Laser bridges

[pine scroll]

Concept:
A block that, when powered, generates a 15-block long line of red barrier blocks. Late game, to be added if redstone analogs are added

Description:
A laser bridge is a hex-block with a laser lens on one face, determined by placement. When a power source is connected, it will generate a line of blocks from the lens. If a solid block is placed on this path, the laser bridge will end there.
Laser emitters are dark metal, with a red lens. The lens can be on any of the 8 sides. Laser emitters generate a 15-hex long (harmless) laser beam when deactivated, replaced with holographic blocks when in use. Laser bridges make an electrical crackle when activated.

Contact with a laser bridge will be treated as a solid block. Blocks can be placed on it while active. Laser bridges can be placed side by side if desired. If the power source or emitter is destroyed, the laser bridge vanishes.

Uses:
Fast and easy drawbridges or doors, able to be toggled with a mere lever. Aesthetics may clash

Puzzles and parkour, with players needing to deactivate emitters, or time their jumps to make use of/avoid them. This would allow for some interesting maps.

These were inspired by portal, but I think they'd work well for both survival and creative Planetsmith players

2 ideas:
The bridge would be useful for scaffolds, and could be made using the crystals from the crystal crab suggestion

I don't know how to handle players being in the laser when it activates. Ideally they'd be pushed aside, but I can't see how to deal with confined spaces. I guess it'd suffocate them. This is why I added the laser beams when inactive, so players know to avoid the danger zone

[crisp tundra]

PORTAL REFERENCE LETS GOOO

[pine scroll]

It's a portal reference, but I didn't want it to be a shallow reference. I wanted something both useful and fitting. We have rockets, so sci fi stuff is possible, and I tried to make it encourage creativity

[crisp tundra]

yeah

[urban sail]

what if we had a way to make it cut/ deal damage?

[crisp tundra]

thats just a laser 😭

[urban sail]

itd be pretty cool for farming

[pine scroll]

Maybe a variant? Blue for harmless laser bridges, red for dangerous ones

Maybe shining the laser through a different block changes it from harmless to harmful?

[tranquil locust]

Hilariously this could also be used for doors.

[pine scroll]

That was an idea I had

Instant walls or floor

[tranquil locust]

As far as what to do if a player was trapped in it, I think letting them move out, but not back in, would be a simple solution, and may have some goofy puzzle applications.

[pine scroll]

That could work

I really hope the devs consider this, I can see so many uses in puzzles. Obviously everyone else wants that though

[pine scroll]

I might make a second version with an emitter block and lenses, with different lenses giving different effects (hard light bridge, deadly laser beam, tractor beam, etc)