How to create things in minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft basic recipes with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

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Storage Items
Furnace Items
Basic items
Command Blocks
Wood Planks
Fence Gates
Instructor/Teacher Blocks in Education Edition
Chemistry Tables
Basic Recipes
Block Recipes
Tool Recipes
Defence Recipes
Mechanism Recipes
Food Recipes
Other Recipes
Dye Recipes
Wool Recipes
Brewing Recipes

In Minecraft, you can craft basic items such as a crafting table, bed, chest, furnace, hopper, dispenser, dropper, enchanting table, iron ingot, gold ingot, gold nuggets, ladders, maps, paper, books, signs, torches, water bucket, lava bucket, wood planks, fences, or fence gates. Learn how to craft basic items.

Here is the list of recipes for crafting some of the basic items in Minecraft.

Beds

Storage Items

Furnace Items

Ingot

Basic items

Signs

Buckets

Command Blocks

Wood Planks

Fences

Fence Gates

Instructor/Teacher Blocks in Education Edition

Chemistry Tables

Crafting 101
Alongside mining, crafting, or creating new materials, is the most important game mechanic in Minecraft. There are hundreds of materials that can be crafted in the game. See here for an exhaustive list of crafting recipes.

Crafting is how you create blocks, tools, and other materials in Minecraft. You can begin crafting by hitting “E” on your keyboard to open up your inventory. The inventory allows you to craft some basic objects using up to 4 ingredients.

To expand your crafting abilities, you can build a crafting table. The crafting table opens up 9 slots and allows you to create a much wider variety of items. For most items ingredients need to be placed in the proper order for the recipe to work correctly. This is known as a fixed recipe. If ingredients can be placed in any order with the same result are known as shapeless recipes.

Tools Tools are essential in Minecraft. They allow you to build mine the survival world with efficiently, defend yourself, and more. They also help you find things that you couldn’t with just your hands. Check out the video below to learn how to craft some of Minecraft’s basic, but extremely important and useful tools.

These tools can be crafted using different materials: wood, gold, stone, iron, or diamond. The tools are crafted by placing the materials in a specific order on your crafting table.

Crafting in Minecraft is the method by which the majority of items, blocks and tools are created. To craft an item move the ingredients from your inventory into the crafting grid and place them in the order representing the item you wish to craft. The 2x2 crafting grid is contained within the inventory screen and the 3x3 grid can be accessed from a crafting table. Select a category from the menu above or scroll down to view the recipes!

Basic Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Wooden Planks	Log		Basic building material.
Sticks	Wooden Planks		Used in many other crafting recipies.
Torches	Coal & Stick		Torches provide light and also melt ice and snow.
Crafting Table	Wooden Planks		Opens a 3x3 crafting grid when right clicked.
Furnace	Cobblestone or Blackstone		Allows the player to smelt.
Chest	Wooden Planks		Used to store blocks and items.
Ladders	Sticks		Allows the player to climb vertically.
Fence	Sticks & Wooden Planks		Barrier that cannot be jumped over.
Boat	Wooden Planks		Used to travel in water.
Wooden Slabs	Wooden Planks		Used to create gradual slopes.
Stone Slabs	Stone or Brick or Stone Brick or Sandstone or Cobblestone or Nether Brick or Quartz or Red Sandstone		Used to create gradual slopes.
Sign	Wooden Planks & Stick		Can be used to display text.
Doors	Wooden Planks or Iron Ingots		Wooden doors can be opened by clicking or redstone power. Iron doors can only be opened by redstone power.
Wood	Logs		Block with log texture on all sides.

