Are You a Redstone Engineer or an Interior Decorator?
Furnishings First, Always
Wiring is somebody else's hobby. You build rooms you want to be inside: warm light, considered materials, a ceiling that repays looking up at. What you are doing is composition, and it is a harder skill than it gets credit for, because a room that feels right has no single component you can point at as the reason. Nothing here needs fixing. If you ever fancy a small crossover, start with lighting, since a lamp that comes on as you walk in is decoration that just happens to be a circuit.
“I do not wire anything, but my ceilings are worth looking up at.”Decorator With the Lights Wired
Your builds look lived in and a few things quietly work. You will run a circuit where it earns its place, for a door, a lamp or a hidden entrance, but you would never let a mechanism dictate a floor plan. This is the most liveable end of the spectrum and the reason your rooms actually feel like rooms rather than housings. The natural next step is one machine you allow yourself to show off: something visible, humming away behind glass, treated as furniture rather than plumbing.
“My lights are wired, my floor plan is not up for negotiation.”Engineer With Taste
You want it to work and you want it to look intentional. Mechanisms get panelled, cabling gets routed rather than sprawled, and the sorting system fits the room it lives in because you designed both at the same time. This is the hardest combination to pull off and the one other players quietly copy from you. The trap is scope, since hiding the machinery roughly doubles the build time, so pick the two or three systems that deserve the treatment and let the rest be honest about what they are.
“Everything works and none of it looks like scaffolding.”Circuit Brain
The build is the machine and the machine is the point. You leave everything exposed because the layout is the interesting part, and a room that does eleven things beats a room that looks pleasant at eleven o'clock. Players like you produce the designs everybody else adapts, and half the tricks in general circulation started as somebody's overengineered late-night experiment. One suggestion only: put a floor and a light in it. Even a substation is nicer to visit when you can see where you are standing.
“My build does eleven things and looks exactly like a substation.”
