Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26834366-20160120165205/@comment-26172435-20160120174356

There is an obvious reason to not include redstone in Middle-Earth and discourage large redstone circuits: it's a medieval themed dark fantasy world, where the technology to create electronic or similar circuits has not been developed yet. As a replacement we could consider a different type of technology though, which would support transmission of 'signals' over short distances to trigger mechanics and low-tech light sources and locks, and which would better fit the theme.

Considering the fact that sulphur, salpeter, chalk (bone meal), leather, string and wood are all commodities in the mod ... maybe we could come up with some 'realistic' and lore-fitting combination of these ingredients to craft transmitter ducts, levers and pully's interconnected with rope and leather belt loops ... but the final connecting element should be redstone nonetheless, as otherwise the vanilla MC mechanics won't be able to function ... and to discourage large contraptions, the recipes for repeaters and redstone torches may best be disabled I think.

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Recipe for 'redstone', a.k.a. transmission gear, in ME:

Simulate 'redstone' by assuming it's a combination of pully wheels connected by cured leather & string interwoven belts rolling over wooden axes wit little bronze bearings. The recipe would then include: 1 wood planks for the 2 wheels and supporting framework, 1 wood stick for the axes, 2 bronze nuggets for the bearings, 1 piece of cured hide and 1 string for the belts. To get cured hide (one item = cured leather), put together 3 hides with one bucket of water, one salpeter, two sulphur and one bone meal. That gives 3 cured hides. Cured hide may also be used as fire-resistant cover (like carpet) for walls and roof blocks ... hey! This is actually the same recipe as proposed in this post, when discussing the uses of warg fur. How convenient! :D

''I don't know if this actually makes sense at all, form a lore and gameplay pov ... just another weird twitch in my tiny ogre brain at some point ... had to let it out before it caused overheating.''