Crafting Table

"One recipe that pretty much everyone memorises from the first time they play Minecraft is how to make a crafting table. It's four planks arranged in a square, of course. You'll also find crafting tables occasionally in the wild - in village libraries, witch huts and igloos. Who knows what those witches are crafting?"

- Duncan Geere

A crafting table allows the player to craft a variety of blocks and items that you can't craft without it.

Natural generation
Crafting tables naturally generate in witch huts and the basement of igloos. Crafting tables generate in woolen tents outside pillager outposts and in some small village houses.

From block loot
Crafting tables can be mined with or without any tool, but axes are the quickest.

Usage
Crafting tables can be mined with or without any tool, but axes are the quickest.

Crafting
Pressing on a crafting table opens the 3×3 crafting grid that allows the player to craft many more items than are available with the crafting grid in the inventory, which is only 2×2.

The recipe book is available to the left of the crafting grid (collapsed by default $$, expanded by default $$), which stores crafting recipes for reference and one-click crafting.

Fuel
Crafting tables can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per crafting table.

Repairing


A crafting table can be used to repair damaged tools, weapons, and armor. When two damaged items of the same material are combined side-by-side in the crafting grid they produce a new item with the sum of the durabilities plus a 5% bonus, with a maximum total of 100% durability for that item. Using this method does not require any experience, but removes any enchantments on either or both items. The only way to retain enchantments is to repair damaged items on an anvil.

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Trivia

 * The application icon for is a crafting table, since 1.6.1. Version 1.6.2 had a strange icon like RubyDung versions. Before that, the icon was the Java icon. After 1.6.2, the icon is changed again. In 2013, the icon was a grass block.
 * The original inventory screen before January 29, 2010 was the crafting table interface, meaning there was no way of putting on armor yet, and the player could not be seen.
 * The sides of the table feature a hammer, saw, and pliers, which are not available in the game.