To the best of my knowledge, the only way you could do a proper gate would be with the use of a sticky piston system. Then you could place one on the top of the opening with fence that would disappear up into the wall and the other set below that would pull the fences down into the ground when opened. Otherwise, you might be able to place a regular piston on top and on bottom so that the two create a "gate" when they extend and meet each other in the middle. It wouldn't look incredible but if you don't have a sticky piston, you are only going to be able to use blocks that are affected by gravity to the best of my knowledge.
try to wire the bottom piston to extend first, and have a delay to the 2nd piston to extend, thats what i use for my 2x2 100% hidden trap door (pushes sticky pistons, extracts upward, grabs the grass and pulls down and retracts)
there is a way to make a piston push another piston
but ul need a make a special bud switch to do it
You dont need a BUD to push another piston, pistons just dont push other pistons that are extended. Hidden piston doors usually have a piston pushing another piston, there is no bud switch involved with these....,.
You can make a piston push a piston by making sure that the piston that is being pushed will have a power supply once it has arrived at it's final position and NOT before.
A piston will not push or retract an extended piston, so make sure the piston to be pushed does not receive the redstone current until it moves into position, not before or it will stop the pushing whole thing from working.
To retract both pistons, the furthest piston must retract completly before the current is cut to the pushing piston, or it will not work.
I know this works because I've done it. It's easiest to wire it backwards, with the final position of the pushed piston receive the current before the pushing piston.That stops all the synchronisation problems with the pistons retracting, A sticky piston also only attaches to something when it is the active piston, a sticky piston will only pull back the other sticky piston, not what is attached to that piston. So you can push a block say 2 blocks by stacking sticky pistons but they will only pull it back 1 block, not it's starting position.
I tried creating a 3x3 door like the one in mumbo jumbos video here but the same thing happens to me where the sticky piston doesn't push the other one. I did everything exactly as he does it and yet all i get is a piece of junk. This is what redstone is to me junk. It never works, never does what it is supposed to even when i do it properly, and one part of it be it one block or half the creation doesn't do what it nneeds to in order to function properly. This happens even when i wire it exactly as shown. I'd rather try dealing with the real life equivalent of redstone because that would be far simpler to install.
That door still works fine, I happen to have one in a test world. I just checked it and it works perfectly. Hate to say it man, but you have a repeater timing wrong or your missing some dust somewhere.
Are you building redstone contraptions all survival? Or are you practicing in a creative world first?
I'm a pretty competent redstoner, and unless I've built a contraption several times I always build it in a test world first. Its a lot easier to track down problems when you can fly, and it will save some frustration. That being said, it's pretty likely that whatever your building is not goanna work right the first time, especially with something like a fast piston door, it happens to all of us.
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Is the bottom piston wired?
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Retired StaffA piston wont push another piston that is extended.
This would be in a new world, where i don't have sticky pistons.
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Curse Premiumbut ul need a make a special bud switch to do it
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Retired StaffYou dont need a BUD to push another piston, pistons just dont push other pistons that are extended. Hidden piston doors usually have a piston pushing another piston, there is no bud switch involved with these....,.
I tried creating a 3x3 door like the one in mumbo jumbos video here but the same thing happens to me where the sticky piston doesn't push the other one. I did everything exactly as he does it and yet all i get is a piece of junk. This is what redstone is to me junk. It never works, never does what it is supposed to even when i do it properly, and one part of it be it one block or half the creation doesn't do what it nneeds to in order to function properly. This happens even when i wire it exactly as shown. I'd rather try dealing with the real life equivalent of redstone because that would be far simpler to install.
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That door still works fine, I happen to have one in a test world. I just checked it and it works perfectly. Hate to say it man, but you have a repeater timing wrong or your missing some dust somewhere.
Are you building redstone contraptions all survival? Or are you practicing in a creative world first?
I'm a pretty competent redstoner, and unless I've built a contraption several times I always build it in a test world first. Its a lot easier to track down problems when you can fly, and it will save some frustration. That being said, it's pretty likely that whatever your building is not goanna work right the first time, especially with something like a fast piston door, it happens to all of us.