Minecraft's Worst Handyman

To say I'm not very experienced with redstone would be a gross understatement.  Never got much beyond the whole lever -> redstone -> thing you want to do stuff stage.  I'm more of a farmer - farming is nice and simple and easily understood, without needing a bunch of tutorials.

Plant, harvest.  Nothing complicated here. (okay so maybe water for harvesting is a little unorthodox.)

Originally I was going to do some work outside, well that was before I saw who was knocking on my door.  

It looks like a *lovely* day to stay inside.

One of the areas that I haven't gotten around to improving since I first started on Avalorn is the front door.  Granted it doesn't get much use these days, seeing that I have a waterfront property and most of the fun stuff happens up top, but I still wanted to have some automatic double doors installed.

I should say *semi-automatic*, since there's no pressure plate on the outside for what should be very obvious reasons.  In case it's not obvious, scroll back up two pictures.   The problem with double doors is that they don't behave the way you expect.  Pressure plates only activate items directly adjacent, not along the diagonal; thus one pressure plate can't open two doors on its own.

 Instead you get just one opening door.

The solution to this is (what should be for most players) a simple bit of redstone wiring - one torch, one piece of redstone.  sedentarygecko has an excellent set of step-by-step instructions for this and other projects on the Minecraft Forums.  Of course that didn't stop me from screwing up every way possible.

For starters, my lovely mushroom farm?  Too close to the main floor, so I had to re-dig the entire thing two additional blocks down. 

Moral of the story: always leave more room than you think you'll need.

Two hours later - farm moved, ready to install doors!  This should be the simple part, right?

Wrong. 

First the doors defaulted to open, and slammed shut when I tried to walk through. Okay, dig out the floor, pull out some stuff, try flipping it to the other side... Attempt #2 - doors don't open at all.  Start again; dig out the innards, rewire.  Attempt #3 - only one door opens.  After much grumbling and close examination of the build photos, I finally realize my mistake.  The doors are mounted on the wrong side. *facepalm*

At last, the doors are in, and the animals are out. A cow stopped by to see if I had a work permit, but I politely told her to get off my lawn or I'd come collecting leather.

Stop judging me cow, I'm doing the best I can.