While you can craft Minecraft string in one limited case, the easiest way to get it is to harvest it from enemies. If you want to hunt down this valuable resource in bulk, you’re going to need to come face-to-face with some Minecraft mobs. In this guide, we’ll detail where to find string, what it can be used for, and some of the most useful crafting recipes that require string.
How to find string in Minecraft
Killing spiders is the easiest way to get your hands on a lot of string quickly. They’re noisy, so you’ll know their location easily, although we’ve found that they spawn most often in dark caves and under trees in dense forests. They’re also pretty big, so hitting them is easy, and taking them down isn’t strenuous at all.
While killing spiders is the easiest way to get your hands on plenty of string, there are other methods. You can also break cobwebs, fish, and loot it from jungle temples, desert pyramids, and dungeons. If you have some tamed cats around your base, it might also bring you some string as a gift from time to time. Although we’ve heard that cats only bring “gifts” when they think you’re incapable of looking after yourself–so take from that what you will.
String crafting recipes
While you can’t craft string in Java, in Bedrock, you can add cobwebs to a crafting table to turn them into string. More importantly, string is used for several vital in-game items. You can use it to create wool, looms, leads, fishing rods, bows, crossbows, and even scaffolding.
Wool
To craft wool from string you’ll need to have four string and arrange them in the lower left corner of the crafting table.
Loom
To craft a loom, place a wood plank in the center of the crafting table and another to the left of it. Place two string above both of these blocks to create a loom.
Fishing rod
Place three sticks diagonally from the bottom left to upper right corners of the crafting table. Place two string on the right side of the sticks to create a fishing rod.
Lead
A lead is used to capture mobs. To craft one, you’ll need five string. Place four next to each other in the upper left corner of the crafting grid in a 2×2 shape, and one in the bottom right corner to create a lead.
Bow
To craft a bow from string, place three string down the right-hand side of the crafting grid. Place three sticks in the top middle, middle left, and bottom middle spaces to create a bow.
Taking string to fishermen villagers to trade could get you some valuable items, and you can even create traps with string by turning it into tripwire. If you connect string to a tripwire hook, it’ll activate whenever anything walks by. You can create traps for your fellow players in this way, or you can use it to trigger trapdoors that mobs can fall into for item farming. If you’re on a multiplayer server and you spot someone else’s tripwire, you can cut it with shears to avoid falling to your doom.
Now that you know how to get string in Minecraft, take a look at our Minecraft guides hub, which covers everything from the most useful Minecraft tools, to how to breed Minecraft animals.
