Build a Piston Drawbridge in Minecraft
Do you have a castle in Minecraft? Do you want to make a drawbridge? Here are the instructions.
Contents
[hide]Steps
- First, in front of your castle/Tower of Power or whatever, dig a 4 long by 4 to 6 wide hole. Make it 4 blocks deep.
- Craft 6 sticky pistons. Place them 2 blocks away from the width edge. Make sure that it's 1 away from the long edge, too.
- Place blocks on top of the pistons. Connect redstone trails to the pistons.(but not the side center ones) Then, connect the 2 separate redstone trails together. Now take a redstone repeater and place it in between where the 2 separate trails connect.
- Now it gets complicated. Take 2 redstone repeaters and place them 1 block away from where the side center pistons are.
- Make a staircase shape and place a lever at the top. Connect redstone trail to the lever.
- Test your contraption. If it works, cover it all up and prepare for the next step. If not, try repeating the steps again, or toy around with it.
- Craft some buckets (craft by 3 iron ingots in a bowl/bucket shape on PC) and fill them with water or lava/magma.
- If it works, turn on the bridge. If you covered the hole, then next to the bridge, dig 2 3x1 holes and cover the bottom of that. That will make a pasture shape if done correctly.
- Inside those two indentations, pour the lava/water bucket in, then refill the bucket and pour the contents into the opposite side.Keep pouring in the buckets until the holes are full, but not overflowing.
- Now you have a drawbridge! Make sure it works, and if you don't understand the instructions, watch Paul Soares Jr's Survive and Thrive Season 2 video on YouTube.
Warnings
- Be careful around lava.
Things You'll Need
- 6 sticky pistons
- 64 redstone dust
- 3-4 red-stone repeaters
- 1 building/creation
- 1 shovel (optional)
- 2 buckets of lava or water
- 1 lever
- 64 of the material that your creation is made of