Minecraft fish tank, auto restocking

I loved SnugSite's fish tank design (link below), but I didn't want to have to keep restocking the fish manually—which wouldn't even be possible in Survival because ice blocks cannot be picked up. So I made a version that restocks itself.

How‐to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf14J8FlGY8

Schematic: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17075876/Aquarium.schematic

SnugSites' original: http://minecraftfurniture.imgur.com/minecraft_fish_tank

It first appeared in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-h0_ot7yPE

SnugSite's site: http://minecraftfurniture.net/

To get the fish into the tank, pistons push the ice blocks forward, the hatches on top of the tank flip up, and dispenser fire the fish (into glass panes so they will fall into the right spots).

The system knows when the fish need to be restocked because the is a dispenser behind the scenes that spits an item onto a pressure plate. Since that item was dispensed at the same time as the fish in the tank, when it despawns and stops holding down the pressure plate, it's time to restock the tank (and shoot out another item to hold down the pressure plate).

Because item drops despawn after five minutes, the system can go forty‐eight real‐time hours before the dispensers need to be refilled, assuming they were full to begin with.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Minecraft
• pistons
• fish
• tank
• fish tank
• redstone
• 1.9
• dispenser
• hatches
• automatic
• self
• magic
• glass panes
• SnugSite
• terrarium
• furniture
• aquarium
• ice
• water
• item
• despawn
• timer
• MinecraftFurniture

[GoldEagleOfCoD]

Schematic please !

[BrowsOfSteel]

@GoldEagleOfCoD

Posted. Link in description.

[tucense]

Your fish seem to be dead.. lol

[BrowsOfSteel]

@CyrikRiand

Yeah, but you have to move them one block at a time with pistons.

[lolemannen86]

Haha, genius! Really cool ! :D

[UnknownPwny]

@THATSSSAVERYNICEHOUS ok ty

[THATSSSAVERYNICEHOUS]

@UnknownPwny Only in light

[Danzik9th]

Nice this is really cool

[UnknownPwny]

wont the ice melt?

[ElectronicPotato]

You, sir, are a genius!

[ViKoBiTrIgGeR]

my fishes are glitching over the tank -.-

[IGiveCommentary]

@Cactupia But you were responding to a comment written two months ago.

[Cactupia]

@IGiveCommentary I'm talking about the present time. You can mine ice with the pickaxe and silk touch enchantment. Not two months ago, I'm talking about the current time. :D

[IGiveCommentary]

@Peter4101 *Arrows, eggs, snowballs or splash potions.