8:06 Real talk though, imagine you open a piston door and the whole mechanism just leaves, only for a bridge across the gap to pop up

I'm pretty sure at 2:33 it stole the obsidian because, it stopped for a moment, becoming blocks, but then the Redstone wire was still active causing it to activate again. Flotater turns all the blocks into the state they were the moment it started flying so buttons stay down and redstone wire stays on.

In case you’re curious, the floatater’s push limit is based off of radius instead of number of blocks. I think it can push all connected blocks within 30 blocks of the floatater. Edit: it is actually a size (as in volume) limit of 32x32x32. Thanks for correcting me

April fools snapshots tend to add things mojang has been testing, so I think in the future we might get some thing similar to the flotator block in a future update

Here are a couple of things you should know about the floatater: using multiple in the same direction will increase it's speed it only sticks to things it's making direct adjacent contact with, so a top slab will not stick to the side of a bottom slab. Flotatoes can be placed in the air and are very useful for stopping a floatater.

This block looks like something that would be perfect for an "End Update". The ships of the end are a transport that will probably work.

I have learned that using pottery can effectively stop the flotator and prevent it from sticking, and I'm pretty sure it also works with non-full blocks (such as soul sand) as well.

Now you can officially make a flying 3x3 piston door!

I don't think it's as glitchy as you're thinking. you're thinking of it as a piston when you should be thinking of it as a thruster and you're forgetting that it's from an april fools update, thus making it immune to any molding within minecraft's standards for things like this. 1. it can move things pistons can't because it isn't a piston and it isn't seriously intended to account for normal minecraft's insurance rules 2. I have to assume it can't move tile entities because that is just something mojang can't figure out how to do with whatever they code in or something, so it logically breaks them so they can't impede the rest of the structure that it is moving 3. I'm not certain but I think its limit is dependent on distance rather than block count, so it couldn't push that long line because some part of it was basically a wall 4. I'm pretty sure with the elevator, it just yoinked the obsidian because the redstone line was still powered so when it came to a stop, the floatater was repowered and the redstone was able to turn off in that same instant, which allowed the machine to stop once it hit the block limit ( no clue why some of it got atomized and others got saved) 5. Before assuming the tnt looked glitchy, I would recommend what it looks like pushing other entities to see if it looks similar (I feel like I should make sure that this isn't interpreted as me sounding upset or anything, it's just an observation I made and thought I would mention, but I'm often bad with word choice so sorry if it sounds mean at all :) ) 6. the final piston door was being moved because the pistons on the left were connected to the floatater's structure, thus connecting the entire door to the floatater That's all the things I can remember right now. It's important to remember that not everything has to fit within the preexisting molds, especially when it isn't made for the base game. The copper bulb, for example, wasn't bugged or glitchy when it had a one tick delay, it was intentionally made that way (unfortunately they changed it to 2 ticks for reasons i'm unaware of). I find that it's best to assume everything is working as intended; that makes it easier to understand the rules of the individual feature and judge them accordingly instead of judging them based on what similar things we have already because that can lead to viewing the thing that makes the feature special and different enough to be its own feature. Ofc it definitely isn't perfect -- it decapitated a piston after all -- but it seemed like you were viewing its rules and features as bugs simply because they differ from the norm, not because they are necessarily game-breaking or literally broken. TL;DR: the floatater isn't as broken as you think, most of the things I saw you point out as bugs seemed to be features to me, and some of the things that went wrong reinforce what I saw as features.

