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PistonHopper

Push blocks inside a hopper with a piston
by atesin_dj
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PistonHopper

Push blocks inside a hopper with pistons

Simplicity.... NEW PISTON CRUSHER FUNCTION: push a solid block against obsidian to break it

This plugin is intended to encourage building by supplying materials easily.. works great with generator and harvester machines

piston off  piston on

Plugin description

There are many plugins to store blocks inside chests, but this plugin stores in a hopper, is more flexible, simple and efficient.. now with piston crusher function also!

Installation and configuration

  • put PistonHopper.jar file in your CraftBukkit plugins folder
  • reload or restart your server
  • you will see in console how much materials were loaded
  • you can customize storable/breakable materials in config.yml file inside plugin folder

Usage

  • place a piston, a block of a pushable and obtainable material, and a hopper together in a line
  • power the piston so it pushes the block against the hopper
  • now you will see the block is inside the hopper, do whatever you want with it
  • when hopper were full piston will stuck
  • push a solid block against obsidian to break and drop it (since v2)

Commands and permissions

  • none, just plug and play

Notes

I tried to put all piston movable blocks not unobtainable with silk touch
Until wrote for 1.8.3 should work for any craftbukkit version fixing some material names in config.yml
Please report bugs or suggestions below, you can browse source code in GitHub

PistonHopper v3
MC 1.8.1
Release 2015-07-18 Get
PistonHopper v2
MC 1.8.1
Release 2015-07-16 Get
PistonHopper v1
MC 1.8.1, 1.8
Release 2015-04-23 Get

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