I was waiting for that. :-P

aarrgghh

What? What happened?!

so very pissed off with the way water flows

Downwards?

I have been trying to build a canal, water only flows for 8 blocks (unless it drops*) - any way I can think of for adding more after 8 blocks just has it flowing both ways and messing up the plan

*I cannot just allow it to drop as I need it to run for 800+ blocks and that would mean 100 drops, nearly the whole height of the world (120ish from bedrock to sky)

I see. And I thought this was a simple building game. :|

Why does it have to flow, and why are you building an 800 block long canal? :S

Hah, if you're doing what I think you're doing, I've been thinking about that too. And come up with nothing useful.

On a totally unrelated note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzzxS_MP8sQ

Aww, auto-parsing not in yet?

No and I really want it to be. I posted a video early and had to fuck with the code.

haha, that's too funny. It reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it.

And how is he flying and hovering around above what he's building? That could be very useful.

I wanted an easy way to send all my debris off to Xeno, we tried loading it into minecarts but they don't seem to run well with no-one in them, I figured a free flowing canal would just carry blocks along

that is amazing, but wouldn't help me :(

Ken: flying mod

Well, the video Xen linked to might do the trick – you could stick any number of minecarts on a gigantic monorail engine and just let it shuffle off to its destination. Mind you, I dunno how much work it'd be to create such a beast...

 

edit: actually, from the looks of things it seems like the only hard part would be building the engine itself, as the track seems to be just a row (with no corners) of redstone torches and (in an optimised version) some repeaters/delays.

Oh man that could be an alternative to my elevator idea :D It'd be about as fast as the elevators in Mass Effect, too :C

Have you seen how much wiring is needed? :((

I edited my post :$

And yeah, it looks like a lot but from the comments (and my head) I get the impression it could be done with much less.

But... it's a row of redstone torches the length of the entire track which need to sequentially go off and then back on. Which is a lot of wiring however you do it (especially over a distance of 800 squares :(( )

But yeah, feasible for a lift if it can be made to go upwards.