Minecraft Crafting Guide

The crafting guide is a complete list of recipes in Minecraft. This guide tells you how to craft in Minecraft and includes everything from simple tools and weapons to crafting complex mechanisms and transportation devices.

Crafting is how most things are made in Minecraft. The 2×2 crafting grid is accessed in the inventory. The 3×3 crafting grid – where most items are crafted – can be accessed with a crafting table.

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Recipes List

This is a complete list of all crafting recipes in Minecraft. If you find any errors or missing recipes, don’t hesitate to contact us. Please note that Saddle and Horse armor can’t be crafted at the moment.

Use the overview to quickly navigate to the different recipes.

Basic Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Chest	Wood Planks	Similar to your inventory. Holds up to 27 stacks of items or blocks.
Crafting Table	Wooden Plank	When placed on the ground, it provides use of the 3�3 crafting grid.
Furnace	Cobblestone	Provides the ability to smelt ores and cook food.
Sticks	Wood Planks	Used as handles for tools and weapons as well as for ladders, signs, torches and fences.
Torches	Stick + Coal	Torches create light. They also have the ability to melt ice and snow.
Wood Planks	Wood (regular, birch or pine)	Can be used as a building material, but is usually used for a wide variety of crafting recipes.

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Manufactured Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Anvil	Iron Blocks + Iron Ingots	Used to combine enchantments and repair and rename items or blocks. Anvils are affected by gravity.
Beacon	Glass + Nether Star + Obsidian	Emits a light beam that can provide temporary player buffs, when placed on a pyramid made of diamond, emerald, gold or iron blocks. Can also be used as a landmark.
Block of Coal	Coal	The block of coal is a compact way to store coal, and can be used for decoration and fuel.
Block of Quartz	Nether Quartz	Blocks of Quartz are mineral blocks crafted from Nether Quartz that are used only for decoration.
Block of Redstone	Redstone	Redstone blocks are compacted blocks can be used as a redstone power source.
Bookshelf	Wood Planks + Books	Used as decoration or to give an Enchantment Table, a boost for better enchantments.
Brick Block	Bricks	Decorative building material.
Chiseled Quartz Block	Quartz Slab	Used as decorative building material.
Chiseled Sandstone	Sandstone Slab	Chiseled Sandstone is a decorative form of sandstone with a Creeper face and various small carvings on it.
Clay Block	Clay	Clay blocks can be used as building material or to store clay.
Glowstone	Glowstone Dust	Glowstones emits more light than a normal torch. It will melt nearby snow and ice. Breaking a glowstone block, will give 2-4 Glowstone Dust back.
Hay Bale	Wheat	Used as decorative block, or as food for horses.
Jack-O-Lantern	Pumpkin + Torch	Acts as a torch, but emits more light. Can stay lit underwater and melts nearby snow.
Nether Brick	Nether Bricks (items)	Nether bricks are blocks found only in the The Nether. They are immune to Ghast fireballs.
Pillar Quartz Block	Block of Quartz	Used as decorative building material.
Sandstone	Sand	Used as a building material. Sandstone is not influenced by gravity like normal Sand.
Smooth Sandstone	Sandstone	Smooth Sandstone is a decorative form of sandstone with a smoother texture.
Snow Block	Snowballs	Used as building material, decoration and storing snowballs. Snow blocks are harder to be destroyed than normal snow and are impervious to torches and water.
Stained Clay	Hardened Clay + Dye	Stained hardened clay are colored variations of hardened clay. They are available in the same colors as dyed wool. Hardened Clay is a smelting recipe.
Stone Brick	Stone	Used as building material. There is various versions of stone bricks, eg. chiseled stone brick which can only be found in jungle temples.
Stone Slabs	Stone, Sandstone, Cobblestone, Bricks, Stone Brick, Nether Brick or Block of Quartz	Used for making stairs. Two slabs placed on top of each other, will create a normal sized double slab block.
Stone Stairs	Stone, Sandstone, Cobblestone, Bricks, Stone Brick, Nether Brick or Block of Quartz	Easily make staircases with stairs. They are a more compact alternative to slabs, allowing a greater elevation change in a shorter horizontal distance.
TNT	Gunpowder + Sand	When activated, TNT creates an explosion that damages nearby block and creatures.
Wood Slabs	Wood Planks	Used for making stairs. Two slabs placed on top of each other, will create a normal sized double slab block.
Wood Stairs	Wood Planks	Easily make staircases with stairs. They are a more compact alternative to slabs, allowing a greater elevation change in a shorter horizontal distance.

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Tool Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Axes	Sticks + Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds	Used to chop wood and pumpkins, faster than by hand.
Bucket	Iron Ingots	Used to carry water, lava or milk. Water and lava can be gathered from water or lava blocks, that are not running. Milk can be obtained by clicking on a cow with the bucket.
Carrot on a Stick	Fishing Rod + Carrot	Used while riding pigs to control them. The direction the carrot dangles is the direction the pig will go. The pig will run faster if the player right clicks while holding the stick.
Clock	Gold Ingots + Compass	Clocks are items that display the current in-game time. It is done by displaying the sun and the moon\'s position, relative to the horizon.
Compass	Iron Ingots + Redstone Dust	The compass will always point to your original spawn point. Can\'t be used in The Nether or in The End.
Fishing Rod	Sticks + Strings	Used to catch fish. You can also use them to grab movable objects and drag them towards yourself. Rods have 33 uses (durability).
Flint and Steel	Iron Ingot + Flint	Used to create fire. Can set blocks or creatures on fire.
Hoes	Sticks + Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds	Used to till dirt and grass into farmland for crops. There is a chance that seeds will drop, when you till grass blocks.
Map	Paper + Compass	The Map is used to view explored terrain. While a map is being held in the player\'s hand, it will gradually be drawn as the player explores the world.
Pickaxes	Sticks + Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds	Used to mine ore and blocks. Only Iron and Diamond Pickaxes can mine all ores and blocks. Diamond is the strongest pickaxe.
Shears	Iron Ingots	Tools used to obtain wool from sheeps, leaves from trees, Red Mushrooms from Mushrooms or to get string from cobwebs.
Shovels	Sticks + Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds	Used to effectively dig sand, dirt, gravel, snow and clay. Required to dig snowballs.

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Weapon Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Arrow	Flint + Stick + Feather	Arrows can be used as ammunition for a bow or dispenser. Deals damage to players and creatures when they hit.
Bow	Sticks + String	Ranged weapon used to fire arrows. To use the bow you must have arrows in your inventory.
Swords	Stick + Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds	Melee weapon used to damage mobs, other player or to block attacks.

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Armor Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Boots	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Fire or Diamonds	Foot armor that adds extra protection against attacks, falling, fire and drowning.
Chestplates	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Fire or Diamonds	Chest armor that adds extra protection against attacks, falling, fire and drowning.
Helmets	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Fire or Diamonds	Head armor that adds extra protection against attacks, falling, fire and drowning.
Leggins	Leather or Gold Ingots or Iron Ingots or Fire or Diamonds	Leg armor that adds extra protection against attacks, falling, fire and drowning.

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Transportation Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Activator Rail	Iron Ingots + Sticks + Redstone Torch	Used to activate TNT Minecarts or Minecarts with Hoppers.
Boat	Wood Planks	Vehicle that enables you to travel in water, faster than swimming.
Detector Rail	Stone Pressure Plate + Iron Ingots + Redstone	Functions like a Pressure Plate, it sends a Redstone signal when powered. Can only be activated by a minecart.
Minecart	Iron Ingots	Rideable objects used for transporting players or mobs along minetracks.
Minecart with Chest	Chest + Minecart	Used to transport goods and items along rails.
Minecart with Hopper	Hopper + Minecart	Minecart that moves items in and out of chests in the same way as a normal hopper.
Minecart with TNT	TNT + Minecart	Minecart with TNT that explodes when triggered by a activator rail or when it is hit.
Powered Minecart	Furnace + Minecart	Minecarts with Furnace can be used to push other minecarts. You need fuel to power this minecart.
Powered Rail	Stick + Gold Ingots + Redstone	Non solid block that is used to stop or increase momentum of moving minecarts. Powered Rails are powered by Redstone currents. Whether this comes from a Redstone Torch, a Lever, a Button, another circuit, or a Detector Rail does not matter.
Rails	Stick + Iron Ingots	Rails are minecart tracks where minecart vehicles can travel along.

