Why do you hate having obsidian having a signal travel through it? If a torch can power it why can't the water?
anyways, I like.
If the power transferred through every block the water touches it would make it difficult to control when used in complex contraptions as the signal will transmit to places where you might not want it. I chose obsidian to be the resistant material as its expensive and helps to balance the liquid out more.
This is a great idea. But I think that the power should only be transmitted the 15 blocks that redstone power can normally be conducted.
Any longer and then people start to abuse the system. Think about it, if you place water in a 1x1 channel, it flows 7 blocks away from the source. Then if you dig under the last block, and make the channel longer a level lower, it goes another 7. This infinite range that you propose would make current redstone wires, and repeaters useless for transmitting power long distances.
Besides the range issue though, I think this is a brilliant idea (if crafted in the crafting grid.)
It's not quite that unbalanced given waters limitations. The way you described is actually more cumbersome than to just use the wire with a repeater. I'll demonstrate in a screen shot.
I can see a lot of fun coming from this... Also, because it transmits power infinitely, I the flowing powered RCL should have a delay before powering the next one, so it's not instant.
In the on state, RCL should electrocute whatever is stupid to swim in it, with the electrocuted "power" armor texture used. Server death message would be "PLAYER tried to swim in science".
RCL should occur naturally in the nether, albeit rarely. Maybe flowing over lava or something, or as a geyser in lava. This natural RCL would provide 1) a reason to go the nether and 2) a really interesting oil tapping style operation.
And I also have a question.... what happens to a player who tries to pick up a bucket of RCL in the on state? I know the lava bucket does no harm, but.... Also, would this stuff spread over water and magma as though they were a solid surface, or just act as water on water (diluted) and make obsidian on lava?
In the on state, RCL should electrocute whatever is stupid to swim in it, with the electrocuted "power" armor texture used. Server death message would be "PLAYER tried to swim in science".
RCL should occur naturally in the nether, albeit rarely. Maybe flowing over lava or something, or as a geyser in lava. This natural RCL would provide 1) a reason to go the nether and 2) a really interesting oil tapping style operation.
And I also have a question.... what happens to a player who tries to pick up a bucket of RCL in the on state? I know the lava bucket does no harm, but.... Also, would this stuff spread over water and magma as though they were a solid surface, or just act as water on water (diluted) and make obsidian on lava?
Ha XD I really like your death idea as its pretty funny.
I'm a bit torn on your second idea tho, I understand that the nether still needs a lot added to it in terms of resources but I'm not sure if R.C.L. really belongs in the nether as it is composed of mostly water and the nether would probably evaporate it (which would make another good balancing aspect of it to be truthful, I think I'll add this to the op as it only makes sense.)
Ok I've pondered a lot of ideas on how the R.C.L should behave when contacting other liquids and I think it should when coming into contact with water become to diluted to work and if the source block of R.C.L. comes into contact with water it will be converted into a water source block.
For Lava I think it should make obsidian as water does when in its un-powered state but make crying obsidian (or cause an explosion?) when its in its powered state. hmm I'll add a poll I think.
Hmmm. As to what this liquid is, I say Mercury. Straight up Hg. Being a metal, it is a fair conductor. It has a low viscosity, and should move at the same rate of lava. I would say it could extend to about 5 blocks past the source, not as far as water, yet farther than lava. It shouldn't be able to power past 15 blocks, like redstone. The only plus I can think will come from this is instant up and down signal in a 1x1 area. It might possibly give you Mercury poisoning, but I am all for the electric shock.
Hmmm. As to what this liquid is, I say Mercury. Straight up Hg. Being a metal, it is a fair conductor. It has a low viscosity, and should move at the same rate of lava. I would say it could extend to about 5 blocks past the source, not as far as water, yet farther than lava. It shouldn't be able to power past 15 blocks, like redstone. The only plus I can think will come from this is instant up and down signal in a 1x1 area. It might possibly give you Mercury poisoning, but I am all for the electric shock.
