A Working Redstone Elevator! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Lets Play) [S2E95]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode we’ve got a fun project that we can add to the end of this little mine shaft here because i was thinking where is this all going is

This going to another part of the base is this going to something that we can build aesthetically speaking or is it going towards something that we can actually use and then i figured i could check the coordinates of this mineshaft here and compare them to other regions

Of the base and wouldn’t you know it but this section right here which now i’ve lost haste i can’t actually install mine out let me go grab the beacon effect very quickly one more time there we go okay we got some haste so if we dig out this wall here this actually coincides

With a spot that doesn’t have any of the machinery it’s not going to interfere with the area downstairs where we have our copper aging facility and so what i thought we could do today is set up a redstone powered flying machine elevator which is going to take us from this

Level all the way down to the copper aging setup because to get down there right now all i’ve been doing is jumping down the hole that has the beacon because naturally it has to have sky access so it’s a hole all the way down to where that beacon is set up and now

That we’re no longer strip mining too much of this area i might end up removing the beacon relatively soon we need to do a bit more terraforming around here it’s nice to have it digging out tunnels but there are places elsewhere that we could use that beacon

And honestly having the giant ray of light beaming up into the sky is not always my favorite thing about beacons so in an alternative way of getting down to the copper aging setup and considering i’ve been pulling all of this copper out of the walls as i go

I’ve got a couple of like stacks of blocks of raw copper going in my inventory right now why not have a redstone powered elevator that’s going to take us down to the biggest redstone contraption we have built in the series so far and it’s an opportunity to look

At vertical flying machines which are not something we’ve really covered in the series so far and they are something we’re gonna have to build a little differently to the other flying machines in order to get them to work properly now unfortunately as with previous episodes we’ve done on redstone

Contraptions and flying machines i can’t guarantee that this is going to work the same way on bedrock edition because this relies on a couple of redstone behaviors which are kind of unique to java edition we’re going to be using stuff like quasi connectivity which a lot of flying

Machines rely on anyway and this is a pretty compact design which unfortunately isn’t going to be the case on bedrock edition i think the same is still possible on bedrock edition if you reconfigure the flying machines but it’s probably not going to be as compact as

It is here in java before we go any further let’s head out to the planes opposite the drip stone cave base so that i can show you a brief demonstration of how these vertical flying machines are going to work i’m going to set one up over here we’re

Going to need a couple of unpushable blocks to start with i’m going to be using furnaces for this but obsidian is a pretty common pick you can also use basically anything in java edition that has a gui with the exception of shelter boxes because they break when pushed but

You know basically anything like you know a container like a barrel or something like that is not gonna be a pushable block and of course it rains when i try to demonstrate redstone stuff outside so uh maybe he will go over to the savannah instead there we go it’s a

Little gray and cloudy here but at least it’s not raining so we’re going to put down a couple of furnaces here these are going to be the stopper blocks for our flying machine then we’re going to pillar up into the sky where we’re going to place a second set of furnaces and

These are going to be our higher up stopper blocks to make sure the flying machine doesn’t just take off and head towards the build limit normally when we build a flying machine we’re building it horizontally so we have a sticky piston facing into a slime block there a sticky

Piston facing into a slime block there and two observers parked on top of this thing attached to the slime blocks on either side and feeding redstone power in diagonally to each of these pistons so the whole setup looks like this pretty compact and very easy to set up unfortunately you can’t orient this

Whole thing at 90 degrees to get a vertical flying machine it doesn’t quite work that way because you might presume that you need a sticky piston facing upwards with a slime block up there and then a sticky piston facing downwards with a slime block attached to the face

There and then you gotta figure out where to put the observers you could put one there and put one there so the redstone outputs face towards the pistons but unfortunately quasi connectivity does not work diagonally sideways it only works vertically so when we take a torch or a helper block

And try and activate this machine neither of the observers actually activate anything you might think we could have the observers facing into the side of the slime blocks as well but unfortunately that just creates a redstone clock because it has the potential to activate this one piston

Over and over again and if you activate both the observers the timing breaks the machine entirely and it ends up needing to be broken somewhere along the lines so that you can turn the whole thing off the good news is making a vertical flying machine doesn’t require all that

Many more components we just need one extra slime block we’re gonna start by pillaring up with two slime blocks we’re gonna place an observer facing that way we’re going to add a sticky piston on top of that with a slime block on top of it and another sticky piston facing

Downwards that’s going to push and pull these two slime blocks which will push and pull the observer and the piston attached to their sides last of all we attach an observer to the top slime block facing this way and that is going to provide power to this sticky piston

