Crafting

2×2 crafting grid

3×3 crafting grid

Pocket edition crafting

Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and other resources are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, the player must move items from their inventory into a crafting grid. A grid can be accessed in the player's inventory or on a Crafting Table. The player must 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. Crafting recipes come in two types: definite and indefinite. A defined item such as the bow has to have the sticks and string in the right places. An indefinite item like a Fermented Spider eye can have the ingredients anywhere within the grid.

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.

MATTIS

On Minecraft Pocket Edition, crafting is somewhat different and uses the Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System (MATTIS) crafting system. Rather than having 2x2 and 3x3 grids, there are 4 categories down the left: Blocks, Tools, Food & armor and Decoration. Tapping on each category brings up a list of items/blocks that are craftable from that menu. In each item, there is an area which lists the requirements. The 2nd number is the amount of the material required and the 1st is the amount of material collected. There is an item description under each item and it tells you what the item is used for.

Xbox 360 crafting system

The Xbox 360 Edition uses a simplified crafting system. It doesn't make use of the standard crafting interface as in the original version, but still has similarities to the PC's 2x2 and 3x3 crafting grids. The interface doesn't require the Player to place items in the correct place in a crafting menu, but simply shows the blocks required to craft the selected item, and crafts it if the Player has enough blocks.

Item durability

Main article: 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 unless it is repaired. A stronger material will last longer whereas a weaker resource such as wood disintegrates quicker. In order to determine the durability of an item, a small damage bar below each item displays how much longer a tool will last before it breaks and needs to be replaced (this also applies to armor).

A use is counted only if a player completely breaks apart one block or hits a mob. If a block is partially broken this is not counted as a full use. If a player happens to use a tool that is not suitable for the task at hand (e.g. Using an axe to dig through stone instead of a pickaxe, or fighting a mob with a shovel instead of a sword), it will count as two uses rather than one as this is not using the item in hand for its designed use.

Proper use of tools will maximize their durability. Assuming a player uses a tool appropriately, the following list shows the maximum durability for tools of each material type.

• Wood - 60 uses
• Stone - 132 uses
• Iron - 251 uses
• Gold - 33 uses
• Diamond - 1562 uses

Regarding protective gear such as armor, the amount of damage a piece of armor can protect is dependent on the material the armor is made of. The protection of the armor stays constant and is no longer dependent on the durability of the armor. Please note that even though that gold tools have lower durability, they do the work faster.

Complete recipe list

Currently, there are 174 recipes. Some recipes are depicted in the animations below (note: your browser needs JavaScript enabled).

Basic Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Wooden Planks	Wood		Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things. The form of wood that you used would change color result in the output.
Sticks	Wooden Planks		Used to craft torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools and weapons.
Torches	Stick + Coal (or Charcoal)		Used to create light. Torches also melt snow and ice.
Crafting Table	Wooden Planks		Allows the player to craft on a 3x3 grid.
Furnace	Cobblestone		Allows the player to smelt.
Chest	Wooden Planks		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
Ore Blocks	Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Lapis Lazuli Dyes		Allows ingots, gems, or dyes to be crafted into placeable blocks. Can be used as an expensive building block or compact storage of the ore.
Glowstone	Glowstone (Dust)		Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater. If mined again, it turns back into Glowstone dust.
Wool	String		Used as a building material and can be colored with dyes. This recipe is not recommended because Wool can be easily obtained from Sheep.
TNT	Gunpowder + Sand		Used to cause explosions.
Slabs	Stone, Sandstone, Wooden Planks, Cobblestone, Brick, or Stone Brick		Used for making long staircases. Two slabs placed on top of each other will create a normal-sized double slab block. To obtain stone just smelt cobblestone.
Stairs	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Brick or Stone Brick or Nether Brick		Used for compact staircases.
Snow Block	Snowballs		Used as a building material, or as compact storage for Snowballs. Also may be used for Snow Golems.
Clay Block	Clay		Used as a building material, or as compact storage for Clay Balls.
Brick (Block)	Clay Bricks		Used as a building material.
Stone Brick	Stone		Used as a building material. To obtain stone just smelt cobblestone.
Bookshelf	Wooden Planks + Books		Used as decoration, or to give an Enchantment Table knowledge.
Sandstone	Sand		Used as a building material. Is not influenced by gravity like normal Sand.
Smooth Sandstone	Sandstone (Any Type)		Decorative block.
Decorative Sandstone	Sandstone Slab		Decorative block.
Jack-O-Lantern	Pumpkin + Torch		Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater.

