Ok, I started thinking about how there were a lot of times where for some reason or another, I have two separate redstone lines near to or intersecting each other that need to stay independent of each other. This made me think of a type of Junction box idea. For a recipe, it could be as follows:
What it does, it is toggle-able (like the repeater or comparator), but it has 3 states, each has 2 separate inputs and outputs:
State 1: Intersection, Line 1 connects Front to Back (or Bottom to Top), Line 2 connects Left to Right.
State 2: 1-3 corners, Line 1 connects Left to Front (or Top), Line 2 connects Right to Back (or Bottom)
State 3: 2-4 corners, Line 1 connects Right to Front (or Top), Line 2 connects Left to Back (or Bottom)
(Optional State 4): 4 way intersection, all lines tied together: Advantage over just using redstone dust? There would be NO signal degradation across the intersection (see my next comment below for additional feature).
...although there have been many times I thought this would come in handy, I got this idea while looking at the following feature MOD article: http://www.minecraft...tone-paste-mod/
...which isn't in it, but would be particularly useful in this environment as well...there just are a lot of times where I want to easily cross 2 lines over or have one line turn a corner without bleeding into an adjacent line where something like this would be particularly useful.
I have thus far never seen a circuit that was impossible without a block like this. You need to learn how to space out your stuff.
Not needed.
No support.
I prefer tighter builds... and the repeater is not needed either, and yet it exists. I have not seen an area where you can't accomplish the same for the repeater as you can with more space, redstone, and an even number of redstone torches....
very poor logic IMO.
Your basic 1 tick repeater can be built with 2 torches 2 blocks, 1 redstone dust, repeat this build:
2x for a 2 tick repeater,
3x for a 3 tick repeater, and
4x for a 4 tick repeater.
Bonus: This design is already setup to accept a lateral signal input to turn off/block the repeater as should be updated in the repeater build at some point.
To add to this idea, a Tee-Junction could be used as well which joins 3 sides of a circuit and insulates against the fourth side, and an insulated line where direction-ally straight wire does not allow contamination on the sides (like using a repeater without the delay or the signal regeneration.
An additional advantage to each of these could be that there would be no signal degradation from one side to the other (but no signal regeneration either). So they could be used to carry a signal further than 15 blocks without regeneration and would become more useful when the comparitor comes out.
I feel it is needed, because many times I have redstone next to eachother, but it needs to not connect. I have this problem mostly with pistons that are right next to eachother.
Direction-ally oriented like a log (4 bark sides around, with 2 opposing ring sides)
Looks like a Glass Block with a Redstone Line running through the middle of it, can be oriented in any direction but cannot change direction by itself, redstone current will only go between the designated endpoints.
Can be oriented vertically or horizontally E/W or N/S. Can see through the glass to see if the redstone line is active'illuminated' or not.
Can be used for vertical wiring, bundled wiring to something such as a display, can be used to place or stack redstone all around it without bleedover, can be used for interesting redstone lighting, etc.
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Hmm... I like that last part. However I think if they just made it so that we could place dust on walks so it goes up and down on its own.. that would suffice.
Because for example..... If you place dust that goes down to another block below... there's a piece of the wiring that's literally just up and down to connect the two levels of redstone.
So it can be down for short distances for sure.. But I say just extend the length so that you can do it as much as you want.
Perhaps have the same go for Repeaters. Just have repeaters and redstone be able to be placed on walls, and that would easily be good enough for me.
Hmm... I like that last part. However I think if they just made it so that we could place dust on walks so it goes up and down on its own.. that would suffice.
Because for example..... If you place dust that goes down to another block below... there's a piece of the wiring that's literally just up and down to connect the two levels of redstone.
So it can be down for short distances for sure.. But I say just extend the length so that you can do it as much as you want.
Perhaps have the same go for Repeaters. Just have repeaters and redstone be able to be placed on walls, and that would easily be good enough for me.