Which is going to allow this whole thing to move up and down depending on which observer we activate now if we place a torch underneath this observer you’ll find the entire machine taking off towards the sky and stopping perfectly on the furnaces that we placed up there and then if we

Activate this observer now it’s going to have the entire thing come back down and if we ride the entire thing down we can actually use this as an elevator platform although not a particularly attractive one so there are other configurations of vertical flying machines of course you

Can build these things in many different ways but the way i’ve built it actually allows you to build it with honey blocks as well and that means we can have these machines flying side by side next to each other and as long as they are activated at exactly the same time

Possible to trigger both flying machines at once allowing them to act as a coherent mechanism allowing them to act basically as the same machine so i’m going to set up something down here so that we can activate two observers at once because of course if we put something underneath that observer right

Now it’s just going to launch the slime block flying machine but then if we repeat the same process with the honey blocks we have two flying machines working right next to each other side by side the reason we have to be more cautious around honey blocks is that

They do not conduct redstone power in the way that slime blocks do so it’s actually kind of difficult to build a flying machine that works with honey blocks adjacent to slime blocks because you need to make sure that the observers are powering the pistons directly or indirectly potentially with quartzite

Connectivity instead of trying to channel the redstone power through the honey blocks themselves but now if we grab a button out of our redstone box and we activate that redstone wire both machines activate in tandem and the whole thing starts flying up towards the sky which thankfully is clearing up now

That it’s morning now let’s see what happens when we activate one of these machines at once just to make sure that you understand exactly why we need to build these things to work in parallel if we activate this slime block flying machine now here it’s still going to work because the

Signal from that observer is actually activating all of the pistons around it but then if we update an observer down here let’s say if we remove this redstone dust yep that’s just taking half of the other flying machine away with it so unfortunately when we do something with this flying machine it’s

Not a flying machine anymore it’s not going to do anything then up at the top here we can see that this honey block has grabbed the observer from the side instead of it being level with the other observers so unfortunately this whole contraption is going to break a couple

Of different times as it goes back down it’s left a sticky piston in the air and it’s taking a couple of the slime blocks with it just completely broken the circuit next door if we build slime block and honey block machines next to each other those can actually act

Independently and that can get around the piston push limit that’s going to allow us to create a larger platform for our elevator but we do need to make sure the machines are wired in parallel so that they work together and have less chance of breaking so back in our mine

Shaft here we’re going to do a little bit of digging i need to make sure that this has an open elevator shaft all the way down to the level where our copper aging facility is which means i’m probably going to have to move the beacon anyway to dig out a bunch of this

Stone so we’re going to do this off camera because it’s going to be a lot of digging it’s not going to be particularly exciting even as a time lapse and when we come back we’ll hopefully be able to start setting up our elevator platform so a short time

Later here we are at the bottom of our elevator shaft and i was lucky enough that one of the blocks right in the wall here actually was within range of the haste beacons so we did end up getting a bit of haste effect and it didn’t take me hours and

Hours to clear out this entire area but this is where we can start laying the foundations for our flying machine i’ve left a row of furnaces up at the top there as our immovable block because i think they’ll blend in best with the surroundings being mostly that kind of

Stone texture on the top and on the site but the way i actually want to arrange the flying machine is not necessarily to have it along this wall in fact i think i want to have it on this side here and then another one on the opposite side

Here i want it to be five blocks long on each side and basically have a five block platform in the center so a 5×5 area total because i have some cool ideas for the aesthetics of this whole thing and how it’s going to look as a

Piece of machinery and so this is where we’re going to stack up our honey blocks and our slime blocks to start the flying machines obviously we’re going to have two honey blocks and two slime blocks to begin with we need to have our observers facing downwards there we’re gonna have

Them looking at a line of redstone dust which will activate them right now but there’s nothing to activate so we don’t need to worry about the machine flying up and breaking apart as it goes we’ll have our sticky pistons facing up here one of the corresponding honey or slime

Blocks there and all of the other pistons are facing downwards which i had to remove some blocks to get those in but now we are all set up aside from the observers that need to be facing outwards towards those pistons at the back there or i mean in terms of the way

The observers are facing they’re facing inwards towards the platform but the output is facing out towards these pistons on the opposite side we want to make sure that the slime blocks and honey blocks alternate in the opposing pattern basically so that we don’t end up with them sticking to each other as

They travel here because despite the fact that two of these pistons could theoretically share a load between them the game doesn’t always calculate piston push limits like that and so it’s important to make sure that each of these is an independent set of blocks in the middle we’re extending the arms of

