Ever since I saw a video of a guy who made a computer in Minecraft based on the same book I happened to use in my Computer Science course at school, I've wanted to be able to make logic chips in Minecraft that would simply take up one square. The way this would work is you would craft a Redstone Custom Crafting Table. From there, when you right click it, a gui pops up of maybe 16 x 16 blocks. It would be 2d and only display a top view of placed blocks, but it would essentially be a fully functional 16 x 16 x 1 Minecraft world area. Each side would be able to be set to either an output or input so you could have 3 inputs and one output if you chose by connecting blocks to corresponding sides of custom blocks.
These custom blocks specifically might look like a repeater except with a torch on each side. The idea is that they would save the layout you had entered into the gui using real blocks that would be used up to make it. They would then act out exactly how redstone would act if it were a real 16 x 16 square of wiring. Each input and output you set would have to be connected to a redstone inside the gui or the side would be dead. You would be able to place any solid block that power can be put into the same way you normall would and a redstone torch on one of the other three sides would be affected by the power going into the block.
You would also be able to set the sides of the whole block to be off by not placing a block there. To eliminate the touching of redstone to the side of gui glitches, you could have a special slot on each side for the input/output where they would only work if a redstone dust (for ouput), or a redstone torch (for input) was placed there.
There could be a wire crossing block too. Say it was cobblestone, if a wire was running into the left side it would power the right side as well but not the front and back so that another wire could be run into the front and out the back, with them never touching or affecting each other.
I may not have explained this as it could best be stated, and I apologize if people have had ideas similar to this that I did not see. Also this is sort of how the little blocks mod is used for redstone, but this would hopefully get rid of some of the lag. For those of you who understand what I am suggesting here, please leave your thoughts and ideas in a reply.
Since nobody seems to care about this, if anyone who understands it could make some pictures that visual explain it, I would REALLY appreciate it. (I'm not very skilled at digital photo creating/editing/whatnot)
These custom blocks specifically might look like a repeater except with a torch on each side. The idea is that they would save the layout you had entered into the gui using real blocks that would be used up to make it. They would then act out exactly how redstone would act if it were a real 16 x 16 square of wiring. Each input and output you set would have to be connected to a redstone inside the gui or the side would be dead. You would be able to place any solid block that power can be put into the same way you normall would and a redstone torch on one of the other three sides would be affected by the power going into the block.
You would also be able to set the sides of the whole block to be off by not placing a block there. To eliminate the touching of redstone to the side of gui glitches, you could have a special slot on each side for the input/output where they would only work if a redstone dust (for ouput), or a redstone torch (for input) was placed there.
There could be a wire crossing block too. Say it was cobblestone, if a wire was running into the left side it would power the right side as well but not the front and back so that another wire could be run into the front and out the back, with them never touching or affecting each other.
I may not have explained this as it could best be stated, and I apologize if people have had ideas similar to this that I did not see. Also this is sort of how the little blocks mod is used for redstone, but this would hopefully get rid of some of the lag. For those of you who understand what I am suggesting here, please leave your thoughts and ideas in a reply.
It's hard to imagine going from 1 meter = 1 wire straight to having complex micro-systems.
Interesting... however you would still be doing all the wiring yourself and it would be very convenient. It's not like they would be pre-made blocks.