Oh man. With pistons, you could even make a working elevator system to get you from the underground to arena-level. Can you imagine taking that elevator to the middle of the arena, with seats and torches all around you?
Hell, we could throw creepers and spiders in there and have legitimate gladiator matches.
Have a section of the floor that opens then a platform that rises up with the gladiators on it. Once they step off the platform retracts and the pit closes behind it. YES PLZ. Too bad you can't make it so spawn is underground (afaik)... though I suppose you could have people spawn somewhere that the only way out is to follow a tunnel underground which ends at the elevator in to the center of the Colosseum.
I'm pretty sure with a grinder and pistons, you could have mobs on demand for Gladiator fights
You could use a system consisting of a spawner in a "holding pen" with 2 rows of pistons hooked to a switch. when you hit the switch, it toggles the rows of pistons (closes the inside, opens the outside or vice versa). This would let you isolate a baddie or two then release them into the arena while more are still in the corral. You could make part of the pen out of glass so you could see if there were any ready to be released and what type they were.
I've seen a few youtube tutorials on making airlocks, they're easy. Perhaps a control lever in Caesar's balcony to designate PvP or PvMob, and a button to make it go. Easy.
Using doors like in Jeb's demo would be pro, as follows:
other idea: challenge gladiators with timed entrances of Mobs into the arena with clocks/repeaters. Anyone can take a mob every 20 seconds, but can YOU take a new one every 5 seconds?
Dude, use a grinder setup that funnels baddies into an elevator shaft, then hit a switch at the top that triggers all the pistons and brings them up to the arena floor. Added awesome: 6 or 8 different elevator shafts all linked to the switch so baddies come out from all sides.
Dude, use a grinder setup that funnels baddies into an elevator shaft, then hit a switch at the top that triggers all the pistons and brings them up to the arena floor. Added awesome: 6 or 8 different elevator shafts all linked to the switch so baddies come out from all sides.
Fucking rad.
capped off with redstone-powered hatches so you don't fall in the baddie pit like a dumbass.
with flowing water, it should be possible to filter spiders out from the other Mobs and send them to a separate 2x2 elevator. Spiders wouldn't work with 1x1 elevator, and a 2x2 airlock would have unpredictable number of mobs.
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we could make a replica of the Roman Coliseum that we could all start inside. Heres a great video of someone that made a awesome Coliseum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqGEgshS0L8&feature=related
Hell, we could throw creepers and spiders in there and have legitimate gladiator matches.
Not creepers, we wouldn't want to lose the nice design of the building to 'splosions.
I have been thinking for a while about trying to start a coliseum that would be built around a mob spawner.
I'm pretty sure with a grinder and pistons, you could have mobs on demand for Gladiator fights
I remember that - that was a lot bigger than the Romans could have done, that was like a modern super-stadium!
You could use a system consisting of a spawner in a "holding pen" with 2 rows of pistons hooked to a switch. when you hit the switch, it toggles the rows of pistons (closes the inside, opens the outside or vice versa). This would let you isolate a baddie or two then release them into the arena while more are still in the corral. You could make part of the pen out of glass so you could see if there were any ready to be released and what type they were.
Using doors like in Jeb's demo would be pro, as follows:
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other idea: challenge gladiators with timed entrances of Mobs into the arena with clocks/repeaters. Anyone can take a mob every 20 seconds, but can YOU take a new one every 5 seconds?
Fucking rad.
capped off with redstone-powered hatches so you don't fall in the baddie pit like a dumbass.
with flowing water, it should be possible to filter spiders out from the other Mobs and send them to a separate 2x2 elevator. Spiders wouldn't work with 1x1 elevator, and a 2x2 airlock would have unpredictable number of mobs.