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Blower

Since pistons have been around, they've been used to create farms where people break the item with the piston for collection. However, there's been a bit of a hassle about that method the entire time. You either have to put your build up slightly higher than you want and add a noisy mine cart underneath to collect all of the items, or you just stick with a normal hopper, but lose out on some of the product which falls back down into the block it was growing from. I suggest that to fix this issue without people having to deal with extra height and loud mine carts is to add a blower block. This block when powered by redstone could sit next to a block and anything that falls into that block will be blown in the direction the blower is facing by a single block only. Meaning that if this block were placed at the base level of a sugarcane, you could sit the piston on top of it, the observer on top of that, and if any of that sugarcane falls into the base cane the blower will blow it forward by 1 block so that a regular hopper system could collect it. The blower being such a weak one, would potentially either be completely silent or very extremely low volume. Adding multiples around each other also wouldn't raise the volume very much, or any at all if blowers are deemed necessary to make noise to begin with.

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    This would be very helpful

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    This could also be a new way to push mobs out of netherportals, now that the mobs-in-a-boat trick is no longer reliable (as thay've made it so mounted entities can go through now) and they've made Bottomless Portals impossible now with all the preventative measures they've put in place regarding update suppression. So Yes, this is a much needed feature. Only, I'd rather it can push entities up to 16 blocks away, also it can accelerate a downward falling mob such that it takes more fall damage over the same distance compared to unaccelerated falling. This could also work as a mob conveyor, especially useful in the Nether where water cannot be used. I'd imagine the crafting recipe to be like that of the Dropper, but with a Breeze Rod in the center.