Magitech Overview

Basics of magitech. How to place pipes, bridges, and I/O explained.

Getting started

Building mode is highly recommended for the use of the logic system. You can access it when you create a new character.

On building mode you can:

• copy and paste areas of blocks and objects
  
• share areas copied: they are stored in the clipboard as text
  
• import structures from text in base64
  
• drop any item without having to craft it
  
• use infinite amount of items
  
• place objects far away the player
  
• use commands to, move the camera freely, stop time…

Hold C to copy an area. You can see a white rectangle on the selection. Paste with V, erase with N.

Warning: the selection rectangle is visible only on zoom x1 (bug).

[Event mods]Part 1 : Building Mode - Advanced features 

A Guide for Planet Centauri

By: onilink_

This guide describes advanced functionality on the build mode, such as the commandline interface, room import and export, community sharing and creation helper tools.

First create the magitech craft table with:

/drop pc_soul_craft_table

And generate some ressources to craft the objects:

/drop pc_block_glass 999

Connections

Pipes connect gates. You cannot connect two gates or devices if there is not at least one intermediate pipe. Pipes allow light to pass through, with the exception of the opaque black pipes which are used for specific cases such as displays.

A pipe just connect Outputs to Inputs, don’t contains any souls, and instantaneously propagate a signal. If there is a signal, the pipe will glow. The color of the light will indicate approximately the value of the signal.

A signal can be a binary value (on/off), or a number, like an “analog” signal. Two signals can be combined to sum this number.

Manual pipes

By default the pipes connect in each direction, but in the same style as the slopes for the blocks, there is a widget to choose different types of pipes (on to top left of the screen when a pipe is selected on the hotbar).



Manual pipes allows you to gain some ground by placing different pipes side to side.

Bridges

Bridges allows you to cross two pipes. Just press R on a pipe to create a bridge.



Important:

• Two bridges side by side will not let the signal flow.
  
• A bridge in input or output of a gate will not let the signal flow.

Input and output types

The color of IO determine it’s type:

• Red: Input that can consume souls
  
• Orange: Readonly input
  
• Green: Binary output
  
• Blue: Standard “analog” output

When you want to create digital circuit, for digital inputs prefer orange inputs to red inputs. Orange inputs will never miss an input signal as they are readonly, and read the signals before they can be consumed.

Red inputs depend on the order of the circuit and can gives unexpected results. They are mainly used as “powering” inputs.

Here is an example of XOR gate that uses AND gates with red inputs.
The first time you will trigger the inputs, the AND gates will consume one soul and store it on their internal buffer, and therefore the outputs will be incorrect.

Here is an example of XOR gate that uses AND gates with orange inputs.
It works perfectly even the first time, unlike the other example.

Try it yourself

Basic XOR:

CENTeNrtlTFOw0AQRf/M7I5twjXihku44Tgp6BDiIjT4EIg0KXOwzfyxZCkdUWhAtrxPX57ZP/Yv1k
8A+lge6yBAa/1OWnu9WTWqDT/HN/ASgfNqrWrgfVVLrNfqjcpXlX1bjjfiCDzLlsP9mLYgfy3Icx4B
49++p/GffAYP5D1EPxQPJVmN7EgUmYN1eS7BwSq1FRL6FVUDtUa/oGMnJB0sHYy70LEfLp9BTV3p8+
jca1pPnFVmVVRWzekzlPQp7Byc2rp080IfU070rFb6uOZ0GN9KkZ7pv/x2LiTWVwg=

Readonly XOR:

CENTeNrtlD1OA0EMhZ899kw04Ryh4BJpcqcohCqnoMohgCKi5GATP28URBeJNKDdn6dvPd63nlfsE4
DF5d4LMMZiKWNs70KDNMtN8g4cMn8DNM8xnvnspP2VpnR/0o5Ur5R9L982c7y3ywewkTmH38t6DvJu
QX6BsPrb13r1T7YRu8AjWnnV+MXWz1BHcC/KivlRFc3I1U7BXoMfjJWuoYLmXPWsOH067I399Ckq9L
SWb0motHR2cjW6idNBSqGba1bY36ucolPSU6cJ81uWlVJTJTUnLFztkpOYHtnJGWqlm6Bwquk4A8pK
Yt8=

Powering

Many gates, like NOT, requires a power input. But that does not mean that they will consume souls. This kind of gates have generally an internal buffer, that will requests souls from the power input. But when this internal buffer is full, the gate should not request any souls, except if the souls on the outputs are “consumed” by another device afterwards.

A well-designed logic circuit will not consume souls after starting.

Examples

Magitech Logic Circuits 

A Guide for Planet Centauri

By: onilink_

Magitech is a powerfull ancient technology that allows you to create logic circuits. In this guide I provide you some copyable magitech circuits templates that you can use in building mode, or copy by hand.