Piston Recipe
How to Craft Piston
Pistons are blocks that can push blocks and entities when activated by redstone.
Step-by-step Instructions
- Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
- Place ingredients exactly as shown in the grid (shape matters unless marked shapeless) then move the resulting Piston to your inventory.
- Use, place, or craft further with your new item.
Ingredients Needed
- 3x Oak Planks
- 4x Cobblestone
- 1x Iron Ingot
- 1x Redstone
Ingredient Tips
Oak Planks: Crafted from any logs in a 2×2; great starter material found in all forest biomes.
Cobblestone: Mine stone with any pickaxe; smelt to stone if needed for other recipes.
Iron Ingot: Smelt iron ore or deepslate iron ore in a furnace or blast furnace.
Redstone: Mine redstone ore deep underground; useful for automation.
Technical Stats
- Stack Size: 64
- Renewable: Yes
Variants & Interactions
Key Interactions:
- Can push most blocks; cannot push obsidian, bedrock, extended pistons, or immovable blocks
- With observers/comparators enables farms, doors, and block swappers
Uses for Piston
- Moving blocks and entities
- Creating hidden doors and passages
- Building automatic farms
- Component in flying machines
Additional Uses
- Automatic doors
- Block swappers
- Crop/stone generators
Fun Fact
Pistons were originally created as a mod by Hippoplatimus before being officially added to Minecraft in the Beta 1.7 update.
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FAQ
Why won't my piston move a block?
Some blocks are immovable: obsidian, bedrock, extended pistons, portal blocks, enchantment tables (Java with certain states), and blocks with tile entities like chests if the move would break structure.
How do I make a double extender?
Use a sequence of pulses separated by repeaters/observers so the second piston extends after the first retracts—tutorials often use quasi-connectivity and falling-edge circuits.
