Pistons do not push unless not side-by-side

Question

I’ve gotten into building traps, XP & Resource farms, and secret escapes lately, and pistons are helping a lot. But I have run into a problem. I dug this moat around my house and designed a secret escape route, which is a piston pushes a piston to a space with a redstone block and that one pushes a block of dirt up, creating a sort of bridge for me to get to the other side, and there are 5 of these chains, activated by a button. But it seems like the fact that the pistons are side by side is bothering them and they are not pushing anything. How can I solve this?

Answer 1

Block Updates

To make sure your escape works every time, you need to update the piston. An easy fix to that is an observer, with its output facing into the piston through the redstone block. This helps make sure that it activates and stays active.

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