How to Make a Bow in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Bow in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Bow recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 3 Sticks and 3 Strings in a Crafting Table to make 1 Bow.

The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
Each craft uses 6 ingredient items and produces 1 Bow. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 384 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Bow

The bow fires arrows at range and accepts enchantments such as Power, Flame and Infinity.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Bow. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.