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Mechanism Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Daylight Sensor	Glass + Nether Quartz + Wood Slabs	Sends out a redstone signal during sunlight. The signal strenght depends on the sunlight intensity.
Dispenser	Cobblestone + Redstone + Bow	Dispensers can store 9 stacks of items or blocks in a 3x3 grid. When powered by a Redstone charge, it ejects the items in random order. Snowballs, eggs, fireworks and arrows are fired out as projectiles.
Doors	Wood Planks or Iron Ingots	Wooden Doors can be activated by right-clicking on them or by an electrical redstone signal. Iron Doors on the other hand, can only be activated by an electrical redstone signal.
Dropper	Cobblestone + Redstone	Block that drops an item from it\'s inventory as an entity (as if it were dropped by the player)each time it is powered. If there is a block with an inventory immediately in front of the dropper when it is powered, it will instead store the item within th
Hopper	Iron Ingots + Chest	Moves items in and out of chests, dispensers and other blocks that can hold items.
Jukebox	Wood Planks + Diamond	Used to play music discs. Right-click the jukebox with a music disc selected to play it.
Lever	Cobblestone + Stick	Sends an electrical signal when switched to the "on" position. Stays in its current state, unless it is clicked again.
Note Block	Wood Planks + Redstone	Plays a note when used or powered by redstone. Right click it to change the pitch of the note. A different instrument is played depending on the type of block it is placed on.
Piston	Wood Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone	Pushes blocks or entities 1 space forward. Can also move players and mobs. Activated by redstone circuits.
Pressure Plates	Stone or Wood Planks	Triggers an electrical charge, when a player or mob walks on it. Wood Pressure Plates are also activated when something is dropped on them.
Redstone Comparator	Redstone Torches + Nether Quartz + Stone	Function similar to redstone repeaters. However, instead of one signal, the comparator receives two signals.
Redstone Lamp	Redstone + Glowstone	Emits a light when powered by redstone.
Redstone Repeater	Stone + Redstone + Redstone Torch	Redstone Repeaters can extend the current of a redstone wire beyond the 15 block limit. It can also delay the incoming signal. The switch can be toggled by clicking it and has 4 settings from 0.1 to 0.4 seconds delay.
Redstone Torch	Redstone + Stick	Sends a constant electric signal. Can also be used as a receiver/transmitter when connected to the side of a block. Emits a small amount of light.
Sticky Piston	Piston + Slimeball	Pushes and pulls blocks and objects 1 space. Pulls the block it is touching when retracted. Activated or controlled by redstone circuits.
Stone Button	Stone	Sends an electrical signal when pressed. The signal lasts for approximately one second.
Trapdoor	Wood Planks	Functions as a horizontal door but are only 1x1 block in size. Can be activated by right-clicking it or with redstone.
Trapped Chest	Chest + Tripwire Hook	Chest that sends out a signal when opened. Can be used to create traps.
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot + Stick + Wood Plank	Used to create a tripwire that activates a redstone signal. You can hang a string across a pair of hooks, and the tripwire will be activated when someone runs across it.
Weighted Pressure Plates	Iron Ingots or Gold	Similar to a normal pressure plate, but can only be activated by items. The number of items determines the strength of the signal. Comes in two versions, a light (gold) and a heave (iron).
Wooden Button	Wood Planks	Sends an electrical signal when pressed like the stone button. The signal lasts for approximately one second.

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Food Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Bowl	Wood Planks	Used to hold mushroom stew and to milk a Mooshroom cow.
Bread	Wheat	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 2.5 hunger points.
Cake	Milk + Sugar + Egg + Wheat	Restores 1 hunger point per use for a total of 6 uses. Returns empty buckets when crafted. Must be placed to eat.
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 1 hunger point.
Enchanted Golden Apple	Apple + Gold Blocks	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 2 hunger points and regenerate health for 30 seconds. It also gives resistance and fire resistance for 5 minutes.
Golden Apple	Apple + Gold Ingots	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 2 hunger points and regenerates health temporarily.
Golden Carrot	Carrot + Gold Nuggets	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 4 hunger points. Golden Carrot is also used in some brewing recipes.
Melon Seeds	Melon Slice	Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Melon Block each harvest.
Mushroom Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 3 hunger points. The bowl can reused.
Pumpkin Pie	Pumpkin + Egg + Sugar	Eat to restore hunger. Restores 4 hunger points. Recipe fits within the 2x2 crafting grid of the players inventory.
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin	Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Pumpkin each harvest.
Sugar	Sugar Cane	Used to craft Cake, Pumpkin pie and when brewing a Potion of Swiftness.

