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shrike wrote:meh.
or have a roof already built.
or a gazibo with fence poles, and when you hit a switch the walls pop up around it. that'll be my new house.

you could always have a roof that is a tree canopy or hidden inside a tree canopy so it looks less out of place.


pistons and spikes are giving me all sorts of ideas on how to boobytrap my house. i wonder if players would take damage from blocks closing a passageway.

on a completely random note.. what about making bumper cars or a human pinball machine using pistons on ice and players in minecarts?

Deathklaat wrote:

shrike wrote:meh.
or have a roof already built.
or a gazibo with fence poles, and when you hit a switch the walls pop up around it. that'll be my new house.

you could always have a roof that is a tree canopy or hidden inside a tree canopy so it looks less out of place.


pistons and spikes are giving me all sorts of ideas on how to boobytrap my house. i wonder if players would take damage from blocks closing a passageway.

on a completely random note.. what about making bumper cars or a human pinball machine using pistons on ice and players in minecarts?

Closing blocks on a player shifts them out of the block and makes them take suffocation damage.

Pistons don't push people with much force but using an ice floor it is possible to push them a reasonable distance.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Deathklaat wrote:

shrike wrote:meh.
or have a roof already built.
or a gazibo with fence poles, and when you hit a switch the walls pop up around it. that'll be my new house.

you could always have a roof that is a tree canopy or hidden inside a tree canopy so it looks less out of place.


pistons and spikes are giving me all sorts of ideas on how to boobytrap my house. i wonder if players would take damage from blocks closing a passageway.

on a completely random note.. what about making bumper cars or a human pinball machine using pistons on ice and players in minecarts?

Closing blocks on a player shifts them out of the block and makes them take suffocation damage.

Pistons don't push people with much force but using an ice floor it is possible to push them a reasonable distance.

I have just thought of an awesome PvP idea!

An arena made of ice, walls lined with pistons, all connected to a bunch of clocks so they all fire randomly. All players start in front of one of the pistons, no-one is allowed to touch movement keys, just aim and swing swords!

Shrike, one of the walls of my house in Dakka town is about 3 blocks apart from your fence. I can shuffle it back a few blocks if it bothers you.

Lord-Loss wrote:Shrike, one of the walls of my house in Dakka town is about 3 blocks apart from your fence. I can shuffle it back a few blocks if it bothers you.

I'll go take a look.

Deathklaat wrote:

shrike wrote:meh.
or have a roof already built.
or a gazibo with fence poles, and when you hit a switch the walls pop up around it. that'll be my new house.

you could always have a roof that is a tree canopy or hidden inside a tree canopy so it looks less out of place.


pistons and spikes are giving me all sorts of ideas on how to boobytrap my house. i wonder if players would take damage from blocks closing a passageway.

on a completely random note.. what about making bumper cars or a human pinball machine using pistons on ice and players in minecarts?

bumper cars I was gonna have in my theme park with boats, but human pinball sounds cool. the arena idea I like even more though
tree canopy roof sounds cool.
Imma have a secret house built, where if you hit a switch dirt blocks move away to reveal a house in a hill.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Deathklaat wrote:

shrike wrote:meh.
or have a roof already built.
or a gazibo with fence poles, and when you hit a switch the walls pop up around it. that'll be my new house.

you could always have a roof that is a tree canopy or hidden inside a tree canopy so it looks less out of place.


pistons and spikes are giving me all sorts of ideas on how to boobytrap my house. i wonder if players would take damage from blocks closing a passageway.

on a completely random note.. what about making bumper cars or a human pinball machine using pistons on ice and players in minecarts?

Closing blocks on a player shifts them out of the block and makes them take suffocation damage.

Pistons don't push people with much force but using an ice floor it is possible to push them a reasonable distance.

i was thinking of pressure plates in the middle of an obsidian hallway and when the trap is sprung the walls close in towards the player from each end, thus pushing them towards the middle where trapdoors over lava open and the player burns to death.

sort of an extreme version of GET OFF MY LAWN or GET OUTTA MY HOUSE.

