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Crafting is a major method by which blocks, tools, and other resources are created in Minecraft. It is a function only available in Indev, Infdev and Alpha modes.

2x2 Grid

2×2 crafting grid

3x3 Grid

3×3 crafting grid

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.

In Alpha and listed below, there are 94 recipes. Four are not available except through hacking (chainmail armor). Recipes that turn blocks back into bars are separate from the ones that do the reverse. The different ordering of mushrooms for the mushroom stew are considered two recipes. And many recipes differ only in the type of material they use (such as for armor).

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 as well as increasing its speed or power. Once an item breaks, it disappears from the inventory.

The formula for the number of uses is 2^(n+5)+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 de-construction of a block or a single strike at an enemy, but incomplete attempts (stopping in the middle) to de-construct a block do not qualify as a use. If a tool is used inappropriately, such as using a pickaxe to attack mobs, each use will have the equivalent of 2 proper uses.

Recipes

Basic

Name Input » Output Description
Planks File:CraftingPlanksIO.png Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things.
Sticks File:CraftingSticksIO.png Used for torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools.
Torches File:CraftingTorchIO.png Used to generate light. Torches also melt snow.
Workbench File:CraftingWorkbenchIO.png Allows use of the 3×3 crafting grid.
Furnace File:CraftingFurnaceIO.png Allows use of smelting.
Chest File:CraftingChestIO.png Stores stacks of blocks and items inside. Two chests make a large chest when you put one next to another.

Blocks

Name Input » Output Description
Ore Blocks File:CraftingBlocksIOanim.gif Allows ingots or gems to be crafted into placeable blocks. Full blocks can also be crafted into 9 ingots or gems again.
Cloth File:CraftingClothIO.png Used as a building material. Cloth can also be obtained from Sheep.
TNT File:CraftingTNTIO.png Used to cause explosions. Gunpowder can be obtained from Creepers.
Steps File:CraftingStepsIO.png Used for half block steps. Two half blocks on top of each other create a full-sized block.
Stairs File:CraftingStairsIOanim.gif Used for full block stairs.
Snow File:CraftingSnowBlockIO.png Used for storing snowballs or as a building material.
Clay File:CraftingClayBlockIO.png Used to store clay.
Brick File:CraftingBrickBlockIO.png Used as a building material.
Bookshelf File:CraftingBookcaseIO.png Used as decoration.
Jukebox File:CraftingJukebox.png Plays a song when you use a record on it. Records can be acquired by killing a Creeper or from chests in Dungeons.

Tools

Name Input » Output Description
Axes File:CraftingAxesIOanim.gif Used to chop wood-related blocks faster than by hand.
Pickaxes File:CraftingPickaxesIOanim.gif Required to mine stone-related blocks and ore.
Shovels File:CraftingShovelsIOanim.gif Used to dig Dirt, Grass, Sand, Gravel and Snow faster than by hand. Shovels are required to dig snowballs.
Hoes File:CraftingHoesIOanim.gif Used to till Dirt and Grass blocks to find seeds and/or prepare for Crops.
Flint and Steel File:CraftingFlintIO.png Used to create Fire.
Bucket File:CraftingBucketIO.png Used to transport water, lava and milk.

Weapons

Name Input » Output Description
Swords File:CraftingSwordsIOanim.gif Attacks more powerfully on Mobs than by hand.
Bow File:CraftingBowIO.png Allows for ranged attacks by using arrows. String can be found from Spiders.
Arrows File:CraftingArrowsIO.png Used as ammunition for bows. Feathers can be found from Chickens and Zombies.

Armor

Note that Chainmail armor is also craftable, but only by hacking Fire blocks into your inventory and crafting them.

Name Input » Output Description
Helmets File:CraftingHelmetsIOanim.gif Head armor, gives 1.5 armor points.
Chestplates File:CraftingChestplatesIOanim.gif Chest armor, gives 4 armor points.
Leggings File:CraftingLeggingsIOanim.gif Leg armor, gives 3 armor points.
Boots File:CraftingBootsIOanim.gif Foot armor, gives 1.5 armor points.

Transportation

Name Input » Output Description
Minecart File:CraftingMinecartIO.png Used to transport the player or a Mob along Minecart tracks.
Powered Minecart File:PoweredMinecartCraft.png Used to push other Minecarts along Minecart tracks using fuel.
Storage Minecart File:StorageMinecartCraft.png Used to transport goods along Minecart tracks.
Minecart Tracks File:CraftingMinecartTracksIO.png Used to direct Minecarts.
Boat File:CraftingBoatIO.png Used to travel in water quicker than by swimming. When crashed it drops 3 planks and 2 sticks.

Mechanics

Name Input » Output Description
Doors File:CraftingDoorsIOanim.gif Wooden doors activated by right clicking. Iron doors can only be activated with Buttons, Levers, Pressure Plates, or Redstone Torches.
Pressure Plates File:CraftingPressurePlatesIOanim.gif Used to activate objects by having something dropped on them. Wooden Pressure Plates can also be activated by walking on them or having a Mob walk on them.
Stone Button File:CraftingStoneButtonIO.png Used to activate objects by being pressed. Activates for a few seconds before shutting off again. Works on both sides of a door.
Redstone Torch File:CraftingRedTorchIO.png Used to activate objects and power Redstone Wires. Is always on. Can also be used for low level lighting.
Lever File:CraftingLeverIO.png Used to activate and deactivate objects. Only works on one side of the door (2 levers don't work on 1 door)

Food

Name Input » Output Description
Bowls File:CraftingBowlsIO.png Used to hold Mushroom Stew. The player keeps the bowl when they eat the stew.
Mushroom Stew File:CraftingMushroomStewIO.png Heals 5 hearts. The ordering of the red and brown mushrooms does not matter.
Bread File:CraftingBreadIO.png Heals 2.5 hearts.
Golden Apple File:CraftingGoldenAppleIO.png Heals all 10 hearts.

Miscellaneous

Name Input » Output Description
Painting File:CraftingPaintingIO.png Used as decoration.
Sign File:CraftingSignIO.png Shows text inputted by the player.
Ladder File:CraftingLadderIO.png Used to climb vertically, or along walls otherwise unclimbable.
Paper File:CraftingPaperIO.png Used to create books.
Book File:CraftingBookIO.png Used to create a bookshelf.
Fences File:CraftingFence.png Used as a barrier that cannot be jumped over. It counts as 1½ block high for mobs/players, but only 1 for other blocks.
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