1. How will it look like?
2. Am up-and-down and 3D diagonality suggesting?
3. Why should Mojang add this feature to normal Dispensers?
1. If the dispenser was placed diagonally, it will face you as Sign does. In fact it will make structure with, instead of the corner which faces you, there is a trapezoid.
This is how the image would look like from top as it is south-west(or whether) diagonal. The orange arrow shows where you are standing, actually.
2. Sure, yes. It would be same cut-off corner of cube, if it is looking, for example, down, south, east or up, north,west. And projectiles are still being launched in the same behavior they were launched from normal dispensers, but with change in rendering, graphic and direction.
3. To make dispensers more complex, and make some inaccessible places, by placing pressure plate and connected 2 diagonal dispensers(other being with repeater) and ensuring maximal knockback. And you will be killed when trying to enter this point. Great trap for skeletons, creepers, and zombies.(and if made really greatly, for spiders)
Also, I can make fairly accurate arrow turrets using pressure plate system, lighting system(torches), linked dispensers, glass(to make it skeleton/witch proof) and Iron Golem which will walk over pressure plates and barrage enemies with some arrows :8
I said barrage cuz they are big and wide, and will step several pressure plates at once
So that means we will have far more useful Dispensers for diagonal shooting.
Hmm... what if you turned the dispenser block into a block entity like chests, as in, it occupies a block space but is really an entity like ender-crystals, or chests? That way they could be orientable in any direction based on placement angle. The only problem I can forsee is the inability to place redstone on top of the block.
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My reasons is simple, a block has six faces, a dispenser facing diagonal would be unnatural and would have no specific point other then to shoot an arrow at a diagonally. But you could do this with a spawner so I don't think it i necessary.
I say yest to a minecart because it would be easier to code and more realistic. Plus how cool would it be to make a minecart dispenser to sway back and forth on a track shooting a bunch of arrows as it goes over the track. The dispenser would also have the ability to be rotated in the minecart.
My reasons is simple, a block has six faces, a dispenser facing diagonal would be unnatural and would have no specific point other then to shoot an arrow at a diagonally. But you could do this with a spawner so I don't think it i necessary.
I say yest to a minecart because it would be easier to code and more realistic. Plus how cool would it be to make a minecart dispenser to sway back and forth on a track shooting a bunch of arrows as it goes over the track. The dispenser would also have the ability to be rotated in the minecart.
Point is improved accuracy of automatic turrets and traps, here!
But minecart dispenser might require the activator rail to shoot. Also, the dispenser on minecart too could be placed in any direction or my turret idea simply will not work.
I think diagonal dispensers are fitting even better. And you are able to place redstone ignorantly, like rails on a hopper.
Also, shooting projectile diagonally is real BENEFIT, whatever you say else, it is still bennefit cuz it shoots where normal dispenser cannot!
And with spawner you told, I am honest and do not use MCEsit for cheating my survival. Maybe you like to cheat and do not like redstone mechanisms working as help for you.
2. Am up-and-down and 3D diagonality suggesting?
3. Why should Mojang add this feature to normal Dispensers?
1. If the dispenser was placed diagonally, it will face you as Sign does. In fact it will make structure with, instead of the corner which faces you, there is a trapezoid.
This is how the image would look like from top as it is south-west(or whether) diagonal. The orange arrow shows where you are standing, actually.
2. Sure, yes. It would be same cut-off corner of cube, if it is looking, for example, down, south, east or up, north,west. And projectiles are still being launched in the same behavior they were launched from normal dispensers, but with change in rendering, graphic and direction.
3. To make dispensers more complex, and make some inaccessible places, by placing pressure plate and connected 2 diagonal dispensers(other being with repeater) and ensuring maximal knockback. And you will be killed when trying to enter this point. Great trap for skeletons, creepers, and zombies.(and if made really greatly, for spiders)
Also, I can make fairly accurate arrow turrets using pressure plate system, lighting system(torches), linked dispensers, glass(to make it skeleton/witch proof) and Iron Golem which will walk over pressure plates and barrage enemies with some arrows :8
I said barrage cuz they are big and wide, and will step several pressure plates at once
So that means we will have far more useful Dispensers for diagonal shooting.
Please read these two threads:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/suggestions/2572194-please-read-this-before-making-a-suggestion-v2-0
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/suggestions/44180-for-the-critics-ftc
Dispenser like a sign on a block.... NO
My reasons is simple, a block has six faces, a dispenser facing diagonal would be unnatural and would have no specific point other then to shoot an arrow at a diagonally. But you could do this with a spawner so I don't think it i necessary.
I say yest to a minecart because it would be easier to code and more realistic. Plus how cool would it be to make a minecart dispenser to sway back and forth on a track shooting a bunch of arrows as it goes over the track. The dispenser would also have the ability to be rotated in the minecart.
In block the dispenser is facing directly. Easy.
Point is improved accuracy of automatic turrets and traps, here!
But minecart dispenser might require the activator rail to shoot. Also, the dispenser on minecart too could be placed in any direction or my turret idea simply will not work.
I think diagonal dispensers are fitting even better. And you are able to place redstone ignorantly, like rails on a hopper.
Also, shooting projectile diagonally is real BENEFIT, whatever you say else, it is still bennefit cuz it shoots where normal dispenser cannot!
And with spawner you told, I am honest and do not use MCEsit for cheating my survival. Maybe you like to cheat and do not like redstone mechanisms working as help for you.