The future plans of meseconsYou may have already seen the 1.5 Redstone Update in Minecraft Snapshot 13w01a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHBqNvFYgcFirst of all congrats to Mojang for finally being able to imitate a piston-moveable block ;).
Secondly, it seems like Minecraft Redstone goes somewhat in a different direction than mesecons.
So I guess it is time to decide on we're gonna do.
1) Adapt to Redstone and introduce signal levels, repeaters, comparators and so on.
+ Easier for Minecraft players to understand mesecons;
This also allows a "Daylight Detector Blocks" with signal strength
- This is a huge change and does not really seem realistic
Modern circuit design is more like mesecons, not like redstone --> change would be less realistic
2) Stay the way that Mesecons is right now
+ More realistic, use an established system, more user-friendly for new players imo
- We cannot make use of signal strenght, detect time etc. <--- disadvantage!
Minecraft users are not familiar with this system
The current system mostly has advantages, however, there is a significant disadvantage: We cannot use signal level and therefore cannot process analogue signals.
Another Mod: DigilinesThis is my proposal to work around this:
I coded a mod called "digilines" that adds some kind of data bus system. You can use it to transmit all kind of data, light levels, integer and string values, weight,...
This is a video of it as a data bus in action:
You can download the new digilines from here:
https://github.com/Jeija/minetest-mod-digilines/The policy of digilines:
I'm only going to support a very minimal core of digilines, that include the wires and the transmission functions as well as the implementation for the luacontroller, nothing else.
You may ask me for help or code for other nodes, but it will be your job to maintain these items. They will also be included in digilines.
An official release of digilines as a seperate mod is planned in a few days maybe.
It still needs at least a light detector, maybe a node name detector.
I'm interested in your opinions!