Crafting in Minecraft
Crafting is the essence of Minecraft. This guide provides the basics of crafting and durability, along with a crafting recipe of every craftable item in the game.
Where Can I Discover Recipes?
Crafting recipes in Minecraft are simply looked up on websites like this one. You typically don't "discover" recipes by guessing, and there is nowhere in the game that will list them for you. For easy reference, it will help to keep a web browser open to Minecraftopia for crafting recipes and item information.
How Do I Craft Items?
Your character has a built-in 2x2 crafting grid (hit E to see it in your Inventory screen), enabling you to make very basic items without a crafting table. Your first creation will be a crafting table. Read our guide on How To Play Minecraft, a great beginner's tool, for step by step instructions on creating your first items.
Does the Exact Pattern Matter?
As long as you place the items in the correct configuration/pattern, the item will be crafted, regardless of where on the grid you place your ingredients. For some items, such as the axe, you can even flip the pattern like a mirror and it will still work!
Item Durability
All usable items in Minecraft have a Durability value, displayed on their details page. This number generally represents how many times you can use that item before it will break and disappear. The most common place to see this number is on Tools, Armor and Weapons. Simply lookup any item (for example, a stone pickaxe) to find its durability value listed on the left side under the item picture. Tool and Weapon durability will be reduced with each hit, while Armor durability will be reduced by 1 when you take any amount of damage from mobs, falling, fire, etc.
Using the Right Tools
Make sure you are using the right tools for the job. For example, when digging in gravel or dirt, use a shovel. When mining, use a pickaxe. To till dirt into farmland, you can only use a hoe. When slaying, use a sword. When chopping wood, use an axe. Some items can be destroyed quicker with a sword, but doing so will take off 2 durability points with each hit.
- When breaking a block with the right tool, it costs 1 durability point
- When breaking a block with the wrong tool, it costs 2 durability points
- Hitting a creature with your sword costs 1 durability point
- Hitting a creature with a tool costs 2 durability points
- Each time a piece of armor sustains any amount of damage, it consumes 1 durability point
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 Activator Rail | Activator rails function like regular rails except that they enable TNT Minecarts or Minecarts with Hoppers |     6 | |
 Anvil | Anvils are used to rename and repair items. Unlike crafted repairs, anvils can keep enchantments, and add new ones | | |
 Arrow | Arrows can be fired with a bow, or out of a dispenser, to damage players and creatures.
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 Bed | Allows you to sleep until morning, quickly skipping through the night. In multiplayer, all players must be in bed for this to work. Beds are used to set your respawn point (see details). | | |
 Black Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Blue Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Boat | A vehicle that provides easier movement through oceans or any large body of water. | | |
 Bone Meal | Bone Meal is crafted out of skeleton bones and is used for dying wool and as a fertilizer. |       | 3 |
 Book | Used in the creation of bookshelves and book and quills. |    | |
Book and Quill | Book and Quills are used for players to make books that players can read. | | |
Bookshelf | Used as a decoration or as an inefficient furnace fuel. |  | |
 Bow | Used as a weapon to fire arrows. To fire, make it your active item and right-click to shoot it. There must be arrows in your inventory.
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 Bowl | Used to make mushroom stew. Currently, there are no other uses. |  | 4 |
 Bread | Eat to restore hunger bar. Filled hunger bars regenerate health slowly.
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 Brick Block | Brick is a durable block that resists explosions well. Brick blocks do not occur naturally on a generated map. |   | |
Brick Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
Brick Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. When destroyed, only a brick block is returned, so place them carefully. | 4 | |
 Brown Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Bucket | | ||
 Cake | Cake is a special food item that allows for multiple uses. Cake must be placed to eat.
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 Chest | A placeable block used to store items. |    | |
 Clay Block | Clay blocks are found on the surface by bodies of water and are usually surrounded by sand. | | |
 Clock | Used to tell time. It cannot be used to predict a precise hour, but the icon image changes depending on the position of the sun/moon. | | |
 Cobblestone Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
 Compass | The compass will point to your last spawn point. Straight up means straight ahead. |  | |
 Cookie | Eat to restore hunger bar. Filled hunger bars regenerate health slowly.
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 Crafting Table | The staple of any crafter, used to create many objects. | | |
 Cyan Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |   | 2 |
Cyan Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Dandelion Yellow Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |   | 2 |
 Daylight Sensor | Daylight Sensors act as a redstone signal when enough sunlight is brought to it |    | |
 Detector Rail | Used exactly like a pressure plate. It sends a redstone signal when a minecart passes over it to all adjacent blocks. | 6 | |
 Diamond Axe | Used to chop wood, and to ease breaking down wooden objects such as wooden planks and wood stairs.
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 Diamond Block | Used as a decoration, or as a compact method for storing diamond gems. |  | |
 Diamond Boots | Foot armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Diamond Chestplate | Chest armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Diamond Helmet | Head armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Diamond Hoe | Used to till dirt blocks into farmland. There is a chance that seeds will drop when you till a grass block.
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 Diamond Leggings | Leg armor, adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Diamond Pickaxe | Pickaxes are used to mine all ore and all blocks. Diamond Pickaxes are the strongest pickaxes available.
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 Diamond Shovel | Used to dig in dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow.
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 Diamond Sword | Swords are the most effective melee weapon for killing creatures and players. Many blocks can be destroyed quicker with a sword, although it comes at the cost of 2 durability points to the sword.
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Dispenser | Used to dispense or shoot objects, depending on what is put inside. |   | |
 Dropper | The dropper is a block that "drops" items it holds whenever it is activated | | |
 Emerald Block | Used as a decoration, or as a compact method for storing emerald gems. |  | |
 Ender Chest | A placeable block used to store items. They function like normals chests, but their items can be accessed by any other ender chest in the world. |   | |
 Fence | Wooden wall blocks, 1.5 blocks high, that cannot be jumped by most creatures. Used primarily as decoration, or to contain/restrict an area. | 2 | |
 Fence Gate | Fence gates are a type of door that can be opened both inward and outwards. They are opened by right-clicking and can interact with redstone. | | |
 Fishing Rod | Fishing Rods allow you to catch raw fish. You can also use them to grab creatures and movable objects, and drag them towards you.
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 Flint and Steel | Used to set things on fire (blocks or creatures), or to dispose of items.
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 Furnace | Used to smelt items. Smelting requires fuel such as coal, charcoal, wood, lava in a bucket, or most things made of wood. |  | |
 Gold Axe | Used to chop wood, and to ease breaking down wooden objects such as wooden planks and wood stairs. Note: Gold is a poor material choice for tools.
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 Gold Block | Used primarily as a compact method of storing gold ingots. |  | |
 Gold Boots | Foot armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Gold Chestplate | Chest armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Gold Helmet | Head armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Gold Hoe | Used to till dirt blocks into farmland. There is a chance that seeds will drop when you till a grass block.
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 Gold Leggings | Leg armor, adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Gold Pickaxe | Used to mine basic ore and blocks. Does not work on valuable ores such as iron, gold, diamond and redstone. It should be noted that it works very fast, although the durability is dismal.
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 Gold Shovel | Used to dig in dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow.
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 Gold Sword | Swords are the most effective melee weapon for killing creatures and players. Many blocks can be destroyed quicker with a sword, although it comes at the cost of 2 durability points to the sword.
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 Golden Apple | Eat to restore hunger bar. Normally, health regeneration happens only when a player has a full hunger bar. However, golden apples also restores health when eaten.
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Gray Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Gray Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Green Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
Hopper | Hoppers are items that, when items fall on top of it, will automatically store items in either itself, or into a container it's attached to such as a chest |  | |
 Iron Axe | Used to chop wood, and to ease breaking down wooden objects such as wooden planks and wood stairs.
