Talk:Tutorials/Mechanisms

Piston Doors Videos
I removed the second video for piston doors because the video was set to private. Old link was

Flashing Light Indicator?
So I decided to test eh "flashing light indicator" mechanism and found that it didn't work. Could anyone else confirm whether or not it works for them? We wouldn't want a broken mechanism on the page :\
 * This "flashing light indicator" is very crude mechanism, so it will flash only few times. If you want make something smoother, you should connect pressure plate to RS NOR gate (don't forget to make reset button), then make a 5-clock (or any other clock, but not Rapid Pulser), then connect output of clock and output of RS NOR to NAND gate, which will be connected to input of torch.
 * It was only meant to flash a few times, then stop, to negate the need for an off switch. Crude, but imho effective.

Canons and Boats
My brother said when he launches a boat from his cannon it will drop multiple sticks and pieces of wood (way more than normal). Can someone confirm this? Matti-Koopa 14:53, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Is it just me or have they changed TNT so that it is not swept away by water thus making canons much harder to create? Zinob 19:03, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Pictures
I feel that pictures of the mechanisms and how they work would be extremely helpful to anyone first learning about these --Magitrek 15:02, 13 December 2010 (CST)

Light Sensors
Mentioned light sensors and gave a link. Needs to be explained more thoroughly. Maybe mention light sensors on flower and mushroom wiki pages? Bumber 03:32, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Flower and mushroom pages now mention light sensors and link to this page. Mechanisms page still needs a discription instead of just a link to a forum thread. Bumber 05:26, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Retractable staircase
Should the retractable staircase shown in the piston demo be included? -[user:kingleonidas1234] 6:45 (MT)

Mod related tutorial removal
I think we should remove everything concerning mod pistons. Agree? | TheKax |  Talk   10:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I like the idea but I don't think it's drastic enough. Here's another option, we break this page into several pages where the content is specialized rather than a wide-ranging dump of partially completed (cough*abandonded*cough) tutorials. If mechanisms is a subsection of tutorials, what's the point of this page?Qcdynamics 14:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree, the attached video is gone, too. it does not concern this article any longer. Turboplant 23:13, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Snow Generator Help
I made a Snow Generator but the snowman auto-dies. I have a jungle biome. Any reason why? - Dudebot121256


 * In 1.2, Snow Golems die in 'hot' biomes (such as jungles and deserts), and don't leave snow in some of the 'warmer' ones (mushroom island, plains, swampland, beach). -- Orthotope 05:04, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Lots of mobs Alert?
Say we used The And Gate to make a torch that flickers on/off when more than 5 pressure plates are pressed? would that be useful? Or do minecrafters not sleep at night?