Crafting descriptions

In alpha builds of Pocket Edition, crafting interfaces held descriptions for the item to be crafted.

Blocks
Decorative block, used to create other kinds of Quartz blocks.
 * Block of Quartz Revision 1.png Block of Quartz

Construction block made from Nether bricks.
 * Nether Bricks JE1 BE1.png Nether Brick

Used for compact staircases.
 * Nether Brick Stairs Revision 1.png Nether Brick Stairs

desc.sword=Deals more damage than by hand. desc.shovel=Used to dig dirt, grass, sand, gravel and snow faster than by hand. desc.pickaxe=Required to mine stone-related blocks and ore. desc.hatchet=Used to chop wood-related blocks faster than by hand. desc.hoe=Used to till dirt and grass blocks to prepare for crops. desc.doorwood=Wooden doors are activated by using, hitting them or with Redstone. desc.dooriron=Iron doors can only be opened by Redstone, buttons or switches. desc.helmet=Gives the user 1.5 Armor when worn. desc.chestplate=Gives the user 4 Armor when worn. desc.leggings=Gives the user 3 Armor when worn. desc.boots=Gives the user 1.5 Armor when worn. desc.ingot=A shiny ingot which can be used to craft tools made from this material. desc.block=Used as an expensive building block or compact storage of the ore. desc.pressureplate=Used to send an electrical charge when stepped on by a player, an animal, or a monster. Wooden Pressure Plates can also be activated by dropping something on them. desc.stairs=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairsstonebricksmooth=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairsnetherbrick=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairssandstone=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairsquartzblock=Used for compact staircases. desc.slab=Used for making long staircases. desc.halfslab=Used for compact staircases. desc.torch=Used to create light. Torches also melt snow and ice. desc.wood=Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things. desc.sandstone=Used as a building material. desc.sandstone.addon=Is not influenced by gravity like normal Sand. desc.structblock=Used as a building material. desc.stick=Used to craft torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools and weapons. desc.bed=Used to sleep until dawn. Changes your spawn point to the bed's position. desc.craftingtable=Allows you to craft a more varied selection of items than the normal crafting. desc.furnace=Allows you to smelt ore, create charcoal and glass, and cook fish and porkchops. desc.chest=Stores blocks and items inside. desc.fence=Used as a barrier that cannot be jumped over. desc.ladder=Used to climb vertically. desc.trapdoor=Work like normal doors, but are a one by one block and lay flat on the ground. desc.sign=Shows text entered by you or other players. desc.glowstone=Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater. desc.tnt=Used to cause explosions. Activated after placing by hitting, or with an electrical charge. desc.bowl=Used to hold mushroom stew, beetroot soup. You keep the bowl when the stew has been eaten. desc.bucket=Used to hold and transport water, lava and milk. desc.flintandsteel=Used to detonate TNT. desc.fishingrod=Used to catch fish. desc.clock=Displays positions of the Sun and Moon. desc.compass=Points to your start point. desc.map=Will create an image of an area explored while held. This can be used for path-finding. desc.bow=Allows for ranged attacks by using arrows. desc.arrow=Used as ammunition for bows. desc.mushroomstew=Restores 5 hearts. desc.cookie=Restores 0.5 Hearts. Can be stacked up to 8 times. desc.cake=Restores 1.5 Hearts. Can be used 6 times. desc.sugar=Used in the cake recipe. desc.bread=Restores 2.5 Hearts. desc.goldenapple=Restores 10 Hearts. desc.lever=Used to send an electrical charge by being turned on or off. Stays in the on or off state until pressed again. desc.redstonetorch=Constantly sends an electrical charge, or can be used as a receiver/transmitter when connected to the side of a block. Can also be used for low-level lighting. desc.redstonerepeater=Used in Redstone circuits as repeater, a delayer, and/or a diode desc.button=Used to send an electrical charge by being pressed. Stays activated for approximately a second before shutting off again. desc.dispenser=Used to hold and shoot out items in a random order when given a Redstone charge. desc.noteblock=Plays a note when triggered. Hit it to change the pitch of the note. Placing this on top of different blocks will change the type of instrument. desc.rail=Used to guide minecarts. desc.poweredrail=When