Deathklaat wrote:
sort of an extreme version of GET OFF MY LAWN or GET OUTTA MY HOUSE.

I have something similar already defending my "good" stash various false walls, bottomless pits and such pretty much doom anyone that ignores the signs

but obsidian can't be pushed...
maybe just the walls (cobble?) close in and suffocate the player?
or maybe as it closes have a sign reading "this way to safety" and a minetrack cart which leads to a lava guillotine?

Or just have an innocent looking switch next to a door.

Door goes nowhere and switch makes the ceiling touch the floor.

Or have the switch make the floor open causing you to drop into lava.

corpses, I prefer squishy to roasty

n0t_u wrote:Or just have an innocent looking switch next to a door.

Door goes nowhere and switch makes the ceiling touch the floor.

:L Imma building that.

Ohohoho I'm liking some of these trap ideas

Problem with squishing, suffocation kills slowly and you are shifted to the closest empty space when suffocated.

corpsesarefun wrote:Problem with squishing, suffocation kills slowly and you are shifted to the closest empty space when suffocated.

ah, but how will you do that if there aren't any space left?

shrike wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Problem with squishing, suffocation kills slowly and you are shifted to the closest empty space when suffocated.

ah, but how will you do that if there aren't any space left?

It can shift you through blocks any distance it needs to, you can test this already by filling a room with sand.

can you affix spikes to pistons? that'd be indiana-jones style floor-cieling spikes

How about using the same concept but horizontal? you get pushed by cobble made in the same way as the self building building house triggered by a pressure plate. this could push you into a lava pit!

How about bouncing bettys?
Tnt jumped up by those launchers.

haloreach4ever wrote:How about using the same concept but horizontal? you get pushed by cobble made in the same way as the self building building house triggered by a pressure plate. this could push you into a lava pit!

Possible however the pushed blocks would catch on the pressure plate.

Devastator wrote:How about bouncing bettys?
Tnt jumped up by those launchers.

No blocks can be launched by pistons so the best you could do it push the tnt up a bit before it explodes and destroys the piston and all controlling circuitry.

I think pistons can push other, unextended pistons

if so an underground chamber can push 2 or 3 pistons up that also extend in sequence, raising the TNT above the circuits and into the air to explode.

We don't know if pistons can push pistons but I doubt it, they couldn't in the mod.

So, the dungeon is nearly complete. I just need to make a few hundred stone to help with the beautification process.

Gah, this is tedious.

Try combining the piston, tnt, and a cobblestone fountain to continue to push the tnt up so it doesn't destroy the piston.

Melissia wrote:Try combining the piston, tnt, and a cobblestone fountain to continue to push the tnt up so it doesn't destroy the piston.

Tnt destroys cobble though?

The piston can only move the tnt 1 away from it and the blast radius of tnt it 1.5.

Castle is making good progress, houses starting go up and the yard is mostly filled with dirt:

Grundz, dont use the dakka gallery for non-wargaming images. Use photobucket or a similar service instead.

never

corpsesarefun wrote:

Melissia wrote:Try combining the piston, tnt, and a cobblestone fountain to continue to push the tnt up so it doesn't destroy the piston.

Tnt destroys cobble though?

A T A A C A L C W A P A A = any non-flammable block C = cobble L = lava (preferably not the source block) W = water (preferably no the source block) P = piston T = TNT

I was thinking something like that, with more distance as required, though it may require too long of a redstone chain. Sure it destroys blocks, but it DOESN'T destroy the valuable piston.

Oh yeah that would work fine mel.

So... I made a 16 wide by 30 long by 8 high room.

What should I do with it! It's safely underground, so Mob Arena is a acceptable idea. There is also very easy acces to alot of Lava and a lot of water from inside the room.