How do you get Stick in Minecraft?

Craft 4 sticks from 2 planks of any wood stacked vertically Craft 1 stick from 2 bamboo stacked vertically Leaf blocks decaying or broken without Silk Touch drop 0-2 sticks; dead bushes drop 0-2 when broken Witches drop 0-6 sticks (up to 15 with Looting III); bonus chests and village cartographer/ toolsmith/fletcher chests hold them too

What is Stick used for?

The skeleton key of crafting: tools, weapons, torches, ladders, rails, levers, item frames, armor stands, bows, fishing rods, campfires and dozens more all need sticks Fuel in a pinch: 5 seconds per stick - terrible, but it burns Trade 32 sticks to a fletcher villager for an emerald - one of the easiest trades in the game

Stick

Material Stack: 64 Since Indev 0.31 (January 29, 2010)

Quick answer: Craft 4 sticks from 2 planks of any wood stacked vertically.

How to get it

Craft 4 sticks from 2 planks of any wood stacked vertically
Craft 1 stick from 2 bamboo stacked vertically
Leaf blocks decaying or broken without Silk Touch drop 0-2 sticks; dead bushes drop 0-2 when broken
Witches drop 0-6 sticks (up to 15 with Looting III); bonus chests and village cartographer/ toolsmith/fletcher chests hold them too

Uses

The skeleton key of crafting: tools, weapons, torches, ladders, rails, levers, item frames, armor stands, bows, fishing rods, campfires and dozens more all need sticks
Fuel in a pinch: 5 seconds per stick - terrible, but it burns
Trade 32 sticks to a fletcher villager for an emerald - one of the easiest trades in the game

Renewability

Fully renewable: planks come from trees, bamboo grows fast, and witches and leaves drop them forever.

Java vs Bedrock

Identical in Java and Bedrock. Fun fact: in the first Pocket Edition versions sticks existed but were unobtainable and useless - they only became craftable later.

Related: Coal Iron Ingot

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