Lovely Craft Piston Trap Pumpkin Patched Portable Page

Place sticky pistons facing the direction you want the trap to move or block. These will be the core of your trap.

Place your carved pumpkins directly on top of the extended sticky pistons. Ensure the face of the pumpkin is looking outward so it looks like a normal patch. Crucially, the pumpkin is a solid block, so players/mobs walk on it. Place 1 piece of string underneath each pumpkin to prevent them from breaking accidentally when the piston retracts. lovely craft piston trap pumpkin patched

Dig down 6 blocks in a 4x4 area. At the very bottom, place your collection chests connected to hoppers. If you want to kill mobs instantly, line the bottom with magma blocks. If you want to capture players for interrogation, place slime blocks at the bottom to break their fall. Place sticky pistons facing the direction you want

How to Master the "Lovely Craft" Piston Trap: Protecting Your Pumpkin Patch Ensure the face of the pumpkin is looking

This is where the "trap" part gets tricky. Run redstone dust under the pistons. Connect them to a Redstone Block or a lever hidden inside a nearby "scarecrow" (a armor stand with a pumpkin head). For a fully automatic experience, use an Observer looking at a pumpkin stem. When the pumpkin is harvested, the Observer triggers the pistons to retract for 3 seconds, then reset.

Behind the pistons, create a Redstone line. Connect this line to hidden among the pumpkin vines. To make it even more "lovely" and discrete, you can use Observers buried beneath the pumpkin stalks. When a pumpkin is broken, the Observer sends a pulse to the pistons. Step 4: The Inversion (Optional)