Asta Zora
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I want to take the opportunity to assume it might not be JUST a piston related issue, since this works without slime (I'll check honey too!)
I'm going to take a hunch here it's not the pistons checking update order. It's the slime block rejecting the retraction maybe due to the piston being moved by something else (separation update might cause the slime block to become immovable?) Wild idea. But maybe its related, and not entirely related to the piston....
My theory is this. to clarify it, that is
There are 3 pistons. the piston MOVING the other piston makes the slime block FAIL to retract (block 36 might be affecting it? not sure)
This is a crazy theory, but MAYBE it's related. I sat and thought about this for a very long time...
I did find a workaround that isn't quirky, I figured this was something small.
if I don't have the second piston, and I only intend to pull the slime block back, this system works as intended (I was using this for a nether item sorter)
in fact, the extra piston, is technically pointless. but it did not make sense to me, on why a slime block, would prevent a completed circuit, that since it's a solid block, should work just like any other block.
Slime's always been weird. 😃
Thank you for all the lovely bits of information, I'll deal with what I made to work around this!
P.S. No that was not confusing, that makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking the issue was.
I also took this to complete vanilla, just in case that would alter any debug information.
I added 5 screenshots in the order of how it's updated to reproduce this
I did notice this change when I updated my world from 1.15 to the snapshots. I do not know of it's intention but minecarts DID change during this update. I use to have a lava disposal system in a creative testing world (1.15.2) that would destroy all carts in lava, now they survive, and my system broke.
I'm not sure what kind of information I can provide, however, I have a very massive gold farm I was using in 1.16.1 that worked wonderfully, (using portal mechanics) I can confirm that this is 100% broken (yeah 5 days spent on this project for it to break the next day, hah. karma)
What I can provide is some strange information
While the farm went from 100k nuggets an hour, to basically 0 some noticeable changes have occurred.
The pigman prefers portals, MUCH closer to where they should be, however, the multiplied distance is still relevant.
The farm rates are now near 0. I can provide a world for this if needed. I do not want to provide it, but if it helps prove this breakage, I am more than willing to assist!