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Block Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Glowstone	Glowstone Dust		Bright light source that can also be used underwater.
Snow Block	Snowballs		Store of snow and building material.
TNT	Gunpowder & Sand		Explodes when lit with a Flint & Steel, or powered by a redstone current.
Clay Block	Clay		Store of clay and building material.
Brick Block	Clay Bricks		Strong building material.
Bookshelf	Wooden Planks & Books		Decoration.
Sandstone Block	Sand		Building material.
Smooth Sandstone	Sandstone Block		Building material.
Decorative Sandstone	Sandstone Slabs		Building material.
Note Block	Wooden Planks & Redstone		Plays a note when clicked or powered by redstone.
Jack-O Lantern	Pumpkin & Torch		Light source.
Lapis Lazuli Block	Lapis Lazuli Dye		Store of Lapis Lazuli Dye.
Diamond Block	Diamonds		Store of Diamonds.
Gold Block	Gold Ingots		Store of Gold Ingots.
Iron Block	Iron Ingots		Store of Iron Ingots.
Emerald Block	Emeralds		Store of Emeralds.
Coal Block	Coal		Store of Coal.
Stone Brick	Stone		Building material.
Wooden Stairs	Wooden Planks		Used to build staircases.
Stone Stairs	Cobblestone or Sandstone or Brick or Stone Brick or Nether Brick or Quartz or Red Sandstone		Used to build staircases.
Cobblestone Wall	Cobblestone or Moss Stone		Decorative block that similar to fences cannot be jumped over.
Block of Redstone	Redstone		Redstone power source.
Block of Quartz	Nether Quartz		Building material.
Chiseled Quartz Block	Quartz Slabs		Building material.
Pillar Quartz Block	Blocks of Quartz		Building material.
Quartz Bricks	Blocks of Quartz		Building material.
Stained Clay	Hardened Clay & Dye		Building material.
Hay Bale	Wheat		Decorative block and food for horses.
Granite	Diorite & Nether Quartz		Type of rock.
Andesite	Diorite & Cobblestone		Type of rock.
Diorite	Cobblestone & Nether Quartz		Type of rock.
Polished Granite	Granite		Building material.
Polished Andesite	Andesite		Building material.
Polished Diorite	Diorite		Building material.
Prismarine	Prismarine Shard		Type of rock.
Prismarine Bricks	Prismarine Shard		Building material.
Dark Prismarine	Prismarine Shards & Black Dye		Building material.
Sea Lantern	Prismarine Crystals & Prismarine Shard		Light source.
Coarse Dirt	Dirt & Gravel		Similar to normal dirt however grass cannot spread to it.
Slime Block	Slimeball		Can be used to push other blocks using pistons.
Moss Stone	Cobblestone & Vines or Moss Block		Building material.
Mossy Stone Brick	Stone Brick & Vines or Moss Block		Building material.
Chiseled Stone Brick	Stock Brick Slab		Building material.
Red Sandstone	Red Sand		Building material.
Smooth Red Sandstone	Red Sandstone		Building material.
Chiseled Red Sandstone	Red Sandstone Slab		Building material.
Purpur Block	Popped Chorus Fruit		Building material.
Purpur Pillar	Purpur Slab		Building material.
Magma Block	Magma Cream		Causes damage when stepped on.
Nether Wart Block	Nether Wart		Decoration.
Nether Brick	Nether Brick (Item)		Building material.
Red Nether Brick	Nether Wart & Nether Brick		Building material.
Chiseled Nether Bricks	Nether Brick Slabs		Building material.
Bone Block	Bone Meal		Decoration and store of Bone Meal.
Dried Kelp Block	Dried Kelp		Can be used as fuel in furnaces.
Packed Ice	Ice		Ice building material.
Blue Ice	Packed Ice		Ice building material.
Honey Block	Honey Bottles		Sticky block that slows down players and entities.
Honeycomb Block	Honeycomb		Decoration.
Stripped Wood	Stripped Log		Building material.
Polished Basalt	Basalt		Building material.
Polished Blackstone	Blackstone		Building material.
Chiseled Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone Slabs		Building material.
Polished Blackstone Bricks	Polished Blackstone		Building material.
Block of Netherite	Netherite Ingots		Store of Netherite.
Block of Amethyst	Amethyst Shards		Store of Amethyst.
Block of Copper	Copper Ingots		Store of Copper.
Cut Copper	Blocks of Copper		Building material.
Waxed Block of Copper	Block of Copper & Honeycomb		Block of Copper that will not oxidize and change color over time.
Dripstone Block	Pointed Dripstone		Will cause Dripstone to grow below it when there is a water source above.
Muddy Mangrove Roots	Mud & Mangrove Roots		Decoration.
Packed Mud	Mud & Wheat		Used to craft Mud Bricks.
Mud Bricks	Packed Mud		Decoration.

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Tool Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Pickaxes	Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Used to mine stone blocks and ores.
Axes	Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Used to chop wood blocks faster than by hand.
Shovels	Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Used to dig sand, gravel, dirt, grass and snow faster than by hand.
Hoes	Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Used to till dirt blocks in preparation for growing crops.
Fishing Rod	Sticks & String		Can be cast into water to catch fish.
Flint & Steel	Iron Ingot & Flint		Used to light fires, ignite TNT and open nether portals.
Compass	Iron Ingots & Redstone		Points to the spawn point.
Clock	Gold Ingots & Redstone		Display the in-game time.
Bucket	Iron Ingots		Used to transport water, lava and milk.
Shears	Iron Ingots		Used to collect wool from sheep and leaves from trees.
Shulker Box	Shulker Shell & Chest		Portable chests.
Spyglass	Amethyst Shard & Copper Ingots		Gives a zoomed in view of distant objects when right clicked.
Recovery Compass	Echo Shards & Compass		Points to where the player last died.

