It would be nice to upgrade redstone a little to make vertical runs easier to build. My suggestion would be craftable redstone blocks. Since there doesn't seem to be a redstone smiley, I'm going to use iron in it's place for demonstration purposes.
for example, crafting the following would yield 3 or 4 blocks with redstone running horizontally:
and this could create the same number of blocks where the redstone current would run vertically:
This could make blocks where the redstone could turn a corner (direction would be similar to piston placing)
etc. The possibilities are endless, but could make it much easier to design and implement redstone circuits that aren't such a pain to make look nice and hide as well. I know notch is busy with the adventure stuff, but this could make those of us who would rather tinker with building machines and such very happy. Failing this suggestion, maybe just a way to place redstone on walls could be a start, I know there's client side mods that can do this, but I don't think it'll work in SMP. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and suggestions on this as well.
lol, that would make mushroom farms much easier to see. but, would these blocks also act as a repeater? if so, then to redstone dust should be replaced with torches to balance it more.
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Glad it's been suggested many times, means I'm not the only one that finds this useful. Maybe if it gets reposted enough, Notch might actually implement it.
lol, that would make mushroom farms much easier to see. but, would these blocks also act as a repeater? if so, then to redstone dust should be replaced with torches to balance it more.
no, i'd expect it to work the normal 15 block range for redstone. You could craft a repeater block as well i suppose, but we've already got the repeaters now that you could just wire into.
Posting this is absolutely useless if you do not link to identical topics.
i just ran a search and found one topic (from yesterday no doubt :ohmy.gif:) that's pretty well identical to this, but without the nice illustration that I provided.
I made the post yesterday about the redstone conduit block, and it is very close to what you've proposed here. I had searched and found similar ideas but none seemed to be well fleshed out in terms of implementation and use. I also tried to stick with proposing a single new block that would cover most of the problems it addressed, but did mention the idea of an elbow or T connector.
The most important aspect of the conduit block is that it limits the connectivity so that signals can run side-by-side. Not sure if that's what you're suggesting here.
Maybe I should update my post with pretty pictures...
I made the post yesterday about the redstone conduit block, and it is very close to what you've proposed here. I had searched and found similar ideas but none seemed to be well fleshed out in terms of implementation and use. I also tried to stick with proposing a single new block that would cover most of the problems it addressed, but did mention the idea of an elbow or T connector.
The most important aspect of the conduit block is that it limits the connectivity so that signals can run side-by-side. Not sure if that's what you're suggesting here.
Maybe I should update my post with pretty pictures...
yea, your post was def more comprehensive for sure. I like the idea of being able to run conduits side by side, wasn't something I'd necessarily thought about. even if we still had to keep the 1 block space, notch could just make a single block that carries current to every face, then wherever you put blocks the current just flows to the next block, then you don't need to worry about orientation. either way, we need evolution of the redstone system. people are building bigger and better stuff all the time, and it's high time that notch addresses these issues with the current implementation.
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for example, crafting the following would yield 3 or 4 blocks with redstone running horizontally:
and this could create the same number of blocks where the redstone current would run vertically:
This could make blocks where the redstone could turn a corner (direction would be similar to piston placing)
etc. The possibilities are endless, but could make it much easier to design and implement redstone circuits that aren't such a pain to make look nice and hide as well. I know notch is busy with the adventure stuff, but this could make those of us who would rather tinker with building machines and such very happy. Failing this suggestion, maybe just a way to place redstone on walls could be a start, I know there's client side mods that can do this, but I don't think it'll work in SMP. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and suggestions on this as well.
Please you the search bar... It makes our lives easier...
Glad it's been suggested many times, means I'm not the only one that finds this useful. Maybe if it gets reposted enough, Notch might actually implement it.
no, i'd expect it to work the normal 15 block range for redstone. You could craft a repeater block as well i suppose, but we've already got the repeaters now that you could just wire into.
Posting this is absolutely useless if you do not link to identical topics.
i just ran a search and found one topic (from yesterday no doubt :ohmy.gif:) that's pretty well identical to this, but without the nice illustration that I provided.
Yes, i should have searched, but I didn't.
The most important aspect of the conduit block is that it limits the connectivity so that signals can run side-by-side. Not sure if that's what you're suggesting here.
Maybe I should update my post with pretty pictures...
yea, your post was def more comprehensive for sure. I like the idea of being able to run conduits side by side, wasn't something I'd necessarily thought about. even if we still had to keep the 1 block space, notch could just make a single block that carries current to every face, then wherever you put blocks the current just flows to the next block, then you don't need to worry about orientation. either way, we need evolution of the redstone system. people are building bigger and better stuff all the time, and it's high time that notch addresses these issues with the current implementation.