inomanoms
Eye of Cthulhu
Oh yeah. Right. That's how summation works. Doh.
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Oh yeah. Right. That's how summation works. Doh.
Bahamut2001
Steampunker
Dunno if this is known or not, but in the case of simultaneous pressure plate activation, the top most and left most plates seem to have priority.
Edit: How do you do the embedded player for gifs?
Edit 2: I figured it out
Edit: How do you do the embedded player for gifs?
Edit 2: I figured it out
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Brain Goo
Terrarian
I want to introduce my automatic unidirectional airlock v1, inspired by [Project] Motorized Airlock System Lucky Lucky Horseshoe. I've noticed that the original one was designed for mobile, so I'm posting it here.
It takes 3s to pass through it, and possible to simply reduce it to 2s if the water drain will be executed in the end. Originally I wanted a bidirectional system but it looks like it needs to be much bigger with state checks and so on, so I stopped on a unidirectional version and tried to make it compact and fast. Maybe I'll go back to a bidirectional airlock later. Btw I'll be happy if someone can give me an idea on how to shrink it to 6 blocks wide, or other size/time improvements. Also, on the second picture there is a mistake, left inlet pump is not connected to the blue wire.
It takes 3s to pass through it, and possible to simply reduce it to 2s if the water drain will be executed in the end. Originally I wanted a bidirectional system but it looks like it needs to be much bigger with state checks and so on, so I stopped on a unidirectional version and tried to make it compact and fast. Maybe I'll go back to a bidirectional airlock later. Btw I'll be happy if someone can give me an idea on how to shrink it to 6 blocks wide, or other size/time improvements. Also, on the second picture there is a mistake, left inlet pump is not connected to the blue wire.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
@inomanoms posted about it in another thread, but it's good to have such a straight forwards demonstration reference here, good job!
Wow, that opperates really slick! Definitely deserves it's own thread (especially if not replying to the inspiration thread).
Don't hide it away in here! In fact...I'd tend to agree: let's try and organise threads as logically as possible. I'm not going to complain about anyone posting up their great creations
, but let's try to put them up where they're more likely to be found in the right context, etc. This thread is aiming right down the reductionist end of the technical scale, almost the opposite of magnificent builds. Don't be afraid to make a new thread, take the initiative, etc. Post to a personal thread if you don't think it's worthy (though It probably is), like people post their aesthetic builds elsewhere on the forums. Keep a personal thread anyway, to index all your content (and notable posts)...Anyway. Here's my fairly epic teleporter 'micro'-tutorial from yesterday:
And a bonus little proof of concept build:
An "Idiot proof timer cascade shut-off mechanism (bi-directional)". It's extremely simple, but hopefully a massive improvement over trying to time a switch click to avoid sending your looped/linked timers into spasm! It's basically just a hoik tooth that stops you hitting the de-activation plate unless both the initiating timers below you are in the on state.
Note also that direction of pulse loop is controlled by wire route length - last timer hit goes first and takes train that way. (Don't know how much of this has been expounded elsewhere...?
inomanoms
Eye of Cthulhu
My like goes toward this.
Nowhere, really. The most substantial reference for the topic is Stahn's old terraria online post. I think timer chains would benefit from a gif series like the teleporter
. If you ever do something like that, I'm all gung-ho for making a list of aspects.
DicemanX
Brain of Cthulhu
It was mentioned here:
http://forums.terraria.org/index.ph...p-and-down-with-hoiktronics.6361/#post-179039
I was building count-up and count-down timers using timer cascades and could control direction based on wire length connected to the initial two timers.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
Shame so many of your pictures got broken. Silly Steam, right?
DicemanX
Brain of Cthulhu
All the pictures got automatically saved to a local folder, so I could just upload them to imgur and link them. I'm just lazy
. It would arguably not be worth the trouble because the reset mechanisms have come a long way since they were first built and conceived. We no longer need to use the less efficient junction-based or track-based resets - we can use the vastly superior teleport-based modules that inomanoms conceived, such as those illustrated in my latest thread on giant logic gates.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
DicemanX
Brain of Cthulhu
Funny, I heard the bleeding edge is all about warp-speed sharks nowadays...
Yes, in some instances so long as the 0.5sec delay between activations isn't an issue. That was a pretty huge discovery though, and we'll have to keep it in mind when building large complex contraptions in which latency is a concern.
Sulejman
Terrarian
@Brain Goo How about this one? It's a prototype of my airlock system, sorry for lack of light but I built it first and thought about posting it later. It's more compact, has 4 timers instead of 6, and works fine. I will make a new one with white gemblock walls, for better lighting, but there is one problem I've encountered. Each time the process is run, water accumulates slowly behind actuated blocks. I see you've placed lava to get rid of leftover water, but how doesn't it change into obsidian?
UPDATE: This is the most compact version I could come up with. Works just like Brain Goo's one. I've tested it 20 times and no water seemed to accumulate. I changed crab statue to bunny, because as crabs are enemies, they are targeted by stardust dragon, which broke the system once. We don't accept failures here at Aperture Science.
UPDATE 2: Hey, apparently those bunnies are not as predictable as crabs. Their AI makes them run away from enemies, and sometimes at testing they stood in one place instead of walking on the plate! Dumb pests. I wonder if birds are more reliable and will tell you tomorrow, it's well past midnight here.
UPDATE: This is the most compact version I could come up with. Works just like Brain Goo's one. I've tested it 20 times and no water seemed to accumulate. I changed crab statue to bunny, because as crabs are enemies, they are targeted by stardust dragon, which broke the system once. We don't accept failures here at Aperture Science.
UPDATE 2: Hey, apparently those bunnies are not as predictable as crabs. Their AI makes them run away from enemies, and sometimes at testing they stood in one place instead of walking on the plate! Dumb pests. I wonder if birds are more reliable and will tell you tomorrow, it's well past midnight here.
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Bahamut2001
Steampunker
Lava over actuated blocks or a chest in a pit prevents the obsidian from forming, making it destroy all water the lava contacts.
Sulejman
Terrarian
ah, right... I remember this working with furniture as well, but since furniture was fixed, I didn't think about chests or inactive blocks...
Gyradosian
Terrarian
Not directly related to mechanics, but I found that if you want to create big buildings, it's extremely helpful. This is what it does:
- automatically paints blocks that you place down
- wall placement speed bonus
- block placement speed bonus
- +3 placement range
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
Sounds good, except for the auto-painting, since (I expect) that means you have to take all paints out of your inventory to avoid using them...?The Architect Gizmo Pack.
Anyhow, got my latest Gif up tonight, 5 tips for the price of 1, although you T-MEC peeps will probably already know all of these:
Posted to Reddit with additional notes. I must thank @Thiner for basically telling me how to make that (new design) of teleporter engine, over in another thread earlier today.
Gyradosian
Terrarian
Yup, it's the only feature I don't like - storing your paint in a piggy bank counteracts the pain though.
Bahamut2001
Steampunker
I dub thee, the Omniporter
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
Oddly, you can actually go beyond this by taking advantage of wire lengths. E.g. on the isolated green wires you could have two forks of the green wire, with a switch on either fork such that the each is furthest to the pad on the *other* fork, (and both nearest to the source pad). Well done if you understood that. It's how I was going to show 12 destinations from one pad, but it's equally impractical and 1 way only. I'm unsure what the absolute limit for one pad wiring will be, since the interaction of these two weird techniques is going to be messy... (Hence begins a competition.)
