Electricity System

[Sedrowow Chaos]

I heard you developers like Minecraft... So i thought: why not adding a redstone like system? it would make some things MAYBE easier. like automated farming, smithing, crafting, etc... it would be as great as minecraft itself! more creativity... Also to mention that i could be a bit different, more realistic, like: battery, lcd displays, and colored leds...

[Jeremy Betts]

But the devolopers don't like easier lol

And if they wanted to make a copy on Minecraft, that's what they'd do. 

Their goal is more for realistic, and at its current stage the game is hardly into the iron age. Arguably it's still in the bronze age, putting electricity well out of reach for now. It may be something they get to in the very distant future, but certainly not anytime soon. 

They already have other types of automation in their roadmap, but it's all mechanical based, not electrical based. 

It's also reasonable to assume that if it's a thing in Minecraft, they've thought of it and already decided they will or won't do it. No need to suggest things from Minecraft. 

[Sedrowow Chaos]

You're right. Mechanical is as good as electricity...

[Yukihira_S]

I like the mechanical power in VS but I hope that electrical power will be introduced. 

Rather for automation I hope to be able to use electricity for lighting and material processing. In particular, electricity is necessary to make aluminum out bauxite.

PS. Also steam power would be great 

[Sparkle Kitti]

4 hours ago, Yukihira_S said:

I like the mechanical power in VS but I hope that electrical power will be introduced. 

Rather for automation I hope to be able to use electricity for lighting and material processing. In particular, electricity is necessary to make aluminum out bauxite.

PS. Also steam power would be great 

I'd prefer steam power come first.

If/when electrical power is brought to the game I hope it won't be as simple as finding "redstone" and using it as is.

[Yukihira_S]

11 hours ago, Sparkle Kitti said:

I'd prefer steam power come first.

If/when electrical power is brought to the game I hope it won't be as simple as finding "redstone" and using it as is.

I agree. I never really liked that magical redstone thing in Minecraft.

In VS we already have everything is needed to make electricity. For example, Sulphur can be used to make sulphuric acid which, combined with lead, make accumulators.

[TheBrian]

Mechanical and electrical power don't have to be mutually exclusive. Have you ever seen Dr. Stone?

[Screwy]

For the ones who like electricity more than mechanics, I can recommend QPtech Mod. Basic stuff is in there, but not to overloaded with unnecessary gimmicks. Great mod but kind of unbalanced compared with mechanics. Makes the game a little less challenging, but is fun to play with.

[Hal13]

On 3/21/2020 at 5:58 PM, Yukihira_S said:

I like the mechanical power in VS but I hope that electrical power will be introduced. 

it has been said several times by the devs already, officially there won't be electricity as vanilla tech level development will end with steam age. and mechanical power (including steam power) is already the equivalent to MCs redstone BUT modders are free to implement electricity or even nuclear power or more futuristic stuff.

 

On 3/22/2020 at 10:29 AM, Yukihira_S said:

In VS we already have everything is needed to make electricity. For example, Sulphur can be used to make sulphuric acid which, combined with lead, make accumulators.

yes devs want to implement even stuff that vanilla tech won't need, so that there won't be such a chaos like with MCs different modded coppers (before 1.17, there was no official copper and several mods added their own copper that needed conversion if you wanted to use it across mods) and other ores and metals.
one example for such a metal is lead which up to now has practically no use in vanilla VS, even less useful in vanilla VS are and potentially will always be: gemstones, chromium, platinum, rhodium and uranium....

Edited November 12, 2021 by Hal13

[Voldemort]

we need redstone like system like a salt

[-Glue-]

Personally, I don't think standard electricity fits into VS's aesthetic. I'd much rather have a steampunk type technology in its place. Know those gas lamps you can find in the Resonance Archives? I would love to see items such as those become craftable, and toggleable with switches and buttons using a boiler, windmills, or waterwheels to power the tech. Perhaps even some very late game temporal power options.

My vision is that there could be a new empty frame block, that lets you place internal mechanics, such as gas or steam pipes inside it. With the ability to put multiple separate lines in a single block. Then, you could make that frame look like a normal block. So you could set up a whole pipe system across your house, hidden inside the walls. Or even placed out in the open, if you don't mind pipes everywhere. Which can then be used to power gas lamps, radiators, or whatever else is placed near those blocks. Could even be used with water to create sprinklers for farms, or fountains. Lots of ways they could make fictional tech with the temporal stuff too. Its not limited by real world physics.

If there could be a way to place pipes dynamically, similar to beams, where they don't take up a block space, that would be absolutely amazing! Not just for mechanics, but for building aesthetics as well. The ability to craft a maintenance door for framed blocks, to gain access to the pipes and valves inside would also be really cool! It would really start to feel like you are maintaining a complex system.
To compare it to redstone, imagine being able to make different colored redstone lines, that can share a single block face, and be hidden inside blocks.

[Wojtek Kłaczyński]

It would be amazing if the creators were based on realism and added the possibility of creating wind, coal and nuclear power plants. 
Ingredients that already exist would be added.
 I think a better solution would be a system of cables made of copper and insulation and the possibility of hanging on poles, on walls or underground.
 through the chisel system it would be quite easy I think. electricity and devices that are electric would be very useful in the final phase of the game

[StCatharines]

9 minutes ago, Wojtek Kłaczyński said:

nuclear power plants

Nuclear power. In the 1300s.

Personally I don't see how that would really fit in with the theme of VS, but hey, you do you.

[Maelstrom]

EARLY steam power is the max tech level the devs plan on implementing (see roadmap elsewhere on this very website).  No electricity or greater levels of tech development without mods.