The perpetual motion machines are scary... occasional explosions as a trade off for unlimited power sounds alright though haha - might be some stable configuration that never explodes but is faster/same torque as a rotor

Yeah but rope drums break alot of stuff, you need to put them between 2 catch blocks for attempting that. Im going to test that mechanic too, maybe we can build something that is even stronger and faster than the rotor lol

@Fambaa
I have on the other hand seen perpetual motion machines and thats been my recent build attempt - perpetual motion machine spinning a saw blade coming through a wall to kill barbarians on the way to the lord statue haha. that worked as shown in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6u5NSCAAg

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@fambaa I took inspiration from the recent Captain Jars upload where he talked about rope drum orientation and how you could connect a mine cart system up and use only 2 pieces of rope, one from each end to make it go in either direction.

As I showed in my diagram, the rope drums do have to be placed flipped on either side of the lift otherwise when you spin the crank it reels in the drums on one side and lets out the drums on the other side :P is this what you mean?

What do you mean by a crank is not needed? My theory is that the power came from the jars gear system as rope physics are strange - if you downloaded my V1 lift youll see the test platform next to it, one wth a jars geat connected to a rope drum and one with a crank directly on the rope drum. I found that you could lift any weight as long as a jars gear was in between, but if you had the crank directly on the rope drum you could only lift up to a certain weight before it stopped you.

that looks alot like my lift I published 2 days before you. Im glad that you made improvements on it. But seeing your previous design we had the exact same Idea ;). You cannot invent a car twice can you.

I found out that the orienattion of the rope catching blocks is very important. Its hard to explain in text but the block has to point or ly in the rotation circle like this | not this --

You can test that with a rotation block timber then put a rope between the moveable timber and a fixed point and bump it. Then reorient the rope catch block 90 degrees and you will see a chance in the movement. One tends to be more jiggly and loose the other stiffer. I use the loose orientation when using ropes as force transmission.

You dont need the crank. The unlimited power comes from the rope drums. I had a weird occasion where a timber block brushed a rope drum and it went on indefinately. The timber was on a catch block.

dude