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Duncan Geere Mojang avatar

One recipe that pretty much everyone memorises from the first time they play Minecraft is how to make a crafting table. It's four planks arranged in a square, of course. You'll also find crafting tables occasionally in the wild - in village libraries, witch huts and igloos. Who knows what those witches are crafting?

Duncan Geere[1]

A crafting table allows the player to craft a variety of blocks and items.

Obtaining

Crafting tables can be mined with or without any tool, but axes are the quickest.

Block Crafting Table
Hardness 2.5
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default 3.75
Wooden 1.9
Stone 0.95
Iron 0.65
Diamond 0.5
Netherite 0.45
Golden 0.35
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

Crafting tables naturally generate in village libraries, witch huts and igloos basement. Crafting tables generate in woolen tents outside pillager outpost and in some small village houses.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Any Planks

Usage

Crafting

Main article: Crafting

Pressing use on a crafting table will open the 3×3 crafting grid that allows the player to craft many more items than are available with the crafting grid in the inventory.

The recipe book is available to the left of the crafting grid (collapsed by default in Java Edition, expanded by default in Bedrock Edition), which stores crafting recipes for reference and one-click crafting.

Fuel

Crafting tables can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per crafting table.

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
BenchmakingCraft a workbench with four blocks of wooden planks.Pick up a crafting table from the inventory's crafting field output or a crafting table output.10GBronze

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawMinecraft
The heart and story of the game Have a crafting table in your inventory.story/root

History

indev
0.3120100130File:Crafting Table Revision 1.png Workbench added; the 3×3 crafting grid can no longer be accessed using B.
beta
1.2Renamed "Workbench" to "Crafting Table".
1.5The crafting table can now be used to smelt items in a furnace.
1.6?Holding ⇧ Shift when clicking on an item in the crafting table will now craft as many of the product as possible.
1.8?Crafting tables now naturally occur in villages.
Java Edition
1.0.0?Crafting tables can now be mined faster with an axe than with hand.
1.3.112w22aInventory sprites for blocks are flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.4.212w40aA crafting table now generates inside witch huts.
1.915w43aA crafting table generates inside igloos.
1.1217w13aA tab for learned recipes is now usable in the crafting table GUI. The player is able to automatically fill in the desired recipe into the crafting table by clicking on the item.
The achievement for crafting a crafting table was removed and was not included with the new advancements system.
Closing the crafting interface will now return the items from the crafting grid to the inventory, if space allows.
July 22, 2017Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 58.
1.1418w43aFile:Crafting Table TextureUpdate Revision 1.png Changed the texture of the crafting table.
Banner dyeing is moved to the loom; banners can no longer be dyed in crafting tables.
18w44aFile:Crafting Table TextureUpdate.png Changed the texture of the crafting table again.
18w47aCrafting tables can now be found in pillager outposts.
1.14.1Pre-Release 1Crafting Table The crafting table's texture has been changed again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.3.0File:Crafting Table Revision 1.png Added crafting tables.
0.6.0Stone blocks (minus furnaces and the stonecutter) are now made with the stonecutter, and they have been removed from the crafting table's list.
0.9.0build 1Crafting tables now naturally spawn in villages.
The crafting menu has a new, organised layout.
0.13.0build 1Stone items which were previously crafted using the stonecutter are now made with the crafting table.
0.14.0build 1A crafting table now generates in Witch Huts.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1A crafting table now generates inside igloos.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0?A tab for learned recipes is now usable in the crafting table GUI. The player is able to automatically fill in the desired recipe into the crafting table by clicking on the item.
Closing the crafting interface will now return the items from the crafting grid to the inventory, if space allows.
1.9.0beta 1.9.0.2Crafting tables can now be used to craft smithing tables and fletching tables.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3File:Crafting Table TextureUpdate.png Changed the texture of the crafting table.
Crafting tables now generate in pillager outposts and several new houses in villages.
Crafting tables are now used to craft cartography tables.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1A crafting table is no longer required to craft a cartography table.
beta 1.11.0.7A crafting table is no longer required to craft a fletching table and smithing table.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1File:Crafting Table Revision 1.png Added crafting tables.
1.90File:Crafting Table TextureUpdate.png Changed the texture of the crafting table.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0File:Crafting Table Revision 1.png Added crafting tables.

Issues

Issues relating to "Crafting Table" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • The application icon for Java Edition is a crafting table, since 1.6.1.
  • 1.6.2 had a strange icon like RubyDung versions.
  • Before that, the icon was the Java icon.
  • Now the app icon is used for all versions.
  • Now it changed again.
  • The original inventory screen before January 29, 2010 was the crafting table interface, meaning there was no way of putting on armor yet, and the player could not be seen.

Gallery

See also

References

  1. "Block of the Week: Crafting Table" – Minecraft.net, February 2, 2018
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