Minecraft Sticky Pistons For Effective Boat Docking

I’m on holidays! Hooray.  To celebrate I’m going through a bunch of to-do things. Most not fun, but some (like this) quite enjoyable.

Recently, I’ve been taking my favourite Minecraft home and propelling it through new biome generation maps as the releases of Minecraft come thick and fast.  I’ve been meaning to get around to building a boat dock for the home, but haven’t been that fussed until a couple of ideas were posted on my youtube channel.  I was keen to try the ideas out, and the following tutorial/walkthrough video of how to make a simplified boat dock with sticky pistons resulted:

For some deeper thinking on why it looks the way it does, here’s the original post that this design is drawn from.

The texture pack used was SphaxPureBDCraft.