Minecraft Community Spotlight – RedPower

Uh all of us have been there at one time or another pickaxe in hand ready to excavate 30 square miles of earth to build a giant golden monument to ourselves and maybe make it light up with lamps too others have undertaken the task of designing a redstone-powered contraption

Only to fill up that freshly dug 30 square mile crater with wiring just to open a door what if there was a better way well there is and it’s called red power red power has everything the working man needs to make his minecraft world a better place now you might be telling yourself

But strange faceless announcer person i’m not a man i might be a young boy or a girl well now you’re a man welcome to the club now as a working man you’re gonna need better tools and some limp noodle diamond pickaxe you could start with these gem tools

Perfect for the miner who wants to tell the world yeah i’ve got a pair and they’re just that big they might not last as long as diamond but they look a heck of a lot better they come in sapphire ruby and emerald they can be made without having to dig

To the earth’s core and they won’t come up short where it counts like wood or stone now let’s talk about redstone ever tried to run redstone much farther than a stick arm wuss can throw a snowball have you ever run a couple lines of redstone next to each other only to have

Them connect everywhere pretty frustrating for sure no there’s no need to create dirt grids and cobblestone pillars to wire up your latest doomsday device redwire’s got you covered run it for miles without losing a signal wrap it up in any manly color you can think of and run it next to other wires

Heck you can even bundle it up so multiple signals only take up a little space instead of a lot still want more options how about jacketing your wire and your favorite block material whether it be wood cobble obsidian or anything else yep you can run these jacketed wires

Anywhere you please and if you make some hollow cover panels to go with them you can even run them through the walls without making the place look like someone didn’t quite make it to the toilet on time real men keep their place looking professional and that’s what this is all

About cover plates like the ones i’ve got here are certainly good for keeping your wires tucked away instead of flapping in the wind but a creative mind can put them to other uses for example secret tunnels now all this talk of wiring is great and all if all you want

To do is make a compact military-grade dispenser cannon but what if you want to do better you’ll need better tools of course tools like logic gates that only take up one square instead of 30. alloy furnaces to produce the sort of professional-grade alloys you’ll need to start off right

A screwdriver to situate machines you place however you like and fine-tune them too since we’re talking about better tools let’s talk machines we all mine materials who doesn’t like descending into a cool dark mine shaft ready to dig out a few more rows of stone well that because i don’t

It’s time to make a manly machine do the boring work for you for example this here is a block breaker it’ll smash up anything in front of it and spit it back out hook up some pneumatic tubes to the back and you can lead it off to a nearby chest

Stick it on the end of a frame machine and you’ve got an automatic driller time to relax in the shade with a nice cool bucket of water while the machines do all the work of course slicking piles of rock and oars down a pipe is all well and good

But only an amateur dumps this hole in one messy chest you’re a man’s man now and that means keeping your place looking professional remember man up and use a sorter i’ve got this one here configured to sort out diamonds which we want from this other crap which we don’t want

Now this chest will only be filled to bursting with the finest cut gems with all another worthless junk going into my glowing orange storage unit here now you might be asking yourself how do these fancy new machines get power surely redstone isn’t manly enough to drive these highly sophisticated devices

You’re right it isn’t that’s why we use bluetricity gather up some power with solar panels run it through these blue alloy wires into a nearby machine to power it or a battery box to store that power for other uses use is like powering this manly blue electric furnace which can cook whatever

You please without having to worry about pesky things like digging for coal or falling into lava while you were trying to scoop it up sure it needs power instead of fossil fuels but that’s the future and manly men are all about the future since we’re talking about the future nothing says

I’m two steps ahead of you like this futuristic frame now you might think this is just an ordinary set of girders in a box but that’s the kind of thinking that made you fall in that ravine last week everyone saw that and everyone laughed at your girly scream as you fell to your

Pansy death so what are frames good for you ask well if you hook them up to this here frame motor you can move them around however you like they will also move any other frames attached to the one being moved as well as any blocks attached to those

That’s right you could put your whole house on these things and push it around the countryside if you so desired see a hill you want your home on drag it up there by force the manly way use frames speaking of manly remember those block breakers and pneumatic tubes we talked

About earlier stick a set of those on the end of a frame machine and you’ve got yourself a driller add a few more motors and you’ve got an automatic mining machine stick a deployer on the end and you could be dispensing tnt on your enemies village before they even knew you’ve

Logged into the server those are just some basic ideas but real men don’t give away their secrets using buckets to move water around is all well and good if you don’t mind living in the stone age we’re in the future and the future uses water pumps this here water pump doesn’t just move

Water around from one place to another though it actually creates liquid physics that’s right your minecraft world isn’t manly enough to have water flow like it should and the pump isn’t having any of it dispense water up to this glass container and it will spill over the

Edges filling up the second tank with real water source blocks cleverly pathing out the most realistic way for the water to disperse give it enough time and you could turn this whole valley into the pacific ocean that’s a manned swimming pool of course all this talk about the future

Wouldn’t amount to much if there weren’t some fancy computers running everything now would it good thing red power has those too these fancy machines are real programmable computers with their own handmade operating system designed by lram who was so manly she could twist your head clean off with her mind

These computers can be hooked up to anything redstone and be programmed to do all sorts of stuff like control a light display run an automatic door or even automatically control an entire mining operation at the push of a button of course you’ve got to be pretty smart

To program it to do what you want and i’m too manly to be smart which is a nice way of saying i’m too stupid to program but i’ll put you in the face for thinking it i’ve talked about red power quite a lot today and let’s face it you’ve wanted to get this

Mod even before i started if you didn’t i’ll bet you do now if you still don’t want to try out this manly man’s ultimate toolkit you may as well get your dress out of the attic and go back to suffocating under gravel us men have work to do