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The piston is a one-block mechanism that is capable of pushing most blocks and they are activated by a redstone signal. Players can be placed facing all directions: up, down, east, west, south, and north.
A piston (via screenshot)
Pistons can be either crafted or found in the Overworld and are naturally generated as a part of jungle temples and ancient cities. Players can also craft pistons with 3 wooden planks of any kind, an iron ingot, redstone dust, and four pieces of cobblestone.
Crafting a piston (via screenshot)
Pistons are redstone-powered blocks that can push blocks when activated with a redstone signal. Since pistons can also push entities, any entities in the path of the extending head are pushed with the blocks.
If there is no place for the entities to go, the block pushes inside them, suffocating mobs if the block is not transparent when pushed into the eye height of the mob. When a piston loses power, its head retracts. Pistons do have some limitations, they cannot move the following blocks :-
A piston pushing a cobblestone block (via screenshot)
Pistons are a popular redstone block since their ability to move other blocks is quite useful in making automatic doors, hidden stairs, and traps among other redstone structures. Crafting a piston is pretty straightforward and cheap.
A. Pistons are used to push blocks and mobs in the direction the piston is facing.
A. To make a piston, place 3 wood planks, 4 cobblestones, 1 iron ingot, and 1 redstone dust in the 3x3 crafting grid.
A. A piston can push up to 12 blocks in a row.
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