Tripwire sucks. It's just the same as redstone and pressure plates but extendable and with string instead. It's completely useless in my opinion. Your thoughts?
EDIT: Now I know what it can do, so don't reply. I'm sorry for posting before I even knew what it could do.
I find it fun to use, Honestly the ability to have an entire area essentially 'pressure platted' without needing to have plates actually give away their presence by sticking up is kinda good. Redstone doesn't activate itself when a player steps on it and even if it did (or you are talking about redstone ore) it'd be very noticeable. Also the fact tripwire can be blocks long adds to the ability to hide it better than pressure plates. In the past you had to either plate an entire area giving it away with clicks and raised tiles or make a narrow corridor with only a few plates that where still kinda noticeable. Another problem pressure plates had was, if they where noticed and broken they did nothing. Tripwire still activates unless you use shears which not everyone carries around with them everywhere they go or, in the case of future adventure maps, they may not have access to them. Overall the tripwire appears to be quite a nice addition to traps as they can be hidden in simple decorative nooks or just over a large area in an inconspicuous corridor.
I think the reason they allow them to be disarmed with shears is they needed a way to safely disarm a trap or they couldn't use them in their new jungle dungeons. Or maybe they just allowed it as a safe way to disarm them seeing as they did something similar with TnT. But with tripwire they wanted it to seem like a little more delicate operation. Considering that the tripwire may be connected to TnT, I think you should need to be delicate with it. I agree with shears, but the hitbox on it seems a little large and obvious if it's hanging in mid air. I would like a way to make it a bit harder to detect on the ground though it does serve it's purpose.
I think the reason they allow them to be disarmed with shears is they needed a way to safely disarm a trap or they couldn't use them in their new jungle dungeons. Or maybe they just allowed it as a safe way to disarm them seeing as they did something similar with TnT. But with tripwire they wanted it to seem like a little more delicate operation. Considering that the tripwire may be connected to TnT, I think you should need to be delicate with it. I agree with shears, but the hitbox on it seems a little large and obvious if it's hanging in mid air. I would like a way to make it a bit harder to detect on the ground though it does serve it's purpose.
TNT.. no... pistons to close the passage and and Sand trap as you enter a room. There are dozens of potential uses that couldn't be done with pressure plates.
And yeah, there has to be some way to disarm them. Being harder to see is enough of a risk. Being that you can make it so that cutting the wire, instead of walking on it can trigger the trap without any way to know what should and should not be disarmed makes it even more of a risk than pressure plates ever were.
If you don't see the potential, clearly you havn't used enough redstone.
Never said it HAD to be TnT, just said it could be connected to TnT, hell it could be rigged to a whole device that traps you in a room, fills it with water to drown you, smother you in gravel or sand, just cover you in lava, set you ablaze with fire charges, spawn a crap load of monsters, or blow the living crap outta you with a load of TnT. Really, the possibilities are endless.
Oh... and if you're feeling nice a tripwire could give you a prize. or if you're feeling cruel you could make one tripwire give someone a prize and the next tripwire be a death-trap.
I find It quite neat personally, usually you'd have to shape your design to wood/stone to let the plates fit in with the block scheme (for doors) this is quite neat and sneaky, plus Its quite verstile
You can also use this to alert you in your base of any monsters crossing your perimeter - simple make a trip wire fence - 4 of them in a square; hook them up to a catchy noteblock tune underneath your floor
Or link them to a light that light up the area around the critter.
I find it fun to use, Honestly the ability to have an entire area essentially 'pressure platted' without needing to have plates actually give away their presence by sticking up is kinda good. Redstone doesn't activate itself when a player steps on it and even if it did (or you are talking about redstone ore) it'd be very noticeable. Also the fact tripwire can be blocks long adds to the ability to hide it better than pressure plates. In the past you had to either plate an entire area giving it away with clicks and raised tiles or make a narrow corridor with only a few plates that where still kinda noticeable. Another problem pressure plates had was, if they where noticed and broken they did nothing. Tripwire still activates unless you use shears which not everyone carries around with them everywhere they go or, in the case of future adventure maps, they may not have access to them. Overall the tripwire appears to be quite a nice addition to traps as they can be hidden in simple decorative nooks or just over a large area in an inconspicuous corridor.
Not to mention if you place a inverter, shears loose purpose, because it turns the inverter on.
EDIT: Now I know what it can do, so don't reply. I'm sorry for posting before I even knew what it could do.
He didn't even flame you.
TNT.. no... pistons to close the passage and and Sand trap as you enter a room. There are dozens of potential uses that couldn't be done with pressure plates.
And yeah, there has to be some way to disarm them. Being harder to see is enough of a risk. Being that you can make it so that cutting the wire, instead of walking on it can trigger the trap without any way to know what should and should not be disarmed makes it even more of a risk than pressure plates ever were.
If you don't see the potential, clearly you havn't used enough redstone.
Oh... and if you're feeling nice a tripwire could give you a prize. or if you're feeling cruel you could make one tripwire give someone a prize and the next tripwire be a death-trap.
Or link them to a light that light up the area around the critter.
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Not to mention if you place a inverter, shears loose purpose, because it turns the inverter on.