What builders have been able to make with redstone, pistons, slime blocks and observers has well exceeded what most people had ever expected from such a simple set of tools. Still, I believe there is much more that could be done. What I feel is missing is a utility for rotating groups of blocks. Other improvements I feel are needed is a way to disguise slime and obsidian blocks that would otherwise need to be hidden if one was looking to make their mechanisms good looking and functional.
My first proposal is the hinge and axel blocks.
The hinge block, like a piston, translates a received redstone signal into movement. In the case of the hinge, it rotates the block on it's active face. It can be set how far it rotates on activation, and wether its movement is a toggle, or incrimental per pulse. On it's own, this is effectively useless, most blocks have uniform or non rotating textures, so unless you want a spinning pumpkin, just using a hinge isn't enough. That's what the axel is for. It acts as an extention to the hinge, capable of carrying adjacent blocks with it. The axel would use the same placement rules as a log, and only effect blocks in the plane aligned with it's sides. Like with Pistons, slime blocks can carry more blocks with the axel. I thought about if axels were nesscary, or if their job could just go to slime blocks as well, and I reasoned that, each axel could be the focus for the calculated movement, whereas without axels, the entire calculation is the burden of the hinge. Having axels would simplify the math that runs in the background. In addition, if hinges and axels followed block limit rules like Pistons, Axels would let more blocks rotate on a hinge.
As for the rest of my proposal, it's simple enough to understand. Give builders the ability to disguise slime and obsidian blocks as other blocks.
So, as a final example, imagine if you could make a large scale door, that opened by turning. The whole door is one block thick, and there is no slime or obsidian visible.
Does that sound like something you want to build? How about a drawbridge? Carnival rides?
What would you make if you could rotate groups of blocks on demand?
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What builders have been able to make with redstone, pistons, slime blocks and observers has well exceeded what most people had ever expected from such a simple set of tools. Still, I believe there is much more that could be done. What I feel is missing is a utility for rotating groups of blocks. Other improvements I feel are needed is a way to disguise slime and obsidian blocks that would otherwise need to be hidden if one was looking to make their mechanisms good looking and functional.
My first proposal is the hinge and axel blocks.
The hinge block, like a piston, translates a received redstone signal into movement. In the case of the hinge, it rotates the block on it's active face. It can be set how far it rotates on activation, and wether its movement is a toggle, or incrimental per pulse. On it's own, this is effectively useless, most blocks have uniform or non rotating textures, so unless you want a spinning pumpkin, just using a hinge isn't enough. That's what the axel is for. It acts as an extention to the hinge, capable of carrying adjacent blocks with it. The axel would use the same placement rules as a log, and only effect blocks in the plane aligned with it's sides. Like with Pistons, slime blocks can carry more blocks with the axel. I thought about if axels were nesscary, or if their job could just go to slime blocks as well, and I reasoned that, each axel could be the focus for the calculated movement, whereas without axels, the entire calculation is the burden of the hinge. Having axels would simplify the math that runs in the background. In addition, if hinges and axels followed block limit rules like Pistons, Axels would let more blocks rotate on a hinge.
As for the rest of my proposal, it's simple enough to understand. Give builders the ability to disguise slime and obsidian blocks as other blocks.
So, as a final example, imagine if you could make a large scale door, that opened by turning. The whole door is one block thick, and there is no slime or obsidian visible.
Does that sound like something you want to build? How about a drawbridge? Carnival rides?
What would you make if you could rotate groups of blocks on demand?
WARNING:
My output of snark depends on your output of stupidity.
My patience wears thin on strawmen and lies.