How to Make a Piston in Minecraft

Whether it’s one of many redstone farms or a complex flying machine, you’re bound to come across Minecraft pistons at some point. They are a common redstone component that you can use in a variety of ways. If you’re curious about how to make a piston in Minecraft yourself, keep reading as we show you how!

Items Required to Make a Piston in Minecraft

You need the following items to craft a piston in Minecraft:

• 4 Cobblestone blocks
• 3 Planks (any wood)
• 1 Iron Ingot
• 1 Redstone Dust
• Crafting Table

Minecraft Piston Crafting Recipe

After collecting all the required ingredients, you just have to combine them on a crafting table to create a piston. Here’s how to go about making a piston in Minecraft:

• First, fill up the topmost row of the crafting area with wooden planks. The planks can be made out of any type of wood.
• Then, put cobblestone blocks so that you fill the remaining cells of the left and right columns completely.
• Finally, place an iron ingot in the middle cell of the middle row of the crafting table and put redstone dust in the cell beneath it.

Just like that, you now have a ready-to-use piston. You simply need to pull the item in your inventory to place it anywhere you like.

With that said, you have successfully crafted a piston in Minecraft and are ready to move some blocks around. But before you use it, make sure to craft a Redstone torch to power it. So, what do you plan on pushing with pistons? Tell us in the comments below!

A piston can’t push or pull obsidian.

If the block next to the main block is pushable, then the piston will end up pushing them both. But if that block is not pushable, the piston won’t work. The maximum number of blocks a single piston can push is 12.

Interestingly, due to a weird mechanic, the piston just pushes the fire, water, and lava source blocks out of existence. In a way, it blocks any liquid source block in front of it.