Silicon Silicon is the most important metalloid know to man-kind for many reasons. First, silicon makes up sand, dirt, granite, and modern computers. Without it, sand, dirt, granite, and modern computers better get a new material to replace silicon, and fast. How do I get Silicon? You get silicon with a new devise called a purifier. Smelt sand in the purifier to get silicon lumps. What is this purifier?-You have to read this because this is to complicated to make a tl;dr for. The purifier is like a furnace, but bigger, badder, and better. It has 2 smelting slots and it can hold up to 128 stacks of anything. Sometimes you use 1 spot, other times you use 2. The purifier can purify ores in only 1 second. However, coal and charcoal last only 10 seconds, logs and wooden planks last only 1.5 seconds, and everything else that can be used as a fuel only lasts 0.25 seconds. Buckets of lava and blaze rods last 1/2 as long a they would in a furnace. When smelting something that isn't cooking or purifying (e.g. sand to silicon, clay to brick, and cobble to smoothstone) takes 2.5 seconds. Cooking food, however, takes 1,000 seconds (as long as 2 lava buckets would last here). The crafting recipe should be one of 5 combinations I can think of, I will list them below. . Tell me which crafting recipe you like the most. Numbers 1-5 are given to the recipes in order from left to right. What use does silicon have? Blocks Silicon can be used to make silicon blocks. They are crafted with 4 silicon lumps or 9 silicon dust. A silicon block can be crafted into 4 silicon lumps. Silicon Dust-Redstone conductor. Silicon dust is crafted with 4 silicon lumps in a square shape giving 9, or 1 silicon lump giving 2.
Silicon dust can be used to make fancy grey dust trails. But that probably is not what you would be interested in, you are probably interested in the redstone circuitry aspect. Silicon dust can carry a redstone current farther than you could ever need. Also, silicon circuitry and redstone circuitry will not interact, so you can run them side by side without the circuits combining. However, you can change it by putting a redstone/silicon repeater or a silicon inverter on one side of a block that current goes through, and the other current on the other side. If advanced numbers confuse you or make your eyes bleed, skip to where it says "Big Red Text" in big red text.
Silicon dust can carry a redstone current 65,536 blocks. The data for how far it can go is stored as a binary number with all 16 digits used. It starts out with all digits at 1 and subtracts 1 from the number per block it goes. In multiplayer, on a regular server, all blocks in a 10-chunk radius, or 21x21 chunk area around you, are loaded. That means you could get a straight current to go only 336 blocks per player on a server. If 195 people were online and spaced out so that the loaded chunk areas for all people did not overlap, a straight silicon current going down a straight line through the loaded area could pull it off, and still go another 16 blocks. Also, there are only 1,478,656 blocks loaded on SSP at any given time if the render distance is 9 chunks (setting far if I remember right).
Silicon dust would be stored in the game files as a tile entity. Therefore, pistons can't push this block or push a block into it. Also, silicon dust would use 16 bits. 10 bits would be used to store how far it went. 4 would store the direction. The 10 bits would let it go 1,024 blocks without stopping. The 4 bits would tell the direction. Bits 11--14 would be flags for whether or not the current goes in that direction. Also, silicon dust should stop water and lava, but not keep the block below from lighting on fire. Silicon dust would be able to have its direction be toggled by a right-click GUI. The menu would show a piece of silicon dust. On each of the 4 sides, there would be a button. Click on it with nothing in your hand to make silicon current go that way. If you put a block in there, it will only go that way if there is that block there. Redstone/silicon dust count as their respective types of wires. When you finish, click on the red X in the corner to save your changes.
Big Red Text Silicon dust can make diodes, repeaters and inverters. Diodes are instant repeaters. A diode is made like this (replace the flint with silicon lumps, the iron ingot is replaceable with a gold nugget): . A silicon inverter is crafted like this (replace the flint with silicon dust): . A silicon repeater is made like a redstone repeater, only replace the redstone dust with silicon dust and the redstone torches replaced with silicon inverters. TL;DR Silicon is a metalloid that can do many things IRL, and in minecraft. Silicon lumps can be gotten by refining sand in a purifier. You can craft silicon lumps into dust or blocks. You can craft silicon blocks into lumps, and you can craft silicon dust into blocks. Silicon dust can carry a current for up to 65,536 blocks, which is more than you ever need. Silicon can make anything redstone can, plus instant repeaters. Silicon and redstone currents will not combine, saving your circuitry space and you time.
