Suggestion: Electric ladders

  • I've noticed in my mine how excruciatingly long it takes to get up from the bottom using boring old vanilla ladders...

    So how about electric ladders?

    Crafting recipe:

    STS
    SBS = Four electric ladders
    SES

    Where S = Stick, T = tin, B = battery and E = electric circuit

    Not sure if this is right...

    Anyway, the ladders should function normally unless one ladder block in a long ladder is powered by a cable or MFE or whatever, in which case the whole ladder is powered (not unlike powered rails, but with no limit, or a much longer limit) and the ladder is much, much faster. I was thinking that 1 EU should be drained per segment of ladder, for every time you climb it. It shouldn't drain EU to go down, really. The ladder can maybe be a grey/silver reskin, or something completely different.

    Let me know what you think :)

  • This is a quite great idea of how to implement easy elevators.
    I could effectively store the data of a whole ladder in the metadata of a single ladder (the lowest block), minimizing calculation usage. And the acceleration itself could be easly coded via collisiondetection. I assume a ladder having an empty pit below it would turn into a high-speed-death-trap, but that's it XD

  • Elevators would be an interesting and welcome implemtation. Hope you add it!

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  • This is a quite great idea of how to implement easy elevators.
    I could effectively store the data of a whole ladder in the metadata of a single ladder (the lowest block), minimizing calculation usage. And the acceleration itself could be easly coded via collisiondetection. I assume a ladder having an empty pit below it would turn into a high-speed-death-trap, but that's it XD

    What can I say? "High-speed death traps FTW!"? xD