My builds take too long, it's true. I spend so much time on these videos working on the builds
that I feature in them and I mean don't get me wrong. It's always impressive once they're finished and I love doing it
But today I thought I'd flip everything on its head and give myself a time limit, one hour to build a really impressive base
that is both decorative and
Also filled with interesting redstone contraptions just saying it
Makes it sound less and less possible, but I'm willing to give it a go
So let's get the ball rolling three two one go
I should have filled up my inventory before I started and found the spot that I actually want to build this thing in
Oh my word. Okay, this seems absolutely perfect. So let's grab ourselves a handful of bricks
I'm thinking yeah, we're gonna be using stone bricks for this one because I kind of want to go for an almost
forty vibe as in fort not 40, a fort
I want to make it look kind of a bit like a fort. I don't you know, I'm losing my marbles already. We're like
one and a half minutes in and I'm already losing my marbles
Good grief
And I've just spent a bunch of time fannying about and trying to work out how I'm going to do this border wall
But I think I've come up with a pretty decent design here
So we've got a bunch of stone bricks involved and we kind of have a fairly nice repeating pattern
the only thing that is a little bit tricky is placing in the stairs down on the bottom, which
Is a little bit fiddly, but I'm getting there that has to go all the way around though
That's gonna take a bunch of time. But with that being said, I am gradually getting faster at building this thing
But it's still
Definitely a very very slow process. I think we're gonna actually eat up around about 20
Maybe even 25 minutes by just constructing the wall. Is that everything? I think that might be everything it's it's about to rain
I think that is
This looks really cool already
Stop wasting time. I'm admiring my build, right?
Okay
So here is here is the the kind of template that I have for the actual base itself doesn't look too big
But we're going to have an underground element to this thing
And then it's going to go up into a small tower,
but there is extra security that I want to add to this thing a moat
Being one of them because moats seem like fun. This is already one of my most frantic videos
I don't know what's going on with me now
The moat should be a little bit quicker to construct because I should just be able to do a fill command
To clear out the space and it does seem to be working already
so 1 2 3 4 5 that will ensure that the player can't actually jump across and
boom
Ok space cleared. This is much much simpler than that silly wall
Now this little gap right here is going to be the entrance and I have some interesting plans for that but for the moat
Obviously, we as the owner of the house needs to have some way to get across this thing
So I was thinking that we build up some form of piston based drawbridge
So if we just start taking out some blocks right here. I'm guessing all we need is...
I
Mean
Yeah, all we need is it's a double piston extenders and that will that will literally do it. That's perfect
the only thing that I am a tiny bit worried about is
the the retraction of the double piston extenders and how the water is going to be because obviously, you know
We want our moat to not have any flowing streams in it. We want it all to be fully still water
And obviously this is going to push up through it that's going to clear out of the water and then it were when it retracts
Is the water just going to flood downwards and just kind of flow down like this. I'm not sure as you can
see, I'm going to take out these blocks here and place in some water sources and
hopefully
That should mean that it will go across it will create infinite water sources and then create infinite water sources again
But that is that is a big hopefully another big hopefully is that this command works exactly?
How I think it does because otherwise we're in big trouble right here goes
That actually that that's worked really really well so you like the horse is loving it
Alright, okay. So if we hit this button right here
I've broken all my redstone
*creepy laugh*
What an absolute nightmare
Okay, let's try that again
So if I hit this button right here, there is our drawbridge and that has worked perfectly on the extension it's the retraction that
I'm curious about here goes
Oh for goodness sake not again, I am so happy that double piston extenders are so simple in 2019
Otherwise, I'd be crying right now. Okay, let's try this again. So we hit the button.
Ah, I mean
It doesn't get much better than that. Does it and my idea for this hidden activation device?
