Piston Head — Minecraft block

Overview

Piston Head is a redstone block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. It is available only in Creative mode or through commands. At a hardness of 1.5 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.

With a blast resistance of only 1.5 it will not survive an explosion. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

Hardness 1.5 puts Piston Head at 2.3 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.25 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

You are looking at 0.4 seconds on iron and 0.3 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.

Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand	2.3 s	2.3 s	2.3 s
Wooden	1.2 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.6 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.4 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Piston Head is 1.5, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for.

Hardness: 1.5
Blast resistance: 1.5
Light level: 0
Transparent: No
Required tool: Any