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Pointed Dripstone Pistons

Add a new piston which is crafted like a sticky piston, but with pointed dripstone instead of slimeballs.

This piston doesn't retract any block if it had pushed one during its extension.

However, it will will retract any block if it hadn't pushed any blocks during its extension.

It will also damage mobs when directly pushing them.

The purpose for this block is similar to the observer's: take an unintentional mechanic (in the observer's case, BUD piston behavior) and attach it to a new block.

This makes the mechanic more easily understood, it adds more incentives to get various resources, it makes cross-platform parity either easier or less necessary, and gives room for more utility than the original unintentional mechanic provided.

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    They should also damage entities. And these could be used to make the piston doors they make in Java edition on bedrock

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    My first thought when seeing this was "OOOH STABBY PISTONS!" But I guess we could do those with just sticky pistons pushing dripstone. Your idea with the redstone thing is better.

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    Andrew Wright that's what i thought too