Comments on: Budswitch activated minecart station

By: eedze

eedze — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:39:34 +0000

@princekamoro i tried all these things. and i did not get it to work like that. what version are you on? i know they fixed some things in the snapshots. i am still on 1.01

By: princekamoro

princekamoro — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:37:43 +0000

Powered rail can receive power from blocks diagonally above and to the side of them. I do it a lot with redstone torches. In this case it looks like they are receiving power from the button blocks.

By: eedze

eedze — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:32:59 +0000

@princekamoro if i only put a button there nothing happens when i hit it. I also tried to rewire it so that the piston is activated from a different direction. and it doesn’t work either. only with this kind of setup i am able to power the powertrack

By: princekamoro

princekamoro — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:25:16 +0000

@eedze 1.0.0. Further experimenting showed that the button also has to be diagonal to the rail. Also, for the block to be powered, redstone has to either be pointing at the block without a corner or there must be redstone on top of the block. If you did that and it didn’t work, then I don’t know why our games are working differently.

By: eedze

eedze — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:18:19 +0000

@princekamoro i tried a few things because i already suspected something like that. but if i only put a button there, nothing happens when i hit it. also tried to rewire it so that the piston is activated from a different direction. and it doesn’t work either. only with this kind of setup i am able to power the powertrack

By: eedze

eedze — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:04:09 +0000

@princekamoro i tried a few things because i already suspected something like that. but if i only put a button there. nothing happens when i hit it I. also tried to rewire it so that the piston is activated from a different direction. and it doesn’t work either. only with this kind of setup i am able to power the powertrack

By: BlackOpVideos100

BlackOpVideos100 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:54:42 +0000

You sir are the pimp of redstone…

By: princekamoro

princekamoro — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:51:51 +0000

An experiment I did: take away the block the piston was pushing. The rail was still powered. Replace the piston with a note block. The rail was still powered. Finally, put a regular block (I used sandstone) diagonal to the block the rail is on and power it. Guess what? The rail was powered.