The Mod adds devices to output or measure redstone power in different style variants. Complete documentation, feature details, credits, and community references is on the github project page here.
Switches
- Buttons
- Levers
- Normal pressure plates ("contact switches")
- Shock sensitive pressure plates ("contact switches", detect when something/one falls on it)
- Entity detectors (players, villages, animals, mobs, etc)
- Block category detectors (e.g. "solid", "ore", "wood", "sapling", "farmland", "water" (includes ice), "liquid", etc)
- Day timers (06:00 to 24:00)
- Interval timers (tick based timers)
- Light sensors ("auto switch" category)
- Rain sensors ("auto switch" category)
- Lightning sensors ("auto switch" category)
- Switch-Link relays (optimized for wireless transmission)
- Switch-Link receivers (optimized for wireless transmission)
- Knock sensors (seismic detection of click or breaking an adjacent block)
- Trapdoor switches (emit a signal and open)
Gauges
- Analog / digital (show redstone power 0 to 15)
- LEDs and semaphores ("indicators", show on/off)
- Alarm lamps (also on/off)
- Alarm sirens and bells ("sound indicators")
- Sensitive glass (glass that emits light or changes color)
Style variants
"Series" are e.g. industrial, retro industrial, rustic, old fancy, glass, etc. For a pack you can configure exactly which series you like to include and exclude (makes no sense to have futuristic glass in a mystic medieval world, so only the rustic series is used).
Special features
- All switches can be configured to weak/strong and inverted/not inverted with a redstone torch.
- Most of the switches can be wireless linked with Ender Pearls.
- Pulse duration of buttons is configurable with a Redstone dust stack.
- Some switches and gauges can be colored with dye.
- Some plates can react or ignore players, mobs, villagers, animals, items, etc.
Source code, mod pack integration, back ports, bug reports
- Sources: Are located on the github: https://github.com/stfwi/rsgauges/.
- Packs: If your mod pack is open source as well and has no installer (e.g. adding adware, bloatware or whatever), you don't need to ask and simply integrate this mod.
- Bug reports: Yes, please let me know. Drop a mail or better open an issue for the repository.
- Maintenance: The 1.12.2 mod version is now in maintenance state, means new features will seldom be implemented, but bugs will still be fixed if they are not small glitches.
I have an issue about doing a ON/OFF switch threshold based on the level of the Capacitor banks form Immersive engineering.
For easy writing i'm going to abbreviate the words as follow:
ICS = INDUSTRIAL COMPARATOR SWITCH
SLR = SWITCH LINK RECEIVER
SLS = SWITCH LINK SENDER
The issue:
A ICS configured as follow: ON: lvl 15 | OFF: lvl 1 | Mode: Comparator Mode | Power: 15, should send a signal to a SLS when it reads that the Capacitor it is attached reach redstone power 15 correct? but that isn't the case, when the redstone lvl of the capacitor reachs 1 the SLS will turn on, when it reaches redstone lvl 2 it will turn off, when redstone lvl 3 it will turn on and so on forth doing this loop for every redstone power lvl change, when the ICS turns off the SLS will be on if that was the last state it was in before the ICS turned off. (a bug?).
Conecting a SLR direct to a ICS produces the same loop of on and off.
Reading the documentation is stated that the SLS will send a signal to the SLR thus making the SLR emit a redstone signal until there ok, but if you link the SLS to a ICS and then the SLS to a SLR it will not work because the ICS will be turning on and off the SLS for each redstone lvl change it reads and the SLR will not turn on or off at all.
How i solve the problem: Extracting the redstone signal from the ICS with a vanilla repeater and puting the SLS upfront the redstone signal extracted from the ICS then linkng the SLR to the SLS.
afterwards i apologize if i committed too many writing errors since english is not my main language, and if i understood the mod mechanic wrong and was doing something totally wrong, but since you can link a SLS to a ICS i thought it should work like that
In reply to joohnsd: Hi, it sounds like a bug ;-). I have to make a change in the normal Comparator Switch, where I recently added the feature to transfer analog signals to gauges and analog switches, but this is confusing for people. So the plan is to make it digital only again and add a dedicated "Analog Comparator" that does not have the threshold buttons. With a bit of luck this can be tackled this weekend or so. Cheers!
[edit]: Yepp, had a stupid triggering bug in the Comparator Switch. Update the mod to rsgauges-1.16.4-1.2.10.jar this should to the trick. Cheers-
Hello, I couldn't find the industrial comparator switch in the documentation and I couldn't deduce how it worked from the other switches, could you add it to thhe documentation and/or explain it here? Thanks.
Edit: I've figured out how to use it based on a video you sent in one of the replies, however I still think it would be useful for other people if you added it to the documentation. Thanks for your amazing work this mod is amazing in conjuction with immersive engineering.
