Add ability to GIVE things for free.

[GavJenks]

Currently the mod lets you set up an exchange for receiving donations in exchange for giving nothing, but for some reason does not allow you to give things in exchange for getting nothing. I don't know why this is asymmetric like that, but both would be useful in different circumstances.

As an example, I wanted this feature while making a keycarded doorway. I wanted you to be able to "donate" a keycard, then a comparator sees this and opens the door now that the chest has enough items in it. Then once you're inside, being "gifted" your keycard back, which would also re-close the door.

But wasn't able to since you can't gift things. It doesn't even work if I make a regular exchange and then remove the cost button from the chest.

Implementation would be simple - either just another chat command added like /iecg that interprets one item in the chest as a gift instead of a donation. Or simply make it still work if/when I remove the cost button.

[ttk2]

this should be fine

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:33 PM, GavJenks notifications@github.com wrote:

Currently the mod lets you set up an exchange for receiving donations in
exchange for giving nothing, but for some reason does not allow you to give
things in exchange for getting nothing. I don't know why this is asymmetric
like that, but both would be useful in different circumstances.

As an example, I wanted this feature while making a keycarded doorway. I
wanted you to be able to "donate" a keycard, then a comparator sees this
and opens the door now that the chest has enough items in it. Then once
you're inside, being "gifted" your keycard back, which would also re-close
the door.

But wasn't able to since you can't gift things. It doesn't even work if I
make a regular exchange and then remove the cost button from the chest.

Implementation would be simple - either just another chat command added
like /iecg that interprets one item in the chest as a gift instead of a
donation. Or simply make it still work if/when I remove the cost button.

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[rourke750]

You could set it up to input / output the same item and I believe that by placing a block then button like so : https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b64e37df3c8ebb8396692940eaf031bd5406aca6/687474703a2f2f696d6775722e636f6d2f4f51616f6156752e706e67
You can trigger a redstone signal.

[GavJenks]

Rourke that would work (with a complicated T toggle and timer or something) for the door. I imagine there are other uses though, especially if exchanges are logged, my other suggestion which it seems like somebody coded already. Because then that would work like a dispenser for free whatever, but still let you log it to see if some asshole took ALL the free stuff, for example.