Automation

## Chain Linking

When right clicking with Chains onto a boat or minecart, and then onto another, they'll link the two. Linked boats and minecarts will always remain at close distance, which allows you to make trains.

## Chains Connect Blocks

Chains can now connect blocks together when a piston moves them. As you can see in the image, the chain block itself doesn't have to be moved by the piston, and will attach indirectly to other moved blocks.

Additionally, the sticking behavior for chains connecting to slime blocks and other sticky sources has been changed: Chains will now only connect to them if they do so visually, which allows for some extra cool trickery.

## Chute

The Chute is a new automation block. Items can be inserted into it via automation (Hopper, Dropper, etc), and any items inserted are instantly dropped under it, always precisely in the center.

The Chute can be disabled with a redstone signal or by placing a block under it.

## Color Slime

Slime blocks can be dyed Red and Blue. The primary color blocks (Red, Green, and Blue) can be combined to create secondary colors (Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow).

While being moved by pistons, two slime blocks will only connect if they're the same color, or if one is made of another (so Red won't connect to Blue, but it'll connect to Magenta). Any color of slime will connect to non-slime blocks around it normally.

## Dispensers Place Blocks

Dispensers are allowed to place blocks in the world. Any blocks that already had a placement behaviour, like TNT, are ignored. The blocks are rotated so they're placed forward from the dispenser. Note that crops such as Wheat Seeds or Potatoes also count.

## Ender Watcher

The Ender Watcher is a new redstone input block. It emits a redstone signal if a player is looking directly at it. The signal is higher the closer to the center of the block the player is looking. It's crafted with an Eye of Ender, Redstone and Blocks of Biotite.

## Endermites Form Shulkers

Similarly to how a Silverfish can bury into stone, Endermites can now bury into Purpur. When they do so, they'll transform themselves and the block into a Shulker at that position, making Shulker Shells renewable.

## Feeding Trough

The Feeding Trough is a new block you can craft with some planks and fence gates. When right clicked, a menu will pop up where you can put food inside it.

Nearby animals will flock to the trough to eat the food within. This works just as if a player had fed the animal, but with a few differences:

* There's a chance the animal will need more than one bit of food to get in love mode;
* Animals bred with the trough will not produce XP;
* If there's more than 32 animals in a 10 block radius, the animals will eat, but never enter love mode.

## Gravisand

Gravisand is a new sand variant, crafted with sand and an ender pearl. Gravisand will not fall unless primed with redstone. However, if gravisand receives a signal, and can not fall, it'll instead float up. Additionally, gravisand will propagate the signal to any adjacent gravisand blocks, causing them to fall or float as well.

Gravisand allows for a variety of redstone components, especially as its magnetic properties have it constantly output a comparator signal of 15.

## Iron Rod

Pistons pushing an Iron Rod will have it work as a drill of sorts, breaking any blocks in front in the direction the rod is facing. These can break anything the piston can push. Iron Rods are crafted with 2 Iron Ingots and an End Rod.

## Metal Buttons

Combining a Wooden Button with either an Iron Ingot or a Gold Ingot creates a button of that type. Drawing influence from Weighted Pressure Plates, Gold Buttons emit a very short pulse (2 redstone ticks), whereas Iron Buttons emit a very long pulse (5 seconds).

## New Redstone Circuits

Two new redstone circuit components are added to the game, the Redstone Randomizer, and the Redstone Inductor:

* The **Randomizer** is crafted the same way as a comparator, but with Biotite (from the World category). When given a redstone signal from the back, it'll randomly enable either the left or right output.
* The **Inductor** is crafted with Stone, Redstone, and Magma Cream. Its output value is the analog sum of all 3 input sides. It can also be locked by having a repeater or comparator pointing to it. While locked, it'll maintain the output value regardless of any changes.

## Obsidian Pressure Plate

Pressure Plates made with obsidian will only trigger when Players walk over them.

## Pistons Move Tile Entities

Pistons are allowed to move Tile Entities (blocks with extra data attached, like Chests or Furnaces). Attempting to move a block to an invalid position will cause it to break and drop its contents, though.

For a block that pistons can't move, now that furnaces can't be used, look into Sturdy Stone in the Building category.

Note that some blocks such as Monster Spawners can't be moved this way, so you don't go and break the game!

## Weather Sensor

The Weather Sensor is crafted with Purpur Slabs, Biotite and Glass. It works like a Daylight Sensor, but it emits a full redstone signal if it's raining or snowing.

Similarly to the Daylight Sensor, right clicking it inverts its output. Lastly, if it's raining in the world, but the biome you're in has no rain, like a desert, the sensor will only emit a signal of 7.