One day I decided to make a combination lock for my door, when I realized how big and complex it would be. I was thinking how to make it easier, when I came up with a keypad! It would be crafted using 3 buttons, 3 iron bars, 2 gold bars, and 1 redstone like this:
- = button | = iron + = gold # = Restone
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You could then mount it next to a door, or connected to a trap. Right click it, and it would show a keypad:
123
456 ENTER
789
#0*
Then, you would enter your code, of any length, press enter, and voila! Your door is locked, or your trap is ready to be armed! All restone machines attached to the keypad, whether it be by circuit, or being right next to it, cannot be turned on by any old button or lever or redstone torch. It would make large redstone contraptions compact, and it would make things easier for people who are not redstone gurus.
There's a reason it's complex to make, it's so that not every random Joe can make it. You're supposed to build the combination lock, not craft an item to do it for you.
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[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
There's a reason it's complex to make, it's so that not every random Joe can make it. You're supposed to build the combination lock, not craft an item to do it for you.
So you're saying that people who don't know complex redstone circuitry don't get to lock their doors? If you like building complex redstone circuits for everything, that's fine. Not everyone wants to or can. Some people enjoy building redstone circuitry, some don't have the patience or room, and some can't make redstone circuitry or have the supplies. This keypad can't do everything. It just makes locking doors easier. It is used to keep people from just walking up and putting a button on the door. Any adjacent redstone machines (i.e. doors or pistons) won't open to anything else.
So you're saying that people who don't know complex redstone circuitry don't get to lock their doors? If you like building complex redstone circuits for everything, that's fine. Not everyone wants to or can. Some people enjoy building redstone circuitry, some don't have the patience or room, and some can't make redstone circuitry or have the supplies. This keypad can't do everything. It just makes locking doors easier. It is used to keep people from just walking up and putting a button on the door. Any adjacent redstone machines (i.e. doors or pistons) won't open to anything else.
No, I'm saying you shouldn't be able to just craft an item and say "look, I'm as smart as the person who spent actual time to make a codelock". A newbie should not be able to replicate the batcave digital diamond using a single item-block, for lack of a better comparison (if you don't know already, the Batcave was a digital diamond user creation of a base using very complicated redstone circuitry).
It's highly, highly unlikely for them to be made legitimately (and beyond that, redstone is easy to get if you dig properly; I personally have chests full of it), and the only use for locks is on adventure maps (which take time to build regardless of redstone, meaning people that impatient shouldn't be making it in the first place), and on SMP houses, which either shouldn't be locked in the first place with regards to server rules (if you want to keep someone from breaking in to private places, I have an easy suggestion, but I cannot show you as my brother is on my desktop), or the server should have plugins that allow only specific people through specific doors.
No, I'm saying you shouldn't be able to just craft an item and say "look, I'm as smart as the person who spent actual time to make a codelock". A newbie should not be able to replicate the batcave digital diamond using a single item-block, for lack of a better comparison (if you don't know already, the Batcave was a digital diamond user creation of a base using very complicated redstone circuitry).
It's highly, highly unlikely for them to be made legitimately (and beyond that, redstone is easy to get if you dig properly; I personally have chests full of it), and the only use for locks is on adventure maps (which take time to build regardless of redstone, meaning people that impatient shouldn't be making it in the first place), and on SMP houses, which either shouldn't be locked in the first place with regards to server rules (if you want to keep someone from breaking in to private places, I have an easy suggestion, but I cannot show you as my brother is on my desktop), or the server should have plugins that allow only specific people through specific doors.
People who use the keypad and say "Hey! I'm as smart as that genius redstone circuit guy who built an actual codelock because I used 3 buttons, 3 iron, some gold and redstone and slapped it on a wall!" Is wrong. It'll be a quick fix for that, and frankly, whoever says that is stupid. The keypad can't do everything, it just minimizes that one contraption.
Regardless of if it is supposed to be hard to do or not, this idea has been done many times before. Please use search before posting.
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- = button | = iron + = gold # = Restone
-|+
-|#
-|+
You could then mount it next to a door, or connected to a trap. Right click it, and it would show a keypad:
123
456 ENTER
789
#0*
Then, you would enter your code, of any length, press enter, and voila! Your door is locked, or your trap is ready to be armed! All restone machines attached to the keypad, whether it be by circuit, or being right next to it, cannot be turned on by any old button or lever or redstone torch. It would make large redstone contraptions compact, and it would make things easier for people who are not redstone gurus.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
No, I'm saying you shouldn't be able to just craft an item and say "look, I'm as smart as the person who spent actual time to make a codelock". A newbie should not be able to replicate the batcave digital diamond using a single item-block, for lack of a better comparison (if you don't know already, the Batcave was a digital diamond user creation of a base using very complicated redstone circuitry).
It's highly, highly unlikely for them to be made legitimately (and beyond that, redstone is easy to get if you dig properly; I personally have chests full of it), and the only use for locks is on adventure maps (which take time to build regardless of redstone, meaning people that impatient shouldn't be making it in the first place), and on SMP houses, which either shouldn't be locked in the first place with regards to server rules (if you want to keep someone from breaking in to private places, I have an easy suggestion, but I cannot show you as my brother is on my desktop), or the server should have plugins that allow only specific people through specific doors.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
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