Game Development Reference
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FIGURE 6.15
Close-up of the piston and water source block.
Levers work better than buttons on this type of layout because you want the water to keep
flowing until the crop has been washed away. Make one with a block of cobblestone and a
stick.
When creating this type of farm, make sure you build up all the surrounding components
including the pistons, powered and therefore extended, before you place the water sources
in the upper reservoir. Otherwise, you end up wading through a constant flow of water,
fighting the current, as you build the rest of the farm. You also can't place redstone dust in
water, and that can make the wiring something of a challenge if any water has escaped to
places it shouldn't.
The other method described relies on a dispenser block.
Figure 6.16
shows, again, a sim-
plified view that you can easily extrapolate into a complete farm.
