The stick in Minecraft is the basis for creating many necessary things - tools, torches, arrows and weapons. In fact, this is the first item to craft at the start of the game.
The basics
Sticks are created from planks made from any wood. Wood can be obtained from tree trunks that grow in almost any region or type of terrain in this game. The exceptions are desert, plain and tundra.
Once you appear in the game world, look around. If you see a tree nearby, go to it. If you are unlucky enough to appear on the plain, in the desert or in the tundra, run to any direction in a straight line. Time in the game goes quickly, and before nightfall you definitely need to find at least one tree.
The thing is that without valuable blocks of wood at the initial stage, the game will most likely end for you. Without wood and sticks, you can't make any weapons or tools. You will not be able to really protect yourself from monsters at night, get food or even build a dwelling. If night fell in the process of searching for trees, dig a depression in two or three blocks in the ground, hide there and close with a block on top. Such a primitive shelter will save you from monsters. Wait until morning and continue on your way.
Having found a tree, approach it, move the crosshair of the "sight" to the trunk block and press the left mouse button, do not release it until the block is mined. The radius of action of your hands is three blocks, try to get as much wood as possible. It will be necessary to build the first house from it and make the sticks that will be needed to create the adaptations necessary for life.
Why are sticks needed
After obtaining several blocks of wood, open your inventory. Next to the moving model of your character there is a field for creating items (crafting) of a small size, two by two blocks. Place the mined tree in an arbitrary slot, remove the board from the result window. Now place two blocks of planks on top of each other in the crafting window - you will receive four sticks. To begin with, it is enough to make about thirty sticks. Some will go to torches, the rest to tools.
The minimum set of tools required to fully start the game includes an ax, a pickaxe, a shovel, a hoe and a fishing rod (if there is a body of water nearby, fishing is the easiest way to provide yourself with food). The first step is to make an ax, this will allow you to quickly chop a tree and make a simple house to protect against monsters. Then you need to create a wooden pickaxe, get some cobblestone for it and switch to stone tools. There are crafting schemes in the attached picture, you need to take into account that iron ingots at the initial stage of the game can and should be replaced with cobblestone blocks. However, this will not work for crafting items such as a bucket or scissors.
