Ah, redstone...Magic dust that can create anything from automated doors to fully functional giant calculators to Pong.
Wondrous stuff, and yet...It has a really hard time adhering to walls, forcing people to lead it up staircases and other stupid crap for no reason beyond being a pain.
With redstone blocks, it seemed like those days would be gone...Nope. You see, the blocks let people send redstone vertically...But it's far from actually being useful because they're always on.
The suggestion: Make the blocks toggleable ("always on" versus..."not") via right-click. And in the case of "not", they become like any other redstone device, and as such can be powered by an "on" redstone block.
Say you've got a pillar of pistons. As-is, redstone blocks make powering such things easier...But still pointlessly difficult, especially with a greater number of devices needing power. As-suggested, you put a pillar of redstone blocks beside the pistons. Toggle them to not always be on, hook up a switch. Push button, all blocks toggle on, all pistons activate. No worthless staircases cluttering the area, just a nice clean simple contraption.
Just imagine a world where Mojang made basic redstone work simple instead of pointlessly annoying. Wouldn't that be a delight?
Redstone blocks are supposed to be a piston-pushable block that emits redstone power. What you are suggesting is you have a setup like this:
Xr
X
X
Cr
Where X are off redstone blocks and C is on redstone block and r is redstone that you are outputting a signal too. This makes no sense. You can use half the redstone doing that by just making a setup like this;
Cr
Cr
Done. No support, no point.
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Ever hear of something called running away? Its like running towards them, but without the confrontation and death.
Here's a random video on it. May or may not be good, I didn't have the time to watch it.
You want about 1:28, repeat that and have instant vertical redstone.
Wondrous stuff, and yet...It has a really hard time adhering to walls, forcing people to lead it up staircases and other stupid crap for no reason beyond being a pain.
With redstone blocks, it seemed like those days would be gone...Nope. You see, the blocks let people send redstone vertically...But it's far from actually being useful because they're always on.
The suggestion: Make the blocks toggleable ("always on" versus..."not") via right-click. And in the case of "not", they become like any other redstone device, and as such can be powered by an "on" redstone block.
Say you've got a pillar of pistons. As-is, redstone blocks make powering such things easier...But still pointlessly difficult, especially with a greater number of devices needing power. As-suggested, you put a pillar of redstone blocks beside the pistons. Toggle them to not always be on, hook up a switch. Push button, all blocks toggle on, all pistons activate. No worthless staircases cluttering the area, just a nice clean simple contraption.
Just imagine a world where Mojang made basic redstone work simple instead of pointlessly annoying. Wouldn't that be a delight?
Xr
X
X
Cr
Where X are off redstone blocks and C is on redstone block and r is redstone that you are outputting a signal too. This makes no sense. You can use half the redstone doing that by just making a setup like this;
Cr
Cr
Done. No support, no point.
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Here's a random video on it. May or may not be good, I didn't have the time to watch it.
You want about 1:28, repeat that and have instant vertical redstone.
Can you move torches with pistons? I think not.