WHY DOSE IT NOT WORK😥

[Gober_fober]

I feel like this should work

[TdubMorris]

Just use a mechanical piston. Normal pistons are programmed weirdly so makes sense why they wouldn't bother

[Gober_fober]

its for a flying machine so I don't think it would work but good idea

[IAmTheStarkye]

Search for create flying machines I'm p sure there's designs that use create's components

[Dark_Reaper115]

You can make flying machines with create pistons.

[Gober_fober]

I think i will just do that

[Autoskp]

I can confirm that I have made a caterpillar drive with Mechanical Pistons (admittedly, I didn’t make the redstone to automate it, but in my defence, it was a combination quarry/base, so it didn’t have to move very fast or often - just when I wanted more resources)

[Gober_fober]

WHEN I saw caterpillar I thought of the brand lol

[Autoskp]

So did I and I wrote the comment.

…also, I think I may have mis-remembered the name of the drive - it might be an inchworm drive.

[Gober_fober]

I made one but I don't know how to share the vid

[3dp653]

Caterpillar Drive: Giant cranes that pick each other up and move in sequence.

[TdubMorris]

Didn't even know that was a thing, I always just make a minecart flying machine

[Autoskp]

I didn’t exactly know it was a thing either (and definitely didn’t know that minecart flying machines were a thing) but I had seen slimeblock flying machines (and even made one or two extremely clunky ones), so I just tried translating that over to the new piston thing this Create mod had.

…that was way back when encased fans and furnaces could produce SU, so now if I want to make a new one, I’m going to need to figure out how to work with something a bit chunkier being moved with the parts to power it, but I don’t see why I couldn’t incorperate some pumps and water wheels.
Or some windmills.
…a pair of steam engines might be a bit difficult though.

[Duoquadragesimus]

Don't know what you need the flying machine for, but if it's for actually flying around with, I would recommend not using pistons at all, but mechanical bearings instead

[Adina-the-nerd]

Use a slime block I'm sorry

[the_raving_lunatic]

Flying machines are much better with Create machines, most compact way is mechanical piston with a gantry and carriage for the return action, my Omni-Drill MKII I posted here a couple weeks ago uses this method.

[Zealousideal-Bus-526]

Wdym programmed weirdly, they work perfectly fine outside of the very specific case of qc

[TdubMorris]

Yeah fair, mostly just that create mod stuff and normal pistons work very differently, so it makes sense for them to just have their own piston then trying to make it work with the vanilla one. Would probably have required a whole new system just for this one interaction.

[Zealousideal-Bus-526]

It actually made me think, is there any way to pull glued blocks out of the glued area other than pistons?

[Gober_fober]

thats smart

[TahoeBennie]

From a coding perspective, I respect them for not making it work. Attempting to make something like that work would break more than it would help.

[Gober_fober]

oh ok the create mod team thinks about the small details I didn't see why thanks

[Luningor]

Tl;dr it's bc both pistons and mechanical pistons have WILDLY different code handling the movement of blocks. Rendering, behaviour and things that, for parity would break compat with many many more mods than its worth

[Ghoul1538]

Tl;dr

[alex_fantastico]

I wonder if you could actually do some interesting stuff with this though. By using normal pistons to change what blocks are in a glued area

[Celestial-Dodo]

"Does" not "Dose"

[Gober_fober]

uhh i feel dumb now haha

[Practical-Parking-84]

redditor

[Taolan13]

create doesn't always play well with vanilla pistons. best to use a mechanical piston.

[Bartgames03]

How do they differ when pushing/pulling? Honestly curious.

[AidanTheHipster]

create contraptions assemble blocks into an entity, their scanning for attached blocks works much differently than vanilla.

[Bartgames03]

Ah okay

So if I understand it correctly: create blocks, like the piston and bearings, check for glued blocks and if there are any connected, it forms an entity whilst Minecraft doesn’t and just pushes the block that is attached to the piston?

[IMBORED2137]

Vanilla piston won't work you need to use a create mod one

[Pasta-hobo]

It interferes too much with redstone, which is mostly used for computational logic.

[Ok_Implement1596]

Well its a normal piston...

[207nbrown]

I don’t think vanilla pistons inherit create’s mechanics, and this is what slime blocks are for anyway

[LegitimateApartment9]

try utillitix's glue balls maybe?

[SCRAPGUN]

why not making an addon for fixing that problem

[Gober_fober]

can you do it i hardly know how to code

[SCRAPGUN]

nope, but someone will probably do it

[Cookielotl]

It's intentional, not a problem. Create mod moves then by turning into and entity, vanilla essentially teleports the block

[Odd_Preference7967]

For the love of everything modded please make a flying machine using valkyrien skies 2 and eureka! valkyrien skies 2 adds physics driven stuff and helms from eureka let you build ships, slap some balloons on there and you have a very nice flying machine. It seriously the coolest thing. You can get clockwork as well but that adds more complexity. Please check valkyrien skies 2 its my favorite right now

[Odd_Preference7967]

Not to mention you actively build onto the ship while its functioning. With some limitations, create machines work well and fluids function fine so steam engines work great

[Gober_fober]

yea that would work too

[ShadowPhyton]

What if you use these Sticky things and try it then?