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So it's like cheap,better redstone once you get diamond/lapis lazuli?
You would also need a ton of sand and coal (4 sand and 2 coal per 9 silicon dust). Also, a silicon inverter consumes 1 iron ingot, 2 coal, and 2 sand, a silicon torch consumes 1 sand, 1 stick, and 1/2 of a coal, a silicon repeater would consume 3 smoothstone, 3 sand, 1 1/2 coal, and 2 sticks.
So, it may or may not be depending on the amount of sand, coal, wood, iron, and lapis (if my choice of crafting recipes is used, otherwise smoothstone or iron and diamond or a furnace). Also, it would probably take 15 seconds at least per 9 silicon dust, once you get set up with plenty of diamond shovels, sand, a crafting table, and a purifier all close enough to you so that you can dig up the sand, refine the sand, and then craft the silicon lumps into dust. I can get redstone dust almost that fast when I dig with only a stone pickaxe (with an iron pickaxe to mine the ores).
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Deserts are easily destroyed, and charcoal is easily farmed.
Iron is cheap, smoothstone is cheap, sticks are cheap, coal is cheap, sand is cheap.
I find redstone dust cheap. Cheaper than sand (unless I can find a desert). Is it more tedious to drill a big hole deep underground or to dig up lots of sand, smelt it, craft the result, rinse and repeat. Also, when you go for redstone dust, you commonly find other materials. If silicon had been in minecraft when I started playing on my main world, I would probably have more redstone dust than silicon.
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1. Silicon is a semiconductor. It falls between an insulator and conductor.
2. Redstone isn't electricity. It's a magical, fantasy appropriate alternative. Redstone current does not travel through lines of gold or iron blocks like electricity would (gold is pretty much the best natural conductor.)
3. Any features of silicon could just as easily become features of redstone.
Needlessly complicated, mojang wouldnt botger with the purifier and whatnot. It'd be easier to craft sand into unpure silicon, then smelt it.
Or maybe just add a new ore.Make redstone or coal at lower levels rarer, and replace the new room with whatever.
1. Silicon is a semiconductor. It falls between an insulator and conductor.
2. Redstone isn't electricity. It's a magical, fantasy appropriate alternative. Redstone current does not travel through lines of gold or iron blocks like electricity would (gold is pretty much the best natural conductor.)
3. Any features of silicon could just as easily become features of redstone.
1. Yes, I know that. Also, redstone isn't electricity, so your point is invalid, as proved by point 2.
2. Yes, but the silicon current is a different sort of magical electricity that can only intermingle with redstone current when there is no redstone.
3. Yes, but redstone dust and silicon dust running alongside each other without intermingling would make computers smaller.
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1. Yes, I know that. Also, redstone isn't electricity, so your point is invalid, as proved by point 2. 2. Yes, but the silicon current is a different sort of magical electricity that can only intermingle with redstone current when there is no redstone. 3. Yes, but redstone dust and silicon dust running alongside each other without intermingling would make computers smaller.
If it's magical then it doesn't need to be silicon. I've seen suggestions for "bluestone" which would serve the purpose of not intermingling and also be thematically appropriate. It would presumably be crafted with lapis and redstone.
The whole purifier thing is completely unnecessary. Minecraft's crafting system is simplistic. (We don't need an anvil to craft swords, do we?)
Also, you mentioned using "all 16 digits". I assume you're referring to the damage values. It's 16 values (0-15) not 16 digits. There is a way to store extra data (tile entities) that signs, chests, etc. use. It comes at the price of not being able to push them with pistons, but this is not a big deal with circuits. A better way to work long distances, however, is to store the direction of the current instead, allowing endless distance instead of some arbitrarily long one.
If it's magical then it doesn't need to be silicon. I've seen suggestions for "bluestone" which would serve the purpose of not intermingling and also be thematically appropriate. It would presumably be crafted with lapis and redstone.
The whole purifier thing is completely unnecessary. Minecraft's crafting system is simplistic. (We don't need an anvil to craft swords, do we?)
Also, you mentioned using "all 16 digits". I assume you're referring to the damage values. It's 16 values (0-15) not 16 digits. There is a way to store extra data (tile entities) that signs, chests, etc. use. It comes at the price of not being able to push them with pistons, but this is not a big deal with circuits. A better way to work long distances, however, is to store the direction of the current instead, allowing endless distance instead of some arbitrarily long one.
Wait, by 16 values do you mean that there can be one number, which is in a range 0-15 or do you mean there are numbers 0-15 and any of them can be used (flagged, I think the wiki calls it)?
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Wait, by 16 values do you mean that there can be one number, which is in a range 0-15 or do you mean there are numbers 0-15 and any of them can be used (flagged, I think the wiki calls it)?
It's a 4 bit binary number. You can use it as a number from 0-15 or a set of 4 independent flags. You can also use a combination of the two.
For example, you could store a number from 0-7 (or 1-8 if you want to add 1 later) in the three right most digits and use the left most digit for a flag. 0-7 would be 0-7 (or 1-8) false, while 8-15 would be 0-7 (or 1-8) true.
For example, you could store a number from 0-7 (or 1-8 if you want to add 1 later) in the three right most digits and use the left most digit for a flag. 0-7 would be 0-7 (or 1-8) false, while 8-15 would be 0-7 (or 1-8) true.
Oh, ok. Thanks for clarifying it for me.
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Silicon is the most important metalloid know to man-kind for many reasons. First, silicon makes up sand, dirt, granite, and modern computers. Without it, sand, dirt, granite, and modern computers better get a new material to replace silicon, and fast.
How do I get Silicon?
You get silicon with a new devise called a purifier. Smelt sand in the purifier to get silicon lumps.
What is this purifier?-You have to read this because this is to complicated to make a tl;dr for.
The purifier is like a furnace, but bigger, badder, and better. It has 2 smelting slots and it can hold up to 128 stacks of anything. Sometimes you use 1 spot, other times you use 2. The purifier can purify ores in only 1 second. However, coal and charcoal last only 10 seconds, logs and wooden planks last only 1.5 seconds, and everything else that can be used as a fuel only lasts 0.25 seconds. Buckets of lava and blaze rods last 1/2 as long a they would in a furnace. When smelting something that isn't cooking or purifying (e.g. sand to silicon, clay to brick, and cobble to smoothstone) takes 2.5 seconds. Cooking food, however, takes 1,000 seconds (as long as 2 lava buckets would last here). The crafting recipe should be one of 5 combinations I can think of, I will list them below.
. Tell me which crafting recipe you like the most. Numbers 1-5 are given to the recipes in order from left to right.
What use does silicon have?
Blocks
Silicon can be used to make silicon blocks. They are crafted with 4 silicon lumps or 9 silicon dust. A silicon block can be crafted into 4 silicon lumps.
Silicon Dust-Redstone conductor.
Silicon dust is crafted with 4 silicon lumps in a square shape giving 9, or 1 silicon lump giving 2.
Silicon dust can be used to make fancy grey dust trails. But that probably is not what you would be interested in, you are probably interested in the redstone circuitry aspect. Silicon dust can carry a redstone current farther than you could ever need
. Also, silicon circuitry and redstone circuitry will not interact, so you can run them side by side without the circuits combining. However, you can change it by putting a redstone/silicon repeater or a silicon inverter on one side of a block that current goes through, and the other current on the other side.If advanced numbers confuse you or make your eyes bleed, skip to where it says "Big Red Text" in big red text.Silicon dust can carry a redstone current 65,536 blocks. The data for how far it can go is stored as a binary number with all 16 digits used. It starts out with all digits at 1 and subtracts 1 from the number per block it goes. In multiplayer, on a regular server, all blocks in a 10-chunk radius, or 21x21 chunk area around you, are loaded. That means you could get a straight current to go only 336 blocks per player on a server. If 195 people were online and spaced out so that the loaded chunk areas for all people did not overlap, a straight silicon current going down a straight line through the loaded area could pull it off, and still go another 16 blocks. Also, there are only 1,478,656 blocks loaded on SSP at any given time if the render distance is 9 chunks (setting far if I remember right).Silicon dust would be stored in the game files as a tile entity. Therefore, pistons can't push this block or push a block into it. Also, silicon dust would use 16 bits. 10 bits would be used to store how far it went. 4 would store the direction. The 10 bits would let it go 1,024 blocks without stopping. The 4 bits would tell the direction. Bits 11--14 would be flags for whether or not the current goes in that direction. Also, silicon dust should stop water and lava, but not keep the block below from lighting on fire. Silicon dust would be able to have its direction be toggled by a right-click GUI. The menu would show a piece of silicon dust. On each of the 4 sides, there would be a button. Click on it with nothing in your hand to make silicon current go that way. If you put a block in there, it will only go that way if there is that block there. Redstone/silicon dust count as their respective types of wires. When you finish, click on the red X in the corner to save your changes.
