Crafting

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 Crafting Tables. To craft with a 3×3 grid, create a Crafting Table, 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 141 recipes; this includes each recipe in the animations below, the two methods of making light gray dye and the two methods of making Mushroom Soup. Chainmail armor is also included in this count.

Basic Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Wooden Planks	Wood	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things.
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.

Block Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
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	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 also be colored with color dyes. Wool can be found on Sheep as well.
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 full-sized 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.
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
Flint and Steel	Iron Ingot + Flint
Flint and Steel	Damaged Flint and Steel		The durability of the two tools is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Axe	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
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.
Hoe	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
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.
Shovels	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
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.
Pickaxe	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
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.
Compass	Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust
Fishing Rod	Stick + String
Fishing Rod	Damaged Fishing Rod		The durability of the two fishing rods is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Clock	Gold Ingot + Redstone Dust
Shears	Iron Ingot
Shears	Damaged Shears		The durability of the two shears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Lead	String + Slimeball	2
Bundle	String + Rabbit Hide		^{[only experimental "bundle"]}
Brush	Feather + Copper Ingot + Stick
Brush	Damaged Brush		The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Spyglass	Amethyst Shard + Copper Ingot
Recovery Compass	Echo Shard + Compass

Weapon Recipes

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Armor Recipes

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Transportation Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
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 direct minecarts.
Boat	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to travel in water more quickly than swimming.

Mechanism Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Doors	Wooden Plank or Iron Ingots	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	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: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 1 second before shutting off again.
Redstone Torch	Redstone Dust + Stick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Constantly sends an electrical charge. 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 timbre (the type of instrument).
Jukebox	Wooden Planks + Diamond Gem	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Plays records.
Dispenser	Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Bow	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	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:Grid/Crafting Table	Used in redstone circuits as repeater, a delayer, and/or a diode.

Food Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Bowls	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to hold mushroom stew. The player keeps the bowl when they eat the stew.
Mushroom Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Heals 5 hearts. The ordering of the red and brown mushrooms does not matter.
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, but can be used 6 times. The buckets are not lost in the process.
Golden Apple	Gold Blocks + Red Apple	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Heals all 10 hearts.

Miscellaneous Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
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.
Ladder	Sticks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to climb vertically.
Papers	Sugar Cane	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create books.
Book	Papers	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 night to day if all the players in the world are in bed. Only usable at night. Any color of wool will work.

Dye Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Bone Meal	Bone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	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: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.
Cyan Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Cactus Green	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a dye to create cyan wool.
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a dye to create light blue 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	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	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

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