Crafting

2×2 crafting grid

3×3 crafting grid

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Pocket edition crafting system (MATTIS)

Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and other resources are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, the player must move items from their inventory into a crafting grid. A grid can be accessed in the player's inventory or on a Crafting Table. The player must then arrange them into the pattern representing the item(s) they wish to create. As long as the proper pattern of resources is placed, it will not matter where within the grid the ingredients are placed. Crafting recipes can also be flipped horizontally from their depictions in the graphs below: for instance, you can make a bow with the strings on the right instead of the left. Crafting recipes come in two types: definite and indefinite. A defined item such as the bow has to have the sticks and string in the right places. An indefinite item like a Fermented Spider eye can have the ingredients anywhere within the grid.

The player has access to a 2×2 crafting grid in their Inventory screen which can be used anytime the screen is brought up. Crafting recipes that are at most 2×2 materials wide and tall can be crafted there, like wooden planks, sticks and Crafting Tables. To craft with a 3×3 grid, create a Crafting Table, place it anywhere and right-click on it. This brings up a pop-up screen which allows the player to assemble any crafting recipe in the game, as the maximum size for a recipe is 3×3.

History

Crafting was first implemented in Indev 0.31, January 29, 2010. Work had been done to the game so that players had a more controllable inventory: things could be picked up, dropped and put wherever the player wanted them in the hot-bar or the inventory grid. This was vital to starting crafting, which relies on moving items around in inventory screens. Among the first few recipes were Sticks, Pickaxes, Torches, Swords, Axes and Gold and Iron blocks. The next day, Indev was updated again with many other recipes. As new blocks and items were implemented into the game, new crafting recipes were made accordingly.

Recipes only had static placements until Beta version 1.2, January 13, 2011. This introduced new recipes that allowed the player to put the ingredients wherever in the grid they wanted (dye + wool).

In 1.8, the Adventure Update, crafting was given a very convenient mechanic. Holding shift while grabbing a crafting output would automatically take all possible outputs from the stock of ingredients it was given.

Daniel Kaplan released preview images of the Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System (MATTIS) crafting system on April 17, 2012, and the system was implemented in Alpha 0.3.0 on April 24.

A simplified crafting system (specific name?) for the Xbox 360 was implemented with the first version release (Beta 1.6.6).

MATTIS

On Minecraft Pocket Edition, crafting is somewhat different and uses the Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System (MATTIS) crafting system. Rather than having 2x2 and 3x3 grids, there are 4 categories down the left: Blocks, Tools, Food & Armor and Decoration. Tapping on each category brings up a list of items/blocks that are craftable from that menu. In each item, there is an area which lists the requirements. The 2nd number is the amount of the material required and the 1st is the amount of material collected. There is an item description under each item and it tells you what the item is used for.

Xbox 360 crafting system

The Xbox 360 Edition uses a simplified crafting system. It doesn't make use of the standard crafting interface as in the original version, but still has similarities to the PC's 2x2 and 3x3 crafting grids. The interface doesn't require the Player to place items in the correct place in a crafting menu, but simply shows the blocks required to craft the selected item, and crafts it if the Player has enough blocks.

Item durability

Main article: Item durability

Certain crafted items, such as tools and armor, as well as certain other usable items, are subject to item durability; a process whereby repeated use of the tool will deplete its number of available uses unless it is repaired. A stronger material will last longer whereas a weaker resource such as wood disintegrates quicker. In order to determine the durability of an item, a small damage bar below each item displays how much longer a tool will last before it breaks and needs to be replaced (this also applies to armor).

A use is counted only if a player completely breaks apart one block or hits a mob. If a block is partially broken this is not counted as a full use. If a player happens to use a tool that is not suitable for the task at hand (e.g. Using an axe to dig through stone instead of a pickaxe, or fighting a mob with a shovel instead of a sword), it will count as two uses rather than one as this is not using the item in hand for its designed use.

