Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-79.69.29.107-20160718173841/@comment-26553378-20160725115502

i agree on the redstone thing (which by the way redstone itself doesnt make any sense) replacing it with a cog texture should be simple as with its renaming, and just that would make it understandable and work for most things in middle earth (although i suppose it would be seperate from redstone which would still be in the overworld and it wouldn't activate tnt a gunpoweder trail when lit could do that (1 block explosion per trail block)) just make it so you craft maybe 8 or 16 in this recipe

"XIX

IXI

XIX"

where X is open space and I is iron ingot, or perhaps a recipe for one using smooth stone...

other than that i love the ropes/chains and pulleys and winches idea it would work as a good far range version (although not very good for small spaces and delicate mechanisms)

also if this is added it would require some source of power (yeah right no electricity in ME) or someone pushing it constantly, although this could be reinacted by a spring or elastic material pre-wound and the flip of a switch or trigger of a button would release it(i already see those poor little slaves of nurn...)