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Trying to male an area of floor out of pistons pointing up, I want hem to start extended, and then all go down simultaneously. Problem s I can't figure out how to wire it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's for my auto cannon project. Trying to make it shoot 18 shots without placing more TNT. I need the floor to drop to make room for more gravel to push the second set of TNT. The area of pistons is about 6x8 ish
Hey. As soon as I read your post I went onto my redstone test world. After a little while of trial and error I was able to get a (mostly) working prototype in place. It is a 6x8 flat piston surface that also requires an extra 5 units of vertical height beneath the pistons for wiring in addition to a couple more blocks of width and length for wires also. Also the redstone timing is theoretically in unison, but due to what I can only assume is the infamous redstone piston lag / rendering issues or maybe obscure redstone quirks, some pistons still appear to move at slightly different times but it's pretty minimal. Altogether it works pretty simply and cleanly but if your dead set on every piston timing being perfect to the tick, then it isn't quite there. I'm not really familiar if there is any other way to do it that maybe I just haven't figured out yet in the short time I've been working on it, but if you want, I suppose you could send me a message on xbox and I could let you onto my testing world to study the design for a bit. Either that or I could try describing it.
Edit: I can't be of any further help tonight, but hopefully if you mess around long enough you'll figure it out. My design does use torches under the pistons but I did alternating rows with torches on the tops and sides of these rows of blocks to reach all of the pistons. The torches on the sides have blocks above them while the ones on top are directly powering the pistons above them. Further down I have rows of torches on blocks that change signal for all the upper torch rows. Just make sure you power those bottom rows with repeaters from the "outside" on each side. I know this is probably confusing but it's the best I can give in this situation. Also, you could try browsing the wiki pages about redstone to see if you get any ideas if nobody else can help you. Good luck.
Edit: I can't be of any further help tonight, but hopefully if you mess around long enough you'll figure it out. My design does use torches under the pistons but I did alternating rows with torches on the tops and sides of these rows of blocks to reach all of the pistons. The torches on the sides have blocks above them while the ones on top are directly powering the pistons above them. Further down I have rows of torches on blocks that change signal for all the upper torch rows. Just make sure you power those bottom rows with repeaters from the "outside" on each side. I know this is probably confusing but it's the best I can give in this situation. Also, you could try browsing the wiki pages about redstone to see if you get any ideas if nobody else can help you. Good luck.