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Rianaru wrote:

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Db's in that mess are used for some piston controls so that I'm not pushing clay balls into empty space while a platform is moving.
The kiln is pure timing based, rather than detection based. If you want one like that you need a buddy block instead of a db since the db will see the urn placed and the urn item the same. Buddy based systems work well, but you need a bd to damp out the extra pulse from when the urn gets placed.

Totally forgot about the item in the kiln -.-
Couldn't you use a flip-flop to damp out the extra pulse?
EDIT: BD flip-flop. Right. Off to build that when I get home! Never crossed my mind to use a Buddy block for that.

Well, thought I'd try to give some eye candy as I've been enjoying many of these amazing stuff you guys have made

Some previews Was a short period where I felt it more fun playing smp with friends, but the lack of things to do in vanilla drove me nuts and made me go medieval on a hill. That castle was the result after about a week later.....

Love the village! One of the better castles I've seen, very cool!

Thanks, I started building a palisade around the whole 'valley' that had the village (building with defence as design constraint) where I though later on building the village from the plaza and outwards (planned village space is roughly 50% more grass area than seen in first shot).
The 'dirt wall' you can see closest was a failed attempt to 'leash' out building space to other players and without any further incentive it started to feel more like a chore to build further.

I have more pictures on the inside of the castle but there are rather a lot of them (~150)... actually let's do like this if it's ok I can post a couple of them at a time, sounds fun and they do go more like a tour through the whole castle as it's the intricate defences through the insides that are the true beauty. Thoughts? Otherwise I'll only post the best ones :)

Some more outside shots from outside for now and some more around.... If you haven't realized yet, I'm bloody proud of that castle ;)

And you have right to be. It's an amazing build, and has a fairly authentic feel to it as well.

This is my semi-automated tanned leather farm, based off Morv's dung farm in her LP

Hopefully not considered necro...

With the new multiplayer BTW (yay!), moved a world were my brother and I were building the Colosseum over and started using some of the BTW decorative tools to improve the look. Was a pre-1.2 world and the conversion screwed up the biomes, hence the snow.

Damn dude, that Colosseum is gigantic!

Yeah, we were going for actual scale (as best we could approximate from images). Amazingly it's about 10 blocks shy, in terms of height if 1 block = 1 cubic meter.

BinoAl wrote:Damn dude, that Colosseum is gigantic!

Holy crap, man. That's awesome! How long did it take you to build that?

walker_boh_65 wrote:Holy crap, man. That's awesome! How long did it take you to build that?

3 people working, probably about 75-100 hours each. and that's just the outside + about 2 sections of the interior used to scale things to be workable for stairs and such.

Now I'm debating whether or not to make it floodable or to have an underground 'village' to supply contestants. Sadly, the zombie chasing villager AI shows its failings badly when there's lots of villagers. They focus on just one and chase until it goes out of range, even if there's another villager moving through the mob.

milkmandan wrote:Sadly, the zombie chasing villager AI shows its failings badly when there's lots of villagers. They focus on just one and chase until it goes out of range, even if there's another villager moving through the mob.

lol
You remind me of this scene XD Zombie path finding was good in Dawn of the Dead

i have just done a prototype of a pipeline/aqueduct.

this makes use of the new BTW pumps don't open if you want to figure out how they work by yourself

Has anyone made a water clock with this yet? Not sure on the overall timing but seems like it could make a fairly configurable long timer.
Basically when the water from the pumps hits the wheel, it stops for a second while reversing direction. Long enough that the pumps stop working, so with a turntable or detector block on the water flow you could have something with a period on order of 30 secs - whatever. A full 8 blocks to fall from pump top gives about 8-10 second delay.

Also, if you didn't want to interrupt your mechanical power for everything, you could use redstone back into the first gearbox for the pumps.

I had spare wood and didn't know what to do with it.
I decided to upgrade my mill a bit: (White block is Marble, from MediateCraft)


Thanks for the new and awesome mouldings FlowerChild!

Here is the design of windmill I usually build:

Hi guys, haven't put up anything in a while, between lurking and going hog-wild in Better Than SMP from the time it launched I haven't taken the time to post anything or even join the IRC. Now that my excitement has normalized a little I'm going to get back to being more communicative, or at least try...Without further ado, my version of the arrow/bone sorter:

When the change to how the bellows worked with items like arrows came out I'll admit I had a pretty bad case of builder's block and put off changing the sorter in my SSP mob trap indefinitely. Then when SMP came out and the community had eventually worked up to the point that we built a massive mob tower I finally decided to tackle the sorting machine...The one I built in the server is clunky, unreliable, and due to the nature of its haphazard design it took a long time to get it so it'd work most of the time.

Today I had a flash of brilliance, a new plan suddenly formed, and the results are shown below.

Don't click this if you haven't built this yet and want to figure out arrow/bone sorting on your own.

My design of Kiln with 6 slots. It very little!
Video: Download map:
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Nothing too impressive in terms of individual builds, I am still trying to get a lot of the basic automation up and running, but this is my village I work on with a friend. On the right is the Colonial-era manor I am building right now... it is built over the ruins of a desert village (a few of the original buildings are still visible, however).

Just figured I'd post a few fun things to do with sidings:

Graphite wrote:Just figured I'd post a few fun things to do with sidings:

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Statues!



Hiding redstone wiring!

Yeah, I love siding for hiding redstone wiring, especially if you have redstone in a building that doesn't have much extra room.

That statue is pretty cool, too. I was just thinking of how I wanted a statue in my manor... that inspires me.

A nice screen I took from my server. I really love the look that water-rising using pumps gives. It feels just right in my minecraft spirit.

I've been messing about with the screw pumps, working on getting water to my skycity to continue building there. This has been.. quite the struggle so far, and I'm still nowhere near the top.

At first, I was planning to circle it around the tower, but felt that looked rather weird/ugly, so tore it down and started over. This is how that looked; After that I started experimenting a lot, and am still working on a final design. I've torn down more stuff in the last few days, than in the last few weeks :P. This is what I have at the moment, I thought it looked kinda cool. =D
I was planning on doing another quarter circle inwards again from the sides, and circle up - repeat that design somewhat upwards. But .. it's that's using way to many screwpumps. I want to continue building at the top again, so I will have to come up with another design.. again. =D Still, looks rather funny! :)

Though I'd just show a little over view of my First, second, and third attempts at building a home. I'm thinking of building a forth much bigger and better looking home over top of one of my ocean strongholds (Have two), but that will have to wait until December and final exams :).
The above ground rail you can see comes from my spawn (Which I had the brilliant idea to build at night). Age of buildings goes from right (youngest) to left (Oldest)

My village I made from the ground up:
An overview of the village (farm is not visible): Mine: Main building: Inside: Courtyard: Dung farm: Upper level entrance: Upper level inside: Regular farm: EDIT: Forgot the cellar of the main building: