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# Feature Proposal: Minecraft: Links & Blinks Update

# Proposal: "Links & Blinks" Redstone Update To bridge the gap between vanilla Redstone and true automation, we propose a modular update introducing specialized Pistons and modernized Redstone components. (Full detailed breakdown will be posted in the comments below!) Core Features: 1. Honey Piston: Interacts only with Honey Blocks, completely ignoring Slime. Perfect for advanced multi-directional flying machines. 2. Redstone Piston: Transmits signals through its extended arm. Can be upgraded with Observers (stops when blocked), Repeaters (adjustable ticks), or Torches (movable power). 3. Teleport Piston: Crafted with an Ender Pearl; bound to the player. Instantly teleports you to its location when triggered. Perfect fix for volatile Bedrock stasis chambers. 4. Gripper Piston: Breaks/collects blocks on retraction and places blocks from its inventory on extension. Upgradable with a multi-item Whitelist/Blacklist UI filter. 5. Rotator & Axle Pistons: Rotate blocks in front of them or rotate their own piston body by 90 degrees. Enables steering flying machines (UFOs) and circular tunnel borers. 6. Modern Components: Wireless Amethyst Dust (7-block range), Filter-Comparators (reads specific items), Multi-Directional Cross-Repeaters, and Sticky Torches (won’t pop off when moved). 7. Tools: Attunement Wrench to quickly configure piston directions/filters without opening UIs.
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    ### 1. The Honey Piston (Sticky Honey Piston)
    * **Crafting:** Piston + Honey Bottle / Honeycomb.
    * **Function:** Matches the aesthetic of Honey Blocks. It interacts specifically with Honey Blocks while completely ignoring Slime Blocks.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Allows engineers to build overlapping, ultra-compact flying machines where Honey and Slime mechanisms slide past each other without jamming.

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    ### 2. The Slime Piston (Classic Separation)
    * **Crafting:** Rebranding of the standard Sticky Piston.
    * **Function:** Interacts exclusively with Slime Blocks and completely ignores Honey Blocks.

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    ### 3. The Redstone Piston (Modular Signal Piston)
    * **Base Function:** Acts as a dynamic conductor. When extended, the arm transmits the received Redstone signal directly into the block it pushes.
    * **Modular Upgrades (Crafting Variants):**
    * **Observer-Piston (+ Observer):** Features a built-in sensor eye. It automatically detects if a block was successfully pushed or if the way is blocked (e.g., reaching the 12-block limit). If blocked, it stops and emits a pulse. *Perfect for self-regulating tunnel borers.*
    * **Repeater-Piston (+ Repeater):** The extended arm acts as a built-in repeater. Players can configure the Piston's extension delay (1 to 4 ticks). *Eliminates massive repeater lines.*
    * **Torch-Piston (+ Redstone Torch):** The head acts as a movable Redstone Torch, constantly emitting power to adjacent blocks only when fully extended. *Great for wireless chain reactions where one Piston triggers the next upon contact.*
    * **Signal-Strength Piston (+ Redstone Dust):** Reads analog signal strength (1 to 15). Instead of pushing 1 block, it extends its arm further out based on power level (e.g., power level 15 extends up to 4 blocks). *Allows for ultra-compact multi-way flush doors.*

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    ### 4. The Teleport Piston (Survival Spawn Piston)
    * **Crafting:** Sticky Piston + Ender Pearl.
    * **Function:** Permanently bound to the player who crafted and placed it. When extended via a Redstone pulse, it instantly teleports that specific player to its position (facing the direction of the arm).
    * **Gameplay Impact:** A reliable, lag-free alternative to Ender Pearl Stasis Chambers that works across long distances and solves Bedrock Edition despawning/unloaded chunk issues.

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    ### 5. The Gripper Piston (Mining & Placement Piston)
    * **Function:** Features a small internal inventory.
    * *Pull Mode:* When retracting, it breaks the block in front of it and pulls it into its inventory.
    * *Push Mode:* When extending into empty space, it places the first available block from its inventory into the world.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Enables fully automated tree farms, concrete makers, and self-repairing walls without relying on TNT explosions or Withers.

