Would say on the list of cool and interesting things nuclear actors go pretty high on that list [I] mean from an engineering standpoint
They were incredibly impressive. There's loads of difficult engineering going on
They're [just] [tons] of bits and pieces that I personally don't fully understand and also of course on a scary standpoint
They're pretty impressive too. I mean I know it rarely happens, but when a nuclear reactor explodes well, you certainly know about it
I mean It causes a huge explosion also covers the entire surrounding area in radiation which stays there for thousands upon thousands of years
I mean that's impressive, and that makes it very cool now unfortunately in Minecraft right now
We do not have nuclear energy, and we don't have nuclear reactors
But I thought would be a fun redstone project to work on so let's begin so the first thing I've done it is created this
15 up by 15 of by 10 block D bunker that
Drops down into the ground now. I decided to use iron blocks for this one
Just because I feel [like] they look reinforced and industrial
And that's the sort of thing that we want [to] be going for here because of course we're building a nuclear reactor
Okay, you don't have like pretty wood and leaves and [things] like that and a nuclear reactor
Nope you have iron. You have like redstone hard-looking blocks, and that's what we're going to be going for here. So the next thing
I'm going to do is create the control [world] system
and I'm going to start that off down the bottom so I'm going to go three blocks in on either side that's going to be [around]
About there, and I'm going to place a sticky piston
Every block just like this, and then I'm going to do the same thing going across right here. So just like that
So we're going to create a full by [four] area of sticky pistons
Just all facing upwards in this sort of grid formation and then on top of those sticky pistons that we against place yet more
sticky pistons and then on top of those sticky pistons
We're going to place in at the slime blocks and also these black stain dat glass box
Just like this now these are all going to be the control rods which essentially cool down the nuclear reactor?
They stop it from overheating and exploding. So these are pretty important all of these are now looking lovely
So we're going to chuck in all of the redstone across the bottom
Just powering all of our [bottom] [sticky] [pistons] because if you haven't quite guessed yet, we're creating double piston extenders at the bottom here
So all of this redstone is power all of those then on top. We're going to have a removable objects
I'm going to be using obsidian because once again these need to look like solid
Industrial blocks and something about obsidian just looks really wrong solid so I'm just placing all of these and then until all of those
We're going to need our redstone in once again. So that's just going to make its way around
Connecting up all of these and that's of course going to do our double extender
[this] is going to power the second piston, but then to do the final block retraction
We actually need to place some blocks down the bottom here which are going to power our pistons
When they need to retract the final block and the only way [that] we can do that is
Create this sort of waffle shape that we're doing right here, so as you can see
I'm just placing it redstone in between all the blocks going down like this
And that will do it the second block for traction to power all this stuff
I'm just going to place a couple blocks at the end like this with redstone at going up like that
And then I'm going to have a repeater and a repeater set to four ticks
With a block right here and a repeater set to two ticks and that's basically going to do the double
extension and also the first block retraction then for the second block retraction
I'm going to need a falling intimal a stable circuit and the way that I'm going to do that is we're placing blocks in a
Bit like this with a repeater
Running out into our steepest and facing upwards with a block on top to create a monostable circuit
And then we're going to have our repeater that's going to be running out into a block up like this
we're going to have another a movable object right there and
Some redstone and keep things symmetrical we're going to do exactly the same thing on the other side
so we need to place a redstone torch and then our repeater our monostable circuits and
Our other repeater running out into the block with the a movable object and the redstone dust on top now one very
Important thing to notice is that
This repeater right here has to [be] set to three ticks because otherwise it will fire out all the blocks
but now if we run an input into this thing you can see we get our double piston extension as looking lovely and
Also our double piston retraction which looks awesome, when they're all in sync
Just like that, and that is the bottom layer of our control rods all fully functional now
[it's] time to place in the fuel rods. These the actual uranium up which is going to cause our nuclear reactor to work
So put on your hazmat suits make sure that you're all safe and sound before you start touching this stuff because otherwise you know it
Can do some truly terrible things to you?
But we're going to place three blocks in going upwards like that
Those are all our uranium blocks
And they are going to make their way across just
Like this in this sort of formation and we're going to create a grid [of] them in between all of our control rods
So where this redstone [crosses] essentially where we have this sort [of] cross going on that's where uranium is going to be going?
That's where it's going to be popping in and that means that when we extend our control rods that will essentially pop up in this
area in between our fuel rods
which are the uranium or the [epital] blocks and
That means they should end up looking pretty cool in fact
I'll quickly demonstrate [to] you
How it looks so we do this?
