Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and other resources are made in Minecraft. It is a function only available in Beta mode, as well as the removed Indev and Infdev modes. In order to craft something, the player must move items from their inventory into the crafting grid, then arrange them into the pattern representing 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 the graphs below: for instance, you can make a bow with the strings on the right instead of the left.
The player has access to a 2×2 crafting grid in their Inventory screen which can be used at anytime. Crafting recipes that are at most 2×2 materials wide and tall can be crafted there, like wooden planks, sticks and workbenches. To craft with a 3×3 grid, create a workbench, place it on the ground, and right-click on it. This brings up a pop-up screen which allows the player to assemble any crafting recipe in the game, as the maximum size for a recipe is 3×3.
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 136 recipes; this includes each recipe in the animations below and the two methods of making light gray dye. Chainmail armor is also included in this count.
Basic Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Wooden Planks | Wood | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things. |
Sticks | Wooden Plank | Template:Crafting grid | Used to craft torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools. |
Torches | Stick + Coal (or Charcoal) | Template:Crafting grid | Used to create light and craft Jack-O-Lanterns. Torches also melt snow and ice. |
Crafting Table | Wooden Plank | Template:Crafting grid | Allows access to the 3×3 crafting grid. |
Furnace | Cobblestone | Template:Crafting grid | Allows the player to smelt. |
Chest | Wooden Plank | Template:Crafting grid | Stores blocks and items inside. |
Block Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Ore Blocks | Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Lapis Lazuli Dyes |
Template:Crafting grid | Allows ingots, gems, or dyes to be crafted into placeable blocks (useful for compact storage). |
Glowstone | Glowstone (Dust) | Template:Crafting grid | Has same light properties as natural blocks. Breaking it 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. |
Wool | String | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a building material. Wool can also be obtained from sheep. Can also be colored with color dyes. |
TNT | Sulphur + Sand | Template:Crafting grid | Used to cause explosions. |
Stone Slab | Stone | Template:Crafting grid | Used for making lengthy stairs. Two slabs placed on top of each other will create a full-sized block. |
Wooden Slab | Wooden Plank | Template:Crafting grid | Used for making lengthy stairs. Two slabs placed on top of each other will create a full-sized block. |
Cobblestone Slab | Cobblestone | Template:Crafting grid | Used for making lengthy stairs. Two slabs placed on top of each other will create a full-sized block. |
Stairs | Wooden Planks or Cobblestone | Template:Crafting grid | Used for compact stairs. |
Snow Block | Snowballs | Template:Crafting grid | Used to store snowballs, or as a building material. |
Clay Block | Clay | Template:Crafting grid | Used to store clay, or as a building material. |
Brick (Block) | Clay Bricks | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a building material. |
Bookshelf | Wooden Plank + Books | Template:Crafting grid | Used as decoration. |
Sandstone | Sand | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a building material. |
Jack-O-Lantern | Pumpkin + Torch | Template:Crafting grid | Functions like a torch, except brighter and stays lit underwater. |
Tool Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Axe | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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Stone Axe | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
Axe | Damaged Matching Axe | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Brush | Feather + Copper Ingot + Stick |
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Brush | Damaged Brush | The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Bundle | String + Rabbit Hide |
[only experimental "bundle"] | |
Clock | Gold Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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Compass | Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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Fishing Rod | Stick + String |
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Fishing Rod | Damaged Fishing Rod | The durability of the two fishing rods is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Flint and Steel | Iron Ingot + Flint |
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Flint and Steel | Damaged Flint and Steel | The durability of the two tools is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Hoe | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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Stone Hoe | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
Hoe | Damaged Matching Hoe | The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Lead | String + Slimeball |
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Pickaxe | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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Stone Pickaxe | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
Pickaxe | Matching Damaged Pickaxes | The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% of the tool type's total durability. | |
Recovery Compass | Echo Shard + Compass |
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Shears | Iron Ingot | ||
Shears | Damaged Shears | The durability of the two shears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Shovels | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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Stone Shovel | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use any variant of cobblestone | |