powered, accelerates minecarts that pass over it. When unpowered, causes minecarts to stop on it. desc.detectorrail=Functions like a Pressure Plate (sends a Redstone signal when powered) but can only be activated by a minecart. desc.minecart=Used to transport you, an animal, or a monster along rails. desc.minecartwithchest=Used to transport goods along rails. desc.minecartwithfurnace=Will move along rails and can push other minecarts when coal is put in it. desc.boat=Used to travel in water more quickly than swimming. desc.wool=Collected from sheep, and can be colored with dyes. desc.woolstring=Used as a building material and can be colored with dyes. Can be easily obtained from Sheep. desc.dyepowder.black=Used as a dye to create black wool. desc.dyepowder.green=Used as a dye to create green wool. desc.dyepowder.brown=Used as a dye to create brown wool. desc.dyepowder.silver=Used as a dye to create silver wool. desc.dyepowder.yellow=Used as a dye to create yellow wool. desc.dyepowder.red=Used as a dye to create red wool. desc.dyepowder.white=Used to instantly grow crops and flowers. Can be used in dye recipes. desc.dyepowder.pink=Used as a dye to create pink wool. desc.dyepowder.orange=Used as a dye to create orange wool. desc.dyepowder.lime=Used as a dye to create lime wool. desc.dyepowder.gray=Used as a dye to create gray wool. desc.dyepowder.lightgray=Used as a dye to create light gray wool. (Note: light gray dye can also be made by combining gray dye with bone meal, letting you make four light gray dyes from every ink sac instead of three.) desc.dyepowder.lightblue=Used as a dye to create light blue wool. desc.dyepowder.cyan=Used as a dye to create cyan wool. desc.dyepowder.purple=Used as a dye to create purple wool. desc.dyepowder.magenta=Used as a dye to create magenta wool. desc.dyepowder.blue=Used as dye to create Blue Wool. desc.jukebox=Plays Music Discs. desc.diamonds=Use these to create very strong tools, weapons or armor desc.diamond=Use these to create very strong tools, weapons or armor desc.jackolantern=Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater. desc.paper=Used to create books and maps. desc.book=Used to create a bookshelf. desc.bookshelf=Used as decoration. desc.picture=Used as decoration. desc.ore_gold=Can be mined with an iron pickaxe or better, then smelted in a furnace to produce gold ingots. desc.ore_iron=Can be mined with a stone pickaxe or better, then smelted in a furnace to produce iron ingots. desc.ore_coal=Can be mined with a pickaxe to collect coal. desc.ore_lapis=Can be mined with a stone pickaxe or better to collect lapis lazuli. desc.ore_diamond=Can be mined with an iron pickaxe or better to collect diamonds. desc.ore_redstone=Can be mined with an iron pickaxe or better to collect redstone dust. desc.stone=Can be mined with a pickaxe to collect cobblestone. desc.dirt=Collected using a shovel. Can be used for construction. desc.sapling=Can be planted and it will eventually grow into a tree. desc.bedrock=This cannot be broken. desc.lava=Sets fire to anything that touches it. Can be collected in a bucket. desc.sand=Collected using a shovel. Can be smelted into glass using the furnace. Is affected by gravity if there is no other tile underneath it. desc.gravel=Collected using a shovel. Sometimes produces flint when dug up. Is affected by gravity if there is no other tile underneath it. desc.log=Chopped using an axe, and can be crafted into planks or used as a fuel. desc.glass=Created in a furnace by smelting sand. Will break if you try to mine it. desc.thinglass=Will break if you try to mine it. desc.stone_brick=Mined from stone using a pickaxe. Can be used to construct a furnace or stone tools. desc.brick=Baked from clay in a furnace. desc.clay=Can be baked into bricks in a furnace. desc.snow=A compact way to store snowballs. desc.top_snow=Can be dug with a shovel to create snowballs. desc.tall_grass=Sometimes produces seeds when broken. desc.flower=Can be crafted into a dye. desc.mushroom=Can be crafted with a bowl to make stew. desc.obsidian=Can only be mined with a diamond pickaxe. Is produced by the meeting of water and still lava, and is used to build a portal. desc.mob_spawner=Spawns monsters into the world. desc.redstone_dust=Is placed on the ground to carry an electrical charge. desc.crops=When fully grown, crops can be harvested to collect wheat. desc.farmland=Ground that has been prepared ready to plant seeds. desc.cactus=Can be crafted to create a dye. desc.reeds=Can be crafted to create sugar. desc.pumpkin=Can be worn as a helmet or crafted