2 ideas for new wired gadgets. One is simple, the other is more awesome (in my opinion).
1. Laser traps.
They would require a gemspark block of any color and three lenses, as well as a wire and 5 crystal shards.
They will spawn naturally with the spread of the Hallow, and will hit instantaneously along their entire line of sight. They can be hammered to face any direction (including sideways) and deal 30 damage. They can be activated every 2 seconds. They do not penetrate targets.
2. Minecart Launchers
These are not what you may initially think they are, so read this carefully.
Minecart tracks always seemed kind of pointless to lay while mining. Partly because I tend to mine straight down a lot and partly because it was tedious and I could get back to base quickly anyway. This will (hopefully) fix that obsolescence.
The minecart launcher will be crafted at a workbench:
- 1 Lead or Iron fence
- 3 booster track
- 1 glowstick
- 8 stone wall
The launcher will be 3x3 and have a track through the bottom of it. The booster track animation will be on the second row in the background, to indicate direction of launch (I would sprite this, but Im on my phone) and a green light would be at the top. It would be triangular in shape. It would appear to have one bar "blocking" the track, at the very edges of the launcher. I imagine it being sort of a blueish hue.
The minecart launcher works like this: Attach the minecart launcher to the track at the end of a piece of track, and wire to some kind of activation device. Hammer to switch its direction. It can be placed in the middle of tracks, in a gap three tracks wide, and will simply continue player travel as thoufh it wasnt there.
Place one minecart into the launcher. It will appear to be a normal minecart, and the green light will begin to flash on and off, instead of holding a steady glow. Right clicking on the inserted minecart will bring up one box (like a chest or inventory box) into which you can insert one stack of ore, dirt, stone, mud, sand, etc., but not items like weapons, accessories, or statues (maybe? Would that be ridiculously hard to figure out? Should it just be one inventory slot's worth?). Then you would flip the switch you connected to the launcher and the cart would be launched off at full speed. Minecart launchers have no effect on players in minecarts. They simply act as though they were blank rails. Once you go back to base, or wherever you sent the carts, simply hit the cart with any pickaxe to harvest the cart and whatever was inside.
This way you could literally send your loot home without having to travel back to base. It solves the "laying minecart track is basically useless when actually mining" problem, and it gives minecarts a very useful function. Not only that, but you could use it to make sure jumps, teleporters, and other things worked without having to be in the cart and risk injuring yourself.
Thanks for reading all that! I hope you liked the idea.