Minecraft Crafting Guide: Your Ultimate Handbook to All Recipes

Crafting is the heart of Minecraft. From the moment you punch your first tree, you’re embarking on a crafting journey that will define your survival, creativity, and adventure in the game. Whether you’re a fresh-faced newbie just entering the blocky world or a seasoned veteran looking to refresh your memory, understanding crafting recipes is essential. This guide is your comprehensive resource to master every crafting recipe in Minecraft, ensuring you can create anything you need to thrive.

This guide has been meticulously updated for the Minecraft 1.21 Tricky Trials update, released in June 2024, ensuring you have access to the most current and accurate crafting information. Let’s dive into the vast world of Minecraft crafting and unlock your creative potential!

Basic Crafting Recipes: The Foundation of Your World

These recipes are the building blocks of your Minecraft experience. They are simple, fundamental, and incredibly important for getting started. You can access the 2×2 crafting grid directly from your inventory for these basic recipes.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Wooden Planks Log The most basic building material, converted from any type of log. Essential for crafting tables and many other items.
Sticks Wooden Planks A crucial component in countless crafting recipes, from tools to weapons and beyond.
Torches Coal & Stick Your first light source! Torches are vital for exploring caves, warding off hostile mobs, and melting snow or ice.
Crafting Table Wooden Planks Unlocks the 3×3 crafting grid, allowing you to craft advanced items. Right-click to access the expanded grid.
Furnace Cobblestone or Blackstone The key to smelting ores into ingots, cooking food, and creating other useful materials.
Chest Wooden Planks Provides essential storage space to keep your items organized and safe.
Ladders Sticks Allows for vertical climbing, perfect for accessing high places or descending into mineshafts.
Fence Sticks & Wooden Planks A barrier that mobs cannot jump over, ideal for creating safe enclosures or decorative boundaries.
Boat Wooden Planks The primary means of water travel in early game, allowing you to explore oceans and rivers.
Wooden Slabs Wooden Planks Versatile building blocks, used for creating half-height steps, roofs, and decorative patterns.
Stone Slabs Stone or Brick or Stone Brick or Sandstone or Cobblestone or Nether Brick or Quartz or Red Sandstone Stone slabs offer a variety of textures and colors, serving the same purpose as wooden slabs but with different aesthetic and fire-resistant properties.
Sign Wooden Planks & Stick Allows you to leave messages, label areas, or create decorative signs.
Doors Wooden Planks or Iron Ingots Wooden doors can be opened manually or with redstone, while iron doors require redstone activation, offering enhanced security.
Wood Logs Creates a decorative block with log texture on all sides, useful for building rustic structures.

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Block Recipes: Expanding Your Building Palette

