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MineMaarten
Add a Central Control Station
A block or item which when interacted with, shows you a minecraft map like overview of the rail network, with info about the signals and carts (and their path).
I left a post on CurseForge in relation to this, but I'll copy it here for reference:
This is a cool mod. I noticed the post on YouTube about a master control panel, and came up with an idea for it: allowing control using OpenComputers.
Basically the control panel will signal events (signal changed, path blocked, path cleared, etc.) and programs can act on those to perform various actions, such as using a robot to empty a chest minecart when it stops at a station and take the items elsewhere for sorting.
The control panel can also have methods, ~~although I can't think of any that would fit right now~~.
EDIT: I came up with some more ideas:
A method that allows for dynamically setting the destination of a cart would be useful, as one could use a Transposer (Or an Adapter with the appropriate upgrades) from OC to determine what is in the cart, and the computer could set the cart's destination based on that. The built in routing would take care of the rest.
A method to get the current destination would also be handy.
Carts would have to have either an ID or a name (I think a textual name would be better) for this to work.
This would allow for very complex automation in, say, a factory of some sort.
I have plans regarding routing depending on the contents of carts already, so with that I don't think computer support would allow for more stuff. If you'd like to do something when a cart arrives at a station, detector tracks work fine still, imo.
So maybe it could be a thing for in the future, but for now this will be very low priority and will not be a thing soon. I mean, the mod is in alpha, and the plans I have for it natively aren't even in yet, let alone inter-mod support to allow for more.
I'm fine with that. Having the ability to control it from a computer would allow having a central point where everything is handled, but not having it is only a minor hassle.
Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see how this mod evolves over time.
May I suggest a soft dependency? https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/hologui Would be awesome to have this up on a wall in a control room with the rail network.
