How to make a WORKING CLOCK TOWER in Minecraft!

The other day i was really racking my brain up for ideas of interesting things in real life that i can try my best to build in minecraft and my head was going to things like castles and banks and other bits and pieces like that none of them particularly interesting but then

Clock tower came to mind how have i never bought a clock tower before i mean seriously i’ve been doing this for nearly six years now how has a clock tower not come to mind yet it’s insane but anyway regardless of all of that we’re going to get things started with

What is essentially a 9×9 area now the reason i’m saying essentially a 9×9 area is because this is the space that we have here this is 9×9 but then we also have some blocks poking out on the sides now these they don’t serve a purpose they they’re just there for decoration i

Personally think that when we expand the design upwards it looks pretty cool but of course you can feel free to do whatever design for the clock tower you really want to which kind of brings me on to my next point of this video which is that this this is going to involve

Quite a lot of building we’re going to be doing a lot of building work so if that’s not something you really want to see then head down to the description and click the little time that i’ve put down there and that will shoot you straight to the redstone segment of the

Video because i know that some of you only like the technical stuff holy mackerel how did this thing get here yeah i feel like i should mention that we’re going to be doing the building section of this tutorial in parts and this is the first part the base of the

Clock tower so you can see we have filled out our entire 9×9 area with the fancy poking out blocks as well and the way that we’ve done it is i have created some spruce wood struts that are going up the corners so we have some spruce

Wood going up like that and that kind of bulks out down at the bottom with fence posts and all of these stairs and things we also have this nice base area entirely made out of wood all of that’s looking pretty cool and then as we go more towards the central section with

All of the stone we have the stone bricks running across the bottom then three cobblestone stairs running across the middle with some upwards ones as well then this central one poking up in the center and then we have these now these are actually going to be extended upwards

Throughout the entire tower so that’s definitely something to look out for but this is how you build the base so i would suggest taking a whole bunch of screenshots maybe pausing the video a few times so that you can build this thing in your own worlds oh and of

Course well download will be down in the description if you want to see it in more detail if i remember i mean you know that i’m pretty terrible at that sort of thing so now that you’ve built your base it’s time to just stretch it upwards to turn it into a

Tower so what we’re doing is we’re taking what we had right at the start and extending it we’ve got the spruce wood going up we’ve got all of the stone bricks and everything like that being extended upwards as well and then we have this area here this slightly

Indented area which is just filled to the brim with different details now you can see in my hotbar these are all the different blocks that we’re using we’re mainly using these ones and this one for the actual innards the inside areas and then we’re using the fences and also the cobblestone stairs

Just for extra detail as well as a few stone slabs as well so you can see we’ve got some stone brick stairs we’ve got the whole lot essentially and you just do whatever you feel looks good you can go as crazy with this or as loose with

This as you like but i personally really like the way this has ended up looking so we’ve got a few fence posts going up the side here on the outer edges but nothing too serious most of it is happening in this indent so we go that should give you a rough

Idea how i’ve decided to build my tower obviously you can do whatever you really want with this but as i say extending it up by seven blocks your build should now be 11 blocks in total in terms of height and the way that we’re finishing off the

Tower is just by adding in some stone slabs up at the top here ready to build our clock this is where the clock is actually going to be going oh hey my reference clock tower has actually been over there the whole time i didn’t realize you could see it i thought it

Was hidden behind the hill i hope i hope you haven’t been able to see that throughout the video despite me kind of self-spoiling my own build this is what the clock tower is going to end up looking like so the face of it is a little bit complicated i’m going to try

My best to run through all of the details so we’ve got these stairs that fold inwards here then we’ve got the stairs running up like that and they essentially make their way around to create the edge of the face itself and then wrapping around here we have

Got this stone slab structure which goes up and down like that and it connects up using these fence posts and also this glowstone and then we have something similar happening up at the top now i’m hoping you’re getting all of this information if you do want to build

It for yourselves you’re going to have to pause the video quite a bit but then as far as the face is concerned we have three blocks at three blocks three blocks three blocks and it essentially creates a five by five area with the corners missing then we have all of these buttons

Which are meant to represent the different numbers on the actual clock face itself but the things that matter are these redstone lamps because this is essentially our clock it’s slightly different to a normal clock i’ll explain how it works later on in the video but that is how you build the clock face

Now in terms of the roof we don’t really have too much going on at the minute we just have a big hole ready for all of the redstone but we just have slabs going up like that and then we have the standard stone bricks and cracked stone

Bricks making their way around like this as i say get as many screenshots as you possibly can i’m going to show every possible angle of this so you know what you’re doing and now you can go away and try and build it for yourself oh one other important detail the back face isn’t

Going to have any redstone lamps on it so these three faces will but this one won’t it just it simply doesn’t work with a redstone now it’s time for me to explain how this clock actually functions so right now it is a first light which means that none of the

Lights are actually going to be on on our clock face then as the sun rises a little bit the first redstone lamp is going to switch on further into the morning the second redstone lamp is going to turn on it’s not quite midday but it’s also not quite morning anymore

It’s kind of in the middle about the time that you’d have brunch if you’re that sort of person so that’s when that second lamp will turn on and then as predicted at midday the third lamp will turn on and it will also play a little tune out