Blocks are the fundamental units of the Minecraft world. Crafting blocks allows you to construct elaborate structures, create functional spaces, and add decorative flair to your builds.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Glowstone Glowstone Dust A bright and beautiful light source, perfect for illuminating builds and even works underwater.
Snow Block Snowballs A compact form of snow, useful for building in snowy biomes or creating snow-themed decorations.
TNT Gunpowder & Sand A powerful explosive block. Use with caution! Detonate with Flint & Steel or redstone.
Clay Block Clay A solid block of clay, used as a building material and for crafting bricks.
Brick Block Clay Bricks A strong and aesthetically pleasing building material, often used in decorative builds and structures.
Bookshelf Wooden Planks & Books Primarily decorative, but also essential for maximizing enchantment table levels and creating libraries.
Sandstone Block Sand A common building material found in deserts, providing a smooth, sandy texture to your builds.
Smooth Sandstone Sandstone Block A refined version of sandstone, offering a cleaner, more polished look for building.
Decorative Sandstone Sandstone Slabs Sandstone slabs crafted into a decorative block, adding detail and variation to sandstone builds.
Note Block Wooden Planks & Redstone Plays musical notes when activated, either by clicking or redstone signals. Great for creating musical contraptions.
Jack-O Lantern Pumpkin & Torch A spooky light source, perfect for Halloween or adding a festive touch to your builds. Also functions as a scarecrow!
Lapis Lazuli Block Lapis Lazuli Dye A compact storage form of Lapis Lazuli, and a vibrant blue decorative block.
Diamond Block Diamonds The ultimate storage block for diamonds, and a symbol of wealth and prosperity in Minecraft builds.
Gold Block Gold Ingots Another valuable storage block, and a striking gold building material for opulent designs.
Iron Block Iron Ingots A practical storage block for iron and a sturdy building material, often used in industrial or modern builds.
Emerald Block Emeralds A rare and valuable storage block, representing wealth and trade in villages.
Coal Block Coal Efficient storage for coal, and can also be used as a fuel source in furnaces, burning longer than individual coal.
Stone Brick Stone A classic and durable building material, offering a textured stone look for castles, walls, and pathways.
Wooden Stairs Wooden Planks Essential for creating staircases and sloped surfaces, adding verticality and accessibility to your builds.
Stone Stairs Cobblestone or Sandstone or Brick or Stone Brick or Nether Brick or Quartz or Red Sandstone Stone stairs come in various materials, providing different textures and colors to match your building style.
Cobblestone Wall Cobblestone or Moss Stone A decorative wall block that mobs cannot jump over, adding a rustic or fortified look to your structures.
Block of Redstone Redstone A powerful redstone power source, useful for compact redstone circuits and automation.
Block of Quartz Nether Quartz A clean white building material from the Nether, popular for modern and minimalist designs.
Chiseled Quartz Block Quartz Slabs A decorative variant of quartz block, adding intricate detail to quartz builds.
Pillar Quartz Block Blocks of Quartz A vertically striped quartz block, perfect for pillars, columns, and adding height to your structures.
Quartz Bricks Blocks of Quartz Quartz blocks crafted into a brick pattern, offering a different texture for quartz builds.
Stained Clay Hardened Clay & Dye Clay blocks dyed in various colors, providing a wide palette for decorative building and artistic creations.
Hay Bale Wheat A decorative block with a rustic farm aesthetic, also serves as food for horses and reduces fall damage.
Granite Diorite & Nether Quartz A pinkish igneous rock block, adding color variation to your stone builds.
Andesite Diorite & Cobblestone A greyish igneous rock block, another variation in stone textures for building.
Diorite Cobblestone & Nether Quartz A whitish igneous rock block, completing the trio of basic igneous stone types.
Polished Granite Granite A smoother, more refined version of granite, enhancing its decorative appeal.
Polished Andesite Andesite A smoother, more refined version of andesite, offering a cleaner look for building.
Polished Diorite Diorite A smoother, more refined version of diorite, providing a polished white stone option.
Prismarine Prismarine Shard A dark, greenish-blue block from ocean monuments, used in underwater builds and adding a unique color.
Prismarine Bricks Prismarine Shard Prismarine shards crafted into a brick pattern, offering a textured variant for prismarine builds.
Dark Prismarine Prismarine Shards & Black Dye A darker version of prismarine, achieved by adding black dye, for a deeper underwater aesthetic.
Sea Lantern Prismarine Crystals & Prismarine Shard A bright, underwater light source from ocean monuments, adding illumination and beauty to aquatic builds.
Coarse Dirt Dirt & Gravel A variant of dirt where grass cannot spread, useful for pathways, courtyards, or preventing unwanted grass growth.
Slime Block Slimeball A bouncy block that reduces fall damage and can be used in redstone contraptions to move other blocks.
