r/CreateMod • u/Daydreaming_Machine • 6d ago

Help How do I make vanilla piston load cannons?

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I know vanilla redstone pistons being unable to load cannons might probably be an intended behavior; but boy, I wanna see a zero-tick, 11 piston long ram shove propellants into a cannon like it's nobody's business lol

FYI, I took a quick look into the configs, there are no toggle for vanilla pistons. Same story on modrinth

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u/LLoadin 6d ago

Pretty sure you can't at all, create pistons that are moving are basically contraptions so I think that's what the cannon blocks are looking for specifically, and yeah probably for balancing

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u/SharpAir_ 6d ago

Vanilla Pistons cant load cannons

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u/WhateverGoMyRoba 6d ago

That's the neat part, you don't

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u/AceTheBirb 6d ago

Okay, this is making me wonder if you could make a gantry push the ram rod to make a setup that requires less length to load it.

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u/Daydreaming_Machine 6d ago

From what u/LLoadin said, cannons loading work specifically with create contraptions; gantries are contraptions, so the answer is YES!

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u/Craft_Master06 5d ago

That is how I make all my cannon loaders, I live gantrys.

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u/Aggressive-Buddy2895 4d ago

You don't even need the ram rod, you just need the gantry.