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How to Craft Stone Button in Minecraft

Stone Button in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Momentary redstone pulse (1 second).

With a Crafting Table placed, 1 Stone is what a Stone Button needs. You end up with 1 Stone Button each time.

Stone Button Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

A Stone Button provides a 1-second (10-tick) redstone pulse when pressed. Stone Button uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

The stone button was already in the game in Minecraft 1.12, the release that first filed recipes as data, so this recipe is at least that old.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with stone (smelt cobblestone).

One Stack, Counted

One stack is 64 goes at 1 stone each, which totals 64 stone buttons. It divides evenly, no stone left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Stone1xSmelt cobblestone

Stone Button needs Stone (smelt cobblestone), worked together at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

1 Cobblestone makes 1 Stone, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Cobblestone.

  1. 1
    StoneFurnace
  2. 2
    Stone Buttonthis page

Gather this first

Cobblestone

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Stone

  2. 2

    Stone Button

Minecraft crafting recipe for Stone Button: 1 x Stone in a crafting table, making 1 Stone Button.

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Stone anywhere in the grid and Stone Button appears.
  • Shopping list: 1x Stone. Plan the Stone first: smelt cobblestone.

Uses for Stone Button

  • Momentary redstone pulse (1 second)
  • Opening iron doors

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Stone Button on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Stone Button in Minecraft?
To craft a Stone Button you need 1 Stone at a Crafting Table. The cells do not matter here, so drop it in anywhere, and one craft produces one Stone Button.
What do you need to make a Stone Button from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Stone Button comes down to 1 Cobblestone. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
Where do you find the materials for a Stone Button?
The parts of a Stone Button do not all come from one place. Stone: smelt cobblestone.
How many Stone Buttons do you get from one craft?
The Stone Button recipe makes one Stone Button per craft.
What is the item ID for Stone Button in Minecraft?
The Stone Button item ID is minecraft:stone_button, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write stone_button on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Stone Button?
/give @p stone_button gives you a Stone Button. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Stone Button recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Stone at a Crafting Table gives you a Stone Button, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for a Stone Button?
No, a Stone Button is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Stone can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
What version of Minecraft added the Stone Button?
The stone button was there from Minecraft 1.12, the release in which recipes were first written down at all, which puts it older than the record itself. The Stone Button recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Stone in, 1 Stone Button out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java 1.12, the oldest release whose recipes exist to check. 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: 1 Stone Button per craft against the stack size.

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