Is that the player just breaks the button and takes it with them and then places it down when they want to use it
It's it's not perfect
But we're running low on time when in doubt of what to do next you place large quantities of berry bushes
And I have my random tick speed set to a thousand right now
Which means that placing berry bushes is a lot more satisfying than it normally is because they're growing almost instantly
This is this is great lasers who doesn't love lasers in real life and lasers in Minecraft are
Just as exciting it has been ages since I've bought any form of laser security system
And I have a feeling I might be able to do it a little bit easier these days
because if we chuck in some pressure plates over the top of these I
Mean that's that's gotta help surely right after a little bit of head scratching. I've managed to make this function
So if I walk over the top of these pressure plates here
You can see the Pistons fire and we get a redstone output through those repeaters down at the bottom there
So that means that yeah, the lasers are active
you don't want to be walking through this thing because this redstone output is probably going to lead to something that is going to be
Quite painful for the person that just went through the lasers
but if we flick this even right here, you can see the lasers switch off and
Now we can walk through safely
So what I thought we'd do to activate this thing is just hook up a redstone line to our double piston extenders
so when our little
Drawbridge activates across the moat it also briefly switches off
The lasers allowing us free passage into the base, which only took a jiffy
So if we hit this button right here, you can see everything has switched off
We've got ourselves a drawbridge that drawbridge will then be retracted and at some point in the near future
Eventually, the lasers will switch on now
obviously
We want it to be a decently long time
Because we don't want ourselves to get caught down by a laser system because that would be yeah
that'd be bad news now to think what that bad news is actually going to be I haven't really thought about what I'm going to
Do if the lasers do activate god, this thing does look cool though. Doesn't it?
This does not look bad, you know a change that happened to Minecraft recently
I think it was fairly recently that kind of slipped under the radar was the fact that you can now place things like redstone components
And minecart rails on top of glass and it is so so useful
Wait, hang on wait
So wait a second
That looks so much cooler than slabs
Why aren't more people talking about this, I feel like people just haven't noticed moving swiftly on from that
I think my defense system has been created Wow. Whoa Wow
Okay...
Oh no, I was about to say that it looks like it works well, but ah,
That was so close. Please. Stop breaking all my redstone. Oh, please stop
stop stop
Again Oh I give up
Finally after a lot of head deskin' I've managed to get this thing up and running now
It's a tiny bit slower than I would have liked
Ideally, you'd cross those lasers and instantly that would drop down and the lava would be dispensed
But still it's a good little system. We block off the entrance we dispense lava to cause damage
It's a good deterrent and now I've got all right about ten minutes to actually
Construct the heart of the base itself like the place
We're actually gonna be staying but first I mean, come on now
It would be rude of me not to build piston doors in this area here
Look it is it is asking for some massive piston doors. Okay. I can't help myself. I do however feel hot
That was an improper use of the word massive because it's just a little, you know, two wide by three high piston door
Really? I mean, I've been building these since way back. Anyway, I had some bold plans for what this build was going to be
I was gonna do a tower and everything like that
But I think with the time constraints this is as much as I can manage
but I gotta say actually I
Kind of quite like it. I like the idea of the big walled base and then the kind of underground area here
It's it's pretty sweet. We do need a way to get out though, because currently, we are very trapped. Come on
So we've got a storage system. I guess you could just stack those up then we could have in the chat in fact
Yeah, we could do everything here. So ender chest
Goes in middle we get a crafting bench. That's that and
Then we need an anvil
Okay, so this kind this corner here is kind of like the everything corner and then here we've got the bed
Very inspiring let's add some bedside tables and things and then over here
I think we need like a bulk storage system
And then we've pretty much gonna be out of time to be honest if we just add in some fake item frames with fake items
on the inside for good measure
Then that will just make it feel a little bit more homely. I suppose and that's it
times up times up one hour over and
This is what we got - I mean
I'm proud. I I never want to do that again, though
Is it's not it's fun
It is fun, but it's also
Stressful as anything and I think the issue is that I went a little bit too big on the scale front
I think I think I should have done something more this size and then just kind of built up from there
But no I went I went full big build. This is a big build
So I am quite proud that we managed to get it done within an hour and hopefully it serves as some
inspiration for anyone who's looking to build a base in a
Reasonable length of time in creative mode because as you can see it is possible to do something like this
Within a relatively short space of time and this thing has got drawbridges. It's got laser security
Systems, you've got traps lava dispensers piston doors, all that good stuff all wrapped up in one
Fairly nice-looking build. I'm fairly proud of myself on this one
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