Crafting

Crafting is the method in which tools and resources are created in Minecraft. It is currently only available in the indev mode, but will be brought to survival and future game modes when the game enters beta.

Current Features

 * Tool crafting
 * Block crafting
 * Armor
 * Food
 * Forging

Upcoming Features

 * Crafting in other game modes
 * More tools and blocks to be crafted

Crafting
To craft, materials must be placed into a crafting grid, either the 2x2 grid in the inventory, or a 3x3 grid which is obtainable by building and using a workbench. Different combinations of materials yield different tools and blocks. Stronger materials such as iron or diamond can be used to produce better tools. Better tools mine, dig, chop, kill faster and break less. Note that it does not matter which slots the items are built in, as long as the combination and order of items is the same. For example, torches can be built in any two vertical slots.

More information below in the "Durability" section.

Bars, Blocks and Glass
Certain blocks, when placed in fire or lava, will transform into different materials. For example, gold and iron ore (obtained by mining) will produce bars of gold and iron, respectively. Gravel and sand will produce glass.

How to easily smelt blocks:
 * 1) Drop the stack of ore on the ground. This can be done by clicking on the ore in the inventory and then by clicking outside of the inventory screen.
 * 2) Create a fire where the ore was thrown. To create a fire, use the flint on any block.
 * 3) Collect the bars. The fire will change the ores into pure bars which can be safely collected once the fire is extinguished.

Alternatively you can first create a fire and then throw the ore into by equipping it and pressing Q. However it can be difficult to get the thrown ore to land in the fire.

Durability
For crafted items with durability, each improvement in building material roughly doubles the number of blocks that can be destroyed, or the number of enemies that can be hit, with the tool before the tool breaks.

A good thing to note: Gold is a very weak material, and should not be used for tools or weapons. They work like wooden ones and break very fast.


 * Wood & gold - 33 uses
 * Stone - 65 uses
 * Steel - 129 uses
 * Diamond - 257 uses

Uses before breaking = 32 * 2^n + 1

Where n is the tier of material (Wood & gold are Tier 0), and a "use" is destroying a block, or hitting an enemy once.

Note that using a tool inappropriately (i.e. using a shovel to attack enemies, or digging dirt with a sword) will cut its durability in half, or effectively reduce its tier (for the purpose of durability) by 1.