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Useful Piston Variations

I'd like to propose three new piston variations: Weighted, Bolted, and Strong.

The weighted piston is basically just a standard piston that has the falling property that sand has. This advantage would be offset by the fact that it can only push up to six blocks, as opposed to the original twelve blocks. Additionally, a weighted piston can be moved even if it is turned on.

The bolted piston acts just like a sticky piston, except that the block it is facing still adheres to it even when just the piston is being moved. For example, if a bolted piston was facing a dirt block, and the bolted piston was pushed to the side by a second piston, when the bolted piston was moved, the dirt block would be moved along with it.

The strong piston -- duh. The maximum number of blocks that can be pushed by a strong piston would be extended from twelve to twenty or so.

The weighted and strong pistons could both have a sticky variation. I'm not sure about the recipes for the blocks, y'all can figure that part out!

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    P.S. This would absolutely revolutionize redstone contraptions!

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    Maybe these things could be found in the redstone room in the deep dark, making them very rare, and technically non renewable.

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    Weighted piston could use gold instead of Redstone dust and iron instead of cobblestone, bolted could be with two extra iron ingots instead of wood planks, and strong pistons could use diamonds instead of Redstone dust.

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    Hey, y'all, it's me, as in the author of this post. I absolutely think both of these ideas are good ones, even if they can't really coexist. The idea of making them extra rare is good because obviously you don't want such a powerful block to be easy to get early on, and too many of them could be pretty insane. I also appreciate the ideas about the recipes.