Been trying to come up with some ideas that I cant get working and wondering if anyone knows if these are workable and if so what im doing wrong.
kinda long sorry and will mean few posters with help but got a fair few that all dont work and I dont know how if at all they can be fixed.
Start with one I have found online to know it works but dont know why mine doesnt, online was pc version, hope that doesnt stop me.
Trying to get an automatic wheat farm. idea is that a water run with wash off all of the wheat but not managed to find one that will replant wheat, hoped a distributer would do that but not managed to get the first part working yet.
Problem I have is two fold,
1 - I can only get the pistons that release the water to activate every second piston from the swtich, if i put redstone on each square none of them work, i can do it every second square but
2 - if i dont put glass or something down the water spreads and destroys the redstone so ive not been able to get the water to flow all the way to the bottom and get all the wheat.
next one is a way to do something similar with tree farm, one youtube vids had pistons and distributer planting a tree, pushing it away and plantning a new seedling, however it also had a crusher to crust it all down, ive not been able to get the first of the two to work let allown the crusher.
also tried to get an obsidian cage which is dark and full of dirt to spawn mobs but then sticky pistons crush it all together to kill the mod, but with obsidian the sticky pistons dont seem to move it.
and the last one is an elevator, hoped a series of sticky pistons 1 on top of the other could all activate at once when a minecart went on the pressure platted minecart rail that way saving on the rail but that hasnt seemed to work either.
any method is ok but trying to find a way for people and carts with chests can go from the mine below to the castle in the sky with A - the minimum amount of resource (mainly minecart track) and B - in a way which prevents getting pests.
That being said I am also trying to find a way to get animals up to the castle in the sky too so we can breed them in safety. the last one might help with that but naturally cant get a living animal in a cart (that I know of) so any ideas on that greatly appreciated
1. Wheat never has planted itself. All automated farms for wheat are actually not fully auto, as you still have to plant the wheat yourself. That is unless on the pc the most recent snapshots have changed that to some degree. Since this is the xbox, it just isn't going to happen at the moment.
2.Auto tree farm, same as #1. Both are semi-auto, not fully auto. And if they are it is due to the new things that are on the pc. This is the xbox version... so no fully auto.
Note: Noticed you mention the distributer. That is ONLY on the pc and just a recent addition in the snapshots.
3. Obsidian will never be moved by pistons, as it defeats the purpose of obsidian in the first place. O_o gotta have something to end a piston line when needed, even if it can only go 12 blocks in length. IF you wanted shorter that is what putting obsidian or similar down is for. So unmovable blocks are a must in quite a few designs around obsidian. However I am unsure what video tut would use obsidian in front of a piston..O_o Sure it was not nether brick?
4. That would be a lot of redstone for that type of elevator. Most these things are ONLY possible on pc because of their redstone update that changes the way redstone works. On the xbox your best way is to lead track through a 1x1 tunnel to destination and back. There might be other ways, but that will work for the storage cart just fine. The passenger is another matter.. Just use slabs above the track...
5. Yes All mobs (villagers, animals, and even the agro) can go into a cart just like you can. All you have to do is make sure the cart is moving towards the target and soon it will be in the cart. Then all you would have to do is have a track leading where you want to put the critter/mob and break the cart under it to let loose. Simple as that. Not so easy to set up though especially since you are saying you are trying to get one to a sky fortress of sorts....><
So on an end note, most of the things you are even referencing are mostly from the recent computer redstone update. That is not the xbox version we are on. We may never see those addition, and if we do that will be a long ways down the road. You really aught to look for older videos as those is what is possible with a little tweaking here and there for it to work on xbox, as most videos are for pc version...
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so is there anyway to get semi auto tree farm, plantings fine its the destroying thats time consuming, if you dont get all the wood the leaves done vanish giving the saplings
Also castle is taking a lot of blocks so far its cobble stone but now we have went t nether wanting to make netherbrick on the outside and differnt rooms have different interiors.
Anyway to generate clay artificially using sand and ater or any tips to find it on a mass scale?
well I have never made an auto tree farm as I just make a tree farm, I just know the component that you mentioned is not in the xbox.
The basic concept for an semi-auto-farm defeats the purpose if you are looking for saplings, as it would mainly be for the wood. Now if you have lots of bonemeal and a steady supply, that is the only way I can see even attempting a tree farm one. Basically since you can plant oak next to each other the concept is to push foward the wood when bonemeal is used on that block. You would be using a sort of BUD switch to get that flow of wood. There is no way for wood to be harvested auto-wise, no matter how you look at it. That part you will more likely have to do anyhow, unless of course you enjoy going into creative and putting a steady supply of wood in storage...lol
Anyway maybe looking at docm77 youtube tutorials if not his second let's play world might help. I don't remember which episode he built the semi auto tree farm, but he did. Concept is with bonemeal.
Etho also made one in the most simpliest way possible; A ring of dirt with water beneath it. Plant saplings all along that ring and bonemeal it, then cut it down. let the leaves deteriorate if you really need saplings and collect them in the water flow. That specific one was done in his first let's play.
As for clay, no. You will have to look in and around water, as those areas are a combination sand, dirt, and clay. Still water not the flowing type. Like a 1 block or more deep lake or the ocean floor or riverbeds... That is the only way to get clay is to find it. Once it runs out it is out, but I am sure there has to be quite a bit of it per map. At least all the ones I have been on had quite a bit of it all over the place.
cobble is the easiest thing to get as making a cobblestone generator is simple and easy, as well being part of the game...:D With that in mind you will never run out of stone brick, stone, or cobble. Nether brick is limited if you have a fortress... At least until they put in a creatable recipe for it, which I can only hope they do at some point.