I mean, we’ve gotten some April Fools features in the past. Namely, coal and lapis blocks, stained glass, custom dimensions, and size changing. There’s always a small chance that this will one day be either added officially, or possible in some other way

the flying piston door looks like a flat futuristic space ship, I love it

act : make a redstone contraption to create an elevator consequence: the whole building flies up

If you don’t want some blocks to move you can use pots. The floatato is unable to move pots. Like this so Purplers sees this

fun fact: the floatater can push 32768 blocks (32 in each direction) edit: i didnt check if it was a radius or total in each direction, oops

We had the Moon, now the Potather and the Flotato block. Whats next? PotatOS? Any way, i can immagine vanilla half life maps now

Since April Fools generally add stuff Mojang is testing, it looks to me like the custom dimension means there's gonna be more support for those and fog = more support and well there's quite a few things which might be actually added in some way

from my limited understanding of the flotator, it doesnt have a block limit, but it has a radius limit, if the blocks exede that radius it will not push, that is how they made sure it wouldnt push the world to

0:00 - Introduction 0:39 - Testing flotato push limit 1:29 - Flotato could make an elevator 2:09 - The elevator is moving, including the walls! Wait, the WALLS?! 2:32 - The elevator stole an obsidian block! 2:41 - The elevator meets the height limit 3:08 - Flotato is moving air...air. 3:28 - Dispenser vs Flotato (the dispenser broke~) 3:49 - Bedrock vs Flotato (the bedrock moved!) 3:58 - Flotato vs Overworld Bedrock Layer (nope~) 5:09 - Moving flotatoes are unbreakable 5:16 - Flotato vs Primed TNT (tnt didn't stick) 5:39 - What about flotatoes in a 3x3 piston door? 5:46 - The door layout 6:36 - Purplers decided to build the actual door 6:40 - Minecraft piston decapitation... 6:58 - Door opening test (it worked) 7:11 - Door closing test (it worked) 7:24 - Wandering Trader leaves the scene 7:33 - Hiding the redstone of the door (it...broke?) 7:53 - Take two! 8:06 - A flying piston door...wait 8:26 - Take three: final fix?? 8:45 - Thoughts then Outro

Floatater will actually push a structure, which is 61x61x61, assuming that the device is right in the middle of it. You can also use chests as rails for the door to prevent the moving part of the door from sticking to rest of the mechanism.

By the way, decorated pots are the Terracota-counterpart to the Floatato block.

The thing is people think mojang put more effort in april fools updates than real updates but in april fools updates almost NO testing goes into it and its unpolished. Thats why theres so many bugs in the snapshot. Also, look at the new snapshots, the new mace looks pretty good so far.

that thing, I tested, is able to push EVERYTHING in an area of 32x32x32 (beginning from layer 0 that has the floatater in it). Adding anymore blocks in any place blocks the floatater activation. The blocks MUST be connected, and I think the floatater can be able to push two objects that are separated side-to-side 1 block apart if the initial pushed object has a slime block in "contact". Don't know a lot about that last part, I didn't test much. I just observed a floatater pushing 2 objects with a slime block and was amazed but didn't go further.

8:07 I gonna put this into my CP as Live Wallpaper.. It's just perfect 😂

6:56 "ThE PisTonS DeD." 😢 that piston will always have a special place in my heart.

I really hope this gets added to vanilla, Mojang added more blocks from april folls snapshot like to coal block.

5:04 purple you traitor 😔😔😔

Purplers, here’s some info. Basically, the push limit is 32 block *in one direction.* You could do a 32x32x32 and it would work, as long as it doesn’t push more than 32 blocks in one direction.

i know it's broken, but i kinda like the idea of being able to move bedrock but not break it. idk what use it would have other than flexing, but it'd encourage players to build infrastructure to transport bedrock, and ways to move it into position to build with it, and i think that's fun

Also to mention more flotators running at a time makes it faster.

4:04 I thought he started moving the entire world for a second, like my heart straight up dropped.

Best block ever. has HUGE potential for redstone. I wish Mojang adds it in the next update (1.22), since they already added some April Fools blocks (coal block, coloured glass etc). Love ur vids

8:03 When your Piston Door Decides to Leave you

Purple you forgot that sometimes they tease future updates in April Fools snapshots like how they teased the copper grate and guess what were getting next update? A COPPER GRATE so maybe just maybe we could get one of these in vanilla and also maybe a grappling hook and I hope we do because that would be awesome!