Proper use of tools will maximize their durability. Assuming a player uses a tool appropriately, the following list shows the maximum durability for tools of each material type.

• Wood - 60 uses
• Stone - 132 uses
• Iron - 251 uses
• Gold - 33 uses
• Diamond - 1562 uses

Regarding protective gear such as armor, the amount of damage a piece of armor can protect is dependent on the material the armor is made of. The protection of the armor stays constant and is no longer dependent on the durability of the armor. Please note that even though that gold tools have lower durability, they do the work faster.

Complete recipe list

Currently, there are 174 recipes. Some recipes are depicted in the animations below (note: your browser needs JavaScript enabled).

Basic Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Wooden Planks	Wood	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things. The form of wood that you used would change color result in the output.
Sticks	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to craft torches, arrows, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools and weapons.
Torches	Stick + Coal (or Charcoal)	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create light. Torches also melt snow and ice.
Crafting Table	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Allows the player to craft on a 3x3 grid.
Furnace	Cobblestone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Allows the player to smelt.
Chest	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Stores blocks and items inside. Place two chests side by side to create a larger chest with double the capacity.

Block Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Ore Blocks	Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Diamond Gems or Lapis Lazuli Dyes or Emeralds	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Allows ingots, gems, or dyes to be crafted into placeable blocks. Can be used as an expensive building block or compact storage of the ore.
Glowstone	Glowstone (Dust)	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater. If mined again, it turns back into Glowstone dust.
Wool	String	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material and can be colored with dyes.
TNT	Gunpowder + Sand	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to cause explosions.
Slabs	Stone, Sandstone, Wooden Planks, Cobblestone, Brick, or Stone Brick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used for making long staircases. Two slabs placed on top of each other will create a normal-sized double slab block.
Stairs	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Brick or Stone Brick or Nether Brick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used for compact staircases.
Snow Block	Snowballs	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material, or as compact storage for Snowballs. Also may be used for Snow Golems.
Clay Block	Clay	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material, or as compact storage for Clay Balls.
Brick (Block)	Clay Bricks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material.
Stone Brick	Stone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material. To obtain stone just smelt cobblestone or have the Silk Touch enchantment on your pickaxe when mining Stone.
Bookshelf	Wooden Planks + Books	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as decoration, or to give an Enchantment Table knowledge.
Sandstone	Sand	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a building material. Is not influenced by gravity like normal Sand.
Smooth Sandstone	Sandstone (Any Type)	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Decorative block.
Decorative Sandstone	Sandstone Slab	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Decorative block.
Jack-O-Lantern	Pumpkin + Torch	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater.

Tool Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Flint and Steel	Iron Ingot + Flint
Flint and Steel	Damaged Flint and Steel		The durability of the two tools is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Hoe	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Stone Hoe	Any stone-tier block + Stick		Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably.
Hoe	Damaged Matching Hoe		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Axe	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Stone Axe	Any stone-tier block + Stick		Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably.
Axe	Damaged Matching Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Shovels	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Stone Shovel	Any stone-tier block + Stick		Can use any variant of cobblestone
Shovel	Damaged Matching Shovel		The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Clock	Gold Ingot + Redstone Dust
Lead	String + Slimeball	2
Fishing Rod	Stick + String
Fishing Rod	Damaged Fishing Rod		The durability of the two fishing rods is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Compass	Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust
Shears	Iron Ingot
Shears	Damaged Shears		The durability of the two shears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Bundle	String + Rabbit Hide
Pickaxe	Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Stone Pickaxe	Any stone-tier block + Stick		Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably.
Pickaxe	Matching Damaged Pickaxes		The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% of the tool type's total durability.
Recovery Compass	Echo Shard + Compass
Spyglass	Amethyst Shard + Copper Ingot
Brush	Feather + Copper Ingot + Stick
Brush	Damaged Brush		The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Weapon Recipes

Template:Weapon Crafting

Armor Recipes

Template:Armor Crafting

Transportation Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Minecart	Iron Ingots	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to transport the player or a mob along rails.
Powered Minecart	Furnace + Minecart	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to push other Minecarts along rails using fuel.
Storage Minecart	Chest + Minecart	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to transport goods along rails.
Rails	Stick + Iron Ingots	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to guide minecarts.
Powered Rail	Stick + Gold Ingots + Redstone Dust	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to speed up or brake minecarts.
Detector Rail	Stone Pressure Plate + Iron Ingots + Redstone Dust	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Functions like a Pressure Plate (sends a Redstone signal when powered) but can only be activated by a minecart.
Boat	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to travel in water faster than swimming.

