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I am trying to make a 5 high by 6 wide cube of redstone lamps to work all at once but I'm having issues getting them to work. They need to be wired so that you can turn them on and off with a clock.
Here is what one corner looks like currently.
Here is the wiring I've tried so far.
Basically I'm clueless as to how I can wire the other wall and have all the lamps light up. The power is coming from underneath the center block.
I've made a video of a working example:
All you need are properly calibrated repeaters (4 ticks each), a "short-cut" for the door pistons and an inverter on one of the system parts.
Redstone Lamps (unlike glowstone and pistons) act like opaque blocks, not transparent ones. Opaque blocks have two main differences from transparent ones:
This means that redstone lamps behave mostly like any other solid block in Minecraft when it comes to how they are powered, so you can power them many different ways:
That configuration on the left is powered by a redstone torch under the middle block, like so:
While having redstone lamps be opaque opens a great deal of possibilities, it also has the unfortunate downside of making it impossible (unless there's a method I'm not aware of) to turn on a single redstone lamp in a floor made out of lamps from below, so keep that in mind when building structures with them.
Best Answer
That's not possible with lamps in the corner
The problem, as I am sure you are aware, are the corner blocks. Take a look at a two high section:
To light up the corner blocks, we need to power an adjacent lamp directly, by pointing either a repeater/comparator, a line of redstone dust, or a torch (from below!) into it. Simply powering the adjacent lamps (such as by placing a redstone block/torch next to them) won't do. We can't do that directly on the corner blocks, meaning we have to power either both green or both red blocks directly.
However, none of the methods capable of directly powering a block fits in a 1 high space. Nor are there ways to directly power two blocks on top of each other at once, making a 5 by 6 full cube impossible.
Solution without corner blocks
However, if you leave out the corner blocks, it's definitely doable, although a bit of space below will probably be needed. The corners are still tricky, but you can use a torch/block/dust tower to light up most of it. The torch is connected to the input (green) underground.
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