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4.
Place a dirt, wood, cobblestone, or other kind of solid block behind the piston.
5.
Craft a wooden button from wood planks, and right-click to place it on the side of
the block behind the piston.
Position yourself close to the button and right-click it to operate the piston. The piston
powers up, sweeping the crop off its farmland block. The results may spring directly into
your inventory depending on how close you are standing or float around waiting for you to
collect them. The piston automatically retracts after a brief delay because buttons send just
a brief pulse of power.
Well done! That's all there is to creating a simple piston harvester.
Onepistonanautomatedfarmdoesnotmake,butit'sremarkablyeasytoextendthisdesign
into one that is much more effective. Follow these steps:
1.
Just replicate the same pattern side by side, minus the button on the side of any but
the first block.
2.
Then run a little trail of redstone dust (right-click on the top of each block
with redstone selected in your quick access bar), and you'll create a circuit that
links each from the first to the last.
Figure 6.12
shows the final picture.
