I've not seen it yet (will check it out tonight) but does your machine push water beyond it's flowing limit on flat ground?

 

I'm planning a moat and would like to fill it with water.

Does water trigger switches? Cos if it does I might start playing again and build a sea organ.

It's just a simple thing that opens gates letting water out in a wave-ish sequence. It's just a cart going back and forth on a track pushing buttons which temporarily close gates to cause the effect :) simple stuffs

So, carts can impede water flow then?

 

How does the cart move - is it a powered track? I've yet to get into the mechanical stuff of the game!

Na, the cart drives over pressure plates which turn the signal on/off for a piston which is restricting the water flow :)

 

And yeah - the track has powered bits in. Give it a push and it'll keep going forever :)

Say I wanted to move about 10 chests full of my stuff really really far. Can you make a train like thing to do that or do you have to keep walking back and forth?

A railway would be worth it if you want a more permanent route to go back and forth on, but if you only want to take everything one way once then it would probably be easier to just carry it.

You could also fashion one of these monsters and put all the chests on top of it:

Minecart + chest = storage cart.

Although I lost a bunch of (unwanted) cobble in a storage cart recently - possibly related to a known bug in 1.7+ - so I'm not sure I'd be inclined to trust one with anything valuable.


What I'd probably do is create ten chests at spawn, then go to the old place, use /sethome then /spawn and /home to retrieve all the bits you want, then travel to the new place, /sethome again and grab all the bits.

That's probably the best solution there Peter. Thanks for that.

And if you didn't know Shift+Click on the item moves it quickly without having to drag.

I did but thanks. That makes it soooo much easier.

I'm pretty sure it's already been discussed, but I don't want to have to reread this entire thread to find it - how many blocks high can you build from 'sea level' (I'm guessing the sea level's constant throughout the map).

 

Got a little project that's going to be 71 blocks high and I need to know whether I need to dig down to fit it all in!

Also - how easy is black wool or wool and black dye to come across?

 

Does anyone have any vast stocks of the stuff?

I think total height from bedrock is 128 blocks (I may be wrong). Try F3 for coords or /getpos

I'll do some experimenting tonight.

I like.

(Although notch is finally increasing the height to 512 for the 1.8 release.)

What's the thing with randomly generated structures or something? (I've not read anything just what's been on here)

Of course, it lies about lava, which can occur naturally at any level, and isn't guaranteed to be above bedrock.