Mechanism Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Doors	Wooden Planks or Iron Ingots	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Wooden doors are activated by clicking or with redstone. Iron doors are similar but can only be opened by Redstone, Switches, or Pressure Plates and things close to that.
Trapdoors	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Trapdoors are activated by clicking, and function as normal doors, but are a 1x1 one block and lie flat on the ground. Can also be activated with redstone.
Pressure Plates	Wooden Planks or Stone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to send an electrical charge when stepped on by a player or a mob. Wooden Pressure Plates can also be activated by dropping something on them.
Stone Button	Stone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to send an electrical charge by being pressed. Stays activated for approximately a second before shutting off again.
Redstone Torch	Redstone Dust + Stick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Constantly sends an electrical charge, or can be used as a receiver/transmitter when connected the side of a block. Can also be used for low-level lighting.
Lever	Cobblestone + Stick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to send an electrical charge by being turned on or off. Stays in on or off state until clicked again.
Note Block	Wooden Planks + Redstone Dust	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Plays a note when triggered. Right click it to change the pitch of the note. Placing this on top of different blocks changes its type of instrument.
Jukebox	Wooden Planks + Diamond Gem	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Plays Music Discs.
Dispenser	Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Bow	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to hold and shoot out items in a random order when given a Redstone charge.
Redstone Repeater	Stone + Redstone Dust + Redstone Torch	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used in redstone circuits as repeater, a delayer, and/or a diode.
Piston	Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Wooden Planks + Iron Ingot	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Pushes blocks and entities.
Sticky Piston	Piston + Slimeball	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Pushes blocks and entities, and will pull back the block next to the end when retracted.
Redstone Lamp	Redstone Dust + Glowstone Block	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create brighter light than torches. Melts snow/ice and can be used underwater. It can be turned on and off using redstone.

Food Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Bowls	Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to hold mushroom stew and to milk a Mooshroom.
Mushroom Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Restores . Bowl is re-usable. Crafting recipe is shapeless.
Bread	Wheat	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Restores .
Sugar	Sugar Cane	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used when crafting Cake and brewing a Potion of Swiftness.
Cake	Wheat + Sugar + Chicken Egg + Milk	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Restores on every use. Can be used 6 times, for a total of restored. The buckets are not lost in the process.
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Restores .
Golden Apple	Red Apple + Gold Nuggets	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Restores , and regenerates health temporarily. It is the only food that can be eaten with a full Hunger bar.
Melon Block	Melon Slice	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Can be used for compact storage of melon slices. Each slice restores . However, breaking one melon block only yields 3-7 melon slices.
Melon Seeds	Melon Slice	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Melon Block each harvest.
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Pumpkin each harvest.

