How to craft Dispenser in Minecraft
Redstone Since Beta 1.2
Quick answer: Craft Dispenser in a Crafting Table (3x3 grid) with 7x Cobblestone + 1x Bow + 1x Redstone Dust. You get 1.
Recipe
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Ingredients and how to get them
| Material | Amount | How to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Cobblestone | 7 | Mine stone with any pickaxe. |
| Bow | 1 | Craft from 3 sticks + 3 string, or get from skeletons. A damaged bow works too. |
| Redstone Dust | 1 | Mine redstone ore below Y=16 with an iron pickaxe or better. |
What is Dispenser used for?
- Fires or uses whatever is inside when powered: arrows for traps, water buckets for farms, shears for automatic wool farms, bone meal for crop accelerators
- Core component of automatic farms, item elevators and TNT cannons
- Unlike a dropper, it uses the item instead of just ejecting it
Variants
- Dropper: same shell with a redstone instead of the bow - ejects items without using them
Java vs Bedrock
Identical recipe in both editions. In Java, dispensers can place shulker boxes and powder snow; behavior for a few items differs on Bedrock.