Slime or honey blocks so that they meet in the middle once again making sure that the blocks of a similar type from each side do not connect and then so that we can actually place some blocks in the middle here without the whole platform trying to move we’re going to

Take those observers out but we’ll put them back in a second and what we’re going to put here is either going to be redstone lamps or note blocks and i think we’re going to use note blocks for this one i’ll go into why in just a

Second but it’s just occurred to me that i might actually want to make this two blocks wider one on each side basically so that the platform of note blocks can be five by five and it gives the player adequate space to stand because we’re going to be activating the note blocks

From up there and it’s not going to leave us with much place on the elevator so i’m gonna need to take a block out from each wall and make this whole thing 11 blocks wide instead of nine yep we’re gonna have to do that there’s no way around it really

Okay the flying machine is now widened out by one block on each side which means this platform here is going to be a little bit larger but that should be fine each of these arms should have enough blocks to bear the load now before we reattach the observers we’re

Actually going to grab the note blocks that i mentioned earlier and we’re just going to have a few of those on each side basically we’re going to have one two three four five like so and we’re going to have a row of five on the other side as well and that’s what the

Observers are going to be looking at so to activate the downwards mechanism of this elevator platform each of these note blocks is going to play simultaneously and when they do that the observers are going to detect that the note blocks have been played and that’s what’s going to start the whole platform

Moving right now that’s not going to do anything because we’re at the bottom of the world here whereas down here these observers on the bottom row are the ones that activate the upwards movement of the flying machine and so we’re going to be stringing these together with some

Redstone wire that’s just going to be linked up to a button here that once we press that is going to rocket us up to the ceiling i say rock it it’s actually going to move pretty slowly slim block fly machines are not the fastest way to

Travel but at the very least it is going to set us in motion now back up at the top here i’d stashed a few more furnaces because it’s very important that we make sure there are immovable blocks up here for the flying machine to come to rest

Against and we’re going to line those up with the pistons at the back there so that all of the flying machines and the note blocks and the platform that we build on here can come to rest at floor level and this right here should be adequate to make sure the flying machine

Stops in the right place and it’s not going to attach to the furnaces to take them back down there aren’t even any slime blocks on this side it just needs to be a block that a piston cannot push and move we could even if we want to

Make sure that there are just enough blocks above here that the stone walls aren’t going to be pushed up any further by the pistons and we could remove the furnaces from the equation entirely but in case you want to adapt this to be built elsewhere furnaces are usually a

Pretty good idea now that we have this platform all laid out though we can basically turn this into whatever kind of decorated elevator platform we want to we can set up a bunch of blocks on here we’re just going to use slabs for this but anything that forms a double

Slab is still technically only counted as one block that the piston needs to push we can have a lowered section in here and we’re actually going to leave the center open because we can do some cool stuff with that aesthetically for the sake of the mechanism though we will need to connect

All of this redstone to a single redstone power source preferably a button that we can press and it will just send us off on our way but now that’s just going to be a very simple redstone wire that terminates under this block we’re going to put a button on

That block and there’s only 13 blocks worth of travel for the redstone dust to be powered so that should all hopefully be powered by this one circuit and now when i press the button our elevator platform starts to move in a very very noisy way but it is moving

And it eventually comes to rest at the station that we’ve made for it all of the furnaces around the outside preventing the slime block flying machine from going any further now we can fill in the walls up here a little bit since we don’t need to worry about

These bits being affected by the slime blocks we can probably cover over the furnaces as well to make them feel a little bit more flush with the cave around them once we filled the walls in a little bit it looks a lot more cozy and compact and i’m kind of actually

Tempted to change some of the mineshaft supports here so that it’s a little bit more symmetrical and it lines up otherwise we’ve got this weird gap on this side which isn’t there on that side and the tunnel isn’t going at an angle anymore so i might readjust that a

Little bit later in the meantime though we need to figure out a mechanism to send this whole flying machine down one block and the simplest way to do that although perhaps not the most aesthetically pleasing is just to run a redstone signal across all of these note

Blocks here we’ll have two arms of redstone dust coming out on the side here so really the only thing the player is going to be standing on is this spruce platform in the center which once again is why i wanted to widen the flying machine out so that it had a

Three block wide section that we could stand on because the flying machine is going to look a lot wider once it starts moving but in the meantime we need a place for the player to board and all you need to do is press this button in the center here that’ll activate both of

