RUST 101: Electricity - Base Lockdown Circuit 

When people started asking for explanations on the circuits I was like oh shit this is going to be complicated lol... This was the best way I could come up with and thought it worked pretty well. Definitely a lot easier to understand than just me rambling with viewers having no idea what part I'm even talking about lol.

@Justa Burner that's EPIC

Thanks! :)

Thanks! :) Yeah I'm not sure why it doesn't use that 1 power but it's been like that from the start so I'm not sure whether it's intended or not because surely they would have fixed it by now..

Thanks! :)

No worries! Thanks for the feedback! :)

No worries Nycee! Glad I could help! :)

Oooh nice one cloud! I hadn't even thought of using another sensor that's brilliant!!

No worries! :)

Aww thanks! :)

Ooh I like it!! I'm extremely excited to get into the smart components.. already got the app and have been playing with it on staging lol.

Thanks! I'm really glad my stuff helps people, would be a bit shit if it didn't lol.

I think a lot of people just don't understand them. Like the or / and switches etc are nice and simple because their functionality is in their name. Where as with an XOR people see it and are like wtf is XOR lol. I'm curious to know how you're implementing them as an and switch or blocker though. I wouldn't have thought you could use them as an and switch because it'd send power through when only 1 line inputs power.

@@Malonik I might do a quick video about how versatile they are, if it can give you inspiration for the Power Minute series 🙂

Lol glad I could help. :)

Yeah a lot of people don't realize that which to be honest is completely fair. I would have expected them to use 1 power and for a long time thought they did until I tried one lol. Another funny little electricity thing is that you don't need to power a pressure pad if you're just wanting it to trigger 1 thing. Not sure why but hey it works lol.

Oh nice! I hadn't thought of external tc's! Though wouldn't it have to be a multi TC base rather than just external tc's for that to work?

Evil Wurst's recent video on external TCs would help. Raiders can't place a TC of their own unless they raid each exernal TC.

@@The578unit Ah yep, I'm still yet to actually try out the multi TC stuff. I know it's awesome but I'm usually way too lazy lol.

Yeah that's fair enough, it's annoying as hell that the for controller is really a door toggle rather than a controller lol.

No worries! :)

Yeah I was wondering this as well. Guess depending on the base it would be unlikely that both could be set at the same time before at least one signal was sent first?

Oh nice! I always forget about the broadcaster!

@@Malonik www.rustrician.io/?circuit=394cb316d15d6a61853833dd65bc456e

my version of a DELAY, perfect for trap bases... couldnt find anything else. Do you know a better solution?

Yeah absolutely! I went with branches because I didn't know how many door controllers Nycee was actually wanting so the 3 was just an example and the branches covers them incase they need way more or a weird amount of them. :)

No worries! :)

It's such a helpful component once you get it! :)

Thanks! :)

Thanks for the feedback! That's definitely the plan and a big part of why we're working on those power minutes. But I've got a bunch of people wanting a bunch of circuits at the same time lol.

@@Malonik well good luck to you. looking forward to whatever comes next

@@Shane4457 Thanks! :)

I do that exact circuit often for my boat house! We actually have it rigged up so it works both in and out and shuts behind you. I can definitely do a video on that one. :)

Malonik Sounds cool! I think it’s one of those circuits that even people uninterested in electronic bits and bobs can use

@@scuffedrock Yeah for sure and it's really not a hard circuit so should be a fairly easy vid. :)

Yeah absolutely! So long as your power supply is stable to avoid the issue where splitters throw away extra power lol. I just went with branches so it can be expanded and implemented easily into bases with lots of doors. :)

Yeah a lot of people don't. It's a massive flaw with them but frustratingly it's inevitable without a multi TC base which will likely eventually get patched.

Raft as in the game? The song is called For Study Documentary and it's on motion array so a dev could have bought it for a game lol.

Malonik ye raft as in the game I just spent like 20 minutes trying to find the exact song out of the 5 tracks I can’t locate it but it’s whatever, keep up the good work even though it’s a 5 day old video u still reply to everybody’s comments, truly a hardworking youtuber

Lol I still reply to comments that are made on year old videos. Wouldn't have it any other way. :)

Malonik I see I see are you ever going to go into the big rust building scene, I’d like to see how u could lay traps around the base or your ideas but gday man

You're not the only one! Glad I could help! :)

Yeah you absolutely can go splitter if you're just wanting the 3 door controllers. Only reason I went branch was so it's easy for people to implement if they've got way more doors. :)

Nice one! That's a fantastic little circuit!

@@Malonik Thanks :) I just realized my 3rd branch on the left is redundant but no biggie. Really nice video btw, clear explanations and you taught me that XOR switches don't use power, keep up the good work!

Quick question, if your circuit branches to a blocker and a timer (connected to the block current input) will the timer prioritize and create a countdown to activation, or will all components activate simultaneously?

