Personal Wireless Rail Signal

[dpacbach]

Help prevent the frequently-nerve-wracking death-by-train by introducing a new technology called “Personal Wireless Rail Signal” that allows a (late-game) player to craft a special signal that can be inserted into armor and that causes normal rail signals to interpret a player standing on tracks (or near tracks) as they would a train on that same section of tracks. This way, a player can approach and run across tracks freely without worry.

I think this should be a late-game item and expensive to build to ensure that the player first gets to experience the joy of train death before being relieved of it.

(as a side question, can one can approximate this now over a section of tracks by wiring a signal to a one of the automatic gates?)

Thanks in advance for the great responses

[quyxkh]

Circuit behavior for rail signals and gates does let you make good crossing gates.

one way to do it

Rail signals don't transmit state if they're wired closed. Gates do transmit state even if they're wired open. So set the entry signal on the crossing block to send R for both red and yellow, and to close if G≠0, and set the gates to send G and open if R=0. The gates will stay open so long as there's no train coming, the signal will be forced red when there's a player looking likely to enter the tracks.