[-Sara-]

May go practise on SP for a while with the pistons. Or make a slime farm: a place for slime to spawn in order to make sticky pistons.

[HoundofDarkness]

I fear that the only way to stop this empire's expansion is to quickly finish the Fenris and prepare it for orbital bombardment.  Or the peasants need to over throw the emperor.

If the rebels need a vampire for anything I will assist them!

(This is a great excuse for RPing )

[TrashMan]

Citizen. Your rebelious words have been noted!
As from october 12th, under the new law by Eye Cee Yu, Inquisitor of Internal Police, you are to report to the jugment chute #234 for your judgment and disposal.

- Shank Yu Nau, chief of Justice

[Venicius]

I fear that the only way to stop this empire's expansion is to quickly finish the Fenris and prepare it for orbital bombardment.  Or the peasants need to over throw the emperor.

If the rebels need a vampire for anything I will assist them!

(This is a great excuse for RPing )

Hear Hear!  Riots! Rebellion! Green beams of DOOM!!!

[achtung]

In an effort to prevent a possible conflict along our borders from spilling over into our homes, the council has decided to take action. We will be constructing coastal defenses, checkpoints, and barriers along our border with the two tyrants. All traffic from our neighboring territories will be seized and inspected along these checkpoints at the time of their construction in an effort to avoid smuggling of illicit goods.

Our defense forces will also be stockpiling supplies using our new grinder for use in the unlikely ever that military  units need to be activated.

[Sandwich]

May go practise on SP for a while with the pistons.

Sticky pistons are disappoint! They're only sticky while moving, so my elevator is completely borked when descending...

[-Sara-]

Make another shaft for down which pushes the elevator to a neutral point then? Like a vertical conveyer belt.

Highest level

[>>|E|>>]
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[<<|E|<<]

Lowest level

[ ] space for elevator
[  |E|  ] = exit, centred.

[HoundofDarkness]

In an effort to prevent a possible conflict along our borders from spilling over into our homes, the council has decided to take action. We will be constructing coastal defenses, checkpoints, and barriers along our border with the two tyrants.

Who's boarders?

And who is the 2nd tyrant?   

[Sandwich]

Make another shaft for down which pushes the elevator to a neutral point then? Like a vertical conveyer belt.

Highest level

[>>|E|>>]
[^]      [v]
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[^]      [v]
[^]      [v]
[^]      [v]
[^]      [v]
[<<|E|<<]

Lowest level

[ ] space for elevator
[  |E|  ] = exit, centred.

I thought of that, but you can't ride something that's being pushed downwards.

[TrashMan]

Waht I don't understand is why the patch is even realsed befiore the bukkit is ready.....

[TrashMan]

One way to make an elivator that springs to my mind is to put a piston on a piston on a piston....on a piston.

Say if your floor is 4 blocks high, then you put 4 pistons on top of eachother in a 4 blocks deep hole. Then activate all 4...whihc should lift the player up to the next floor. Deactivating hte pistons would lower the elivator.

[Mongoose]

*insert yo dawg joke here*

[pecenipicek]

Waht I don't understand is why the patch is even realsed befiore the bukkit is ready.....

bukkit is not notch-made.

[Pred the Penguin]

One way to make an elivator that springs to my mind is to put a piston on a piston on a piston....on a piston.

Say if your floor is 4 blocks high, then you put 4 pistons on top of eachother in a 4 blocks deep hole. Then activate all 4...whihc should lift the player up to the next floor. Deactivating hte pistons would lower the elivator.

That's what I thought, too.... but can pistons be placed on pistons?

I haven't updated yet, playing around with Better Than Wolves mod. It has elevators which are insanely easy to implement.

[-Sara-]

There is already a bug where if two pistons push something fast back and forth and a third pushes that block away the engine cannot keep up and dupes the block.

[Sandwich]

My elevator was indeed made out of a column of sticky pistons, one on top of the other. It worked in the mod version of pistons, but the official implementation of pistons change the sticky behavior so that blocks (or pistons) only remain "stuck" to a sticky piston while it is retracting. Once it's retracted, if it's then further pulled by a 3rd sticky piston, it won't bring along the first one with it. In other words, you can chain-push pistons, but you can't chain-pull them.

EDIT: BlueFlames, I presume you deleted your reply due to the obvious bug in the idea you suggested therein? #emailnotificationsFTW

[BlueFlames]

EDIT: BlueFlames, I presume you deleted your reply due to the obvious bug in the idea you suggested therein? #emailnotificationsFTW

That's the long and the short of it.  It'd have been a markedly less stupid suggestion if pistons were physics blocks, though.

[pecenipicek]

in other news, my server is updated to the new version.

[Pred the Penguin]

My elevator was indeed made out of a column of sticky pistons, one on top of the other. It worked in the mod version of pistons, but the official implementation of pistons change the sticky behavior so that blocks (or pistons) only remain "stuck" to a sticky piston while it is retracting. Once it's retracted, if it's then further pulled by a 3rd sticky piston, it won't bring along the first one with it. In other words, you can chain-push pistons, but you can't chain-pull them.

EDIT: BlueFlames, I presume you deleted your reply due to the obvious bug in the idea you suggested therein? #emailnotificationsFTW

Can you use redstone repeaters to try and make it work?

[TrashMan]

Waht I don't understand is why the patch is even realsed befiore the bukkit is ready.....

bukkit is not notch-made.

So why does the server not work until a bukkit comes out?
A modded server?