Moss Stone Cobblestone & Vines or Moss Block Cobblestone with mossy overgrowth, adding a weathered, ancient look to builds, perfect for ruins or overgrown structures.
Mossy Stone Brick Stone Brick & Vines or Moss Block Stone bricks with moss, similar to moss stone but with a brick texture, enhancing aged or nature-integrated builds.
Chiseled Stone Brick Stock Brick Slab A decorative variant of stone brick, adding detail and visual interest to stone brick structures.
Red Sandstone Red Sand A reddish sandstone variant found in mesa biomes, providing a warm color palette for desert-themed builds.
Smooth Red Sandstone Red Sandstone A refined version of red sandstone, offering a cleaner, more polished red building option.
Chiseled Red Sandstone Red Sandstone Slab A decorative variant of red sandstone, adding intricate detail to red sandstone builds.
Purpur Block Popped Chorus Fruit A purple block from the End dimension, used in End cities and for creating futuristic or alien-themed builds.
Purpur Pillar Purpur Slab A vertically striped purpur block, used for pillars and adding height in End-themed structures.
Magma Block Magma Cream A dangerous block that emits light and damages entities that step on it, found in the Nether and used for traps or fiery decoration.
Nether Wart Block Nether Wart A decorative block made from nether wart, often used in Nether builds or as a dark red building material.
Nether Brick Nether Brick (Item) A dark red, fire-resistant building material from the Nether, used in Nether fortresses and for creating robust structures.
Red Nether Brick Nether Wart & Nether Brick A redder variant of nether brick, adding color variation to Nether-themed builds.
Chiseled Nether Bricks Nether Brick Slabs A decorative variant of nether bricks, offering detailed texture for Nether brick structures.
Bone Block Bone Meal A bone-textured block, primarily decorative but also a compact storage form of bone meal, useful for bone meal farms.
Dried Kelp Block Dried Kelp Can be used as a fuel source in furnaces, burning efficiently, and also a decorative greenish block.
Packed Ice Ice A denser form of ice that doesn’t melt in light, used for ice roads, slippery surfaces, and cool-themed builds.
Blue Ice Packed Ice An even denser and slipperier form of ice, incredibly fast for ice boats and a striking blue building material.
Honey Block Honey Bottles A sticky block that slows down players and entities, used in redstone contraptions, traps, or unique movement mechanics.
Honeycomb Block Honeycomb A decorative block with a honeycomb pattern, aesthetically pleasing and used in bee-themed builds.
Stripped Wood Stripped Log Logs stripped of their bark, revealing a cleaner wood texture, used for modern or minimalist wood builds.
Polished Basalt Basalt A smoother, polished version of basalt, offering a grey, stone-like texture for building.
Polished Blackstone Blackstone A refined version of blackstone, offering a smooth, dark grey building option, often used in modern or industrial builds.
Chiseled Polished Blackstone Polished Blackstone Slabs A decorative variant of polished blackstone, adding intricate detail to blackstone structures.
Polished Blackstone Bricks Polished Blackstone Polished blackstone crafted into a brick pattern, providing a textured variant for blackstone builds.
Block of Netherite Netherite Ingots The most valuable storage block and a symbol of ultimate progression, representing the strongest material in Minecraft.
Block of Amethyst Amethyst Shards A decorative block with a crystalline texture, and a storage form for amethyst shards.
Block of Copper Copper Ingots A storage block for copper, and a building material that oxidizes and changes color over time, adding dynamic visual elements.
Cut Copper Blocks of Copper Copper blocks cut into a smoother texture, and can be further crafted into slabs and stairs.
Waxed Block of Copper Block of Copper & Honeycomb A copper block treated with honeycomb to prevent oxidation, maintaining its original copper color permanently.
Dripstone Block Pointed Dripstone Used in dripstone caves, and will cause pointed dripstone to grow below it when there is a water source above, used in dripstone farms.
Muddy Mangrove Roots Mud & Mangrove Roots A decorative block combining mud and mangrove roots, adding detail to mangrove swamp builds.
Packed Mud Mud & Wheat A denser form of mud, used to craft mud bricks and other mud-based building materials.
Mud Bricks Packed Mud Bricks made from packed mud, offering a unique earthy tone and texture for building.
Block of Bamboo Bamboo A log-like block made from bamboo, used in bamboo builds and as a source for bamboo planks.
Bamboo Planks Block of Bamboo or Block of Stripped Bamboo Planks made from bamboo, providing a light, natural wood option for building.
Bamboo Mosaic Bamboo Slabs Decorative bamboo blocks with a mosaic pattern, adding visual interest to bamboo builds.
Chiseled Bookshelf Wooden Slabs & Wooden Planks A functional bookshelf that can hold up to 6 books, and emits a redstone signal when books are added or removed.
Copper Grate Blocks of Copper A decorative, semi-transparent block made from copper, adding ventilation or visual layering to builds.

