Piston

Piston

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	1.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	11 STONE

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A piston is a block capable of pushing most entities and blocks when given a redstone signal.

Some blocks cannot be moved, break when pushed or have other interactions with pistons. A piston can move up to twelve blocks at once.

Obtaining

Breaking

A piston can be broken using any tool with equal efficiency, and always drops itself. It is faster to break them with a pickaxe. The pickaxe is also the preferred tool for breaking the head when extended.^[1]

Block
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	2.25
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Copper ​	0.45
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Sticky Piston	Slimeball +

Redstone component

Pistons are always placed facing toward the player. When powered, the piston's wooden surface (the "head") tries to start extending after a start delay. The extension takes 2 game ticks (1 redstone tick; 0.1 seconds) to finish. When it extends, it pushes at most 12 blocks. The piston makes a sound that can be heard within a 31×31×31 cube centered on the activating piston. Any entities in the path of an extending piston (or any block it might be moving) are pushed along, when possible. If the entities cannot be moved, the block is pushed inside them, suffocating mobs when pushed into their eye height (assuming said block is solid).

When a piston loses power, its head retracts. Like the extension, the retraction starts after a start delay and takes 2 game ticks (1 redstone tick; 0.1 seconds) to finish.

A piston that pushes a slime block bounces any entity that it displaces in the direction the piston is facing. Entities on top of a moving honey block, or any other moving block,‌ will also move with it. In addition, when a slime block or a honey block is moved by a piston, any movable block adjacent (not diagonally) to it also moves. See the "Slime blocks and honey blocks" section of this page for more details.

In Bedrock Edition, blocks that require a support (such as levers) can be placed on the back or sides of a piston without being destroyed when that piston extends. In Java Edition, on the other hand, the majority of blocks that require a support are only safe to place on the back of pistons.

Start delay

A piston won't extend or retract immediately when it is activated: this phenomenon is known as "start delay".

In Bedrock Edition, the start delay is fixed at 2 game ticks (1 redstone tick; 0.1 seconds), meaning that the piston starts to extend or retract 2gt after it's activated.

In Java Edition, the start delay can be 0 game ticks (0 redstone ticks; 0 seconds) (activation in the same tick) or 1 game tick (0.5 redstone ticks; 0.05 seconds) (activation in the next tick) depending on the game process in which the piston is powered:

• If the piston is powered and updated in the scheduled tick phase, random tick phase or block event phase, the piston activates in this game tick's block event phase, which means the start delay in this case is 0gt.
• If the piston is powered and updated during the entity phase or the block entity phase, or by player actions, the piston activates in the next game tick's block event phase, which means the start delay in this case is 1gt.

Limitations

Pistons can push most blocks, with the exception of the ones listed in the table below.

Pistons cannot push blocks into the void, above the build limit, or beyond the world border.‌ They also cannot push more than 12 blocks. If the requirements for a block to be pushed are not met, the piston simply does not extend.

Pistons cannot move blocks that require a support block, as they break and drop as an item (when applicable). There are however some exceptions, listed down below.

Exceptions

• Carpets: since they consider all blocks excluding air as valid supports, moving carpets with pistons is fairly easy.
  • A carpet can even stay on top of a moving block without breaking.

• Rails: they can be moved as long as they remain on top of a block's full face (if it has one) in their new position. Once the piston finishes to push or pull the rail, the block below it must not be a moving block, or alternatively it can be a moving block, but only if its collision box is at its final position.
  • When the rail and the block supporting it are on two vertically parallel extending pistons, the rail doesn't break. Trying to move the rail and its support block with perpendicular pistons causes the rail to break (although in Java Edition, due to the bug MC-75716, it visually appears to not break). In Java Edition, the piston moving the block can be powered 1 block event after the piston moving the rail in order for the rail to be moved reliably without breaking.
  • Rails re-orient themselves after being pushed, similar to when placed manually.

