Minecraft technology is fuckin' weird.
it's like; "okay so you need to trap a toddler in an obsidian cage, exactly 4.2 blocks away from an eldritch concept, to encourage the toddler to scream, so that at exactly 12:15pm on a blood moon, the cult of skra will appear bringing forward a new age of ungodly horrors blah blah, so anyway once that happens the piston covered in honey can move the hemovoltaic conductor which will then produce 2.6 billion white sand blocks an hour."