DoomFish – Minecraft Vertical Wires Tutorial | How to Transmit Redstone Signals Up & Down!

Hello everybody my name is doomfish in today’s video i’m going to be talking about a couple of different vertical wire designs in minecraft so all these are are different designs that are capable of carrying a signal either straight up or straight down or sometimes they can carry them both ways

So these ones have different functions like for example some of them will send a short pulse down every time we flick a lever some of them will send a continuous pulse up or down like this one we can see the lamp is on flick it again

Lamp is off and yeah so they do have different functions different applications and some of them have different resource costs pros and cons and i’ll get right into all that right away so the first design is a relatively simple one that can carry pulses downwards and this is the cobblestone

Wall here so all it is is you head up with some walls right here they don’t have to be cobblestone um whatever distance you want you can go all the way up to build limit with this design but i’m just going to go up a couple of blocks

At the bottom we’re going to want an observer facing upwards into that middle wall piece right there and then up here we’re going to want something sort of like this where we have a wall on the side here and above it we’re going to have a piston facing downwards

So every time we click this you can see that we actually do get a pulse out of there it’s kind of hard to see maybe this will be a little better we can see the pulse in our redstone lamp down there and the way this works is when we flick a lever

This uh wall will actually change to a wall post instead of just a wall every time this changes and i’ll change back and the observer can actually detect this right here so that design carried a pulse downwards now we’ll look at one that can carry a pulse upwards

So all it takes is some redstone dust and then we need to do some alternating layers of slabs up to the top to be kind of hard to place these but i would just generally do this so solid block slab block slab all the way up and we can see

That if we place down maybe one more slab right here and we’re going to place down our redstone lamp here and just place down dust all over here then we can actually carry a pulse upwards like so in a more compact space than we normally would be able to

Now this doesn’t work downwards you can see that we can just go ahead and do this and we can see that it won’t actually carry this pulse down to the bottom instead of using slabs we can do the exact same thing with glass blocks and it works

Just the same now something to note about this is that this is for the java edition and everything this tutorial is for that version but if you are on bedrock then this pulse will actually carry the signal downward so as you can see since we’re on java

Edition it just sort of stops right here even though it looks like it should continue and i believe on bedrock this will actually continue all the way to the bottom which is very convenient if you’re on that version next up we’ve got some designs that can work both ways both up and down

And the first one and probably the best one is going to be placing a sticky piston here and going ahead and placing 11 slime blocks on top like so and then a redstone block here leaving a space uh placing those sticky piston facing up then we can break this block and go

Ahead and just repeat this process however high we want and so what we can see is if we go to the bottom here we’ll actually i’ll place down a redstone lamp so we can get a good demonstration of how this works so right now it’s off

We can go ahead head to the bottom place down our lever and go ahead and see that this functions properly and there we go now the same design also works going down so we can see that we just rebuilt our entire thing but basically everything was facing upwards like these pistons

Were once facing up now they’re facing down and it still works the same way so this design is great if you have a pulse that it’s important how long it is so we can basically control how long this pulse is similar to our sort of staircase design

Over there but it does work both ways and something bad about this is that you can have some trouble with getting some of these materials if you don’t have the greatest slime farm then getting all these slime blocks will be difficult if you need to carry your pulse

Any long distance now our last design here is going to be one of the more unique ones in this video and that is going to be using some leaf blocks so we need to do is put a sticky piston facing upwards into a solid uh log block it’s very

Important this is some kind of log we’re going to leave a space right here and place six sleeves going up then place an observer into another sticky piston into another log and then go ahead and do the same exact thing with your six leaves when you get to the top or whatever

Point you want to stop go ahead and put a observer right here and we can treat this as our output so what we can see is that right now it’s off we click it once and we’ll get an observer output up there click it again get another observer output just like so

Now just like the slime block design this does work in both directions so we built the same thing facing downwards so we’ve got sticky business facing down observers facing up into these leaves and so on and it works just the same way so we get an observable out here every time we

Flick the lever now this is great if you don’t have as many materials again this is a lot cheaper it only uses leaves logs observers and sticky pistons you will still need some slime for this to work um one of the drawbacks is that it can

Be a little finicky i don’t have any problems with it in this design in particular but using this leaf design sometimes you get double pulses sometimes some weird things happen but with this design in particular you should be a-okay also it can be a little difficult so we can only travel

We can only use observer pulses here and if you have any length of sticky pistons or any length of distance you want to cover that’s maybe 20 blocks or longer it can take a while for you to actually get your pulse to travel as we can see we do have some degree of

Delay out here for the supposed to go all the way up there whereas with our other design it is more or less well it’s not instant per se but it is a lot quicker we can see that i can barely even look up this lever right here to actually see

The sticky piston moving and changing that redstone lamp up there this design is great if you’ve got the resources to do it and if you’re on again these are all for java edition but this is great if you have resources and this is great if you’re just

Starting out but you want to be able to transmit your signals in a compact space vertically so that’s going to do it for today’s tutorial i hope you enjoyed or found it informative and if you did don’t be afraid to leave a like and you can subscribe for more content

Just like this in the future and i will see you in the next one peace