Portcullis gates (AKA grilles) would be a flexible alternative to large doors. They would be built like fences, but with iron ingots and the ability to place them on each others' top, bottom, and sides. The best way I see to implement them would be to add the gear and have a powered gear by a grille piece raise the structure. These would allow the building of large castle or city gates as well as cage traps and entire bases that rise from the ground or lower from the ceiling of an overhanging cliff.
Iron isn't really an issue; if you're going to build a castle or even just a wall large enough to require a portcullis gate, you should have plenty. And, an entire base made from the stuff is only for insane people such as myself. Personally, I have more than a row of iron just sitting around uselessly after building. I don't even use the stuff for tools, because I have plenty of diamonds by now too.
However, if iron is a problem, you would simply receive more grille pieces per craft; it certainly wouldn't be the first block to do so.
Yeah, that's why a fence-like grille such as this would work so well and have so many uses; wooden fences look fairly well for portcullises already, but they lack any sort of building ease and movement; it doesn't offer any protection unless you want to break a fence every time you enter. In fact, grille pieces could be used as toggleable fences which raise and lower.
And I don't know if this is how porticullis gates work, but I think it should open like a door or require x amount of space above it. So If the gate is 3 by 3 big it requires a 3 by 3 space above it. If it opens like a door I think it should be 4 by 4, and require two blocks to place it so it would be a 4 by 4 by 2 area. So it lowering from the ceiling would be the best way to do things in my opinion.
I really don't care too much about how it's made, because I have plenty of iron by the time I make a castle or wall large enough to need one of these. However, if it ends up being too expensive, we can always just get more per craft. Notch can add iron bars when ingot recipes start to conflict with each other. Until then, bars/rods are rather unnecessary.
They would lift up until the gear (or other power source) is touching the bottom-most grille piece in a vertical line or until a non-physics block (anything aside from sand/gravel) prevents it from raising any higher. Pretty simple, really. Limits to space (including minimum limits) aren't something we want; these grilles are supposed to free us from the limitations imposed by doors. As long as the gear or other power source controls the vertical movement, that's all we need.
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However, if iron is a problem, you would simply receive more grille pieces per craft; it certainly wouldn't be the first block to do so.
is it like this
or would there be like metal rods so it would look like this
and then
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And I don't know if this is how porticullis gates work, but I think it should open like a door or require x amount of space above it. So If the gate is 3 by 3 big it requires a 3 by 3 space above it. If it opens like a door I think it should be 4 by 4, and require two blocks to place it so it would be a 4 by 4 by 2 area. So it lowering from the ceiling would be the best way to do things in my opinion.
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I really don't care too much about how it's made, because I have plenty of iron by the time I make a castle or wall large enough to need one of these. However, if it ends up being too expensive, we can always just get more per craft. Notch can add iron bars when ingot recipes start to conflict with each other. Until then, bars/rods are rather unnecessary.
They would lift up until the gear (or other power source) is touching the bottom-most grille piece in a vertical line or until a non-physics block (anything aside from sand/gravel) prevents it from raising any higher. Pretty simple, really. Limits to space (including minimum limits) aren't something we want; these grilles are supposed to free us from the limitations imposed by doors. As long as the gear or other power source controls the vertical movement, that's all we need.