← Caves & Cliffs
6
Follow

Copper wiring- potential uses for useful and unique contraptions

The copper wire would be a unique red stone component in multiple ways. For one it could travel vertically up walls, allowing for more conservative red stone designs when it comes to size, another thing is, It wouldn’t be like red stone in the fact that it doesn’t have infinite power, you actually have to power it through batteries, witch in turn can be powered by lighting rods during thunder storms. The lighting would strike the rod and travel through wires to a battery, witch build up electric change that will be expended when ever you activate a machine connected to the battery. This may seem uselessly hard and pointless compared to red stone, but I think that the copper wire could be the only thing that could change more powerful devices like the heavy duty piston, which can push immovable objects like obsidian. And maybe the wire could make electric lights brighter. On top of all these features, the wire would also electrify water within a certain radius when submerged, this would do damage, whitish could be used for traps or automatic fishing farms (I can imagine a slim lock machine that kills and collects fish as it travels though water), and the electric charge in the water could activate machines not directly connected to the wire. I think the wire would be a great feature, and if you think so too, please vote for this idea so it gets approved :)
Avatar
Registered User shared this idea

3 Comments

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Date Votes
Sorted by oldest
  • 2
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    The fact that the electricity running through wires is not infinite, and must be recharged is an interesting problem to overcome, one that will have many unique solutions. People would set up huge energy storage facilities and power grids with lighting rods, maybe certain biomes like jungles could thunder storm more often, making so that if you want the most energy possible you have to set up massive amounts of infrastructure in these biomes. Maybe the longer energy engorging travels along a wire without going through something like a circuit it looses Charge, so you have to set up these long lines across your world with repeater things along it to get energy.

  • 1
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    This is a clarifying comment, on the battery. It’s not like batteries we put in remotes in the real world, it’s a block, that in my mind is made of copper, it has connection ports drumming out of it, along with 4 blue bars in the front indicating battery level. This next one is about the repeater, I don’t know if this would even be a thing but if it is, it wouldn’t have to be as close together as red stone repeaters, in my mind they were far apart, and kind of looked like power line poles with a repeater on top

  • 1
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    I do like this idea but using lightning as an only charging source may not be as efficient. Either new items to be added or solar energy could be used. Daytime sensor would be considered a solar panel and could charge the batteries. Night-time would not of course.