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Tool Recipes: Equipping Yourself for Success

Tools are essential for interacting with the Minecraft world efficiently. From mining ores to chopping trees, crafting the right tools will significantly speed up your progress and make resource gathering much easier.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Pickaxes Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Essential for mining stone, ores, and other valuable resources. Different materials offer varying mining speeds and durability.
Axes Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Used for quickly chopping down trees and wood blocks. Like pickaxes, material affects speed and durability.
Shovels Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Used to dig through soft blocks like sand, gravel, dirt, grass, and snow much faster than by hand.
Hoes Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland, preparing the ground for planting crops.
Fishing Rod Sticks & String Allows you to fish in bodies of water, catching fish and other valuable items.
Flint & Steel Iron Ingot & Flint Used to light fires, ignite TNT, and activate Nether portals. A crucial tool for exploration and combat.
Compass Iron Ingots & Redstone Points towards the world spawn point, helping you navigate back to your base or initial spawn area.
Clock Gold Ingots & Redstone Displays the current in-game time, useful for managing your day and night cycles.
Bucket Iron Ingots Used to transport liquids like water, lava, and milk. Essential for creating farms, managing lava sources, and more.
Shears Iron Ingots Used to collect wool from sheep without harming them, and to gather leaves from trees, vines, and kelp.
Shulker Box Shulker Shell & Chest Portable chests that retain their contents when broken, offering convenient mobile storage.
Spyglass Amethyst Shard & Copper Ingots Provides a zoomed-in view of distant objects, useful for scouting, exploration, and spotting faraway landmarks.
Recovery Compass Echo Shards & Compass Points to the location of your last death, helping you retrieve lost items after dying.
Brush Feather & Copper Ingot & Stick Used on suspicious sand and suspicious gravel to excavate hidden items in trail ruins and desert temples.

