I wonder whether anyone has had a look at my Minecraft 1.9 review. I believe nobody. In any case, here is my gaming experience in 1.9 pre-release snapshot versions.

To begin with, my ‘Rainbow Beacon’. It was not a too complex thing, and was made in 1.9 snapshot versions. If you want to know how i made it, read on.

I was messing around in creative, and having no exact intention on what to do, other than the fact I wanted to build something. By good luck, I had JUST seen a video of the Rainbow Beacon in MCSM*. In case you were wondering, Lukas and the Ocelots had built it. Though mine was nothing nearly as complex as theirs, I decided to manually make(not much Redstone involved) the beacon.

So I set up the base and the usual beacon. Now, time for the real fun!! I built up sticky pistons** and set a lever next to every-single-one. Don’t be intimidated, not that tedious. and it seems like I haven’t mentioned the real part, I put stained glass in front of each sticky piston, which was set far enough that the glass would be in the beacon light. And… the all grand Rainbow Beacon! Yes, you had to manually flip every lever for each color, but after all, it was fun. If you haven’t seen Lukas and the Ocelots build, you might be wondering what they had made. It was a Rainbow Beacon, but made with lots of redstone involved, and each color was swapped automatically behind the scenes. Behind a barrier, that is. The view-able-by-public result was a dazzling light swiftly changing colors. Nice, huh? Mine wasn’t nearly as sophisticated, seeing that you must do everything manual and stick a row of sticky pistons randomly. After all, I wasn’t in a building competition!

How to build it:

I’m not going in to details on how to set up the beacon part, to be honest, I can’t exactly remember how I did it. However, they are plenty of tutorials around the web for that, so you just need to have a browse around and I’m sure you’ll find some pretty interesting stuff.

All what I’m telling you is how I built the rainbow part. If you’d like to make a sophisticated version, then I think YouTube is your best friend. I’m not too of a crafty builder, and am not Olivia or Ellegaard. In simpler words, not a redstone engineer.

Any way, to get started, set up your beacon as usual. Then, set up floating, or none floating, if that is what you like. I did floating. Okay, floating or non-floating cobblestone or any other block of your choice two blocks away from the beacon light, not the base of it. I chose seven floating blocks, but you can put as many as you like, it depends on how many colors you want if floating, and how tall or where you want them as well as how many colors in non-floating blocks. After your blocks(I’ll say cobblestone, as that’s what I used. nothing fancy) place the sticky-pistons, how many you want. Because I wanted seven colors and I had put seven cobble, I put the pistons right up. However, the position and number is totally up to you. For convenience purposes, because I was in creative and it takes you simply forever to find something in your mega-huge inventory, I had dished up all the things needed into my Survival Inventory and put as much as possible in my hotbars. Anyhow, now just stick all your stained glass into your pistons.

Last step before your RB is fully functional! This is the simplest part, simply put a lever on the side of your piston or on the cobble(not sure if it will work that way, never tried it) and bam! you can now flick each lever and the color will change.

So basically that’s all I have in store today, and I’ve been writing this for two weeks now. I’m finally publishing it. Maybe I’ll later write on my survival experience. MAYBE.

*Minecraft: Story Mode.

** Do not use normal pistons, only sticky pistons. This is necessary as a normal piston cannot pull and you need to pull your glass back obviously. Normal pistons will leave your glass always in the beacon.