Day One: Double Creepered

I started a new world today, starting in a mountainous area. I'm currently building a home near the river. I feel kind of awkward playing survival after a long break. But, now I'm going to start my survival projects. However, I feel my map making is taking the time I could be playing survival.

Anyway, I was exploring a cave system and I was killing some mobs. When I finished killing a creeper I continued with my mining, turned around and I was double Creepered. What a way to go as a first death.

Automatic TnT Cannon: Large Clip

This is what I was working on the past few days, an automatic TnT cannon. The cannon itself is relatively small compared to the redstone below. This cannon is actually quite complex so listen.

 The whole cannon works on a forty-eight tick redstone repeater clock, which means it takes eight seconds per cycle. The pistons loading the TnT as the propellant inserts them two at a time, or cycle. This cannon is designed so that after four TnT is inserted as the propellant, it'll ignite. Which means this cannon fires every sixteen seconds. Four TnT launching one TnT.

The picture above is the counter. It is used to move the sand when the time is right. The picture below shows the ammo used. Each row has ten TnT and when the piston is finished pushing the row, the counter will send a signal to push over the next row of TnT to be loaded.

 This is the mechanism used to store and push the propellant. Cobblestone from a generator is used to help push the TnT along.

 A vertical piston is used for pushing the ammo and the propellant along, they both use a redstone clock to time the cobblestone generation.

Redstone RAM, Simple Explanation

I'm sure all of you watched a video on Youtube where a person in Minecraft builds this massive redstone computer thing. I've always wondered how they worked. Perhaps I could do something like that in my Ambrosia map.


I believe I had figured it out. It's actually quite simple.

 This is a picture of a prototype cell. The piston t-flip flop is functioning as a memory cell and the "And" gate is controlling the input. I have this set up in a way where if I toggle the flip flop and push the button, the torch would turn off.

 Here I have a two bit RAM. Two cells working in unison because they are attached to only one button. Two inputs to toggle the flip flop.

 Here's what happens if I toggle both cells and hit the button.

Here's what happens if I toggle one and not the other.
Not really sure of what to use this for. All I can think of now is a pass-code door. If you hit the right buttons and push enter, the door would open. That seems too simple though.

Ambrosia Update 05-03-12

The 1.2 update has reduced all of my redstone in the lighting system to this...
One positive is that you'll now be able to do this with the ceiling lights.

Ambrosia Update 01-03-12

Why are there bones in the world of the dead?

I'm building Ambrosia in the order of the story. And so, I can say I'm more than 70% through the main story. There is an option to just steam through all the side quests, but I don't recommend it for those who truly wants to be submerged in the experience.


To find out what the picture means, you just have to play the map.