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How to Craft Sticky Piston in Minecraft

Sticky Piston in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Pushing and pulling blocks when powered. Minecraft has used the name Sticky Piston since Beta 1.7.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 1 Slimeball and 1 Piston and you can make a Sticky Piston. Copy this shape: a single Slimeball in the top-middle cell and a single Piston in the bottom-middle cell. One go makes 1 Sticky Piston.

Sticky Piston Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Sticky Piston is minecraft:sticky_piston. In commands the namespace may be left off, so sticky_piston works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p sticky_piston
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p sticky_piston 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve sticky_piston 1

Cheats have to be on for Sticky Piston to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Sticky Pistons push blocks when powered and pull one block back when unpowered. Essential for hidden doors. Sticky Piston uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Sticky Piston since Beta 1.7, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with slimeball (kill slimes) and piston (craft from planks, cobblestone, iron and redstone).

The Stack Arithmetic

64 pistons is 64 crafts here, or 64 sticky pistons once the grid stops. Bring 64 slimeballs along for the ride. Craft 64 clears the box of piston.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
SlimeballSlimeballSlimeball1xKill slimes
Piston1xCraft from planks, cobblestone, iron and redstone

A Crafting Table and Slimeball (kill slimes) and Piston (craft from planks, cobblestone, iron and redstone): that is everything Sticky Piston asks for.

The Full Chain

Iron Ingot, then Piston, then the Sticky Piston. All in: 1 Slimeball, 3 Planks, 4 Cobblestone, 1 Redstone Dust and 1 Iron Ore.

  1. 1
    Iron IngotIron IngotIron IngotFurnace
  2. 2
    34Iron IngotIron IngotRedstone DustRedstone DustPiston
  3. 3
    Sticky Pistonthis page

Gather this first

SlimeballSlimeballSlimeball3Planks4CobblestoneRedstone DustRedstone DustRedstone DustIron Ore

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    SlimeballSlimeballSlimeball

  2. 2

    Piston

  3. 3

    Sticky Piston

Minecraft crafting recipe for Sticky Piston: 1 x Slimeball, 1 x Piston in a crafting table, making 1 Sticky Piston.

Tips & Notes

  • No Crafting Table needed for this one: the layout never leaves a 2x2 area, which is exactly what the inventory grid gives you.
  • One craft costs 1x Slimeball and 1x Piston. Start with the Slimeball: kill slimes.

Uses for Sticky Piston

  • Pushing and pulling blocks when powered
  • Hidden doors and bridges

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Sticky Piston on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Sticky Piston in Minecraft?
The list for a Sticky Piston is short: 1 Slimeball and 1 Piston, worked at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Sticky Piston.
What do you need to make a Sticky Piston from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Sticky Piston costs 1 Slimeball, 3 Planks, 4 Cobblestones, 1 Redstone Dust and 1 Iron Ore. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 3 crafts in total.
Can you craft a Sticky Piston without a crafting table?
A Sticky Piston fits the little 2x2 grid on your inventory screen, so no table is required. It is laid out as a single Slimeball in the top-middle cell and a single Piston in the bottom-middle cell, which never leaves a 2x2 area.
Where do you find the materials for a Sticky Piston?
A Sticky Piston draws its parts from several different places. Slimeball: kill slimes. Piston: craft from planks, cobblestone, iron and redstone.
What should I craft first for a Sticky Piston?
For a Sticky Piston, start with an Iron Ingot: 1 Iron Ore gives you 1 Iron Ingot. After that the order is Piston, and then the Sticky Piston itself.
How many Sticky Pistons do you get from one craft?
The Sticky Piston recipe makes one Sticky Piston per craft.
What is the item ID for Sticky Piston in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Sticky Piston goes by minecraft:sticky_piston; sticky_piston without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Sticky Piston?
The command for Sticky Piston is /give @p sticky_piston. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p sticky_piston 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Sticky Piston recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Sticky Piston recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Sticky Piston from 1 Slimeball and 1 Piston at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.
How many crafting steps does a Sticky Piston take?
A Sticky Piston takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: Iron Ingot and Piston, and then the Sticky Piston. The chain section above walks through them in order.
What version of Minecraft added the Sticky Piston?
Minecraft Beta 1.7 is the oldest release that calls the sticky piston by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Slimeball and 1 Piston in, 1 Sticky Piston out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java Beta 1.7 is the earliest release that calls it this. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Sticky Piston per craft against the stack size.

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