I think it's a shame that what used to be a interesting challenge now has a built in solution in a single block. You could probably build a multifloor elevator within an hour or two of spawning into the world now with bubble columns. Elevators like this are still somewhat cheap (definitely still takes some resource gathering though), but are nice creative solutions and applications of game mechanics.
Nifty, cheap and fast! Personally, I like elevators that have a realistic, enclosed car that you stand inside of. I'm also a sucker for multi-floor logic, it takes me back to seeing CubeHamster's elevators for the first time!
@@Wertyhappy27 the comment above and also the skull isn't a part of the build, so you can use it again for other things. You just need it temporarily for to build the elevator
I love clever designs like this! I probably wouldn't build it in survival only because I'm not a fan of flashing images when playing, but I definitely prefer redstone solutions to simple bubblevators when it comes to aesthetics.
2:27 I would build the right-click minecart elevator thing. Easy to build and fast. It isn't automatic, but holding right click for 2-4 seconds isn't much of a hassle.
My favorites to build are flying machine elevators. They are incredibly slow but I like that I can make them any size I want. I will definitely use this design somewhere though just to have it lol.
Non-mob entities such as minecarts or boats don't despawn the way that passive and hostile mobs do, simply because if you walked away from your car in real life, and then came back around 5-15 minutes later and it had ceased to exist, that wouldn't make much sense. The only way for a non-mob entity to be despawned is for the player to have hit it, or for a kill command to be used. If you're running a server however, that's a different story for using software such as paper.
With the upcoming changes for minecarts in 1.19. this will also server as an convinient way of transporting a large amount of Items with chest minecarts
@@badentertainment1047 no no, I mean mine carts, as you can know break the variants with out having to recraft them. while the items stored inside plop out.
tbh, even without elytra / bubble columns, i still prefer the old fashioned hold right-click to enter minecarts upwards elevator. Super simple to build, and it feels even faster than bubble-vators. The only downside is you cant hands free travel, but honestly holding down right-click is not a big deal imo.
Nice that you made an old design work, but piston slimeblock minecart elevators are still superior to me. Can achieve a faster speed, and not have any passive lag. Also they're arguably easier to build since one doesn't have to deal with putting in the furnace carts.
@@Amodh1257 Are you saying that slimeblock minecart elevators don't work for people with high ping? Cause that's completely untrue, once a player is in a minecart, its postition is calculated serverside, so it will work 100% as long as it was built correctly. Mb you played on some modded servers that changed that.
@@jamiekazemier3652 I'm not :( My point is that I have had a poor experience with them despite being in vanilla. stop pretending to know everything better lmao
So this is nearly twice as fast as a bubble column, right? And it’s one wide! (Technically speaking a bubble column is one wide but nearly always you have to surround it with blocks
cant you in theory just put a dropper with the minecart at the top leading into either powdered snow or cobweb (to make the item fall straight) with a hopper at the bottom?
I would build the design with pistons placed in a zig zag pattern that are pushed under you and then push you up in a fast manner but it doesn't work anymore in 1.18 i tested it, you kinda fall through the pistons most of the time
Nope, this is completely different; this elevator exploits the way that minecarts like to bounce off each other, and how they snap onto rails. I'm assuming you're talking about sand falling onto boats, so yea that isn't the same mechanic.
Ah, so it basically uses the main feature of furnace minecarts, along with the powered rails that pushes the main minecart up a bit to "teleport" to other slopes!. Now I get it :o What a nice idea!
Furnace minecarts can't be pushed by other minecarts, so if you use normal minecarts, they get moved out of place by the player minecart, and at that point your elevator is broken xd
@@Purplers Hey this might be a really random question, can you use furnace minecarts in entity cramming farms in place of regular ones, because the noise of them moving back and fourth drives me nuts?
Back then, you didn't have to move the minecart as far away to stop it snapping onto the rail, you could align it with a glass pane instead of wither skulls and stairs
