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News: We're Making a Cake-Powered Autowalk in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
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 to pistons to push people along, because the tops of the fenceposts will invisibly pop up through cake and trapdoors.
Sky Metropolis: Mgabrys's Zeppelin City Takes Home This Week's Staff Choice Award
Our server is primarily a fun server, so we don't often get huge, epic builds of amazingness. And yet that's exactly what we've got with Mgabrys's build, the Portland. Or, more specifically, Zeppelin City OR-2019 "Portland".
News: Final Update for Capture the Flag Prior to Release! It's Almost Done!!
Yes! soon I will be able to log in more as I untie the shackles this map has placed on me in the time leading up to its eventual release and log in once in a while!
Changing Spawn Points: The Minecraft Death Elevator
First of all, this was not invented by me. I state this clearly and the link for the original discussion is located below. I made this video, as the original author did not do so, in an attempt to raise awareness as to the awesome concept that it is.
News: Awesome Minecraft-Inspired Animal Art
A friend of mine sent me a link to the work of Laura Bifano, and I was totally blown away. She has a whole gallery of Minecraft-inspired art of various animals, and it's just the coolest thing in the world! Check out this one, small example: I don't want to repost all of them here, because you should definitely go check them out at her gallery. However, if anyone wants to make any (or all) of these for our current Mythical Creatures challenge, I'll allow it!
News: Get Your Minecart Railway Rolling in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
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 workshop, we'll be covering a variety of designs for minecart "train stations", so to speak, that effectively stop and start your minecarts.
How To: Breathe Freely Underwater in Minecraft with Glowstone Scaffolding
There are a number of different techniques for building underwater in Minecraft. The easiest is to fill a room with wood or leaves, then set them on fire. It'll burn down, leaving a pocket of air for you.
Portland : Zeppelin City One
You knew it was coming - and it's finally here. After 2.5+ months, my solo build aka : "Zeppelin City One" is complete. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but this thing is large enough for a video. Special thanks to Pmag and Ping for helping throw switches and set day / night during the video "shoot". Also included an assortment of in-build photos plus the source image that the Airship started from.
PvP Arena: Elven Ruins
Here's a small-medium sized PvP arena that I made with my friend a few days back on my personal bukkit server.
News: Minecraft Wave Heroes
A minigame we built with redstone! Video: .
News: Invisible Pressure Plates!
I've discovered something in minecraft! Invisible pressure plates!!! Pretty excited!!
How To: Make a Chicken Cooker & Egg Farm
First day back from holidays and figured I'd best spend it making a video as I haven't for a bit. Hope this can be found useful.
How To: Show Your Guests Around in Style with Redstone Guide Lights
Builds in Minecraft aren't usually for your own personal enjoyment; most people want to show them off to others. So to some extent, builds need to be user-friendly. That is, they should automatically guide people to areas of interest or importance. One particularly stylish way to do that is by using guide lights. I have two different designs included here, which you can either use or adapt to your own purposes.
News: Advanced Piston Stacking Explained in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
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 the difficulty rises exponentially with each added piston. Stacking three is pretty tough, and stacking four is downright ridiculous.
How To: Build a High Efficiency Enchanting Setup
Notes: My guides are setup like old Lego instruction booklets; picture intense/text lacking. Just remember you're building from the ground up, each step is a layer to go onto the previous layer.
News: It Was Time for Lesnoydude to Win Our Weekly Staff Choice Award
A redstone clock is a pretty easy mechanism to make. A digital readout for that redstone clock is a little harder, and that's what Lesnoydude has made that won him the staff choice award.
News: Learn to Use Unique ABBA Switches in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
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 B) when activated, and then deactivate in the reverse order (B and then A).
News: Redstone Printer 1.0
I was messing around in single player, (because the server is down) when a wild idea came to my mind. To build a printer, i have seen many examples on youtube, but all of them where to complex to my understanding of redstone. The end result was simple and it could save 4 images. The printer only prints in 2 colours in white (wool) and grey (cobblestone). As you have seen in the las image above, there are 25 buttons on the wall, they are parallel to the display and you can use them to edit the...
News: Redstone Clock
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How To: Build a Fully-Automated Melon Farm
Firstly, let me say a few quick things: Once built, this is a lazy (one button) way to harvest melons, but this is going to be a complex and lengthy build.
News: The Walls - PvP Survival Map
Video: . The Walls is a PvP survival map that takes back Minecraft to it's roots: crafting, surviving and creativity.