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    ### 6. The Multi-Filter Gripper Piston
    * **Function:** An upgrade to the Gripper Piston featuring a graphical interface (UI) where players can blacklist or whitelist multiple items at once.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** The ultimate tool for flying mining machines. The Piston can selectively harvest valuable ores (like Diamonds or Gold) while leaving behind junk blocks like Cobblestone and Dirt.

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    ### 7. The Rotator Piston
    * **Function:** Instead of pushing blocks forward, this Piston rotates the block (or a connected wall of up to 12 slime/honey blocks) by 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise based on signal strength.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Allows for true rotating castle gates, swinging doors, and steering mechanisms for flying machines (UFOs) without massive docking stations.

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    ### 8. The Axle Piston
    * **Function:** This Piston rotates itself and its entire arm by 90 degrees around its own longitudinal axis when receiving a side-signal.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Acts as a mechanical joint. Combined with the Gripper Piston, players can build automated, rotating drill heads that dig perfect circular 3D tunnels instead of just straight lines.

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    ### 9. Wireless Redstone Dust (Amethyst Dust)
    * **Crafting:** Redstone Dust + Amethyst Shard.
    * **Function:** Can be placed like normal dust, but transmits signals wirelessly through the air to the next Amethyst Dust block (up to a 7-block range).
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Eliminates the need for massive, ugly wiring layouts behind walls and enables clean, hidden builds.

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    ### 10. The Filter-Comparator
    * **Function:** Features a single UI slot for an item. When placed against a container, it ignores the total fullness and only outputs a signal based on the **exact filtered item** inside.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Drastically reduces the size of item sorters, eliminating massive hopper-filter chains.

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    ### 11. The Multi-Directional Repeater
    * **Function:** A cross-shaped repeater that can handle signals from four directions simultaneously. Right-clicking allows players to toggle which sides are active or blocked.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Solves the eternal problem of overlapping Redstone lines connecting accidentally, allowing for ultra-compact logic gates on a tiny footprint.

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    ### 12. The Long-Range Observer
    * **Crafting:** Observer + Spyglass.
    * **Function:** Scans in a straight line up to **15 blocks away** to detect block updates (like growing crops or opening doors).
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Revolutionizes automated farm designs (pumpkin, melon, sugarcane) by letting a single observer monitor an entire row of crops from a distance.

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    ### 13. The Sticky Redstone Torch
    * **Crafting:** Redstone Torch + Slimeball / Honeycomb.
    * **Function:** This torch will not pop off as an item when the block it is attached to is moved by a piston or rotated. It moves smoothly with the moving machine block structure.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Makes flying machines truly intelligent, as moving power sources mid-flight becomes a native mechanic.

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    ### 14. The Sulfur-Slime Block
    * **Crafting:** Slimeball + Sulfur Dust (from the Chaos Cubed update).
    * **Function:** A bright yellow slime block that acts as a volatile acid. If pushed into a block with an inventory (like a chest), it triggers a brief reaction that unlocks or dissolves locked containers.
    * **Gameplay Impact:** Ideal for custom adventure maps, complex trap mechanics, and industrial factory builds.

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    ### 15. The Creative Spawn-Egg Piston (Creative Mode Only)
    * **Function:** Features a single slot for any Mob Spawn Egg. Every time it extends via a Redstone pulse, it "punches" that entity into the world. *(Optionally supports modded spawn eggs, like the Wither Storm, for apocalyptic custom adventure map events).*
    * **Gameplay Impact:** A massive quality-of-life tool for map makers, completely replacing complex `/summon` command blocks for wave spawners.

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    ### 16. The Attunement Wrench (The Ultimate Redstone Tool)
    * **Crafting:** Iron Ingots + Copper Ingots + Redstone Dust.
    * **Function:** Allows players to right-click advanced pistons or rotators to quickly toggle default directions, rotation speeds, or invert filters without opening their UI menus.