Thomas Baum

Alright grum, I respect the work you do on the daily, I truly do, but this is not ok and makes no sense to fix.

I will be deconstructing some false founded arguments that you and others have used against things like QC and bd.

"This isn't a feature therefor you shouldn't have been using it"

This argument can be deconstructed to a simple counter arguments that completely make this argument useless. This behavior has been in the game ever since pistons were added, if this was a bug, you should've fixed it then. Not now when everyone riles on it. You have no right to complain about people using this to their advantage.

"If you need to drop the block push a glazed terracota"

This is evidence of what others and I have been saying for a while. That you do not understand these "bugs" enough to make a call on them yourself. If you know anything about redstone you know the whole point of this "block dropping" is to be able to pull the sucker back in, something incapable of doing with glazed terracota. You're argument is the same as saying "just use a regular piston". It makes no sense.

"It's not intuitive"

From a game design perspective, making something un-intuitive when done right can be a stroke of genius and excite the game play experience for a user.
If everything in the real world always worked the way you expected then we can all agree that would be a dull life. Having these "quirks" in your game make the game more adaptable to real life methods and scenarios.

Grum I really appreciate the work you and others at Mojang are doing, but these past few updates are quite possibly some of the most dumbfounded "bug fixes" to ever exist.
You seem to have a real disconnect to the bugs that you are fixing that benefits nobody and harms us tech players. I think it would be ideal for you to have a line of communication between the tech community. I'm not having a go but I've seen you and other devs constantly back out of conversations about these things once you've run out of arguments. You have no valid reasoning for doing the things you are doing and having you in an environment where ghosting on a reddit comment would be so amazing for everyone. Again, I might sound threatening and that's truly not my intention, my intention is to have a civil discussion with you, that way we can arrive at a conclusion that benefits everyone.

Mojang have successful removed a use from an otherwise useless block.

It's no secrete that this feature has been removed because of the bedrock breaking people do with this. I'd like to purpose to Mojang to either keep this feature which adds an amazing use to an already existing useless block, or add an alternative for us to do the same with.

The worst part about removing this feature is that it doesn't affect anyone that isn't actively observing their behavior and using it to their advantage. No one is going to drop a dragon egg in lazy processing junks and go "Oppsie, bloody hole in my bedrock now". If this is your concern I quite frankly think that you haven't actually tried this feature yourself.

Also, about this being closed of as an invalid bug report after 5 minutes.
This sort of attitude on mojira can really annoy me and others, of course this was a bug, it also result in a well balanced, unintended, and also a somewhat believable (in the realms of Minecraft) behavior.

I and others implore you to reconsider closing this bug report so Mojang can see this and hopefully add an alternative or keep this amazingly useful feature.

You misinterpret me JoJoMasta – my previous comment wasn't directed at you. I was saying if anyone viewing this has friends or a community that play Minecraft you should ask them to come to this page and vote for the issue, to garner some attention to something that takes away from the atmosphere and customization of the game for LAN players.

If you really want this (possibly) resolved soon, it's going to need more support. Make a thread on your Minecraft server's forum and put a link to this page, tell your friends who play to come to this page, etc, and have them sign in and click on "Vote for this issue". Also, if you have commented and have yet to vote for this issue you might want to.

If enough people "Vote for this issue" would that help the chances of it being resolved?