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EDIT: 2x5 version. Works better, only needs the overhand if you have a low ceiling at the top.
Quote from harukastu »
Red wool are the spring blocks. :3 If that helps anyone at all.
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Delete the water stoppers.
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Place two blocks to keep the push current at a height of 1.
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Remove the dirt blocks. And the water doesn't flow over onto the fall area.
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You must have at least partial walls at the "start" of each vertical direction to make sure the boat doesn't overshoot the shaft. If you're digging this into the ground, it won't be an issue.
The wooden catcher at the top should not pose a threat to your health, and is essential to the operation of this thing. Without it, the boat spends too much time bouncing up and down to get enough speed to make it into the down shaft.
You should be able to figure out what order to do things in to get the correct water flow at the top. Once the top is done, you should just be able to drop two water springs at the far side of the bottom. Once it's complete, just drop a boat in and go!
If you time it right, you can get two boats going on this one at once. Maybe more if it were taller. i tried making three, but couldn't get the third in before another one came by and jammed the whole thing.
Four. Two at the top, two at the bottom. I used an inventory editor so I could focus on designing the thing and not have to spend an hour gathering resources first.
I managed to fit the elevator in a 5x2 space. By somehow glitching the top water so that it didn't pour over into the 2x2 drop tube. Odd, but it works. ;D!
Ooh. I'd be interested in seeing how you got that to work.
I installed one of these into a leftover strip quarry in my main world, I can get to and from my bedrock-level mines in no time!
Quote from Darentei »
Looks simple.
Personally I believe I would spend too much time designing the thing to be aesthetic before functional
I'm sure a compromise can be found.
I was just trying to get it to work. That world exists only so I could design this thing. The one in my mine looks a little better, I suppose, but I guess it's still just a pair of cobblestone platforms...
This is amazing. What happens if you toss in several boats at once?
I'll go ahead and assume you'll have several boats falling down and then floating back up.
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Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
^Pretty much that.
I'll take another stab at the video.
As for tossing in multiple boats, it depends on how tall it is. On the one int he level save I posted, I was able to get two going at once. A third *might* be possible, but I couldn't get it to work. It's tricky, because if they do bind up at any point and get stuck on eachother, when you try to get it going again one or both of them usually gets broken.
EDIT: Wow, okay, my screen recorder really doesn't like minecraft. I'll have to find another one.
I have another idea for an elevator that is very simple:
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place boat in bottom and break the soil block on the floor above to go up, then to come down, replace the soil block
Two things: Boats no longer fit in a 1x1 hole, and how are you going to reach that block from the floor below?
If we get floodgates (and maybe some way of transmitting a redstone signal straight up), that idea would work brilliantly, though.
If you use the 2x5 version harukastu posted, you don't need the safegaurd unless your ceiling is low, at which point it could still save you from getting your head in a block.
Yeah, if they fit in a 1x1, my elevator wouldn't be 2x2 holes.
I've given up on the video, if anyone else wants to record one, please do. I can confirm that harukastu's 2x5 does actually work, and I've updated the first post with it as it not only works, but works better.
Screenshots:
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/9066646/2/Minecraft/Water%20Elevator?h=e844c6
Video:
Level Save:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9066646/World5.zip
Basically, it consists of two 2x2 shafts with 2 non-shaft spaces between them, for a total width of 2x6 (4x8 including walls)
Pattern is like this:
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EDIT: 2x5 version. Works better, only needs the overhand if you have a low ceiling at the top.
You must have at least partial walls at the "start" of each vertical direction to make sure the boat doesn't overshoot the shaft. If you're digging this into the ground, it won't be an issue.
The wooden catcher at the top should not pose a threat to your health, and is essential to the operation of this thing. Without it, the boat spends too much time bouncing up and down to get enough speed to make it into the down shaft.
You should be able to figure out what order to do things in to get the correct water flow at the top. Once the top is done, you should just be able to drop two water springs at the far side of the bottom. Once it's complete, just drop a boat in and go!
If you time it right, you can get two boats going on this one at once. Maybe more if it were taller. i tried making three, but couldn't get the third in before another one came by and jammed the whole thing.
I installed one of these into a leftover strip quarry in my main world, I can get to and from my bedrock-level mines in no time!
I was just trying to get it to work. That world exists only so I could design this thing. The one in my mine looks a little better, I suppose, but I guess it's still just a pair of cobblestone platforms...
First started like this.
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Delete the water stoppers.
[]
[]
[] []
Place two blocks to keep the push current at a height of 1.
[]
[]
[] []
Remove the dirt blocks. And the water doesn't flow over onto the fall area.
[] []
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On the bottom.
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Tell them Starvern sent you
I'll go ahead and assume you'll have several boats falling down and then floating back up.
Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
Red wool are the spring blocks. :3 If that helps anyone at all.
I'll take another stab at the video.
As for tossing in multiple boats, it depends on how tall it is. On the one int he level save I posted, I was able to get two going at once. A third *might* be possible, but I couldn't get it to work. It's tricky, because if they do bind up at any point and get stuck on eachother, when you try to get it going again one or both of them usually gets broken.
EDIT: Wow, okay, my screen recorder really doesn't like minecraft. I'll have to find another one.
Two things: Boats no longer fit in a 1x1 hole, and how are you going to reach that block from the floor below?
If we get floodgates (and maybe some way of transmitting a redstone signal straight up), that idea would work brilliantly, though.
If you use the 2x5 version harukastu posted, you don't need the safegaurd unless your ceiling is low, at which point it could still save you from getting your head in a block.
I've given up on the video, if anyone else wants to record one, please do. I can confirm that harukastu's 2x5 does actually work, and I've updated the first post with it as it not only works, but works better.
Edit: Here we go. I can record something more specific a bit later if you want as well.