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 blocks and items in Minecraft.

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

Natural generation
Crafting tables naturally generate in village libraries, witch huts and igloos.

Crafting
Pressing on a crafting table will open the 3×3 crafting grid that allows the player to craft many more items than with the crafting grid in their inventory.

The recipe book is available to the left of the crafting grid (collapsed by default in Java Edition, expanded by default in Bedrock Edition), 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 block.

Trivia

 * The application icon for Java Edition is a crafting table, since 1.6.1.
 * 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.