I'm currently scratching my head trying to come up with a Minecrafty name for such a device, and wanted to put it out there in case anyone had any ideas. At present, my mind seems to be stuck on technical terms such as "actuator" and "servo", when I'd much rather have something more medieval/fantasy/steam-punk/BTW.FlowerChild wrote: The idea would be to play off the concept already found in the powered rail recipe that gold acts as an interfacing element to get redstone to do some form of "work". So, I was thinking of creating some kind of "servo" item (obviously, that's not what it would be called as that's very un-Minecrafty) that would consist of redstone and gold, and would then be used in all block recipes that involve such work, instead of just redstone dust.
Stuff like pistons, iron doors, dispensers, etc.
I think such a change, if done right, would not only make gold more valuable, but would also help to resolve a lingering design hole in MC with regards to why powered rails are gold based, and turn that from more of a design-exception to a general gameplay "rule", kinda like what I just did with redstone in all redstone block recipes.
Thoughts?