MCPE-17389Observers only emit activation power instead of strong power like in the Java edition
The MCPE counterpart of MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. (And then reverted to not WAI, and then later made WAI again due to community feedback. It remains the intended behavior as of 16w44a.) MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.
Interestingly, observers already act as if they powered pistons through blocks because of MCPE-16286. So changing MCPE observers actually wouldn't break most flying machines. The community also seems to be in favor of changing observers as well, so I don't think there would be any backlash against a change to strong power.
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Observers only emit activation power instead of strong power like in the Java edition
The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.
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The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749,which was marked as WAI. MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.
The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749,which was marked as WAI. MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.
The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. (And then reverted to not WAI, and then later made WAI again.) MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.
The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. (And then reverted to not WAI, and then later made WAI again due to community feedback. It remains the intended behavior as of 16w44a.) MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.
The MCPE counterpart of
MC-107749, which was marked as WAI. (And then reverted to not WAI, and then later made WAI again due to community feedback. It remains the intended behavior as of 16w44a.) MCPE observers, in order to be consistent with the Java edition, should strongly power blocks, instead of only activating the blocks immediately in front of them. See attached picture for comparison.Interestingly, observers already act as if they powered pistons through blocks because of
MCPE-16286. So changing MCPE observers actually wouldn't break most flying machines. The community also seems to be in favor of changing observers as well, so I don't think there would be any backlash against a change to strong power.
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is duplicated by
MCPE-24985
EDIT: Changed title/description to match official terminology for redstone power. See also the newly-created counterpart for this issue: MCPE-17389.
Observers output strong power in the Java edition. In MCPE, observers only output activation power. See the attached image. I have no idea which behavior is intended, and both have their advantages and disadvantages. I wish we could have 2 different observers: an activation-power-emitting one and a strong-power-emitting one.
I see
This is working as intended.
MC-107749was incorrectly resolved.[Mojang] Adrian Östergård, as of 16w44a, the decision to make Java edition observers output activation power instead of strong power has been reverted, and observers in the Java edition now once again output strong power.
Should this issue be reopened? Changing MCPE observers to work differently wouldn't break any flying contraptions, since observers already act as if they powered pistons through blocks because of
MCPE-16286.So changing observers to output strong power would NOT break most flying contraptions, since the Java-edition behavior is already happening (when it comes to pistons) in MCPE because of a bug.
Yes, please reopen it!