Stopwatch for timing things

[TeamDman]

user says (discord link) that they want a for-loop so that they can check if many casting basins have insufficient liquid to finish cooling something like an ingot.

Teamy — 7:34 PM
do you know if different fluids cool at different rates, or does an ingot always take a fixed amount of ticks to cool?
an easy way to do it would be to have one manager that is every redstone pulse do => fill casts and have a repeater chain to delay into a second manager for every redstone pulse do => drain extra fluids from casts into trash/tank such that the second manager ticks after the time it would take for things to cool

sounds like a monitor tool would be useful to see the contents per tick of an inventory like

0 empty
1 empty
2 fluid::liquid_iron
3 fluid::liquid_iron
...
25 fluid::liquid_iron
26 item::iron_ingot

my original idea was to have it be something you could place on slots (like in the ctrl+i overlay) in a block's gui but for things that have no gui like casting basins there would need to be a way for it to still work

Adding a stopwatch item that could bind to blocks and gui slots and, when active, would log the contents of the binded things every tick.

From this, we could deduce the time it takes for a furnace to smelt an item, for a casting basin to solidify an ingot, or other things.

The UX is a bit complicated for GUI behaviour, we want the user to be able to hover a slot and perform some action (while holding the stopwatch item?) that will toggle the bound-ness of the hovered slot. This has potential conflicts with normal click-to-move-items-around behaviours.

Then we also need a way to be able to start and stop the stopwatch.

Then we also need a way to view the stopwatch history.

The stopwatch should track more than one start-stop history.

Sample usage (gui)

1. Open furnace gui
2. Pick up stop watch item from player inventory
3. Hover furnace input slot with stop watch item
4. Shift-click furnace slot with held stop watch item
5. A blue overlay is added to the slot to signal that it is now bound
6. Hover furnace output slot
7. Shift-click
8. A blue overlay is added to the output slot
9. left-click to place the stop watch back in the player inventory
10. The blue overlays only show while the stopwatch is hovered or picked up
11. Shift-leftclick the stopwatch toggles the stopwatch from stopped to started state, the bound slots and the stopwatch are now green and show even when the stopwatch is not hovered
12. Wait
13. Shift-leftclick the stopwatch toggles it to stopped state, the slots go blue again and only show when hovering the stopwatch now

• The stopwatch tooltip shows how many ticks have elapsed
• Shift-rightclick the stopwatch opens a GUI where the player can view the previous captures, clicking a capture opens a text editor that contains the contents of the slots at each tick

Sample usage (block)

1. Right click a block to toggle bind it
2. right click air to start/stop stopwatch
3. open gui and shift-rightclick stopwatch to get the timing info

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Goals:

• Easy repeated measurements
• GUI slot measurements (menus/containers)
• World slot measurements (capabilities)
• Structured textual output

[TeamDman]

Crafting recipe involving a vanilla clock and a repeater or something idk