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[Uronym]

I'm curious about this:

If you lock a kitten in a 2x1 closet with pressure plates on both tiles, will the kitten move around and step on these pressure plates, making an extremely simple, compact, and easy-to-build repeater?

The kitten room:

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- and | = walls
P       = pressure plate

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About what speed would it go? Would a different animal be faster/slower at moving around? Do animals move around in confined spaces at all?

In my goblin pit, I have some goblins and badgers, both of which move around a lot. Maybe I could use them?

[MarcAFK]

Repeaters that use a creature will be random unless you find a way to drive them into a circuit. Goblins are good because they'll always want to flee through an open door, you just need the door linked to a pressure plate that closes it when they near it, also opening anotgher door which they will then path to. It then repeats, also note creatures have different speeds, even goblins will have very slightly different speeds, someone did some pretty complex tests of this while designing a dwarven computer, you should search the forum for that thread it's pretty interesting.

[Uronym]

Can you give me some links to resources where I can learn more about repeaters? I've already read the wiki, and found it really insufficient.

[MarcAFK]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91979.msg2568668#msg2568668

erm, i think there's a simple goblin repeater there,