Minecraft
How to Craft a Sticky Piston in Minecraft
To craft a sticky piston in Minecraft you need one piston and one slimeball. Drop both in any squares of the inventory 2×2. The spots do not matter, and one sticky piston comes out. Below are the items, the recipe, and where those pieces come from.
Slimeball
Sticky PistonShapeless: the slots can sit anywhere on the grid.
| Item | Qty | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Slimeball |
1 | Kill small slimes in a swamp at night. The tiny cubes drop slimeballs. |
 Piston |
1 | Craft on a Crafting Table: planks on the top row, iron in the center, redstone under it, cobblestone on the four sides. This ingredient is crafted too — station below. |
Sticky Piston specs
- Difficulty
- Mid game
- Where it lives
- Crafted. Also three in each jungle temple, five in each ancient city.
- Where to get it
- Craft in the inventory 2×2 or on a Crafting Table: piston and slimeball in any squares.
- Item ID
-
minecraft:sticky_piston - Numerical ID
-
29 - Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 1.5
- Blast resistance
- 1.5
- Material
- Stone
- Diggable
- Yes
- Give command
-
/give @p minecraft:sticky_piston 1
| Item | Time to break |
|---|---|
| Golden Pickaxe | 0.19s |
| Netherite Pickaxe | 0.25s |
| Diamond Pickaxe | 0.28s |
| Iron Pickaxe | 0.38s |
| Stone Pickaxe | 0.56s |
| Wooden Pickaxe | 1.13s |
| Hand | 2.25s |
Ingredient specs
Wooden Planks
Early game- Where to get it
- Punch or axe a log, then convert the log to planks in the 2×2 inventory grid. Oak, birch, spruce and the rest all count.
- Where it lives
- Overworld trees. Any wood biome.
- Item ID
minecraft:oak_planks- Legacy item ID
minecraft:planks- Numerical ID
5- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 2
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
Iron Ingot
Early game- Where to get it
- Mine iron ore with a stone pickaxe or better, then smelt it in a furnace. Iron golems and zombies can also drop ingots.
- Where it lives
- Overworld caves and mountains. Also buried treasure and village chests.
- Item ID
minecraft:iron_ingot- Numerical ID
265- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Material
- Item
- Diggable
- No
- Furnace time
- 10 s
Redstone Dust
Mid game- Where to get it
- Mine redstone ore with an iron pickaxe or better. Fortune adds extra dust.
- Where it lives
- Overworld deepslate and stone, mostly below Y 16 down toward -64.
- Item ID
minecraft:redstone- Numerical ID
331- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Material
- Item
- Diggable
- No
Cobblestone
Early game- Where to get it
- Break stone with any pickaxe. Without a pickaxe the block drops nothing.
- Where it lives
- Overworld caves and hills. Also when flowing lava meets water.
- Item ID
minecraft:cobblestone- Numerical ID
4- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 6
- Material
- Stone
- Diggable
- Yes
Piston
Mid game- Where to get it
- Craft on a Crafting Table: planks on the top row, iron in the center, redstone under it, cobblestone on the four sides.
- Where it lives
- Crafted. Mine a placed piston with a pickaxe to pick it back up.
- Item ID
minecraft:piston- Numerical ID
33- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 1.5
- Blast resistance
- 1.5
- Material
- Stone
- Diggable
- Yes
Slimeball
Mid game- Where to get it
- Kill small slimes in a swamp at night. The tiny cubes drop slimeballs.
- Where it lives
- Swamps at night. Also underground slime chunks.
- Item ID
minecraft:slime_ball- Numerical ID
341- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Material
- Item
- Diggable
- No
How to craft these materials
A piston and a slimeball
Craft the piston first: three planks, four cobblestone, one iron ingot and one redstone dust on a Crafting Table. Hunt slimes in a swamp at night; the smallest cubes drop slimeballs. One of each covers this craft.
Drop both in the 2×2
Open the inventory or a Crafting Table. Put the piston and the slimeball in any two squares. One sticky piston appears on the right; take it. The 2×2 holds the whole recipe.
Push, then pull
Place it facing the block you want to move. Power it and the arm shoves that block; cut the signal and the arm comes back with the block stuck to the slime face. Up to twelve blocks in a line, same as a plain piston. Mine it with a pickaxe to pick it up.