Miscellaneous Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Minerals	Iron Block or Gold Block or Diamond Block or Lapis Lazuli Block or Emerald Block	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to reclaim ingots/gems/dyes from blocks.
Painting	Sticks + Wool	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as decoration.
Sign	Wooden Planks + Stick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Shows text entered by the player.
Ladders	Sticks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to climb vertically.
Glass Pane	Glass	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Have similar placement behavior as Fences and use the same texture as Glass.
Iron Bars	Iron (Ingot)	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Have similar placement behavior as Fences, but their height is counted as only 1 block.
Paper	Sugar Cane	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create books and maps.
Book	Paper	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create a bookshelf, book and quills or an enchantment table. (Note: You need to use leather if you are running Minecraft version 1.3 or higher. If you are in 1.2 or lower you don't need leather.)
Fences	Sticks or Nether Brick	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a barrier that cannot be jumped over. Counts as 1.5 blocks high for mobs and players, but 1 block high for other blocks.
Fence Gate	Sticks + Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used as a door while looking similar to fence blocks. Fence gates can only be opened by right-clicking (unlike doors and trapdoors, which can be opened by left- or right-clicking) and Redstone.
Beds	Wool + Wooden Planks	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to advance time from night to morning (in SMP, all players in the Overworld must be in beds). Also changes the spawn point of the player (but compasses are unaffected).
Gold Ingot	Gold Nugget	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used in Tools, Armor, Clocks and Powered Rails.
Eye of Ender	Ender Pearl + Blaze Powder	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to locate Strongholds, and repair an End Portal Frame.

Dye Recipes

Four dyes are not included below because they are not obtained through crafting; they are Cactus Green (green), Lapis Lazuli Dye (blue), Cocoa Beans (brown), and Ink Sac (black).

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Bone Meal	Bone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to instantly grow crops, trees, tall grass, huge mushrooms and flowers. Also used in creating pale dye colors.
Light Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meals or Gray Dye + Bone Meal	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep light gray. (See Light Gray Dye page for comparison of recipes' efficiency.)
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meal	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep gray. Also used in creating light gray dye.
Rose Red	Rose	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep red. Also used in creating several other dye colors.
Orange Dye	Rose Red + Dandelion Yellow	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep orange.
Dandelion Yellow	Dandelion	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep yellow. Also used in creating orange dye.
Lime Dye	Cactus Green + Bone Meal	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep lime.
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep light blue.
Cyan Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Cactus Green	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep cyan.
Purple Dye	Lapis Lazuli Dye + Rose Red	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep purple. Can also be used in creating magenta dye.
Magenta Dye	Purple Dye + Pink Dye or Lapis Lazuli Dye + Bone Meal + 2 Rose Red or Lapis Lazuli Dye + Pink Dye + Rose Red	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep magenta. (See Magenta Dye page for comparison of recipes' efficiency.)
Pink Dye	Rose Red + Bone Meal	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to dye wool or sheep pink. Can also be used in creating magenta dye.

Wool Recipes

Template:Wool Crafting

Enchantment & Brewing Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Glass Bottle	Glass	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used for Potions.
Cauldron	Iron Ingot	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to store water for Glass Bottle.
Brewing Stand	Blaze Rod + Cobblestone	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to Brew.
Blaze Powder	Blaze Rod	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Can be crafted together with a Ender Pearl, to create an Eye of Ender. Can also be used to craft Magma Cream. Also makes Potions of Strength.
Magma Cream	Slimeball + Blaze Powder	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used in Potions, mostly for fire-resistance.
Fermented Spider Eye	Spider Eye + Brown Mushroom + Sugar	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used in Potions. All potions with Fermented Spider Eye have negative effects, which makes it useful in splash potions.
Glistering Melon	Melon Slice + Gold Nugget	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used in Brewing to create health restoration Potions.
Gold Nugget	Gold Ingot	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to craft Glistering Melon with Melon Slices, or a Golden Apple with a red Apple.
Enchantment Table	Book + Diamond + Obsidian	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to Enchant Tools, Weapons, and Armor.

Future Crafting Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Book	Paper + Leather	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Used to create a bookshelf, book and quills or an enchantment table.
Book and Quill	Book + Feather + Ink Sac	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Books which can be written in and edited.
Ender Chest	Obsidian + Eye of Ender	Template:Grid/Crafting Table	Contents of the chest are put into all Ender Chests created, but the contents are localized to the player in SMP.

See also

• Brewing
• Enchanting
• Smelting

The following entities may also be constructed by the player, but they are assembled in-world rather than via crafting:

• Nether Portal
• Snow Golem
• Iron Golem