The way pistons move entities has also been changed, making it (in my opinion) better than before, although not quite perfect.Īll that's left to do is extend the collision box changes to the client. Don’t worry if you don’t understand just watch this video and be amazed.Moving blocks now have a collision box identical to the block being moved, however client-side this hasn't been implemented. Yes, um, very logical (anyone else drawing a blank?). What’s changed since update 1.15, according to 0827Jake, is that end rods “can now break wheat without destroying farmland.” Hurrah! This, along with the knowledge that honey blocks can slide past slime blocks, allowed them to create a new type of combine harvester – “using flying machines to break the crops seemed logical,” they say.

That’s due to them being built from a combination of pistons, end rods, and minecarts (check out this video guide to making a combine harvester) – the end rods are used to absolutely tear up farmland as you tried to harvest fields. Properly functioning combine harvesters haven’t been possible in Minecraft until recently. What a waste of time! A combine harvester lets just one person do that much work all by themselves. We all know bees like to harvest flowers and that they do so by sending an army to clean up entire fields. Or, I dunno, you could use a conveyor belt to deliver a huge order of detonating TNT to that nearby hive of bees.

This is handy if you’re mining and want to send diamonds back to a certain location, like a base with a chest inside where you can store them. They first tested their conveyor belt out by making a factory with conveyor belts that transported items. “Using any other block, the item would not get grabbed by the belt and would just stay in the same place,” HasseHynd tells me. Let’s see what other machines people can build with this delicious cube! Conveyer beltsĪs well as sticking to other blocks, honey blocks also stick to items - this gave HasseHynd the idea of using them to make conveyor belts. In simple terms, that means big chunks of blocks can be moved much further than they could before. “We can essentially bypass the push limit of pistons by alternating between slime blocks and honey blocks, because now we are able to divide the load between multiple pistons,” they explain. This flying machine was made by KiemPlanetG, who is at the forefront of this sticky new industrial revolution.

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