autumn zealot
**Why: **
- To be able to control the production of things from other locations.
- Turn on or off specific miners
- Control Routing conveyors from another location.
- More?
How:
- Might be tricky. Adding an actual wire block may not be ideal. But what if the belts and machines themselves contained the logic for wiring. So where ever the conveyors ran they also allowed us to tap into them with a switch. So long as they were directly connected to one another.
- There could also still be a wire type block that could bridge the gaps between things.
- There could be a number of contained circuits/wires that could be used.
Example:
- Lets say there are between 0-99 different circuits/wires available. You could assign a circuit at the particular device you want to control, lets say we assign circuit/wire 1 to a miner.
- You could then assign that same circuit to a switch.
- Then, so long as there is a connection between the miner and the switch you could operate that miner from that switch anywhere in the mine.
- You could assign multiple devices to the same circuit and operate them all from a single switch.
Other:
- More complexity could also be added with the addition of some logic gates, counters, etc.
How I imagine it being used:
- Flip a lever and all your coal gets diverted to shaking tables for the production of Rubies.
- Flip a switch and all your coal first gets crushed and sent to the shaking tables for the production of Diamonds.
- Flip a switch to turn on or off the production of a particular component (Plate/Pipe/Rod)
- With logic gates it could be automated to stop production of a specific component once a number is reached on a block that counts the items that go through it. Redirecting the ingots to be used elsewhere.
All currently doable on location by manually flipping the state of the routing Conveyors. This would just add the ability for that control to take place elsewhere.
Just a thought! Feel free to throw it in the bin. ♻️ 🪣
junior glade
undone blade