Piston Contrivance

Piston Contrivances are powerful utility mobs that are best for guarding a player's permanent home or other important structures.

Creation


Creating a Piston Contrivance is more difficult than creating other utility mobs as it requires a wider variety of materials. It can be crafted in two ways, though the only difference between the final results are purely aesthetic. For the first method, a sticky piston is placed facing down with the piston arm connecting to the ground. A dispenser is placed on top of this. Two pistons are placed at its sides with the piston arms facing the player. Finally, a pumpkin is placed on top of the dispenser, and a piece of redstone is placed on top of the pumpkin. This causes the Piston Contrivance to have a red glow emitting from its eyes. The second method is similar, but a jack-o-lantern is placed instead of a pumpkin, and the redstone on top of the creation is absent. Unlike other utility mobs, the order of how these blocks are placed does not matter, as placing these blocks down may be a difficult task.