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Community portal Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and other resources are made in Minecraft. It is a function
Wiki Rules only available in Beta mode, as well as the removed Indev and Infdev modes. In order to craft something, the
Recent changes player must move items from their inventory into the crafting grid, then arrange them into the pattern representing
Random page the item(s) they wish to create. As long as the proper pattern of resources is placed, it will not matter where
within the grid the ingredients are placed. Crafting recipes can also be flipped horizontally from their depictions in
Minecraft the graphs below: for instance, you can make a bow with the strings on the right instead of the left. 2×2 crafting grid
The player has access to a 2×2 crafting grid in their Inventory screen which can be used at any time. Crafting
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recipes that are at most 2×2 materials wide and tall can be crafted there, like wood planks, sticks and
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workbenches. To craft with a 3×3 grid, create a Workbench, place it on the ground, and right-click on it. This
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brings up a pop-up screen which allows the player to assemble any crafting recipe in the game, as the maximum
Server List size for a recipe is 3×3.
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3×3 crafting grid
1 Item Durability
2 Complete Recipe List
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2.1 Basic Recipes
What links here 2.2 Block Recipes
Related changes 2.3 Tool Recipes
Special pages 2.4 Weapon Recipes
Printable version 2.5 Armor Recipes
Permanent link 2.6 Transportation Recipes
2.7 Mechanism Recipes
2.8 Food Recipes
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2.9 Miscellaneous Recipes
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Item Durability
Certain crafted items, such as tools and armor, as well as certain other usable items are subject to item durability, a process whereby repeated
use of the tool will deplete its number of available uses.

Complete Recipe List

Currently, there are 99 recipes; this includes each recipe in the animations below and the two methods of making Mushroom Soup. Chainmail
armor is also included in this count.

Basic Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

Used as a building material and can be crafted into many

Wood Log
things.

Used to craft torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as

Sticks Wood
handles for tools.

Torches Stick + Coal Used to create light. Torches also melt snow and ice.

Workbench Wood Allows access of the 3×3 crafting grid.

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 Furnace Cobblestone Allows the player to smelt.

Chest Wood Stores blocks and items inside.

Block Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

Gold Ingots or
Allows ingots or gems to be crafted into placeable blocks
Ore Blocks Iron Ingots or
(useful for compact storage).
Diamond Gems

Has same light properties as natural blocks. Breaking it

Glowstone Glowstone Dust only gives a single unit of dust back. Note: This block acts
as a torch, and will melt snow/ice within 3 blocks of it.

Used as a building material. Wool can also be obtained

Wool String
from Sheep.

TNT Sulphur + Sand Used to cause explosions.

Used for making lengthy stairs. Two Steps placed on top of

Stone Slab Cobblestone
each other will create a full-sized block.

Stairs Wood or Cobblestone Used for compact stairs.

Snow Block Snowballs Used to store snowballs, or as a building material.

Clay Block Clay Used to store clay, or as a building material

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 Brick Clay Bricks Used as a building material.

Bookshelf Wood + Books Used as decoration.

Jukebox Wood + Diamond Gem Plays records.

Jack-O- Functions like a torch, except brighter and stays lit

Pumpkin + Torch
Lantern underwater.

Tool Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

Sticks + Wood or
Cobblestone or
Axes Iron Ingots or Used to chop wood-related blocks faster than by hand.
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems

Sticks + Wood or
Cobblestone or
Pickaxes Iron Ingots or Required to mine stone-related blocks and ore.
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems

Sticks + Wood or
Cobblestone or
Used to dig Dirt, Grass, Sand, Gravel and Snow faster than by
Shovels Iron Ingots or
hand. Shovels are required to dig snowballs.
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems

Sticks + Wood or
Cobblestone or
Used to till Dirt and Grass blocks to find seeds and/or prepare
Hoes Iron Ingots or
for Crops.
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems

Flint and
Iron Ingot + Flint Used to create Fire.
Steel

Bucket Iron Ingots Used to hold and transport water, lava and milk.

Iron Ingots +
Compass Constantly points to the player's spawn point.
Redstone Dust

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 Gold Ingots +
Clock Tells current time of day.
Redstone Dust

Fishing Rod Sticks + String Used to catch fish.

Weapon Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

Stick +
Wood or
Cobblestone or
Swords Deals Mobs more damage than by hand.
Iron Ingots or
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems

Bow Sticks + String Allows for ranged attacks by using arrows.

Arrows Flint + Stick + Feather Used as ammunition for bows.

Armor Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

5 Leather or
Gold Ingots or
Helmets Iron Ingots or Head armor, gives 1.5 armor points (0.30 efficiency).
Diamond Gems or
Fire*

8 Leather or
Gold Ingots or
Chestplates Iron Ingots or Chest armor, gives 4 armor points (0.50 efficiency).
Diamond Gems or
Fire*

7 Leather or
Gold Ingots or
Leggings Iron Ingots or Leg armor, gives 3 armor points (0.43 efficiency).
Diamond Gems or
Fire*

4 Leather or
Gold Ingots or
Boots Iron Ingots or Foot armor, gives 1.5 armor points (0.38 efficiency).
Diamond Gems or
Fire*

*Note that Chainmail armor is also craftable, but only by using the /give command or an inventory editor to get Fire blocks and crafting armor
with them. Due to this, they are not included in the images.

Transportation Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

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 Minecart Iron Ingots Used to transport the player or a Mob along Minecart tracks.

Powered
Furnace + Minecart Used to push other Minecarts along Minecart tracks using fuel.
Minecart

Storage
Chest + Minecart Used to transport goods along Minecart tracks.
Minecart

Minecart
Sticks + Iron Ingots Used to direct Minecarts.
Tracks

Boat Wood Used to travel in water more quickly than swimming.

Mechanism Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

Wooden doors are activated by clicking or with electricity.

Doors Wood or Iron Ingots
Iron doors are similar but can only be opened by electricity.

Used to send an electrical charge when stepped on by a

Pressure
Stone or Wood player or a Mob. Wooden Pressure Plates can also be
Plates
activated by dropping something on them.

Used to send an electrical charge by being pressed. Stays

Stone
Stone activated for approximately 1 second before shutting off
Button
again.

Redstone Constantly sends an electrical charge. Can also be used for

Redstone Dust + Stick
Torch low-level lighting.

Used to send an electrical charge by being turned on or off.

Lever Cobblestone + Stick
Stays in on or off state until clicked.

Food Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

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 Used to hold Mushroom Stew. The player keeps the bowl
Bowls Wood
when they eat the stew.

Red Mushroom +
Mushroom Heals 5 hearts. The ordering of the red and brown
Brown Mushroom +
Stew mushrooms does not matter.
Bowl

Bread Wheat Heals 2.5 hearts.

Golden Apple Gold Blocks + Apple Heals all 10 hearts.

Miscellaneous Recipes
Name Ingredients Input » Output Description

Iron Block or Gold Block

Minerals Used to reclaim Ingots/Gems from blocks.
or Diamond Block

Painting Sticks + Wool Used as decoration.

Sign Wood + Stick Shows text entered by the player.

Ladder Sticks Used to climb vertically.

Paper Reeds Used to create books.

Book Paper Used to create a bookshelf.

Used as a barrier that cannot be jumped over. It counts as

Fences Sticks
1½ block high for mobs/players, but only 1 for other blocks.

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Gameplay Crafting • Health/Damage • Inventory • Redstone circuits • Sneaking • (upcoming: Zombie Siege)

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