• Dead coral and dead coral fans: in Java Edition, they can be pushed and pulled similarly to how rails can; however in some situations the coral will both break and get moved by the piston, emitting block updates at its original position.
  • This mechanic is frequently used in TNT dupers.

Powering pistons

Pistons can be activated from any side, excluding from the head. In Bedrock Edition, redstone dust gets automatically redirected toward pistons if placed next to them (except for the head's side).

In Java Edition, pistons can be powered from one block above compared to most redstone components: this property is called quasi-connectivity and can be used to make a BUD switch, taking advantage of the fact that a piston powered through quasi-connectivity doesn't always get updated. With quasi-connectivity, a piston can also be powered from the same direction of the head, which is otherwise impossible. Due to quasi-connectivity, a piston facing up that has a block of redstone on top of itself can extend but not retract: this happens because after the piston extends, it keeps receiving power from the redstone block.

Slime blocks and honey blocks

A				B

Piston A may extend because the slime block ignores the adjacent obsidian. Piston B may not extend because the diamond block is prevented from moving by the obsidian and so the slime block also refuses to move.

When a slime block is pushed or pulled by a piston, while moving, adjacent blocks also move with the slime block, unless a non-piston movable block stops the blocks that are "grabbed" by the slime blocks. These blocks may in turn push other blocks, not just the blocks in the line in front of the piston. For example, a slime block sitting on the ground attempts to move the ground block underneath itself, which in turn has to push additional ground blocks in the direction of motion just as if it were being pushed directly by a piston. The same occurs when a slime block is moved by an adjacent slime block. For example, a 2×2×2 cube of slime blocks may be pushed or pulled as a single unit by a piston acting on any of the blocks in the cube. A slime block adjacent to a block that cannot be moved by pistons or a block that can be broken by piston ignores that block. But if an adjacent block could be moved but is prevented to by the presence of an unmovable block, the slime block is prevented from moving.

Slime blocks' stickiness is unilateral, as such they can't be pulled by a non-sticky piston and they are not moved if an adjacent (non-slime) block is moved by a piston. The maximum of 12 blocks moved by a piston still applies. For example, a 2×2×3 structure of slime blocks may be pushed by a piston as long as no other movable blocks are adjacent to it. A piston cannot move itself via a "hook" constructed of slime blocks, but self-propelled contraptions can be created with multiple pistons. For that, see the article Tutorials/Flying machines.

Honey blocks work like slime blocks when it comes to moving other blocks, however honey blocks and slime blocks do not stick to each other. This allows, by alternating slime blocks and honey blocks, to have redstone contraptions that make use of these sticky blocks stay side by side without interfering with one another.

Glazed terracotta and the heavy core‌ have a unique property: they do not stick to adjacent slime blocks or honey blocks, even though they can be pushed by pistons.

Technical components

Pistons have 2 technical blocks that cannot be obtained. These include the piston head and moving piston blocks.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition (piston):

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Bedrock Edition (arm):

v t e normal sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.27 [sound 1]	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Piston	piston	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.piston

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Piston	piston	None	33	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.piston.name

Name	Savegame ID
Piston block entity	PistonArm

Block states

The piston block uses following block states:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

In Bedrock Edition, a piston has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Inception	Push a with a piston, then pull the original piston with that piston.	—	20	Silver

Video

History

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The specific instructions are:

• Extended pistons in Legacy Console Edition look different since TU46.
• 1.19 piston changes

