How to Make a Sticky Piston in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Sticky Piston in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Sticky Piston recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Crafting Table method

Place 1 Slime Ball and 1 Piston in a Crafting Table to make 1 Sticky Piston.

Ingredients

Crafting notes

The 1 × 2 pattern is small enough to craft in the 2 × 2 grid of your inventory, no crafting table needed.
Each craft uses 2 ingredient items and produces 1 Sticky Piston. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 128 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Sticky Piston

About this Minecraft recipe

A sticky piston works like a piston but also pulls the block back when the signal turns off, which makes hidden doors and retractable bridges possible.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Sticky Piston. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.

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