Piston Recipe
How to Craft Piston
Pistons are blocks that can push blocks and entities when activated by redstone.
Crafting
Ingredients Needed:
- 3x Oak Planks
- 4x Cobblestone
- 1x Iron Ingot
- 1x Redstone
Step-by-step Instructions
- Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
- Arrange the materials as shown in the grid above, then place the output Piston into your inventory.
- That’s it! You can now use or place your new item.
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.
Uses for Piston
- Moving blocks and entities
- Creating hidden doors and passages
- Building automatic farms
- Component in flying machines
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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