Crafting

Crafting is one method by which blocks, tools, and other resources are created in Minecraft. It is a function only available in Indev, Infdev and Alpha modes. The player has a 2x2 crafting grid located in the inventory screen. Simple things can be crafted here, like a workbench. The workbench allows use of the 3x3 crafting grid, but the player must right click the block to use it.

When crafting items with limited uses (tools, armor, and weapons), each improvement in building material roughly doubles the number of times the item may be used prior to breaking and exactly doubles (except in iron's case) the number of successful uses, as well as increasing its speed or power. Once an item breaks, it dissapears from the inventory.


 * Wood: 33 uses, n = 0
 * Gold: 33 uses, n = 0
 * Stone: 65 uses, n = 1
 * Iron: 129 uses, n = 2
 * Diamond: 1025 uses, n = 5

The formula for the number of uses is [2^(5+n)]+1. "n" is the durability of the material being used, and the values for each are on the above list.

Regardless of what item is being used, a use counts as either the complete deconstruction of a block or a single strike at an enemy, but incomplete attempts (stopping in the middle) to deconstruct a block do not qualify as a use.