Couple of things first. The quality is kind of poor because I don't have a video capture system for my 360, so I had to use a camera to record the footage. Second, I've only been playing Minecraft for a week now, so if I incorrectly name a part, bare with me and take the actual footage as truth :). I'm new to redstone circuits and this was my first build that took me outside of just copy/pasting other people's circuits into my own world.
My main reason for doing this video was because I haven't found a system like this before and I wanted to share my findings. I've found several tutorials on 3-way rail systems, but as hard as I tried in finding a 4-way tutorial, I either couldn't find anything or I could only find systems by guys who were building HUGE and complex roundabout systems that required you to push buttons or pull levers as you're moving around a track. The system I was looking for needed one major thing - the ability to stay in your cart while having access to both levers (to change track directions) and the button that would actually power each of the rails to allow you to pass on.
The circuit actually isn't that complex (it seemed complex at first, as I'm new to redstone), only using a couple of repeaters, a couple of inverters, and a couple of redstone torches along with a bunch of redstone itself, and of course the two levers and one button. I did quite a bit of experimenting and I found that for my system to work, the tracks had to be set up exactly as they are. If the powered rails were one more block back, you could access one, but not both levers. This would require you to exit the cart and defeat the purpose of the original design of the system.
If you guys have any questions, I'll try to answer as best as I can, but like I said, I'm a newbie to Minecraft. I hope the video will be clear enough to show what I've done to make the system work.
My main reason for doing this video was because I haven't found a system like this before and I wanted to share my findings. I've found several tutorials on 3-way rail systems, but as hard as I tried in finding a 4-way tutorial, I either couldn't find anything or I could only find systems by guys who were building HUGE and complex roundabout systems that required you to push buttons or pull levers as you're moving around a track. The system I was looking for needed one major thing - the ability to stay in your cart while having access to both levers (to change track directions) and the button that would actually power each of the rails to allow you to pass on.
The circuit actually isn't that complex (it seemed complex at first, as I'm new to redstone), only using a couple of repeaters, a couple of inverters, and a couple of redstone torches along with a bunch of redstone itself, and of course the two levers and one button. I did quite a bit of experimenting and I found that for my system to work, the tracks had to be set up exactly as they are. If the powered rails were one more block back, you could access one, but not both levers. This would require you to exit the cart and defeat the purpose of the original design of the system.
If you guys have any questions, I'll try to answer as best as I can, but like I said, I'm a newbie to Minecraft. I hope the video will be clear enough to show what I've done to make the system work.