Board Thread:Suggestions Forum/@comment-26073467-20150330060521

After a evils travel to the iron hills I finally got settled down I had big goals to make all manner of dwarven machines, but then I realized that there was no redstone. I knew it would be logical to keep things realistic, but how would u archivey goals? Then it came to me:

Gears are blocks that can be placed on the floor, ceiling and wall, and function like a Redstone wire, which only functions with certain power sources, and is turned off by levers.

power sources include:

water wheels: a 3 block diameter almost-wheel  that comes in reguler, isengard,  and dwarven variants. Requires 3 blocks of water under it to work.

Windmill: a 9 block diameter windmill, requires 5 blocks of air in front to function.

Spring: a block which can be right clicked to charge it, and a lever will set it of, moving the gears for 5 seconds.

all of these can be used to power vanilla a and lotr machines, with changed recipes. Some of these machines are:

future castle machines(gates and things)

Switch: takes a temporary pulse and makes it turn the power on/off. Hard to discribe, but is known as a T flip-flop.

Mills: turns wheat into flour, which replaces wheat in hobbit recipes and is makey 3  from one wheat, but still produces as much as wheat.

power rail: exactly the same except different texture and less power. Has different recipe.

Pistons are same with different recipes

Gears are used in different recipes for these.

Hobbit mills now contain gears and suggested parts.

dwarven and isengard mines contain machines of all sorts and minecarts. 