A Piston is a mechanical element block that can push blocks, entities, and end candles to make people happy in Minecraft. That's the protagonist we're going to talk about today— 16 things you probably don't know about pistons.
1. The design of the piston is not not the idea of Notch or Jeb. The entire design, concept, and piston code is actually "copying" someone else's.
2. Hippoplatimus posted a mod on the Minecraft forum about pistons, which is the prototype block for Minecraft pistons.
3. In 2011, Hippolatimus gave the piston's code to Jeb, and the piston has been added to the original game ever since. Interestingly, this mod and posts about pistons can still be found in forums.
4, the piston in the first time to join the mc, the piston head has a cross of iron rings. Later, the material of the iron ring was removed, leaving only iron particles at the edge of the piston head. This is also the source of today's piston materials.
5. Early mcs had two blocks made of six-sided piston head material, but they had no practical use. One of them is a normal piston head and the other is a sticky piston head. In JAVA Version 1.8, the six-sided piston head was removed.
6, in the early pocket version of Alpha there is a strange "piston" material block, no one knows what it is for. After 1.10.0 this piston was removed.
7, the piston head (Piston Head) is a separate square, also known as the "piston arm". In Minecraft it is a technical block, and usually the part that sticks out after the piston is activated is the piston head.
8, /setblock can be used to place the piston head, the ID of the piston head is minecraft: piston_head, so the instruction to generate the piston head comes out /setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft: piston_head.
9, the piston head as a separate square, above which is a wool carpet can be placed.
10, headless piston; as already mentioned above, the piston is divided into two parts. Part of the piston head and part of the piston base. With the current characteristics, it is possible to achieve the emergence of a "headless piston" in the mc. The principle is to blow up the piston head of an activated piston, so the player needs to construct a device with the piston protruding at the same moment as the explosion occurring.
11, the moving piston; when the piston is doing "piston movement", this push-and-pull process is actually a new square that is replaced, called "moving piston". When the push and pull is over, the moving piston disappears and the original piston and block reappear. That is to say, the piston in motion is actually not the piston itself.
12, the piston can push up to 12 squares arranged in a row at a time, connected to the red stone power supply, you can push them one block. So the power of the piston is amazing!
13, glazed terracotta is a very unique kind of square, it can not be "glued". So even the sticky piston can only be pushed and cannot be pulled back.
14. Capture traps; players can use pistons to make a super simple trap trap that doesn't require any redstone basics. Only 5*5 edges are required, 3 pistons are placed on each side, the pressure plate is laid in the middle, and the 2-block fence is placed in the center position, and the upper block is placed above the player's head. This makes it possible to create an ultra-simple trap that mobs can't escape.
15, build the table; Minecraft's most primitive table is actually the use of a piston that is activated to extend the head of the piston, and a staircase is placed on each side. This is how most early construction players played at MC To build tables.
16, piston movement; how to make a piston can continue to maintain the front and back movement uninterrupted? To keep the Minecraft End Candle can draw the most beautiful pose?
Here we provide a relatively simple circuit solution that mc old drivers love to use, and since then Minecraft has been born perpetual motion machine...