Tool Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Axes	Sticks + Wooden Plank or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems		Used to chop wood-related blocks faster than by hand.
Pickaxes	Sticks + Wooden Plank or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems		Required to mine stone-related blocks and ore.
Shovels	Sticks + Wooden Plank or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems		Used to dig dirt, grass, sand, gravel and snow faster than by hand. Shovels are required to dig snowballs.
Hoes	Sticks + Wooden Plank or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems		Used to till dirt and grass blocks to prepare for crops.
Flint and Steel	Iron Ingot + Flint		Used to create fire.
Bucket	Iron Ingots		Used to hold and transport water, lava and milk.
Compass	Iron Ingots + Redstone Dust		Points to the player's original spawn point.
Maps	Paper + Compass		Will create an image of an area explored while held. This can be used for path-finding.
Clock	Gold Ingots + Redstone Dust		Displays positions of the Sun and Moon.
Fishing Rod	Sticks + String		Used to catch fish. Can also be used to pull mobs and other entities.
Shears	Iron Ingots		Used to collect leaves, tall grass, vines and wool from Sheep. Also breaks Wool faster than by hand.
Fire Charge	Blaze Powder + Coal/Charcoal + Gunpowder		Used to create fire and to light blocks and entities on fire. Can also be shot out of dispensers.

Weapon Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Swords	Stick + Wooden Plank or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems		Deals mobs more damage than by hand.
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
Helmets	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Fire*		Leather Cap gives Golden Helmet gives Iron Helmet gives Diamond Helmet gives Chain Helmet gives
Chestplates	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Fire*		Leather Tunic gives Golden Chestplate gives Iron Chestplate gives Diamond Chestplate gives Chain Chestplate gives
Leggings	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Fire*		Leather Pants give Golden Leggings give Iron Leggings give Diamond Leggings give Chain Leggings give
Boots	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Fire*		Leather Boots give Golden Boots give Iron Boots give Diamond Boots give Chain Boots give

* Fire is only obtainable via inventory hacking.

Transportation Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Minecart	Iron Ingots		Used to transport the player or a mob along rails.
Powered Minecart	Furnace + Minecart		Used to push other Minecarts along rails using fuel.
Storage Minecart	Chest + Minecart		Used to transport goods along rails.
Rails	Stick + Iron Ingots		Used to guide minecarts.
Powered Rail	Stick + Gold Ingots + Redstone Dust		Used to speed up or brake minecarts.
Detector Rail	Stone Pressure Plate + Iron Ingots + Redstone Dust		Functions like a Pressure Plate (sends a Redstone signal when powered) but can only be activated by a minecart.
Boat	Wooden Planks		Used to travel in water faster than swimming.

Mechanism Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Doors	Wooden Planks or Iron Ingots		Wooden doors are activated by clicking or with redstone. Iron doors are similar but can only be opened by Redstone, Switches, or Pressure Plates and things close to that.
Trapdoors	Wooden Planks		Trapdoors are activated by clicking, and function as normal doors, but are a 1x1 one block and lie flat on the ground. Can also be activated with redstone.
Pressure Plates	Wooden Planks or Stone		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		Used to send an electrical charge by being pressed. Stays activated for approximately a second before shutting off again.
Redstone Torch	Redstone Dust + Stick		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		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		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		Plays Music Discs.
Dispenser	Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Bow		Used to hold and shoot out items in a random order when given a Redstone charge.
Redstone Repeater	Stone + Redstone Dust + Redstone Torch		Used in redstone circuits as repeater, a delayer, and/or a diode.
Piston	Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Wooden Planks + Iron Ingot		Pushes blocks and entities.
Sticky Piston	Piston + Slimeball		Pushes blocks and entities, and will pull back the block next to the end when retracted.
Redstone Lamp	Redstone Dust + Glowstone Block		Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater. It can be turned on and off using redstone.

