I just want to suggest a fairly small change to the way pressure plates work.
At the moment any traps using pressure plates as their trigger mechanism are easy to bypass simply by removing the pressure plate (left clicking on it) or mining out the block under the pressure plate.
I would like to suggest reversing the outputs, so that when a pressure plate is not being triggered it generates a current, and once it is triggered it stops generating a current.
This way removing a pressure plate would always cause a change in current triggering whatever trap it was hooked up to.
Landmines, dispensers (with pressure plates), and automatic doors would be a lot more difficult to build, but I suppose that's tolerable.
Hmm, I hadn't actually thought of this, while more complex landmine and dispenser use wouldn't really bother me, you usually have plenty of space to work with for those anyway, making automatic doors more complex would be frustrating since you really want to have the plate right beside the door and that limits the space you have to add a Not gate.
Perhaps giving the option to have an inverted pressure plate by adding a Redstone torch to the recipe of a normal pressure plate would work better?
This would also act as a good looking workaround for the bug with double automatic doors.
you could simply build an inverter.
edit: wow, misread your post. sorry. (or did I? I can't think. It's too late)
Yeah the basic idea of the post is that atm pressure plates are to easily by-passed simply by removing them.
If you reversed their current out-put when a presure plate was removed the current would change causing the trap to be sprung.
Right now a removed trap has the same out-put as an un-triggered trap.
Sorry for the double post, but just thought, if Pressure plates were changed so that they trigger when left clicked on, so that you couldn't remove them without triggering them that would go a long way to solving the problem,
It would still be possible to disarm a pressure plate by mining out the block underneath it, however this practice is risky as an inverter attached to the same block as the pressure plate would still cause a change in current when the block is removed.
pressure plates just need to trip if they are being mined. Hitting it with a tool or fist is pressure. This would make it so you don't have to worry about two types of plates. Of course it won't stop people from removing the block below but of course there is nothing to stop them from going through the wall to bypass the plate anyway.
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At the moment any traps using pressure plates as their trigger mechanism are easy to bypass simply by removing the pressure plate (left clicking on it) or mining out the block under the pressure plate.
I would like to suggest reversing the outputs, so that when a pressure plate is not being triggered it generates a current, and once it is triggered it stops generating a current.
This way removing a pressure plate would always cause a change in current triggering whatever trap it was hooked up to.
Hmm, I hadn't actually thought of this, while more complex landmine and dispenser use wouldn't really bother me, you usually have plenty of space to work with for those anyway, making automatic doors more complex would be frustrating since you really want to have the plate right beside the door and that limits the space you have to add a Not gate.
Perhaps giving the option to have an inverted pressure plate by adding a Redstone torch to the recipe of a normal pressure plate would work better?
This would also act as a good looking workaround for the bug with double automatic doors.
beat me to it.
I was thinking something like this for the inverted.
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Or this.
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The flower being a redstone torch
it would take a little extra space.
but notch might soon add it as another block similar to the repeater
so...
if
(side view)
when pressure plate = off
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when pressure plate=on
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edit: wow, misread your post. sorry. (or did I? I can't think. It's too late)
Yeah the basic idea of the post is that atm pressure plates are to easily by-passed simply by removing them.
If you reversed their current out-put when a presure plate was removed the current would change causing the trap to be sprung.
Right now a removed trap has the same out-put as an un-triggered trap.
It would still be possible to disarm a pressure plate by mining out the block underneath it, however this practice is risky as an inverter attached to the same block as the pressure plate would still cause a change in current when the block is removed.
Playing Minecraft since [Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:20:21 PM] (First indev world save)