I say suddenly because I have seen several videos of flip flops and copied the designs for use in my own world, and successfully. I managed to combine four different mechanisms; Redstone Innovations' Redstone Torch activated BUD switch (), RAWRadise's Redstone Toggle switch (), a simple reset switch on a pressure plate, and the hidden piston door that everybody and their mother seems to be doing. I managed to combine those four successfully in that I approach the secret location, plant a redstone torch, it pops back off, reveals the secret door, and stays open until I walk across the pressure plate inside. It's working great!
Now I started a new seed yesterday. Very weird, lots of extreme landscape, above ground dungeon, ginormous caves directly under spawn with 5 slime chunks, it's a sick seed. I found a nice place to build my residence, and the first thing I'm looking to do is create a set of retractable stairs using the same concept.
Built the BUD switch. No problems. Torch pops back off and bam! Next, I built the retractable stairs. I powered them with a lever, and they work like a charm. A button, they flip too fast to climb, so I need the toggle flip flop again.
I built it to the same specifications. Same materials. Slightly different configuration, but no conflicting redstone paths. I even got it to work... for a while. Then suddenly, it won't. The stairs are jammed open, and I fall into the mob trap below when I try to jump. So I go into the cellar to look at the wiring. Nothing has changed. It just doesn't work anymore. So after a few hours of cursing and getting increasingly frustrated, I tear it down and start from scratch. Nothing. Redstone torches won't stay lit when they're supposed to. Frustrated, I hit the internet for more reliable design. I find several, most of which work the very first time I try them, all of which fail the second time I test them. Even (which seems pretty much foolproof) does not work.
Is there something strange going on with Redstone? Does it not work as well on different seeds? Anybody have any tips on how to keep things working without having to replace torches a billion times? Why the wild inconsistency in performance? Has this happened to anyone else?
This has happened to just about everyone that has used redstone. It's just a glitch, that seems to be a lot worse on the Xbox version than PC. Try clearing your cache and re-updating. If that doesn't work, find the torches/dust with errors, destroy them and the blocks they are attached to. Then save, exit, reload, and replace.
The problem seems to usually be in the blocks themselves. They become "corrupted" you could say and will either have power trapped inside of them, or will not let a signal pass through them.
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Now I started a new seed yesterday. Very weird, lots of extreme landscape, above ground dungeon, ginormous caves directly under spawn with 5 slime chunks, it's a sick seed. I found a nice place to build my residence, and the first thing I'm looking to do is create a set of retractable stairs using the same concept.
Built the BUD switch. No problems. Torch pops back off and bam! Next, I built the retractable stairs. I powered them with a lever, and they work like a charm. A button, they flip too fast to climb, so I need the toggle flip flop again.
I built it to the same specifications. Same materials. Slightly different configuration, but no conflicting redstone paths. I even got it to work... for a while. Then suddenly, it won't. The stairs are jammed open, and I fall into the mob trap below when I try to jump. So I go into the cellar to look at the wiring. Nothing has changed. It just doesn't work anymore. So after a few hours of cursing and getting increasingly frustrated, I tear it down and start from scratch. Nothing. Redstone torches won't stay lit when they're supposed to. Frustrated, I hit the internet for more reliable design. I find several, most of which work the very first time I try them, all of which fail the second time I test them. Even (which seems pretty much foolproof) does not work.
Is there something strange going on with Redstone? Does it not work as well on different seeds? Anybody have any tips on how to keep things working without having to replace torches a billion times? Why the wild inconsistency in performance? Has this happened to anyone else?
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Retired StaffThe problem seems to usually be in the blocks themselves. They become "corrupted" you could say and will either have power trapped inside of them, or will not let a signal pass through them.