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Workshops

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Aug 8, 2012

BUD switches (short for Block Update Detector) can be triggered without levers, buttons, tripwires, or any other traditional switches. Instead, they're triggered by changes in block status. That is, p ...

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Aug 3, 2012

Okay, it's not actually cake-powered, but it does use cake!Owing to the fact that cake and trapdoors are less than half a block tall, we can use fenceposts (which are a block and a half tall) attached ...

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Jul 25, 2012

The hardest part of starting a minecart railroad in Minecraft is getting it started. Anyone can lay some track in a circle, but what's the best way to stop and start your cart?In this Saturday's works ...

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Jul 11, 2012

As anyone who has tried it knows, stacking pistons on top of each other in order to combine their effects is really, really complicated. Stacking two on top of each other is only slightly hard, but th ...

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Jul 6, 2012

Not to be confused with the band, ABBA switches are so named because they reverse outputs such that they fire in A-B-B-A order. So, your redstone devices will essentially fire in one order (A and then ...

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Jun 20, 2012

In most cases, gravity may as well not exist in Minecraft. The blocks all stick together in unreal ways, and you can even make things that just float in the sky.However, there are four exceptions to t ...

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May 23, 2012

Minecarts are a lot more complicated than they may seem at first. Between regular rails, powered rails, and detector rails, they all have a lot of quirks that can make them hard to use.Often, the hard ...

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May 9, 2012

You see before you the humble block:This single, unassuming block couldn't possibly hold anything of value, right?That's only what we want thieves to think! With a little bit of magic, this block (or ...

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Apr 22, 2012

The Workshop this weekend went of without a hitch! Except that it didn't happen until later at night, The workshop went exceptionally well. Lots of people came out to build in this weeks workshop and ...

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Apr 4, 2012

Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server!We've done a lot of workshops in the past that involved architectural design, int ...