stairways pattern out into a rough spiral. At this point I realized that it would be very useful to have a ladder going directly up. So I built one... From the bottom of the map up to the ground floor. Suffice to say, it takes a long time to climb that ladder.
At this point, I thought "Wouldn't it be cool if minecarts went vertical? After all, a ladder is structured similarly". Then I realized how stupid that would be. Then I realized it was actually not that stupid at all, but my mental image of a minecart made lots more sense if the minecart is replaced with a tiny elevator... like a dumbwaiter.
Which brings me back to the title. I want a new entity that can ride up ladders, powered like a powered minecart, and that can push another cart up the ladder. The other cart would be either a occupiable box, or a storage box. These would be crafted the same way as minecarts, only instead of a box opening upwards in the grid, it would open to the left or right, like so:
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After this the dumbwaiter would be placed anywhere on a ladder. If right-clicked, the player enters the dumbwaiter, as they would a minecart, and can press up or down to move the dumbwaiter up or down, respectively.
Also works equievelently for a Storage or Powered dumbwaiter.
A normal dumbwaiter WOULD be just one object. A storage dumbwaiter would be made like a storage minecart, and a powered dumbwaiter would be made like a powered minecart. It's a more consistent way of doing this.
If its not powered, how will it move? I mean, pushing the thing up the ladder isn't going to be any faster than just shlepping everything up yourself. And I don't think they should use ladders. Maybe a special track that will carry a minecart up if it gets bumped with no redstone current, and down if it's getting current.
I ment that you just have one object. It is both storage and powered. You input coal right click. The dumbwaiter goes up. It stops at the top, or at a different story. You right click, it goes up again.
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At this point, I thought "Wouldn't it be cool if minecarts went vertical? After all, a ladder is structured similarly". Then I realized how stupid that would be. Then I realized it was actually not that stupid at all, but my mental image of a minecart made lots more sense if the minecart is replaced with a tiny elevator... like a dumbwaiter.
Which brings me back to the title. I want a new entity that can ride up ladders, powered like a powered minecart, and that can push another cart up the ladder. The other cart would be either a occupiable box, or a storage box. These would be crafted the same way as minecarts, only instead of a box opening upwards in the grid, it would open to the left or right, like so:
[] []
After this the dumbwaiter would be placed anywhere on a ladder. If right-clicked, the player enters the dumbwaiter, as they would a minecart, and can press up or down to move the dumbwaiter up or down, respectively.
Also works equievelently for a Storage or Powered dumbwaiter.
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