Crafting

Crafting is the method in which tools and resources are created in Minecraft. It is currently only available in the indev mode, but may be brought to survival and future game modes at a later date.

Current Features

 * Tool crafting.
 * Block crafting.
 * 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.

Bars, Blocks and Glass
When some blocks, such as gold ore are mined, the ore is collected, but the gold within is not extracted. For others, such as coal or diamond, when the ore is mined, it leaves behind bars to be collected. Both ores and bars can be used to create new forms of the material. Ores that can be changed to bars are iron and gold. Diamond can instantly be used for weapons and tools.

To extract bars from ore:
 * 1) Create a fire. This can be within a specially constructed forge, a campfire, or even a forest fire, but any fire will do. To create a fire, use the flint on any block.
 * 2) Throw the ore into the fire. This can be done by equipping the ore, facing the fire, and pressing Q.
 * 3) Collect the bars. The fire will change the ores into pure bars which can be collected when the fire is extinguished.

These bars can now be used to craft new types of weapons, and also combined to create blocks of that pure material.

To create pure blocks, simply fill the 3x3 crafting grid with 9 bars of that material. For example, 9 bars of iron yields a complete iron block.

You can also create glass by using the same method with gravel or sand instead of ore to create glass.