News: Wireless Trip Wire Using Wireless Redstone + Wireless Redstone Tutorial
A cool use for wireless redstone in light of a previous video I made about Proximity detection. this version is very resource light and has the potential for a lot of different uses.
How To: Compose Some Music with Us in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
Music is a big part of life, but it's an often-ignored part of Minecraft. Included in the game are note blocks which, when used properly, can create a variety of sounds and music.
News: Bell X-1
Just a small plane I made. The Bell X-1 was the first plane to break the sound barrier.
How To: Know When Your Minecraft Guests Arrive with This Redstone Doorbell
This is a pretty simple how-to, because a doorbell is a pretty simple mechanism! The difficult part is in understanding music note blocks.
News: Teaching Minecraft
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How To: Scare Off Burglars with an Obnoxiously Loud Redstone Alarm System in Minecraft
Traps are great, but sometimes you don't want to kill anyone, you just want to know when they're around. When that's the case, check out this handy alarm system that uses the power of doors! Doors, you say? Yes, doors! Some of you may already be familiar with how obnoxious doors can be in Minecraft, but if not, check out this video of it in action:
Minecraft Science: Gravity with Boats, Carts, Lava, and Water
A continuation of my earlier science testing in Minecraft, I worked on a few things requested and retouched on TNT as there was suggestion of possible (and confirmed) altered circumstances.
News: Show Gravity Who's Boss in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop
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.
News: Capture the Flag/King of the Hill - Massively Multiplayer Map (Map Update!)
Yeah, it's not done yet! But it will be soon!!! I had an exam today and that was my last one so I will hopefully be done before I leave for Perth this weekend! :)
News: Redstone (Piston-Less) Logic and Flip Flops - Redstone for Beginners!
This is a video I made for one of my subscribers that I thought might be handy for anyone wanting to get into redstone.
News: New Minecraft LEGOs for Displaying, Not Playing
Here at WonderHowTo, we've been following the Minecraft LEGO set for quite some time, through its development on LEGO CUUSOO (a LEGO site where users can submit ideas for LEGO sets) to its eventual implementation.
Gravity in Minecraft: Players, Items, and TNT - No Devices, Just Science.
Introduction So today and yesterday I was playing with TNT (as we all do at one point or another) and I was curious about a few things. From this curiosity, I went on to discover some of the science behind some things you may or may not have known.
News: PvP + Traps = Awesomeness! in This Week's Redstone Competition
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the Inspiration board, and come play on our free server! HELLO, FELLOW MINECRAFTERS. Pmaguire here, bringing you my favorite idea for a competition so far! I hope that you will come to love it as much as I do! Well, starting off, as the title states, this week's Redstone Competition will be PvP Arenas! Except, not just ones where you physically fight. You have to have traps, things that make it hard to fight, and various ideas using...
News: Stay at the White House in This Week's Replication Challenge
As most of you already know, the White House is the seat of the Executive branch of government in the United States. Constructed in 1792, it is one of the oldest buildings in the U.S. During the War of 1812, it was burned down and later rebuilt. The White House was inspired by a few foreign government buildings and is somewhat Greek in appearance.
Minecraft Monster Slaying: How to Surprise Your Aggressors with a Long Drop and Sudden Stop
No one likes having their home invaded, and sometimes you just don't want to have to wait those precious few seconds for someone or something to drown, suffocate, or burn up. This trap utilizes gravity to destroy anyone who may want to pillage your home, be they monster or player. No drowning or suffocating here... they just go splat at the bottom of a deep hole, and you can instantly forget about them.
News: 5 Amazing Tips for Making a Killer Roller Coaster Ride in Minecraft
Minecart rides primarily serve two different functions—transportation or entertainment. We rarely see minecart-based transportation systems in Minecraft these days because most servers support warps or allow users to set multiple homes that they can simply teleport to. That leaves the primary purpose of entertainment.
How To: Suffocating Wall Tutorial
Hey everyone! This is just a tutorial of a trap that was in PortalElf's winning contraption. Hope you all will enjoy this tutorial, and please leave a comment of what you want to see a tutorial of next! Thanks!
News: Play Minecraft in Real Life with Official Minecraft Legos
This is crazy, Lego is putting out an official Minecraft set! It looks as though all the blocks are just one width, so I wonder how they stay together laterally.
News: No More Redstone Delay—Transmit Power at the Speed of Lightning!
Redstone and electricity have much in common. They both have what's called resistance. That is, they only travel a certain distance before the signal degrades to the point where it's unusable, and they take a certain amount of time to get there. With electricity, that time is nearly instantaneous because electricity is extremely fast. Redstone, on the other hand, is pretty slow.