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Redstone, one of minecraft's major symbols, is a way of redirecting power. I just red on the minecraft wiki that redstone can not be placed on pistons.

currently, if i am correct, redstone being pushed gets popped off, the same goes when the block under it is moved.
i think that redstone wire should be able to be placed on a piston faceing up, or a new piston with redstone on its head shoupd be added to the game. with this tool, red stone could be used in new ways.

I also think redstone, pritty much glow stones oppisite, should be some what of a way of turning off glowstone blocks, with this tool, many things could be done, from new york style signs with the words floating across led's, to simple light switches.

redstone should still be pushed off when pushed by a piston, but i also believe that it should not take up a block space, somehow becoming part of the texture when placed, so that you can place a block on top of it. this way redstone wouldnt take up any space and more room for building would be created as a result.

You should also be able to put redstone on the ceiling and on walls, there are surly uses for that.


Please give me your input on what you think of my ideas, for i have tons of them.

Quote from Josh_Brenne

OR you could just use the red power mod here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/365357-100-eloraams-mods-redpower-2-prerelease-4/

placeing redstone on a wall may be a mod, but those without access things like winrar, installing mods may be unavalible. the point of this section is to add suggestions to how things should be changed, not what mods people should use.

Redstone should not have the ability to be placed on walls, makes it too easy.

Quote from alex_error404

Redstone should not have the ability to be placed on walls, makes it too easy.

It actually makes more sense imo.

Yes! real world wire can be run on the wall, why not redstone

I think something that would achieve this purpose, but also have added functionality, would be to have redstone NOT pop off when the block it is on is pushed by a piston.


This could be achieved by assigning a data value to the block that determines whether or not it has redstone on it. This way, when a block is pushed by a piston, the redstone on it will still be there when it stops moving.


This would allow for sticky pistons pushing a block with a redstone torch on it in order to activate other spots.


Another, almost game-changing aspect of this, would be the ability to make self-contained piston vehicles that push themselves around.

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I think something that would achieve this purpose, but also have added functionality, would be to have redstone NOT pop off when the block it is on is pushed by a piston.


This could be achieved by assigning a data value to the block that determines whether or not it has redstone on it. This way, when a block is pushed by a piston, the redstone on it will still be there when it stops moving.


This would allow for sticky pistons pushing a block with a redstone torch on it in order to activate other spots.


Another, almost game-changing aspect of this, would be the ability to make self-contained piston vehicles that push themselves around.

That is a VERY odd way of looking at things... i Like it!

i do beleve that the only reason that redstone cant be run on walls, is a lack of binding material to make it actual wire rather then a line of conductive dust on the groud. something like sap would be a good option for that.

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Redstone is a trail of dust along the floor. You just try to run a line of sugar up a two metre wall and see how successful you are.

Now do you see why redstone can't be placed on walls?

Never Looked at it that way... Very good point, i feel defeated now lmao! mabey then jeb should impliment some sort of wire instead of just dust. and with that statement, you can run a line of sugar up a 1 meter wall?

Maybe you could make sticky redstone with slimeballs and then run it up walls. You could run sugar up a wall if it was very sticky.

If you put two units of redstone dust next to each other, but one y level apart, you will see the redstone going up the side of the block to connect to the redstone on top of it, so the fact that it's a powder isn't the reason we don't have wall clinging redstone. In fact, I'm not sure why we don't yet.


Observe the redstone going up the side of the iron block.

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placeing redstone on a wall may be a mod, but those without access things like winrar, installing mods may be unavalible. the point of this section is to add suggestions to how things should be changed, not what mods people should use.

How can you not have winrar. Just download it, and ignore the messages that say you need to buy it. Because it works that way.

7zip also works.

And PeaZip.

Vertical power is part of the challenge of redstone, and I like it.

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Shouldn't pistons be able to conduct redstone?

Yes, they should