testing pressure plates to see what i can do and came across this:
1. place a wooden pressure plate at a wooden door
2. check to make sure the plate and door are working correctly
3. fire an arrow into the pressure plate - nothing visibly happens to the door but the plate graphics show it in the lower position
4. step on the plate and the door opens - since the arrow is holding the plate down now the door stays open until the arrow disappears.
any other pressure plate/button tricks that you have come across?
Interesting behaviour, sounds almost like a BUD switch. Does it only work directly on wooden doors? When you step on the plate why do you not collect the arrow? Is it an Infinite enchanted bow?
1-Only tried on wood door.
2-I don't know why I didn't collect the arrow. tried different blocks under the plate and tried breaking the block. When I broke the wooden plate and block the arrow stuck into the block below as if I had shoot into that one.
3-It was an infinite enchanted bow but I didn't know that would affect arrow collection. I was thinking the plate was interacting with the arrow to prevent collection.
Apparently the arrows fired with an infinite enchantment are permanently lost. Tried putting the bow in a chest equiping another bow. Firing an arrow from another bow. Nothing would allow me to pick up the original arrow fired from the infinity bow. So this seems to be another good way to have a secret room/trap/entrance etc. Something that could only be activated by holding the pressure plate down but not accessable from the location of the pressure plate. And if the pressure plate is in front of a door then it could be assumed that the door is the only device operated by the plate.
Is there anything like this for buttons that anyone knows about?
Yes players cannot collect the Infinite arrows, similar to ones fired by skeletons.
Arrows activating wooden plates directly is added in 1.3, so it seems odd that they can hold the plate down when it is activated by other means.
If you have time please try this for independent verification in case I'm missing something here. Done in survival hard with all the latest updates.
tested it out, it does exactly what he says, you just have to get away from that arrow fast to not pick it up. Easiest with flying in creative mode, but doable in survival as well
hmmm.. it takes 5 minutes real time to despawn an item, so using this method you could in theory hook a redstone torch up to a pressure plate to invert the signal make make a time bomb with some tnt, i mean you could so this with any block thrown on a pressure plate but using OPs arrow method makes it seem like in an action movie where they shoot the trail of gasoline to detonate an explosion
cool find
interesting so the door is open for 5 mins?.or until the arrow despawnd. if you us a dispenser to fire the arrow at the pressure plate will it open it as well. this could make a long range dispenser clock. hmm or maybe some sort of secret door for an adventure map?
if you walk over the PP and through the door wouldn't you pick up the arrow?
If you fire the arrow from a bow with the infinity enchantment then you do NOT pick up the arrow no matter what you do.
@ everyone else. Wow so many good ideas and ways to use this. Plus this allows you a much greater distance to engage the plate if someone else is crossing over.
I can imagine an epic pvp battle, one player runs to his base where his door is hooked to a pressure plate with an rs nor latch ( so the pressure plate wont work after the first pulse) his pursuer fires an arrow and misses but hits the pressure plate just as he steps off. The door stays open. looks like the war will wage on inside..
1 minute timer using buttons (PC 1.4)
Slight possibility the arrow will miss the button and timer fail.
For a 5 minute timer you can dispense any item(entity) directly on to the pressure plate and it will despawn after 6000 ticks.
Basic 5 minute dispenser timer
Ethos extended adjustable 5-60 minute timer (up to ~8 minutes)
Thanks for the info I thought fired arrows were the same as regular drops. So the arrow in the pressure plate is a 60 second timer. That is probably going to work better for some of my plans anyway.
1. place a wooden pressure plate at a wooden door
2. check to make sure the plate and door are working correctly
3. fire an arrow into the pressure plate - nothing visibly happens to the door but the plate graphics show it in the lower position
4. step on the plate and the door opens - since the arrow is holding the plate down now the door stays open until the arrow disappears.
any other pressure plate/button tricks that you have come across?
1-Only tried on wood door.
2-I don't know why I didn't collect the arrow. tried different blocks under the plate and tried breaking the block. When I broke the wooden plate and block the arrow stuck into the block below as if I had shoot into that one.
3-It was an infinite enchanted bow but I didn't know that would affect arrow collection. I was thinking the plate was interacting with the arrow to prevent collection.
Is there anything like this for buttons that anyone knows about?
If you have time please try this for independent verification in case I'm missing something here. Done in survival hard with all the latest updates.
hmmm.. it takes 5 minutes real time to despawn an item, so using this method you could in theory hook a redstone torch up to a pressure plate to invert the signal make make a time bomb with some tnt, i mean you could so this with any block thrown on a pressure plate but using OPs arrow method makes it seem like in an action movie where they shoot the trail of gasoline to detonate an explosion
cool find
If you fire the arrow from a bow with the infinity enchantment then you do NOT pick up the arrow no matter what you do.
@ everyone else. Wow so many good ideas and ways to use this. Plus this allows you a much greater distance to engage the plate if someone else is crossing over.
Nice. It said 1 minute though, wouldn't that be 5 minutes until the drop dissappears?
Thanks for the info I thought fired arrows were the same as regular drops. So the arrow in the pressure plate is a 60 second timer. That is probably going to work better for some of my plans anyway.
Ideas to try