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Defense Recipes: Protecting Yourself from Dangers

Minecraft can be a dangerous place, especially at night or in caves. Crafting defensive items like armor and weapons is vital for survival against hostile mobs and other threats.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Helmets Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Head armor that reduces damage taken from attacks. Different materials offer varying levels of protection and durability.
Chestplates Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Body armor that provides significant protection to your torso. Crucial for surviving encounters with strong mobs.
Leggings Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Leg armor that reduces damage to your legs, completing your armor set.
Boots Leather or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Foot armor that offers protection to your feet, and can also have enchantments like Feather Falling to reduce fall damage.
Swords Sticks & Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds Primary melee weapons that deal significantly more damage than attacking with your hand. Material affects damage and durability.
Bow String & Sticks A ranged weapon used to shoot arrows, allowing you to attack enemies from a distance.
Arrow Flint & Stick & Feather Ammunition for bows, essential for ranged combat and hunting.
Horse Armor Leather Special armor for horses, protecting them from damage during combat or exploration.
Shield Planks & Iron Ingot Used to block attacks from mobs and players, greatly increasing your survivability in combat.
Spectral Arrow Glowstone Dust & Arrow Arrows that inflict the glowing effect on hit entities, making them visible through walls.
Tipped Arrow Lingering potion & Arrows Arrows imbued with potion effects, allowing you to inflict status effects on enemies from a distance.
Conduit Nautilus Shell & Heart of the Sea Provides Conduit Power to nearby players underwater, granting water breathing, night vision, and increased mining speed.
Turtle Shell Scute A helmet that grants the Water Breathing effect when worn, allowing you to explore underwater indefinitely.
Crossbow Sticks & Iron Ingot & String & Tripwire Hook A powerful ranged weapon that fires arrows further and with more accuracy than a bow, but with a slower reload time.
Mace Heavy Core & Breeze Rod A powerful melee weapon introduced in the Tricky Trials update. Negates fall damage if used to attack an entity while falling.
Wind Charge Breeze Rod A projectile weapon dropped by Breeze mobs in trial chambers, knocking back entities upon impact.

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Mechanism Recipes: Automating Your World with Redstone

Redstone mechanisms are the key to automation and complex contraptions in Minecraft. Crafting these items allows you to build farms, traps, automated doors, and much more, taking your gameplay to the next level.

