Redstone Wire

Feature suggestion: A "Redstone Wire" which can be applied to any solid block and "overlays" that block, kind of like waterlogging. When Redstone Wire is placed on a block, a UI is shown that shows the 6 faces of a block and allows the user to click them in pairs to add/remove connections between those faces. (At least two faces must be selected.) When redstone dust or another redstone wire feeds into a block with redstone wire, the signal follows the connections specified when it was laid. Signal strength drops by one just as if it were dust.

A block with Redstone Wire on it has a small red dot on each face with connectivity. Not all faces need be connected. Note that there can be multiple independent connected paths, e.g.:

+--|---+
| /    |
_/     _
|     /|
|    / |
+---|--|

This solves at least three major complaints about redstone:

• Compactness: Using Redstone Wire, circuit paths can lie directly adjacent without interfering with one another. Two independent paths can go through the same block without interacting (crossing wires).
• Conspicuousness: Using Redstone Wire, a build can run a circuit within a wall that is only 1 block wide.
• Vertical Paths: Redstone Wire can direct signals directly up or down.

When a block with Redstone Wire is broken, the Redstone Wire drops as an independent item.

Whether a block can have Redstone Wire is the opposite of whether it can be waterlogged; it is exclusively one or the other.

Redstone Blocks and Ore Blocks cannot have Redstone Wire laid on them.