How to build a giant Piston in Minecraft
The Piston block, 16 times bigger: every pixel of its real texture becomes one block. Plan it, gather the exact blocks and build it layer by layer.
- 16 × 16 × 16 blocks (wide × tall × long)
- 1,352 blocks hollow (21 stacks + 8), 4,096 solid
- 16 layers from the bottom up
- 13 kinds of block
Blocks you need
For the hollow build at real size, with 1-block walls. In the builder you can pick other block groups, a different size (½× up to 16×) or a solid build, and the list changes with it.
| Block | Count |
|---|---|
| Cyan Terracotta | 413 (6 stacks + 29) |
| Light Gray Concrete | 191 (2 stacks + 63) |
| Gray Concrete | 160 (2 stacks + 32) |
| Stripped Jungle Wood | 153 (2 stacks + 25) |
| Stone | 143 (2 stacks + 15) |
| Stripped Spruce Wood | 107 (1 stack + 43) |
| Stripped Oak Wood | 52 |
| Light Gray Wool | 41 |
| Stripped Birch Wood | 28 |
| Andesite | 20 |
| Smooth Stone | 20 |
| White Concrete | 20 |
…and 1 more kind of block, listed in the builder.
How to build it
- Plan: choose the blocks you have, the size, hollow or solid, and the build direction.
- Gather: get the exact block list in stacks and shulker boxes, or download it as a Litematica schematic.
- Build: place one layer at a time, with a 3D view and a 2D map of each layer that counts the blocks in every row.