Minecraft, A Guide To Redstone Part 5

Minecraft, A Guide To Redstone Part 5 (Analog Redstone)

This tutorial will teach you how to use analog redstone. Analog redstone is emitted from 4 objects within Minecraft these are (Daylight sensor, Weighted Pressure-plate (Light), Weighted pressure-plate (Heavy) and Redstone comparators with Tile entities (Tile entities: Chests, Droppers, Dispensers, Trapped Chests and Hoppers) as they're inputs.

A Guide To Redstone Part 1

A Guide To Redstone Part 2
A Guide To Redstone Part 3
A Guide To Redstone Part 4

Daylight sensors emit a redstone signal depending on the time of day so theoretically they're minecrafts version of a solar panel. At midday they emit a full strength redstone signal.

Daylight sensor at nighttime. There is no signal as there is no daylight.

Weighted pressure plates (Both light and heavy) emit a redstone signal when there is items on it. The light weighted pressure plates take less items to make a full strength redstone signal.

(32 Items on the pressure plate)

(A whole stack of items on the pressure plate.) 64 items gives off a full strength redstone signal.

Whereas the heavy weighted pressure plates do a weak signal with a whole stack of items.

6 Stacks of Items on a heavy weighted pressure plate.

A daylight sensor in a chest hooked up to a comparitor.

1 Items only emits a 1 strength signal

The chest must be completely full for a max strength signal to be emitted.

Uses For Analog Redstone!

A chicken farm which alerts you when its full.

The eggs go through a hopper into the dropper where a comparitor senses the eggs. If an egg is sensed it will activate a redstone clock which activates the dropper until is empty and the clock is switched off.

The dropper drops the eggs into a hopper.

Then a comparitor senses the eggs in the second hopper and activates some more redstone.

This is a board which shows approximately how full the hopper is.

When its full it activated a redstone clock which has note blocks on... thus making an alarm.

I hope you can make something cool with analog red stone. If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft

Signing off for now.

-Stephenkiwin

Minecraft, The Nether

Minecraft, The Nether

This tutorial will teach you how to get to and what to look for in the Nether.

This is a Nether portal. It is made out of obsidian (Obsidian is found in caves underneath the ground however you need a diamond pick to mine it.)

You activate the Nether portal you need to right click the portal with a flint & steel or a fire-charge. Then just walk through to get to the Nether.

Welcome to the Nether time to start exploring.

The Blocks And Terrain

Time to explore the blocks and terrain within the Nether.

Quartz ore can be found in the Nether. If you break quartz ore you get a piece of quartz and Xp.

Lava is everywhere in the Nether its found just as frequently as water in the normal world.

Glow-stone and gravel are found in the nether too.

Mushrooms are also found in the Nether.

This is soulsand. Soul-sand is used to grow nether-wart on.

There are caves within the nether much like the normal world which have lava in them.

Nether Fortresses

Nether fortresses are the only generated structures within the Nether and they contain many interesting things.

You can find chests within the nether fortresses.

You can find Nether wart in the fortresses which can be used to make potions.

The Monsters

This doesn't show all mobs just the most dangerous ones.

Blazes spawn in nether-fortresses and they drop blaze rods when killed.

Zombie pig-men aren't hosetile however if you punch one they instantly become hostile.

Ghasts are flying mobs which shoot exploding balls. When killed they will drop gunpowder and possibly a ghast tear which can make regeneration potions.

I hope you found this tutorail useful! If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft

Signing off for now.

-Stephenkiwin

Minecraft, Playing On LAN

Minecraft, Playing On LAN

This is a tutorial on how to play minecraft with your friends without hosting or buying a server. This teaches you how to set up a LAN server. (Note: This will only work if you are on the same internet connection)

Firstly you just need to open minecraft as you normally would. 

Then create a world. This is the world you will be playing on, if you want to use a pre-made world just open it.

Then once your world is loaded press Esc and then click "open to LAN". If you leave the world the server will close and you will have to reopen it.

Now adjust the setting you want the other players to be in.

Here is me and my friend zack (Aka Mangonaut_) playing on LAN together.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to set up your own LAN server. If you enjoyed the tutorial please leave a +1 or if you want to leave a comment. To stay up to date you can follow NextCraft on twitter on @the_nextcraft, follow the next craft blog itself or you can like the NextCraft Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TheNextCraft

Signing off for now.

-Stephenkiwin