How to Make a Stick in Minecraft

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

Stick recipe

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

Place 2 matching wood planks in a Crafting Table to make 4 Sticks.

The 1 × 2 pattern is small enough to craft in the 2 × 2 grid of your inventory, no crafting table needed.
Each craft uses 2 ingredient items and produces 4 Sticks. A full stack of 64 takes 16 crafts and 32 ingredient items in total.

Output: 4 Sticks

Place 2 Bamboos in a Crafting Table to make 1 Stick.

The 1 × 2 pattern is small enough to craft in the 2 × 2 grid of your inventory, no crafting table needed.
Each craft uses 2 ingredient items and produces 1 Stick. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 128 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Stick

Sticks are the handle of every tool and weapon and appear in torches, ladders, fences and rails. Two planks make four sticks.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Stick. 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.