I Built a Working LEGO Minecraft Piston…

Lego is like minecraft hardcore make one wrong step and you’re gone for good which means lego technic is like minecraft redstone oh i should build a life-size minecraft piston out of lego by the way this became one of my biggest and heaviest builds ever so do stick

Around till the end this is a minifigure size minecraft piston it’s boring looks bad and doesn’t even work let’s scale it up a little minecraft block is 16 by 16 by 16 pixels and we can make a perfect lego square by stacking a plate and a

Tile on a 2×2 brick so if i take this 32 by 32 base plate it’s actually the perfect size to make a life-size minecraft vlog wait oh well i’m going to pretend it’s life-size anyways unfortunately because this part of the piston block moves at the bottom

I can’t use this base plate because it would look weird if part of the base plate was sticking out when the piston was extended so instead i’m going to make a 32 by 24 base for the cobblestone part of the piston i’m using this piston in the game as a

Reference for my build and i just realized all the plates i just laid down need to be black so let’s fix that Okay so now i need to build four tall pillars about 26.6 bricks high i’m gonna have to use a lot of black bricks in place i started by building a bunch of black pixels for each corner with these two by two bricks and plates and of course i’ve

Run out so i switched to using one by two bricks in place to make even more pixels then i ran out of those two so i calculated how much more for each pillar i needed and only finished two thankfully i decided to line up one to

Make sure it was the right height but it was way too long not sure what type of math i was using to calculate that but i still have a long way to go so i don’t have time to mourn the loss brain cells next i need to build three walls on the

Outside of the piston i’m going to use gray and dark gray pieces even though there’s like a kajillion different colors in the actual cobblestone texture but lego doesn’t exactly have all those colors the first layer may have taken like three tries to work out because i kept forgetting how many pixels each

Block is but i eventually figured it out then i started building up the wall but there was a sinking feeling because deep down i knew i didn’t have close to enough parts to finish all the walls and you know what else i probably don’t have enough of views on this video because if

This video gets 1 million views i’m gonna buy a lambo yes it’s made out of lego and yes it’s like 10 000 times cheaper than a real lambo but it’s still a lambo so make sure you like and stay all the way to the end of the video but i still have to

Somehow fill in three walls of the piston so i hopped into creative mode and went into bricklink a lego buying and selling marketplace to order a bunch of gray and dark gray pieces i ordered some 2×6 2×4 and 2×2 bricks and plates in dark gray and normal gray but with my

Off-camera mining session complete i now had to wait a whole whopping five days for my lego to come man i could use some instant gratification right now but that’s okay because i still have an entire moving part of the piston to build i started by laying out a layer of

Four stud white plates and started adding some dark tan bricks then i realized i definitely don’t have enough dark tan to make an entire piston so yeah so because i don’t have enough dark hand bricks i’m going to use my big brain and utilize my large amount of dark 2×2 tan

Tiles if i use these snot bricks with a brick and a plate and a tile it’s the exact same thickness as three studs so for every dark line in the front of the piston i can just add a layer of these towels i slowly built up the front of

The piston and used the same technique for all the sides i also made sure to add these gray bits in the corners of the piston and somehow miraculously everything started lining up okay so i’m almost finished with the front of the piston we need to cover up

The top i built the same sideways technique that i used for the rest of the dark lines but the pieces used to hook them in stick up too high and aren’t dark tan so i’m gonna have to use normal pieces for this part i don’t think i have enough pan pals

We’re gonna have to resort to using one by two towels to cover the rest up and that’s done i think it looks really good but now we need to build the actual piston beam part of the build but that shouldn’t be too difficult i got out a

Bunch of tan bricks and used plates to form a base for the piston to make sure it was stable and so the front wouldn’t rip off the front of the piston i locked in the beam with a bunch of pieces so i need to cover the beam in some sort of

Tiles and it would make sense if they were tan but i basically have no tan left so i think i’m going to use gray plus the gear racks i’m using will be great as well and speaking of gear x it’s time i figured out how exactly to

Check off the working part of this build originally i was going to motorize the piston and activate it by turning on the battery box my friend brick science suggested that instead i should put the lever on top of the piston and make it manually open and close if i hook the

Lever to an axle that is connected to a gear i can use a gear ratio to make the ending gear turn much faster than the one connected to the handle this way while i’m only turning one level a fraction of a rotation the gear at the end spins multiple times pushing the

Piston all the way out or at least that’s the general idea i was planning to have a lever this whole time but having on the top is going to make it so much easier alrighty now that the wooden part of the piston is finished i can build a platform inside the cobblestone

Part that the piston can slide in and out on this was simple enough but i was starting to have second thoughts because it’s getting really really heavy just the piston alone weighs a lot and i’m not sure the gears will be able to push it but there’s only one way to find out

Okay here’s my attempt one it’s getting there but i still think it could spin faster so that the piston extends further so we need to gear it up even more i added another layer of gears and tested it out okay so i think it’s fast enough so i’m

Gonna try using it on the axle piston since i don’t have an easy way to secure the lever to the piston i just decided to hold it in place i turned it and uh that certainly leaves a lot to be desired i was pretty sure i had just

Bent the axle because the piston is literally so heavy it coils the axle before being turned after multiple attempts i was just realizing how heavy the piston actually was so with that in mind i decided to resort back to using motors i got out my strongest and

Slowest motor put a gear on it and turned it on so it actually pushes the piston sorta but to lock the motor sturdily would take so much structure it isn’t worth it i decided to put the piston on wheels that might sound crazy but i have these

Small wheels that would fit on the bottom and if i just raise up the base of the cobblestone part it will hopefully work much better okay perfect but now it looks weird so we’re gonna have to build an entire grass base for the piston this is gonna

Be big i went with a 48 by 48 base plate because it fits perfectly with the piston and gives enough room around the sides to look like a grass block okay now we need to add a layer of brown bricks and then a bunch of plates i also

Added two rows of smooth brown tiles so that the wheels would still roll smoothly and finally after hours of work um yeah i still have a lot to do i was still waiting for my package to arrive so i decided to finish up the wall that

I started while i waited for them to come i barely had enough parts and had to cut some corners but with that the wall was finite I got to work building up the walls man i need a bigger desk please subscribe i definitely under ordered the pieces but i see use my big brain to cut some corners again but after another hour of work all three walls were finished and with that all done it was

Finally ready for mechanism time even though the wheels making it roll a lot easier i decided to not use motors and gears and go for a simpler more effective route i built a small contraption at the top of the piston that could hold the lever in place while

Still allowing it to go up and down and tilt to either side then i made the actual lever longer so it could reach down and connect into the piston beam i took off the gear x and made a platform to hook the lever onto and wait it actually works good thing i didn’t

Waste a couple hours trying a way more complicated method i finished up the top of the model by creating the same cobbled pattern with a bunch of 2×2 gray and dark gray tiles and built up the base of the lever even though the actual in-game lever is 3 pixels tall i could

Only make mine one otherwise the lever would not have enough room to tilt open and close okay now we need to change the color of level because for some reason i thought it should be gray not brown and finally we need to add a wall of gray

Bricks behind the piston to close it all up and now it’s officially done i just made a working life-size lever activated minecraft piston and it looks so sick plus like it works You