My idea for an addition to mine-craft is the implementation of a single block (placed with directional parameters like pistons) which when placed in rows can form "tubes" or "pipes".
These pipes will also be able to turn corners, (left right, up and down).
For water, this can mean the ability to send water upward (given some sort of source method as well).
You could potentially have a source for the pipe which needs to be placed over a fire (to simulate pressure) to send the water upward, or if you had a reservoir above the destination point (like a water tower) you would be given pressure to send the liquid through any length of the tube.
Cool fountains, water traps, farms, and other things can be made with this.
It would work the same for lava.
For redstone, it would function as a way to compact circuitry. No longer would a redstone wire have to be sitting on top of something and not sit beside other redstone wires which could create a cross connection. This subsequently would also enable protected forms of wiring.
The implications are vast, but a cool one i can think of off the bat is the creation of a pixel display (torches or pistons) which could be one block per pixel (something which right now i think has not been accomplished.)
The natural evolution of canals and wiring is to encase them and protect them, so why not have tubes and pipes?
There's already an amazing suggestion that has garnered tons of support called the Redstone tunnel block.
I would recommend you simply go to support that one than create a new thread with the same basic idea with the addition of water/lava.
I checked out that thread after i had created this one and realized this may be a superfluous one, but in truth my idea actually differs from the tunnel block idea significantly.
While the tunnel block does provide a way of protecting and hiding redstone wire, it does not serve the other functions an actual tube block would.
Firstly the tube block requires nothing underneath it, also the tube block has the ability to route signal upwards and downwards directly.
The tunnel block may be able to compact circuity if they are stackable and will not cross wire with one another, but i think that is the last of the functions it can serve in comparison to the tube block.
Also tubing for water and lava has implications of its own which i do not think can easily be handled by the tunnel block concept.
Though i certainly do support the tunnel block concept, and admittedly it would be easier to create than the tube concept, i don't see why they cannot both be put forward as viable ideas.
These pipes will also be able to turn corners, (left right, up and down).
For water, this can mean the ability to send water upward (given some sort of source method as well).
You could potentially have a source for the pipe which needs to be placed over a fire (to simulate pressure) to send the water upward, or if you had a reservoir above the destination point (like a water tower) you would be given pressure to send the liquid through any length of the tube.
Cool fountains, water traps, farms, and other things can be made with this.
It would work the same for lava.
For redstone, it would function as a way to compact circuitry. No longer would a redstone wire have to be sitting on top of something and not sit beside other redstone wires which could create a cross connection. This subsequently would also enable protected forms of wiring.
The implications are vast, but a cool one i can think of off the bat is the creation of a pixel display (torches or pistons) which could be one block per pixel (something which right now i think has not been accomplished.)
The natural evolution of canals and wiring is to encase them and protect them, so why not have tubes and pipes?
Also, i think for redstone tubing, being able to combine a repeater with a chunk of tube would be very handy as well for inserting delay.
I'm not sure whether or not making it so the tubes can send the signal any length would be a good idea or not...
Edit, actually, this means that you could split the tube into 5 outputs from one input.
one block has available faces, 1 for the input and 5 for the outputs !
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Curse PremiumI would recommend you simply go to support that one than create a new thread with the same basic idea with the addition of water/lava.
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I checked out that thread after i had created this one and realized this may be a superfluous one, but in truth my idea actually differs from the tunnel block idea significantly.
While the tunnel block does provide a way of protecting and hiding redstone wire, it does not serve the other functions an actual tube block would.
Firstly the tube block requires nothing underneath it, also the tube block has the ability to route signal upwards and downwards directly.
The tunnel block may be able to compact circuity if they are stackable and will not cross wire with one another, but i think that is the last of the functions it can serve in comparison to the tube block.
Also tubing for water and lava has implications of its own which i do not think can easily be handled by the tunnel block concept.
Though i certainly do support the tunnel block concept, and admittedly it would be easier to create than the tube concept, i don't see why they cannot both be put forward as viable ideas.