Mesecons: piston vs movestone

[adversity]

Hey all!

I am enjoying Minetest as well as the mesecons mod!

I do have a question regarding pistons and movestones.

Through my own experiments I noticed the following:

Pistons can push up to 15 blocks (same as Minecraft I believe).

Movestones can move at least 100 blocks (probably more, I just quit testing at 100 blocks) and a sticky movestone can also pull the same 100 blocks as well.

My question would be if there is a limit to how many blocks a movestone can move and/or pull?

This is just a curiosity question - not a complaint or etc.

Thanks!

[Calinou]

In Minecraft, pistons can push up to 12 blocks.
It is probably possible to limit it (I do not know how though).

PS: next time, you should ask in the mod's topic.

[adversity]

Hello Calinou,

Thanks for the info and I apologize as I thought I was in the right area.

Is this the correct area you referenced: http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=628

Thanks!

[Jeija]

If noone of the contributors changed it movestones can push and/or pull an infinite amount of blocks (depends on how much chunks are loaded)

[adversity]

Awesome! Thanks Jeija!

[Temperest]

Yes, pistons are limited to 15 blocks, while movestones can keep going indefinitely so long as there are mesecon rails to support it.

@Jeija: I plan to change this to 15 as well in order to make everything consistent. What do you think?

[Jeija]

@Temperest:
Limiting it is fine. You should then just keep a way to easily change the number of blocks being pushed (if possible in mesecons/settings.lua; like MOVESTONE_NODES_PUSHED = 15)