Build That One Annoying Leapfrog Puzzle

Just a real quick thing I made - a recreation of the leapfrog puzzle you've probably done at some point in your life (the one where you need to swap two different types of frog over to other sides of the lily pad). It's pretty straightforward, but I think it came out quite well!



Here's how it works: (good luck making any sense of my strange methods

Spoiler: glhf

Probably the best way of doing this is by explaining individual modules.

Spoiler: Reset Module

Does what is says on the tin - resets the system by killing and respawning all armorstands, resetting buttons, the failure mechanism and clearing the trigger mechanism

Spoiler: Trigger Module

(Sorry for the dark picture)
Simple enough - starts the cycle of moving armorstands. The top command block sets the block below it to a redstone block (the most compact way of making it tileable) and the other three clear the buttons, marks the armorstand above to be tested and starts the main mechanism

Spoiler: Main module

http://imgur.com/aXgEvJL (apparently I can't put any more images in)So, the Green module is the detection part, which gets triggered, the tests the name of the marked armorstand and whether there are any empty spaces of the shifting button row withing two block of it (more on that later), if there are it will send out the signal to the according red section.

The red section does most of the work - it disables the blue module, give the armorstand motion, moves the Center armorstand (will be explained) to where the gap now is then clones the fixed button row onto the shifting before moving it up to the buttons you moved. It then re-enable the failure mechanism adn remove the mark on the armorstand when finished.

The green section is the failure mechanism, it clears everything out so the system can be used againif it is not disabled/the selected armorstand is unable to move.

Spoiler: Button section

http://imgur.com/g0xFmSP
http://imgur.com/5A5JhD0
This is the strange one. You can see two rows of buttons - the diamond one and the netherbrick. The netherbrick is the fixed row that does not move and is only used for cloning purposes. The diamond row is moved relative to the armorstand called 'Center'. This is always underneath the gap and the netherbrick row is cloned centered to the armorstand and as the middle of that row has not button, where the armorstand is, there is not button (which is conveniently under where there is a gap. The diamond row is then cloned up to the top, giving the button arrangement the player woudlsee. (Still with me?)

Spoiler: Completion Module

http://imgur.com/fFTCNET
This just simply detects when the armorstands are in place and then give the firework effect and opens the dorr.

(There are also small things such as sounds, but it is pretty obvious they exist

Anyway, any ideas what I should do to improve it/ build next?

 

Dafaq how'd y learn to do this?

 

Mainly by looking at other people's redstone (I try and recreate/figure out how some of Wynn's puzzles etc. work) to learn techniques, mechanics and actual commands, and then built from there by filling in gaps of knowledge with videos and tutorials, until you understand the general concept - practice makes perfect, basically.

 

I know what you mean,
Start from something small, practice get better

 

This puzzle is amazing

 

That's amazing. I'd love to see how all this was done.

 

i did that in gym recently wwhere we had to mirror our positions




it was a nightmare

 

Added an explaination on the main post :D

 

Woah thats pretty awesome.

 

Woooh I love that game!

 

When staff and command block people are posting on your thread, they're trying to tell you to apply. =]

 

Oh boy, I'd like to see this in-game ;) *hint hint apply for CMD when it's available hint hint*

 

Nice idea! The redstone looks a bit messy tho...

Maybe you can make it so there are buttons only under the armorstands you can move?
You can do it with your middle armorstand, he just needs to place 2 buttons around him in each direction.
You can use the clone command for that, or do it like this:
/execute @e[middle armorstand] ~ ~ ~ /execute @e[all the other armorstands, r=2] ~ ~ ~ /setblock ~1 ~-1 ~ stone_button
(It'll also make sure you don't clone buttons outside of the board, when the middle is close to the edge.)

Anyway if you have lot of other puzzle ideas, or if you are good with making cutsences as well, maybe you should try to apply for command blocker :)

 

Yeah, I had considered using just the 4 buttons surrounding it, but after trying it I thought having more just looked cooler.

It could have easily been simplified in many ways, but I had just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out why the armorstands could only be launched once before it broke (apparently once given motion, they don't land entirely flat again?), before realizing I could literally just move them up a half slab and move the co-ords of the testfor command up aswell, so at that point I was kinda annoyed and just rushed through the rest of it.

;)