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Stick
MiscellaneousCraftable

Stick

A fundamental crafting material made from two planks, used in tools, weapons, torches, signs, fences and many other recipes. It can also be obtained from leaves and other sources.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

stick

Stick at a glance

Minecraft files Stick under Miscellaneous: an item you get from crafting and natural world generation. Stack Stick 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest. It burns in a furnace, but a single smelt eats 2, so a stack of 64 covers 32 items.

Keep Stick around: 65 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. Of the 5 kinds of generated chest that can hold Stick, village toolsmith chests are the best bet at about 90% per chest. It sits between Spire Armor Trim Smithing Template and String in Miscellaneous, number 123 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
StickStick4

Used to craft

Stick is an ingredient in 65 other recipes across 6 categories, 25 of them in Utility Blocks, Activator Rail first and Yellow Banner last. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Stick.

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Natural generation

Mobs that drop it

Witch drops 0 to 2 of them. Looting III turns Witch into 5 Stick instead of 2, 1 per level.

Fuel value

Stick burns for 5 seconds (100 ticks), so 2 Stick smelt one item

Notes

Not a block. Two bamboo also craft a stick. Drops occasionally from breaking leaves and is found in chest loot. Smelts 0.5 items as fuel.

Frequently asked questions about Stick

  1. Planks going into Stick, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Stick in Minecraft?

    Stick is crafted from Planks at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4. It also comes from natural world generation, not just the recipe above.

  2. Stick turning into Activator Rail and Armor Stand, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Stick used for?

    Stick is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Activator Rail, Armor Stand, Arrow, Banner, Bell, Black Banner, Blue Banner, Bow, Brown Banner, Brush, plus 55 other items that call for it.

  3. A chest beside Stick, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Stick in chests?

    Stick is chest loot in village toolsmith chests (about 90%, 1 to 3 at a time), the bonus chest (about 67%, 1 to 12 at a time), village fletcher chests (about 56%, 1 to 3 at a time), and trial chamber entrance chests (about 31%, 2 to 5 at a time). It shows up in 5 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  4. 64 Stick drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Stick can you stack?

    64 Stick fills a slot, and that slot costs 32 Planks, since each one returns 4, which is 16 crafts at the crafting table.

  5. Several Stick at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Stick?

    Witch drops 0 to 2 of them. Looting III turns Witch into 5 Stick instead of 2, 1 per level.

  6. Stick beside a furnace, which is where its 5 seconds of burning go

    Can Stick be used as fuel?

    Burning Stick works: 5 seconds each, though not one item at a time, since it takes 2 of them to finish a single smelt. A furnace throws away no remainder, which is why Stick works out at exactly 2 to the item.

Building with it

Two planks give four sticks, and bamboo gives them too. Every tool, every weapon, every torch and every fence in the game passes through a stick, which makes it the most crafted item in most worlds by a wide margin.

Related Astroworld Resources

Villager trades for Stick

What villagers ask for Stick on Astroworld Trades

Witch drops Stick

The Witch page on Astroworld Mobs, where Stick is listed as a drop

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