How to Make an Armor Stand in Minecraft

Minecraft now has a variety of armor, and you can customize them further using the armor trims in the game. So, now comes the question of whether there’s a way to store and showcase them at your base. And the answer is yes! You can display armor on, well, armor stands. So, in this guide, we will share the step-by-step process to make an Armor Stand in Minecraft and its uses in the game.

Minecraft Armor Stand Crafting Recipe

The crafting recipe for an armor stand requires the following resources:

• 6 Sticks
• 1 Smooth Stone Slab

Sticks are one of the most basic items in the game. They can be made using two planks from any wood type. For crafting a smooth stone slab, you need to first make smooth stone.

You will also require the crafting table, a utility block that allows you to craft items in a 3 x 3 crafting grid. On the other hand, you can also use the crafter, which is basically a crafting table, but it can only craft items using Redstone power.

How to Make an Armor Stand in Minecraft

If you collected the required resources, let’s start crafting an armor stand.

• Place the crafting table or crafter in your world and right-click it to open its UI.
• Start by placing the smooth stone slab in the central slot of the bottommost row.
• Next, place one stick above the stone slab and then one to the left and right of it.
• Finally, fill the top row of the crafting grid with sticks completely.
• Then, you can click on the armor stand icon on the right to craft it.

However, if you’re using a crafter, you’ll need to power the block with a button, lever, or any other redstone power source.

How to Get an Armor Stand in Minecraft

1. Find Armor Stands in Your World

Armor stands generate naturally only in one location throughout your world – in taiga villages. But not in every single one. That village needs to contain an outside armory site. You will find that they are completely open with a blast furnace and an overhang above it.

Here, you’ll always find 2 armor stands with a couple of iron armor pieces. So, stumbling upon one of these in the early game would be a pretty good time-saver.

2. Spawn Armor Stand with Arms

Technically, you can’t make an armor stand with arms in Minecraft Java Edition. The arms feature is exclusive to the Bedrock Edition. By using Minecraft commands, you can spawn one in your Java world. To do so, press T to open chat and use the following command to summon an armor stand with arms:

/summon minecraft:armor_stand ~ ~ ~ {ShowArms:1}

Do keep in mind that the spawned armor stand will lose its arms when broken. So, only spawn it where you want to place it. Moreover, this custom armor stand can hold items like swords, even on the Java edition. But you will have to break the stand to get that item back.

How to Use Armor Stand in Minecraft

Armor Stands can be used to showcase all your armor pieces or any one of your weapons, showing off to your friends how wealthy your base is. To place the items, consider doing the following steps:

• Place an armor stand on the ground and hold the armor pieces in your hand.
• Aim towards the armor stand and right-click your mouse to equip the item on it.
• The armor stand in itself stays in a single position; however, you can further modify its position by using the following command: ‘/summon minecraft:armor_stand ~ ~ ~ {Rotation:[0f,0f]}‘, where ‘0f‘ depicts the angle.

This way, you can think of numerous ways in which the armor stand can be positioned. So, you can place the stands in your base as mannequins, and they can be thought of as NPCs in the game. You can further use a redstone mechanism to create a structure that pops out your favorite gear at the press of a lever or a button.

There you have it, folks, now you know how to make armor stands in your world. The most special feature of armor stands is its poses. Some members of the community have even developed entire art styles involving them.

You can make your world feel alive using armor stands, as well as tell stories in a unique way. What do you use the armor stand for? Let us know in the comments below.