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009							Notch shows interest in adding blocks that can pull and push other blocks when a pulse from a wire is received; he called them "Pulley1", which would pull a block down, and "Pulley2", which would push a block up.
Java Edition Beta
?							The original piston was a mod posted on the Minecraft Forums by Hippoplatimus.[2] The code for that version was given to Jeb, who then worked on implementing pistons into vanilla Minecraft; Hippoplatimus is in the game's credits under "Additional Programming", like other modders whose work made it into vanilla Minecraft.
							Another user, DiEvAl, privately submitted code as well, including the idea of block entities to track moving blocks.[3]
June 7, 2011							Jeb tweets an image of pistons in development.
							The piston texture as screen-captured while in development had iron bands running over the head. The bands were removed for the release, leaving only iron brackets around the corners and edges.
1.7							Added pistons, alongside associated head and moving blocks.
							A bug existed in this version which caused the game to crash and lock the player out of their world when powering pistons in some scenarios (for example when trying to push a redstone torch).
1.7_01							The aforementioned bug has been fixed and affected worlds now load normally again.
							Headless pistons won't break upon receiving a block update anymore.
Java Edition
1.2.4			release				Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft pistons.
1.3.1			12w26a				Pistons now schedule extensions and retractions rather than executing them as soon as they are updated.
1.7.2			1.7.1				Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft pistons.
1.8			14w17a				The models for pistons when facing up and down have been changed.
			14w18a				Slime blocks now push and pull blocks adjacent when connected to sticky pistons.
							Extending a piston with a slime block on top of it launches the entity (mobs, players, items, launched arrows, etc) into the air.
			14w19a				Slime blocks can now push entities sideways and downward when attached to a piston.
1.9			15w38b				Retracting pistons can now pull entities through them.[4] This was known as "piston translocation" by the community.
			15w49a				Unextended pistons, downward-facing pistons, and upward-facing piston heads are now considered to have a solid top surface, like upside-down stairs and top slabs.
1.11			16w40a				Retracting pistons can no longer pull entities through them. "Piston translocation" has been removed.
1.12			17w16a				When pistons move slime blocks, they do not move glazed terracotta attached to the side of the slime block.
			pre3				Slime blocks can no longer pull glazed terracotta attached to any side of a piston, whatsoever.
1.13			17w47a				Pistons now can push note blocks.
			pre7				Pistons now have the same block spitting behavior of sticky pistons.[5]
1.13.1			18w30b				Pistons don't spit blocks anymore.
1.14			18w43a				The textures associated with pistons have been changed.
							While the texture for oak planks was later updated in subsequent snapshots, the piston texture is yet to be changed to reflect this.[6]
			18w44a				Pistons are no longer transparent.
			18w46a				Extended pistons now allow light to pass through certain faces.
1.15			19w41a				Added honey blocks, which have multiple different types of interactions with pistons.
1.16			20w06a				The hardness of pistons has been increased from 0.5 to 1.5.
							Pickaxes are now the tool for breaking pistons.
							Pistons no longer pop off redstone components placed on the back when retracting.
							Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft pistons.
1.17			20w45a				Particles now appear if a block is broken by a piston.
1.19			22w11a				Mangrove planks can now be used to craft pistons.
			22w17a				Changed piston textures, to match the color of the oak planks on the piston head.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Bamboo planks can now be used to craft pistons.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Cherry planks can now be used to craft pistons.
1.21			24w20a				Piston sounds have been updated to be quieter and less harsh.
			24w21a				Piston sounds have been reverted to what they previously were, but the attenuation distance and sound level has been halved.
1.21.5			25w10a				Blocks that are broken by a piston now play their breaking sound.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0			build 1				Added pistons.
							Pistons have a version exclusive animation and the ability to push block entities.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of pistons has been changed.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Increased the hardness and blast resistance of pistons from 0.5 to 1.5.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU3	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added pistons.
TU14		1.04					Pistons have been changed to make them less error-prone, thus they also appear to update slower. This also alters the way pistons work, so the player might have to adapt their repeater delays and similar.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Retracting pistons can now pull entities through them. This was known as "piston translocation" by the community.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Retracting pistons can no longer pull entities through them. "Piston translocation" has been removed.
TU57	CU49	1.57	1.56	1.56	Patch 27	1.0.7	Pistons can now move daylight detectors.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Pistons can no longer move cauldrons.
TU62	CU52	1.66	1.66	1.66	Patch 31	1.0.12	Pistons can now move small chests but only if the new position would have been valid for players to place a new chest. This limitation can however be bypassed by moving the chests simultaniously.
							Pistons can move cauldrons again.
			1.90				The texture of pistons has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added pistons.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Piston" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Mojang stated that the 12-block push limit for pistons would not be changed, because "the current limitations are by design".^[7]
• When toggled between on and off rapidly with a gravity affected block (such as sand) above it, a piston can eventually break the block, which can be picked up as a resource. However, gravel broken this way never drops flint.
• Carpet can be placed on the piston extension block, and remains even if it is replaced with a solid block using /setblock.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Fundamental logic gates, implemented purely with pistons and redstone repeaters, clockwise from upper left: AND, OR, XOR, and NOT.
• 
  Slow clock generator with pistons and redstone.
• 
  An example of a piston-controlled waterflow.