The arms of redstone wire here and we need to make sure that none of those are attached to anything else because they could trigger the observers in a sort of weird way but activating the noteblocks playing the noteblocks through this redstone connection will activate all of the observers once and that should be

Enough to get the flying machine moving yep there we go and it becomes detached from the furnaces all around it and starts to descend through the elevator shaft which is causing us as a player to jump up and down a little bit but that’s fine once it reaches the cabin at the

Bottom of the world the flying machine will come to a complete stop and we can disembark in whatever direction we choose to i think probably out this way which is going to require us to turn around and face the same direction that we left but i kind of do that

Instinctively and the most important aspect of the design here is that the flying machine comes to a stop one block above the redstone dust here otherwise it’s going to squash itself and we’re never going to get this thing moving again not to mention the fact that if we

Adjust any of these blocks down here after the fact it’s going to have the fly machines push the pistons up which is going to attach the honey blocks to the side of the blocks that are currently on top of the slime blocks and the whole machine is going to break so

Fragile though this whole thing may seem i think it’s actually going to work pretty well and there are now some elements of this which we can adjust slightly take for example the elevator go button we’re probably going to move that to somewhere a little bit further

Off the side so that we can make room for an entrance around here and as long as we use blocks that cannot be pulled like once again furnaces the non-pushable blocks even stuff like glazed terracotta we can decorate the elevator shaft here even going so far as

To put some blocks next to are the moving parts that might stick to stuff like the slime blocks and the honey blocks and that way we can make this whole thing feel a little bit less open because right now it does feel like we could just walk off the edge of the

Elevator and fall to our deaths down the shaft here but the other thing i would absolutely love to do and here’s hoping i’ve got enough materials to do a pretty decent demonstration right now is to get a bunch of grindstones and string them together up the center of this thing

Through this block in the middle because grindstones as you know have a gui because they’re used for repairs and so that means they’re not going to be a movable block when it comes to slime blocks and honey blocks they’re not going to be pulled with them and so by

Alternating them up through the center of the platform like so we can make it look like there is this giant chain that this thing is being pulled on functionally speaking these grindstones don’t actually have any use whatsoever but aesthetically speaking they can look like they are the mechanism that’s

Driving this entire platform and all we will need is a butt load of grindstones but we’ve got the sticks and slabs to do it so let’s give this a try we might even be able to place them as we go up here and nope yeah the fly machine is

Going to leave me behind let’s see if we can catch up with it yeah i didn’t quite make enough grindstones to get myself to the top of this thing but i like the aesthetic of this a lot this massive chain going all the way from the bottom

Of the world to the top yes yes a really big fan of that and so if we have that go into the ceiling we can do a little bit more to dress that up but i really like that as part of the mechanism the second thing that i want to change a

Little bit if we can is the way these note blocks are activated because frankly i think this line of redstone wire being visible here isn’t the greatest thing about this i mean potentially we can wall this off with trap doors and i’m pretty sure that when we activate it yeah the trapdoors are

All going to move that’s not ideal i guess one option could be to have observers detecting a line of redstone dust that was higher up so that the player couldn’t see it as you walked in at this level the observers would be along the top of here and then redstone

Changing on top of the observer would activate the note block which would then start the flying machine going so yeah i suppose that’s an option it gets the redstone wire one block further out of sight we could even if we wanted to have the redstone wire running along a set of

Droppers which would activate the observers which would activate the blocks below which would activate the note blocks and then the redstone wire is completely out of sight we can theoretically bring the roof down a little bit as well so that the whole thing feels a little bit more

Claustrophobic but you don’t end up seeing any of the redstone dust that’s wiring this whole thing up and if we rewire the redstone at the back here so that this button activates dust behind the block we could potentially seal that part off as well just making sure i

Don’t cut off any redstone dust in the process of doing this because then our button just becomes one press and then the entire platform moves without you really seeing the mechanism itself the one thing we need to do is fit a solid block in between the observer and the

Note block here and i think a stone brick will probably do the job for now we can swap that out for something that looks a little bit more polished at a later date and let’s see how this works now if we hit the button there we go the whole thing makes a

Giant tick hit noise because of all the droppers but it does seem to work pretty functionally the one thing you have to make sure is that you don’t step out onto any of the other components when you’re heading back upwards because then you’ll end up suffocating in one of the

Walls up there but something i’m considering putting in perhaps to encourage the player to stay in the spruce platform is once it arrives down here once the flying machine has docked with this setup some other pistons could push blocks in from the walls here and that could potentially make it look like

The platform has locked into place and encouraged players to only step on the spruce section of it we still need to rewire this and i would love to decorate this mine shaft with a few bits and pieces i’m thinking maybe barrels up the sides as though the straps of the barrel