You can definitely do this, even though it's going to be a hassle. What I would recommend is having separate circuits for the seperate functions. You make this circuit + battery backup cause of the solar panels, and you find the other circuits too, and also give them battery backups. The easiest one is by far the light circuit. Use as many solar panels you need, combine with root combiners, and then send the power to a battery of your preference. Then connect the output of the battery to the input of a blocker. To block the passthrough, either use a separate solar panel, or before you connect the power source to the battery, branch out 2 power into the block passage input. The output of the blocker should support all the lights, that will automatically only be on when the solar panels send no power. I'm on my phone, so sorry if any of this is confusing/poorly formatted

Sounds like you're overwhelming yourself, keep things as simple as possible when it comes to electricity and especially implementing multiple things. Have an electrical branch chain from your main power and each branch off is a new project/circuit. The lights are particularly easy because you all you need to do is put a blocker before the lights and run a solar panel into the block socket. Then when it loses sunlight it'll turn your lights on. The turret traps are just a sensor into door controller and if you're wanting to save power and not run the turrets constantly the sensor and mains power into an and switch then branch out to the door controllers and turrets. The clock I haven't done, mostly because without admin you can't get the current server time and it'd shit me knowing it's not accurate lol.

I want the base to go into defense mode as the internal alarm goes off. Hopefully preventing raiders from coming and leaving the turreted area

Only because door controllers didn't have passthroughs when I made it lol.

Not that I know of? When I was testing it all 4 of the sensors were detecting me and going off and it worked fine.

​@@Malonik I was thinking that in theory because of the exclusive nature of XOR if there is another signal it would cancel up the other. so hypothetically if two signals were to happen at the same time then they would cancel each other out failing to push through a pulse to trigger the memory cell to switch on the lockdown. but that might not case in actuality if thats what your tests show - i would interested to check into that myself if there is something useful to exploit there. i know electricity doesnt flow instantly but takes more time if it has multiple components to travel so maybe there is something like that going on - which in this case could be useful. (I made a self turning off generator turret circuit for a friend who loves cave bases but i could only make it work if i slowed down part of the circuit by adding additional components to slow the signal down enough to keep the whole thing on long enough to get all the other components to function.)

@@SirDominic Yeah they don't seem to work the way I would assume a XOR should.. But they've been in since the start of electricity so I'm guessing it's working as they intended at the very least lol.

you are correct in theory but Rust doesn't always work according to plan lol. As long as your sensors aren't placed in direct line of sight of each other and the raider simultaneously (which would be impossible with a little bit of planning and require a ton of luck on their part) then one will trigger the circuit before the other and it'll work.

Yea I had the same question. Nice, in theory it shouldn’t work if both sensors are going off.

Yeah absolutely! That's actually how this circuit works so if any one of those sensors get set off they'll trigger all the doors. I put them near each other in this vid for simplicity sake when explaining it but actually implementing it into a base you'd spread them out around it. If you're just wanting the 1 sensor and you want it to open the doors you can simplify it a lot too. Like mains power and sensor into an and switch and then the and switch into a branch chain that goes to all your doors. Include unauthed and exclude authed on the sensor. :)

@@Malonik thank you my dude. 5K hours and fucking still have rough time with electric. My electric and PvP LOL. I'm not horrible at PVP but I am much less better than 5K or player should have. I spend my time building fortifying can grinding for loot.

@@GrandpaRust I'm much the same but only 3.3k hours, occasionally I'll totally fluke some crazy play but for the most part I spend my time building and farm botting lol. I wouldn't beat yourself up on not knowing the electricity stuff, it really is it's own monster and the only way you learn it is by plugging crap in and going oh.. that didn't work.. why? Lol

Only thing I don't like about that is if they get TC they can open whatever doors they have access to the door controllers for.

Yeah that's fair enough, as I said I don't think most people even think of the battery trick anyway. I just can't stand the idea of them getting more without using booms lol.

Open doors will close and closed doors will open for a second and then close. :)

Hmm... NEW ANSWER... Invite a little naked in for some free loot... lock them in a room with a switch and a window so they can see out... tell them you'll only feed them if they act as a blocker with a solar panel.

@@Malonik lololol. That is extraordinary really helpful.

Yeah for sure if you've just got the 3 door controllers. I went with the branches incase people are wanting to hook up more doors so they can just keep chaining them in.

The splitter would work for this example but that's exactly it, it's an example. I didn't know how many door controllers nyceee wanted so I went with 3 but I used branches incase they've got a bunch of doors or even a weird amount of doors. Also check out the power minute on splitters, they have some really negative features if your power supply fluctuates.

Works the same way, so long as at least 1 gets triggered the circuit will kick in. Only difference being if 2 got triggered it'd send 2 power through instead of 1.

@@Malonik ok, maybe it's too early for my little brain, but wouldn't the XOR switches cancel eachother if ALL of them get triggered? it's not impossible to have your base surrounded

Personally I wouldn't. Hell I won't even use door controllers as I say in the vid. But someone asked me if I could do a circuit for it and well, I could, so I figured sure why not help them out lol. :)

Yep! Nice! :)

I think moriz beat you to first lol.

@@Malonik i know. Just giving the genz y&z hard time for always writing that shit lol.

@@GrandpaRust Roflmao I love it!

@@Malonik yes bro. Us GenXrs were the first to master the art of internet trolling. Started in those chat rooms circa 95/96. Back when i was a teen.

@@Malonik lol. God Damn i sounds old.