Redstone on Pistons in Minecraft 1.9

Hello everyone this is mumbo and welcome back to another minecraft video in this one we’re going to be taking a look at minecraft 1.9 now as you guys know this came out just the other day it came out on february the 29th we are playing in

The official release as you can see in the top left-hand corner right there minecraft 1.9 and inside that release there is a rather interesting new feature that everyone missed i haven’t seen any videos on it i was messing about with redstone the other day and i

Discovered it it turns out you can now place redstone on top of pistons now before all of you guys start commenting down in the comment section that i’m re-texturing blocks and doing all that sort of thing because i have been known to do that in

The past i’m just going to show you guys something real quick as you can see we chucked down some slabs we placed down some redstone these slabs right here would not generally power this piston because they’re transparent blocks but as you can see redstone and the piston extends this redstone right here is

Powering this piston and that piston is extending now if you’re like me you’re probably very excited at this point you’re thinking that there are tons of possibilities there’s loads of things i want to work on i can compact down all of my doors i can build a bunch of stuff

There’s just loads of new possibilities unfortunately there is a little bit of flaw in the plan as you can see right here when i break this redstone torch the redstone actually breaks so unfortunately redstone on top of pistons it doesn’t quite work but i suppose it

Is a step in that sort of direction now you may be sat there thinking mumbo why on earth have you uploaded this video then this clearly doesn’t work properly it’s not particularly interesting it’s not something i really want to see now that’s a pretty good question the reason

I’ve uploaded this is because it’s made me ask the question is this something i would like to see in minecraft is this something that i would like to see added into the game it’s been ages since we’ve had any kind of revolutionary redstone update like slime blocks and hoppers and

Droppers and all that sort of thing is this the new revolutionary thing that could come with minecraft 1.9 or one of the future updates the ability to place redstone directly on top of pistons to power them now i personally don’t really know where i stand on this one on the

One hand i’m a pretty traditional redstone kind of guy this is the way that it’s always been we’ve never been able to place redstone on top of pistons why should we have that ability now that will completely change things and i don’t particularly like change but on

The other hand it would open quite a large number of doors in terms of redstone possibilities and various different contraptions that weren’t possible before that have now recently become possible due to this change in redstone obviously it’s not an official change in redstone it doesn’t quite work

Just yet but this just shows that we do sort of have the building blocks here to make everything work so what i’m going to do is i’m going to hold a bit of a poll on twitter i’m going to ask you guys would you like to see this be an

Official feature or not but also i would like to hear your opinions down in the comments section let me know what your thoughts are because i’d love to read through them now unfortunately it’s been a bit of a short video today i understand that this has been a very

Quick one i just wanted to upload this to get you guys talking because that’s what the redstone community is all about i want to chat to you guys and see what your thoughts are but if you have enjoyed this video please be sure to that like button and if you really loved

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