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, used for basic redstone triggers.
Weighted Pressure Plates Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots Pressure plates that output a redstone signal strength based on the number of items placed on them, useful for item detection and sorting.
Trapdoor Wooden Planks A horizontal door that can be opened and closed with a click or redstone signal, useful for concealed entrances or compact designs.
Fence Gate Wooden Planks & Sticks A gate that can be opened and closed like a door within a fence line, allowing player passage while blocking mobs.
Buttons Wooden Planks or Stone or Polished Blackstone Send a short redstone signal when pressed and released, used for momentary activation of redstone devices.
Lever Stick & Cobblestone Sends a continuous redstone signal that can be toggled on and off, used for persistent activation of redstone circuits.
Redstone Repeater Stone & Redstone Torch & Redstone Used to repeat, extend, and strengthen redstone signals, and can also act as a diode to prevent signal backflow.
Redstone Torch Stick & Redstone A constant redstone power source, fundamental to redstone circuitry and logic gates.
Jukebox Wooden Planks & Diamond Plays music discs when inserted, adding musical ambiance to your base or builds.
Dispenser Cobblestone & Bow & Redstone Shoots out items when powered by redstone, used for automated farms, item delivery systems, and traps.
Piston Wooden Planks & Cobblestone & Iron Ingot & Redstone Pushes blocks when powered by redstone, essential for creating moving structures, automated farms, and complex mechanisms.
Sticky Piston Piston & Slime Ball Pushes and pulls blocks when powered by redstone, allowing for more complex and reversible movements in redstone contraptions.
Minecart Iron Ingots Used to travel along rails, providing a faster and more efficient mode of transportation over long distances.
Powered Minecart Minecart & Furnace A self-propelled minecart that pushes other minecarts along rails using fuel, useful for creating minecart trains.
Storage Minecart Minecart & Chest A minecart with a chest attached, used for transporting items along rail networks.
Rail Iron Ingots & Stick Tracks for minecarts to travel on, essential for building minecart transportation systems.
Powered Rail Gold Ingots & Stick & Redstone Rails that boost minecart speed when powered by redstone, used for accelerating minecarts and creating faster transport lines.
Detector Rail Iron Ingots & Stone Pressure Plate & Redstone Rails that output a redstone signal when a minecart passes over them, used for minecart detection and automated rail systems.
Redstone Lamp Redstone & Glowstone Block A light source that turns on when powered by redstone, useful for redstone-controlled lighting and decorative effects.
Tripwire Hook Iron Ingot & Stick & Wooden Plank Used to create tripwires that activate a redstone signal when crossed, ideal for traps and security systems.
Activator Rail Iron Ingots & Sticks & Redstone Torch Rails that activate TNT minecarts and minecarts with hoppers when passed over, used for controlled TNT explosions or item unloading.
Daylight Sensor Glass & Nether Quartz & Wooden Slabs Outputs a redstone signal based on the current daylight level, used for day/night detection and automated lighting.
Dropper Cobblestone & Redstone Drops items forward when powered by redstone, similar to a dispenser but drops items as entities rather than shooting them.
Hopper Iron Ingots & Chest Picks up items and moves them into adjacent containers like chests, dispensers, or furnaces, essential for item collection and automation.
Minecart with Hopper Hopper & Minecart A minecart with a hopper attached, used for collecting items from rails and transporting them along minecart tracks.
Minecart with TNT TNT & Minecart A minecart that explodes when triggered by activator rails, used for controlled explosions in mining or combat scenarios.
Redstone Comparator Redstone Torches & Stone & Nether Quartz Used in redstone circuitry to compare signal strengths, maintain signal level, or detect container fullness.
Trapped Chest Chest & Tripwire Hook A chest that emits a redstone signal when opened, used for traps, alarms, or hidden mechanisms.
Iron Trapdoor Iron Ingots A trapdoor made of iron that can only be opened by redstone signals, offering enhanced security for redstone-controlled entrances.
Observer Cobblestone & Redstone Dust & Nether Quartz Detects block updates in front of it and emits a short redstone pulse, useful for detecting changes and triggering reactions.
Target Redstone Dust & Hay Bale Emits a redstone signal when hit by projectiles like arrows, eggs, or snowballs, used for target practice or projectile-activated mechanisms.
Calibrated Sculk Sensor Amethyst Shards & Sculk Sensor A variant of the sculk sensor that can be calibrated to detect specific vibrations based on redstone input strength, offering more precise vibration detection.
Copper Bulb Blocks of Copper & Redstone Dust & Blaze Rod A light source that toggles on or off when it receives a redstone signal, and gradually oxidizes over time.
Copper Trapdoor Copper Ingots A trapdoor made of copper that can be opened and closed manually or by redstone signals, and gradually oxidizes over time.
Crafter Iron Ingots & Crafting Table & Redstone Dust & Dropper A special block introduced in the Tricky Trials update that can be configured to automatically craft other blocks based on provided recipes and ingredients.

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Food Recipes: Sustaining Your Adventures

Food is essential for survival in Minecraft. Crafting food items allows you to replenish your hunger bar, heal, and gain beneficial status effects, keeping you energized for exploration and building.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Bowl Wooden Planks Used as a container for various stews and soups, and a component in other food recipes.
Mushroom Stew Bowl & Red Mushroom & Brown Mushroom A basic stew that restores 6 hunger points, a simple early-game food source.
Bread Wheat A staple food that restores 5 hunger points, easily obtainable by farming wheat.
Golden Apple Apple & Gold Nuggets Restores 4 hunger points and provides Regeneration and Absorption status effects, a valuable healing item.
Sugar Sugar Cane Used as an ingredient in cakes, cookies, and potions, adding sweetness and functionality to recipes.
Cake Milk Buckets & Sugar & Wheat & Egg A multi-serving food item that restores 2 hunger points per slice, for a total of 7 uses.
Cookies Wheat & Cocoa Beans Small snacks that restore 2 hunger points each, easily mass-produced for quick hunger replenishment.
Melon Block Melon Slice A compact storage form of melon slices, and can be broken down back into slices.
Melon Seeds Melon Slice Seeds for growing melons, allowing you to cultivate your own melon farm.
Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds for growing pumpkins, used in pumpkin pies and jack-o-lanterns.
Golden Carrot Carrot & Gold Nuggets Used as a brewing ingredient for night vision potions, and restores 6 hunger points when eaten directly.
Pumpkin Pie Pumpkin & Egg & Sugar A dessert food that restores 8 hunger points, a more substantial food source than bread or cookies.
Rabbit Stew Mushroom & Bowl & Cooked Rabbit & Carrot & Baked Potato A filling stew that restores 10 hunger points, a more complex but rewarding food option.
Suspicious Stew Red Mushroom & Brown Mushroom & Bowl & Any Flower A stew that can grant various status effects depending on the flower used in its crafting.
Honey Bottle Glass Bottles & Honey Block Restores 6 hunger points and removes poison effects, a natural and beneficial food item.