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Defence Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Helmets	Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Head armor.
Chestplates	Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Chest armor.
Leggings	Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Leg armor.
Boots	Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Foot armor.
Swords	Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds		Deal more damage to mobs and other players than by hand.
Bow	String & Sticks		Used to shoot arrows.
Arrow	Flint & Stick & Feather		Ammunition for bows.
Horse Armor	Leather		Special type of armor worn by horses.
Shield	Planks & Iron Ingot		Protects player against attack.
Spectral Arrow	Glowstone Dust & Arrow		Gives player or mob glowing effect when hit.
Tipped Arrow	Lingering potion & Arrows		Inflict targets with status effects.
Conduit	Nautilus Shell & Heart of the Sea		Provides conduit power to nearby players underwater.
Turtle Shell	Scute		Helmet that gives the player water breating effect.
Crossbow	Sticks & Iron Ingot & String & Tripwire Hook		Weapon used to fire arrows further and more accurately than a bow.

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Mechanism Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Pressure Plates	Wooden Planks or Stone or Polished Blackstone		Send a redstone signal when stepped on by a player or mob.
Weighted Pressure Plates	Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots		Similar to regular pressure plates, but the signal strength increases as more items are added.
Trapdoor	Wooden Planks		Horizontal door activated by clicking or redstone.
Fence Gate	Wooden Planks & Sticks		Gate that can be opened like a door.
Buttons	Wooden Planks or Stone or Polished Blackstone		Sends a short redstone signal when pressed.
Lever	Stick & Cobblestone		Sends a redstone signal that can be turned on and off.
Redstone Repeater	Stone & Redstone Torch & Redstone		Used as a repeater, diode or delayer in redstone circuits.
Redstone Torch	Stick & Redstone		Constantly sends a redstone signal.
Jukebox	Wooden Planks & Diamond		Used to play music discs.
Dispenser	Cobblestone & Bow & Redstone		Holds and shoots out items when powered.
Piston	Wooden Planks & Cobblestone & Iron Ingot & Redstone		Pushes other blocks when powered.
Sticky Piston	Piston & Slime Ball		Pushes blocks and also pulls them back.
Minecart	Iron Ingots		Used to travel along rail.
Powered Minecart	Minecart & Furnace		Pushes other minecarts along track using fuel.
Storage Minecart	Minecart & Chest		Used to transport blocks and items along track.
Rail	Iron Ingots & Stick		Guide for minecarts.
Powered Rail	Gold Ingots & Stick & Redstone		Speeds up minecarts when powered.
Detector Rail	Iron Ingots & Stone Pressure Plate & Redstone		Sends a redstone signal when crossed by a minecart.
Redstone Lamp	Redstone & Glowstone Block		Light source when powered by redstone.
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot & Stick & Wooden Plank		Used to create a tripwire that activates a redstone signal.
Activator Rail	Iron Ingots & Sticks & Redstone Torch		Used to activate TNT minecarts and minecarts with hoppers.
Daylight Sensor	Glass & Nether Quartz & Wooden Slabs		Emits a redstone signal during daylight.
Dropper	Cobblestone & Redstone		Drops items (similar to a dispenser) when powered.
Hopper	Iron Ingots & Chest		Moves items into and out of chests, dispensers and other blocks that can hold items.
Minecart with Hopper	Hopper & Minecart		Minecart that functions in the same way as a hopper.
Minecart with TNT	TNT & Minecart		Minecart that explodes when triggered by activator rail.
Redstone Comparator	Redstone Torches & Stone & Nether Quartz		Used in redstone circuitry.
Trapped Chest	Chest & Tripwire Hook		Chest that emits a redstone signal when opened.
Iron Trapdoor	Iron Ingots		Trapdoor activated by redstone.
Observer	Cobblestone & Redstone Dust & Nether Quartz		Emits a redstone signal when the block it is facing is updated.
Target	Redstone Dust & Hay Bale		Emits a redstone signal when hit by projectiles, such as arrows, eggs or snowballs.