> Guys they have to cut content because making 3 features a year is too hard. They truely try to not break promises but its just too hard to add content at their rapid update pace and few resources. > Heres an april fools snapshot with tons of content.

I absolutely love this floatater (especially at 8:13)

potato, but it like, poison, and it flies for some reason

At this point it's like they are taking the piss "Look, the engine is perfectly capable of this, but you'll never get it, lmao" Makes me feel moked

My brain is now on a potato

Finally working ships and you can make an end ship move

7:30 i was litereally thinking of mogswamp there lol

Why wont they just add the whole create mod to vanilla?

The cute mistycat showed this yesterday was so cool

Thanks for keeping up the content Its Nice when its late at night and sit back and watch your videos so thanks for that

i have no idea how you could have made a 9 minute video on this but you sure did and its good

Finally, they added Create mod to vanilla.

1:22, poor purplers, not knowing the chaos that’s about to ensue

*8:06* The funniest part in this video has to be how it uses the song called ''Morning'' all the whilst the Minecraft sun is setting... On top of just how hilarious the horizontally sliding piston door is.

The reason your first elevator was not stoped was because as it pulled up it pulled the powered readstone with it, so when it reached the obsidian it stoped but was powered by the readstone so it then restarted its movement with it

They should add this in the end update to allow us to make moving airships in vanilla 😩🙏

Its QUASICONECTIVITY 3:09

Seems like a few of these things that were described as glitchy behaviour were just different or misunderstood mechanics. Like the radius of effect instead of a fixed number of blocks as that piston has, or the way different blocks are movable or 'sticky' with the different mechanic. The coolest potential part of a block like this is, it seems like it can move actual working redstone circuitry. You could fly a section of a circuit into position to complete a redstone contraption. The possibilities for something like that are massive.

7:56 "OH IM JUST WALKING MY DOOR"

"the popcorn block"

I think the reason this is an april fools block and not in the real game despite being a really cool block is BECAUSE it would be a nightmare to debug without making it a very convoluted block to use. There are mods that add things exactly like this, but they are buggy and complex.

I love this video because it wants to work 50% of the time but after any adjustment it just takes the whole contraption.

He should’ve built a ship at the end & make it sail to the sunset 😂

Its funny how every april fools update always has features people say should be in the main game. Someone should make a mod with all the april fools updates, it would be pretty cool

april fools this year goes crazy with all the jokes i wish this was added to minecraft

The gameplay features I want them to add to minecraft are those reminiscent of old school platformers, since minecraft lends itself well to the platforming playstyle in a 3D environment. Heck we already have spikes in the form of drip stone and timed platforms in the form of dripleaf. I think moving platforms is just the next logical step.

we love to say that modders add in two seconds what mojang hasn't added in two years, but whenever mojang DOES add something that looks like it comes out of a mod, they nail it nearly perfectly.

imagine a world where mojang would simply: if(block == #unstickable) { DontStick(); }

You can make a working pirate ship with this 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 These emojies are so everyone notices this comment

I honestly love the way it looks

2:57 He wasnt asking, he was ordering us :D I couldnt refuse it

No views in 2 seconds purplers fell off.

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I tried to make a block like this myself 2 months ago. It was really hard, and I was able only to make it work like piston. Push limit was 8. So, i think flotator was really hard to code, and Mojang spent like 3 weeks to make it work like this

it moves everything that it touches before it starting moving, including immovable blocks. thats why the obsidian didnt move the first time.

178 views in TWO Minutes!!?! Purple really fell off💔

smh 1 minute and 0 views, bro fell off

You know you can just use pots since those dont attach, right?

Something you can do to activate or automatically activate the floatater is switched on levers, it wont grab them and it work like a redstone block sending a redstone signal to anything right next to it.

You've actually only encountered one glitch, being that it destroys tile blocks. Also, it cannot stick to some non-full blocks when faced correctly (I like the pot the most).

The floating piston door was kinda majestic in its own right

I love the create Mod and this reminds me so much of it

with this snapshot, you can theoretically build a bedrock upside down "T" in your friends base

legend say the piston door is still going

I played around with it, like a whole superflat dedicated to it and oh man I made doors, parkour coarses and fleet of ships, some like ultra fast (since activating more than one of these interconnected floataters at once increases speed)

I believe the floatator has a push limit of a 32x32x32 square, as long as all the block are within that area it can push them, the position of the floatator does not matter, it can be in the middle, or on the corner it will still push. Also it will push any blocks that are already attached to it, once a new block is added (by for example flying into it) it will stop and the more floatators you add the faster it goes, and it can go extremely fast, like really fast

Use the pots to stop the elavator from taking the blocks on the side it doesn’t stick to them

The floatater flying lump can be up to 32x32x32 This size includes the actual floatater It can't move tile entities or liquids, but everything else seems like fair game

you can use it to move tnt, just put a repeateronto the platform and activtate it along with the floatater. the redstone freezes while it's moving. when it stops moving, it unfreezes and the tnt ignites

I think what happened is that it moved the redstone with it, so when it stopped, the redstone activated it again

I don't know if it's because I play modded mc a lot, but the floater is very intuitive to me. It sticks a collection of blocks together, and that's it. Tile Entities like chests break immediately. The reason the floater kept stealing obsidian and the whole mechanism was because the mechanism was connected with non-air blocks. Glazed terracotta only works on slime and honey blocks, floaters can connect everything. As long as the redstone doesn't touch (even indirectly) any part of the mechanism other than the floater, it won't move.

I think the explanation for it pushing air is like how pistons work with quasi-connectivity but i'm not a redstoner so i don't know, just the first thing that comes to mind

So I just built an elevator that works... You can only have go up and down 2 floors though. The way you do it is you create the elevator cart and then put a floater on the bottom facing up and one on the top facing down. Next use levers on the floor and roof of the cart to activate the floatato (buttons get stuck for some reason while levers are only stuck while the floatato is activated and can be changed back once it stops then reactivated again). When you're creating the shaft for the elevator the starting positions can not have any blocks touching the cart. To stop the elevator cart put a flotater in the path as even just 1 block will stop it no matter how big the structure is. When the shaft is in motion it can move past blocks that are right next to it without picking it up so even though the starting points need to have a one block gap (except the corners) the shaft itself doesn't. I can share the world if anyone wants it although I don't really care to upload a video since I doubt anyone would be interested in seeing it nor would the algorithm have it pop up on anyone's feed seeing as I have never made a real video before.

This is an absolute _must_ for the next update

It can push up to a 32x32x32 cube (it must be part of the cube as well.). You can also very easily make headless pistons with it to break bedrock. Plus you can dupe redstone, pistons, repeaters ect with it. You can also push nether portals and the potato portals with it. End portals will break if you try to move them but you can move the frames.

8:06 The way the piston door flies while the peaceful music plays🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I swear it may not work here but we need this I’d love it personally imagine though the things you could do with it

well, finally we're able to move stuff without changing it's state, it's like if that thing was frozen in time while it's being dragged

They could make a skulk goop that you can add to blocks to make the blocks being pushed by it not interact with it. This would also help with a consistent stoping point. I think this block is more for a mobile base than anything tho.

I got a good chuckle out of the flying piston door bit 😆

Legends say, that piston door is flying till the end of time

I love that the first thing every redstoner does with a floatator is build an elevator. I love this community.

8:06 bro the door had left the chair 💀

I really hope floaters and grapling hooks are just prototypes and not jokes.

3:55 bro summoned the whole phineas and ferb fandom with that one 💀

Mumbo's gonna have a field day with this

Use a fence gate insted of the concrete block above the floatater, it will work flawlessly