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Dispenser can handle weapons and tools

As of 1.14 dispensers can be loaded with shears to be used to automatically shear sheeps. Why not go all the way and enable dispensers to
- mine with pickaxe
- cut wood with axe
- attack with sword
- dig with shovel

This would enable things like automatic cobblestone/tree farms without the need for TNT. It would also solve the same problem as "piston breaker", also suggested in this forum but in a way make more sense since the tools would wear down and you'd have to replace them.

This together with my suggestion to have dispensers "auto-fire" when constantly powered would drastically reduce the need of excessive Redstone clocks, probably reducing lag a lot.

 

Johannes Lundberg shared this idea.

• January 14, 2019 11:22
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  STEMO C commented

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  • December 12, 2019 18:47
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  I agree with this feature purposes. It would definitely help with wood and stone collection automation

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  Landerzy * commented

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  • April 14, 2020 13:37
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  Maybe The dispenser with pickaxe / axe / shovel / hoe need more times to destroy some kinds of blocks.And it can also fish with fishing rod.By the way,the enchantments are effective when dispenser using enchanted tools.

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  Johannes Lundberg commented

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  • April 14, 2020 16:28
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  Also, maybe with this in place, they can finally patch the TNT dup exploit that so many depend on that they can't patch it in current state...

  The "penalty" of using this method of automatically break blocks is of course that mending won't work so you'll use the tools until they break. I'm fine with enchantments not working since it seems more of a user-related feature anyway and might make it too OP.

   

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  • April 25, 2020 22:08
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  I voted for this even though I don't fully agree.  I just want sheers to work on vines from dispensers, and fishing rods to fish properly so we can make automatic fisheries.  (It wouldn't be unbalanced because you'd have to make a redstone timer and the odds it would snatch up a catch would be rare)
  Perhaps a new type of item or perhaps a golem buddy that you can give a pickaxe or a sword.  But then they'd have to add a way to control the golem and give it orders.

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  FlowerButterfli commented

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  • May 23, 2020 04:32
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  Good idea, but I think it should be able to both attack and mine (Depending on what is in front of it) with all tools.

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  FrowningBoat8 commented

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  • March 30, 2021 11:29
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  This is a great idea to get rid of tnt duping while still requiring creativity to get much further than a cobblestone generator however it would have to use the tools durability over time to not be overpowered however you could have it that tools with one durability don't function in the dispenser so you could repair them if you wanted to.