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[PsychoDuck]

This is still a work in progress. It has no practical use by itself.
English is not my first language so I'm sorry if this looks confusing.

What it is

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RedID is a way of sending and receiving rednet messages to a Server or other computers that are outside a computer's range.
This system works with "Antennas" that resend the messages they receive to the next antenna/computer.
RedID uses something I call NetID which is basically the address of each computer.

The Server's NetID will always be it's computer ID. Example: 3
Antennas connected directly to the Server will have their computer ID appended before the Server's NetID. Example: 5x3
Antennas and Computers connected to an Antenna will have their computer ID appended before the closest Antenna's NetID. Example: 6x5x3

If a computer with computer ID 9 connects to the Antenna with NetID 6x5x3, the computer's NetID will be 9x6x5x3.
That computer will send a message to computer 6.
Computer 6 will send a message to computer 5.
Finally, computer 5 will send the message to the server.

The server will do the same thing but in the opposite direction.

API

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I wrote an API to allow other programs to send and receive RedID messages. It can be found inside the APIs folder.

Download

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https://github.com/Leonardoas26/RedID

These programs include the Config API by ben657

[pielover88888]

hm, it appears that every idea i plan to code gets cranked out the next day.. anyway, that seems really good

[isavegas]

VERY nifty sounding! I'd imagine that this would work beautifully with email systems, automation, and whatnot, especially since it makes it FAR FAR easier to have a Master computer and/or server connect to a wide range of a world. I'll definitely give this a try. Only problem is that I tend to play single player mostly, and I don't know if my computer could handle the giant range of automation I want to build and attach to this (everything from a wheat farm powered by a skeleton spawner to a cake generator to several turtle replication factories.) ^^ Good work! I'll definitely be back to offer any suggestions or report bugs.