How to Make a Fishing Rod in Minecraft

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

Fishing Rod recipe

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

Place 3 Sticks and 2 Strings in a Crafting Table to make 1 Fishing Rod.

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 5 ingredient items and produces 1 Fishing Rod. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 320 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Fishing Rod

Fishing rods catch fish, treasure and junk, and can pull mobs toward you. Luck of the Sea and Lure improve the catch.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Fishing Rod. 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.