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Food Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Bowl	Wooden Planks		Used to craft different types of stew.
Mushroom Stew	Bowl & Red Mushroom & Brown Mushroom		Restores 6 hunger points.
Bread	Wheat		Restores 5 hunger points.
Golden Apple	Apple & Gold Nuggets		Restores 4 hunger points.
Sugar	Sugar Cane		Used to create cake.
Cake	Milk Buckets & Sugar & Wheat & Egg		Heals 2 hunger points per use for a total of 7 uses.
Cookies	Wheat & Cocoa Beans		Restores 2 hunger points.
Melon Block	Melon Slice		Used to store melon slices.
Melon Seeds	Melon Slice		Can be planted on farmland.
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin		Can be planted on farmland.
Golden Carrot	Carrot & Gold Nuggets		Used as a brewing ingredient and restores 6 hunger points.
Pumpkin Pie	Pumpkin & Egg & Sugar		Restores 8 hunger points.
Rabbit Stew	Mushroom & Bowl & Cooked Rabbit & Carrot & Baked Potato		Restores 10 hunger points.
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom & Brown Mushroom & Bowl & Any Flower		Restores 6 hunger points.
Honey Bottle	Glass Bottles & Honey Block		Restores 6 hunger points.

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Other Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Bed	Wooden Planks & Wool		Used to forward time to day during nights.
Painting	Sticks & Wool		Decoration.
Paper	Sugar Cane		Used to create maps and books.
Book	Paper & Leather		Used to create bookshelfs and book & quills.
Book and Quill	Book & Feather & Ink Sac		Can be written in and edited.
Map	Paper & Compass		Creates an image of explored parts of the world.
Glass Panes	Glass Blocks or Stained Glass Blocks		Panes of glass similar to fences.
Iron Bars	Iron Ingots		Similar properties to fences however only 1 block high.
Gold Ingot	Gold Nugget		Used to craft a number of other items.
Nether Brick Fence	Nether Brick (item) & Nether Bricks		Similar to normal fences but made out of nether brick.
Eye of Ender	Ender Pearl & Blaze Powder		Can be used to locate strongholds.
Enchantment Table	Book, Diamond & Obsidian.		Used to enchant tools, weapons, armor and other items.
Fire Charge	Blaze Powder & Coal & Gunpowder		Creates fire and can be shot out of dispensers.
Ender Chest	Obsidian & Eye of Ender		Used for storage. All Ender Chests in a world access the same storage slots.
Beacon	Glass & Obsidian & Nether Star		Emits light beam and provides temporary player buffs when placed on a pyramid made of emerald, diamond, netherite, gold or iron blocks.
Anvil	Iron Block & Iron Ingot		Used to repair items and combine enchantments.
Flower Pot	Bricks		Decoration.
Item Frame	Sticks & Leather		Used to display items and blocks on walls.
Carrot on a Stick	Fishing Rod & Carrot		Can be used to control saddled pigs.
Warped Fungus on a Stick	Fishing Rod & Warped Fungus		Can be used to control saddled striders.
Firework Rocket	Gunpowder & Paper & Firework Star		Items that can be launched into the sky. The more gunpowder added the higher the rocket will fly.
Firework Star	Gunpowder & Dye & an extra ingredient (optional)		The dye determines the color of the firework and the extra ingredient determines the special effect.
Lead	String & Slimeball		Used to leash mobs.
Carpets	Wool		Thin block that can be used as a decoration.
Stained Glass	Glass Blocks & Dye		Building material and decoration.
Leather	Rabbit hide		Used as a crafting ingredient including for armor.
Banner	Wool & Stick		Decoration.
Armor Stand	Stone Slab & Stick		Used to display armor, mob heads & pumpkins.
End Rod	Blaze Rod & Popped Chorus Fruit		Decorative light source.
End Crystal	Glass & Eye of Ender & Ghast Tear		Item found in The End.
Iron Nugget	Iron Ingot		Small piece of iron.
Concrete Powder	Dye & Sand & Gravel		Turns into concrete when in contact with water or lava.
Campfire	Sticks & Logs & Coal		Light source and used to cook food.
Soul Campfire	Sticks & Logs & Soul Sand or Soul Soil		Light source and used to cook food.
Scaffolding	Bamboo & String		Used to help the player climb when building.
Barrel	Wood Slabs & Wooden Planks		Used to store items.
Blast Furnace	Iron Ingots & Furnace & Smooth Stone		Used to smelt items.
Smoker	Logs & Furnace		Used to cook food items.
Cartography Table	Paper & Wooden Planks		Used for cloning, zooming out and locking maps.
Composter	Wooden Slabs		Converts crops and plants into bone meal.
Fletching Table	Flint & Wooden Planks		Fletcher's job site block in villages.
Smithing Table	Iron Ingots & Wooden Planks		Toolsmith's job site block in villages.
Stonecutter	Iron Ingot & Stone		Used to craft stone-related blocks.
Grindstone	Sticks & Stone Slab & Wooden Planks		Used to repair items and tools, and also remove enchantments.
Lanterns	Iron Nuggets & Torch or Soul Torch		Blocks that emit light.
Lectern	Wood Slabs & Bookshelf		Used to hold books.
Loom	String & Wooden Planks		Used to apply patterns to banners.
Beehive	Wooden Planks & Honeycomb		Craftable version of a bees nest.
Netherite Ingot	Netherite Scraps & Gold Ingots		Used as a smithing ingredient to make Netherite tools, weapons and armor.
Chain	Iron Nuggets & Iron Ingot		Decoration that can also be used to suspend bells and lanterns.
Respawn Anchor	Crying Obsidian & Glowstone		Allows the player to set a respawn point in the Nether.
Lodestone	Chiseled Stone Bricks & Netherite Ingot		Using a compass on a Lodestone block will make the compass always point towards that specific block.
Soul Torch	Coal & Stick & Soul Sand or Soul Soil		Light source.
Candle	String & Honeycomb		Light source.
Dyed Candle	Candle & Matching Dye		Light source.
Glow Item Frame	Item Frame & Glow Ink Sac		Illuminates the item held within.
Lightning Rod	Copper Ingots		Prevents flammable structures from catching fire during thunderstorms by redirecting lightning strikes.
Moss Carpet	Moss Blocks		Decoration.
Tinted Glass	Amethyst Shards & Glass		Tinted version of glass blocks.
Music Disc 5	Disc Fragment 5		Can be played in jukeboxes.
Boat with Chest	Chest & Boat		Regular Minecraft boat that can also transport items.