Sry but I don't really like the idea of it being mercury, It would make no sense for redstone to turn water into mercury and making it as such would make no sense. Also I demonstrated in a previous post that there is no reason to give it a range limit as if your trying to make the R.C.L. run horizontally it will take up a lot of space do to the drop related with water and the fact that you'd have to contain the water itself which would be resource incentive.
I really like this idea. I don't see any way that it is over powered. This combined with pistons(and maybe the new tripwires) has amazing potential for traps extremely hidden traps.
This would be a wonderful addition, I support! This would be a good end-game item that you acquire after the dragon bossfight to give it some purpose.
I don't really think it would make a good endgame item as it simply wouldn't make a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things to have a red stone item in the end. I don't really want the R.C.L. to occur naturally given how its made. Thank you for your support how =D
I really like this idea. I don't see any way that it is over powered. This combined with pistons(and maybe the new tripwires) has amazing potential for traps extremely hidden traps.
Thanks, I can definitely see making some pretty cool traps using this as well as some really sweet red stone contraptions.
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anyways, I like.
I would love it if you checked out my "about me" page on my profile and looked at my threads I'm always happy to see new posters.
If the power transferred through every block the water touches it would make it difficult to control when used in complex contraptions as the signal will transmit to places where you might not want it. I chose obsidian to be the resistant material as its expensive and helps to balance the liquid out more.
It's not quite that unbalanced given waters limitations. The way you described is actually more cumbersome than to just use the wire with a repeater. I'll demonstrate in a screen shot.
This would actually make display creation easier, too
In the on state, RCL should electrocute whatever is stupid to swim in it, with the electrocuted "power" armor texture used. Server death message would be "PLAYER tried to swim in science".
RCL should occur naturally in the nether, albeit rarely. Maybe flowing over lava or something, or as a geyser in lava. This natural RCL would provide 1) a reason to go the nether and 2) a really interesting oil tapping style operation.
And I also have a question.... what happens to a player who tries to pick up a bucket of RCL in the on state? I know the lava bucket does no harm, but.... Also, would this stuff spread over water and magma as though they were a solid surface, or just act as water on water (diluted) and make obsidian on lava?
Ha XD I really like your death idea as its pretty funny.
I'm a bit torn on your second idea tho, I understand that the nether still needs a lot added to it in terms of resources but I'm not sure if R.C.L. really belongs in the nether as it is composed of mostly water and the nether would probably evaporate it (which would make another good balancing aspect of it to be truthful, I think I'll add this to the op as it only makes sense.)
Ok I've pondered a lot of ideas on how the R.C.L should behave when contacting other liquids and I think it should when coming into contact with water become to diluted to work and if the source block of R.C.L. comes into contact with water it will be converted into a water source block.
For Lava I think it should make obsidian as water does when in its un-powered state but make crying obsidian (or cause an explosion?) when its in its powered state. hmm I'll add a poll I think.
Sry but I don't really like the idea of it being mercury, It would make no sense for redstone to turn water into mercury and making it as such would make no sense. Also I demonstrated in a previous post that there is no reason to give it a range limit as if your trying to make the R.C.L. run horizontally it will take up a lot of space do to the drop related with water and the fact that you'd have to contain the water itself which would be resource incentive.
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I don't really think it would make a good endgame item as it simply wouldn't make a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things to have a red stone item in the end. I don't really want the R.C.L. to occur naturally given how its made. Thank you for your support how =D
Thanks, I can definitely see making some pretty cool traps using this as well as some really sweet red stone contraptions.
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http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1372652-fishing-rod-for-pvp/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1371588-silent-pistons/
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no idea XD probably just for aesthetics like stone brick and such.
It really would, I myself am no redstone master (tho I'm not bad) I'm really interested on what a redstone master could do with R.C.L.
Thanks for the feed back that's actually a pretty good idea, I added it to the poll =D
Thank you I'm glad you like it =D