Materials & resources
Redstone Dust
Redstone Dust is a materials & resources item with 6 current Java and Bedrock recipe variants. It is also an ingredient in 25 recipe outputs, including Block of Redstone Recipe, Clock Recipe, Compass Recipe.
Redstone Dust- Item ID
- minecraft:redstone
- Numeric ID
- 745
- Stack size
- 64
- Edition
- Java
- Recipe relationships
- 26
How to obtain Redstone Dust
- Craft or process Redstone Dust at Crafting Table or Furnace or Blast Furnace using one of the 6 current recipe variants.
- Open the Redstone Dust Recipe guide for the exact ingredients, grid positions, output quantity and edition-specific alternatives.
Crafting and processing relationships
- Block of Redstone Recipe — 2 current variants
- Clock Recipe — 2 current variants
- Compass Recipe — 2 current variants
- Copper Bulb Recipe — 1 current variant
- Crafter Recipe — 1 current variant
- Detector Rail Recipe — 2 current variants
- Dispenser Recipe — 2 current variants
- Dropper Recipe — 2 current variants
- Exposed Copper Bulb Recipe — 1 current variant
- Note Block Recipe — 12 current variants
- Note Block Recipe — 4 current variants
- Observer Recipe — 2 current variants
Uses, durability and repair
- Use Redstone Dust to make Block of Redstone Recipe, Clock Recipe, Compass Recipe, Copper Bulb Recipe, Crafter Recipe and 20 more recipe outputs.
- Redstone Dust stacks to 64, so one full shulker box can hold 1,728 of it.
A full inventory slot holds 64 items; 27 slots hold 1728, and a double chest holds 3456.
Command
/give @p minecraft:redstone 64/give- Gives an item to the selected target.
@p- The nearest player to where the command runs.
minecraft:redstone- The namespaced identifier for Redstone Dust.
64- The number of items to give.
Component syntax can change between releases. This identifier is pinned to the current Java 26.2 registry used by this page.