I absolutely love the pistons idea and its ingenuity. I just had a few ideas to add to the whole fiasco. We'll use as the piston.
Spiked Pistons
Or...
The spiked piston will damage you from 1 or all sides. This could be useful for traps and adventure maps.
I also use the spiked piston in a few other of my piston recipes.
Steamer Piston
:Flint and Steel:
This piston can be used as a retractable light. With the steamer piston, you could make intricate redstone-powered light systems. The steamer piston provides light a tad bit brighter than a torch. It doesn't have to be powered by anything.
Another optional idea:
The steamer piston makes the steam sound and prevents any rain within a 5 block radius from it.
Pressure Pistons
[Slime Piston]
You can mount any item on it. A presser, if you will. Like a flower press, but a...block press. You can also mount clocks, paintings, and compasses on it, which might be cool. Big Piston
This piston can be retracted up to 3 blocks. It can be toggled like the redstone-repeater length-wise. Not much else to say. It could be gold like the sticky piston in the original mod.
Hop Piston
Bounces you and objects up a certain velocity when powered. Every object is powered by gravity after being pushed by this. Used to make elevators and wave machines.
Miner Piston
[SpikedPiston]
I'm going on a limb with this idea, but the miner piston digs a 3x3 hole around where you placed it. It could dig something bigger, like a 5x5, due to the diamond pick, but an advantage to using your diamond pick on this is that the miner piston automatically compresses what's in a 3x3 space around it and brings all the drops to the bottom.
This idea would be awesome for quick map editing and lazy miners, though I have a feeling nobody's going to like this idea.
Mega Miner Piston
Branching off the last idea.
:Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: [SpikedPiston]
The mega miner piston digs a 7x7 hole around where you place it. Three advantages to using this one over the regular one.
A ) Your ores are already smelted at the bottom.
B ) Bigger and easier map editing.
C ) An even bigger hole.
Titan Piston
While it might be a weird design, it's useful nonetheless. The titan piston is a multi-use thing. Any user can pick it up and get there tasks done. Its two uses are...
A ) Mine blocks. When powered, it destroys a block. You can use a clock to continuously mine. If you had a 3x3 wall of these, you could easily mine a 3x3 tunnel.
[Note:] The miner piston can only dig down. The miner pistons and the titan pistons both have their advantages. I recommend using titan pistons to mine smaller areas.
[Note02:] Wait? What? I can you this to mine FOREVER? Nope. The thing has the durability of an iron pick.
B ) Start fires. If there's no block to break, the titan piston will catch fire to the block in front of it. If your titan piston was located behind your fire, you could turn it on with redstone, let it start up for a second, then catch your netherrack/log on fire! A redstone powered fireplace!
The titan piston gives off a very dim light.
Mechanical Piston
Retracts and pushes automatically as long as its being powered by redstone. Can be used to make auto-building things, generators, etc.
Mach Piston
Its pushing and pulling speed can be modified like a Big Piston and a redstone-repeater. It works like a regular piston, just with that feature. Can be used to make quicker generators or slower machines. Not sure, get creative; which most of you are. : )
Moar Stuff
Like these ideas? Put this in your signature!
[Edit:] Code doesn't seem to be working, but you can try. -.-
I'm also very open to more ideas! I'll add pretty much anything suggested! So uh...suggest.
Changelog
1.0 - Made thread.
1.01 - Fixed banner HTML herp.
1.02 - Resized banner.
1.03 - Resized banner down to right size, still telling me the picture is too big. Giving up for now.
1.04 - Changed a tad about the spiked piston.
1.05 - Changed "presser" piston to "pressure" piston.
I absolutely love the pistons idea and its ingenuity. I just had a few ideas to add to the whole fiasco. We'll use
Spiked Pistons
Or...
The spiked piston will damage you from 1 or all sides. This could be useful for traps and adventure maps.
I also use the spiked piston in a few other of my piston recipes.
Steamer Piston
This piston can be used as a retractable light. With the steamer piston, you could make intricate redstone-powered light systems. The steamer piston provides light a tad bit brighter than a torch. It doesn't have to be powered by anything.
Another optional idea:
The steamer piston makes the steam sound and prevents any rain within a 5 block radius from it.
Pressure Pistons
You can mount any item on it. A presser, if you will. Like a flower press, but a...block press. You can also mount clocks, paintings, and compasses on it, which might be cool.
Big Piston
This piston can be retracted up to 3 blocks. It can be toggled like the redstone-repeater length-wise. Not much else to say. It could be gold like the sticky piston in the original mod.
Hop Piston
Bounces you and objects up a certain velocity when powered. Every object is powered by gravity after being pushed by this. Used to make elevators and wave machines.
Miner Piston
I'm going on a limb with this idea, but the miner piston digs a 3x3 hole around where you placed it. It could dig something bigger, like a 5x5, due to the diamond pick, but an advantage to using your diamond pick on this is that the miner piston automatically compresses what's in a 3x3 space around it and brings all the drops to the bottom.
This idea would be awesome for quick map editing and lazy miners, though I have a feeling nobody's going to like this idea.
Mega Miner Piston
Branching off the last idea.
:Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel: :Flint and Steel:
The mega miner piston digs a 7x7 hole around where you place it. Three advantages to using this one over the regular one.
A ) Your ores are already smelted at the bottom.
B ) Bigger and easier map editing.
C ) An even bigger hole.
Titan Piston
While it might be a weird design, it's useful nonetheless. The titan piston is a multi-use thing. Any user can pick it up and get there tasks done. Its two uses are...
A ) Mine blocks. When powered, it destroys a block. You can use a clock to continuously mine. If you had a 3x3 wall of these, you could easily mine a 3x3 tunnel.
[Note:] The miner piston can only dig down. The miner pistons and the titan pistons both have their advantages. I recommend using titan pistons to mine smaller areas.
[Note02:] Wait? What? I can you this to mine FOREVER? Nope. The thing has the durability of an iron pick.
B ) Start fires. If there's no block to break, the titan piston will catch fire to the block in front of it. If your titan piston was located behind your fire, you could turn it on with redstone, let it start up for a second, then catch your netherrack/log on fire! A redstone powered fireplace!
The titan piston gives off a very dim light.
Mechanical Piston
Retracts and pushes automatically as long as its being powered by redstone. Can be used to make auto-building things, generators, etc.
Mach Piston
Its pushing and pulling speed can be modified like a Big Piston and a redstone-repeater. It works like a regular piston, just with that feature. Can be used to make quicker generators or slower machines. Not sure, get creative; which most of you are. : )
Moar Stuff
Like these ideas? Put this in your signature!
[Edit:] Code doesn't seem to be working, but you can try. -.-
It really helps get my ideas out 'n stuff! : D
I'm also very open to more ideas! I'll add pretty much anything suggested! So uh...suggest.
Changelog
1.0 - Made thread.
1.01 - Fixed banner HTML herp.
1.02 - Resized banner.
1.03 - Resized banner down to right size, still telling me the picture is too big. Giving up for now.
1.04 - Changed a tad about the spiked piston.
1.05 - Changed "presser" piston to "pressure" piston.