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^ you might be able to run a bit of lava through the area the trees grow in an effort to get it to set fire to the leaves, though that's easier done in creative mode, not sure what you're using. Hope that helps.
ggot quite a bit to learn as thought it would make sense to have infinate heat on a furnise from netherrack as it burns forever but that didnt work either, found that out on the wiki which i should have checked before i tried bucket of lava sounds cool but i dont want to loose the iron, refuse to use iron pick axes unless stone cant mine that materialon the clay side ive been digging sand for ages and not found any so i think brick isnt going to be an option for any of the fortress
kinda long sorry and will mean few posters with help but got a fair few that all dont work and I dont know how if at all they can be fixed.
Start with one I have found online to know it works but dont know why mine doesnt, online was pc version, hope that doesnt stop me.
Trying to get an automatic wheat farm. idea is that a water run with wash off all of the wheat but not managed to find one that will replant wheat, hoped a distributer would do that but not managed to get the first part working yet.
Problem I have is two fold,
1 - I can only get the pistons that release the water to activate every second piston from the swtich, if i put redstone on each square none of them work, i can do it every second square but
2 - if i dont put glass or something down the water spreads and destroys the redstone so ive not been able to get the water to flow all the way to the bottom and get all the wheat.
next one is a way to do something similar with tree farm, one youtube vids had pistons and distributer planting a tree, pushing it away and plantning a new seedling, however it also had a crusher to crust it all down, ive not been able to get the first of the two to work let allown the crusher.
also tried to get an obsidian cage which is dark and full of dirt to spawn mobs but then sticky pistons crush it all together to kill the mod, but with obsidian the sticky pistons dont seem to move it.
and the last one is an elevator, hoped a series of sticky pistons 1 on top of the other could all activate at once when a minecart went on the pressure platted minecart rail that way saving on the rail but that hasnt seemed to work either.
any method is ok but trying to find a way for people and carts with chests can go from the mine below to the castle in the sky with A - the minimum amount of resource (mainly minecart track) and B - in a way which prevents getting pests.
That being said I am also trying to find a way to get animals up to the castle in the sky too so we can breed them in safety. the last one might help with that but naturally cant get a living animal in a cart (that I know of) so any ideas on that greatly appreciated
Thanks for anyone who helps
2.Auto tree farm, same as #1. Both are semi-auto, not fully auto. And if they are it is due to the new things that are on the pc. This is the xbox version... so no fully auto.
Note: Noticed you mention the distributer. That is ONLY on the pc and just a recent addition in the snapshots.
3. Obsidian will never be moved by pistons, as it defeats the purpose of obsidian in the first place. O_o gotta have something to end a piston line when needed, even if it can only go 12 blocks in length. IF you wanted shorter that is what putting obsidian or similar down is for. So unmovable blocks are a must in quite a few designs around obsidian. However I am unsure what video tut would use obsidian in front of a piston..O_o Sure it was not nether brick?
4. That would be a lot of redstone for that type of elevator. Most these things are ONLY possible on pc because of their redstone update that changes the way redstone works. On the xbox your best way is to lead track through a 1x1 tunnel to destination and back. There might be other ways, but that will work for the storage cart just fine. The passenger is another matter.. Just use slabs above the track...
5. Yes All mobs (villagers, animals, and even the agro) can go into a cart just like you can. All you have to do is make sure the cart is moving towards the target and soon it will be in the cart. Then all you would have to do is have a track leading where you want to put the critter/mob and break the cart under it to let loose. Simple as that. Not so easy to set up though especially since you are saying you are trying to get one to a sky fortress of sorts....><
So on an end note, most of the things you are even referencing are mostly from the recent computer redstone update. That is not the xbox version we are on. We may never see those addition, and if we do that will be a long ways down the road. You really aught to look for older videos as those is what is possible with a little tweaking here and there for it to work on xbox, as most videos are for pc version...
Also castle is taking a lot of blocks so far its cobble stone but now we have went t nether wanting to make netherbrick on the outside and differnt rooms have different interiors.
Anyway to generate clay artificially using sand and ater or any tips to find it on a mass scale?
The basic concept for an semi-auto-farm defeats the purpose if you are looking for saplings, as it would mainly be for the wood. Now if you have lots of bonemeal and a steady supply, that is the only way I can see even attempting a tree farm one. Basically since you can plant oak next to each other the concept is to push foward the wood when bonemeal is used on that block. You would be using a sort of BUD switch to get that flow of wood. There is no way for wood to be harvested auto-wise, no matter how you look at it. That part you will more likely have to do anyhow, unless of course you enjoy going into creative and putting a steady supply of wood in storage...lol
Anyway maybe looking at docm77 youtube tutorials if not his second let's play world might help. I don't remember which episode he built the semi auto tree farm, but he did. Concept is with bonemeal.
Etho also made one in the most simpliest way possible; A ring of dirt with water beneath it. Plant saplings all along that ring and bonemeal it, then cut it down. let the leaves deteriorate if you really need saplings and collect them in the water flow. That specific one was done in his first let's play.
As for clay, no. You will have to look in and around water, as those areas are a combination sand, dirt, and clay. Still water not the flowing type. Like a 1 block or more deep lake or the ocean floor or riverbeds... That is the only way to get clay is to find it. Once it runs out it is out, but I am sure there has to be quite a bit of it per map. At least all the ones I have been on had quite a bit of it all over the place.
cobble is the easiest thing to get as making a cobblestone generator is simple and easy, as well being part of the game...:D With that in mind you will never run out of stone brick, stone, or cobble. Nether brick is limited if you have a fortress... At least until they put in a creatable recipe for it, which I can only hope they do at some point.