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, Infdev and Alpha 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 anytime the screen is brought up. Crafting recipes that are at most 2×2 materials wide and tall can be crafted there, like wooden planks, sticks and Crafting Tables. To craft with a 3×3 grid, create a Crafting Table, place it anywhere 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. The more durable the material, the more the uses.
Complete Recipe List
Currently, there are 144 recipes; this includes each recipe in the animations below, the two methods of making light gray dye, the two methods of making magenta dye, the two methods of making Mushroom Soup and the recipes for Chain Armor.
Basic Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Wooden Planks | Wood | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things. Any form of wood used will still result in the same output. |
Sticks | Wooden Plank | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to craft torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools and weapons. |
Torches | Stick + Coal (or Charcoal) | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to create light. Torches also melt snow and ice. |
Crafting Table | Wooden Plank | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Allows access to the 3×3 crafting grid. |
Furnace | Cobblestone | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Allows the player to smelt. |
Chest | Wooden Plank | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Stores blocks and items inside. Place two chests side by side to create a larger chest with double the capacity. |
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:Grid/Crafting Table | Allows ingots, gems, or dyes to be crafted into placeable blocks (useful for compact storage). |
Glowstone Block | Glowstone (Dust) | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice. Note: Breaking it only gives a single unit of dust back. |
Wool | String | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a building material and can be colored with dyes. Wool can be found on Sheep as well. This recipe is not recommended, because String is much harder to obtain from a Spider, than it is to attack a Sheep. |
TNT | Gunpowder + Sand | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to cause explosions. |
Slabs | Stone, Sandstone, Wooden Planks or Cobblestone | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used for making long staircases. Two slabs placed on top of each other will create a double slab block. |
Stairs | Wooden Planks or Cobblestone | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used for compact staircases. |
Snow Block | Snowballs | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to store snowballs, or as a building material. |
Clay Block | Clay | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to store clay, or as a building material. |
Brick (Block) | Clay Bricks | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a building material. |
Bookshelf | Wooden Plank + Books | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as decoration. |
Sandstone | Sand | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a building material. Is not influenced by gravity like normal Sand. |
Jack-O-Lantern | Pumpkin + Torch | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | 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:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to transport the player or a mob along rails. |
Powered Minecart | Furnace + Minecart | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to push other Minecarts along Minecart tracks using fuel. |
Storage Minecart | Chest + Minecart | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to transport goods along rails. |
Rails | Stick + Iron Ingots | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to guide minecarts. |
Powered Rail | Stick + Gold Ingots + Redstone Dust | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to speed up or brake minecarts. |
Detector Rail | Stone Pressure Plate + Iron Ingots + Redstone Dust | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Functions like a Pressure Plate but can only be activated by a Minecart. |
Boat | Wooden Planks | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | 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:Grid/Crafting Table | Wooden doors are activated by clicking or with redstone. Iron doors are similar but can only be opened by redstone. |
Pressure Plates | Wooden Planks or Stone | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | 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:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to send an electrical charge by being pressed. Stays activated for approximately a second before shutting off again. |
Redstone Torch | Redstone Dust + Stick | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Constantly sends an electrical charge, or can be used as a receiver/transmitter when connected the side of a block. Can also be used for low-level lighting. |
Lever | Cobblestone + Stick | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to send an electrical charge by being turned on or off. Stays in on or off state until clicked again. |
Note Block | Wooden Planks + Redstone Dust | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Plays a note when triggered. Right click it to change the pitch of the note. Placing this on top of different blocks changes its type of instrument. |
Jukebox | Wooden Planks + Diamond Gem | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Plays Music Discs. |
Dispenser | Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Bow | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to hold and shoot out items in a random order. |
Redstone Repeater | Stone + Redstone Dust + Redstone Torch | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used in redstone circuits as repeater, a delayer, and/or a diode. |
Food Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Bowls | Wooden Planks | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to hold mushroom stew. The player keeps the bowl when they eat the stew. (Currently in multiplayer, you may end up eating the bowl as well as the soup due to a bug.) |
Mushroom Stew | Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl |
Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Heals 5 hearts. |
Bread | Wheat | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Heals 2.5 hearts. |
Sugar | Sugar Cane | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Is used in the recipe of the cake. |
Cake | Wheat + Sugar + Egg + Milk | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Heals 1.5 hearts on every use. Can be used 6 times. (The buckets are not lost in the process.) |
Cookie | Wheat + Cocoa Beans |
Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Heals 0.5 hearts. |
Golden Apple | Gold Blocks + Red Apple | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | 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:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to reclaim ingots/gems/dyes from blocks. |
Painting | Sticks + Wool | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as decoration. |
Sign | Wooden Planks + Stick | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Shows text entered by the player. |
Ladders | Sticks | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to climb vertically. As of Minecraft Beta 1.5, Crafting Ladders gives you 2 ladders. |
Paper | Sugar Cane | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to create books. |
Book | Paper | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to create a bookshelf. |
Fences | Sticks | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | 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:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to forward time from any time at night to morning if all the players in the world are in bed. (The colors of the bed are always the same, regardless of the colors of wool used in the crafting.) |
Maps | Paper + Compass | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used for finding location in a specific area explored by the player. (Only available in version 1.6 and later) |
Dye Recipes
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
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Bone Meal | Bone | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create white/original wool. Also used to instantly grow crops and trees (fertilizer). |
Light Gray Dye | Ink Sac + Bone Meals or Gray Dye + Bone Meal |
Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Template:Grid/Crafting Table |
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:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create gray wool. |
Rose Red | Rose | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create red wool. |
Orange Dye | Rose Red + Dandelion Yellow | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create orange wool. |
Dandelion Yellow | Dandelion | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create yellow wool. |
Lime Dye | Cactus Green + Bone Meal | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create lime wool. |
Light Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create light blue wool. |
Cyan Dye | Lapis Lazuli Dye + Cactus Green | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create cyan wool. |
Purple Dye | Lapis Lazuli Dye + Rose Red | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create purple wool. |
Magenta Dye | Purple Dye + Pink Dye or Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal + Rose Red + Rose Red |
Template:Grid/Crafting Table
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Used as a dye to create magenta wool. |
Pink Dye | Rose Red + Bone Meal | Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used as a dye to create pink wool. |
Wool Recipes
Template:Wool Crafting
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