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 Iron Bar | Iron Bars are a type of block that generate in strongholds and in NPC Villages. | 16 | |
 Iron Block | Used primarily as a compact method of storing iron ingots. | | |
 Iron Boots | Foot armor, adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Iron Chestplate | Chest armor, adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Iron Door | Doors provide a convenient entrance that you can open and close. Iron doors can only be toggled by switches. | | |
 Iron Helmet | Head armor, adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Iron Hoe | Used to till dirt blocks into farmland. There is a chance that seeds will drop when you till a grass block.
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 Iron Leggings | Leg armor, adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Iron Pickaxe | Used to mine all ore and blocks except obsidian and bedrock.
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 Iron Shovel | Used to dig in dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow.
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 Iron Sword | Swords are the most effective melee weapon for killing creatures and players. Many blocks can be destroyed quicker with a sword, although it comes at the cost of 2 durability points to the sword.
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 Jack-O-Lantern | Used primarily as a decoration and a light source. | | |
 Jukebox | Used to play music with discs such as music disc (gold). Right-click the jukebox with a music disc selected to play it. | | |
 Ladder | Used for climbing walls either horizontally or vertically. To climb safely, you can sneak (hold shift) to hold on. | 3 | |
 Lapis Lazuli (Block) | Used as a decoration, or for compact storage of lapis lazuli dye. |  | |
 Leather Boots | Foot armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Leather Chestplate | Chest armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Leather Helmet | Head armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Leather Leggings | Leg armor adds extra protection, preventing damage from attacks, falling, drowning and fire.
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 Lever | Used to toggle a redstone circuit between two states: "on" and "off". | | |
Light Blue Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Light Blue Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
Light Gray Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 3 |
Light Gray Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
Lime Green Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Lime Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Magenta Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Magenta Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
Minecart | Minecarts are rideable objects that you place on rails. They can carry people, creatures or items(storage). They move much faster than walking. Get in by right-clicking once placed. |  | |
Minecart (Powered) | Moves on rails similar to a normal minecart, but accepts coal (lasts about 4 minutes) or charcoal as fuel for powered movement. Can be used to push other minecarts. | | |
Minecart (Storage) | Operates just like a normal minecart, while being able to carry a chest of items. Right-click to add items to the cart. These carts cannot be ridden. | | |
Minecart With Hopper | A minecart with a hopper combines the functionality of both the minecart and the hopper | | |
Minecart With TNT | A minecart with TNT combines the functionality of both the minecart and TNT | | |
Mushroom Stew | Eat to restore hunger bar. Filled hunger bars regenerate health slowly.
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 Nether Brick | Nether bricks are blocks found only in the The Nether. They're the main material in Nether runes and can be used to craft Nether Brick Stairs and Nether Brick Fences. |     | |
Nether Brick Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
Nether Fence | Wall blocks made from Nether Bricks, 1.5 blocks high, that cannot be jumped by most creatures. Used primarily as decoration, or to contain/restrict an area. | 6 | |
 Nether Quartz Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
 Nether Quartz Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. | | |
Nether Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. When destroyed, only a nether brick block is returned, so place them carefully. | | |
 Note Block | Plays a note when hit or when powered by a redstone circuit. | | |
Orange Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Orange Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Painting | Low resolution images, mostly done by Kristoffer Zetterstrand and shrunk down, that can be put up on a wall. |  | |
 Paper | Basic crafting material used to make books. |  | 3 |
Pink Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Pink Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Powered Rail | Acts as a brake or an accelerator to minecarts that pass through it. It is powered by redstone wire. | 6 | |
 Purple Dye | Used primarily to color wool. |  | 2 |
Purple Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Quartz Block | Quartz blocks are compacted blocks of raw quartz found in the Nether | | |
 Rails | Rails are tracks that minecart-based vehicles can move along. | 16 | |
 Red Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | | |
 Redstone Block | Redstone blocks are compacted blocks can be used as a redstone power source. | | |
 Redstone Comparator | Redstone Comparators function similarly to redstone repeaters. However, it receives two signals. | | |
 Redstone Repeater | Redstone Repeaters can extend the current of a redstone wire beyond the 15 block limit, or to delay the incoming signal. | | |
Redstone Torch | Redstone torches provide constant power in redstone circuits, and act as an inverter, or NOT-gate.They also provide soft light (level 7). | | |
 Rose Red Dye | Used primarily to color wool. | | 2 |
 Sandstone | Sandstone is a solid block that is commonly found under or near large patches of sand. |  | |
Sandstone Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
 Sandstone Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. When destroyed, only a sandstone block is returned, so place them carefully. | ||
 Sign | Placed in the ground, or on walls, to add flavor and decoration. Text can be 4 lines, 15 characters per line. To change the text, destroy the sign and place it again. | 3 | |
 Snow Block | Used for building, decoration and storing snowballs. To convert back to snowballs, place the block and destroy it with a shovel. | | |
Stick | Used as a crafting ingredient for many things. Sticks are good. |              | 4 |
Stone Axe | Used to chop wood, and to ease breaking down wooden objects such as wooden planks and wood stairs.
