Before we begin, allow me to state this: the 'already suggested ideas' thread did not list anything like this. This is radically different than bluestone, the way I see it, but if you see it differently, I apologize in advance.
I'm twelve, so I do NOT claim in any way that this is a good idea. To be honest, despite having read a thesaurus, I am, to put it nicely, an idiot.
Also, while replying, please refrain form using profanity, even though there is no rule prohibiting it. I am rather sensitive about that. I will not curse in this post, so if I do, I'm sorry, it's a typo, and is not addressed to anyone, anything, or anywhere.
Now, to the idea:
The Problem
As it is, it is much too hard to transmit redstone charge across a line of blocks. For example, if I wanted to have a line of dispensers fire all at once, I could not just have a line of redstone along the dispensers, because the redstone would not power the dispensers. Why? Because the redstone, rather than becoming a T-shaped piece, is a single line. Now, the obvious solution is to make a line from the trigger to each dispenser, but this doesn't work, either, if the dispensers are right next to one another. And don't even START with the redstone repeaters. Powering a line of those is harder than powering the dispensers!
The solution
Now, while we could eventually come up with some over-sized logic gate to fix the problem, I say that this is a better solution. If we improve the way redstone works, then we could simplify many complicated mechanisms, eliminate the need for a redstone repeater as a diode, and make many new contraptions with this incredible redstone! The way I suggest we change this is that we have the ability to change whether it is a T-shaped piece, an X, or a straight line. We could also toggle whether it will connect to a piece of wire or a redstone-powered block to the side and above it (whether it will go up one-high walls).
But How?
There are two ways we could go about this:
One, we could change wire by right-clicking. While this would make us unable to place blocks on redstone only, who really needs to? This has the downside of taking longer for each piece of wire, but the upside of being easy, convenient, and affordable!
Or, we could craft redstone wire from redstone dust. While this takes a lot of thinking ahead, planning, preparation, and resources, it wouldn't take as long per wire. To craft a cross-piece, you would place 5 redstone in a cross. For a line piece, it would be a line of 3 redstone (Note: rather than crafting horizontal and vertical redstone wire, the wire would be placed based on the direction you're facing.), etc. I don't know how you would change whether it connects to redstone wire above it, though...
This option has the disadvantages of taking WAY more preparation and resources, leaves almost no room for error, and forces you to constantly switch between inventory slots when building a mechanism.
This also has the advantages of more balanced (I think - mechanisms are supposed to be rather expensive, aren't they?), and the crafted wire could be placed on walls, too, making it possible to have vertical wiring, or even redstone vandalism, making it possible to prank your friends in SMP!
How to support
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Thank you for reading. Please comment and/or vote in the poll!
Well, the problem isn't just with dispensers. It's with doors, note blocks, and a whole lot of other things, too. Pretty much everything activated by redstone other than redstone wire itself is affected by itself. Plus, even if they do fix this bug (which might not actually be a bug to begin with), this improvement still makes a lot of stuff easier, plus, it will serve the same purpose as bluestone, because you can change whether or not the redstone wires will interact with each other!
I'm twelve, so I do NOT claim in any way that this is a good idea. To be honest, despite having read a thesaurus, I am, to put it nicely, an idiot.
Kid, don't say that. I'm twelve too. Does that matter? No. What matters is how you act. With your formatting, grammar, spelling, and thoughtfulness, you're already better then %40 of this forum.
Kid, don't say that. I'm twelve too. Does that matter? No. What matters is how you act. With your formatting, grammar, spelling, and thoughtfulness, you're already better then %40 of this forum.
Why, thank you very much! I informed viewers of my youth so that they wouldn't hold it against me if they did not think that my idea was any good.
I have seen this idea before, but the level of intelligence you present it with makes it very difficult for me to be mad about that. You also went into alternate methods of implementing it and even put some thought into the advantages and disadvantages of each one. In fact, I think your only problem was selling yourself short.
But I would prefer redstone just stop automatically being retarded over both solutions, because one would take considerably more time and the other would take considerably more redstone.
