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Powering Redstone with Generators

There should be coal, water, and wind generators. They would be able to power redstone. If you want to also add, the lower the amount of fuel, the lower power it gives. If you use one of these, you get much longer redstone lines without repeaters. Instead the normal power out of 15, these could go even to 100 or so, the more fuel it has.

     • Coal Generator - It can have a 3x3  or a 1x1 area to place you coal into. It works just like a furnace, but a different setup screen/interface. It could have the place to put the coal into on the left side, and a bar that shows how much power it is outputting.

     • Water Generator - This specific one could have 9 spots, a 3x3 area, to put water buckets in. You could place a hopper on top of it to fill it up with water buckets. To empty the used ones, place a hopper under it. Just like the Coal Generator, it can have a bar to show you how much power it is outputting. 

     • Wind Generator - First of all, Minecraft does not have wind. It might be a little hard to add, so you can ignore this one if it is. Wind could have different power in every biome, every day. [For example: On Day one, the Plains Biome could have a power of five, while a neighboring Savanna has a power of three. On Day two, the same Plains Biome could have a power of seven, while the Savanna has a power of eight.] Also in a Desert, sand could blow and hurt you. It could also have a small chance of giving you blindness for about 20 seconds. You could see the power of the wind when you click f3. The Wind Generator could produce in-between lots of power, and none. 

All of these generators might be hard to add, and if they are, forget them. These were just my ideas that I wanted to get out of my head and share with others. This might not be a good suggestion because there are levers, buttons, blocks of redstone, and much more that people can use instead. I really like this idea and hope you do too. 

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    I don't understand how these would fit into the game.  In modded there are generators, but they aren't powering redstone per se, they're powering machinery.  Like a furnace that uses this power instead of burning fuel.

    But you're just saying to add the generators without saying what they would power.

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    Monitoring power and resource consumption is an interesting concept, but currently a Redstone Block supplies you with as much power as you need. 

    If you want the device to cycle between on and off, a couple pistons and hoppers will make a very customizable clock that you can use to toggle the "On / Off" modes of your contraption. 

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    Redstone torches... That's all.

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    You might as well be asking for RF energy implemented in the game. However, If mojang is willing to, I'd love Industrial craft Or mechinim built in!

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    These could addad as bluestone reactors, and then bluestone could poere the redstone forge.

    But with redstone it would be a bad idea

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    These could addad as bluestone reactors, and then bluestone could poere the redstone forge.

    But with redstone it would be a bad idea

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    I like the idea of generators. I like the idea of industrialization in general and I think Minecraft has missed the boat here. If Tekkit was compatible with the latest versions of vanilla Minecraft, I would never play vanilla Minecraft.

    I think generators would have to power something other than redstone circuitry. In real logic circuits, every transistor has to be individually powered, otherwise something like a NOT gate could never output voltage. The circuit would be broken as soon as a gate/transistor output zero and every subsequent transistor would do nothing.

    Thus, a logic circuit isn't a circuit in the more ordinary sense of an unbroken conductive path. Electrons don't enter a logic circuit at the beginning and wind their way to the end. Power enters and exits a logic circuit at innumerable points.

    Requiring the player to hook power up to every single redstone logic gate to mimick real-world logic circuits would be impossible. However, if redstone signals were treated as signals rather than a source of power, then things like pistons would need a separate source of power to give them the actual energy they need to move blocks. The redstone circuitry would control when a piston is extended and retracted, but would not provide the power to actually do the extending and retracting.

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    Chest and comparator: Am I a joke to you?

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    The ability to save the power would be rather neat. This could open up the possibility of powered furnaces and jetpacks!

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    Water generater must be placed in running water and makes constant power depending on water speed (a new thing that determines the power of the generater.

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    These ideas do not fit into minecraft’s theme, and are not the simple Redstone components we are all used to. This would break literally every Redstone contraption ever created, if they all had to be powered. A simple button next to an Iron door would need a whole other machine to power it! If you want to use these features, just download a mod...