Piston Packing

For example, 8 dirt piles will turn into a dirt block if packed by a piston

Piston Packing is a multi-block solution to compressing compactable items. Piston Packing takes loose items and squeezes them into more dense blocks. If a piston (or sticky piston with a block) pushes items into a completely enclosed Air Block, the appropriate block is produced.

Using a Piston Shovel in addition will allow the player to turn any blocks created through Piston packing, except for Loose Bricks and Block of Flint, into an item. This will make the item pop up above the shovel when it is pushed by a piston.

Packed Earth is one of the earliest non-floating, non-flammable block that can be mass produced, and is often the preferred building material used to build a Mobtrap.

Video Tutorial

• Polar's Fast Piston Packer:

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• Dawn's automated packer:

Uses

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output		Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Block of Bone	Bone			Block of Dung	Dung
Block of Flesh	Rotten Flesh			Block of Flint	Flint
Block of Gold Ore	Chunk of Gold Ore			Block of Iron Ore	Chunk of Iron Ore
Block of Oysters	Creeper Oyster			Block of Soap	Soap
Block of Spider Eyes	Spider Eye			Dirt	Pile of Dirt
Ender Block	Ender Pearl			Gravel	Pile of Gravel
Loose Brick	Brick			Loose Cobblestone	Loose Stone
Loose Nether Brick	Nether Brick (Item)			Loose Stone Bricks	Stone Brick
Packed Earth	Loose Dirt			Sandstone	Sand
Sand	Pile of Sand			Soul Sand	Pile of Soul Sand
Unfired Clay	Clay Pile			Unfired Clay	Clay

Piston Shovel

Here is the complete list of blocks that can be piston packed, and which one can be mined by the piston shovel:

Piston Packed blocks	Can be mined by Piston Shovel?		Piston Packed blocks	Can be mined by Piston Shovel?
Block of Bone	Yes		Block of Dung	Yes
Block of Flesh	Yes		Block of Flint	No
Block of Gold Ore	No		Block of Iron Ore	No
Block of Oysters	Yes		Block of Soap	No
Block of Spider Eyes	Yes		Dirt	Yes
Ender Block	No		Gravel	Yes
Loose Brick	No		Loose Cobblestone	No
Loose Nether Brick	No		Loose Stone Brick	No
Packed Earth	No		Sandstone	No
Sand	Yes		Soul Sand	Yes
Clay Block	Yes		Thatch	No
Hay Bale	No

Changelog Notes

• Added Hardcore Packing as a new mechanic. The way this works is that if a piston (or a solid block pushed by a piston) pushes certain items into an enclosed space (an empty block surrounded on all sides by solid blocks. It doesn't work on partial blocks with solid surfaces at present, although I may add that in the future), the items will be automatically compressed into block form if they're present in sufficient number to complete the regular recipe (e.g. 4 clay balls for a clay block, 9 Dung for a Dung block). This applies to clay balls, snowballs, flint, bricks, Nether Bricks, Soap, Dung, and the various piles (dirt, sand, gravel, & soul sand). In other words, it basically works to form any simple storage block for items that wouldn't require additional work or tools in their crafting (like Padding or Iron blocks). This is of course very useful in automation builds.

• Added the ability to Hardcore Pack blocks using any surrounding solid surface, not just full blocks. In other words, if they are facing the right way, you can now use stuff like Siding, slabs, and other pistons to contain the area where the items will be packed. Worth noting is that glass also works (it did in the previous release but I forgot to mention it), which is nice if you want to be able to see the interior of the packing area. This should function with most suitable blocks, but I may have missed some so let me know if you come across any that don't work