Like in the article I cited above...that would be also useful as well, but with the redstone embedded glass block you could do a lot of stuff that you would have a hard time doing otherwise, specifically a tight bundle of independent redstone signals to or from a wall of close placed outputs/inputs.
(makes the 9+ digit keypad easier and smaller, or more control over that disco floor, etc.)
.........R.........
...R....S....R...
.........R.........
R = Redstone Dust
S = Stone Slab
What it does, it is toggle-able (like the repeater or comparator), but it has 3 states, each has 2 separate inputs and outputs:
State 1: Intersection, Line 1 connects Front to Back (or Bottom to Top), Line 2 connects Left to Right.
State 2: 1-3 corners, Line 1 connects Left to Front (or Top), Line 2 connects Right to Back (or Bottom)
State 3: 2-4 corners, Line 1 connects Right to Front (or Top), Line 2 connects Left to Back (or Bottom)
(Optional State 4): 4 way intersection, all lines tied together: Advantage over just using redstone dust? There would be NO signal degradation across the intersection (see my next comment below for additional feature).
...although there have been many times I thought this would come in handy, I got this idea while looking at the following feature MOD article: http://www.minecraft...tone-paste-mod/
...which isn't in it, but would be particularly useful in this environment as well...there just are a lot of times where I want to easily cross 2 lines over or have one line turn a corner without bleeding into an adjacent line where something like this would be particularly useful.
It's similar how I wanted a 3 sided Redstone Repeater. to cut down on complications and space needed to adjust to extra redstone equipment.
I'd liek this I think
I prefer tighter builds... and the repeater is not needed either, and yet it exists. I have not seen an area where you can't accomplish the same for the repeater as you can with more space, redstone, and an even number of redstone torches....
very poor logic IMO.
Your basic 1 tick repeater can be built with 2 torches 2 blocks, 1 redstone dust, repeat this build:
2x for a 2 tick repeater,
3x for a 3 tick repeater, and
4x for a 4 tick repeater.
Bonus: This design is already setup to accept a lateral signal input to turn off/block the repeater as should be updated in the repeater build at some point.
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To add to this idea, a Tee-Junction could be used as well which joins 3 sides of a circuit and insulates against the fourth side, and an insulated line where direction-ally straight wire does not allow contamination on the sides (like using a repeater without the delay or the signal regeneration.
An additional advantage to each of these could be that there would be no signal degradation from one side to the other (but no signal regeneration either). So they could be used to carry a signal further than 15 blocks without regeneration and would become more useful when the comparitor comes out.
Tee-Junction:
....................
...R....S....R...
.........R.........
Insulated Line:
....................
...R....S....R...
....................
....................
...R....G....R...
....................
R = Redstone Dust
G = Glass Block
Direction-ally oriented like a log (4 bark sides around, with 2 opposing ring sides)
Looks like a Glass Block with a Redstone Line running through the middle of it, can be oriented in any direction but cannot change direction by itself, redstone current will only go between the designated endpoints.
Can be oriented vertically or horizontally E/W or N/S. Can see through the glass to see if the redstone line is active'illuminated' or not.
Can be used for vertical wiring, bundled wiring to something such as a display, can be used to place or stack redstone all around it without bleedover, can be used for interesting redstone lighting, etc.
Because for example..... If you place dust that goes down to another block below... there's a piece of the wiring that's literally just up and down to connect the two levels of redstone.
So it can be down for short distances for sure.. But I say just extend the length so that you can do it as much as you want.
Perhaps have the same go for Repeaters. Just have repeaters and redstone be able to be placed on walls, and that would easily be good enough for me.
Like in the article I cited above...that would be also useful as well, but with the redstone embedded glass block you could do a lot of stuff that you would have a hard time doing otherwise, specifically a tight bundle of independent redstone signals to or from a wall of close placed outputs/inputs.
(makes the 9+ digit keypad easier and smaller, or more control over that disco floor, etc.)
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