Today, we're going to try something a little bit different
This is actually thanks to a tweet from Jeff McSquiggles who in response to my question
What sort of redstone videos would you like to see this week? He responded with triangular piston door.
I've never seen a triangular piston door before this is so different from any other redstone door that
I've done before so you've got pistons for all of these blocks pistons for those blocks and
pistons for those blocks and pistons for that block will have a piston for the top block
So that will retract that one
Well, maybe we could move that block out the way and then this could be a double piston extender
Which means we have ones for those ones?
Ugh. Man, this is hard, so here's the deal at this point in time
We would need to have a full hipster door set up
Underneath this thing now for those who don't know what a hipster door is that involves a triple piston extension
With single block retraction not impossible, but definitely more complicated than most expecting so just to retract these blocks
We're going to need to double extend double retract retract those blocks then triple extend and then triple retract
But leave the blocks behind and then re-extend these pistons so that we can double extend them the back upwards on the closing
???
you know in these sorts of challenge videos
I... I really appreciate the fact that I don't have to work within like compact boundaries because this thing is already looking pretty enormous
So all I've really successfully managed to do so far is create a really big double piston extender
But this is going to do the bottom block retractions
if we just give it a flick
and then these will retract out of the way, and then we'll need to do a triple piston extension to retract these blocks back to here
We are making good progress though
Uh that's that's a good start at least we have an idea of how to do it now in case you're wondering the reason I'm doing
This using all of these pistons and things is because I really don't want to have like visible slime blocks
I want to make sure that all of this is looking lovely and we don't have to have
Imove-able objects in this area, for example, so that's that's pretty much everything for our first block retraction now
We just need to trip piston extend and then mostly triple piston retract
But we don't even have to do the last block retraction
So actually it's a tiny bit simpler, but this this circuit's already getting quite big
I apologize with a slightly repetitive nature of the start of this episode
But I just want to see if this thing is even remotely beginning to look like it's sort of kind of working
So you should have the extension you guys know the drill
nice, hehe
That's a no then
Absolute no .The funniest part about all of this is I don't seem to be getting any closer every single modification I make...
I Take that back. I absolutely take that back that was very good. Right, let's see what happens here
This should actually get us to the point
Where we are going to be level with the floor so this should be like the final block retraction almost?
Uh
Yeah, just chuck some redstone in there. I think that'll do the trick. Okay. Let's reset everything
Reset all of these sticky pistons and cross our fingers that this thing actually functions
So we should see as we know double piston extension, retraction triple piston extension, retraction
So we've got it back to the floor. We just need to have one more pulse
Go through these pistons here, and we are actually done
so if we just go out from
Where can we take an output from?
I mean we just have to run it into this
But as you know and as you can probably see
Things get a little bit tricky when you're working in such small areas
but I think I found a good un' and so we're against need 4 ticks or we're going to need a minimum
of 10 ticks, so you might as well go up to that's 12 ticks
And let's bump it up to 16 ticks just for good measure
And then that redstone signal is kind of going to weave its way
Through here, so we're going to kind of go across like this,
this can actually drop down
which means that that's not a problem this can get out the way we can place a block up like this and
then have redstone and a repeater
And That should be it. Full opening circuits
Oh yeah, and we also need to add in another redstone circuit down on the bottom here
Which is going to actually shoot out the blocks. So there's all ready to be closed nice and quickly that shouldn't be too difficult though
Monostable circuits and just lots and lots of repeaters. This is almost definitely one of my ugly redstone circuits
I mean look at this monstrosity but
Urgh
It works, it absolutely works and perfect timing as well
nice
aw nice
I've got a hipster door an ages.
I suppose I probably shouldn't get too excited just yet because it doesn't it doesn't close at this point in time
I still need to work that one out. I've done some proper spaghetti wiring here. It's all noodly and all over the place
It's going around and down and repeaters and everything but let's see
Double extension
Hmhm. There we go. It's so slow. This is such a slow Redstone circuit
But that does the trick so we have got
the main majority
Of this build done, so imagine here is the lovely
Triangle piston door in all of its glory
And what we've done right here is we have taken out that central section
Which is a very important central section indeed awesome, okay, okay.
What comes next I guess these pistons here need to be retracted that's really simple
We're knocking them down like dominoes now this thing is all coming together
So the next thing that we've got to do is wire up all of the side pistons
Which as you just saw shouldn't be a particularly difficult project as it does
mainly consist of just running a redstone line upwards which I'm pretty good at
So that should run up like this
And that should power all of those then we just have a slight tricky bit up at the top
Which involves this double piston extender and how were going to time that but if we take a look,
I mean if we put this in its open state
so this is currently the open state
that is there and then we're going to remove all of these just for the time being so right now it is completely open
If we flick the lever
We have got everything bar that block, we are so close and then there it is
Triangular piston door. Oh, how daft.
So to grab this block right here
I'm going to need to extend this piston retract that piston. Then extend
extend retract
retract, extend retract and then for the extension I need to do the complete opposite so that is
spit out that block
and then extend
okay
I think I've just about got that in my head okay, so I'm built that up with an extender
I've been doing so much redstone today that I almost forgot how to do that. So that's the double piston extender
We've got the pulse extender for this side
Now we just need to hook it up. So that the timings are correct
Are we done.
Oh no, it needs to spit out the block
Okay, yeah, that's no big deal.
I have managed to get myself so confused um...
I can't tell what's going on anymore? Just as a warning
I haven't played with any of the timings or anything here, but there is a chance that this could work
We need it to be a, we need it to be a dual edge monostable circuit
Okay
and the way that I'm making this dual edge monostable circuit is by placing a standard monostable circuit next to my other standard monostable circuit, but just inverting the pulse into it
I think that's the way the professionals do it isn't it
so let's see if the closing works first of all there is the triangle
and
Give it a flick
It does
It actually works right okay. I'm gonna put in the border of the triangle door here just so we can see
This in all of it's glory, if it does work on the opening here goes
There we go
We've done it. We've built a fully functional
triangular piston door in Minecraft this thing actually works
oh man, oh
That is beautiful. That is a thing of beauty, a thing of absolute awe and wonder
So I just want to extend out a massive
Thank you to Jeff McSquiggles for suggesting this challenge on Twitter and this actually might be something that I take on more often
Because Twitter challenges our worrieously hilarious you guys always come up with hilarious ideas
And this one was extra-special. It was much more complicated than I was expecting
but the fact that we have managed to get that to work which is essentially
a 7 block wide area at the base, and then it's four blocks tall as well. This is no small piston door
The fact that we've managed to get this to work is brilliant. I'm so happy with it
I really hope you've enjoyed this redstone video
Let me know down in the comments section if you want to see more of these Twitter challenges in the future
I'll be happy to take them on but unfortunately ladies and gentlemen that is all I've got time for today
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