Shovel | Damaged Matching Shovel | The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
Spyglass | Amethyst Shard + Copper Ingot |
Weapon Recipes
Template:Weapon Crafting
Armor Recipes
Template:Armor Crafting
Transportation Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Minecart | Iron Ingots | Template:Crafting grid | Used to transport the player or a mob along rails. |
Powered Minecart | Furnace + Minecart | Template:Crafting grid | Used to push other Minecarts along Minecart tracks using fuel. |
Storage Minecart | Chest + Minecart | Template:Crafting grid | Used to transport goods along rails. |
Rails | Stick + Iron Ingots | Template:Crafting grid | Used to direct minecarts. |
Boat | Wooden Planks | Template:Crafting grid | Used to travel in water more quickly than swimming. |
Mechanism Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Doors | Wooden Plank or Iron Ingots | Template:Crafting grid | Wooden doors are activated by clicking or with electricity. Iron doors are similar but can only be opened by electricity. |
Pressure Plates | Wooden Planks or Stone | Template:Crafting grid | Used to send an electrical charge when stepped on by a player or a mob. Wooden Pressure Plates can also be activated by dropping something on them. |
Stone Button | Stone | Template:Crafting grid | Used to send an electrical charge by being pressed. Stays activated for approximately 1 second before shutting off again. |
Redstone Torch | Redstone Dust + Stick | Template:Crafting grid | Constantly sends an electrical charge. Can also be used for low-level lighting. |
Lever | Cobblestone + Stick | Template:Crafting grid | Used to send an electrical charge by being turned on or off. Stays in on or off state until clicked. |
Note Block | Wooden Planks + Redstone Dust | Template:Crafting grid | Plays a note when triggered. Right click it to change the pitch of the note. Placing this on top of different blocks changes its timbre (the type of instrument). |
Jukebox | Wooden Planks + Diamond Gem | Template:Crafting grid | Plays records. |
Dispenser | Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Bow | Template:Crafting grid | The Dispenser holds a 3x3 storage square. When the Dispenser is powered by redstone, it will shoot out the items in random order. If arrows, snowballs, or eggs were to be dispensed, they are fired instead. |
Redstone Repeater | Stone + Redstone Dust + Redstone Torch | Template:Crafting grid | To do. |
Food Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Bowls | Wooden Planks | Template:Crafting grid | Used to hold mushroom stew. The player keeps the bowl when they eat the stew. |
Mushroom Stew | Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl |
Template:Crafting grid | Heals 5 hearts. The ordering of the red and brown mushrooms does not matter. |
Bread | Wheat | Template:Crafting grid | Heals 2.5 hearts. |
Sugar | Sugar Cane | Template:Crafting grid | Is used in the recipe of the cake. |
Cake | Wheat + Sugar + Egg + Milk | Template:Crafting grid | Heals 1.5 hearts, but can be used 6 times. The buckets are not lost in the process. |
Golden Apple | Gold Blocks + Red Apple | Template:Crafting grid | Heals all 10 hearts. |
Miscellaneous Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Minerals | Iron Block or Gold Block or Diamond Block or Lapis Lazuli Block |
Template:Crafting grid | Used to reclaim ingots/gems/dyes from blocks. |
Painting | Sticks + Wool | Template:Crafting grid | Used as decoration. |
Sign | Wooden Planks + Stick | Template:Crafting grid | Shows text entered by the player. |
Ladder | Sticks | Template:Crafting grid | Used to climb vertically. |
Papers | Sugar Cane | Template:Crafting grid | Used to create books. |
Book | Papers | Template:Crafting grid | Used to create a bookshelf. |
Fences | Sticks | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a barrier that cannot be jumped over, with the exception of spiders and spider jockeys. It counts as 1½ block high for mobs/players, but only 1 for other blocks. |
Beds | Wool + Wooden Planks | Template:Crafting grid | Used to forward time from night to day if all the players in the world are in bed. |
Dye Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Bone Meal | Bone | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create white (original) wool. Also used to instantly grow crops (fertilizer). |
Light Gray Dye | Ink Sac + Bone Meals or Gray Dye + Bone Meal |
Template:Crafting grid
Template:Crafting grid |
Used as a dye to create light gray wool. (Note: light gray dye can also be made by combining gray dye with bone meal, thus letting you make 4 light gray dyes from every ink sac instead of 3.) |
Gray Dye | Ink Sac + Bone Meal | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create gray wool. |
Rose Red | Rose | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create red wool. |
Orange Dye | Rose Red + Dandelion Yellow | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create orange wool. |
Dandelion Yellow | Dandelion | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create yellow wool. |
Lime Dye | Cactus Green + Bone Meal | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create lime wool. |
Cyan Dye | Lapis Lazuli Dye + Cactus Green | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create cyan wool. |
Light Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create light blue wool. |
Purple Dye | Lapis Lazuli Dye + Rose Red | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create purple wool. |
Magenta Dye | Purple Dye + Pink Dye | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create magenta wool. |
Pink Dye | Rose Red + Bone Meal | Template:Crafting grid | Used as a dye to create pink wool. |
Wool Recipes
Template:Wool Crafting
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