Sticky Piston - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Sticky Piston in Minecraft?

A sticky piston is a special redstone block that can both push and pull other blocks. It looks like a regular piston, but with a green, slimy face. Its main purpose is to move blocks in two directions, which is essential for creating a huge variety of complex machines and contraptions. Players use sticky pistons to build secret doors that close behind them, elevators that go both up and down, and all sorts of other amazing redstone devices. It is one of the most powerful and versatile components in redstone engineering, allowing for much more complex movement than a regular piston.

How to get Sticky Piston in Minecraft

The only way to get a sticky piston is by crafting it. It does not generate naturally in the world. The crafting recipe is very simple. You will need one regular piston and one slimeball. To get a piston, you need to craft one from planks, cobblestone, iron, and redstone. To get a slimeball, you need to find and defeat slimes. Slimes are the bouncy, green, cube shaped mobs that spawn in swamp biomes and in special underground "slime chunks". Only the smallest slimes will drop slimeballs. Once you have your piston and your slimeball, you can craft a sticky piston in your inventory crafting grid or a crafting table. Just place the piston and the slimeball anywhere in the grid.

How to use Sticky Piston in Minecraft

The main use for a sticky piston is to push and pull blocks when it is powered by redstone. You can place a sticky piston facing in any of the six directions. When it receives a redstone signal, its slimy head will extend one block, pushing any block in front of it. When the redstone signal turns off, the head will retract, and it will pull the block it just pushed back with it. This is perfect for creating hidden entrances where the wall blocks are pulled back to reveal a passage and then pushed back to hide it again. Sticky pistons are also essential for building flying machines, block swappers, and countless other advanced redstone contraptions.

How to craft Sticky Piston in Minecraft

Crafting Table

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What can Sticky Piston make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

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