Tutorials/Elevators

Here are some ideas for some Elevators.

What is an Elevator?
An elevator is a type of vertical transport system that carries people and goods to certain floors in a structure. They are sometimes known as lifts.

Water Tube Elevator
Note: Do NOT attempt to ride this in Survival Mode because you will die. You have been warned.

Bricks are suitable for making this. You can also use glass to make it really cool!
 * 1) Build a base 4 blocks wide and 6 blocks tall.
 * 2) Start to build up to your 2nd Floor.
 * 3) If you haven' t done so, build 3 blocks up from the 2nd Floor. Then seal the top up.
 * 4) Smash out a hole on the 1st Floor 3 blocks high and 2 blocks wide. Do the same on the 2nd Floor
 * 5) Smash out the ceiling and put water in all the corners.
 * 6) OPTIONAL - mining out blocks from one side of the elevator and replacing them with glass panes or fences allows a player to ride "half-in, half-out" of the water shaft, and allows a player in Survival to breathe.

To ride it, go inside the elevator and hold down for the whole journey. Once on the 2nd Floor, press to exit.

Piston Elevator
There are many different wiring designs for piston elevators. The principle of them is that you get pushed up into the air using pistons. They can be extremely fast, and you can both ascend and descend with some designs. There are many videos detailing how to build them, some of which you can view here: Youtube.

There are two popular kinds of piston elevators: block and zipper. The block kind has pistons that push pistons out to push you up. The zipper kind has stairs that push you up in a zipper fashion.

Piston Loop Elevator
This elevator uses a vertical piston loop. The pattern for the loop is block, fence gate, fence gate. The fence gates need to remain open so you can walk into them. CREDIT: SETHBLING