Mission 575
Smart Garage: The Door That Knows You’re Home
Badge: Garage Genius
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Build a garage whose piston door opens for your minecart car by itself.
Roll up in your minecart and the garage door slides open by itself. Roll inside and a lamp says: car home.
- New skill Using a redstone torch as a NOT gate
- Level 6 · Inventor's Lab
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Creative
- Time 60 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Build a garage with a piston door that slides open as your minecart rolls up. A redstone torch keeps the door shut until a detector rail or a plate flips it, and a Car Home lamp lights when you park. Drive in and out to test it.
Finish line: Your garage door opens for your minecart car and walkers, and the Car Home lamp lights when you park.
Bonus challenge: Add a launch button inside: a powered rail that sends the car out, and make sure the door opens in time every single run.
You’ll need
- Sticky pistons
- Redstone torch
- Rails and detector rails
- Powered rail and lever
- Minecart
- Redstone lamp
You choose
- My car's name
- Garage door colour
- My bet for the 10-run score
Stuck?
- Keep the door blocks in the top rows, out of the minecart's path.
- Door closing too soon? Detector rails only give power while the cart is on them, so use several in a row.
- Door stuck shut? The detector rails must power the torch's block, not the pistons.
For grown-ups
Get this mission
This mission is in Mission Pack 57. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
Print one mission at a time. You never need to print everything.
Played on Minecraft Bedrock on iPad. Buttons can differ on other devices and versions.