Mojang screenshots

• 
  First screenshot of pistons.
• 
  Light shining through an extended piston.
• 
  Redstone connecting to pistons in Bedrock Edition.
• 
  A piston being crafted with a fish. This is a joke about the piston sounds heard in Java Edition 24w20a, which have been said to sound wet.
• 
  "Makena tinkering with a Redstone contraption made up of Pistons pushing a Lime Wool block."^[8]

Concept artwork

• 
  Notch's explanation on how the rod (a full block long when extended) fits into the piston box (whose depth is a block minus the face's thickness).^[9]

In other media

• 
  Artwork of an incorrectly-rotated piston connected to a lever via redstone dust.
• 
  Pistons as they appear in Minecraft: Shape Your World.
• 
  Pistons as they appear in A Minecraft Movie.

See also

• Slime block
• Redstone
• Tutorials/Piston uses
• Tutorials/Headless pistons
• Mechanics/Redstone/Piston circuits

Notes

References

External links

• "Block of the Week: Piston" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 13, 2017.

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Joke April Fools 2013 Block of Coal Etho Slab Tinted Glass Torch (Burnt-out) April Fools 2016 USB Charger Block April Fools 2020 An Ant Box of Infinite Books Cursor Funky Portal Leftover Swaggiest stairs ever April Fools 2022 How did we get here? April Fools 2023 Cheese Copper Sink Filled Copper Spleaves Golden Chest Other Portal Packed Air Pickaxe Block Place Block April Fools 2024 Baked Potato Bricks Expired Charred Big Brain Block of Amber Block of Potato Peels Corrupted Floatater Floatato Frying Table Gravtater Pedestal Peelgrass Block Corrupted Poison Farmland Poison Path Poisonous Mashed Potato Poisonous Potato Block Compressed Double Compressed Triple Compressed Quadruple Compressed Poisonous Potato Cutter Poisonous Potato Head Block Poisonous Potato Headpiece Poisonous Potato Ore Deepslate Potato Battery Potato Bud Potato flower Potato Fruit Potato Leaves Potato Pedicule Potato Portal Potato Refinery Potato Sprouts Potato Stem Planks Slab Stairs Door Trapdoor Button Pressure Plate Sign Hanging Sign Fence Fence Gate Potone Copper Ore Diamond Ore Gold Ore Iron Ore Lapis Lazuli Ore Redstone Ore Resin Ore Powerful Potato Strong Roots Taterstone Terre de Pomme Vicious Potato Weak Roots April Fools 2025 Dimension Control Mine Travelling Block Mine Revisitor Mine Crafter Mob Trophy Shimmering Door Sky Trophy
Extreme metadata variants All editions Directionless Hopper Seamless Stone Slab Six-sided Hay Bale Six-sided Piston Java Edition only Faceless Furnace Faceless Jack o'Lantern Green Shrub Potted Inaccessible "Boring" Blocks Invisible stairs Misaligned torch Redstone Nether portal post Overripe Melon Stem Attached Overripe Pumpkin Stem Attached Overgrown Cocoa Overeaten Cake Overgrown Wheat Crops Potted non-flower block Snowy Dirt Coarse Strange buttons Bedrock Edition only Bell Stand Diorite Bell Granite Bell Polished Six-sided Bone Block Six-sided Purpur Pillar Six-sided Quartz Pillar Smokeless Campfire