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How to Craft Armor Stand in Minecraft

Armor Stand in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Displaying armor sets. Minecraft has used the name Armor Stand since 1.8.

You need 6 Sticks and 1 Smooth Stone Slab, plus a Crafting Table to assemble them on. The top row is three Sticks, the middle row a Stick in the middle column, and the bottom row two Sticks in the left and right columns and a Smooth Stone Slab in the middle column. Expect 1 Armor Stand from every craft. Armor Stands stack to 16 rather than the usual 64.

Armor Stand Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Armor Stand is minecraft:armor_stand. In commands the namespace may be left off, so armor_stand works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p armor_stand
Give a full stack of 16
/give @p armor_stand 16
Give it to a named player
/give Steve armor_stand 1

Cheats have to be on for Armor Stand to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Armor Stands display armor and items. They can hold equipment in all armor slots and both hand slots. Armor Stand uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Armor Stand since 1.8, the oldest release whose language file lists it. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.14. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the armor stand, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with stick (craft from planks) and smooth stone slab (craft from smooth stone).

Counting The Stack

Feed 6 sticks a craft, so 64 covers 10 of them: 10 armor stands. Have 10 smooth stone slabs ready as well. Left behind: 4 sticks.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
StickStickStick6xCraft from planks
Smooth Stone Slab1xCraft from smooth stone

For Armor Stand: 6x Stick (craft from planks) and Smooth Stone Slab (craft from smooth stone), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

4 Planks makes 8 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Smooth Stone Slab and 4 Planks.

  1. 1
    4StickStick8Stickrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    Armor StandArmor StandArmor Standthis page

Gather this first

Smooth Stone Slab4Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    StickStick6x Stick

  2. 2

    Smooth Stone Slab

  3. 3

    Armor Stand

Minecraft crafting recipe for Armor Stand: 6 x Stick, 1 x Smooth Stone Slab in a crafting table, making 1 Armor Stand.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 6x Stick and 1x Smooth Stone Slab. Plan the Stick first: craft from planks.

Uses for Armor Stand

  • Displaying armor sets
  • Holding items in off-hand and head slots
  • Decoration

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Armor Stand on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft an Armor Stand in Minecraft?
an Armor Stand asks for 6 Sticks and 1 Smooth Stone Slab, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Armor Stand.
What do you need to make an Armor Stand from scratch?
From raw materials only, an Armor Stand comes down to 1 Smooth Stone Slab and 4 Planks. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
Can you craft an Armor Stand without a crafting table?
You need a table for an Armor Stand. It is laid out as six Sticks and a single Smooth Stone Slab in the bottom-middle cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for an Armor Stand?
The parts of an Armor Stand do not all come from one place. Stick: craft from planks. Smooth Stone Slab: craft from smooth stone.
How many Armor Stands do you get from one craft?
The Armor Stand recipe makes one Armor Stand per craft.
What is the item ID for Armor Stand in Minecraft?
Armor Stand is registered as minecraft:armor_stand. Commands accept the short form armor_stand as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Armor Stand?
/give @p armor_stand gives you an Armor Stand. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 16 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Armor Stand recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on an Armor Stand: both want 6 Sticks and 1 Smooth Stone Slab at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
How many times do you repeat each step for an Armor Stand?
Most steps for an Armor Stand are a single craft, but Stick has to be made 2 times to reach 6 Sticks. The chain section shows the totals per step.
How many Armor Stands fit in one stack?
An Armor Stand stacks to 16, so a full inventory of 36 slots holds 576 of them.
What version of Minecraft added the Armor Stand?
As far back as the language files go, the armor stand appears under this name in Minecraft 1.8 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The Armor Stand recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Sticks and 1 Smooth Stone Slab in, 1 Armor Stand out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.8 is the earliest release that calls it this. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Compared release by release across 50 Java releases since 1.13; the last change to what it takes was in 1.14.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Armor Stand per craft against the stack size.

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