I think that the way pistons are powered needs to be slightly altered. The fact that pistons can receive power from one block up diagonally is a nuisance. Yes, it makes it easier with redstone wiring. But, I am trying to make a device involving two vertical layers of sticky pistons, and the receiving power from diagonally up is making the top piston go off too early.
It is my suggestion, therefore, to make it so that pistons can not be powered from one block up diagonally by BLOCKS. It should only work with wire. Even if the block has a repeater facing into it, it should not receive power. That way, multi-leveled piston devices would be much easier to control.
I may be thinking of this differently than how you described it but isn't that how redstone is supposed to work? Why change something that doesn't need changing?
As useful as changing fence gates 200 blocks high, because one of your gate things didn't work...
But the way that things work now renders anything with multiple layers of pistons facing vertically IMPOSSIBLE. Undoubtedly, many a brilliant creation has been ruined by this powering rule.
It is my suggestion, therefore, to make it so that pistons can not be powered from one block up diagonally by BLOCKS. It should only work with wire. Even if the block has a repeater facing into it, it should not receive power. That way, multi-leveled piston devices would be much easier to control.
But the way that things work now renders anything with multiple layers of pistons facing vertically IMPOSSIBLE. Undoubtedly, many a brilliant creation has been ruined by this powering rule.
Why, exactly, is a BUD switch important? Every BUD switch device I've seen can be done another way.