In reply to Doopsteep: Hi, oh sorry for the late response, I completely overread your comment. I tried to keep the docs in the tool tips, so that not "yet another manual" is around in the game. Having that said, the functionality of the mod did grow quite a lot with the feature requests, and something has definitely to be done about it at this point. So, when I get time, the choice may be either an online doc or a Patchouli manual. Cheers!
hello, im doing automation experiment on my creative world 1.16.5 (automated tree farm) and if i ever want to use dispenser to bone meal sapling tree i would need to time it, does your mod help what im looking for? can it time my dispenser?
In reply to king0sly3: Hi, you can use an Interval Timer. Place it on the dispenser, click the up/down buttons on it to configure the on and off time, and click in the center to activate it. If you want to have it only active when a sapling is there check the Block Category Detector switch. The right up/down button lets you select saplings or crops. With an Ender Pearl Switch-Link you can then enable and disable the timer depending on the presence of a sapling. Cheers,-
Is there any documentation on how exactly the Industrial Comparator Switch works? I have been trying for the last six hours to make it work with a storage drawer to change a signal based on how full the storage drawer is... and I cannot figure it out at all. Help please D:
In reply to Andazeus: Hi, I quickly double checked, the very short answer is “use a Drawer Redstone Upgrade”. At least in the latest 1.16.4/5 version Storage Drawers do not emit a “comparator override” by default. However, the Devs have implemented a way to directly emit a Redstone signal (quite a while ago iirc), and that one you can use with the Comparator Switch for further wireless Redstone handling. I recorded the check, so if you like to see how I made the setup, the link is
Cheers,-
In reply to wilechaote:
Hey there! Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately your video does not seem to be working. May it is set to private? But yes, I was using the redstone upgrade and was trying to convert the redstone levels the drawer emits into on/off switches for other machines based on certain threshold levels.
With the switch in redstone mode, I was able to set the thresholds (set to activate at 14 and deactivate at 12) and the indicator light on the comparator switch itself showed that it was apparently working as intended. But when I connect it to a link receiver, it does turn the link receiver on once the signal level reaches 14 but does not turn it back off once it goes down to 12 even though the receiver is set to match the source signal. (also: even that only worked with the full block version of the signal receiver. The little panel version does not work at all. Its indicator does show that it is triggering but it does not power the block it is attached to)
I also tried running the comparator switch in comparator mode, but that did not work at all, it never triggers no matter what I do. And then I wanted to try a wired redstone connection in case the wireless one was buggy or something, but I cannot even figure out how to connect redstone to the comparator switch. Maybe it would be easier to have a full block version of the comparator switch as well so I could slap other redstone devices directly onto it?
Thanks for the help!
In reply to Andazeus: Oky, updated the link. If the remote-off-switching did not work something may be broken in the mod actually, you are at 1.16.4/5 latest Forge?
In reply to wilechaote:
Hey there! The video is now working, thanks. And yeah, I did pretty much the same, but even in your video my issue can be seen: as you take stuff out of the drawer, the comparator switch turns off but the receiver on the wall stays active. So does not seem isolated to just my case then?
In reply to Andazeus: Hi, ugh, I think I forgot to update the help text. Since analog support was added for wireless sender and receiver switches, and the comparator switch checks if the target has analog support - and then transfers the signal strength instead of the on/off signal.
Maybe it would be better so split that, so that there are explicit separate digital and analog wireless modules - gonna make a note for the next release iteration.
In reply to wilechaote:
Oh, I see now. Indeed, it seems it just transfers the power level to the target. But... that.. honestly kinda completely defeats the point of the comparator switch in the first place here. Because after you mentioned that I just tested: the comparator switch always simply transfers the current signal strength to the target. The settings on the comparator and its little activation light etc. actually do not matter at all. No matter what I set on it, it just copies the signal strength, whether it is active or not. Which means that it is actually completely pointless as it has no added functionality for my use case over a normal link sender.
Dang.... Because the thresholds and getting a binary signal was what I wanted that device for as I want to avoid a huge vanilla redstone comparator contraption :(
But thank you for clearing this up and so quickly as well! :)
In reply to Andazeus: Hi, as said, I think I have to make a change there. Normally all switches are "boolean", likely these switches will be split into a digital and an analog version. Cheers, -
In reply to wilechaote:
Thanks! Looking forward to it. Would really love to use it as originally intended :)
1.17 pls
In reply to cassiecatytchannel:
just gonna say myself, 1.17 is not supported by forge or fabric yet, as it's in snapshots. when 1.17 releases, it's up to the mod creator if they want to port to 1.17
I just wanted to ask if you could back port this to 1.12 if not that's ok, btw I love the mod!
In reply to moon010909: Hi man, the latest 1.12.2 version is v1.2.5: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/redstone-gauges-and-switches/files/3097911 (dunno why it's not shown at the right side menu, probably web-space-issue ;-) ), cheers,-
In reply to wilechaote:
Thx a lot! I was kinda sad when I didn't see the 1.12 version because i use this for most of my redstone contraptions, thanks for helpin me out!