The piston grid
- Input
- 1 piston
- Expected output
- 3 planks (any wood), 4 cobblestone, 1 iron ingot, 1 redstone
Planks along the top, the iron ingot in the center and the redstone dust below it, with cobblestone on the four sides.
minecraft piston recipe
The tool below opens with the piston: the grid sits at the top and the Materials tab shows cobblestone, log, raw iron and redstone, with the smelting of the ingot.
Planks along the top, the iron ingot in the center and the redstone dust below it, with cobblestone on the four sides.
The log yields 4 planks, 3 go in and 1 is left. The raw iron is the only smelt, and 1 coal is enough.
The 64 cobblestone close exactly 1 stack, the 12 logs give the 48 planks, and the 16 raw iron take 2 coal, each one smelting 8.
In the official record, it is the only recipe that lists the piston as an ingredient. Anyone who wants the sticky one crafts the plain piston first.
It adds up what each item needs across all branches and only then rounds the number of crafts up. One log makes 4 planks; if you need 5, that is 2 logs and 3 planks left over. Leftovers show on the Materials tab and are reused by other items on your list before more raw material is requested.
It takes 3 planks, from any wood. One log yields 4 planks, so 1 log covers the recipe and 1 plank is left over.
It uses 1 iron ingot, meaning 1 smelted raw iron, and 1 coal. For 16 pistons, 16 raw iron and 2 coal.
That is 64 cobblestone, 4 per piston, which makes exactly 1 stack. Adding 16 raw iron, 16 redstone and 12 logs, the whole list fits in a few chests.
Yes. It is a pickaxe block and its loot table returns the piston. You can take a machine apart and reuse the pieces.