Game Development Reference
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Creating a Piston Harvester
The simplest piston harvester is quite easy to build.
Figure 6.11
shows a push-button-oper-
ated harvesting piston. Levers and redstone provide a way to connect multiple systems so
they all operate together, but let's take a look at this first design.
1.
Water hydration and collector
2.
Farmland with crop
3.
Piston facing the crop
4.
Cobblestone block, although almost any block will work
5.
A wooden push-button crafted from a wood plank block
FIGURE 6.11
Automated farming can be quite simple, schematically speaking. No need
to get up to your ears in an electrical engineering degree.
Building this is easy and is a great way to get a basic understanding of how all this auto-
mated stuff works. Just follow these steps:
1.
Dig a hole for your water supply and fill it from a water bucket.
2.
Hoe the grass or dirt block to turn it into farmland and plant some seeds.
3.
Create a standard piston. Minecraft always places pistons so that the face of the
piston points toward you, snapping toward the closest of the six possible degrees
of orientation, so place this one by standing on the block next to the water supply
facing the farmland block. Right-click to place the piston on the far side of that
block.