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Other Recipes: Miscellaneous and Utility Items

This category includes a variety of useful and decorative items that don’t fit neatly into other categories. These recipes enhance your gameplay in diverse ways, from setting spawn points to creating maps and decorations.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Bed Wooden Planks & Wool Used to sleep through the night, skipping nighttime and setting your spawn point. Essential for survival and convenience.
Painting Sticks & Wool Decorative wall art that adds visual flair to your base, available in various sizes and styles.
Paper Sugar Cane Used to craft books, maps, and fireworks, essential for cartography, enchanting, and celebrations.
Book Paper & Leather Used to create bookshelves, enchantment tables, and book & quills, vital for enchanting and storytelling.
Book and Quill Book & Feather & Ink Sac A writable book that allows you to write and save stories, notes, or instructions in-game.
Map Paper & Compass Creates a map of explored areas, helping you navigate and track your discoveries.
Glass Panes Glass Blocks or Stained Glass Blocks Thin panes of glass, used for windows, greenhouses, and decorative glazing, offering a transparent barrier.
Iron Bars Iron Ingots Decorative bars that function similarly to fences but are only one block high, used for windows, cages, or industrial detailing.
Gold Ingot Gold Nugget Crafted from gold nuggets, used in many crafting recipes, including clocks, powered rails, and golden apples.
Nether Brick Fence Nether Brick (item) & Nether Bricks Nether brick fences are fire-resistant and visually distinct, used in Nether-themed builds or for secure enclosures.
Eye of Ender Ender Pearl & Blaze Powder Used to locate strongholds and activate End portals, crucial for progressing to the End dimension.
Enchantment Table Book, Diamond & Obsidian. Used to enchant tools, weapons, armor, and books, adding powerful magical effects to your gear.
Fire Charge Blaze Powder & Coal & Gunpowder Creates a small burst of fire when used, and can be shot out of dispensers to ignite targets.
Ender Chest Obsidian & Eye of Ender Personal, dimensionally linked storage. Items placed in an ender chest are accessible from any other ender chest in the same dimension.
Beacon Glass & Obsidian & Nether Star Emits a light beam and provides status buffs to nearby players when placed atop a pyramid of valuable blocks.
Anvil Iron Block & Iron Ingot Used to repair items, rename items, and combine enchantments, essential for maintaining and improving your gear.
Flower Pot Bricks Decorative pots for placing flowers, saplings, and other small plants, adding greenery to your builds.
Item Frame Sticks & Leather Used to display items and blocks on walls, showcasing your achievements or creating visual displays.
Carrot on a Stick Fishing Rod & Carrot Used to control saddled pigs, allowing you to ride and steer pigs for transportation.
Warped Fungus on a Stick Fishing Rod & Warped Fungus Used to control saddled striders in the Nether, allowing you to traverse lava lakes.
Firework Rocket Gunpowder & Paper & Firework Star Used for aerial displays and celebrations, launchable into the sky with varying heights and effects.
Firework Star Gunpowder & Dye & an extra ingredient (optional) Components for firework rockets, allowing you to customize the color and effects of fireworks.
Lead String & Slimeball Used to leash mobs, allowing you to drag animals or monsters around.
Carpets Wool Thin decorative blocks that can be placed on top of other blocks, adding color and texture to floors and surfaces.
Stained Glass Glass Blocks & Dye Glass blocks dyed in various colors, offering a wide range of colored glass options for decorative windows and builds.
Leather Rabbit hide Crafted from rabbit hides, used as a component in crafting armor, books, and item frames.
Banner Wool & Stick Decorative flags that can be customized with patterns and colors, adding heraldry and personalization to your builds.
Armor Stand Stone Slab & Stick Used to display armor sets, mob heads, or pumpkins, showcasing your collections or creating decorative mannequins.
End Rod Blaze Rod & Popped Chorus Fruit A decorative light source from the End, emitting a soft white glow and used in End-themed builds.
End Crystal Glass & Eye of Ender & Ghast Tear Used to respawn the Ender Dragon in the End dimension, and also a powerful explosive item.
Iron Nugget Iron Ingot Small pieces of iron, crafted from iron ingots, used in crafting chains, lanterns, and compasses.
Concrete Powder Dye & Sand & Gravel Turns into solid concrete when in contact with water or lava, available in various colors for modern building styles.
Campfire Sticks & Logs & Coal A smoky light source and cooking station, providing light and a place to cook food without needing a furnace.
Soul Campfire Sticks & Logs & Soul Sand or Soul Soil A variant of campfire that burns with soul fire, emitting a blueish light and scaring away piglins.
Scaffolding Bamboo & String Climbable temporary structures for building, allowing for easy vertical access during construction.
Barrel Wood Slabs & Wooden Planks A storage block that can be opened even when blocks are above it, useful in compact storage systems.
Blast Furnace Iron Ingots & Furnace & Smooth Stone A specialized furnace that smelts ores and armor much faster than a regular furnace.
Smoker Logs & Furnace A specialized furnace that cooks food items much faster than a regular furnace.
Cartography Table Paper & Wooden Planks Used for cloning, zooming out, and locking maps, essential for advanced map management.
Composter Wooden Slabs Converts crops and plants into bone meal over time, providing a renewable source of bone meal for farming.
Fletching Table Flint & Wooden Planks A job site block for fletcher villagers, and currently has no crafting function for players.
Smithing Table Iron Ingots & Wooden Planks Used to upgrade diamond armor and tools to netherite, and a job site block for toolsmith villagers.
Stonecutter Iron Ingot & Stone Used to craft various stone-related blocks with material efficiency, offering more stone blocks per material unit.
Grindstone Sticks & Stone Slab & Wooden Planks Used to repair items and tools, and also remove enchantments, useful for managing enchantments and repairing damaged gear.
Lanterns Iron Nuggets & Torch or Soul Torch Portable light sources that can be hung from blocks or placed on the ground, offering ambient light and decoration.
Lectern Wood Slabs & Bookshelf Used to hold books open, allowing multiple players to read the same book simultaneously, and outputs a redstone signal when pages are turned.
Loom String & Wooden Planks Used to apply patterns to banners, allowing for complex banner designs and customization.
Beehive Wooden Planks & Honeycomb A craftable version of a bee nest, allowing you to relocate bees and harvest honey and honeycomb safely.
Netherite Ingot Netherite Scraps & Gold Ingots The strongest material in Minecraft, used to upgrade diamond gear at a smithing table, creating netherite tools, weapons, and armor.
Chain Iron Nuggets & Iron Ingot Decorative chains, used for hanging lanterns, bells, or creating industrial or dungeon-themed builds.
Respawn Anchor Crying Obsidian & Glowstone Allows you to set a respawn point in the Nether, providing a way to respawn in the Nether without returning to the Overworld.
Lodestone Chiseled Stone Bricks & Netherite Ingot When a compass is used on a lodestone, it becomes a lodestone compass that always points to that specific lodestone block, useful for marking locations.
Soul Torch Coal & Stick & Soul Sand or Soul Soil A variant of torch that burns with soul fire, emitting a blueish light and scaring away piglins.
Candle String & Honeycomb A decorative light source that can be placed on blocks or cakes, and can be dyed in various colors.
Dyed Candle Candle & Matching Dye Candles dyed in various colors, offering customizable light sources for decoration and ambiance.
Glow Item Frame Item Frame & Glow Ink Sac An item frame that illuminates the item held within, making displayed items glow in the dark.
Lightning Rod Copper Ingots Redirects lightning strikes during thunderstorms, preventing flammable structures from catching fire.
Moss Carpet Moss Blocks A thin decorative carpet made of moss, adding a soft green, mossy surface to builds.
Tinted Glass Amethyst Shards & Glass A variant of glass that blocks light completely, used for creating dark rooms or light-sensitive areas.
Music Disc 5 Disc Fragment 5 A music disc that can be played in jukeboxes, obtainable by crafting from disc fragments found in ancient cities.
Boat with Chest Chest & Boat A boat with a built-in chest, allowing you to transport items while traveling by water.
Decorated Pot Pottery Sherds or Bricks A decorative pot that can be customized with pottery sherds, allowing for unique and artistic pot designs.
Hanging Sign Chains & Matching Stripped Logs or Blocks of Stripped Bamboo Signs that hang from below blocks, providing a decorative way to display text and labels.
Bamboo Raft Bamboo Planks A bamboo version of a boat, functionally similar to a regular boat but made from bamboo.
Raft with Chest Chest & Bamboo Raft A bamboo raft with a built-in chest, combining the portability of a raft with item storage.
Copper Door Copper Ingots A door made of copper that can be opened and closed manually or by redstone signals, and gradually oxidizes over time.

