Cobblestone generators have been made ever since notch make water touching lave formed it. And automating farms (such as wheat and sugar cane) have been made since the addition of pistons. What I propose is a special "crushing" piston to break a block enabling the making of automated generators possible.
It would be made like this: where = a normal piston
You would then need to have 2 of these "crushing" pistons placed on the ground facing inward like this: and having any block with less then a certain resistance level in the middle. The two pistons would have to be activated at the same time for the block to be crushed into the grabbable block you get if you dig something with a pick.
This would be perfect for making a generator because you could pull the block out with sticky pistons and then have the crushing ones beside it, break the block, it then falls into a stream to be collected by you, as with all farms.
By making them out of 8 obsidian it should make it less overpowered because you need 16 obsidian to make the crusher. which is more obsidian then you need for a portal.
Let me know what you think, be honest I don't really care to much, haters gonna hate, all that stuff that comes with the internet, thank you, goodbye.
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I really like this idea and have made the suggestion before. I think this would be better though:
1. A piston which is made from a sticky piston and chest. When the piston comes into contact with the block it places it automatically in a chest. If there is anything on the block like snow, plants, grass, sapplings, wheat, it will also pick those up and store them.
2. A farming piston made with a sticky piston, dispenser, and hoe that can till the dirt and plant seeds when it comes in contact with dirt.
I really like this idea and have made the suggestion before. I think this would be better though:
1. A piston which is made from a sticky piston and chest. When the piston comes into contact with the block it places it automatically in a chest. If there is anything on the block like snow, plants, grass, sapplings, wheat, it will also pick those up and store them.
2. A farming piston made with a sticky piston, dispenser, and hoe that can till the dirt and plant seeds when it comes in contact with dirt.
Then we could create fully automated farms too!
the problem with that is it might be seen as imbalanced because it only takes a chest and a sticky piston and you can instantly farm obsidian and other hard to mine blocks without getting the right tools. so if you haden't got diamond yet you could use that to make a portal
I've actually suggested this before, except the blocks are broken when sandwiched between two pistions. I think it'd open up all sorts of possibilites for automated factories. Support!
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This is a really cool idea! Perhaps to address the imbalance issue... depending on how spike blocks are, perhaps a diamond spike block could be made. Put a diamond spike block on a piston, and that would make it able to break obsidian. Put an iron spike, then it could break things iron picks are needed to break. Stone spike... wood spike... etc. Not terribly realistic, but it would be in keeping with the game I think!
I am implying by this that a separate recipe for a crushing piston need not exist; just put a spike block on top of the piston.
It would be made like this:
You would then need to have 2 of these "crushing" pistons placed on the ground facing inward like this:
This would be perfect for making a generator because you could pull the block out with sticky pistons and then have the crushing ones beside it, break the block, it then falls into a stream to be collected by you, as with all farms.
By making them out of 8 obsidian it should make it less overpowered because you need 16 obsidian to make the crusher. which is more obsidian then you need for a portal.
Let me know what you think, be honest I don't really care to much, haters gonna hate, all that stuff that comes with the internet, thank you, goodbye.
1. A piston which is made from a sticky piston and chest. When the piston comes into contact with the block it places it automatically in a chest. If there is anything on the block like snow, plants, grass, sapplings, wheat, it will also pick those up and store them.
2. A farming piston made with a sticky piston, dispenser, and hoe that can till the dirt and plant seeds when it comes in contact with dirt.
Then we could create fully automated farms too!
the problem with that is it might be seen as imbalanced because it only takes a chest and a sticky piston and you can instantly farm obsidian and other hard to mine blocks without getting the right tools. so if you haden't got diamond yet you could use that to make a portal
spike blocks I think will do this
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I am implying by this that a separate recipe for a crushing piston need not exist; just put a spike block on top of the piston.
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