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**TinCow** · 11-27-2012, 22:59

A new version of PistonChest has been released and I have installed it. The old version had a memory issue which made it break when it was being used by several pistons simultaneously. According to the dev, he's improved the code to use less memory so hopefully this issue is no longer present. @Sigurd, could you test this out with your system and let me know if it breaks again?

**Sigurd** · 11-28-2012, 08:45

Originally Posted by TinCow

@Sigurd, could you test this out with your system and let me know if it breaks again?

I'll do that...

**Sigurd** · 11-28-2012, 10:22

It seems to work... But there might be a bug in it.
Usually you can put a redstone torch one block under the front of a piston. When a block that can transmit a current is placed on top of it, the piston will not activate. It will activate if you lead a red stone current from one of the sides of the block atop the torch back to the backside of the piston.

Anyway.. this was supposed to be my trigger for pushing all the stone into chests. But the chest piston activates (all though the animation of the piston pushing the stone is missing as well as the piston sound) as soon as a block is placed atop the torch and the block is transported to the chest.

Manual activation of the pistons will show the pushing animation with sound.

Edit:
Scrap the above... I fixed the trigger by simply putting one repeater into the current from the torch to the pistons.
I have now a fully automatic smooth stone generator that will fill 3 large chests to the brink with smooth stone.
That is 3456 smooth stone blocks in one chest and 10368 blocks total before the machine stops filling the chests.

**Ishmael** · 11-28-2012, 10:57

Originally Posted by Sigurd

It seems to work... But there might be a bug in it.
Usually you can put a redstone torch one block under the front of a piston. When a block that can transmit a current is placed on top of it, the piston will not activate. It will activate if you lead a red stone current from one of the sides of the block atop the torch back to the backside of the piston.

Anyway.. this was supposed to be my trigger for pushing all the stone into chests. But the chest piston activates (all though the animation of the piston pushing the stone is missing as well as the piston sound) as soon as a block is placed atop the torch and the block is transported to the chest.

Manual activation of the pistons will show the pushing animation with sound.

Edit:
Scrap the above... I fixed the trigger by simply putting one repeater into the current from the torch to the pistons.
I have now a fully automatic smooth stone generator that will fill 3 large chests to the brink with smooth stone.
That is 3456 smooth stone blocks in one chest and 10368 blocks total before the machine stops filling the chests.

I hope you don't mind if I come visit your place sometime

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**TinCow** · 11-29-2012, 14:08

A tweak has been developed that re-enables the old sand generators. I've installed it and it works; my sand generator is once again online. If you need sandstone, I recommend that you make use of it because I plan on removing the fix and replacing it with the (slower and more balanced) plugin whenever that plugin becomes available.

[edit] I've also found a program that makes it easy to make London Tube-style rail maps. I've updated the rail map in the OP with a new version in this style. If I've missed any stations or lines, please let me know.

**Sigurd** · 11-30-2012, 00:45

Who is the joker who put a portal in the nether with the top side in the middle of the sea.. in the air (approx x3797 y-571)? Luckily I had a stack of dirt with me...

**TinCow** · 11-30-2012, 01:07

Originally Posted by Sigurd

Who is the joker who put a portal in the nether with the top side in the middle of the sea.. in the air (approx x3797 y-571)? Luckily I had a stack of dirt with me...

Based on the coordinates, that sounds like the location of the old Mushroom Island portal. Was the nether side of it at the end of a cobblestone road, in kind of a cobble house near a lava ocean? The island itself was deleted a while ago during some map regeneration, but the Nether portal to that area remained. You may have been the first person to go through it since the deletion, so it would have generated a new portal in the old spot, but there's no island there anymore, just open ocean.

**Sigurd** · 11-30-2012, 01:33

Originally Posted by TinCow

Based on the coordinates, that sounds like the location of the old Mushroom Island portal. Was the nether side of it at the end of a cobblestone road, in kind of a cobble house near a lava ocean? The island itself was deleted a while ago during some map regeneration, but the Nether portal to that area remained. You may have been the first person to go through it since the deletion, so it would have generated a new portal in the old spot, but there's no island there anymore, just open ocean.

Yeah... very near a nether fortress. The portal hangs in the air.. just out of reach for you to attach blocks to it... I had to swim to the bottom of the ocean and start stacking blocks...

**Xiahou** · 11-30-2012, 03:50

Originally Posted by TinCow

A tweak has been developed that re-enables the old sand generators. I've installed it and it works; my sand generator is once again online. If you need sandstone, I recommend that you make use of it because I plan on removing the fix and replacing it with the (slower and more balanced) plugin whenever that plugin becomes available.

[edit] I've also found a program that makes it easy to make London Tube-style rail maps. I've updated the rail map in the OP with a new version in this style. If I've missed any stations or lines, please let me know.

Neat. Too bad I just recently tore down the sand generator I had built, thinking it'd never function.... guess I'd better get it cranking. Make hay (or sand) while the sun shines...