- To make sticks in Minecraft, you'll need two planks or two bamboo. Place them in two vertically attached cells of the crafting grid to make sticks.
- Sticks are used in so many crafting recipes, ranging from rails, redstone torches, and banners to swords, and bows.
- Furthermore, you can use sticks as fuel or sell them to the fletcher villagers.
As you can tell, Minecraft hosts a variety of crafting ingredients. While some require more work than others, there are also simpler items in Minecraft. One of those items is sticks. Sticks in Minecraft are very common and can be obtained in many ways. So if you’re someone on the lookout for your next project, keep reading as we show you how to make sticks and get sticks in Minecraft.
Minecraft Sticks Crafting Recipe
Making sticks in Minecraft is quite easy by itself. All you need before beginning is to have 2 planks of any type or 2 bamboo. Once you have the planks or the bamboo, follow the steps below to make sticks in Minecraft:
- Begin by opening your inventory with the “E” key.
- Now, place the two planks or two bamboos in the two vertically attached cells of the grid.
- You’ll see four sticks appear when planks are used and only one stick appears when the bamboo is used.
- Click on the sticks to craft them and then move them into your inventory.
- You may also use the crafting table or the Minecraft crafter for making sticks.
And that’s it! You’ve learned how to make sticks in Minecraft. However, you should know that making sticks isn’t the only way to get them.
Where to Find Sticks in Minecraft
Crafting is not the only way you can get sticks in Minecraft. Some other ways to get sticks include:
- Fishing
- Breaking dead bushes and leaf blocks
- Killing witches
- Looting villages and desert wells’ suspicious sand blocks
Uses of Sticks in Minecraft
Sticks in Minecraft are mostly used as a part of many crafting recipes, though they also have two other pretty relevant applications. Some other uses of sticks in Minecraft are:
1. Crafting Ingredient
With sticks, you can make the following items:
- Activator rail
- Armor stand
- Arrow
- Axe (of any tier except netherite)
- Banner
- Bow
- Brush
- Campfire
- Crossbow
- Fishing rod
- Grindstone
- Hoe
- Item frame
- Ladder
- Lever
- Painting
- Pickaxe (of any tier except netherite)
- Powered rail
- Rail
- Redstone torch
- Shovel (of any tier except netherite)
- Sign
- Soul campfire
- Soul torch
- Sword (of any tier except netherite)
- Torch
- Tripwire hook
- Wooden fence
- Wooden gate
2. Fuel
Besides crafting ingredients, sticks in Minecraft can also be used as a fuel source. Place two sticks in the bottom slot of the furnace, blast furnace, or smoker interface and they will smelt one item together.
3. Trading
The final and fairly important use of sticks in Minecraft is in trading with novice-level fletcher villagers. These villagers will by default accept 32 sticks and give you one emerald in return. Since sticks are so easy to get, this is one of the best villager trades for getting emeralds in-game.
There you have it, everyone. You now know how to make sticks in Minecraft and we hope you make use of them in this blocky game.
As this process is pretty straightforward, you shouldn’t have any issues restocking your stick storage. So, what do you need sticks in Minecraft for? Tell us in the comment section below!
Yes, you can get sticks from trees in Minecraft. Every leaf block has a 2% chance of dropping 1-2 sticks, so the more leaves you break, the more sticks you’ll get.
