Honeycomb is largely decorative, but honey blocks? They’re ridiculously useful, and I’ll tell you why. First, like hay bales, they significantly reduce fall damage. Drop onto a honey block, and you’ll only suffer 80% of the pain as you sink into the sweet, sweet goo.
Secondly, anything moving over a honey block will move much slower and be unable to jump, making them easy targets for a loaded crossbow, or even a tripwire trap. This effect works through carpets and slabs too, if you want to conceal your trap. That means you can glide along honey walls a short distance when jumping past them (just wipe yourself off afterwards).
Thirdly, and most interestingly, when a honey block is moved by a piston, it’ll try to bring all the blocks and items sitting next to it – and those blocks will also push blocks they’re next to. Oh, and if one of those blocks is a honey block, it’ll grab the blocks and items that it’s next to as well. Which means that one piston can suddenly move a lot of blocks in one go. Up to a maximum of 12, to be precise.
Being able to move blocks allows you to create all sorts of machines; conveyor belts, elevators, combine harvesters, flying machines, huge automatic doors, and much more. We compiled a list of some of the coolest examples last year, but if you’ve made something better since then send it our way and we’ll check it out!
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