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 Stone Brick | Stone Bricks are one of the blocks generated in Strongholds. |   | |
Stone Brick Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
Stone Brick Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. When destroyed, only a stone brick block is returned, so place them carefully. | 4 | |
 Stone Button | Used to toggle a redstone circuit to the "on" state. After .9 seconds, it automatically reverts back to the "off" state. | | |
Stone Hoe | Used to till dirt blocks into farmland. There is a chance that seeds will drop when you till a grass block.
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Stone Pickaxe | Used to mine basic ore and blocks. Does not work on valuable ores such as gold, diamond and redstone.
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 Stone Pressure Plate | Used to toggle a redstone circuit between two states: "on" (receiving pressure) and "off" (not receiving pressure). | | |
Stone Shovel | Used to dig in dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow.
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 Stone Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | 6 | |
 Stone Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. When destroyed, only a cobblestone block is returned, so place them carefully. | 4 | |
Stone Sword | Swords are the most effective melee weapon for killing creatures and players. Many blocks can be destroyed quicker with a sword, although it comes at the cost of 2 durability points to the sword.
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 TNT | Upon being set on fire, or energized with redstone, TNT will begin smoking and flashing. After 4 seconds, it will explode, damaging surrounding blocks and creatures. | |   |
Torch | Provides a (currently) permanent source of light and can be placed on the top or sides of many blocks. NOTE: Charcoal can be substituted for coal when crafting. | | 4 |
Trapped Chest | Trapped Chests are similar to regular chests except they send out a switch signal whenever a player looks inside. | | |
Wood Axe | Used to chop wood, and to ease breaking down wooden objects such as wooden planks and wood stairs.
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 Wood Door | Provide a convenient entrance that you can open and close. Toggle them by right-clicking. | | |
Wood Hoe | Used to till dirt blocks into farmland. There is a chance that seeds will drop when you till a grass block.
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Wood Pickaxe | Used to mine basic ore and blocks. Does not work on valuable ores such as iron, gold, diamond and redstone.
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 Wood Pressure Plate | Used to toggle a redstone circuit between two states: "on" (receiving pressure) and "off" (not receiving pressure). | | |
Wood Shovel | Used to dig in dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow.
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Wood Slab | Slabs are half the height of a normal block. Similar to stairs, they allow a player to change elevation without jumping. | | 6 |
 Wood Stairs | Stairs provide a change in elevation without having to jump. When destroyed, only a wooden plank is returned, so place them carefully. | 4 | |
Wood Sword | Swords are the most effective melee weapon for killing creatures and players. Many blocks can be destroyed more quickly with a sword, although it comes at the cost of 2 durability points to the sword.
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 Wooden Button | Used to toggle a redstone circuit to the "on" state. After .9 seconds, it automatically reverts back to the "off" state. | | |
Wooden Plank | Used in many wood-based crafting recipes. Wooden planks catch fire easily, so be careful when building with them. |   | 4 |
Yellow Wool | Used primarily for decoration. | |
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