Autocrafter that emits a redstone signal to request producing an output

[raoulvdberge]

I still need a good name for this, and need to determine if this goes in a separate block, but it would be cool if you could:

1. Specify an output resource in the autocrafter
2. Make it available for autocrafting
3. And when requesting, the corresponding would emit a redstone signal
4. ... until the requested amount of that output is returned

[Nodrance]

I would imagine it would be a separate block, similar to a detector. Maybe call it a redstone crafter? Or a farm crafter? Or something?

[raoulvdberge]

"Detecting Autocrafter" ?

I like reuse in naming and we already have the Detector.

[jonatjano]

I think it could be a pattern variant where you set the redstone power (default to 15) and the expected item someone who can do redstone could use the 9 patterns that way

[RoboXGamer]

Could it be that if we have detector and add crafting upgrade in it then it can do this as well just thoughts

[QuickBASIC]

Why not just make it a function of the existing autocrafter and roll it into locking modes and use processing patterns with empty inputs and only outputs (or could have input maybe.)

"Emit redstone signal until output received."

"Emit redstone pulse then wait for output."

This gives it the functionality of triggering a device or block that doesn't need input with redstone while also allowing it to be used to turn the machines it's pointed to on (if supported) with a redstone signal while also inputting items.

Alternatively a new item the "Redstone Upgrade" in a autocrafter could emit redstone when the craft is in progress like the Crafting Emitter from Requestify.

The Redstone Upgrade could maybe be used for other things for example it could also emit redstone from Importers when importing, Exporters when exporting, a comparator style fullness for External Storage and Disk Drives, and Transmitters and Receivers when connected.

Also as described an importer with proposed "Redstone Upgrade" would actually be pretty useful for crafters that support actions on pulses because it would be RS2's way of saying "Hey I took your output" and it giving the pulse could trigger the machine again (as described this would work with the Vanilla crafter which could be an interesting early game alternative to Autocrafters).