Glitchless Water Control System

I've finally developed a system to control water flow without using any glitches (I don't think).

My current setup allows for ten toggles, is lever-controlled, and takes about a minute and a half to refill. Now to hook up a farm to it!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• minecraft
• water
• control
• toggle
• floodgate
• flood
• invention
• system
• redstone

[fenderbend]

Awesome! That's a really creative solution to water control. And a lot of fun!

There are two other methods for controlling water with redstone, but like yours they need reloading. Both use sand piles, but in very different ways.

Vids:

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[thegnome54]

@fenderbend Whoa, that first one is freaking brilliant! Much better than my system. Thanks for sharing!

[mtszyk]

Very nicely done. The TNT on the ON side can probably also be done with a series of RS Nor latches, which acts very much like memory.

[thegnome54]

@mtszyk I just looked up RS NOR latches, and that's exactly what I came up with! When the signal arrives, any latch that's 'ON' will fire its TNT and, after a delay, turn the next latch to 'ON' as well. The reset signal turns all latches to 'OFF' save the first one, which has no TNT attached and just starts the chain reaction. The important breakthrough was using a delay and a very short signal, as well as making all of these fit in two-block thick layers.

[mirrorcoloured]

Smart work. For all that complication though, it makes piston look really good.

Redstone wire and torches can be placed on tnt blocks--perhaps a more efficient system could utilize that in triggering the next one in line? It would use up more redstone, but the stuff is so abundant that most people have a lot of extra anyway.

[thegnome54]

@mirrorcoloured I had real trouble getting the TNT to go off in a reusable way. When you activate redstone that goes over a TNT block, the power stops at the block as it gets set off. As far as I can tell, you can't get a signal 'through' TNT like that. My eventual solution came when I realized that TNT will fall through torches when activated, and can be activated by a torch below it. For the 'off' side, I discovered that TNT can be activated through an obsidian wall to protect the circuit.

[Ch3wza]

Obviously a piston system would be better but pistons didn't exist at the time. That'd be like saying the iPhone and Blackberry were the way to go 2000 years ago.

Give this genius some cred for thinking outside the box. Imagine what he can do WITH pistons?

[XDLaon8orsSonXD]

Now the world has pistons lol. You inspire me to try new things. I will do it tomorrow!!

[ellpana]

@luminousnerd, the piston will get rid of the water source block.

[luminousnerd]

Maybe I'm just n00b and missing the awesomeness but why don't you just use a piston and trap water above it and turn it off and on

[someonestolemename]

I wonder how many people have trolled this video asking him why he didn't use Pistons... Sily, silly people

[awesomesauce7777]

And now with pistons, this can be made in a minute.

[dreadedcom]

@TheCalum666 Pistons were not implemented yet.

[TheCalum666]

whats wrong with pistons

[WrightGuyFilms1]

Wow, you are a genius!

[GamerportTV]

Pistons.