I was just browsing through the mod list on FTB Unstable, this mod looks so amazing! I've never been a creative type but this has me excited to try out different ideas.
Hey guys, I need some help with a project I'm thinking of. Essentially it's a system that will allow me to hit a switch based on what floor I want to mine on.
The descent shaft, seen from the side looks something like this:
[~] <-- water
[~] <-- water
[~] <-- water
[o] <-- sign (depth marker, stops water from falling)
[ ] <-- air
[ ] <-- air
[x] <-- trapdoor
And it repeats that way to bedrock. It works by falling from ground level to a water pool, and if "trapdoor B" below the air is closed, you will stop falling and you can exit the shaft. That works just fine for me in it's current state, but if I were to open one of the B trapdoors and fall to the next set without closing it, there's no easy way to close that trapdoor again. I hope that makes sense.
So my question is, say I have a trapdoor every 10 blocks down. Would it be possible to construct a redstone system with a bunch of master switches at the top, where if I were to hit a button labeled "Depth Level 20", all trapdoors except the one at level 20 would open?
It might be way too much effort for the result, but I was curious about it. I tried testing it myself but I'm quite bad at redstone and I couldn't figure out how to enable a certain trapdoor while disabling the rest.
Okay, normally I could care less about replying to forum posts I've found through Google, but this one I have to.
First of all, it works. Let me be clear with that though - By "it works", I mean it does exactly what the poster claims it does, which is help you find diamonds quickly. It's not guaranteed to work, as is the nature of finding anything that's randomly generated, but it is arguable the "best way" to find diamonds.
I just alt+tabbed out of minecraft, where I've picked up 15 diamonds (4 veins, one was an 8) in the past half hour of exploring a large cave network I found (from a branch mine at layer 12). I didn't have to mine any blocks except the ones I wanted, this was purely walking around a large set of natural caves, exploring and dropping water over lava. I also found 10 gold and 22 iron, as well as tons of coal, lapis lazuli and redstone (a few stacks of each)
To make things a bit more clear, this trick is not something that makes diamonds spawn more often or in a certain location, it's simply a way to quickly explore a large amount of blocks so you can find those diamond veins faster. Level 12 is just above the lava layer, meaning any cave you come across can be easily traversed by dropping water over the lava and exploring from there. When you're done exploring your cave, you go back to branch mining (or whatever method you prefer) until you come across another. It's not replacing your usual method, it's just added value.
To some it may seem like common sense, and to others it may seem unlikely, but the point here is that it works. Not only should we all be happy that we have a "better" way to find diamonds, we should also be thanking the OP for being kind to share his "secret" with the rest of us. It might have been something you already knew, or maybe you still don't believe it's possible, but it's obvious from the posts here that it's helped quite a few people, including myself (and I'm not new to mining for diamonds)
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I was just browsing through the mod list on FTB Unstable, this mod looks so amazing! I've never been a creative type but this has me excited to try out different ideas.
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Works just fine for me.
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Well it's 614x but yeah definitely, sentiment seconded.
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The descent shaft, seen from the side looks something like this:
[~] <-- water
[~] <-- water
[~] <-- water
[o] <-- sign (depth marker, stops water from falling)
[ ] <-- air
[ ] <-- air
[x] <-- trapdoor
And it repeats that way to bedrock. It works by falling from ground level to a water pool, and if "trapdoor B" below the air is closed, you will stop falling and you can exit the shaft. That works just fine for me in it's current state, but if I were to open one of the B trapdoors and fall to the next set without closing it, there's no easy way to close that trapdoor again. I hope that makes sense.
So my question is, say I have a trapdoor every 10 blocks down. Would it be possible to construct a redstone system with a bunch of master switches at the top, where if I were to hit a button labeled "Depth Level 20", all trapdoors except the one at level 20 would open?
It might be way too much effort for the result, but I was curious about it. I tried testing it myself but I'm quite bad at redstone and I couldn't figure out how to enable a certain trapdoor while disabling the rest.
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But I set "Performance" to Max FPS and my Macbook has more FPS than it's ever seen on Minecraft, AND I'm able to see farther. So that's pretty cool.
EDIT: the brightness setting rules too. For some reason Minecraft likes being extremely dark on OS X.
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First of all, it works. Let me be clear with that though - By "it works", I mean it does exactly what the poster claims it does, which is help you find diamonds quickly. It's not guaranteed to work, as is the nature of finding anything that's randomly generated, but it is arguable the "best way" to find diamonds.
I just alt+tabbed out of minecraft, where I've picked up 15 diamonds (4 veins, one was an 8) in the past half hour of exploring a large cave network I found (from a branch mine at layer 12). I didn't have to mine any blocks except the ones I wanted, this was purely walking around a large set of natural caves, exploring and dropping water over lava. I also found 10 gold and 22 iron, as well as tons of coal, lapis lazuli and redstone (a few stacks of each)
To make things a bit more clear, this trick is not something that makes diamonds spawn more often or in a certain location, it's simply a way to quickly explore a large amount of blocks so you can find those diamond veins faster. Level 12 is just above the lava layer, meaning any cave you come across can be easily traversed by dropping water over the lava and exploring from there. When you're done exploring your cave, you go back to branch mining (or whatever method you prefer) until you come across another. It's not replacing your usual method, it's just added value.
To some it may seem like common sense, and to others it may seem unlikely, but the point here is that it works. Not only should we all be happy that we have a "better" way to find diamonds, we should also be thanking the OP for being kind to share his "secret" with the rest of us. It might have been something you already knew, or maybe you still don't believe it's possible, but it's obvious from the posts here that it's helped quite a few people, including myself (and I'm not new to mining for diamonds)
TL:DR - Thank you OP, I'll see you on layer 12.