Piston lags

[quote user="Isolated Zombie"]Just finished my lighthouse with pistons now lag lag lag whenever im near it and freezes my Xbox

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How many pistons are you using? Using a lot, especially set up with a clock, will always cause lag.

Pistons would be really cool to use but they tend to cause a lot of lag, especially a lot of them on a clock. i've got 60 pistons set up to automatically harvest my sugarcane and I can always tell when it goes off due to the lag, lol.

Hmmmm.... just played for 3 hours in a new world with pistons and no lags or drops? Curious?

But how are they using them. I set up 12, with a button, for my sugarcane farm and have no problems. It's more than likely problems with the pistons and what the user created. 4j Steve said they're going to look in to the problem and hopefully find a fix
for it.

People also have to realize that a lot of entities will also cause lag if they're using pistons for a farm. Lag from the pistons plus 100+ entities is going to lag the game like crazy. If people don't know what an entity is, it's all the drops from when
you harvest your crops. A lot of flowing water will also cause lag in the game.

All these things, entities, moving pistons, blocks being pushed/pulled by pistons, flowing water, redstone constantly being turned on/off if set to a clock, too many mobs nearby, and even the smoke from too many torches can add to lag. The new lighting
is also probably adding to the lag. Every time the sun sets/rises will cause lag spikes in the game. It eventually got fixed on the pc but it used to be easy to tell when it was becoming day or night because of the light lag before the fix.

This game will definitely push the xbox to it's limits, as it still does on lower-end computers. Hopefully the next gen xbox comes out before the game gets updated too much. Jungles will be a lag nightmare on the consoles we play on now.

Omg changed my light house from 20 to 6 pistons still lagged to freeze