Breaking Minecraft using a single Piston... 

Datapack is now available for download! Check it out! :D mcmakistein.com/creations/crazy_features And if you make any crazy redstone contraptions with it make sure to send me videos on twitter or instagram! I'll check them out and share my favorites! :)

This is the most incredible mind-boggling creation of all time. I never want to have to try to recreate this… but man I’m glad you did 😄

As a redstoner myself I can say that this could be VERY useful. People who make compact doors would love this.

Mumbo Jumbo should play around with this Edit: i know he did please stop responding

Amazing. I don't even want to think about how this works internally. 10 headaches / 10

As a programmer I physically felt pain when I saw it was done with data pack scripting and not java. Kudos to you for pulling it off.

My mind is split between fearing this abomination and absolutely loving the new possibilities it brings to the table.

i just realised that you could basicly make the old windows 95/98 3D pipe screensaver but with pistons with that datapack. XD

Finally you post less than a week and a month

This is really really cool! Can't wait for mumbo to see this.

This is such a good concept. Like imagine having honey blocks and setting up a transport system of some kind via 1 piston. Would be some great builds etc that could be made.

From trying to work with pistons myself a while ago I can say it's not easy! Probs to you for actually getting it to work so smoothly!

Haven't touched Minecraft in a while, but this looks amazing! Though it does look like larger constructs would take quite a performance hit :D

Honestly I'd give my right arm for these to be added to the game for real, they'd simplify so many contraptions in such an elegant and refreshing way

3:16 is where the piston pushes itself if anyone is looking for that

Genius! My smooth brain can't even! You're last comment about therapy was hilarious! NGL it literally made me LMAO

Armor stands have to be the second most game-changing addition after command blocks. Wild considering the armor stand when used as intended is almost worthless.

It looks natural, like something that could have been made in 2012. So I really like this design.

The part that hurts the most is I know exactly why your attempt at my 5x5 failed lmao

Wow, this is absolutely amazing! Good job, though I still think just learning redstone would have been easier lol

just the look of it alone is awesome! good job!

You’ve mentioned Mumbo Jumbo in the video, and have had a previous collab with Grian, what’s stopping you from collaborating with Mumbo? Aside from a certain SMP starting up in the future..

I am awed by your genius, this is amazing. Simplifying so much!

dude this is awesome. i haven't played minecraft in years but this would be so usefull. You got my sub!!!!

McMakistein : I cant understand mumbo's genius Also McMakistein : *codes bending pistons with many featues*

It’s been many years since I started watching you. My first video that I watched of yours was about a treehouse and then I didn’t realize watch any videos until now.

Im glad to see detapacks reused for other videos tbh Nice to see it explored

Mumbo Jumbo: Redstone is easy McMakistein: Shows off how much code is in that single push limit thing.

so weird this man doesnt wanna spend a couple hours watching redstone tutorials but will spend a month coding a piston that works wonders

Can't wait to make a piston door where the pistons just fly in from random directions to collect all the blocks from the door and snake away into their hidey holes

This is so amazing and so cursed at the same time lol

This is genuinely badass. I am not a fan of Minecraft getting more complex blocks, but I don't think I'd mind this

Just amazing man, I love the idea!

😂😂😂 what an amazing project. Thanks for the entertaining video as well!

Another cool take on the vanilla piston variation. The ability to extend the piston head in any direction like a snake it a very interesting concept. This allows for a lot of creativity and the creation of some very cool effects!

Now look Among all the wild red stone concepts this has to be a top 3 at least

A Noob at redstone, a Pro at code. This is McMakistein.

Simple tools like this is what all that big complex stuff launches off of, this looks like a blast to play with!

This is so much fun to play around with it! and making videos also!

that's amazing dude, great job

Please god you HAVE to get this mod into Mumbo’s hands

I refered this to my dear friend with a server who's setting up a new modpack/datapack for it, this is probably going to make it in because they love it!

I would love to see mumbo use these to make some cool redstone contraptions

that bit at the end had me in stitches xD

Glad to know even a gigabrain like McMakistein doesn't understand Mumbo's redstone...

That's super dope bro omg

I’ve loved your videos for so long. Keep up the great work hope you reach 1m this year

I think this is an all around funny, confusing, awesome and useful datapack that will make some insane redstone contraptions, and also makes it a bit easier to make normally really long and complicated redstone doors

I like how you knew that people would try to get the piston to push itself so you made it go boom when they do

This broke my mind already!

Instead of taking the hours to watch Redstone tutorials and learning about it, he took an entire month just to code some command blocks. This dude definitely deserves a sub.

this is one of the most clever and ingenious things ive ever seen

Definitely want this. It'd make my piston doors a lot easier to make. Wish you could combine it w/ magnet piston mod. But still pretty awesome.

