How to Make a Rail in Minecraft

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

Rail recipe

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

Place 6 Iron Ingots and 1 Stick in a Crafting Table to make 16 Rails.

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 7 ingredient items and produces 16 Rails. A full stack of 64 takes 4 crafts and 28 ingredient items in total.

Output: 16 Rails

Rails guide minecarts. Six iron ingots and a stick make sixteen rails.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Rail. 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.