We haven't had a major redstone changes and new additions in a while now so i was thinking i would come up with some redstone ideas. The idea's i have thought of will help people make more complex contraptions and more.
My first idea is a maths block. The maths block would do basic maths sums and output them as a red stone signal. The way you input maths sums is by clicking on the maths block and it shows a GUI that you can input numbers into, depending on the numbers depends on the redstone signal output. As redstone signals can only go so far without repeaters there would be a max to the numbers you can input, the max number that you can input in both of the boxes is 7 as 7 + 7 would be 14 and a redstone signal can only travel 15 blocks but there is no simple maths sum that uses whole numbers that can add up to 15 so 7 has to be the max. The maths block would only use whole numbers and can do subtraction, addition and division. The reason it won't be able to do multiplication is because if you multiply 7 by 7 it would output over 15 and a redstone signal cant count that far. Another way to use this block would be to input two redstone signals on two of the sides on the block so for example if i had a redstone signal of 5 coming in one side and a signal of 7 coming in the other side the output signal would be 12 blocks. You can switch between two modes with this block. The first mode is the GUI maths sum mode (The mode where you input the maths sum by clicking on the block then typing into the boxes in the GUI) and the second mode is the mode where you use two redstone inputs which are added or subtracted together to make a certain output. The way you switch between these mods is by clicking on the block and pressing a button in the GUI of the block. The way you switch between different operators is by clicking on the block and pressing a button in the GUI.
My second idea is coloured redstone dust. Coloured redstone dust could be made by using dye's to colour the redstone dust. Redstone dust of one colour wont attach and power redstone dust of a different colour, The only way to get one colour of redstone dust to power another is to send the signal through a block or they could add a conversion block that allows you to plug two different redstone dust colours into it. One of the redstone lines would be an input and the other would be an output the input redstone coloured dust will then be converted to power the output coloured redstone dust. This idea if added to the game could mean that we can make our redstone contraptions more compact because we don't have to worry about one redstone dust line connecting with another one that we don't want it connecting with.
I hope you liked my idea's and i hope they will be added to the game which will be very unlikely.
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Your "maths block" seems unnecessarily complex under its GUI operation and the secondary functionality doesn't really seem to be any different from the subtraction mode functionality of comparators. Comparators already subtract the signal strength being fed from the side from the input in the rear when in subtraction mode and a similar mode for addition would be problematic since either feed would be capable of producing a full charge and feeding both would produce a signal twice as long as redstone currently limits which is something you seemed really concerned with when thinking through the "maths" portion. With the GUI portion you seem to be suggesting the use of simple math calculations (addition, subtraction or division) to determine the signal strength output from the block, is this correct? Why? If you want to be able to set a variable signal strength from a block using a GUI why would you use mathematics that would require the block to do calculations when you could use a simple integer? If you want a block to output a signal strength of 2 wouldn't it be easier to just enter a "2" into the block rather than "1+1", "3-1", "4/2", etc and having the block continuously perform a calculation to determine what you wanted?
Coloring redstone dust is an interesting idea but I can't help but wonder how this would effect them connecting to redstone devices. Even if you made your lines different colors so you could run them side-by-side they would either need to have color-dependent mechanisms to prevent them from linking devices they run beside or you'd have to actively make sure those areas don't receive interference which wouldn't be much different than now. I also can't help but wonder if 'redstone' would even be the correct name for such an item as the dust would no longer just be red- would default redstone BE the Red color or would there be a difference between red redstone and redstone and if they're different how would you note it visually? It could be an interesting addition that could make some circuits a little smaller but personally I can't think of very many situations where I would need such a thing.
You made some good points there. After reading what you said i agree that the maths block is overly complicated and it was a stupid idea. I personally think the colour redstone would be a good idea as there is lots of things i make that could be smaller and take less time to build, the redstone wires of different colours will be told apart by the redstone dust being coloured different to the other one.
Yeah i agree with you on limiting it to a few colours. How about just blue and red as colours for redstone dust.
More then JUST blue and red but yeah not to MANY colors.
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Your "maths block" seems unnecessarily complex under its GUI operation and the secondary functionality doesn't really seem to be any different from the subtraction mode functionality of comparators. Comparators already subtract the signal strength being fed from the side from the input in the rear when in subtraction mode and a similar mode for addition would be problematic since either feed would be capable of producing a full charge and feeding both would produce a signal twice as long as redstone currently limits which is something you seemed really concerned with when thinking through the "maths" portion. With the GUI portion you seem to be suggesting the use of simple math calculations (addition, subtraction or division) to determine the signal strength output from the block, is this correct? Why? If you want to be able to set a variable signal strength from a block using a GUI why would you use mathematics that would require the block to do calculations when you could use a simple integer? If you want a block to output a signal strength of 2 wouldn't it be easier to just enter a "2" into the block rather than "1+1", "3-1", "4/2", etc and having the block continuously perform a calculation to determine what you wanted?
Coloring redstone dust is an interesting idea but I can't help but wonder how this would effect them connecting to redstone devices. Even if you made your lines different colors so you could run them side-by-side they would either need to have color-dependent mechanisms to prevent them from linking devices they run beside or you'd have to actively make sure those areas don't receive interference which wouldn't be much different than now. I also can't help but wonder if 'redstone' would even be the correct name for such an item as the dust would no longer just be red- would default redstone BE the Red color or would there be a difference between red redstone and redstone and if they're different how would you note it visually? It could be an interesting addition that could make some circuits a little smaller but personally I can't think of very many situations where I would need such a thing.
You made some good points there. After reading what you said i agree that the maths block is overly complicated and it was a stupid idea. I personally think the colour redstone would be a good idea as there is lots of things i make that could be smaller and take less time to build, the redstone wires of different colours will be told apart by the redstone dust being coloured different to the other one.
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I agree with the colored redstone, however it should be limited to a few colors (regular, white, black, blue, yellow, green).
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Yeah i agree with you on limiting it to a few colours. How about just blue and red as colours for redstone dust.
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More then JUST blue and red but yeah not to MANY colors.
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