Recently, I watched a video by Mojang that included gears in it. I soon after found out that gears are no longer in minecraft. This gave me an idea. It's still rough around the edges, but I think that it could work. To craft a gear, you need to place iron ingots in a circle with one redstone in the middle. Kind of like the note block but with Iron. The gears can be placed on walls and on top of blocks, similar to torches, and will spin when powered by redstone. When a powered gear is spinning, if any of its sides, including diagonal axis, is touching an unpowered gear, the gear will spin. This will NOT cause powered gear to stop spinning if it touches another powered block. If a gear is on top of a block and another gear is on the side of the block, they will be affected by a powered gear and will all spin. A powered gear can turn on redstone. Gears have the same properties as redstone when connecting to redstone, such as a block directly above the gear, when redstone rests atop it, will be powered. Any redstone type of mechanism, doors, noteblocks, etc will be powered as well if a gear is underneath it.
Advantages:
There are a few advantages to gears, rather than redstone. Here are a few.
-Gears can be placed on walls, providing more compact power.
-Gears do not need any sort of repeater to continue, they can be placed indefinitely
-Gears will operate if it is next to a flowing water block (NOT a source block)
-Gears would look better in any sort of steampunk themed city, rather than a magical wire
Uses:
Off the top of my head, I can think of one use, but if anyone has any other ideas, i'd appreciate them.
Aqueducts: If you wanted your city to be powered by aqueducts and gears, I took the idea from the aqueducts in the timelapse video on the front page, then you can have an aqueduct that is 3 blocks wide and has water running down the center. With gears on the side, you could run the gears over and down the outside wall of the aqueducts, leading underground and powering items in houses from the underground. Perhaps light up your city with some sort of "power-needing lightsource" *hint hint*?
Tell me what you guys think, including suggestions, problems, and other factors of the idea.
Good Idea, A vertical type of Redstone is really needed for people who want to make helpful contraptions in their homes. While I'm not sure if gears are the best choice for this I do like the basic idea. 1/2 support!
you have a nice idea here but the problem here is that gears have been removed from the games codeing and there image in the items file has been writen over notch would have to start over to implement them
I like the idea of vertical redstone, but i do not like howe expensive it would be to craft. I mean 8 iron for one gear? Why not just make redstone that sticks to walls?
I like the idea of vertical redstone, but i do not like howe expensive it would be to craft. I mean 8 iron for one gear? Why not just make redstone that sticks to walls?
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Whoops, forgot to mention that every craft makes 9 gears...
Advantages:
There are a few advantages to gears, rather than redstone. Here are a few.
-Gears can be placed on walls, providing more compact power.
-Gears do not need any sort of repeater to continue, they can be placed indefinitely
-Gears will operate if it is next to a flowing water block (NOT a source block)
-Gears would look better in any sort of steampunk themed city, rather than a magical wire
Uses:
Off the top of my head, I can think of one use, but if anyone has any other ideas, i'd appreciate them.
Aqueducts: If you wanted your city to be powered by aqueducts and gears, I took the idea from the aqueducts in the timelapse video on the front page, then you can have an aqueduct that is 3 blocks wide and has water running down the center. With gears on the side, you could run the gears over and down the outside wall of the aqueducts, leading underground and powering items in houses from the underground. Perhaps light up your city with some sort of "power-needing lightsource" *hint hint*?
Tell me what you guys think, including suggestions, problems, and other factors of the idea.
Whoops, forgot to mention that every craft makes 9 gears...
By this I assume you mean act like a delayer? Maybe yes, maybe no. It's all that notch really wants. Maybe a wrech of some sort that can program it?
I actually would like it not to delay if it where implemented. But the cogs to me imply that the signal would travel around the cogs.
Well, yeah, I wasn't originally planning on having them delay :smile.gif: