Fan Builds Minecraft Piston out Of Lego

Minecraft is a sandbox gaming game where you build incredible items to showcase to your friends. Lego is a toy that you pay enormous amounts of money to build something once, and then display it for a lifetime to show your appreciation for the thing you created. Both have a lot common the realm of creativity. It's no surprise that they frequently cross paths.

This can lead to a number of amazing things, such as this awesome zombie design by Cirelectric on Reddit. Somehow, the smoothed out figures make the zombies sort of cute, even though they're still searching for brains. The connection also means that some people go out of their way to build amazing objects in real life, like this Minecraft piston from RJMBricks.

YouTuber RJMBricks specialises in Lego models, including things like an earthquake simulator and a driving sim. They've now built an operational Minecraft piston. This is an incredible feat of planning, brickwork, and work. Minecraft Servers RJMBricks uses different colours to match the game version. This ensures that the textures appear right.

The mechanics behind it are fascinating, too and RJMBricks having to figure out how best to get the piston moving. The design challenge led to concerns about Lego pieces actually becoming warped due to the immense weight of the components involved.

The video has been a hit and has also been a hit. RJMBricks announced that they had 38.875 subscribers when the video was uploaded on 24 April. The video has been seen more than 2.2 million times and the channel has almost tripled the number of subscribers to 94.8k at the date of writing. It's always nice to see hard work rewarded.

If you are more interested in Minecraft-related projects than other ones, you should look at this Pac-Man videogame created by a YouTuber. It's definitely creepy.