In order for a trap to work, whatever triggers the trap must not be noticed.
Current pressure plates are visible, so it is easy to avoid.
What we need is something like a transparent pressure plate that is not visible until you step on it. But the pressure plate is just a possibility. Instead we could have one or more of these:
- A laser emitter/sensor pair that sends out a beam that can't be seen. If the player steps in between... the circuit is tripped. To make the emitter/sensor hard to spot, they would: (1) Be roughly of the same size and color as the push button. (2) Send the beam horizontally and parallel to the surface it is attached to (not away from the surface). That way you can place the emitter/sensor on the side of a wall away from the direction the player comes from, or on the bottom of a chest level block, so that the beam is at knee level.
- A motion sensor. Activates when it detects movement within a certain distance (not across walls).
- Anything else that you can think of. The whole point here is to have "stuff" that can trip a circuit without the incoming player being able to see the trap.
Of course, if there is something to accomplish the job already... please tell me!!! I haven't seen any triggering devices that can be completely stealthy.
notch said that the game is not about making the game so you cant prevent things it is more like the fear in trying to prevent things from hapening. if you make presureplates invisible then you have no way in preventing it. so what you can do is if you want make a texture pack that makes it look invisible. i do agree with your opinion but it makes no sence. also glass whould be bad idea because it is verry easy to see unless under water :smile.gif:
How about make block-sized pressure plates that, when stepped on, act like normal pressure plates, except you get pressed in a little bit into the block (like an embedded pressure plate). Comes in stone, sandstone, obsidian, cobblestone, and wood variations for maximum stealth.
How to create one:
Put the desired block of the ones listed above and a stone pressure plate OR a wooden pressure plate (ones made from wooden plates will be activated by items tossed on them) above the block.
- pressure plate - block
Example above.
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Current pressure plates are visible, so it is easy to avoid.
What we need is something like a transparent pressure plate that is not visible until you step on it. But the pressure plate is just a possibility. Instead we could have one or more of these:
- A laser emitter/sensor pair that sends out a beam that can't be seen. If the player steps in between... the circuit is tripped. To make the emitter/sensor hard to spot, they would: (1) Be roughly of the same size and color as the push button. (2) Send the beam horizontally and parallel to the surface it is attached to (not away from the surface). That way you can place the emitter/sensor on the side of a wall away from the direction the player comes from, or on the bottom of a chest level block, so that the beam is at knee level.
- A motion sensor. Activates when it detects movement within a certain distance (not across walls).
- Anything else that you can think of. The whole point here is to have "stuff" that can trip a circuit without the incoming player being able to see the trap.
Of course, if there is something to accomplish the job already... please tell me!!! I haven't seen any triggering devices that can be completely stealthy.
HAHAHHA I GET IT BECAUSE COD HAS LASER SENSORS. wait..
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Retired StaffHow to create one:
Put the desired block of the ones listed above and a stone pressure plate OR a wooden pressure plate (ones made from wooden plates will be activated by items tossed on them) above the block.
Example above.
Click the picture!
-Derek Shunia