Stick - Minecraft Item Guide | Everything Minecraft

What is Stick in Minecraft?

A stick is one of the most basic and important crafting items in all of Minecraft. It is a simple wooden stick, but it is the foundation for almost every tool, weapon, and many other useful items you will ever make. You cannot get very far in your adventure without a good supply of sticks. They are used to make everything from the first wooden pickaxe you use to mine stone, to the torches that light up your deepest caves, to the ladders that help you climb out. The humble stick is a true survival essential, and you will be crafting and using them from your first day all the way to the end game. It is a core part of the Minecraft experience.

How to get Stick in Minecraft

Getting a stick is very easy, and there are a few ways to do it. The main way is by crafting them. You can take any type of wood plank, like oak or birch, and place two of them vertically in a crafting grid. This will give you four sticks. Since trees are everywhere, you can have an almost infinite supply. You can also sometimes get a stick without crafting. When you break the leaf blocks on trees, there is a small chance that a stick will drop. You can also find dead bushes in biomes like deserts, badlands, and swamps. Breaking a dead bush will give you up to two sticks. Finally, witches have a small chance to drop sticks when they are defeated, but crafting them from wood is by far the easiest and most reliable method.

How to use Stick in Minecraft

The stick is used in countless crafting recipes and is one of the most versatile items in the game. Its most important use is for crafting tools like pickaxes, axes, shovels, and hoes, as well as weapons like swords. You combine sticks with materials like wood, stone, iron, or diamond to make your gear. Sticks are also essential for making torches. You combine a stick with a piece of coal or charcoal to make four torches, which you need to see in the dark and keep monsters away. Other important recipes that use a stick include ladders, fences, signs, fishing rods, bows, and arrows. You will always need a chest full of sticks for all your building and adventuring needs.