How To Make Sticky Piston In Minecraft

This blog post will show you how to craft a Sticky Piston in Minecraft a variant of a normal piston.

Updated on Jul 21, 2023
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How To Make Sticky Piston In Minecraft

Everything you need to craft a Sticky Piston in Minecraft

A Sticky Piston in Minecraft is a Redstone-powered block that'll open and retract when a Redstone pulse is sent. The sticky pistons pushing end has slime on it, allowing other blocks to stick to it. This makes it a handy block, as you can now push and retract any block in Minecraft. There is also a Normal Piston variant in Minecraft.

Here are the items you’ll need to craft a Sticky Piston:

How to craft a Sticky Piston in Minecraft

#1 Crafting Piston


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Before you can craft a piston, you’ll need to collect some items. Irons ingots can be acquired from iron ores underground. Planks can be crafted from logs in Minecraft. Cobblestone is mined using a pickaxe. Once you have all the items craft the piston by the recipe given above.

#2 Acquiring slimeball


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To craft a sticky piston, you need slime balls. These slimeballs are obtained only by killing slimes. Slime is hard to locate; they spawn in dedicated spawn chunks, which can be underground and also in the swamp biome. They are not rare, so you'll find some if you look around for a while.

#3 Crafting Sticky Pistons


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Once all the necessary items are gathered for the sticky piston, put the items on the crafting table by the recipe shown above, and you’ll have crafted yourself a sticky piston.

Pistons are used in many mob farms, doors, and other Redstone contraptions.

A Piston cannot push more than 12 blocks; it is one of its limitations.

A sticky piston will allow the block in front of it to get stuck to the sticky piston. You can move the block back and forth using a sticky piston. This is unlike a normal piston that pushes the block but doesn’t retract it.

What is the give command to get a Sticky Piston in Minecraft?

The command to give yourself a Sticky Piston: /give @p sticky_piston 1

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