A determined and respectable yet slightly terrifying Minecraft player came up with a functioning guillotine design based on a pointed dripstone. Dripstones will be officially added to the base client of the game once the anticipated Caves & Cliffs update finally releases.
While the Caves & Cliffs update is still unavailable in Minecraft in its entirety, Mojang keeps releasing dedicated snapshots on a regular basis. Such updates usually contain a slice of the upcoming new content, which can be tested by players before an official launch. One of the latest snapshots, for instance, offered the first look at some of the new natural underground structures, introducing so-called “cheese and spaghetti caves.” While the former is reminiscent of a piece of Swiss cheese due to numerous holes and pockets, the latter look like long and curly pasta-shaped tunnels.
On Reddit, user rishonathan shared a functional design of a working Minecraft guillotine, which uses Redstone contraptions to drop a pointed dripstone on a player’s head. The required stalactites can already be used in Creative mode thanks to regular snapshot releases full of upcoming features. In the video, the builder of the scary machine uses the old trapdoor trick to position the character model horizontally and then proceeds to show the working process in the third person. While the author had to demonstrate the functionality of the device on themselves, the mechanism can obviously be triggered separately by a dedicated operator to use it on a different player. It’s a clever way to enhance role-playing experiences on medieval-themed Minecraft servers or even use in mob farms if there’s any practical sense in doing so.
The amount of new content included in the Minecraft Caves & Cliffs provides ample reason to consider it the most massive update for Minecraft. Apart from revamping the generation of underground structures and mountains, it contains new biomes, new hostile and passive mobs, but most importantly - brand new crafting resources and recipes. There’re also some novel mechanics aimed at improving the whole gaming experience and offering additional entertaining activities. For instance, a brand new archeology system will be a part of the update.
Despite the very essence of the build, a working guillotine in Minecraft is not necessarily terrifying. It’s just proof that literally anything can be created in Mojang’s feature-rich sandbox. But while the device’s functionality is brilliant, the design clearly needs improvement. Reddit users have already suggested their ideas on how to hide Redstone wires and make the whole build a lot cleaner. It’s quite obvious that enterprising gamers might come up with numerous other solutions. At the very least, such a guillotine can be used by a server administrator to publicly “execute” a griefer who is caught red-handed and deserves punishment for offensive actions.
Source: rishonathan/Reddit