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Automatic Sugar Cane Farm
Observers spot the third block of cane and fire the pistons; hoppers under the mud carry the harvest into a chest. 90 of 90 cane collected in testing.
- Blocks
- 27+ 2 water buckets
- Steps
- 7
- Item types
- 9
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Early-Game Auto Smelter
Two furnaces share one ore chest, one fuel chest and one output chest. Hoppers move the ore, the coal and the finished ingots.
- Blocks
- 14
- Steps
- 6
- Item types
- 3
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2x2 Piston Door
Step on a pressure plate and the door opens 0.15 s later; it shuts 0.7 s after you step off. The wiring stays hidden under the floor.
- Blocks
- 38
- Steps
- 8
- Item types
- 5
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A Little Poplar Cabin
A lakeside log cabin with a porch, lanterns and a cobblestone chimney, furnished inside with a straw bed, barrels and a shelf.
- Blocks
- 299
- Steps
- 17
- Item types
- 22
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3x3 Flush Piston Door
From the outside the closed door is just wall. Step on any of six plates and the nine blocks split in two halves and slide behind the wall; tested over 40 cycles.
- Blocks
- 265
- Steps
- 20
- Item types
- 16
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Automatic Chicken Farm
Chickens in a hopper lay eggs, a comparator fires a dispenser, chicks grow up under a lava cauldron and drop cooked chicken into a chest. 63 cooked chicken in 3 hours in testing.
- Blocks
- 23+ 1 lava bucket
- Steps
- 8
- Item types
- 10
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Water Elevator (Up and Down)
Soul sand pushes up, magma pulls down, kelp turns every block into a source, doors hold the water in. 10 blocks up in 0.9 seconds and down in 2 in testing.
- Blocks
- 40+ 2 water buckets + 20 kelp
- Steps
- 7
- Item types
- 6
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Circular Piston Door
A round green door in a hill: the bottom drops, two halves on slime and honey slide into the hill. Plates on both sides; 160 clean cycles in testing.
- Blocks
- 547
- Steps
- 34
- Item types
- 21
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Hidden Staircase
Flip a hidden lever and three path blocks slide away under a flower bed, one step at a time: stairs down to your secret base. Tested over 40 cycles.
- Blocks
- 47
- Steps
- 9
- Item types
- 15
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Cobblestone Generator
Lava flows into a gap, touches water and turns into cobblestone; a hole keeps the water off the lava source, so no obsidian. 40 blocks a minute with a stone pickaxe, 20 with a wooden one.
- Blocks
- 1+ 1 water bucket + 1 lava bucket
- Steps
- 5
- Item types
- 3
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Automatic Kelp Farm
Observers see the kelp's third block and fire the pistons; ladders hold the water but let the floating kelp through, a glass lid keeps it in. 124 kelp in 4 hours, none lost, in testing.
- Blocks
- 34+ 8 water buckets + 4 kelp
- Steps
- 8
- Item types
- 9
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Airlock Door
A boat floating in two copper grates beside the front door works the iron door: front door shut, iron door open, never both. 40 of 40 cycles in testing.
- Blocks
- 14+ 1 water bucket
- Steps
- 8
- Item types
- 8
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Working Plane
Two slime blocks, two observers and two pistons push and pull each other forward, 2 blocks a second. 12 blocks per half fly, 13 don't move; obsidian stops it. Tested on Java and Paper 26.3.
- Blocks
- 15
- Steps
- 8
- Item types
- 7
About the textures
The 3D guides load the Minecraft block textures live from Mojang's own servers, as a launcher does; this site hosts no Minecraft files. The pictures on this page are screenshots of the guides. Made and tested in Java Edition: redstone can behave differently in Bedrock.