Of note blocks it’s pretty cool as a side note this thing also works at night so right now the moon is just coming up the first lamp was turned on then when the moon is a little bit higher the second lamb will turn on and finally

When the moon gets to about here the third redstone lamp will turn on now i know what you’re thinking why doesn’t it kick in at midnight uh that’s exactly what my plan was when i was designing this thing but unfortunately due to differences between the daytime daylight sensor and the nighttime daylight sensor

It wasn’t actually possible the nighttime daylight sensor seems to max out its redstone signal strength at around about here which means that i can’t actually detect when it goes over to midnight it’s a bit of a shame but this thing’s still cool and now it’s finally time to actually do some

Redstone stuff so the first thing that we’re going to do is we are going to place blocks going all the way up like this on each one of our redstone lamps and then we’re going to run it in comparators just like that and then running into the side of those

Comparators we’re going to run in some extra comparators now on this side we are going to run them out like that just making our way down here and then on this side unfortunately we can’t double these ones up so we’re just going to run them in like this

Then we are going to get hold of some chests now each one of these chests is very important because they have a certain number of items on the inside so this chest right here has got this many items on the inside now i want to make it very

Clear they don’t have to be redstone lamps if you’re sat there panicking thinking how old am i going to get six stacks of redstone lamps do not worry this can be dirt this can be cobblestone it’s just it has to be stackable so we’re going to have six stacks of items

Inside that chest there then for our next one we are going to have this many that is nine plus four so 13 stacks and then this one down here we are going to have 18 plus two so 20 stacks of items inside that chest and we’re going

To do the same thing again on this side so that’s that one six stacks that’s that one which is 13 stacks and then there’s that one 20 stacks running into these comparators here now i do just want to say if you want your redstone lamps to go upwards instead of downwards

Like my ones do then all you have to do is swap this chest with this chest and you may have to fiddle around with the number of items on the inside but that’s entirely possible in fact that might make more sense no i like it my way so

The next thing that we’ve got to do is actually create the system which is going to connect all of these up now the way that we’re going to do that is we’re just going to run the comparators out like this we’re going to have some redstone dust right there we’re going to

Have a block like this and then we’re going to have three blocks redstone dust and then redstone dust running up like that and redstone dust connecting all of those in and running into this block here we’re going to have a comparator and that is going to be the thing that

Is going to be powering this entire system so that comparator right there is extremely important from there we’re going to run in a redstone line with a daylight sensor on top that we’re going to switch through into night mode this needs to be the night daylight sensor

And then our day daylight sensor is a little bit stronger so we’re actually going to need to run this across like this and have redstone dust winding its way down there and then up here we are going to have our day daylight sensor and we should see at this current point

In time the first redstone lamp should be switched on because the sun is only at this point in the sky so that’s looking pretty promising now if you want to add in a little chime that plays when it gets to midday which let’s be honest

All of us do then you just need to run a redstone line down from here across like that with a comparator and then a block and then another comparator and then a block right here with some redstone dust and we’re going to be running that redstone signal downwards but for the

Time being all we have to do is place in a comparator and then we’re going to get our chests once again and this time we need to have a chest with this many items on the inside so that is nine plus eight which is going

To be 17 17 stacks of items inside that chest running into the side of that comparator right there cool so we are done for the top section we’re just going to cover this up with glass and then cover the rest of it up with stone slabs and that will finish

Off the actual exterior of the build now it’s time to head down to the bottom and actually place in all the note blocks to connect those in you just have to go underneath your block that you placed at the top of the tower and place in a

Sticky piston with a redstone block on its face then you need to count two blocks downwards and place a block right about there now if it’s midday this is where things get confusing that piston will be extended in which case you only count down one block because

The redstone should be powered then you need to pop out like this and try and locate it in the side of the tower and place in some redstone dust on top of that block right there so we’ve got redstone dust there and let’s cover that back over and go underneath once again

Because we now need to place in another sticky piston and then we’re going to need a redstone block on the face of that one from there we go one two three blocks downwards like that and place some redstone dust on top then place a block up like this redstone dust and

Then two blocks going across there with two repeaters both of them set to four ticks running into this block with redstone dust down at the bottom okay now it’s time to start chucking in all of your note blocks so we’re going to have a gold block which means that we

Get the bell noise which i would say is pretty good for a bell-based clock tower and we’re going to run that across like this into a bunch of them so we’re going to take a repeater set to four ticks note block and then another repeater set to 40x

Gold block note block you guys get the idea i’m going to wrap this around like this and i should end up with i think around about nine or ten either way it should look something like this just wrapping back around to the start now obviously if you’re musical and you know

How these things work then you can do whatever chime you really like but a nice and simple one is just to do a scale so we’re going to start off from zero let’s reset that one and then we’re going to right click on this one once right click on this one twice

This one three times This one four times you guys get the idea and once that’s finished you’re actually all done and dusted we can cover up this hole here and we can take a step back and actually check out the clock tower in all of his glory now let’s do a quick tester of the

System so if i set my time to 6000 for example It’s perfect there we go all of the lights are switched on and our chime has played and then we can set the times at zero and that will turn off all of the lights everything is functioning this thing is pretty cool so there we go a working clock tower in minecraft i hope

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