Description
This mod adds digiline wires, an RTC (Real Time Clock), a light sensor as well as an LCD Screen. Can be used together with the luacontroller from mesecons.
Digilines
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2026-05-11 02:19 UTC
2026-05-11 🔗
- Switched to 'core' namespace
- Add (x=0,y=-1,z=0) rule to light sensor
2025-06-22 02:11 UTC
2025-06-22 🔗
- Show a more helpful error text when no supported game could be found
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Provides
Dependencies
- Required
- No required dependencies
- Optional
- default mcl_core mcl_sounds tubelib tubelib2
Information
- Type
- Mod
- Technical Name
- digilines
- Languages
- English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Русский, 正體中文 (繁體)
- License
- LGPL-3.0-only
- Maintenance State
- Unknown
- Added
- 2018-05-23 19:58 UTC
- Maintainers
- Jeija
Used By
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Reviews: Positive (100% of 11)
Technic
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Extensive machinery mod with electricity and ores.
Reviews: Mostly positive (77% of 13)
celevator
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Fully functional realistic elevators
Reviews: Positive (100% of 7)
digistuff
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Reviews: Positive (100% of 7)
Homedecor
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Feature-filled home decor modpack.
Reviews: Mixed (69% of 13)
The backbone of nearly all complex technology in Minetest
On its own, this mod doesn't do much - you get a mediocre LCD that can display a bit of text, two sensors that hardly anyone seems to ever use, and some blue wires (the digilines themselves). But once you get some other mods that work with this, that's when the fun starts...
Mesecons Luacontrollers (and similar mods, like mooncontroller) are the use that's initially most obvious. Connect two or more of them with digilines, and now you can pass arbitrary data back and forth between them. Now you can use multiple Luacontrollers working together to get more I/O pins, have two machines that run independently but also communicate with each other, or even just simplify wiring.
But then there are the peripherals (digistuff, LED Marquee, digiterms, Nixie Tubes...) - add some of those and now you can wire up a Luacontroller to just about anything you want. Just run digilines over to where you want it and place a button, sensor, piston, text or graphical display, touchscreen, light, or whatever, and now your Luacontroller can control an entire machine, moving parts and all, with just one wire.
By now, I've built hundreds of electronic devices using digilines, some of which have upwards of 1000 lines of code in the Luacontroller and over 100 digilines devices connected. Even at this scale the wiring was still practical - try doing that with just mesecons.
“Hey, we don't accept binary signals…”
“Yay, we crafted two Luacontrollers! How to set up communications between them?”
“There are four pins on the Luacontroller, can we use them?”
“Hey, we don't accept binary signals. Processing Mesecons binary signal is a waste of time.”
“So, what can we do?”
On the story above, they are arguing because mesecons can only transmit single-bit binary signals. Though, it's slow to transmit data in Mesecon wires.
Digiline solves the problem. The two Luacontrollers can then send any Lua data types except for functions between each other.
Digiline is also easily extendable. With the API provided, mod creators can create fancy displays or TVs. Digilines is an important mod just like Mesecons.
Advanced Communication Systems
Digilines empowers any world, making things possible which would not be otherwise. Digilines is the mortar of the bricks of a good server. Digilines is god of the server and very powerful.
Good companion to mesecons and other mods
I use it for communication with screens
Nice to make cool screens
I use it to make signs that accept more text. They are cooler and more compact. Good.
Must have if you're a luacontroller enthusiast
Digilines literally allow sending variables in between luacontrollers, and even other things too. Mods such as technic or pipeworks support those, and allow for e.g. querying information, which you can then display on the lcd screen included with this mod!
Of course, you can even install many mods that built on top of digilines, such as digistuff or digiterms.
I also recommend you check out the mesecons lab, where you can see many builds with stuff like mesecons, technic, digistuff etc.. In every section, they use luacontrollers!
Must use with mesecons
Very good and simple to use, permit doing great things (mesecons only does logical signals).
I did everything right and it still went wrong.
When I use the moon, I try to copy everything from meseconslab, but when I do everything correctly, it says it's wrong even though it's correct. Also try to make everything go down the drain. (I wish you would remove digilines and mesecons because of this)
Digilines is essential for making smart circuits
If you like circuits that do complex tasks, and make smart decisions, you definitely need this mod.
make a mod for mineclone 2
plz add working cameras for mineclone 2 plz reply plz