Uninsulated cable

Use
Cables are a very important part of every system you make. They are the things that connect everything you make, allowing power to flow from your generators to your lamps and other consumers . Uninsulated cables provide a somewhat more dangerous method for doing this. If electricity is flowing through these cables you (and all other living things) will take some damage.

This cable has a rather low resistance, which means that it won't absorb much of the power that flows from the generators to the consumers. This allows you to use insulated cables in pretty long connections without losing a lot of your original power.

Dangers
These cables are not insulated, this means that if you touch them, the power flowing through these cables will also flow through you. For very low amounts of power, this is not dangerous, but for higher amounts, these cable can quickly kill anything that touches them. That's why it is always very important to make sure that there is no power flowing through your cables when you are working with them. You can easily do this by stopping the power with a switch or something like that.

Although uninsulated cables can be very dangerous for yourself, they can also prove to be very useful for keeping unwanted guests outside of your house. Laying a cable around your house will kill all the creepers, skeletons and other monsteres that come too close. By controlling the current of power, for example with a switch, you can make sure that you don't get caught in your own traps.

Connecting cables


Cables can only connect to blocks that are directly next to them but not to blocks that are diagonally to them. If any electrical block (cable, consumer, generator ...) is then placed next to the cable, it will automatically connect to that block.

Be aware that some blocks can only connect to cables from a certain side, lamps for example can only be connected to a cable from their bottom.