Comments on: Redstone and Glowstone. Example with super fast piston elevator

By: zhulslab

zhulslab — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:09:38 +0000

@eedze Yes, but what’s the benefit of using glowstone after a torch ladder in here?

By: eedze

eedze — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:07:54 +0000

@zhulslab you can see glowstone as a diode. a block that will allow power past it in one direction depending on how you place it. another thing is that it will make vertical repetetive designs a lot easyer to build, a lot cleaner and compacter. there are still many things that i haven’t found out yet but i am sure glowstone will be an important part in many of the new or improved redstone contraptions.

By: zhulslab

zhulslab — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:03:16 +0000

Don’t quite understand the point. Ok, the glowstone allows you to step up (which was hard to do before, repeaters only allow a step down without interference), but the torches are still propagating the signal - if you move that torch ladder one up you get the same result without glowstone. No?
Think glowstone is interesting because it allows more compressed wires, let’s say to control a 10 high Jeb door (without a torch ladder and) without a mess of wires.

By: MirkoRocks

MirkoRocks — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:59:09 +0000

Are you sure etho showed it? I think tyken did…?

By: eedze

eedze — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:53:39 +0000

@MirkoRocks I was mistaken. It was done by BrowsOfSteel, 777Static showcased the design and did a tutorial on it too. I guess all the famous commentators have made this design somewhere along their lets play series. I know tyken did so too.

By: eedze

eedze — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:47:06 +0000

@zhulslab See how I implemented it into the Piston elevator. One of my major annoyances with the old design was having to wire it over on every level by using a wire that loops around the setup with a repeater.