Mindustry: Allowing unloader to pick items from PowerBlock or CraftBlocks

[mayli]

This would enable some compact design of chaining power/craft blocks.

[laohuaji233]

意思就是卸载器可以从任何方块上提取对应物体?
you mean unloader can unload items from all blocks?

[Anuken]

This could be an interesting mechanic. I'll put up a poll tomorrow to see what everyone thinks about it.

[mayli]

I saw someone suggesting the unloader should unload from

• power generators
• craft blocks
  I've made the patch and it seems could leads to more compact designs. Yeah, let's make a poll.

[Anuken]

If I were to implement it, I would make all blocks have a unloadable variable that is set to true for nearly all blocks-- the sole exception would be things like routers, conveyors and junctions.

[mayli]

My patch is basically

public class PowerDistributor extends StorageBlock{
public class GenericCrafter extends StorageBlock{

Not sure if we need this feature for other blocks, but unloadable is more generic if we were going to do so.

[macimas]

That sounds like an eggcelent idea!

[Milinai]

Why aren't the conveyors connecting to the alloy smelters? Do you need unloaders to output from every single block now?

[Anuken]

That's because the implementation shown uses extends StorageBlock to apply unloadability, which makes them inherit the trait of not linking to conveyors. My implementation uses a different approach, which doesn't have that issue.