Where to Find Dispenser in Minecraft

You will meet Dispenser in All Overworld biomes (crafting) and Jungle Temples, 2 different places, and the fastest of them depends on what you already have for Dispenser. Uses items when activated: shoots arrows, places water/lava, equips armor, and more. Jungle Temples contain dispensers as part of their arrow trap mechanisms. Dispenser does not spawn naturally in the world or generate in chests as standard loot: it is something you make at a Crafting Table, so the practical question is where to gather its ingredients rather than where to find the finished item.

Craft it rather than hunt for it: Dispenser comes off a Crafting Table from Cobblestone, Bow, and Redstone Dust, and that grid hands you Dispenser every single time you fill it in, which no chest or mob will do. Gather first and craft after, because Dispenser takes Cobblestone (mine stone with any pickaxe), Bow (craft from three sticks and three string), and Redstone Dust (mine redstone ore around Y -59, which is common at that depth) before the grid does anything. Can be used to create automatic chicken farms (dispenses eggs), TNT cannons, and fire charge launchers. A full stack of Dispenser is 64, so gather freely: 27 slots turn that into 1728, and that is a session worth of work stored in one block. Nothing about Dispenser has moved since the original 1.0 release: a fresh world and a world from years ago treat Dispenser in exactly the same way. Once you have Dispenser, it earns its place in the kind of automated farms, hidden doors, and timing circuits that redstone makes possible, so it is worth keeping a few crafted and ready in your storage.

If you are here for Dispenser, Dropper, Hopper, Bow, and Redstone Dust are the neighbours worth knowing, since a route to one tends to pass the others. The item page for Dispenser has the numbers this guide leaves out.