How to Make a Piston in Minecraft in 2022 [Easy Guide]

Whether it’s one of the best Minecraft farms or a complex flying machine, you’ll eventually come across pistons in Minecraft. They’re a common Redstone component that you can use in a variety of ways. It’s the most reliable block for crafting automatic machines in the game, and that only scratches the surface in terms of its usefulness. But let’s not jump ahead and first learn how to make a plunger in Minecraft.

Make a Piston in Minecraft (2022)

We will first cover the mechanics of a Minecraft flask, followed by its ingredients and its crafting recipe. Use the table below to get to the flask crafting recipe if you are already familiar with its use.

What is a plunger in Minecraft?

A piston in Minecraft is a moving redstone component. It pushes the blocks, players and mobs that are directly in front of it after receiving a redstone signal. Once placed, you can break a piston with any tool, and it always drops as an item.

What blocks can a piston push?

A piston can push all mobs and players in Minecraft. But when it comes to blocks, there are a few exceptions. You cannot use a plunger to move the following blocks:

Aside from these blocks, many unreachable blocks like Bedrock and Barrier Blocks also cannot be pushed with a plunger. On the other hand, there are some blocks like grain in Minecraft that can be pushed but will break immediately. This mechanic is important when building a sugar cane farm in Minecraft. If you want to dig deeper, you can find the full list of incompatible blocks on the Minecraft Wiki.

Items required to craft a Flask

You will need the following items to craft a plunger in Minecraft:

Cobblestone is one of the easiest blocks to get in the Minecraft overworld. All you have to do is mine a stone block with a pickaxe (with or without enchantments). In the meantime, you’ll have to work a little to get Iron Ingots, as they’re usually obtained by smelting Iron Ore in a Furnace or Furnace. However, you can use our Minecraft ores guide to find Iron in no time.

When it comes to wooden planks, you can place any type of wood in the crafting area to craft planks. The three planks in the flask’s recipe don’t even have to be of the same type and can be made of different types of wood. The plunger works the same way no matter what overworld and netherwood it’s made of.

Minecraft Piston Crafting Recipe

After collecting all the necessary ingredients, all you have to do is combine them on a crafting table to create a flask in Minecraft. How to proceed:

1. First, fill up the top row of the crafting area with wooden planks. The boards can be made from any type of wood.

2. Then, Place cobblestones in the side pillars the middle and bottom rows as shown in the image here.

3. Finally Place an iron ingot in the middle cell the middle row of the crafting table. Then put redstone dust in the cell below. So you now have a ready-to-use flask. You simply have to drag the item into your inventory to place it anywhere you want.

How to use a plunger in Minecraft

Using a plunger in Minecrafty is simple. You just have to place it next to the entity you want to push and then activate it using any Redstone component. Let’s try activating a plunger with a lever.

1. First, place a solid sliding block on any surface.

2. Then, while looking behind this placed block, Place flask. Its wooden part should be pointing into the block you want to push.

3. Once the plunger is in place, place a lever next to the plunger or attach the lever to the back of it. However, do not attach the lever to the side or top of the piston as it will break as the piston moves.

4. Finally, right-click or use the secondary action button on the lever to activate it. This activates the piston and pushes the block directly in front of it.

Please note that when the lever is disengaged, the plunger will retract leaving the block in its new location. If you want the block to be pulled instead of just pushed, consider creating a sticky piston in Minecraft instead.

frequently asked Questions

How do you make sticky pistons?

To make a sticky flask, all you have to do is combine a slime ball with a regular flask on a crafting table.

Can pistons move obsidian?

A piston cannot push or pull obsidian.

What if there is more than one block in front of the piston?

If the block is slidable next to the main block, the piston will end up pushing both. But if this block is not slidable, the piston will not work.

Can a piston push lava or water?

Interestingly, due to some strange mechanics, the plunger just pushes the fire, water, and lava source blocks out of existence. In a way it blocks every liquid source block in front of it.

Crafting and using a plunger in Minecraft

Whether you want to push mobs to a specific location to move some blocks, you are now ready with a piston crafting recipe. But before you plan on using it, make sure you craft a Redstone Torch to power it. You can even activate it from a long distance if you know how to use redstone dust in minecraft and can use redstone repeaters to create a long circuit leading to the piston. With that in mind, what are your plans for pushing with pistons in Minecraft? Tell us in the comments below!