And then look they all extend between and it looks nice [or] at least I think looks nice
So we have to do is you have to fill in at that full grid take it right the way out to this [error]
Right here, and it should end up looking pretty cool
So obviously we've got the bottom control rods, and we also have the nuclear fuel rods. Which is pretty good going so far
I mean, I would say that the development of this is gone considerably fast in the development of a real nuclear reactor
So I suppose that's a positive, but now we're going to start work on the top control rods and to do that
I'm going to place three glowstone up like this
And then a [glowstone] across there and we're going to place a line of glowstone
Go right the way above all of our control rods
so there is the bottom control Rod and this one lines up with it perfectly and this one lines up with it as well and
we're going to do a bunch of lines going right the way across just like this so a line of them there and
then another line [of] them right there [and]
Another line of them above the final set of control rods then on top of all of this glowstone
we're going to place in a bunch of Redstone and
That just goes in like this, [and] if you're wondering why I'm using Glowstone
[it's] because it's a
Transparent block
That you can also place redstone on top of which means that we don't get any bud powering of the pistons
Which is pretty essential because otherwise all of them would stay extended and your control rods wouldn't be working properly
But anyway
We now need to place in a sticky pistons in this sort of formation right here directly above where all of your bottom control rods
Are and those should go in just like this and then on the faces of all a sticky pistons
We're going to placing in the black stained glass
So black stained glass on all [of] their [faces] now powering this one is actually Gonna be dead easy
I'm just going to place in some glowstone on the ends of all of these with our redstone art once again
I'm going to place solid blocks in all of these just because I think it looks pretty cool
And we're going to run at that redstone down a little bit. Just like this redstone on top just like that
We're going to take out our lever that we [placed] down earlier sticky piston facing downwards with a redstone block on its face
Which means that that block will extend down up powering all of this circuitry and that is the input line for the entire thing?
so if we place in a lever right here
And give it a flick you can see that all of the control rods extend and this essentially shuts off our nuclear reactor, okay?
So this stops any nuclear reactions from occurring which means that if things are overheating for example or we don't need that much power
We can actually turn it off and that will that will shut everything off and then we want it to turn back on again
We do is flick this even right here all of our control rods are attracted and we get full nuclear reaction happening which means I?
Probably shouldn't be standing here. I mean, I'm clearly not in the correct safety gear
This is very very bad [for] me the actual nuclear reactor itself is pretty much done. [I] mean, that's it
That is [a] simple mechanism. We've just created right there the control Rod system is all in place
[so] now I'm doing is I'm working [on] the water area
Because for those [who] don't know most nuclear reactors basically work by heating up
And then that heats up water the water then evaporates turning into steam which travels through a turbine which spins that turbine
generating power
So now we have to do is actually create
the water Holder
And they'll go to placing all of the redstone up at the top here and one thing that I will [just] say is as you
guys know water and Redstone
Do not mix particularly well
Okay
Make sure that your water does not fall through any gaps that you've left and just completely destroy your [redstone] build because well
Then you're in [for] a pretty bad time
But now I'm just going to cover this thing up leaving a 3X3 [hole] in the center
just One thing to mention for those of you who are building at home the ends of your water holder should match up with the ends
Of the emerald blocks or your fuel rods, or the water should line up with the ends of [your] control Rod
So hopefully that should give you a rough idea of the size of this thing
anyway
Now what we're going to do is
We are going to take a pipe output from this thing and we're going to take up by Six blocks
So that is one block right there, so one block of the pipe of two three
Four five six [and] that's going to run up to the top right there and when to do that on all four of the sites
Next up in the center of our pipe
We're going to placing in the various different fans and things we're going to have in here. So we're gonna have one fan there
we're going to go up another block and we're going to create another fan in a slightly different position and
Then the final fan up at the top right here now obviously while going to have to use some imagination of this one
Because well they just look like
crosses and exes and things but in the grand scheme of things
I [think] that's probably a good start now the next thing
We're going to do is actually create a moving turbine system, and you guys have guessed it
We're going to be building up the famous piston feed tape
I absolutely love these things you guys have noticed then the comments section
I love these things, but we need to place in one set of pistons that are facing in this direction
And they need to leave a gap or one block in each direction right there
And then you want to do the same thing on the other side, so another line of pistons traveling up like this
Just in that direction once again
We've got a gap of one block right there and a gap one block right there then in this direction
We're going to have another line of [pistons] going up like this
there we go and
Finally in this direction right here
We need to place another line of pistons
Going up in this direction right here now for those of you who haven't built a piston feed tape before
You may notice that all of these pistons are facing in [different] directions
And they're all facing across like this and then across like that then across like this and across like that
And that is because we're going to be pushing blocked in a cyclic formation
Now for some of the redstone wiring so we want to place in two blocks against these pistons right here
Which are above all the secretary and they go up a little bit like this
And then on top of all [of] those we're going to place in Redstone
Just like that
And then you want to place a block up like this and another two blocks running across on that side as well
So you're two blocks?
