Apparently I'm on the same wavelength as Notch, because I immediately agreed with his piston design, and I passed up on the original piston mod because it didn't fit what I had in mind.Internet Kraken said:What on earth is the Minecraft aesthetic? This is something I do not understand at all. Take for example pistons; Notch demanded he be altered becuase he thought they weren't fantasy enough. Yet dynamite as a decisively modern design. Some things are fantasy, some things are not, which suggests a lack of a proper aesthetic. Yer apparently to Notch there is one. I just have no idea what it is because so many things conflict.lacktheknack said:(As a side note, I prefer him to work his ideas thoroughly and design them carefully and slowly, for the same reason I don't use mods - only Notch's editions, I find, really "fit" the Minecraft aesthetic.)
http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0020/F1/37/F1373EBAD129FC28304340_Large.jpg
There's the mod piston.
http://s2.n4g.com/media/11/news/785000/789215_1.jpg
Here's the vanilla piston.
Actually, now that I think about it, I hate Notch's design for iron/gold/diamond blocks, so maybe that's the problem - the mod piston looks too much like an iron block.
I have no idea why the dynamite block doesn't bother me. It just fits.