Minecraft floodgate (no reset)

Hello everyone, thanks for clicking on the video. Hopefully this the first 'Auto reset' floodgate, although indeed, no resetting of any kind takes place.

You will notice in the video I am on 1.4 not 1.41, i have tried it and it still works. You will also notice this is created in single player with one or two easy building mods, I have tested on a vanilla SMP and found no significant difference from SSP.

Since having made the video I've tried out using lava. The results were very good producing a constant stream when on and cutting off as expected.

If you put lava in the long path, and water in the short, you can make yourself a smoke machine! cover it up and add it to your disco floor!

I failed to mention some fun ways to play with the frequency and pulse width of the output. One of the water blocks is eight away from the sand, while, in the video, the other is right next to it. If instead you create a channel (I think this is limited to about 6 blocks at the longest) so that a lower height of water is in contact with the sand, you can effectively decrease the pulse width of the water pulses

Also try using a fast clock to trigger the mechanism, you can generate some very interesting wave patterns which, while at first may seem random, are actually surprisingly repeatable (you may even be able to create a constant flow).

Some more things to try:

Why not set up a lava trap, an auto farm triggered by reeds reaching a certain height or just play with creating wave patterns (or even making constructive interference between two waves?) One property of the pulses which i haven't explored is the tendency for items to flow upstream if placed at a certain point, maybe it has some use?

Anyway i'm off to go make a wave pool, I look forward to seeing how people use this technology!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Minecraft
• Floodgate
• Automatic Reset
• Reset
• No Reset
• Redstone
• Water
• Lava
• smoke machine
• lava trap
• wave pool
• pulsed
• wave
• automatic
• sand
• boat
• sand on boat
• rapid pulser
• gate
• water
• without
• pistons
• no
• piston

[dikkezeug321]

lol we have pistons now, so what is the need of this

[GGss6]

in 1.0...use pistons...

[SuperCheezyGuy]

I understand that this is beta 1.4, but this video is useless!

[Awezomecraft]

does this work in alpha because i play alpha and u know what alpha is awesome!

[numbencore02]

@dikkezeug321 Were you watching the video? See that piece of text in the top left hand corner? You know, the bit that says 1.4? Yeah, OK, have a nice day :).

[MigulFlash]

b4 i watched this i think i knew what u did

[saloprodutions]

@boxerdontcare yeah LOOK AT THE SCREEN btw i agree with him or her

[boxerdontcare]

video is in beta 1.4 morons...

[siimsiim3]

@dikkezeug321 the dumbest question in the world. this was beta 1.4 and obviously we didnt have pistons back then

[jensweetz]

you ding dong

[Dragonicafan]

THIS IS FUCKING 1.4 YOU NOOBS!