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I would, too, but even then, there would be some times when you wanted to do something, but the now not-retarded redstone didn't want to do that. While this method takes more time, it offers MUCH more control.
Actually, I heard that in one of the up coming updates, red stone will adhere to dispensers and other things like it does to other redstone. So the problem would mostly be solved.
Currently what's the point of running a line of wire behind a line of stuff you don't want to activate with said wire? To provide the wire a nice backdrop as it makes it's way to what you actually want to power? If the redstone auto-connected to powerable things it would make the substance much less unwieldy, and if you wanted it to not power something you would have to move it away from that something, rather than the opposite system we currently have in which you have to move it away from what you want to power then connect it from its new location to the device in question.
edit: ninja'd by somebody that makes this argument moot, because its in support of something imminently making its way into the game already, apparently.
Even if they eventually fix it to work a bit better, there will always be a time when the rules of redstone just don't work for you, won't there? This system is meant to give you more control then you have now, or than you will have in future updates.
I'm twelve, so I do NOT claim in any way that this is a good idea. To be honest, despite having read a thesaurus, I am, to put it nicely, an idiot.
Also, while replying, please refrain form using profanity, even though there is no rule prohibiting it. I am rather sensitive about that. I will not curse in this post, so if I do, I'm sorry, it's a typo, and is not addressed to anyone, anything, or anywhere.
Now, to the idea:
As it is, it is much too hard to transmit redstone charge across a line of blocks. For example, if I wanted to have a line of dispensers fire all at once, I could not just have a line of redstone along the dispensers, because the redstone would not power the dispensers. Why? Because the redstone, rather than becoming a T-shaped piece, is a single line. Now, the obvious solution is to make a line from the trigger to each dispenser, but this doesn't work, either, if the dispensers are right next to one another. And don't even START with the redstone repeaters. Powering a line of those is harder than powering the dispensers!
Now, while we could eventually come up with some over-sized logic gate to fix the problem, I say that this is a better solution. If we improve the way redstone works, then we could simplify many complicated mechanisms, eliminate the need for a redstone repeater as a diode, and make many new contraptions with this incredible redstone! The way I suggest we change this is that we have the ability to change whether it is a T-shaped piece, an X, or a straight line. We could also toggle whether it will connect to a piece of wire or a redstone-powered block to the side and above it (whether it will go up one-high walls).
There are two ways we could go about this:
One, we could change wire by right-clicking. While this would make us unable to place blocks on redstone only, who really needs to? This has the downside of taking longer for each piece of wire, but the upside of being easy, convenient, and affordable!
Or, we could craft redstone wire from redstone dust. While this takes a lot of thinking ahead, planning, preparation, and resources, it wouldn't take as long per wire. To craft a cross-piece, you would place 5 redstone in a cross. For a line piece, it would be a line of 3 redstone (Note: rather than crafting horizontal and vertical redstone wire, the wire would be placed based on the direction you're facing.), etc. I don't know how you would change whether it connects to redstone wire above it, though...
This option has the disadvantages of taking WAY more preparation and resources, leaves almost no room for error, and forces you to constantly switch between inventory slots when building a mechanism.
This also has the advantages of more balanced (I think - mechanisms are supposed to be rather expensive, aren't they?), and the crafted wire could be placed on walls, too, making it possible to have vertical wiring, or even redstone vandalism, making it possible to prank your friends in SMP!
The fact that you're reading this either means that you have either decided to read the whole thing, or it means you like this and want to support it. Either way, I thank you. To support this, just type a message in your sig with a link to this page. Or, you could make a banner for it. I don't really care.
Thank you for reading. Please comment and/or vote in the poll!
Kid, don't say that. I'm twelve too. Does that matter? No. What matters is how you act. With your formatting, grammar, spelling, and thoughtfulness, you're already better then %40 of this forum.
Why, thank you very much! I informed viewers of my youth so that they wouldn't hold it against me if they did not think that my idea was any good.
But I would prefer redstone just stop automatically being retarded over both solutions, because one would take considerably more time and the other would take considerably more redstone.
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edit: ninja'd by somebody that makes this argument moot, because its in support of something imminently making its way into the game already, apparently.
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