Items Biome Spread Sensors

[HandsomeSquirrel🐿️]

When enough Evil/Hallow biome blocks are in the proximity of the sensor, it will send a wire signal. This would be very helpful for players wishing to monitor biome spread, especially when used in conjunction with Announcement Boxes. You could have them set up in such a way that if any Corruption/Crimson is near your base or a Pylon, a message will pop up in the chat as a warning!

There would be seperate sensors for each biome; a light-blue sensor for the Hallow, a purple one for the Corruption, a red one for the Crimson, and a sensor that will detect all three. Since the Logic Sensor (Night) is already purple, the biome sensors would be shaped differently for contrast.

Here's some Sensor mockups I made:

<--(senses all 3 spreading biomes)
Deactivated versions:

Spoiler: crafting

Here is what I imagine the crafting recipe could be:

Result	Ingredients	Crafting Station
Hallow Sensor	Soul of Light (x3) Pixie Dust (x3) / Any Iron Bar Wire	/ Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil
Corruption Sensor	Soul of Night (x3) Rotten Chunk (x3) / Any Iron Bar Wire	/ Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil
Crimson Sensor	Soul of Night (x3) Vertebra (x3) / Any Iron Bar	/ Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil
Biome Spread Sensor	Soul of Light Soul of Night (x2) Pixie Dust Rotten Chunk Vertebra / Any Iron Bar Wire	/ Mythril or Orichalcum Anvil

If you see anything in one of the recipes that you think could be improved; please tell me! (I might want to make the Biome Spread Sensor require a smaller number of ingredients.)

Let me know what you think!

 

[Taterman27🌳]

This is really cool, it doesn’t automate cleansing the biomes, but still helps a lot, very clever idea!

 

[Dfz67🌳]

That would be really cool i never notice the Spread of coruption/Crimson until its everywhere

 

[zenithspeed]

YES. PLEASE.
(though, day/night sensors hooked up to an announcement box don't seem to work for me so I hope they fix that too)

 

[HandsomeSquirrel🐿️]

I've added mockup sprites for the Corruption and Crimson sensors:

(With comparison, they kinda make the Hallow sensor look a bit greener than I would like, so I'll go fix it now.)
(EDIT: it has been fixed)
(EDIT 2.0: The corruption sensor on this post was linked to the one at the top of the thread, so I had to add in the old picture.)

 

[HandsomeSquirrel🐿️]

I tried making an all-spreading-biomes sensor sprite; is it good?

 

[HandsomeSquirrel🐿️]

I made deactivated versions of all the sensors:

(EDIT: Their outer circles have now been made darker for better contrast and man, it looks a lot better now!)

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

I will admit, I thought the all-biomes one was the hallowed(and the blueish one the purity, for some reason)... they look cool, though!

 

[Impostor]

This is really clever and easy to implement at the same time. I'd love dotting these around my base

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

I tried making an all-spreading-biomes sensor sprite; is it good?
View attachment 425541

I’d rearrange the colors to be Blue-Red-Pruple so there is less of a blending of colors. Right now it looks like a big blob of blue with a sliver of red that has some pink dots shielding it.

 

[Big Sammich]

I like it, but I feel like the all-biome sensor makes the others obsolete. Surely you won't ever need to sense more than one biome at a time?

 

[HandsomeSquirrel🐿️]

I like it, but I feel like the all-biome sensor makes the others obsolete. Surely you won't ever need to sense more than one biome at a time?

(I'm surprised I haven't responded to this)
I certainly see your point; the specific biome sensors wouldn't have much unique practical use outside of very particular situations, like remotely monitoring which infectious biome reaches a location first. I suppose they're easily outshined by the all-biome sensor, but they might fill a niche.

 

[RainbowPotato 🌳🪓]

I think biome spread sensors are a good idea. My approval.