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Miscellaneous Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Bed	Wool + Wooden Planks	Used to change time from night to day. In SMP, all players in the Overworld must be in beds. Also changes the spawn point of the player, but compasses remains unaffected until you die and respawn.
Book	Paper + Leather	Used to create book and quills, bookshelfs or an enchantment table.
Book and Quill	Book + Inc Sac + Feather	Books that players can write in, read and edit.
Carpet	Wool	Carpets are thin like pressure plates and can be used as floor decoration. The color of the wool determines the carpet color.
Cobblestone Wall	Cobblestone or Moss Stone	Decorative block that acts in a similar way to fences.
Ender Chest	Obsidian + Eye of Ender	Used for storage like normal chests. All contents of the chest are put into all Ender Chests created, which means they access the same storage. The contents are localised to the player in SMP. If the ender chest is destroyed, none of its contents will be
Eye of Ender	Ender Pearl + Blaze Powder	Used to locate Strongholds, repair an End Portal bloc and craft Ender Chests. When thrown, they float towards the direction of a portal, which appear in strongholds. After a few seconds, it will drop with a chance of breaking.
Fence	Sticks	Used as a barrier that players and mobs cannot jump over, with the exception of spiders and spider jockeys. It is 1½ blocks high for mobs and players, but only 1 to other blocks.
Fence Gate	Sticks + Wood Planks	Fence gates serves as a door for a row of fences. They can be opened both inward and outwards. They are opened by right-clicking or with a redstone signal.
Fire Charge	Blaze Powder + Coal + Gunpowder	Fire Charges can be used as a instead of flint and steel. Left click on an open area and a fire will start. Can also be used as ammunition for dispensers, where they will shot out as a fireball.
Firework Rocket	Gunpowder + Paper + Firework Star	Firework that can be launched into the sky and explore. Adding more gunpowder increases the duration of the rocket. Up to three gunpowder can be used. Multiple firework stars can also be used, in which case all will go off simultaneously when the rocket d
Firework Star	Gunpowder + Dye + Extra ingredient (optional)	Used to create firework rockets. The dye determines the colour of the firework, and the extra ingredient determines a special effect. Extra ingredient can for example be diamonds, gold nuggets or a mob head.
Flower Pot	Bricks	Used as decoratives. Allows flowers, mushrooms, saplings, cacti, ferns and dead bushes to be placed in it.
Glass Panes	Glass	Glass Panes is a block that, can be shaped in similar way to fences. Their placement behavior is similar to Redstone, Iron Bars, and Fences. They have the same texture as Glass. They cannot currently be placed horizontally.
Gold Ingot	Gold Nuggets	Gold is used in several crafting recipes, e.g. tools and armors.
Iron Bars	Iron Ingots	Similar to fences. They are only counted as 1 block high, instead of 1.5 blocks.
Item Frame	Sticks + Leather	Used as decoration. Blocks or items can be placed inside the frame by right clicking the frame with the item selected.
Ladder	Sticks	Used for climbing walls. You can climb either horizontally or vertically. To climb safely, you can sneak while climbing (hold shift).
Lead	String + Slimeball	Leads or leashes, can be used to tie up non aggressive mobs. Can be tied to more than one unit at the same time.
Melon Block	Melon Slices	Grown when farming by planting melon seed. Can not be eaten, but can be used to store melon slices.
Mineral Block	Gold Ingots or Iron Ingost or Diamond Gems or Lapis Lazuli Dyes or Emeralds or Redstone or Coal	Turns minerals into a placeable block. Can be used for expensive building block or storage.
Minerals	Iron Block or Gold Block or Diamond Block or Emerald Block or Block of Redstone or Lapis Lazuli Block.	Separates a block into individual gems, ingots or dyes.
Nether Brick Fence	Nether Bricks	Used as a barrier that players and mobs cannot jump over, with the exception of spiders and spider jockeys. It is 1.5 blocks high for mobs and players, but only 1 to other blocks. Nether Brick Fence cannot be set on fire like wood fence.
Painting	Sticks + Wool	Images used as decoration. Paintings can only be placed on flat, vertical surfaces. An easy way to get a painting to fill up an area is to mark the bounds with any solid block and place it in the bottom left corner.
Paper	Sugar Cane	Used as crafting material to create maps, compass and books.
Sign	Wood Planks + Stick	Can display a text. Text can be 4 lines, 15 characters per line. To change the text, destroy the sign and place it again. Placed in the ground or on walls.
Stained Glass	Glass + Dye	Stained Glass is the dyed version of regular glass that can be used for decoration purposes.

