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How to Make a Simple, Tileable Timer in Minecraft.

Jun 9, 2012 06:54 AM

The Customizable timer

Ever wanted to make a simple timer that ranged from 5 minues to whatever you wanted?  It's actually fairly simple!  In this tutorial I walk you through every step of the way and have a video to show you it in more detail.

You can make this timer anywhere from 5 Minutes to 150 minutes and beyond, you can make it as large or as small as you would like as long as it is a 5 minute interval.

The science of this is that an item despawns after 5 minutes and therein lies our circuit concept.

The step by step format is right below this video so stay tuned!

GETTING YOUR ITEMS READY

The very first thing you need to do is get your blocks ready.  You will need 4 types of blocks for this creation.  If you are making this in survival, each 5 minute timer will require

  • 3 blocks of your choice
  • A dispenser
  • 1 Redstone Torch
  • 1 Wooden Pressure plate- Please note that stone pressure plates do not register item pressure.
  • 576 items of your choice (9 stacks of 64) for the dispenser.  Cobble is likely the most available resource for this.  

THE BASIC FRAME

A Minecraft build featuring stone and quartz blocks with a sunset background.

The very first thing you need to do is place your blocks in the manner shown above.  This will make more sense later.  That block on the top is our dispenser and underneath is simply white wool, which was my block of choice.

This is our basic frame and it does not get much more complex than this!

FINAL CONSTRUCTION

Minecraft redstone mechanism with a stone block and piston setup.

Place your pressure plate and torch next and we are almost done!

Minecraft building blocks arranged in a creative structure.

The final part, a block in front of the dispenser, stops fired blocks from getting catapulted away and instead fall below the block.

Minecraft redstone mechanism with a stone block and piston setup.

Place your pressure plate and torch next and we are almost done!

Minecraft building blocks arranged in a creative structure.

The final part, a block in front of the dispenser, stops fired blocks from getting catapulted away and instead fall below the block.

In this step, you place your pressure plate and torch as shown, we are mostly finished at this stage.  The last block to place you need to place on top of the pressure plate (as you can't build 'on' a furnace.

FILLING THE DISPENSER

Crafting interface in a video game displaying item combinations.

You will now place your 576 items (9 stacks) into the dispenser.  This will allow for maximum use and give you 576 uses before it needs to be refilled.

ANY ADDITIONAL TIMERS (times over 5 minutes)

Simply put, this design is made to be tile-able.  The images below will be simple enough to understand, if further information is required, let me know!

How to Make a Simple, Tileable Timer in Minecraft.

10 minute timer

Redstone circuit in a Minecraft landscape.

15 minute timer

How to Make a Simple, Tileable Timer in Minecraft.

10 minute timer

Redstone circuit in a Minecraft landscape.

15 minute timer

You can essentially add as many as you want to get whatever length you want and to make it even better, it's easy to do!

MAKING IT TURN

spenamik checked out my design and devised a method to make it turn, here is his gallery regarding this process

Hope you have found this useful!

Steve_OH

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