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How to Craft Soul Torch in Minecraft

Soul Torch in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Blue light source with level 10. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.16.

Feed a Crafting Table 1 Coal, 1 Stick, and 1 Soul Sand and Soul Torches come back. Laid out, that is a single Coal in the top-middle cell, a single Stick in the centre cell, and a single Soul Sand in the bottom-middle cell. Expect 4 Soul Torches from every craft.

Soul Torch Item ID and Give Command

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

Give yourself one
/give @p soul_torch
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p soul_torch 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve soul_torch 1

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

Overview

Soul Torches emit a blue flame with light level 10. They repel piglins, making them useful in the Nether. Soul Torch uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.16, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with coal (mine coal ore), stick (craft from planks), and soul sand (found in the Nether).

Counting The Stack

Feed 1 coal a craft, so 64 covers 64 of them: 256 soul torches. On top of that: 64 soul sand. Nothing is wasted: craft 64 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
CoalCoalCoal1xMine coal ore
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks
Soul Sand1xFound in the Nether

For Soul Torch: Coal (mine coal ore), Stick (craft from planks), and Soul Sand (found in the Nether), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Coal, 1 Soul Sand and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Soul TorchSoul TorchSoul Torchthis page

Gather this first

CoalCoalCoalSoul Sand2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    CoalCoalCoal

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Soul Sand

  4. 4

    4x Soul Torch

Minecraft crafting recipe for Soul Torch: 1 x Coal, 1 x Stick, 1 x Soul Sand in a crafting table, making 4 Soul Torch.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 1x Coal, 1x Stick, and 1x Soul Sand. Plan the Coal first: mine coal ore.
  • The recipe returns 4 Soul Torch at a time.

Uses for Soul Torch

  • Blue light source with level 10
  • Repelling piglins

What Soul Torch Goes Into

One other recipe on this site lists Soul Torch as an ingredient.

Soul LanternSoul LanternSoul LanternCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Soul Torch on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Soul Torch in Minecraft?
1 Coal, 1 Stick and 1 Soul Sand at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Soul Torch. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces 4 Soul Torches.
What do you need to make a Soul Torch from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Soul Torch comes down to 1 Coal, 1 Soul Sand and 2 Planks. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
What can you make with Soul Torch?
Soul Torch is an ingredient in 1 other recipe on this site, including Soul Lantern. The section above links to each of them.
Can you craft a Soul Torch without a crafting table?
You need a table for a Soul Torch. It is laid out as a single Coal in the top-middle cell, a single Stick in the centre cell, and a single Soul Sand 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 a Soul Torch?
Here is where each part of a Soul Torch comes from. Coal: mine coal ore. Stick: craft from planks. Soul Sand: found in the Nether.
How many Soul Torches do you get from one craft?
The Soul Torch recipe makes 4 Soul Torches in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Soul Torch in Minecraft?
Soul Torch is registered as minecraft:soul_torch. Commands accept the short form soul_torch as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Soul Torch?
The command for Soul Torch is /give @p soul_torch. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p soul_torch 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Soul Torch recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Coal, 1 Stick and 1 Soul Sand at a Crafting Table gives you a Soul Torch, in the layout shown above, 4 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Soul Torch?
Minecraft 1.16 is where the soul torch starts. The recipe sits in that release and is missing from the one before, across every Java version Mojang still hands out. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Coal and 1 Stick and 1 Soul Sand in, 4 Soul Torches out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 3 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.16 is the first release that knows this recipe at all. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
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: 4 Soul Torches per craft against the stack size.

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