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Redstone circuits in Minecraft are honestly one of the most fun things I've played in a long, long time. When I first played the game as a HS-er I didn't really

Redstone circuits in Minecraft are honestly one of the most fun things I've played in a long, long time. When I first played the game as a HS-er I didn't really understand enough about boolean logic or computation to understand it. During shelter-in-place I took another look at it and was totally sucked in. I absolutely love the cool thing the community has come up with. I really like the creative challenge of coming up with new designs for machines that automate away the problems that you have in the game. Honestly, it's a real shame the devs don't encourage more automation directly. The real reason I stopped playing in the first place is that it quickly just turned into tedious _work_ to collect resources. Another thought I had was that the spatial nature of the thinking that you are doing when you are constructing redstone circuits works really well for my brain. I wish I could leverage that side of my brain when doing programming work. I'm able to keep a lot more in my working memory when I can reference a component by it's location relative to everything else. It's hard to describe, but I really quite liked it.

Thorentis 6y ago
There were some fantastic mods back in the day that focussed more on the automation side. Can't remember what they are called now (Tekkit maybe?). Gave Minecraft a very Factorio feel. Huge mining drills, assembly lines, conveyor belts, drones, robots, computers. Immense fun.
- comp500 6y ago
  They're still around! Well, Tekkit has stopped developing modpacks, but plenty of mods are still being updated, most of which are available on Curseforge. For a Factorio-like feel I'd say Create, Immersive Engineering and the modpack Omnifactory are great.
- willis936 6y ago
  It’s more accurate to say Factorio has a very “modded minecraft” feel, since that was partial inspiration for the devs. Automation games. Mindustry is good too. Far and away the mod I have spent more time playing than any other video game is gregtech. I’ve moved on, but I was as far as balancing recipes for all mods in a private kitchen sink pack before I stopped.
zimpenfish 6y ago
> Redstone circuits in Minecraft are honestly one of the most fun things Finally made an asymmetric clock this week (3 off, 1 on) which is powering my monster grinder (3 cycles to let them spawn, 1 cycle to flush them.) > Honestly, it's a real shame the devs don't encourage more automation directly. It'd be great if you could plant crops or breed animals using dispensers - it's weird that you can't when you can e.g. shear sheep with them but not feed the sheep. Those are my two main pain points currently.
- comp500 6y ago
  Carpet Extra (https://github.com/gnembon/carpet-extra https://github.com/gnembon/carpet-extra) is a fairly lightweight mod that adds those dispenser interactions. It doesn't add any blocks so you can just drop it into existing worlds.
  - zimpenfish 6y ago
    Ta, looks good.
philsnow 6y ago
> the spatial nature of the thinking that you are doing when you are constructing redstone circuits works really well for my brain have you seen Befunge [0] and/or Orca [1]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
Darmody 6y ago
Resources are very, very easy to obtain if you really know the game. Some farms and a good trading hall and you're set.

Thorentis 6y ago

There were some fantastic mods back in the day that focussed more on the automation side. Can't remember what they are called now (Tekkit maybe?). Gave Minecraft a very Factorio feel. Huge mining drills, assembly lines, conveyor belts, drones, robots, computers. Immense fun.

comp500 6y ago
They're still around! Well, Tekkit has stopped developing modpacks, but plenty of mods are still being updated, most of which are available on Curseforge. For a Factorio-like feel I'd say Create, Immersive Engineering and the modpack Omnifactory are great.
willis936 6y ago
It’s more accurate to say Factorio has a very “modded minecraft” feel, since that was partial inspiration for the devs. Automation games. Mindustry is good too. Far and away the mod I have spent more time playing than any other video game is gregtech. I’ve moved on, but I was as far as balancing recipes for all mods in a private kitchen sink pack before I stopped.

zimpenfish 6y ago

> Redstone circuits in Minecraft are honestly one of the most fun things Finally made an asymmetric clock this week (3 off, 1 on) which is powering my monster grinder (3 cycles to let them spawn, 1 cycle to flush them.) > Honestly, it's a real shame the devs don't encourage more automation directly. It'd be great if you could plant crops or breed animals using dispensers - it's weird that you can't when you can e.g. shear sheep with them but not feed the sheep. Those are my two main pain points currently.

comp500 6y ago
Carpet Extra (https://github.com/gnembon/carpet-extra https://github.com/gnembon/carpet-extra) is a fairly lightweight mod that adds those dispenser interactions. It doesn't add any blocks so you can just drop it into existing worlds.
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  Ta, looks good.

philsnow 6y ago

> the spatial nature of the thinking that you are doing when you are constructing redstone circuits works really well for my brain have you seen Befunge [0] and/or Orca [1]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge [1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca

Darmody 6y ago

Resources are very, very easy to obtain if you really know the game. Some farms and a good trading hall and you're set.