Here's an idea for a handy new item to complement pistons.
The piston extender is a wooden object two blocks large.
It would consists of a 1 block large hollow wooden sleeve that contains a 2 block long wooden block inside of it. One of those 2 blocks is always inside the hollow sleeve, one block outside. This inner wooden block can slide back and forth, changing which half is inside and which half is outside.
In this diagram, is the sleeve and is one half of the sliding wood block. is a piston.
Piston extenders could only be altered with a piston. When a piston (facing the right way) pushes the wooden block that half of it would slide into the sleeve and the other half of the block would pop out the other side.
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The sleeve is never moved, the only thing that alters is which side of the sleeve part has a block sticking out of it.
Multiple extenders in a row can push each other. For example this:
Would become this:
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An extender can also push non-extender blocks, just as if the piston was pushing itself. Effectively, this allows you to easily increase the reach of your piston as much as you like. Extender blocks would not count towards the maximum number of blocks a piston can move at one time.
Sticky pistons would also be able to pull extenders back out. And there should also be sticky piston extenders that can pull blocks back themselves, and would be sticky on both of their sides.
All together, this would be a powerful tool that would greatly improve pistons.
I think there is a limit to how far they can post (15 maybe?).
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You mean like multiple pistons stacked onto each other and when the first one is activated all others activate too?
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If it's so, it's a cool idea!
Almost, but not quite. The extender is basically like a piston that is always extended in one of two directions. And when one side goes in the other goes out.
It also isn't affected by redstone, it can only be adjusted by a piston or by another extender.
The advantage to this is that when you extend the piston, the entire column only grows in length by one block, as opposed to doubling in length if it was a chain reaction of multiple pistons (which has its own uses but is pretty different)
You mean like multiple pistons stacked onto each other and when the first one is activated all others activate too?
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If it's so, it's a cool idea!
Almost, but not quite. The extender is basically like a piston that is always extended in one of two directions. And when one side goes in the other goes out.
It also isn't affected by redstone, it can only be adjusted by a piston or by another extender.
The advantage to this is that when you extend the piston, the entire column only grows in length by one block, as opposed to doubling in length if it was a chain reaction of multiple pistons (which has its own uses but is pretty different)
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Shouldn't you wait till tomorrow when it comes out, (if they still plan to update to 1.7 tomorrow and release the pistons) and find out what their final result with them are?
The piston extender is a wooden object two blocks large.
It would consists of a 1 block large hollow wooden sleeve that contains a 2 block long wooden block inside of it. One of those 2 blocks is always inside the hollow sleeve, one block outside. This inner wooden block can slide back and forth, changing which half is inside and which half is outside.
In this diagram,
Piston extenders could only be altered with a piston. When a piston (facing the right way) pushes the wooden block that half of it would slide into the sleeve and the other half of the block would pop out the other side.
The sleeve is never moved, the only thing that alters is which side of the sleeve part has a block sticking out of it.
Multiple extenders in a row can push each other. For example this:
Would become this:
An extender can also push non-extender blocks, just as if the piston was pushing itself. Effectively, this allows you to easily increase the reach of your piston as much as you like. Extender blocks would not count towards the maximum number of blocks a piston can move at one time.
Sticky pistons would also be able to pull extenders back out. And there should also be sticky piston extenders that can pull blocks back themselves, and would be sticky on both of their sides.
All together, this would be a powerful tool that would greatly improve pistons.
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Almost, but not quite. The extender is basically like a piston that is always extended in one of two directions. And when one side goes in the other goes out.
It also isn't affected by redstone, it can only be adjusted by a piston or by another extender.
The advantage to this is that when you extend the piston, the entire column only grows in length by one block, as opposed to doubling in length if it was a chain reaction of multiple pistons (which has its own uses but is pretty different)
Almost, but not quite. The extender is basically like a piston that is always extended in one of two directions. And when one side goes in the other goes out.
It also isn't affected by redstone, it can only be adjusted by a piston or by another extender.
The advantage to this is that when you extend the piston, the entire column only grows in length by one block, as opposed to doubling in length if it was a chain reaction of multiple pistons (which has its own uses but is pretty different)
To reach farther, most likely.
But why? Just put the piston over there.
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Please no.