Big Red Text
Silicon dust can make diodes, repeaters and inverters. Diodes are instant repeaters. A diode is made like this (replace the flint with silicon lumps, the iron ingot is replaceable with a gold nugget):
. A silicon inverter is crafted like this (replace the flint with silicon dust):
. A silicon repeater is made like a redstone repeater, only replace the redstone dust with silicon dust and the redstone torches replaced with silicon inverters.
TL;DR
Silicon is a metalloid that can do many things IRL, and in minecraft. Silicon lumps can be gotten by refining sand in a purifier. You can craft silicon lumps into dust or blocks. You can craft silicon blocks into lumps, and you can craft silicon dust into blocks. Silicon dust can carry a current for up to 65,536 blocks, which is more than you ever need. Silicon can make anything redstone can, plus instant repeaters. Silicon and redstone currents will not combine, saving your circuitry space and you time.
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You would also need a ton of sand and coal (4 sand and 2 coal per 9 silicon dust). Also, a silicon inverter consumes 1 iron ingot, 2 coal, and 2 sand, a silicon torch consumes 1 sand, 1 stick, and 1/2 of a coal, a silicon repeater would consume 3 smoothstone, 3 sand, 1 1/2 coal, and 2 sticks.
So, it may or may not be depending on the amount of sand, coal, wood, iron, and lapis (if my choice of crafting recipes is used, otherwise smoothstone or iron and diamond or a furnace). Also, it would probably take 15 seconds at least per 9 silicon dust, once you get set up with plenty of diamond shovels, sand, a crafting table, and a purifier all close enough to you so that you can dig up the sand, refine the sand, and then craft the silicon lumps into dust. I can get redstone dust almost that fast when I dig with only a stone pickaxe (with an iron pickaxe to mine the ores).
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I find redstone dust cheap. Cheaper than sand (unless I can find a desert). Is it more tedious to drill a big hole deep underground or to dig up lots of sand, smelt it, craft the result, rinse and repeat. Also, when you go for redstone dust, you commonly find other materials. If silicon had been in minecraft when I started playing on my main world, I would probably have more redstone dust than silicon.
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2. Redstone isn't electricity. It's a magical, fantasy appropriate alternative. Redstone current does not travel through lines of gold or iron blocks like electricity would (gold is pretty much the best natural conductor.)
3. Any features of silicon could just as easily become features of redstone.
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Or maybe just add a new ore.Make redstone or coal at lower levels rarer, and replace the new room with whatever.
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1. Yes, I know that. Also, redstone isn't electricity, so your point is invalid, as proved by point 2.
2. Yes, but the silicon current is a different sort of magical electricity that can only intermingle with redstone current when there is no redstone.
3. Yes, but redstone dust and silicon dust running alongside each other without intermingling would make computers smaller.
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The whole purifier thing is completely unnecessary. Minecraft's crafting system is simplistic. (We don't need an anvil to craft swords, do we?)
Also, you mentioned using "all 16 digits". I assume you're referring to the damage values. It's 16 values (0-15) not 16 digits. There is a way to store extra data (tile entities) that signs, chests, etc. use. It comes at the price of not being able to push them with pistons, but this is not a big deal with circuits. A better way to work long distances, however, is to store the direction of the current instead, allowing endless distance instead of some arbitrarily long one.
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Wait, by 16 values do you mean that there can be one number, which is in a range 0-15 or do you mean there are numbers 0-15 and any of them can be used (flagged, I think the wiki calls it)?
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For example, you could store a number from 0-7 (or 1-8 if you want to add 1 later) in the three right most digits and use the left most digit for a flag. 0-7 would be 0-7 (or 1-8) false, while 8-15 would be 0-7 (or 1-8) true.
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Oh, ok. Thanks for clarifying it for me.
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