Friday, February 3, 2012

The Base 2.0! (Actually, 3.0)

This is the current view of the outside of the base. Front view.


It's actually 3.0 because we had it made out of dirt when we started, then we turned into cobble and finally improved to the way it is now. We might make even more changes, though.

This is the main entrance now. I'll fix this. First, I'll change the plates to the stone ones, so they can't be triggered by items falling on them.


A view looking into the base's interior.


View from inside, looking at the outside (duh). One issue that came through my mind was that monsters CAN trigger the pressure plates, therefore, they could go inside at anytime. But I took two hours of my... "spare"... time to work on a rather complex redstone system (don't even ask me how I did it, seriously, I have no idea).


It works like a key system: If this lever is pulled, the doors are permanently shut and will not be opened by ANY plates. If it is not pulled down (actually, right), the plates CAN open the door.



As I said, it took me two hours to figure this out. Shortly after that, I was closing the flooring with cobble and guess what happened? Yeah. A creeper. He blew up the ground near me. I lost a pressure plate and a few redstone wires. I had to work for more ten minutes to fix the wiring.

I rage-quit for ten minutes, then I fixed it.


11 comments:

  1. Seems all very complex, but makes sense if you're trying to hide the door. I must just be a simpleton using iron doors with levers, lol.

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  2. I can never, for the life of me make decent redstone wiring. I always rage quit whenever they don't work out - after multiple reapplications. If nothing can be done I just TNT the buggers lol.

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  3. nice job man, sweet looking castle. I love minecraft, and love messing around with redstone. I can drop an IP for a great legit server with lots of redstone prodigies/all around nice players if yall would like

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  4. yeah, redstone wiring kicks my ass everytime I try to use it.

    are you planning on using any texture packs or just vanilla minecraft? with the right mods, this will probably look really really good.

    it looks good already though haha.

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    1. I actually use some texture packs, but for the screenshots I post here, I keep the "vanilla" style.

      But I'll make a post with the texture packs. Just wait for it.

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  5. Dude that looks awesome! Very creative. I love Minecraft.

    Following. :)

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  6. Seriously I love this blog man !

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  7. damn dog u got skills XD
    following!

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  8. Following, but waiting for the next installment?
    where you been at?

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    1. I've been busy with work, but I promise two posts tomorrow.

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