Redstone Lessons With Robo – Part 1

Today I have a lot of time on my hands so I decided to write a blog post. Today’s topic: Minecraft. I recently started a new world for redstone. In case you are wondering what the heck is redstone it’s a item in Minecraft  that you use to make machines in Minecraft. I’ve been on this world very frequently making machines. Before I start telling you about the machines I took some screenshots of some of some things related to redstone that you might not know.

pressure plate
pressure plate: When stepped on it sends out a surge of power
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redstone torch: If placed next to redstone it powers that redstone forever until powered by another source of power
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redstone repeater: At some point a redstone circuit will run out of power at some point but if you place a repeater at the end of a redstone circuit it will strengthen the signal and allow it to travel farther
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redstone comparator: Comparators can detect if a item is a chest workbench furnace etc. so if there is a item in a chest and there is a comparator next to it the comparator sends out a redstone signal.
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redstone: If redstone is powered it can turn on machines like pistons or turn off machines like redstone torches
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sticky piston: When powered it extends to two blocks and can retract a block next to it or push a block next to it
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note block: If hit it makes a sound. it can make different sounds if placed on different blocks.
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hopper: It can take a item out of a chest or put one in
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dropper: Can throw a item if there is one in the dropper and it is being powered by any source of power

So these are the basic things that the following machines are made of.

The first thing that I made is called the death games randomizer2013-08-22_11.45.19

These are the materials you will need:

  • redstone
  • redstone torch
  • droppers
  • hopper
  • pressure plate
  • chest

So if anyone plays on a white listed server (the creator of the server has to invite you to the server) on minecraft you can build this and have a death games game on the server. So here’s how it works. There is a chest next to the machine and it is full of swords with people’s names on them. If anyone wants to play they put their sword in the chest that is on top. And then they step on the pressure plate that’s connected to the redstone that is coming out from the left redstone torch. Then when you step on the pressure plate it turns on the redstone which turns off the the redstone torch. When a hopper is being powered it doesn’t work so it is being powered until you step on the pressure plate and it takes the item from the sword from the chest and puts it into the dropper next to it. If someone else puts their sword in there it would do the same thing and so the dropper would choose one sword randomly and put it into the other hopper and it would be put up to the other hopper that is connected to a hopper which leads to the chest. When someone else puts their sword in and steps on the pressure plate it will put someone’s sword in the chest. What they will be able to do is if someone happens to walk by they could check the chest and see if someone’s sword was in the chest.

The game part is that there is going to be another chest with armor, a bow and a sword. They can sneak up on the person whose sword is in the chest and try to kill them. But if the person who attacks fails, they owe the person they tried to kill one diamond and vice versa.

This is only part one. There will probably be three redstone lesson posts.

If you have any suggestions to make my machines better please comment. Or you can tell me what machines you have made in Minecraft. I think I have an idea to may death games randomizer a lot better. See if you can guess what it is.

 

 

Camping!

Two days ago I got back from camping and I had a blast! 4 other families were there and all of them contained  at least 1 of my friends.The first thing I did there was play catch with one of my friends since he loves sports so much and since we were the only two families there.Then once all the families were there it was around 3:00. For dinner we had hotdogs [a tradition] and smores [another tradition] and went to bed at around 9:00.

During the night the cicadas were so loud that I could not sleep. Finally I went to sleep.The next day I was the 16th person up. At noon we decided we would go on a walk on a hike. We went on Sleepy Hollow trail first then around 5:00 a second hike took off . I wasn’t in the group .The last day was boring so i’m not going tell you about it.

photo credit: Al_HikesAZ via photopin cc

Minecraft Update

Robo here I am sorry if i haven’t blogged in a while. I have a lot of things going on in my life right now. Today I am going to talk about what’s been going on in Minecraft :D. I have been building a Roman type house that I have been thinking a lot about. It’s a 20-by-6 building  so it’s a pretty large building in terms of Minecraft. Here are some pictures of the building.

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roman house

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the roof pattern

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columns inside