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Description
No limits to creativity. Wiring stuff shouldn't be annoying !

What is a "gate" ?

A gate is a component in ingame electronics circuits. You put them between your switches and your lights to do some cool stuff.

There are plenty of them in Starbound.

They take one (or more) inputs, do a thing, and have one (or more) outputs. They can be used for all sorts of stuff; like making a door that opens when you press 4 buttons in the right order, or having the lights of a long hallway with two switches turn on whenever you toggle one of them, regardless of the state of each other.

That's how computers and calculators are made ! Basically the most useful thing.

I hated that they had a price. Instead of being just fun, they became kind of a luxury and an annoying one to make.

If I had made Starbound I'd have made those free, as a reward for players who knew what the hell to do with them. It's already complicated enough to use them ! GO NUTS !
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JsmooveHD 2 Sep, 2016 @ 11:07pm 
how do u get to it
💖 Officer Hotpants 💖 27 Aug, 2016 @ 7:42pm 
@vinchenzojackal&shoon:
It makes the logic gate wiring items free to craft.
VinchenzoTheJackal & Shoon 27 Aug, 2016 @ 5:39pm 
Better explanation and description would be nice... I'm no simpleton, but I only partially understand the point of this mod.
RedEmRa 27 Aug, 2016 @ 5:34pm 
Cool

( So this mod is a builders wet dream, Right? )
Yarillo  [author] 27 Aug, 2016 @ 3:32pm 
Gates ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7UruO6BGq0&t=13s

Say, IRL, you have a long corridor in your house with ceiling lights. You have two switches, one on each side of the corridor. Flip a switch, it's on. You get to the other side, flip the second switch, boom: it stays on. Why ?

First switch is ON, second is ON, (ON + ON = on) light still receives current, it stays ON. This sucks. It's also called an OR gate.

So, you use a logic gate. An XOR gate, in this case.

"Outputs current if any BUT NOT BOTH of the inputs are on"

So you do that. You're in the corridor, the light is off, so you flip a switch (ON xor OFF = on) get to the other end, flip the other and the light turns off (ON xor ON = off).

Now, no matter the state of the light/switches, it doesn't matter, this works. Toggle a switch, light also toggles.

We teached electrons to do maths with gates. That's how every calculator works. Basically the most useful thing
RedEmRa 27 Aug, 2016 @ 2:45pm 
So what do you use this for exactly?