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  Random digilines devices

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  cheapie 2024-09-14 06:12 UTC

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  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.

  Digilines by Jeija 0 comments

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  cheapie 2024-08-17 21:22 UTC

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  The elevator mod I see used most, and for good reason

  I think this mod manages a pretty good balance of realism vs. practicality for use in a survival environment. It's rather straightforward to set up (just place elevators where you want, connect them with shafts, and put a motor on top) and yet doesn't feel too overpowered.

  For creative use it's a little more lacking - it still works fine, it's just less realistic than creative builds tend to usually go for.

  Something I would like to see is smoother motion - the sudden start/stop can be rather disorientating, and the doors just switch between open and closed with no animation. It's something you get used to after a while, but sometimes when you're in an unfamiliar building, a ride on one of these can turn into just a few seconds of having no idea what's going on, then suddenly ending up on a different floor.

  Realtime Elevator by shacknetisp 0 comments

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  cheapie 2024-08-17 21:16 UTC

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  Decent attempt, but let down by bugs

  This is certainly an interesting attempt at an elevator mod - it tries much harder to be realistic than any of the others that were available at the time, and generally succeeds at that (the smooth motion is especially nice, and I haven't seen the animated hoist ropes in any other elevator mod yet).

  Unfortunately there are a few issues that prevent it from being much use:

  • Shutting down the server with an elevator built results in a crash
  • Trying to ride up results in falling through upon arrival
  • Lots of debugging spam in the chat when anything happens
  • Queue system is a bit unrealistic - it serves calls in the order the buttons were pressed, instead of as it arrives at each floor

  Despite all that, it's still a fun mod to play with in singleplayer sometimes.

  Real Elevators by Andrey01 2 comments

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