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Enchantment and Brewing Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Blaze Powder	Blaze Rod	Can be combined with an Ender Pearl to make an Eye of Ender. Can also be used to craft Magma Cream, Fire charges and Potions of Strength.
Brewing Stand	Blaze Rod + Cobblestone	Brewing stands are used for brewing all kinds potions.
Cauldron	Iron Ingots	Storage of water for water bottles. They can fill glass bottles to make water bottles. Holds enough water for three water bottles.
Enchantment Table	Book + Diamonds + Obsidian	The enchantment table allows users to use experience levels to enchant weapons, armor, and tools.
Fermented Spider Eye	Spider Eye + Brown Mushroom + Sugar	Used in Potions. All potions with Fermented Spider Eye in have negative effects. This ingredient is mostly used in splash potions.
Glass Bottle	Glass	Used for brewing potions. To create a water bottle, right click on a water source with an empty bottle.
Glistering Melon	Melon Slice + Gold Nuggets	Used in brewing to create health restoration potions.
Gold Nugget	Gold Ingot	Used to craft Glistering Melon. Dropped by Zombie Pigman. Can be crafted into Gold Ingots.
Magma Cream	Slimeball + Blaze Powder	Used in Potions, mostly for fire resistance.

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Dye Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Bone Meal	Bone	Bone Meal or white dye, is used to color wool or sheeps light white.
Cyan Dye	Lapsis Lazuli + Cactus Green	Used to color wool or sheeps cyan.
Dandelion Yellow Dye	Dandelion	Used to color wool or sheeps yellow.
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meal	Used to color wool or sheep's gray.
Light Blue Dye	Lapsis Lazuli + Bone Meal	Used to color wool or sheeps light blue.
Light Gray Dye	Ink Sack + Bone Meal or Gray Dye + Bone Meal	Used to dye wool light gray. Can be made using an ink sac and two bonemeal or gray dye and bonemeal. Combining gray dye with bonemeal is better because you make 4 light gray dye from every ink sac (instead of 3).
Lime Dye	Cactus Green + Bone Meal	Used to color wool or sheeps green.
Magenta Dye	Purple Dye + Pink Dye	Used to color wool or sheeps magenta.
Orange Dye	Rose Red Dye + Dandelion Yellow Dye	Used to color wool or sheeps orange.
Pink Dye	Rose Red + Bone Meal	Used to color wool or sheeps pink.
Purple Dye	Lapsis Lazuli + Rose Red Dye	Used to color wool or sheeps purple.
Rose Red Dye	Rose	Used to color wool or sheeps red.

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Wool Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Description
Black Wool	Wool + Inc Sack	Used as decoration or building material.
Blue Wool	Wool + Lapis Lazuli	Used as decoration or building material.
Brown Wool	Wool + Cocoa Bean	Used as decoration or building material.
Cyan Wool	Wool + Cyan Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Gray Wool	Wool + Grey Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Green Wool	Wool + Cactus Green	Used as decoration or building material.
Light Blue Wool	Wool + Light Blue Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Light Gray Wool	Wool + Light Gray Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Lime Wool	Wool + Lime Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Magenta Wool	Wool + Magenta Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Orange Wool	Wool + Orange Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Pink Wool	Wool + Pink Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Purple Wool	Wool + Purple Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Red Wool	Wool + Rose Red Dye	Used as decoration or building material.
Wool	String	Used as a building material and can be colored with dyes. This recipe is not efficient because Wool can be easily obtained from Sheep.
Yellow Wool	Wool + Dandelion Yellow	Used as decoration or building material.

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The guide is updated to Minecraft versions:
1.6.2, 1.6.4, 1.7.2, 1.7.4, 1.7.8, 1.7.10, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.8, 1.9.0