putianyi888
Terrarian
I discussed with some other members about mechanics of dart traps and teal pressure plates. We had disagreements and I did some experiments to prove or disprove my views. However, it came out that none of us can explain what happened in the experiments. I'm working on another project so I'm not going to study deeper on this topic. So I'm just posting the experiments here and see if anyone can explain them.
Our questions came from this type of engine:
The original question is: is there any delay between the activation of dart traps?
The answer is no. The screenshot shows that all dart traps are triggered at the same tick.
Maybe darts are spawned in front of traps and trigger the plates instantly? It's probably true, but not always.
I changed the direction of this engine:
Now there is an obvious delay.
The screenshot shows that the darts shot upwards are spawned right on the traps, causing the delay.
Then I reduced the distance between traps and plates.
It came out that the first dart shot upwards can trigger the plate, but the second one shot downwards can't. The dart traps aiming up and down work differently!
So I used engines containing only downward traps.
Now there is a delay. But does that mean that downward traps work differently from horizontal traps? Not really. Change the direction of pressure plates:
Now all dart traps are triggered at the same tick.
Thus the directions of teal pressure plates make a difference!
Let's check the upward traps. The following engine failed.
But the next have a delay!
If a pressure plate can be triggered instantly by a dart spawned just on it, why does the first fail?
It's not the only weird thing. Connect the pressure plates to torches, activate this engine, record a video and play it frame by frame:
See? In the second picture, 5 dart traps have been activated, but none of the torches have. Does anyone know why this happens? I have made other experiments showing that torches are activated instantly by weighted pressure plates.
Our questions came from this type of engine:
The original question is: is there any delay between the activation of dart traps?
The answer is no. The screenshot shows that all dart traps are triggered at the same tick.
I changed the direction of this engine:
Then I reduced the distance between traps and plates.
So I used engines containing only downward traps.
Let's check the upward traps. The following engine failed.
It's not the only weird thing. Connect the pressure plates to torches, activate this engine, record a video and play it frame by frame: