Create a 30 story elevator

[Staxed]

So...

I'm in the process of building skyscraper, looks pretty good so far (of course, I only have the bottom 2 floors done...and at about 30K blocks already, it's going to be rather large...

I want to create an elevator system for the building rather than an ugly ladder, using Unleashed 1.1.3 for MC 1.5.2. I want, if possible, to have it look decent and will be hiding all required redstone/etc.

However, I'm just getting back into minecraft after a year off so I'm a little rusty, don't know what mods may help, etc. So, I wanted to start a thread to ask...if you had to take on this project...how would you go about doing it?

Any mods that would be useful (that work on a 1.5.2 server, mods that require client side files are fine), etc?

I saw someone using rednet to make a really nice elevator, but it used a panel with a button for each floor...not sure if a panel with 30 buttons on it would be a good idea or not...but the ability to stop at a selectable floor would be nice.

Not looking for someone to plan it all out for me, just hoping for a brainstorming session...how would you go about doing it? (unless of course there is a decent mod that works for 1.5.2 that has an elevator block I can just plop down )[DOUBLEPOST=1376829001][/DOUBLEPOST]and of course right after I post this...I find this....I swear I didn't see it yesterday when I was looking...

 

[RedBoss]

OpenBlocks has an elevator block that would suit your needs most likely.

http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/index.php?threads/29225/

 

[A27Cappy]

You could probably make one using ThaumCraft Levitator blocks, some pistons and Rednet controllers.

 

[wjykk]

Here are a couple of designs that I made awhile ago, no pics sadly:

1. Make elevator tracks from Railcraft and power only the rail where you want the elevator, in this case minecart, to stop. It should work pretty well, but the only downside is the player will have to sit inside the cart.
2. For a more cheaper, vanilla-er, complexer, and glitchier method, put two sticky pistons facing each other and a piece of sand (or any block affected by gravity) on top. To move the elevator you'll have to rapidly pulse the elevator every tick (0.05 seconds). If done correctly (using a computer), you'll be able to move both pistons at the same time. Problem is that, sometimes, you can fall through the piston if it pulses too rapidly, and you'll definitely fall through if you don't put a sand block on top.

 

[Dackstrus]

I have a question... Does this mod slip into Unleashed without problems?

 

[namiasdf]

Though you may be aiming for a "sky scraper" effect, I was watching a LPer for a bit and saw his solution to vertical transportation w/o jetpack.

The centre of his base was a fluid elevator with an arcane levitator base. Though I am unsure as to the mechanics, it would seem that having an upstream of liquid provides a more secure means of traveling vertical, when used in conjunction with the levitator. For going downwards, it seemed that he had some blue blocks lining the edge of edge floor, with each subsequent lower floor having its edge protruding further into the center of the structure. The principle is similar to stairs. I am unsure as to what these blocks were, but you also took 0 falling damage by falling onto them.