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Dye Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Bone Meal	Bone		Can be used to make crops, trees and tall grass grow instantly.
Light Gray Dye	Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip or Black Dye & White Dye or Gray Dye & White Dye		Used to dye various other items.
Gray Dye	Black Dye & White Dye		Used to dye various other items.
Rose Red	Red Tulip or Rose Bush		Used to dye various other items.
Orange Dye	Rose Red & Dandelion Yellow or Orange Tulip		Used to dye various other items.
Dandelion Yellow	Dandelion or Sunflower		Used to dye various other items.
Lime Dye	Green Dye & White Dye		Used to dye various other items.
Light Blue Dye	Blue Orchid or Blue Dye & White Dye		Used to dye various other items.
Cyan Dye	Blue Dye & Green Dye		Used to dye various other items.
Purple Dye	Blue Dye & Red Dye		Used to dye various other items.
Magenta Dye	Purple Dye & Pink Dye or Allium or Lilac		Used to dye various other items.
Pink Dye	Pink Tulip or Peony or Red Dye & White Dye		Used to dye various other items.
White Dye	Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley		Used to dye various other items.
Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli or Cornflower		Used to dye various other items.
Brown Dye	Cocoa Beans		Used to dye various other items.
Black Dye	Ink Sac or Wither Rose		Used to dye various other items.

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Wool Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Wool	String		Building material that can also be colored with dyes.
Light Gray Wool	Wool & Light Gray Dye		Building material and decoration.
Gray Wool	Wool & Gray Dye		Building material and decoration.
Black Wool	Wool & Black Dye		Building material and decoration.
Red Wool	Wool & Rose Red		Building material and decoration.
Orange Wool	Wool & Orange Dye		Building material and decoration.
Yellow Wool	Wool & Dandelion Yellow		Building material and decoration.
Lime Wool	Wool & Lime Dye		Building material and decoration.
Green Wool	Wool & Cactus Green		Building material and decoration.
Light Blue Wool	Wool & Light Blue Dye		Building material and decoration.
Cyan Wool	Wool & Cyan Dye		Building material and decoration.
Blue Wool	Wool & Blue Dye		Building material and decoration.
Purple Wool	Wool & Purple Dye		Building material and decoration.
Magenta Wool	Wool & Magenta Dye		Building material and decoration.
Pink Wool	Wool & Pink Dye		Building material and decoration.
Brown Wool	Wool & Brown Dye		Building material and decoration.

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Brewing Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Image	Description
Glass Bottle	Glass		Used in brewing.
Cauldron	Iron Ingot		Block that holds water.
Brewing Stand	Blaze Rod & Cobblestone		Used in brewing.
Blaze Powder	Blaze Rod		Used to craft an Eye of Ender and Magma Cream.
Magma Cream	Slimeball & Blaze Powder		Used in potions.
Fermented Spider Eye	Spider Eye, Brown Mushroom & Sugar		Used in potions.
Glistering Melon	Melon Slice & Gold Nugget		Used in potions.