How to Make a Slime Ball in Minecraft

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

Slime Ball recipe

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

Place 1 Slime Block in a Crafting Table to make 9 Slime Balls.

Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 9 Slime Balls. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Slime Balls

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Slime Ball. 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.