Using pistons in Minecraft, you can create a wide variety of mechanisms: from strong castle gates to garden watering systems. There would be a fantasy, and there will always be a piston in your world. It remains only to learn how to make a piston in Minecraft.
To create your first piston you will need 4 cobblestones, 3 wooden planks, red stone and an ingot of iron. It would seem that there are a lot of ingredients for crafting, but most of them you will find without difficulty, even before you think about how to make a piston.
Cobblestone is easy to obtain by simply breaking stones with any pickaxe. These gray blocks make up almost 70% of the entire underground part of the world. Next, collect the boards. Here, too, everything is simple: cut down a tree and process logs into boards at the nearest workbench. If you appeared in the desert, then either generate a new world (which is easier with huge biomes) or go to a more wooded area.
Before you make a piston, you have to wander a bit in the dungeons. Iron ore, however, is found at any depth, and sometimes even in the mountains, so most of the time you spend in search of red stone. You should look almost at the lava itself - where diamonds are found. Red stone is extracted with a steel pickaxe, 4 pieces per block. Just be careful - often lava blocks are located around the ore. By breaking such a block plug, you risk falling under the lava flow and losing all the accumulated resources.
A diagram that shows how to make a piston can be found on the Minecraft website, like all other crafting recipes. Before making a piston, make sure you have a stove, workbench and enough fuel to melt the iron. It will save your time.
Using the piston, you may notice that it only moves the block, but does not return it to its place. To fix this, you will need to make a different type of piston in Minecraft. How to make a sticky piston? You need to connect a regular piston with a lump of mucus. The latter is obtained by hunting slugs. You can find these green monsters in swamps or in large caves, it all depends on luck. Mark the place where you kill the first slug - in this place they will appear constantly.
Crafting a sticky piston looks a lot easier: put a regular piston in the lower cell, and add a lump of mucus to the cell on top. The position of this pair of blocks in the crafting grid does not matter, only their position relative to each other is important.
The sticky piston not only repels the neighboring block, but also, by the signal of the lever, pulls it to its previous position, which is convenient for creating fortress gates. Zombies have the habit of breaking through ordinary doors at night, which is unpleasant. Gates made of pistons and stones are perceived by monsters as part of the landscape, and therefore do not attract too much attention to your home. Excess red stone can be used as wires to create remote control of all types of pistons.
Once you have learned how to make a piston, you can create advanced mechanisms that make life easier on the Minecraft server. In combination with popular modifications, pistons are great for creating labyrinths and automatic locks.