In other news, I spent a fair bit of time today redesigning my music machine. It's about as space-efficient and organized as I can get it. There are two components; "down" wires and "up" wires. Each are 1x4, plays one beat per 2 z-levels, and could be as tall or short as you like (I opted for one measure per line— six beats, so twelve blocks high). Alternate between these:
"Down" line:
| - | Block | Torch-L | Wire |
| Note* | Wire | Torch-U | Block |
"Up" line:
| Note* | Wire* | Torch-U | Block |
| - | Block* | Block | Torch-L |
* - Optional, if you want a note on that beat.
Torch-L/U —> Lit/unlit by default.
The machine has 8 of each line. The inside area is 9x15x12, not including a few stray wires.
edited 8th Feb '11 10:37:12 PM by Blueeyedrat
Each torch is on the side of the adjacent block. Same goes for an alternate design I made— 1 beat per z-level, but takes a little more space and is harder to loop with. (It's the design I used for the obelisk that plays the Metroid Item Get! tune.) Top-down view:
| Wire** | Block | - | ||||
| - | Block* | Block | - | Torch-U | Wire* | Note* |
| Torch-L | Wire | Block |
* Optional output.
** Optional input— make sure it feeds into the block with the torch-L attached.
Go up, rotate 180 and repeat. You can also place a ladder in the center.
edited 8th Feb '11 10:39:52 PM by Blueeyedrat
Screenshot dump time.
- Castletogan 3 from inside the courtyard, fountain is visible
- The entry hall
- The (unfurnished) dining hall
- The (also unfurnished) Study
- The way to one of the two auxiliary stairwell towers
- My (semi-unfurnished) bedroom
- The open air area at the back of the entry hall
- The treasury. Each chest is set aside for something different
- The forge. Awful large room for one workbench and two furnaces, isn't it?
- GLORIOUS THRONE ROOM
- View from the throne
- Updated Isometric map of the Castle and the surrounding area.
I left the tops of the GLORIOUS THRONE ROOM, Forge, and Treasury flat just in case I decided to add more onto it, but yeah, that's Castletogan 3.
You have a remarkable lack of Lapis in your GLORIUOS THRONE ROOM Shlap.
Also.... oooooh Menger Sponge...
Thirdly: Given that what I would be building would essentially be a way of venting my anger at my parents, would that qualify under your rules Miij?
Thanks for the permission to go ahead btw Afti.
It's a Dell XPS Laptop. Core i5 CPU with 4 gigs of RAM and a NVIDIA Ge Force GT 420M graphics card. There is no reason it shouldn't be able to handle this game on at least medium settings... is there? Tried switching to a High Performance power setting, but all it did was sap my battery even more quickly. Giving the program High Priority in the Task Manager also did nothing.
(´・ω・`)I've not seen you around before, Delta - do you have the server I Ps?
For those of you wanting stained glass:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=163224
Just a warning Afti, Miij, if you can somehow get these mods working on your servers you will never be able to get me to leave.

Note to self: Build middle finger.