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Dye Recipes: Coloring Your World

Dyes are used to add color to various items in Minecraft, including wool, glass, banners, and more. Crafting dyes allows you to personalize your builds and express your creativity through color.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Bone Meal Bone A white dye and a powerful fertilizer that speeds up the growth of crops, trees, and grass.
Light Gray Dye Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip or Black Dye & White Dye or Gray Dye & White Dye A light gray dye used to color wool, glass, concrete powder, and other dyeable items.
Gray Dye Black Dye & White Dye A gray dye used for coloring various items, providing a neutral grey tone.
Rose Red Red Tulip or Rose Bush A red dye obtained from red flowers, used for coloring and creating red-themed decorations.
Orange Dye Orange Tulip or Torchflower or Rose Red & Dandelion Yellow An orange dye used for coloring items in a warm orange hue.
Dandelion Yellow Dandelion or Sunflower A yellow dye obtained from dandelions and sunflowers, used for bright yellow coloring.
Lime Dye Green Dye & White Dye A vibrant lime green dye, used for coloring items in a fresh, light green.
Light Blue Dye Blue Orchid or Blue Dye & White Dye A light blue dye, used for coloring items in a soft, sky-blue tone.
Cyan Dye Blue Dye & Green Dye or Pitcher Plant A cyan dye, a mix of blue and green, used for a teal-blue coloring.
Purple Dye Blue Dye & Red Dye A purple dye, created by mixing blue and red, used for royal purple coloring.
Magenta Dye Purple Dye & Pink Dye or Allium or Lilac A magenta dye, a vibrant pink-purple, used for eye-catching magenta hues.
Pink Dye Pink Tulip or Peony or Pink Petals or Red Dye & White Dye A pink dye, used for soft and gentle pink coloring.
White Dye Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley A white dye, also bone meal, used for whitening or creating white-themed decorations.
Blue Dye Lapis Lazuli or Cornflower A primary blue dye, obtained from lapis lazuli or cornflowers, used for deep blue coloring.
Brown Dye Cocoa Beans A brown dye obtained from cocoa beans, used for earthy brown tones.
Black Dye Ink Sac or Wither Rose A black dye, obtained from ink sacs or wither roses, used for dark black coloring.

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Wool Recipes: Building with Softness and Color

Wool is a versatile building material in Minecraft, known for its softness and wide range of dyeable colors. Crafting wool blocks allows you to create comfortable interiors, colorful exteriors, and decorative elements.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Wool String Basic white wool, crafted from string, can be dyed into various colors or used as a soft, white building material.
Light Gray Wool Wool & Light Gray Dye Wool dyed light gray, offering a subtle and neutral grey tone for building and decoration.
Gray Wool Wool & Gray Dye Wool dyed gray, a darker neutral grey, used for building and creating grayscale palettes.
Black Wool Wool & Black Dye Wool dyed black, providing a dark, contrasting color for builds and patterns.
Red Wool Wool & Rose Red Wool dyed red, a vibrant and bold red color for accents and thematic builds.
Orange Wool Wool & Orange Dye Wool dyed orange, a warm and energetic orange color for building and decoration.
Yellow Wool Wool & Dandelion Yellow Wool dyed yellow, a bright and cheerful yellow for sunny builds and highlights.
Lime Wool Wool & Lime Dye Wool dyed lime, a vibrant and fresh light green color for lively designs.
Green Wool Wool & Cactus Green Wool dyed green, a natural green tone, perfect for nature-themed builds and landscaping.
Light Blue Wool Wool & Light Blue Dye Wool dyed light blue, a soft and calming blue, ideal for sky-themed or gentle color palettes.
Cyan Wool Wool & Cyan Dye Wool dyed cyan, a teal-blue color, adding a unique and modern touch to builds.
Blue Wool Wool & Blue Dye Wool dyed blue, a classic and deep blue color, used for oceans, skies, or cool-toned designs.
Purple Wool Wool & Purple Dye Wool dyed purple, a royal and luxurious purple, used for sophisticated and elegant builds.
Magenta Wool Wool & Magenta Dye Wool dyed magenta, a vibrant pink-purple, used for eye-catching and decorative accents.
Pink Wool Wool & Pink Dye Wool dyed pink, a soft and gentle pink, used for delicate and charming builds.
Brown Wool Wool & Brown Dye Wool dyed brown, an earthy and warm brown, used for rustic and natural-looking designs.

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Brewing Recipes: Potions and Magical Effects

Brewing is the process of creating potions in Minecraft, which grant various status effects like healing, speed, strength, and night vision. Crafting brewing components and stands is the first step to potion mastery.

Name Ingredients Image Description
Glass Bottle Glass Essential for brewing potions, used to hold water and brewed potions.
Cauldron Iron Ingot A container that holds water, used in early brewing setups and for filling glass bottles with water.
Brewing Stand Blaze Rod & Cobblestone The primary brewing station, used to combine ingredients and create potions.
Blaze Powder Blaze Rod Fuel for brewing stands and a key ingredient in crafting Eyes of Ender and Magma Cream.
Magma Cream Slimeball & Blaze Powder Used in brewing fire resistance potions, protecting you from fire and lava damage.
Fermented Spider Eye Spider Eye, Brown Mushroom & Sugar A key brewing ingredient for creating negative status effect potions like poison and weakness.
Glistering Melon Melon Slice & Gold Nugget Used in brewing healing potions, restoring health points when consumed.

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