Minecraft – Vertical redstone crossroads

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I have 2 redstone signals that are unavoidably going to cross each other vertically (i.e. One is horizontal and the other moves vertically through it).

I ideally need a way to have these signals pass through each other without any signal pollution.

If this is not possible in a 1 block wide space then I can find some other way of creating this circuit but if there is a way that will work in a tiled design then I'd like a schematic such as those created at http://mordritch.com/mc_rss/.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT 1:
Schematic of what I had for 1 layer. I'm only space limited in that this needs to be tile-able in a row of directly adjacent copies or a repeating pattern of 2.

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I have come up with a working design using slimeblocks:

The vertical line is done using a sticky piston pushing slime blocks up and down. You'll need three slime blocks to prevent the horizontal line from powering the piston due to quasi-connectivity.

The horizontal line crosses the slime blocks. The repeater has to be placed on the far side of the redstone blocks, and set to two ticks. This prevents the signal from turning off while the slimeblocks are moved. Thanks to ash4fun for the idea with the higher repeater delay.

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Load up this schematic using MCEdit.

enter image description here It is a block transporter, pressing the button triggers the pistons to transport the block horizontally.

Sometimes, the block will traverse the entire system:

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Sometimes it will stop at a random point some way along.

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Minecraft – How to power a row of droppers efficiently from side or bottom

The most resource efficient way I can come up with to power a horizontal line of droppers is this

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with the redstone line on the left being connected to a clock. This works because the repeaters strongly power the dropper they are pointing into causing the droppers to the left and right to be indirectly powered.

The vertical line of droppers is powered as described in this Youtube video, with a comparator being used to send a (inverted by a redstone torch) signal to a vertical stack of redstone torches powering repeaters pointing into every 2nd vertical dropper.

With regards to the specific situation you are in the most resource efficient way to get the mobs from the exit of the spawner to the 'home' area would be to bring them up high enough using a mob elevator (a 1x1 tube filled with alternating water blocks and signs will cause the mobs to swim themselves up to the top) to a point where they can be dropped down the required number of blocks.

The only pitfall with this type of system is ensuring that the mobs fall a consistent distance everytime. All that is required to do this is to ensure that the water stream at the top of the elevator is set up like this

XXXXXXXXXX
X        X
X~~~~~S  X
XSXXXXX  X

(where ~ = water and S is a sign)

So that mobs get pushed into the drop shaft by other mobs pushing against them instead of directly by a water stream.

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