Allow the Animated Torch to switch directions when it recieves redstone power

Zach

Currently the animated torch switches directions when an adjacent Hovering Hourglass activates. This is a bit unintuitive, since the main function of the hovering hourglass is to provide a redstone pulse when activated. I think that making the animated torch trigger off of any redstone input would make it more intuitive to use, more useful, and better integrated with vanilla mechanics.

williewillus

But the torch itself emits a redstone signal?
I'm pretty sure there was a reason to require the hourglass instead of redstone power but you'll have to ask Vazkii

Zach

Well, you'd only want it to trigger if it receives power from a side other than the one it's emitting power to, but that doesn't seem too problematic to implement, and seems like it would be fairly intuitive.

williewillus

That's pretty counterintuitive I feel like. "Input sides" in most vanilla and Botania components stay constant. If you have a torch in random mode the side you can supply input to basically changes every trigger.

vazkii

The main avenue for exploration here would be having the input being a repeater facing into it, much like how repeater locking works

Zach

I don't think there's any basis in vanilla for a component that only acts when hard powered (repeater, comparator, torch), but it could be a reasonable solution, since there would be no need to restrict the faces that can take input. I don't believe that the hourglass hard powers adjacent blocks, however - which would be a problem.

williewillus

I guess I don't see a big enough problem with the current way it works to justify breaking everyone's builds and forcing them to redesign things.

Zach

I wouldn't think it would break a lot of builds, since hard-powering is pretty uncommon to do on accident.