So I have been trying to make a water elevator to a rather high up "Cloud City" i am building and I have been having a terrible time of getting it to work. So this led to me a couple questions
1. Do they still work?
2. Is there a particular height that they can reach or can they rise to any height.
3. If they don't work anymore...whats a good alternative?
Thanks in advance
(P.S. Not sure if this was the right forum to post in, haven't been around for too long on this forum.)
If we are thinking of the same thing, a water block placed at the top and flowing down, yeah they still work, it will just take longer now than it did before. Like the other guy said the water was patched a little bit.
Water, being a block, you can place it till you reach the height limit
You could always have a ladder going up, fairly easy and you can go up and down pretty fast.
You can check Ethoslabs on youtube for a good piston elevator. not very expensive and only require a 4x4 footprint.
only requires a stair, piston, repeater, redstone and various block per level.
You can check Ethoslabs on youtube for a good piston elevator. not very expensive and only require a 4x4 footprint.
only requires a stair, piston, repeater, redstone and various block per level.
Water ladders no longer work at all, but traditional boat elevators can be modified to work in 1.7.3. The new boat behavior only allows boats to float upwards in a column of water if the entire column is composed of source blocks or if there are no solid blocks directly adjacent to the column.
It is also possible to create boat elevators using discrete pockets of water contained with signs ala Docm77's elevator and another multi-floor design I saw on the forums. Some searches should yield some pretty clever designs.
@radioactiveafro, @_nightfuryxz_ : Thanks much for this tutorial. I think this will work out well for cloud city's elevator. Its small and I think it will do us just fine.
@radioactiveafro, @_nightfuryxz_ : Thanks much for this tutorial. I think this will work out well for cloud city's elevator. Its small and I think it will do us just fine.
"Us"? Uh, Etho's piston elevator doesn't really work on multiplayer.
ehm, if you want a piston elevator to be higher than 3 pistons you need a big redstone circuit. And the more pistons you add, the amount of redstone increases VERY much.
I know of three piston elevator designs that are not like this. They only have O(n) redstone use. So the redstone use per block of elevation is the same (plus some overhead for controls).
1. Do they still work?
2. Is there a particular height that they can reach or can they rise to any height.
3. If they don't work anymore...whats a good alternative?
Thanks in advance
(P.S. Not sure if this was the right forum to post in, haven't been around for too long on this forum.)
Water, being a block, you can place it till you reach the height limit
You could always have a ladder going up, fairly easy and you can go up and down pretty fast.
only requires a stair, piston, repeater, redstone and various block per level.
Here is a link -->Minecraft - Tutorial: Simple Piston Elevator
It is also possible to create boat elevators using discrete pockets of water contained with signs ala Docm77's elevator and another multi-floor design I saw on the forums. Some searches should yield some pretty clever designs.
@radioactiveafro, @_nightfuryxz_ : Thanks much for this tutorial. I think this will work out well for cloud city's elevator. Its small and I think it will do us just fine.
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That is awesome. Using that design as the base, I just built one 8x8 that also goes down. Giggity.
Operation 'Will Most Likely End Badly' is a go."
"Us"? Uh, Etho's piston elevator doesn't really work on multiplayer.
Why do you need it to go down? You can just have a long drop with a water break.
This is pretty cool. Forgot that boats always float upward, but the redstone work looks complicated.
If I'm going to build an elevator it damn well better go both ways. I prefer symmetry in my function.
Operation 'Will Most Likely End Badly' is a go."
I know of three piston elevator designs that are not like this. They only have O(n) redstone use. So the redstone use per block of elevation is the same (plus some overhead for controls).