Talk: Piston

Sticky Pistons[]

There are 2 things I am confused about sticky pistons.

Can they pull 12 blocks, or can they only pull 1 block?
What happens when they try to pull blocks that cannot be pushed (like obsidian) or gets destroyed in the attempt (like mushrooms)?

I play pocket edition, so I can't test it out yet. 71.35.186.79 17:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

"When a piston loses power, it will retract by simply pulling its head back, unless it is a sticky piston, in which case it will also pull the block in front of the head." - Piston#Usage
If the block cannot be moved, the piston simply leaves it behind. That includes if the block normally breaks upon being pushed. I am adding this part to the article now.

–KnightMiner ^(t·c) 17:27, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

6-sided piston[]

Could someone add something about the "6-sided piston" and "6-sided sticky piston"? This was a well-known block for making maps. 108.216.23.230 00:40, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Nice, wasn't aware of it. Made mention of it in the 14w17a page, as well as the #Block data and #History sections on this page. – Sealbudsman (Aaron)

^t/_c 15:59, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Should the amount of ticks it takes to extend/retract should be added to the main description?[]

Like about the Redstone lamp, "A redstone lamp activates instantly, but takes 2 redstone ticks to turn off (4 game ticks, or 0.2 seconds barring lag)". The updates said that it takes 2 redstone ticks and on the console versions, double of that.

Yeah, if you know it, feel free! I'm sure someone will double check it and everything. – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 02:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Request to split page.[]

I request this page to be split between piston and sticky piston. Boorider7 (talk) 16:27, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Disagree. See Talk:Piston/Archive 1#Merge Article With Piston. –LauraFi - talk 19:58, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Disagree too. The Sticky page would just be a word-for-word copy of the Piston page, except with one or two places where it mentions pulling blocks. No need for that. What reason would we split it? – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 04:28, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Oh really? The sticky piston is clearly a variant of piston; it only differs by the ability to pull blocks.

On the other hand, the Russian article is split into the two. They must be merged. But that’s a different story. — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 12:32, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

0 agrees and 3 disagrees in 4 whole years, so I'm just going to consider this 100% resolved. Sagessylu (discuss | edits) 17:21, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Piston Extension Data[]

How do I /setblock a piston extension that is pushing a block?

--MCweb 03:09, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Note Block Needs Added To List[]

I noticed that pistons can now move note blocks, where they could not before. Did not see it in the list. GreenBeing (talk) 22:39, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Looks like that change was implemented in 17w47a Ryk3ld368 (talk) 03:05, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Lectern block[]

Lectern can be push and pull on bedrock edition –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Ultimate 2128 (talk • contribs) at 15:44, 16 October 2019 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Done. ImakerB (talk) 22:36, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Blocks that can be pushed or pulled—PS4 column[]

Shouldn't we remove this column, as PS4 is discontinued? -FezEmerald (T|C) 03:18, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Agreed. -sw9091 unable to log in 14.1.28.163 06:22, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Done -FezEmerald (Talk to me|See what I've been up to) 18:11, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Slabs and upside-down slabs are not in the list[]

i think this should be added to the movable blocks list. that would be usefull.--Nanto2016 (talk) 00:22, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Dragon Egg is in the list twice, with different results[]

I have never attempted to push the dragon egg with a piston, and do not know why I would attempt to do so, but it still bugs me that the table has information that conflicts with itself. Please apply corrections, and confirm that other data is correct while doing so. I am concerned that other data errors have snuck in, and I am too inexperienced to be able to filter out the bad data on my own.

Thank you for your time. - Anonymous Noob

Achievement+link[]

I wanna add the word (double piston extender) to the achievement because that is what the achievement is on.

Also, how do I add a link to the observer page where I added the word Observer. --Petey567 (talk) 17:42, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

@Petey567: To add a wikilink, put double brackets around the term, for example [[observer]] in the editor becomes the link observer. A "double piston extender" has no meaning to most people, so I suggest you don't add it without including some context. Amatulic (talk) 19:59, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Respawn anchor not in immovable list[]

I don't know how to use the BlockLink template to add the respawn anchor to the list of blocks that can't be moved by pistons. Can someone do it for me? Thanks. --Mrmangod (talk) 01:41, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Added. TheGreatSpring (talk) 01:44, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Sticky piston history section[]

the history section asks if b1.7.3 is the right edition for jack o lanterns no longer being able to be put on sticky pistons.
current official launcher:
b1.7.3 unable
b1.7.2 unable
b1.7 unable
downloaded the betacraft client:
b1.7.3 unable
b1.7.2 unable
b1.7_01 unable
b1.7 unable
can we confirm that it was ever actually possible? Ryk3ld368 (talk) 00:11, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

breaking[]

It says in the article it's faster to break with pickaxe "even though being made almost entirely of wood". What? 3 wood blocks to 4 stone and even an iron ingot. This statement makes no sense – Unsigned comment added by 1.123.85.43 (talk) at 10:30, 22 September 2021‎ (UTC). Sign comments with ~~~~

It makes no sense if you don't read it carefully. It says the piston head is made almost entirely of wood, which is true. I have changed the sentence to be more clear. Amatulic (talk) 20:08, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Pistonarmcollision[]

There is this block in Minecraft Bedrock Edition. You can only have it with /setblock. It is invisible, but you can walk through it. It has the block ID 34 and is already mentioned in this article. I’m pretty sure it’s the piston head from Java Edition. There is also “stickypistonarmcollision”, also somewhere in this. ID: 473. Are these blocks exclusive to Bedrock? I don’t know! Do some research! 101.185.66.160 09:16, 15 October 2022 (UTC)