I am runing into some issues with wiring my minecart system. I am using a track that is about 40-50 blocks long, It has 1 90' turn and drops 1 block. It is running the length of a 3 block wide corridor. I place my minecart, push to button and everything works fine.
I would like to set things up so that the minecart stays on the track and when I press the buttton on either end of the rail it activates the starter sections of power rail on both ends. This would allow me to ride the cart if it is on my end or send the cart back to me if it on the other.
I need to keep the wiring as simple as possible. I would really prefer it if I could use a single redstone wire with some repeaters/torches to acomplish this. Does anyone have any suggestions?
unsure, but to have a return cart process like that I would think you have to line the redstone all the way back with repeaters to extend the signal. And that would be on both sides. that is the only way I know of at the moment to get something like that to work. but since the second button, the return button just activates the track maybe you could get away with just 1 line of redstone all the way back.
you would have to invert it in order to get the powered rails to turn on, so 2 torches...hmm...
Only problem is a empty minecart don't travel as far so it probably wouldn't make it back unless you have detector rails really close together.
actually not terribly close together far as I know if that is the way you want to do it... although I would imagine you would have to setup in a pair, as in detector and powered rail for each length it would need to make it back.
Still though in order to use the button feature to activate you would have to do what I mentioned above as well. At least this would save on torches to some degree...
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I would like to set things up so that the minecart stays on the track and when I press the buttton on either end of the rail it activates the starter sections of power rail on both ends. This would allow me to ride the cart if it is on my end or send the cart back to me if it on the other.
I need to keep the wiring as simple as possible. I would really prefer it if I could use a single redstone wire with some repeaters/torches to acomplish this. Does anyone have any suggestions?
you would have to invert it in order to get the powered rails to turn on, so 2 torches...hmm...
actually not terribly close together far as I know if that is the way you want to do it... although I would imagine you would have to setup in a pair, as in detector and powered rail for each length it would need to make it back.
Still though in order to use the button feature to activate you would have to do what I mentioned above as well. At least this would save on torches to some degree...