Minecraft Pistons: Spiraling Elevator

Mission: Create an elevator using pistons

This is the most compact design I could come up with. Unfortunately, the creation of this elevator revealed a glitch in Minecraft, where the lateral pistons extend, but don't reset when the power is off. I show how it makes the elevator unusable after the first go at the end of the video.

I've gotten on Mojang's GetSatisfaction page to report the bug, so hopefully a future patch will fix the problem, and any elevator will be fully functional!

Enjoy! As always, if there's enough interest, I'll record a making-of vid to show the design.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Minecraft
• Pistons
• Piston
• Redstone
• Wiring
• Machine
• Elevator

[MaidanCanada]

This is not actually a bug, infact that is part of pistons. By the piston pushing your character up one block it allows the other piston to push you.

[bendnlsn]

@MaidanCanada Uh...I did DESIGN this thing to do exactly that. The glitch is that, once the power is OFF, the piston remains extended, making my elevator usable only once.

[Sonny151515]

i've made same thing 30 minutes after pistons release but covered from inside so you doesn't saw any redstone

[Myhrmanz]

Can you share the project?

[TheRedWon]

Seems like a vertical elevator would be much more efficient, but this is pretty cool.

[flash4thislife]

Nice.. Now just hope that this glitch will be fixed..Or maybe is not a glitch ..Maybe you did a dead circuit or something like that somewhere.Don`t know.

[Dennys787]

@bendnlsn maybe somewhere there is a power loop?

[fairrington123]

would u die from the dive in real life?

[AkibaSHEEP]

That is too high for me, make it go down again o.o

[multiturd1000]

is that from ethoslab?