Food Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Bowls	Wooden Planks		Used to hold mushroom stew and to milk a Mooshroom.
Mushroom Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl		Restores . Bowl is re-usable. Crafting recipe is shapeless.
Bread	Wheat		Restores .
Sugar	Sugar Cane		Used when crafting Cake and brewing a Potion of Swiftness.
Cake	Wheat + Sugar + Chicken Egg + Milk		Restores on every use. Can be used 6 times, for a total of restored. The buckets are not lost in the process.
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans		Restores .
Golden Apple	Red Apple + Gold Nuggets		Restores , and regenerates health temporarily. It is the only food that can be eaten with a full Hunger bar.
Melon Block	Melon Slice		Can be used for compact storage of melon slices. Each slice restores . However, breaking one melon block only yields 3-7 melon slices.
Melon Seeds	Melon Slice		Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Melon Block each harvest.
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin		Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Pumpkin each harvest.

Miscellaneous Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Minerals	Iron Block or Gold Block or Diamond Block or Lapis Lazuli Block		Used to reclaim ingots/gems/dyes from blocks.
Painting	Sticks + Wool		Used as decoration.
Sign	Wooden Planks + Stick		Shows text entered by the player.
Ladders	Sticks		Used to climb vertically.
Glass Pane	Glass		Have similar placement behavior as Fences and use the same texture as Glass.
Iron Bars	Iron (Ingot)		Have similar placement behavior as Fences, but their height is counted as only 1 block.
Paper	Sugar Cane		Used to create books and maps.
Book	Paper		Used to create a bookshelf, book and quills or an enchantment table.
Fences	Sticks or Nether Brick		Used as a barrier that cannot be jumped over. Counts as 1.5 blocks high for mobs and players, but 1 block high for other blocks.
Fence Gate	Sticks + Wooden Planks		Used as a door while looking similar to fence blocks. Fence gates can only be opened by right-clicking (unlike doors and trapdoors, which can be opened by left- or right-clicking) and Redstone.
Beds	Wool + Wooden Planks		Used to advance time from night to morning (in SMP, all players in the Overworld must be in beds). Also changes the spawn point of the player (but compasses are unaffected).
Gold Ingot	Gold Nugget		Used in Tools, Armor, Clocks and Powered Rails.
Eye of Ender	Ender Pearl + Blaze Powder		Used to locate Strongholds, and repair an End Portal Frame.

Dye Recipes

Four dyes are not included below because they are not obtained through crafting; they are Cactus Green (green), Lapis Lazuli Dye (blue), Cocoa Beans (brown), and Ink Sac (black).

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Bone Meal	Bone		Used to instantly grow crops, trees, tall grass, huge mushrooms and flowers. Also used in creating pale dye colors.
Light Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meals or Gray Dye + Bone Meal		Used to dye wool or sheep light gray. (See Light Gray Dye page for comparison of recipes' efficiency.)
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meal		Used to dye wool or sheep gray. Also used in creating light gray dye.
Rose Red	Rose		Used to dye wool or sheep red. Also used in creating several other dye colors.
Orange Dye	Rose Red + Dandelion Yellow		Used to dye wool or sheep orange.
Dandelion Yellow	Dandelion		Used to dye wool or sheep yellow. Also used in creating orange dye.
Lime Dye	Cactus Green + Bone Meal		Used to dye wool or sheep lime.
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal		Used to dye wool or sheep light blue.
Cyan Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Cactus Green		Used to dye wool or sheep cyan.
Purple Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Rose Red		Used to dye wool or sheep purple. Can also be used in creating magenta dye.
Magenta Dye	Purple Dye + Pink Dye or Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal + 2 Rose Red or Lapis Lazuli Dye + Pink Dye + Rose Red		Used to dye wool or sheep magenta. (See Magenta Dye page for comparison of recipes' efficiency.)
Pink Dye	Rose Red + Bone Meal		Used to dye wool or sheep pink. Can also be used in creating magenta dye.