You know how the old pistons from the mod were much more forceful than the ones we have in Vanilla Minecraft? I think the more powerful kind should have a place in the game as well. I was thinking something like this:
Redstone is basically electricity, and as we all know, electric motors are much more tame than internal combustion engines. So, why not have the option to use a block of TNT in place of redstone, like this:
When you send power to it, it extends hard enough to launch blocks and players. This may seem overpowered. I think that could be countered by making it so that the piston has to be adjacent to water, or else it explodes after a few seconds.
I don't know about your exact plans, but I like the idea of stronger pistons, maybe you should use the old piston mod if you are unhappy, maybe I will too.
edit: Danmarkdan has a great idea, I cannot wait for spike pistons, and would like to see them one day.
Hey, thanks for the reassurance, guys. I never know if what I'm saying sounds stupid to everyone but myself. It would be a pretty simple mod to make, and I'd do it myself but I'm too busy with school to teach myself Java. Maybe over Winter break.
On second thought, these pistons would make really overpowered, unrealistically compact TNT cannons. Instead of having one TNT Piston be its own block, how about surrounding them with iron on the crafting bench:
And that would make one cylinder. Then you take 6 cylinders and arrange them in two vertical rows to make a V6 block. Then you would craft special pistons like this:
And place them adjacent to a V6. When you right click on the V6 with a fuel item, it spews smoke and the piston goes ape for a few seconds.
The iron in the top row is to fortify the piston head against the great forces it endures. It has to be more durable than a weaksauce electric piston. The bottom-middle is replaced with iron because the power source is external. The V6 applies all the force, so the iron shaft extends all the way through the Piston.
I'm thinking a combination of minecart runways and power piston launchers can make a safe, fun, efficient, and hilarious fast travel system on servers. Just imagine, a network of floating Rail intersections and minecarts leaping across open space in between. You could fly over entire biomes in a matter of intensely cinematic seconds. There would be no more need for confusing to set up and boring to use teleportation plugins on servers!
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Redstone is basically electricity, and as we all know, electric motors are much more tame than internal combustion engines. So, why not have the option to use a block of TNT in place of redstone, like this:
When you send power to it, it extends hard enough to launch blocks and players. This may seem overpowered. I think that could be countered by making it so that the piston has to be adjacent to water, or else it explodes after a few seconds.
edit: Danmarkdan has a great idea, I cannot wait for spike pistons, and would like to see them one day.
And that would make one cylinder. Then you take 6 cylinders and arrange them in two vertical rows to make a V6 block. Then you would craft special pistons like this:
And place them adjacent to a V6. When you right click on the V6 with a fuel item, it spews smoke and the piston goes ape for a few seconds.
The iron in the top row is to fortify the piston head against the great forces it endures. It has to be more durable than a weaksauce electric piston. The bottom-middle is replaced with iron because the power source is external. The V6 applies all the force, so the iron shaft extends all the way through the Piston.
I'm thinking a combination of minecart runways and power piston launchers can make a safe, fun, efficient, and hilarious fast travel system on servers. Just imagine, a network of floating Rail intersections and minecarts leaping across open space in between. You could fly over entire biomes in a matter of intensely cinematic seconds. There would be no more need for confusing to set up and boring to use teleportation plugins on servers!