Exploring Quark: Automation in Minecraft 1.9 – 1.19 (Part 1/9)
Quark is a mod that introduces a wide range of diverse features to Minecraft, enhancing the gaming experience while maintaining its vanilla aspect. This first part of the comprehensive guide focuses on the redstone-related functionalities and general automation.
Key Features
Quark introduces several interesting features that enhance the gameplay experience. These include:
- Hungry Animals: Animals can now automatically consume food dropped on the ground, simplifying the process of breeding them.
- Pistons Push/Pull Items: Pistons can now propel items vertically or horizontally, while sticky pistons can retrieve items.
- Place Glowstone and Gunpowder: Players can place glowstone and gunpowder on the ground, with the latter being ignitable from a distance using a flint and steel.
- Sugar Block: A gravity-affected block that dissolves upon contact with water.
- Weather Sensor: Emits a signal when it rains or storms, providing a new way to interact with the game’s weather mechanics.
- Endermites Form Shulkers: Endermites can now merge with a purpur block to create shulkers, offering a new method of obtaining these entities.
- Chain Linking: Introduces the ability to connect two minecarts using chains.
- Color Slime: Adds new colors of slime blocks that do not stick to each other, expanding the building possibilities.
- Redstone Inductor: A new redstone component that allows for the addition of three input values, providing more complex redstone circuitry options.
- Dispensers Place Blocks: Dispensers can now place blocks, enabling automated block placement.
- Obsidian Pressure Plate: A pressure plate that only activates when a player steps on it, offering new possibilities for redstone contraptions.
- Iron Rod: A tool that can be used with a piston to break blocks.
- Pistons Move Tile Entities: Pistons can now move tile entities such as chests, furnaces, and dispensers, adding a new layer of automation to the game.
- Chute: Automatically drops items placed inside it, simplifying item transportation systems.
- Metal Buttons: Introduces iron and gold buttons with different signal durations.
- Redstone Randomizer: Distributes a redstone signal randomly to the left or right when triggered.
- Ender Watcher: Emits a redstone signal when a player looks at it, providing a new way to interact with redstone mechanisms.
- Feeding Trough: Automatically feeds animals when food is placed inside, streamlining the breeding process.
- Gravisand: A gravity-affected sand block that can be manipulated with redstone signals, offering new possibilities for contraptions.
- Chains Connect Blocks: Chains can connect blocks, allowing for new building and redstone contraption possibilities.
- Jukebox Automation: Enables the insertion and removal of music discs from jukeboxes using dispensers, adding a new level of automation to music players.
These features significantly expand the automation and redstone capabilities within Minecraft, providing players with new tools and mechanics to explore.
Conclusion
This marks the end of the first part of the comprehensive guide to Quark’s automation features. The next part will delve into the construction-related functionalities of Quark, offering even more exciting content to explore. Stay tuned for the next installment!
For more information about Quark, visit the official website or check out the mod on CurseForge.