14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that Minecraft isn't the only sandbox game where geeks are building amazing stuff, as one particularly devoted user managed to create a calculator that converts binary into decimal and displays the result on the screen in Terraria.
There have been some pretty impressive computers built in Mojang's building and survival game Minecraft, mainly due to the fact that the game supports some mad circuitry crafting through its redstone block system.
Terraria, the two-dimensional counterpart to Minecraft, has a more rudimentary system in place, but this didn't stop YouTube user Joe Price from having a go at putting together some complex wiring mechanics.
Developer Re-Logic has kept updating the game since its initial release back in 2011, expanding it with a wealth of content and making all of this possible. The studio is also working on Terraria: Otherworld, a similar but expanded experience set in a new world, due out later this year.
Engineering often feels like magic
Price created a working calculator that can convert binary numbers into decimal and even display the results on the screen, by using a glitch known as hoiking. The glitch was introduced in Terraria's 1.2 patch and involves an effect that pushes players and objects through solid areas instantaneously.
If an object in the game is on or inside a sloped block, then it gets forced towards the top of the slant, which means that, if you line up multiple slopes, you can force a player or non-playable character from one block into the next, pushing stuff through pre-built paths.
When you also set up various buttons for the items and characters to hit along the way, you have yourself a neat system where you can take the input and interpret it as binary, convert it into decimal, and then do some more witchcraft and have it pop up on a display.
If you want to get more information on how the calculator works, you can give the very informative video below a watch.
If you want to gain further knowledge of transporting stuff rapidly using sloped tiles, or hoiking, you can also give the detailed post on the matter on the Terraria forums a read.