Are like guide rails for the flying machine there’s a bunch of different stuff we can do i’m gonna go away and tinker with some ideas and i’ll be back to you folks once we’re ready to unveil this grand looking elevator shaft hey folks welcome back so while i still

Need to do a little bit of dressing up of this area and i’m still not entirely certain how i want this to look i’m a lot happier with the elevator shaft itself i think the only thing we’re missing is a little bit of light bossa

Nova for some lift music but now as we press this button the surroundings are completely changed a lot of them are made out of tough i kind of like the idea of tough representing rough cave walls but as we descend there are a few patches of other material some of which

Is still being left to despawn and as we go down here i’ve actually included a couple of other veins of material in the walls i like the idea of there being a bit of copper and some shroom lights in there providing a little bit of ethereal

Light and of course a bit of mossy cobblestone to break up the tough i’m really enjoying the combination of mossy cobblestone and tough i think it’s a really neat combination there is enough natural if a little bit kind of dull yellow green in the top that it blends

Really nicely with the mossy cobbles so i think that works out very very well and on some of the veins i went a little bit more overboard i decided to go a little bit more detailed in some of them and i wanted to add in some vines here

And there since i had them from crafting at the mossy cobblestone from the jungle vines that are up there but also because we can disguise the open faces of some of these blocks here and there we could also put some glow-liking up in here as well i think glow-liking would fit very

Well i just haven’t farmed up a huge amount of that right now once we get down to this level we’re gonna step off into a tunnel that’s going to lead around into the main area of the copper aging facility but for now we can just kind of dig down through the floor

Around here and once we hop out we’re right over here so nice and easy to get to and i’ll probably just peel it back up with a little bit of tough so that i can remember exactly where we are and we’ll probably come out somewhere around

The middle of the room over there around the edge of the elevator platform i’ve actually put a few more of the furnaces just to make sure that this whole area is relatively speaking blocked off still got a little bit of an access there but i liked the idea that we could have a

Few blocks down here that you won’t really see as you’re coming down here in the first place unless you are daring enough to look over the edge of the platform but it will seal the whole area off and it prevented some blocks from falling down here we also can eliminate

The possibility of just wandering off the side of the platform and i can make sure that the whole area was relatively well lit to make sure that we didn’t end up getting any weird mob spawns down here on the platform as long as the blocks down here were lit up then the

Platform in the center would be as well but i didn’t want to go overboard with the veins of ore in the walls and the darker material i just threw in a bit of smooth the sultan blackstone there behind the mossy cobbles so i decided we

Would put in a few more man-made kind of lighting features down here these sort of little simple archways the kind of thing that you might find on the exterior of a castle build but i like them in interiors as well and just a single simple lantern in there really

Does the trick lighting this place up and i put them at sort of random heights throughout the elevator shaft down here i i kind of decided that they shouldn’t really be in too many organized places and i’d already put veins at sort of random heights some of them even

Intersecting a little bit with those arches with the lanterns in so we can make a couple of them look a little bit more broken and worn down if we wanted to but the idea is that the miners themselves will have fitted these into the walls after they realize that they

Needed to use this area a lot more regularly and this elevator is going to have been here for a while it’s something the miners have fitted in here themselves but it’s an established feature of the mine at this point and i figure we can probably just finish up

The wall here where i noticed i’d left a patch of tough unfinished but that should be probably what i’m gonna consider the finishing touches to this mineshaft for now but overall i’m really happy with how this came together i think the chain made out of all the grindstones in the center is probably

One of my favorite features of this whole thing and i love the fact that it can come up through the floor here without interfering with the flying machine i think this whole thing fits really well with the technology of this area and obviously we could put in like

A soul sand bubble column to get back up there if we wanted a more quick and efficient method of transport but doing projects like this once again is kind of fun it lends a little bit of credence to the ideas that we’re putting together in terms of world building here and the

Kind of projects that i want to work with and it’s a fun redstone solution to a problem that could be sold pretty easily in other ways but just allows us to flex our redstone capabilities a little bit more and put to use some of these more interesting flying machine

Contraptions but that is where we’re going to wrap things up for this episode of the minecraft survival guide folks i do hope you’ve enjoyed this look at slime block flying machines in a vertical formation and hopefully you’ll find some ways to squeeze this into your

Own worlds as well thank you so much for watching the minecraft survival guide my name has been pixel riffs don’t forget to leave a like on this video if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and i’ll see you folks soon take care bye for now you