Crafting

Crafting is the method by which many items and blocks are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid can be accessed from the player's inventory and a 3×3 grid can be accessed by using a crafting table.

Java & Bedrock Edition crafting system


For some items, the arrangement of their ingredients on the crafting grid is unimportant. These are commonly known as shapeless recipes. For example, a fermented spider eye can have its ingredients placed anywhere within the grid.

On the other hand, many game objects must have their ingredients placed in the correct relative positions on the crafting grid. These are commonly known as shaped recipes.

Ingredients in shaped recipes can be ‘moved’ up, down, left, or right. They can also be flipped side-ways.

For example, a 3×1 recipe, such as bread, can be made using the top, middle, or bottom row of the 3×3 grid, but it cannot be made using the 2×2 grid because it needs to be three items wide, and a bow may be made with the strings placed on the left instead of on the right.

There are recipes that may not be moved or mirrored in this way. These are commonly known as fixed recipes.

Players always have access to the 2×2 crafting grid from their inventory screen. Crafting recipes that are at most 2×2 can be made there. These include wood planks, sticks, crafting tables, torches and some shapeless recipes. To craft items using a 3×3 grid, create a crafting table, place it in the world, and right-click it. This brings up an inventory with a 3×3 crafting grid which the player can use to craft any crafting recipe in the game.


 * Notes

Recipe Book
The recipe book is a mechanic in Minecraft that serves as a catalog of recipes and as a crafting guide. It shows every crafting recipe that the player has had materials for.

Crafting recipes are organized in several different categories, as follows:
 * The first tab contains every unlocked recipe.
 * The second tab contains tools, weapons, and armor.
 * The third tab contains building materials.
 * The fourth tab contains food miscellaneous items.
 * The fifth tab contains redstone materials.

Legacy Console Edition crafting system
The crafting system $$ could be changed to use the system from the Java Edition by checking the "Classic Crafting" option under "User Interface" in the options menu.

By default, Legacy Console Edition used a simplified crafting system. It did not require the player to place items in the correct place in the crafting interface, but instead displayed the ingredients required to craft the selected item and allows the player to craft that item as long as the player has the required crafting ingredients. The crafting table ordered all craftable items into seven categories: Structures, Tools & Weapons, Food, Armor, Mechanisms, Transportation, and Decoration. Two alternative side tabs could be used to craft banners or fireworks. A third side tab was used to dye armor or certain blocks.

Pressing or  opened the 2×2 crafting menu, or the 3×3 crafting menu if looking at a Crafting Table. The Armor tab was missing in the 2×2 crafting menu as armor recipes require the 3×3 crafting grid.

The PlayStation Vita and Wii U versions did not have the ability to craft using touch input.

Complete recipe list
To save space, some recipes are animated (requires JavaScript). Shapeless recipes are marked with a pair of intertwined arrows on the crafting table graphic, and fixed recipes with an exclamation mark.

Removed recipes
Some items were craftable previously, but cannot be crafted in the current version of Minecraft.