The first idea I'd like to bring up if it hasn't been done so already is to allow redstone torches to remain on a block being pushed by a piston. It would open up a whole new world of ideas where you can literally complete a circuit with more complex functionality than that of a switch, plus would allow a single input to be used on two circuits.
Secondly, I think there should be a lamp block. Yes I know there is glowstone, but I think it would be cool if you combined 8 colored wool + torch/glowstone in the center to create a colored lamp block and also give it redstone torch functionality in that you can turn it on and off. Imagine the ability to light up a room/cave with a switch. Imagine your 7 segment displays with redstone actually being easy to see with a glowing red block rather than a torch. If you think that idea is too "modern", societies have been using similar things for years, long before electricity and colored light bulbs. European theatre used to use fire and wine bottles to light a stage with different colors and Asian cultures used paper lamps. Granted this may seem like a lot more work, but in all honesty, you can just give them wool skins with "glowing" and redstone functionality. Or to differentiate, give them a smoother texture like iron and gold block textures. You also don't need to go crazy with too many colors. Perhaps just Red Blue Yellow Green and White.
Finally I don't know if this has been brought up yet or not, but we need a sort of connector circuit...block...thing. Granted you're probably saying what the hell are you talking about? Heres what I mean. You have 3 pistons right next to each other/stacked on top of each other. You're making a simple hidden door and you want to connect them all to the same input. Can we create something that allows us to power all three with one input rather than wiring each individual one...kind of like a splitter if you will? This can drastically consolidate space so that we don't need massively thick walls to hide our work. I understand that its part of the challenge and I don't mind creatively wiring each individual output to go off the same input, but I don't think this affects too much in terms of the challenge. It opens the door for more creative things to be created (sorry for the redundancy) and gives the builder a little bit more freedom in terms of space. I'm thinking something like this:
Blocks -> [ B ] [ B ] [ B ]
Connector |____|____|
It can be a lot like fence building functionality in that it starts as a 1x1 post lying on its side that connects each time a new one next to it, on top, or bottom, is added.
Thoughts anyone? Good ideas? Bad? Ways to improve?
this is already possible and I cant say if this is a troll thread to annoy people because all of what uve said has an answer. *cough*someone hasnt*cough*been looking in*cough*forums*cough*
I haven't found these functions anywhere, perhaps you can point me in the right direction?
Secondly, I think there should be a lamp block. Yes I know there is glowstone, but I think it would be cool if you combined 8 colored wool + torch/glowstone in the center to create a colored lamp block and also give it redstone torch functionality in that you can turn it on and off. Imagine the ability to light up a room/cave with a switch. Imagine your 7 segment displays with redstone actually being easy to see with a glowing red block rather than a torch. If you think that idea is too "modern", societies have been using similar things for years, long before electricity and colored light bulbs. European theatre used to use fire and wine bottles to light a stage with different colors and Asian cultures used paper lamps. Granted this may seem like a lot more work, but in all honesty, you can just give them wool skins with "glowing" and redstone functionality. Or to differentiate, give them a smoother texture like iron and gold block textures. You also don't need to go crazy with too many colors. Perhaps just Red Blue Yellow Green and White.
Finally I don't know if this has been brought up yet or not, but we need a sort of connector circuit...block...thing. Granted you're probably saying what the hell are you talking about? Heres what I mean. You have 3 pistons right next to each other/stacked on top of each other. You're making a simple hidden door and you want to connect them all to the same input. Can we create something that allows us to power all three with one input rather than wiring each individual one...kind of like a splitter if you will? This can drastically consolidate space so that we don't need massively thick walls to hide our work. I understand that its part of the challenge and I don't mind creatively wiring each individual output to go off the same input, but I don't think this affects too much in terms of the challenge. It opens the door for more creative things to be created (sorry for the redundancy) and gives the builder a little bit more freedom in terms of space. I'm thinking something like this:
Blocks -> [ B ] [ B ] [ B ]
Connector |____|____|
It can be a lot like fence building functionality in that it starts as a 1x1 post lying on its side that connects each time a new one next to it, on top, or bottom, is added.
Thoughts anyone? Good ideas? Bad? Ways to improve?
I haven't found these functions anywhere, perhaps you can point me in the right direction?