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Giving Resin Functionality: A Redstoner's Perspective

I appreciate resin as an attempt to make it worthwhile encountering the Creaking, since otherwise there's no reason to do so (you can harvest an entire pale garden during the day and get all other resources without ever seeing a single Creaking). But currently... resin is only an aesthetic item. For some of us, Minecraft is a game of functionality as much as visual art, and everything in the pale gardens so far doesn't have much functionality. I propose giving resin some uses -- that I'll be more specific about below -- so the major features of the Winter Drop are worthwhile even for us non-builders.

Background: In real life, resin can sometimes be used for electrical insulation. The creaking heart already has a redstone use, giving off a comparator signal based on the distance to its mob, so it feels like the start of a theme -- except that use is limited, since (a) it only works at night, and (b) creakings can't be moved to change the signal strength/reset it if anyone happens to be looking in their direction.

Core Concept: Resin can be used to incorporate redstone features seamlessly into the creaking features.

• Crafting resin with redstone dust can create some kind of resin wire (insulated).
• A creaking heart can be crafted with resin wire to create a sensitive creaking heart with properties better suited to redstone devices (works during the day, can be deactivated/despawned by removing the logs, and signal strength is based on if the player's looking at the creaking or not).

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• October 25, 2024 16:58
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  • October 25, 2024 17:01
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  To elaborate (since I ran out of character length 😅): resin wire would be like redstone dust, but places facing the x or z axis. It connects to other redstone things on that axis, but not the other axis, so you can run the wires in parallel without them connecting and interfering.

  In a truly amazing world, they could also be placed vertically on blocks, like how the resin clumps can take up any sides within the same block, improving vertical redstone transmission. But that's not entirely necessary; their main use would be for the sensitive creaking heart honestly.

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  • November 20, 2024 22:08
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  I think it would be cool to have a wire that doesn't connect with Redstone dust but I think it would make it more confusing for people who are new to Redstone to have multiple lines to send signals through. There are also already some awesome ways to send signals through Redstone lines in small spaces without them touching (Like sending multiple lines through one line but timing when they are sent and then decoding them with a receiver [don't know if any of that made sense]). You can also use Redstone repeaters to do almost the same thing. But it is a cool idea! I do think the sensitive creaking heart would be awesome to have in the game though.