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.

In order to craft something, the player must move items from their inventory into the crafting grid, then arrange them into the correct pattern for the item they wish to create. While some recipes require a degree of trial and error to discover, most can be found through common sense.

The player has access to a 2x2 crafting grid - located in the inventory screen - at all times. Simple things can be crafted there, like wood planks, sticks and workbenches. To craft with a 3x3 grid, the player must first place a workbench block into the game world, then right click on 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 disappears 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.

Recipes

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Basic

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Workbench	File:Craftingworkbench1.png	File:Craftingworkbench2.png	Allows for use of the 3×3 crafting grid.
Furnace	File:Craftingfurnace.png	File:Craftingfurnace2.png	Allows for the smelting of ores and cooking of food.
Planks	File:Craftingplanks1.png	File:Craftingplanks2.png	Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things.
Stick	File:Craftingstick1.png	File:Craftingstick2.png	Used for torches, arrows, signs, ladders, and as handles for tools.
Chest	File:Craftingchest1.png	File:Craftingchest2.png	Stores stacks of items inside. Two chests make a large chest when you put one next to another.

Blocks

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Blocks	File:Craftingblocksanim.gif	File:Craftingblocksanim2.gif	Allows bars to be crafted into placeable blocks. Full blocks can also be crafted into 9 bars again.
Cloth	File:Craftingcloth1.png	File:Craftingcloth2.png	Used as a building material. Cloth can also be obtained from Sheep.
Torch	File:Craftingtorch1.png	File:Craftingtorch2.png	Used to create Light.
TNT	File:CraftingTNT.PNG	File:TNT.PNG	Used to cause explosions. Gunpowder can be obtained from creepers.
Step	File:Craftingsteps1.png	File:Craftingsteps2.png	Used for half block stairs. Two half blocks on top of each other create a full-sized block.
Stair	File:All Stairs.gif	File:All Stairs Blocks.gif	Used for full block stairs.
Snow Block	File:CraftingSnowBlock1.png	File:CraftingSnowBlock2.png	Used for storing snowballs or as building material.
Brick Block	File:CraftingBrickBlock1.png	File:CraftingBrickBlock2.png	Used as a building material.

Tools

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Axe	File:Craftingaxeanim.gif	File:Craftingaxeanim2.gif	Used to chop wood-related blocks faster than by hand.
Pickaxe	File:Craftingpickaxeanim.gif	File:Craftingpickaxeanim2.gif	Required to mine stone-related blocks and ore.
Shovel	File:Craftingshovelanim.gif	File:Craftingshovelanim2.gif	Used to dig Dirt, Grass, Sand, Gravel and Snow faster than by hand.
Sword	File:Craftingswordanim.gif	File:Craftingswordanim2.gif	When equipped, makes your attacks more powerful on Mobs than by hand.
Hoe	File:Craftinghoeanim.gif	File:Hoe.gif	Used to till Dirt blocks to find seeds and/or prepare for Crops.
Bow	File:Craftingbow.png	File:Craftingbow2.png	Allows for ranged attacks by using arrows. String can be found from Spiders.
Arrows	File:Craftingarrows.png	File:Craftingarrows2.png	Used as ammunition for bows. Feathers can be found from Zombies.
Flint and Steel	File:Flintpattern.png	File:Flintobject.png	Used to create a Fire.
Buckets	File:Bucket1.png	File:Bucket2.png	Used to transport water, lava and milk.

Armor

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Helmet	File:Craftinghelmetanim.gif	File:Craftinghelmet2.gif	Head armor, gives 1½ armor points.
Chestplate	File:Craftingchestplateanim.gif	File:Craftingchestplate2.gif	Chest armor, gives 4 armor points.
Leggings	File:Craftingleggingsanim.gif	File:Craftingleggings2.gif	Leg armor, gives 3 armor points.
Boots	File:Craftingbootsanim.gif	File:Craftingboots2.gif	Foot armor, gives 1½ armor points.

Transportation

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Minecart	File:Minecart (Recipe).png		Used to transport the player along Minecart tracks.
Minecart Tracks	File:Mine Tracks (Recipe).png	File:Mine Tracks.png	Used to direct Minecarts.
Boat	File:CraftingBoat.png	File:Boat.png	Used to travel water quicker than by swimming. When crashed you receive 3 planks and 2 sticks.

Mechanics

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Door	File:Doors.gif	File:Doors Blocks.gif	Wooden doors activated by right clicking. Iron doors can only be activated with Buttons, Levers, Pressure Plates, or Redstone Torches.
Wooden Pressure Plate	File:MiniWoodPad(Recipe).PNG	File:MiniWoodStep.PNG	Used to activate objects by being stepped on or having something dropped on it.
Stone Pressure Plate	File:MiniStonePad(Recipe).PNG	File:MiniStoneStep.PNG	Used to activate objects by being stepped on.
Stone Button	File:MiniStoneButton(Recipe).PNG	File:MiniStoneButton.PNG	Used to activate objects by being pressed.
Redstone Torch	File:RedTorche(Recipe).PNG	File:RedTorche.PNG	Used to activate objects and power Redstone Wires.
Lever	File:Lever(Recipe).PNG	File:Lever.PNG	Used to activate and deactivate objects.

Food

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Bowl	File:Craftingsbowl1.png	File:Craftingbowl2.png	Used to hold Mushroom Soup and maybe Milk.
Mushroom Stew	File:Craftingfood.PNG	File:Food.PNG	Heals 5 hearts.
Bread	File:Craftingbread.PNG.png	File:Bread.PNG	Heals 2.5 hearts.
Golden Apple	File:CraftingGoldenApple1.png	File:CraftingGoldenApple2.png	Heals all 10 hearts.

Miscellaneous

Name	Materials	Output	Description
Paintings	File:Paintrecipe.PNG	File:Paintrecipe2.PNG	Decorative
Signs	File:CraftingSign1.png	File:Craftingsign2.png	Shows text input by the player.
Ladders	File:Craftingladder1.png	File:Craftingladder2.png	Used to climb vertically.
Paper	File:Craftingpaper.png		Used to create books.
Books	File:Craftingbook.png		Used to create a bookshelf.
Bookshelf	File:Craftingbookcase.png	File:Bookcase.png	Decorative