On the In Dynamics of Integration starting off simple and useful
KollinsPlays opened this issue · 1 comments
Issue type:
- ➕ Feature request
Change the order of examples in the manual based on their complexity and possibly add some simple yet practical ones to start.
Short description:
When I got into ID, the manual starts off OK but the examples and exercises are either nothing like what I want to do or seem to throw you in the deep end. Until I understood that ID is just using Logic Gates on Readers and Writers, none of the stuff I read or watched people do made sense.
I think the first tutorial should be something practical and simple to ease you into the mod. My suggestion is a couple redstone readers on levers and a redstone lamp on a writer. Explain that a blank VC is always true, which lets you put it in the writer to turn the lamp on. Show that reading the value of a lever into a VC lets you use that in the writer to toggle the lamp with the lever. Show how a simple AND and OR gate work to read the signal from 2 levers, combine them in the programmer, put the result in the writer and stash the cards in a variable store.
The second tutorial suggestion seems like why most of us come to ID, which is turning a redstone controlled machine on and off based on inventory. With vanilla items, you could put a hopper on a chest and a redstone torch on a block that shuts the hopper off. The hopper becomes a simple "activate on redstone signal" machine that feeds the chest only when you apply redstone to turn the torch off. Now add an inventory reader to the chest, a redstone writer to the block with the torch and show how to turn the hopper on only if there isn't say 20 items in the chest. This activate a machine on condition tutorial is probably the core of why most of us came to ID, so it seems like the best thing to teach people, right after basic logic.
I'd love to see this as well. Contributions are welcome.
All of the above should be easy to build via the advancements system: https://github.com/CyclopsMC/IntegratedDynamics/wiki/Advancements
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