Piston

Obtaining and breaking Piston

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Piston; other tools may be slower or affect what is collected.
• Its recorded hardness is 1.5. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
• Craft or process Piston using Crafting Table.

What to use Piston for

2 current recipe relationships are recorded for Piston. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Sticky Piston.
• Piston has 1 recorded output recipe; open the linked recipe to compare edition, station, layout and yield before crafting a batch.
• Piston is used by 1 recorded recipe, including Sticky Piston.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Piston blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Piston Recipe has 16 current variants.
• Sticky Piston Recipe has 2 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Piston is a redstone or mechanism block. Placement state, neighbouring blocks and power conditions can change its behaviour, so test the final arrangement in the edition used by the world.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Java data contains 12 block-state combinations for Piston. Commands that need one exact orientation or state must specify properties separately from the base ID.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 1.5; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Piston exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:piston; Bedrock uses minecraft:piston.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:piston 64

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