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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[1][2] 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

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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

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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, smelt cobblestone or utilize Silk Touch enchantment on a 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
Compass Iron Ingot +
Redstone Dust

Compass
Recovery Compass Echo Shard +
Compass
Compass
Recovery Compass
Fishing Rod Stick +
String

Fishing Rod Damaged Fishing Rod


The durability of the two fishing rods is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
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.
Shears Iron Ingot

Shears Damaged Shears


The durability of the two shears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
Lead String +
Slimeball
Brush Feather +
Copper Ingot +
Stick

Brush Damaged Brush


The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
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.
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.
Clock Gold Ingot +
Redstone Dust

Clock
Spyglass Amethyst Shard +
Copper Ingot

Bundle String +
Rabbit Hide

[only experimental "bundle"]
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.
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.

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. Requires a redstone connection to emit light.

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.
Tripwire Hook Iron Ingot + Stick + Wooden Plank Template:Grid/Crafting Table Used to send a electrical charge whenever a player or entity steps on a tripwire connected to it.

See also

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

References

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