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Piston Ethics; Slime balls and Rotators

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FaultInMinecraft's Avatar FaultInMinecraft
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Hello People of Minecraft and Planet Minecraft! This here I what I think should be added to minecraft; Rotators, the ability to place slime balls, and a few other add-ono s/changes that revolve around Pistons;




v Pistons Push Pistons;


Pretty much allow Pistons to push/pull any block, including Furnaces, Brewing Stands and active Pistons. Doing this can make it possible to make piston elevators that go straight up, and can help reduce the amount of pistons required to make certain machines. Also, with this addition, if a Piston is connected to a five-clock or other Red stone blinker and is pushing/pulling a brewing stand, the piston will o shakeo any potions being brewed, increasing the brewing time and making the potion more powerful.





v Sticky Piston Recipe;


Sticky Pistons no longer have there crafting table recipe. Instead, while piston is in place, a slimeball is right clicked and o placedo on the head of the piston.


v Non-block places;


Objects, such as Redstone, Redstone repeaters, flowers and railroad, dono t break when pushed by





v Rotators,


The actual block model of a rotator would consist of two textured slabs on top of each other. When hit with a Redstone pulse, the sides with the less weight (Less blocks Connected) will rotate 90° in the direction (clockwise, counter-clockwise) selected by the GUI. (Opened by right clicking on the rotator) The Redstone pulse must be deactivated and activated again before the rotator will rotate again. Rotators can be used to change the direction on the texture of a block, rotate mobs and items, or change the direction of a piston.





v Placed Slime


Probable my favorite addition to this o updateo would be the ability to place Slimeballs. Placed, Slimeballs have multiple uses;


1. Placed, a slimeball makes a gooey platform that acts like cobwebs or Soulsand, but less affective. Placed Slime slows down mobs, items and other entities. This can be helpful for fighting mobs, especially Enderman. If an Enderman is caught on slime, its can no longer teleport. The Enderman can still walk at a slower rate, and can teleport once it is off the slime. Items, when thrown onto slime, cant disappear, but can still be collected.


2. Multi-block pushing. This addition is difficult to explain and would be a pain to program. When a Slimeball is placed, it allows two blocks to o connecto and be effected by the same o effects.o Here is a place format;








XsX


P





X=Stone s=Placed Slime P=Piston





When placed like that, the Slime will vanish between the two blocks, looking more like;





XX


P





But the Slimeball will still be there. If the piston is power, it will push both blocks up, because they are connected together. Also works with the rotator, to make Minecart turntables This can be used to push tall giant doors using one piston, or with the o extended pistonso mod to make wider doors. Like I said, ito s really hard to explain.





There is much more that I wish to add to this, including the de-grabbing of blocks. Hope you all think this is worth a look. Sorry I dono t have any pictures yet. Will work on making someo ¦Superobbyking out.
CreditIf some one could mod this for me...dreams could come true..
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