Looks way more convenient to setup than the ordinary piston system. It may not look as satisfying, but it's damn easier and more efficient from what I've seen in this video at least.

WOW! The best datapack for Minecraft, I need it for my redstone because i'm so bad. +1 sub

You can also use the texture for stilts or long bar details for building

Honestly a unseen great use for these could be for music builds

Super cool effect, and that you did it with data packs is insanity xD Have you delved into modding at all? I feel like you could create some amazing whacky fun mods!

Why are you breaking my mind 🤯 But a amazing idea for pistons Great video 👍🏻

Glad that I found your channel. You really got a cool content ❤️😎 } Keep posting!

Good job man

These could be SO USEFUL for making a portal adventure map

I love these!

the last sentence made me subscribe

OK, this is unironically very cool

I think this would be nice in vanilla Minecraft but with a few nerfs. My suggestion is the pistons should only extend straight forward. Secondly, it should be limited to 10 blocks long, and each piston would have to be specifically crafted for their intended length. For example, craft a normal piston together with a copper ingot, and you get a +1 extending piston. Craft with 2 ingots and it extends 2 blocks, and so on. The idea is the copper would work as hollow cylinders (think telescope, plastic lightsabers, etc.) that are attached to the piston head and can be retracted into one another. That way, it makes logical sense that the piston can fit into a single block when retracted. Without a crafting table, you could craft up to 3 ingots together with a piston, and with a crafting table, you could put 8 ingots with the piston, making 8 rods the maximum limit. Including the piston's base and head, it would cover 10 blocks in total.

im subscribing for your hardwork

saw this in reddit yesterday Nice man

nice work!

I'd love to see what someone like Mumbo could do with this. Super cool

Subscribed for McMakistein's therapy.

its very good datapack 👍👍

Mumbo: Finally i can make a 100x100 door tutorial

Very impressive!

Can you make all your datapacks for 1.16.5 also plss

"mumbo how do i understand your level of genius" sentences that have never been uttered before

This is really cool

best datapack i ever seen

it would be so cool if Mumbo Jumbo did a video on this amazing datapack

I can't even begin to imagine how you programmed this using mc functions :O

Maybe there should be some orange sparks on the second block out from that piston neck? Allowing you to chop back the piston settings to the block before where you made the mistake. In turn, make the sparks around the piston base red, so people know that it deletes everything. I don't know hop the code works though, maybe the issue you had isn't so much user interface, though I could see issues with settings being 2 blocks out if piston moves in a 3 wide or smaller loop, so much as the code knowing to delete the rest of the neck after that point and set the block where you clicked it to a head.

Now mumbo needs to see this and do his magic

Hi, your videos are really cool, I noticed in your op beacon video you had a gradual speed increase, I was wondering if you could make a sonic data pack using that feature specifically 😄

When you pushed that gold block diagonally i started squeaking i love it so much

If you're trying to make a door or elevator in a smaller space, using less redstone/pistons would be helpful and makes it seem more seamless

Sick with the pistons. You could make moving DNA and RNA

Love this

This is terrifying for some reason

This felt like a clickbait video, but damn it delivered exactly what it promised. Great vid!

I would love to see if this could be recreated using the actual internal piston blocks (you can actually create them with commands). I'll just call them block 36 because that's what most people know them as... Would be more performant and makes the piston logic simpler, plus, it gives that satisfying smooth animation. Block 36 (I believe its actually just id minecraft:piston now, just, as a tile entity, with some NBT data) has a block ID to animate with and its state (e.g. waterlogged), and it is either extending or not (retracting). It has a progress value to determine how far along in the animation it should play from, and, once the animation completes, block 36 turns into the block ID it has stored. The actual head of the piston is a block 36 in place of the original piston when retracting, and in front when extending. I forgot the exact details on what its values are, but, basically when a piston pushes a block there are two block 36s in front of the piston, and when it retracts, there is one block 36 in front of the piston and one where the piston is. It would be easier to recreate the piston head with armor stands I think. Would also be hard to make this work with corners, but, I guess it could be two stages, one for pushing/pulling the block into the corner, and a second for it getting pulled/pushed away. I tested this info myself in 1.18.2 using the Carpet mod's /tick freeze and /tick step features (super cool features, would highly recommend checking them out), and Minecraft's /data get block command.

This channel is way too entertaining

This is so cool!!

its all fun and games until mcmakistein builds a rhombicosidodecahedron with the piston

me when i think of a piston pushing a piston: minecraft glitch goes zoom because its pushing itself and its infinite cuz it push it self so the piston length is still the same if you understand what i mean but then it booms

This is awesome.

Am I wrong but would it be better to use area effect clouds instead of armor stands. Area effect clouds have no model so they are less laggy.

You should make yourself doc ock with this, would be such a cool idea

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That's the most convincing argument to subscribe I've ever heard!

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