SPKZMC:Alternate Current
⚡ Alternate Current: Why Art3mis Abandoned Vanilla Redstone for a Smarter Future ⚡
This article is a satirical piece from the world of Art3mis. Any resemblance to real code is purely intentional and proudly open source.
Welcome to Art3mis, where redstone isn’t just a toy for nerds with too much time and not enough daylight—it’s infrastructure. And just like we wouldn’t build a real-world city using spaghetti wiring and duct-taped transformers, we’re not about to let our digital empire rely on Vanilla Redstone’s chaotic spaghetti logic either.
So we made the switch. We excommunicated Mojang’s power flow like it was a legacy circuit from a 1980s mall. In its place?
Alternate Current, a redstone engine so optimized, it makes Vanilla redstone look like it's running on potato batteries soaked in lag juice.
🧠 What is Alternate Current?
Alternate Current (AC) is not your grandpappy’s redstone. It’s a drop-in replacement for redstone dust logic that maintains near-Vanilla parity (so your fancy pulse extenders won’t break), but under the hood? It's got a whole new brain.
Instead of every dust particle having an existential crisis every time a lever is flipped, AC treats your redstone network like a coherent system. It builds a map of connected wires, finds out where the real power is coming from, and then logically—logically!—spreads that power across the network.
In Vanilla, redstone updates like a toddler with a sugar crash: panicky, recursive, and inconsistent. In AC? It’s more like an engineer calmly flipping switches on a control panel.
🚫 Why Vanilla Redstone Had to Go
Let’s get one thing straight. Vanilla redstone might work, but it does so with the grace and efficiency of a Windows Vista startup.
Here’s the crime scene breakdown:
- 42 block updates and 22 shape updates for a single wire’s power level change. That’s not optimization. That’s spam with extra steps.
- Recursive hell: Each wire updates in isolation. Think of it like a group chat where nobody reads the previous messages and everyone screams at once.
- Redundant updates: Vanilla wires send 6 updates to themselves, which is peak self-gaslighting.
- Order chaos (MC-11193): Wire update behavior depends on location in the world. This means a redstone machine works differently in one chunk than it does three blocks north. You’d have better consistency playing redstone roulette.
🌈 How Alternate Current Saves the Day
Here’s why Art3mis adopted Alternate Current like a stray cat with laser eyes:
✅ Efficient Power Calculation
- Instead of updating like it’s 1995, AC builds a whole-network view.
- Power spreads from external sources, not randomly.
- Every wire only checks its surroundings once or twice. In Vanilla? It overthinks every interaction like a sleep-deprived INTJ.
✅ Minimal Updates = Minimal Lag
- AC nukes 18 redundant block updates and 16 unnecessary shape updates.
- Block updates only occur after power has stabilized—no more updates during puberty stages.
- Updates across the entire grid are slashed by up to 20%, which is basically free TPS in anarchy terms.
✅ Predictable Order
- Instead of chaotic locational update order, AC respects power flow direction.
- Inspired by RedstoneWireTurbo, but without the dice roll.
- The result? You can debug and build complex machines that won’t betray you based on which way they’re facing. No more redstone trust issues.
🏛️ Why Art3mis Runs on Alternate Current
Because this isn’t your cousin’s survival server where everyone lives in dirt huts and redstone is for opening doors.
This is Art3mis—a chronically online anarcho-tech dystopia where TPS is sacred, and lag is a war crime.
We chose AC because:
- ✅ We host large-scale redstone contraptions—from sleep-cycle skip machines to nether chunk loaders. Vanilla redstone made those machines act drunk at best, malicious at worst.
- ✅ Redstone becomes predictable, which is crucial when the city’s water control station is run by a single piston T-flip-flop made by Abdul at 3AM.
- ✅ It gives us performance gains with zero player-visible difference, unless you’re a redstone purist. And if you are? We respect you. From afar. Quietly.
🧪 In Summary: Alternate Current = Redstone That Just Works™
Alternate Current is to Vanilla redstone what quantum entanglement is to Morse code.
In a world like Art3mis, where the server is trying to simulate a decentralized, cyberpunk society teetering on the brink of economic meltdown, every tick counts.
Alternate Current makes sure those ticks aren't wasted on redstone wire trying to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up.
Bonus Lore Flavor:
"Art3mis once ran on Vanilla Redstone.
Then the wires revolted.
We rebuilt, with logic."
— Excerpt from the Redstone Codex, Vol. III
