Crafting

Crafting is how the player makes items and blocks in Minecraft. To craft something, a player moves items from their inventory to a crafting grid, arranging them according to a recipe. A 2×2 crafting grid can be accessed from the player's inventory and a 3×3 grid can be accessed by using a crafting table. Items crafted in the 2x2 grid can also be crafted in the crafting table.

Crafting system

Players in Creative‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}, Survival or Adventure always have access to the 2×2 crafting grid from their inventory screen. Small crafting recipes that are at most 2×2 can be made there. These include wooden planks, sticks, crafting tables, torches and some shapeless recipes. To craft items using a 3×3 grid, create a crafting table with 4 wooden planks, place it in the world, and press use while facing it. This brings up an interface with a 3×3 crafting grid, which the player can use to craft any crafting recipe in the game. There is also a recipe book where you can access all the crafting recipes.

Some recipes do not require their ingredients to be arranged in a specific way on the crafting grid. These are commonly known as shapeless recipes. For example, players can craft a fermented spider eye by placing its ingredients anywhere within the grid.^{[note 1]}

On the other hand, many recipes must have their ingredients placed in the correct relative positions on the crafting grid. These are commonly known as shaped recipes. Ingredients in shaped recipes can be ‘moved’ up, down, left, or right. They can also be flipped side-ways. For example, a 3×1 recipe, such as bread, can be made using the top, middle, or bottom row of the 3×3 grid, but it cannot be made using the 2×2 grid because it needs to be three items wide, and a bow may be made with the strings placed on the left instead of on the right.

There are recipes that may not be moved or mirrored in this way. These are commonly known as fixed recipes. For example, a chest needs to have eight planks placed precisely on every square except the middle. Fixed recipes can be added by data packs or mods.

Crafting, unlike other in-game actions such as smelting, brewing and enchanting, is completely silent.

Notes

↑ On this wiki, shapeless recipes are marked with a pair of intertwined arrows on the crafting table graphic. This symbol does not actually appear in the game.

Recipe Book

The recipe book is a mechanic in Minecraft that serves as a catalog of recipes and as a crafting guide. It shows every crafting recipe that the player has had materials for.

Crafting recipes are organized in several different categories, as follows:

The first tab contains every unlocked recipe.
The second tab contains tools, weapons, and armor.
The third tab contains building materials.
The fourth tab contains food and miscellaneous items.
The fifth tab contains redstone materials.

Recipe system

Recipes, including crafting recipes, can be configured by data packs in Java Edition or add-ons in Bedrock Edition. There are currently 379 crafting recipies as of 1.16.

Complete recipe list

To save space, some recipes are animated (requires JavaScript). On this wiki, shapeless recipes are marked with a pair of intertwined arrows on the crafting table graphic. This symbol does not appear in the game. Also fixed crafting recipes are marked by an exclamation point. Again, this symbol does not appear in the game.

Shaped Recipes	Shapeless Recipes

Removed recipes

Some items were craftable previously, but cannot be crafted in the current version of Minecraft.

Name	Ingredients	Description
Chainmail Helmet or Chainmail Chestplate or Chainmail Leggings or Chainmail Boots	Fire
Enchanted Golden Apple	Block of Gold + Apple
Iron Horse Armor or Golden Horse Armor or Diamond Horse Armor	Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Any Wool
Horse Saddle	Leather + Iron Ingot	The horse saddle itself is removed from the game.

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31		2010-01-28		Crafting implemented
				Accessed by pressing `B`.
				The only recipe was turning an apple into an arrow.
		2010-01-29		Apple to arrow recipe removed and replaced with new recipes
		2010-01-29		Early recipes included sticks, pickaxes, torches, swords, axes, and gold and iron blocks.
		2010-01-30		Indev was updated again with many other recipes. As new blocks and items were implemented into the game, new crafting recipes were made accordingly.
Java Edition Beta
1.2				Shapeless recipes added.
1.6		Test Build 3		While crafting, `⇧ Shift` + clicking the crafting output makes the maximum amount possible of that item and moves it straight to the inventory.
1.6.5				`⇧ Shift` + clicking the crafting output only performs a single crafting action, instead of the maximum possible amount.
1.8		Pre-release 2 ;)		`⇧ Shift` + clicking now crafts the maximum amount possible again, reverting to the Beta 1.6 behavior.
Java Edition
1.8		14w30a		Fixed recipes added.
1.12		17w13a		The crafting GUI now includes a recipe tab, allowing players to know how to craft previously-crafted items, automatically fill in the recipe and filter out the recipes to what they can make from their inventory. This can be used in a crafting table and without, but the inventory crafting shows only 2×2 crafted items.
1.12		17w13a		Recipes can be unlocked using a Knowledge Book without having to craft the item.
1.13		17w48a		Custom recipes are now loaded from data packs in data/(namespace)/recipes/(name).json.
		17w48a		Turning off the vanilla data pack also removes all recipes.
		17w49a		Recipes can now refer to a tag instead of an item.
1.15		19w34a		While in a crafting table, `⇧ Shift`+clicking an item or a stack in the inventory now transfers it directly to the 3×3 crafting grid.
Pocket Edition Alpha
April 17, 2012				Daniel Kaplan released preview images of the Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System (MATTIS) crafting system in creative mode.
v0.3.0				The MATTIS crafting system was implemented.
v0.6.0				Added the stonecutter. This was used to make stone-related blocks.
v0.9.0		build 1		Improved the layout of the crafting screen by organizing blocks and items into categories.
				The crafting screen shows only craftable recipes.
				Crafting descriptions are no longer displayed.
v0.13.0		build 1		Removed the crafting functionality of stonecutter. All recipes requiring it are available through the crafting table and inventory.
v0.14.0		build 1		Added the ability to access the crafting system in creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1		Added classic crafting system to mobile device, available in advanced video settings.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2		Replaced the MATTIS crafting system with the classic crafting system + recipe book.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	A simplified crafting system for the Xbox 360 was implemented with the first version release.
TU25	CU14	1.17		Added classic crafting system.
TU46	CU36	1.38		Updated fireworks crafting system.