with a torch to create a Jack-O-Lantern. desc.hell_rock=Burns forever if set alight. desc.hell_sand=Slows the movement of anything walking over it. desc.portal=Standing in the portal allows you to pass between the overworld and the nether. desc.apple=Restores health, and can be crafted into a golden apple. desc.melon=Can be broken into melon slices. desc.coal=Used as a fuel in a furnace, or crafted to make a torch. desc.charcoal=Used as a renewable fuel in a furnace, or crafted to make a torch. desc.string=Collected by killing a spider, and can be crafted into a bow. desc.feather=Collected by killing a chicken, and can be crafted into an arrow. desc.sulphur=Collected by killing a creeper, and can be crafted into TNT. desc.shears=Used to obtain wool from sheep and to harvest placeable Leaf blocks. desc.seeds=Can be planted in farmland to grow crops. desc.wheat=Harvested from crops, and can be used to craft food items. desc.flint=Collected by digging gravel, and can be used to craft a flint and steel. desc.porkchopraw=Collected by killing a pig, and can be cooked in a furnace. Restores health. desc.porkchopcooked=Created by cooking a porkchop in a furnace. Restores health. desc.beefraw=Collected by killing a cow, and can be cooked in a furnace. Restores health. desc.beefcooked=Created by cooking a beef in a furnace. Restores health. desc.chickenraw=Collected by killing a chicken, and can be cooked in a furnace. Restores health. desc.chickencooked=Created by cooking a chicken in a furnace. Restores health. desc.saddle=When used on a pig it allows you to ride the pig. desc.snowball=Collected by digging snow, and can be thrown. desc.leather=Collected by killing a cow, and can be crafted into armor. desc.slimeball=Collected by killing a slime. desc.egg=Dropped randomly by chickens, and can be crafted into food items. desc.yellow_dust=Collected by mining Glowstone, and can be crafted to make Glowstone blocks again. desc.fish_raw=Can be eaten to restore health, or cooked in a furnace. desc.fish_cooked=Created by cooking a raw fish in a furnace. Can be eaten to restore health. desc.bone=Collected by killing a skeleton. Can be crafted into bone meal. desc.record=Collected by getting a skeleton to kill a creeper. Can be played in a jukebox. desc.clayhardened=Can be dyed to make blocks of various colors. desc.water=Extinguishes fire and helps crops grow. Can be collected in a bucket. desc.leaves=When broken sometimes drops a sapling which can then be replanted to grow into a tree. desc.moss_stone=Can be used for construction and decoration. desc.stonebricksmooth=Used as building material. desc.netherreactor=Core of the Nether Reactor desc.glowingobsidian=Obsidion activated by external source. desc.lightgem=Used for illumination. desc.painting=Used as decoration. desc.hellrock=Is a stone material from the Nether. desc.netherbrick=Construction block made from Nether bricks. desc.netherbrickitem=Used to form blocks of Nether bricks. desc.netherquartz=Quartz from the Nether, used to create Blocks of Quartz. desc.quartzblock=Decorative block, used to create other kinds of Quartz blocks. desc.quartzBlockChiseled=Decorative block desc.quartzBlockPillar=Decorative block desc.stonecutter=For crafting stoneblocks. desc.seedsmelon=Plant more melons. desc.seedspumpkin=Plant more pumpkins. desc.pumpkin=Can be used to make pumpkin pie and laterns. desc.litpumpkin=Pretty latterns that provides light. desc.pumpkinpie=A very tasty Pie. desc.carrot=Eat them or plant them. desc.potatos=Eat them, plant them or bake them. desc.potatobaked=Made by cooking a potato, can be eaten to restore health. desc.tile.melon=Can be cut up and eaten. desc.stairswoodspruce=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairswoodbirch=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairswoodjungle=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairswoodjungle=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairswoodacacia=Used for compact staircases. desc.stairswoodbigoak=Used for compact staircases. desc.cobbleWall=Wall made of stone. desc.fenceiro=A seethrough thin wall. Great for locking out things. desc.hayblock=Used as decoration. A compact way to store Wheat. desc.blockcoal=Can be used in a furnace and is a compact way of storing coal. desc.beetroot=Can be eaten or turned into beetroot soup or red dye. desc.beetrootsoup=Restores 5 hearts. desc.seedsbeetroot=Plant more beetroots. desc.goldenrail=Powered rail that boosts minecarts driving over them. desc.woolcarpet=Thin wool carpet that makes your floors more colorful.