What’s going on creative people welcome back to another episode of minecraft pocket science my name is neon and today we’re going to take a look at how to build a hydroelectric dam a working hydroelectric dam that can generate electricity for buildings and for structures nearby all that you will need to build this Hydroelectric dam is some observers some basic redstone knowledge some sticky pistons and you’re good to go now in the case of this hydroelectric dam the water is flowing inside the dam down to the bottom and into the ocean nearby some hydroelectric dams have water falling out the front but this one has It on the inside if you would like to design one where the water falls out the front you will also be able to use the same observer system for that now let’s get started the first thing that you will need to make a hydroelectric dam look realistic Is a reservoir to build a reservoir like this you could use a very simple fill water function if you know how to use command blocks for such a thing if you don’t know how to use the water fill function you can also just use some simple blocks make a flat plane and Then use water buckets to put them on top to create your water level once you’ve leveled out an entire reservoir you can then go and delete the blocks from underneath and the water will fill up the entire space now let’s do a quick walkthrough of how this hydroelectric dam works There are two water intakes marked by the tiny little openings down below the water flows into those opening intakes once the water flows in it will flow past some observers which recognize a signal and will send redstone current into a generator which will be able to be sent to nearby Structures now let’s take a closer look at how the inside of this hydroelectric dam works to turn the falling water into redstone electricity so we’re going to go into the hatch to go to sub level one and hopefully we can fit down the hatch looks like we might need to lose some Weight let’s see if we can squeeze down there we go and fingers crossed yeah we made it all right team okay we’re now on sub level one so we’re going to take a look at how the function of the falling water works on this level so here is the Opening that we saw from the outside this is opening number one here we are using sticky pistons and the stone is just attached to each piston and moving back and forth with a current that is being sent from below The same exact thing is happening on the left side here where you can see that the opening is again being opened and closed by the sticky pistons sub-level one is for the piston system and the next level will be two and the next level is where the falling water generates a tick of Electricity so let’s go down to sub level two all right here we are on sub level two so now we’re going to go back to where the water opening was and look at it from down below so here you can see the pistons are still doing their thing And the water is falling in bits there is a tick of water which is passing these observers over here right so the observers look slightly different because we are using the city texture pack but a standard observer from the normal texture pack will do the job so the water falls past The observer on the right the observer on the right reads the signal sends it up into the torch and the torch sends electricity up to the pistons which in turn move back and forth in a continuous loop so what we’ve created here is a little bit of a continuous system which allows The pistons to keep moving and the water to keep being sent bit by bit so one more time falling water activates observer observer sends redstone current into the torch torch sends the power up and reactivates the piston at the top here the same exact thing is happening on the left side This observer is powering the left piston so it’s again sending the current out upstairs and creating a continuous loop of movement this makes your water system very efficient because you don’t ever have to come and re-toggle power there’s a continuous loop going on if we look at the second Water opening we have the same system going on over here so sub-level 2 is for the purpose of powering the pistons above when we go to sub-level 3 we will see how the falling water creates electricity that can be used to be sent to cities and to be sent to nearby structures so We’re gonna go down one more level Into the power generation room and let’s see if i can make the mad dash through the door ah got stuck let’s try it one more time typical minecraft scenario hit the door dash we made it this is one way to make sure that little kids that Are part of your realm don’t come in here and mess things up for you all right we are now in sub-level 3 and this is where we can see that the falling water will create electricity the falling water comes through here bit by bit and these observers that are placed here Are recognizing the signal sending it out and all of the combined signals from the falling water are being sent into one single current line which will even out the signal and stop it from fluctuating so much so we have one observer on the right and the second one observer on the right And they’re both sending a signal out the top one is sending its signal up on this line over here and the bottom one is sending it down on this one here the lamps are just there so that you can recognize that the power is being observed by the observers but also it Looks pretty cool once all the observer signals are sent into the power lines they can be gathered in one location which will make for a much more continuous electric current let’s try and get through this door mad dash didn’t make it let’s try it one more time ah the struggle is real people Here we go nope nope nope didn’t make it maybe i’m too tall oh yeah that’s the reason why i was actually floating well it was my fault let’s try one more time success alrighty so we’re gonna move forward into the area where all the signals are being gathered So the function of this room is to make the current nice and steady so as you can see the current comes in from here and it is fluctuating it’s turning off and on that’s not going to power a nearby structure very nicely is it because if you were to try and use that For your electricity your redstone would constantly be switching on and off and on and off so to make it smoother we have this part of the cycle over here now when the left side is not on the right side feeds an on signal in that way you get a continuous signal So the electricity is coming in from the right and left and meeting in the middle and then sending a continuous signal up so in today’s video we’re going to be trying to use this hydroelectric dam to power the nearby bridge that you can see over there we won’t be able to see The lights very well if it’s daytime so what we’re going to do is we’re going to change it to night midnight there we go so as you can see the city is currently being powered by a nuclear generator that’s on the other side of the city But the bridge over here that’s in front of us is in the off position so there are redstone torches here that are not powered at the moment and it would be useful to have this bridge lit up at night because it looks aesthetically pleasing and because if anyone’s crossing it with A boat car they can see the way let’s see if we can activate the lights on that bridge using the water that’s falling through this hydroelectric deck as you can see the continuous signal from the sub-level 3 is being sent upstairs into this line and the only thing that’s stopping it From powering the bridge over there is that i need to place a redstone piece here so i’m going to place the redstone piece and then we’re going to see the bridge light up with just the power of falling water here we go Something that is worth noting is that the hydroelectric dam can send a redstone current but because of the rendering distance of the game there is a limited distance to how far you can send the redstone current so be careful about where you place your hydroelectric dam and your object that you’re looking to Power thank you so much for watching today’s episode of minecraft pocket science we hope that you enjoyed the video and that you will be able to replicate something like this in your own minecraft realms good luck and hit that like and subscribe button to see more minecraft engineering projects neon out You Video Information
This video, titled ‘Power your Minecraft villages/structures with a working Hydroelectric Dam!’, was uploaded by Minecraft PocketScience on 2020-11-30 02:51:16. It has garnered 1747 views and 47 likes. The duration of the video is 00:10:03 or 603 seconds.
This video demonstrates how you can power your redstone buildings and structures with falling water in a hydroelectric Dam. Enjoy 🙂 Uses Pocket edition with city texture pack (works just as well with standart texture pack)