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A block that allows redstone logic usage for the Digital Miner #268

Open Holographies opened 3 years ago

Holographies commented 3 years ago

Describe the feature you'd like

Similar to letting the fusion reactor use a redstone logic adapter, make a machine that attaches to one of the digital miner's energy ports (or change one of the energy ports to a dedicated logic port) and turns incoming redstone signals into a start, stop, or rescan command.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

This can help a lot with automation (as mentioned on the discord, cobblestone generation in particular) and basically act as a less destructive alternative to TNT dupe-based harvesting farms.

beholderface commented 3 years ago

You can already set the miner to run only with/without redstone. And if you just want to use mek for a cobble generator, you can use a laser tractor beam setup.

Holographies commented 3 years ago

Clarifying: I think there should be a rescan option on the Digital Miner that can be automated, so it can rescan for whatever it's searching for every so often. Typically, you would stop and reboot the digital miner for it to scan for what you tell it to - I'm suggesting an automation of said scan, either by redstone or by an upgrade.