The Bug:
When a piston is extended, its arm isn't included within its hitbox. Please note that this report is talking about extended piston hitboxes and not piston head hitboxes.
Steps to Reproduce:
Place down a piston and activate it.
Look at the hitbox of the extended piston.
Take note as to whether or not extended piston hitboxes include their arms.
Observed Behavior:
There is no hitbox of the arms of extended pistons.
Expected Behavior:
A hitbox would be present on the arms of extended pistons.
Linked issues
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On bedrock edition that part of the piston is a full block hitbox instead. MCPE-83258
I’d like to request ownership of this report, the original reporter hasn’t been active since January 2018, I will keep this updated.
Can confirm this behavior in 21w40a. Here are some extra details regarding this problem.
The Bug:
Extended piston hitboxes do not include the arm of pistons.
Steps to Reproduce:
Place down a piston and activate it.
Look at the hitbox of the extended piston.
Take note as to whether or not the arm is included in the extended piston's hitbox.
Observed Behavior:
Extended piston hitboxes do not include the arm of pistons.
Expected Behavior:
Extended piston hitboxes would include the arm of pistons.
Can confirm in 1.18.1. I'd like to request ownership of this ticket if that's alright since I believe the current reporter's account has been deactivated. 🙂
Affects 1.18.2-pre3; I've opened MC-248786 to cover the core issue responsible for this problem.
Avoma
MC-4504 also mentioned pistons, but only in the description; brewing stands were indeed fixed.