[MC-15099] Pick block on piston head returns nothing

Obviously, pick block action on extended piston heads creates no new blocks in your quickslots and doesn't turn active the slot preoccupied by piston, if any. This was expected because when used on either door blocks said action returns doors, and when used on other active redstone components it returns their inactive versions.

Comments

Ultimate Omicron 2013-05-04T03:12:27Z

The piston head could very well be modified into a useable block for creative mode, but that's more of a feature request than anything.

Marcus McDermand 2013-05-05T18:52:27Z

Intended. In 1.3.1, the pick block was changed so that if it was a block you weren't supposed to have, it would return as nothing.

kbk 2013-05-06T00:00:04Z

@Marcus
Sorry, but I'd like to disagree since there actually is a technical possibility for this. We can pick huge mushroom blocks for mushrooms, for example.

Marcus McDermand 2013-05-06T22:18:48Z

Then I don't know.

kbk 2013-06-19T19:23:50Z

Warren, why so?

Jesper the End 2013-06-30T13:51:52Z

I think you should reopen this issue. Pick block on the extended part of the piston should quite definitely give you something, it doesn't have to be the extended block id (34) but let it at least give you the piston. It's very annoying to just not get anything at all. When you do pick block on a door or bed, you get the block too right?

kbk 2013-06-30T16:36:59Z

@Jesper
Yes, as for today we can pick door blocks for doors, bed blocks for beds, glowing redstone ore blocks for redstone ore, huge mushroom blocks for corresponding mushrooms, and most redstone-related technical blocks give their stable counterparts on picking - with the exception of piston arms. The only other unpickable tech blocks can't be picked due to them being related to fluid or portal. We can even pick a command block, which grants an easier way to abuse CMP servers, yet we can't pick a piston arm for a piston.

Torabi 2013-06-30T21:50:50Z

It really doesn't matter whether an issue is classified as a bug or a feature request. What matters is that you make a compelling argument for the change, and the developers have a chance to see and consider it. So go with the flow. If an issue you care about is rejected here, don't fight it – post on the suggestions forum or subreddit.

kbk 2013-07-01T18:08:04Z

@Torabi
I got you. That won't do given that, firstly, the community is generally much less interested in minor logical consistency and integrity related issues like this one than the devs are, secondly, I generally suck at writing posts in order to gain community's support, and thirdly, I actually don't like to spend time irritating this community. All I wanted to do was to ask Mojang "Are you surely sure?" - that's all for now.