Robotic Piston
A robotic piston is a piston a computer can push with.
Facts
| | | |—|—| | Kind | Block | | Kinds | Robotic Piston, Robotic Sticky Piston | | Stack | 64 | | Slots | 1, for a Bluetooth card | | Power | 6.94 mWh a push (five ticks of a running CPU), from the bus | | Faces | Its front is opposite its cable port |
The Robotic Piston’s window: its one slot, for a Bluetooth card.
Use
Place a robotic piston and join it to a computer: a cable goes on its one cable port, the face it was placed against. It can push on every other face, when a program says so. See Robotic Piston.
It moves blocks as a piston does: the blocks in front move (the game’s own piston rules, so it cannot push obsidian or too many blocks), its arm comes out, and goes back after a moment. A push costs power whether or not it moves anything. A program can also hold an arm out until it retracts it.
The sticky one pulls back what is in front of its arm when the arm goes back.
Instead of a cable, a Bluetooth card in its slot links it to its computer (right-click the piston to open the slot).
Crafting
- Robotic Piston: a chip in the middle, pistons above, left and right of it, a copper ingot below it, and iron ingots in the four corners.
- Robotic Sticky Piston: a slime ball above a robotic piston.
Notes
- The arm is a block of its own, and cannot be pushed.