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You could make a breech fed cannon out of this... have to try when 1.7 is released.

If pistons could be used to build a TBM (tunnel boring machine), that would be just epic!

I always wanted to achieve an automatic (or semi-automatic) TBM in minecraft and given the fact that pistons are officially in the works now, maybe someone can take this into consideration and make them into something that modded-pistons didn't bring.





By (semi-)automatic I mean we could make a long TBM, like the real ones and the middle or last part of it would contain the TNT and other stuff that's needed to keep the beast digging (even if it wouldn't be that fast - like the real ones). And of course, just horizontally. (something like the self-building bridge to move it further and further)

Or, instead of using some sort of :tnt:+pistons workaround, we could use a new kind of piston... based on the one in the "first look" but with some spikes on it or something that would bore through any kind of block (faster or slower, depending on the block type). But these pistons would need to pe movable as well so, yeah, it's not that simple to implement everything but pistons are still in the works and a game so popular based on mine crafting needs the possibility to build a TBM! Even if it takes long to build one (even better) and even if it's a pain to keep it boring! :cool.gif:

p.s. yes, such a TBM could not have a round head but a square (non-rotating) one. No problem. Oh and it should be able to collect the materials while boring but this could also work with a rail in the middle of the borer and going inside the tunnel every now and then. *dreaming*

I can FINALY blosk water without even getting near it! Im so happy They made PiStOnS

ktk how to make the door/stairccase thing in the video

im with most people above 1.AWSOME TEXTURE 2. to thin 3. cobble factories (no more mining stone) and thats wat i have to say

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im with most people above 1.AWSOME TEXTURE 2. to thin 3. cobble factories (no more mining stone) and thats wat i have to say :biggrin.gif:

Funny thing is, you'll be able to change what they look like with texture packs... so... that's not so much a complaint as it is a nit-pick. :wink.gif:

So many SMP traps so little time

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If pistons could be used to build a TBM (tunnel boring machine), that would be just epic!

I always wanted to achieve an automatic (or semi-automatic) TBM in minecraft and given the fact that pistons are officially in the works now, maybe someone can take this into consideration and make them into something that modded-pistons didn't bring.





By (semi-)automatic I mean we could make a long TBM, like the real ones and the middle or last part of it would contain the TNT and other stuff that's needed to keep the beast digging (even if it wouldn't be that fast - like the real ones). And of course, just horizontally. (something like the self-building bridge to move it further and further)

Or, instead of using some sort of :tnt:+pistons workaround, we could use a new kind of piston... based on the one in the "first look" but with some spikes on it or something that would bore through any kind of block (faster or slower, depending on the block type). But these pistons would need to pe movable as well so, yeah, it's not that simple to implement everything but pistons are still in the works and a game so popular based on mine crafting needs the possibility to build a TBM! Even if it takes long to build one (even better) and even if it's a pain to keep it boring! :cool.gif:

p.s. yes, such a TBM could not have a round head but a square (non-rotating) one. No problem. Oh and it should be able to collect the materials while boring but this could also work with a rail in the middle of the borer and going inside the tunnel every now and then. *dreaming*

i don't think that notch would add it to the vanilla MC but I could see it as an awsome mod.

Can anyone tell me if I have the design right for my piston related ideas? I'm thinking of a stair case that falls into the floor:


And of a bridge/pathway entrance to my castle that would sink into the ocean at the press of a switch:




Thanks!