Going across like [that]
And then in the center of all of those you can take out those blocks and place in a repeater
Set to two ticks
We've registered us right there
so repeater set to two ticks for incident -
Repeater set to two ticks and you're ready to send us and then you want to do the same thing on the other side
But just basically flip it around
so once again two blocks two blocks and two blocks two redstone dust on top of all [of] those and
Then down on the bottom here. It's broke up like that
Redstone dust and a repeater set the two ticks and just do the same thing
once again all the way up to the top see your blocks and
your repeaters two ticks Redstone Redstone
And our repeaters set to two ticks so that is pretty much all of the timing circuitry done now
We need to create a redstone clock some mana stable circuit
And then the system to transmit the signals up through all of those to connect up all the [redstone]
We're going to place in a block down the bottom here
and then glowstone basically wiggling its way right the way up to the top just like that, so
Diagonals all the way across with redstone going up just like this, and then do the same thing on the other side
That's a block down [the] bottom right there
We've redstone like that, and then glowstone wiggling its way all the way up to the top
We've redstone once again
Connecting up all of those then we're going to place a block down the bottom here with Redstone dust right there and do the same
Thing on the other side and then we just need to create a line of redstone
Which is going to connect up both of those so I'm going to make a line of blocks. Just going across like this
We're going to place three [blocks] there
And then a bunch of blocks on the lower level going right the way across and repeat the same thing on the other side
So look up like this
And then we run the blocks out like that with a repeater and redstone running across off in this direction here
We're going to run it to around about that point and then a repeater we once again at Redstone up running
It across like that now we need to find that the central block so I would say that
Block right there is going to be our central section
So we're going to take out all [of] these right here [place] some redstone right there a sticky piston facing upwards with a block on
Its face and do the same thing on the other side and then a repeater running into that redstone and a repeater running into that
Redstone and down the bottom here
We're going to place a block with a redstone torch of facing upwards which should trigger our system
You heard all of the pistons firing and then running into that we're going to have ourselves a comparator
With a hopper clock with one item on the inside
So if we just place all of this in just like this you can see when we place in the item we should see
All of our pistons [it] will all start firing and they are perfectly in [synced] that is the way we want things to work
but for now
I think against place a lever down here and shut off [the] mechanism because otherwise that will [drop] [in] [math]
Final details now first things first I need to place in a line of blocks going out from [that] redstone right there
Into the sides of our hoppers and what that means is when our control rods are extended our
Hoppers will be shut [off] which means that our turbine will not be moving because of course the nuclear reactor is turned off there are
No nuclear reactions happening there which means that there's no steam running through the turbines which means the turbine should be moving
But then when we flick the scene right here
Obviously our control rods retract and that means that our turbine should be working you can see all of the pistons [fine]
So now we have to do is actually fill in our turbine with blocks and the way that I like to do it is
By alternating glass and iron blocks, so what you have to do is find a set of pistons
With just redstone running into them that not the repeaters
and [we] need to place a block and
then some glass and then iron block and then some glass then I am blog and then some glass you guys get the idea [but]
Then when there is repeaters you have to skip that block and you need to continue on your pattern so iron block glass
iron Block glass iron block a glass
It's fine because Redstone is right there so that needs to be up against that piston and then once again. We make our way around
just like this, and then the glass skipping a block because of course you've got the repeaters there and
Just carry it on until you reach the end and it should work out absolutely perfectly then you need to repeat that process
Right the way to the very top
So this is what we've created
And we have now finished [on] Nuclear power station on Nuclear reactor build and I have to say it looks out to you fantastic
So currently all of our control rods are extended our nuclear reactor is shut off, but when we flick this even right here
Everything retracts all of the control rods
Have been retracted which means that we have nuclear reactions happening
And that means that the steam is running through the system and our turbine is turning which is giving us power
We now have power from the power station. Which is awesome
So this thing is now fully functional obviously if you wanted to you could then build like a big
Protective dome around this thing are they normally do in Nuclear power stations which would look epic
I personally think this is an awesome build for your world
It's just one of those fun projects to work on it, and I hope you've enjoyed it
But unfortunately ladies and gentleman that is all I've got um today [if] you did enjoy this video
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