How to Craft Fishing Rod in Minecraft

The Fishing Rod catches fish and treasure from water. It has 64 durability and can pull mobs toward you.

Overview

The Fishing Rod catches fish and treasure from water. It has 64 durability and can pull mobs toward you. Fishing Rod uses a shaped recipe, meaning the ingredients must sit in the exact pattern shown in the grid above; placing them in the wrong cells will not produce the item. A Crafting Table gives you the full 3x3 grid, which you need for any recipe larger than 2x2. You can craft one from four planks, and most bases keep one near the furnaces.

The recipe was added in Minecraft Alpha and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Fishing Rod.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with stick (craft from planks) and string (kill spiders or break cobwebs). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Crafting Table placed, Fishing Rod is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.

Crafting Recipe

Crafting Table

Fishing Rod

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Stick	3	Craft from planks
String	2	Kill spiders or break cobwebs

To make Fishing Rod you will gather 3x Stick (craft from planks) and 2x String (kill spiders or break cobwebs). Lining these up before you open the Crafting Table saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Open your Crafting Table to access the 3x3 crafting grid.
Arrange the ingredients in the crafting grid following the pattern shown above.
Place Stick in: row 1, column 3; row 2, column 2; row 3, column 1.
Place String in: row 2, column 3; row 3, column 3.
Collect your Fishing Rod from the output slot.

Tips & Notes

If the output slot stays empty, double-check the pattern against the grid above; a shaped recipe fails silently when even one ingredient is in the wrong cell.

Uses for Fishing Rod

Catching fish
Catching treasure items
Pulling mobs and entities

How Fishing Rod Fits Your World

Tools determine how fast you gather and what blocks you can mine at all: a pickaxe of the right tier is required to mine higher ores, since mining diamond ore needs at least an iron pickaxe and ancient debris needs a diamond one. Every tool also carries a durability bar that ticks down with use, so enchantments like Unbreaking and Mending dramatically extend how long it lasts before it breaks. For Fishing Rod specifically, that means it is most valuable for catching fish, catching treasure items, and pulling mobs and entities.

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Fishing Rod on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Fishing Rod?

You need 3 Stick, 2 String, made at a Crafting Table. Gather all of the materials first, then arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above to produce the Fishing Rod.

How many Fishing Rod does the recipe produce?

The recipe produces a single Fishing Rod per craft.

What is Fishing Rod used for?

Fishing Rod is used for several things: Catching fish; Catching treasure items; Pulling mobs and entities.

What version of Minecraft added Fishing Rod?

Fishing Rod was added in Minecraft Alpha and works the same way in the current 1.21 release. Recipes for it are identical across Java and Bedrock Edition unless noted otherwise.

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