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Basic Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Sticks 2 Wooden Planks

Used as handles for tools and weapons as well as for ladders, signs, torches and fences.

Torches Stick and Coal or Charcoal

Provides the ability to see at night, in caves, and to light up other dark areas. Keeps mobs from spawning in that area if it is lit up enough. Will also melt snow.

Crafting Table 4 Wooden Planks

When placed on the ground, it provides use of the 3×3 crafting grid.

Furnace 8 cobblestone

Provides the ability to smelt ore and cook meat.

Chest 8 Wooden Planks

Similar to your inventory. Holds 27 stacks of items or blocks.

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Block Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Ore Blocks Gold Ingots, Iron Ingots, Diamonds and Lapis Lazuli Dye

Turn ingots or diamonds into a placeable block. Can be used for storage or to show off.

Glowstone Block 4 Glowstone Dust

Glowstone gives off more light than a torch and will melt nearby snow and ice. Breaking a brimstone block will give 2-4 Glowstone Dust back.

TNT Block 5 Sulphur and 4 Sand

Causes an explosion and breaks apart blocks near it. Will cause harm to a player.

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.

Clay Block Clay

Used as a building block.

Brick Block Clay Bricks

Used as a realistic looking building material.

Stone Brick 4 Stone

Used as a building material.

Snow Block Snowballs

Used as a building material or snowball storage.

Bookshelf 6 Wooden Planks and 3 Books

Used as decoration.

Sandstone 4 Sand

Used as a building block.

Slabs 3 Cobblestone or 3 Stone or 3 Sandstone or 3 Wooden Planks

Each step is half the size of a regular block. Used to create long staircases quickly. Two slabs can be place on top of each other to make a full sized block.

Stairs 6 Wooden Planks or Cobblestone

Stairs take up less space than steps and allow you to ascend quickly while using little to no hunger.

Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin and Torch

Acts as a torch, but emits more light. Can stay lit underwater.

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Tool Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Pickaxes Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems.

Makes mining stone-type blocks faster.

Shovels Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems.

Makes digging dirt, snow, gravel, sand and grass faster.

Hoes Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems.

Used on grass and dirt to acquire seeds or prepare for farming crops.

Axes Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems

Makes chopping wood-type blocks faster.

Bucket 3 Iron Ingots

Can hold lava, water or milk.

Flint and Steel 1 Iron Ingot and 1 Flint

Used to set fire to things.

Fishing Rod 3 Sticks and 2 String

Used to catch fish.

Compass 4 Iron Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust

Always points to your spawn point.

Map 8 Paper and 1 Redstone Dust

Used to record and find locations that you have explored. It records the areas you explore when you are holding the map in your hands.

Clock 4 Gold Ingots and 1 Compass

Tells the time of day.

Shears 2 Iron Ingots

Used to collect leaves, tall grass, vines as well as wool from sheep. Breaks Wool faster than by hand.

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Weapon Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Swords Stick and 2 of either Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron or Gold or Diamonds

Kills mobs faster than using hands.

Bow 3 Sticks and 3 String

Allows for distance attacks using arrows.

Arrows Flint and Feather and Stick

Shot at mobs using a bow.

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Armor Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Helmets 4 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or

Fire*

Helmets provide 1.5 base armor points.

Chestplates 8 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Chestplates provide 4 base armor points.

Leggings 7 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Leggings provide 3 base armor points.

Boots 4 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Boots provide 1.5 base armor points.

  • Fire has been removed from Minecraft, therefore it is impossible to craft chainmail armor.

Transportation Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Rails Stick and 6 Iron Ingots

Used to provide a route for minecarts.

Powered Rails Stick and 6 Gold Ingots and Redstone Dust

Used to speed up or slow down Minecarts.

Detector Rails Stone Pressure Plate and 6 Iron Ingots and Redstone Dust

Works like a pressure plate but can only be activated by a Minecart.

Minecart 5 iron ingots

Used for transporting players or mobs along minetracks.

Powered Minecart Furnace and Minecart

Pushes other minecarts along tracks. Powered by fuel.

Storage Minecart Chest and Minecart

Used to transport resources on minetracks.

Boat 5 Wooden Planks

Enables you to travel in water faster than swimming.

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Mechanism Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Redstone Torch Redstone Dust and Stick

Sends a constant electric signal. Also emits small amount of light.

Lever Cobblestone and Stick

Sends an electrical signal when in the “on” position. Stays in its current state unless it is clicked.

Pressure Plates 3 Stone or 3 Wooden Planks

Sends an electrical charge when a player or mob walks on it. Wooden Pressure Plates are also be activated when something is dropped on them.

Trapdoors (Hatch) 6 Wooden Planks

Functions as a horizontal door over a single block hole. Can be activated by right-clicking it or with redstone wire.

Doors 6 Wooden Planks

Wooden Doors can be activated by right-clicking on them or by sending them an electrical signal.

Stone Button Stone

Sends an electrical signal when pressed. Charge lasts for approximately one second.

Jukebox 8 Wooden Planks and 1 Diamond

Plays records.

Note Block 8 Wooden Planks and 1 Redstone Dust

Plays a note when used. 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.

Dispenser 7 Cobblestone and Bow and Redstone Dust

Dispensers can store 9 stacks of items or blocks in a 3×3 grid. When powered by Redstone Dust, it ejects the items in random order. Snowballs, eggs and arrows are fired out as projectiles.

Redstone Repeater 3 Stone and Redstone Dust and 2 Redstone Torches

Used in redstone circuits as a diode, a repeater or a delayer.

Piston 3 Wooden Planks, 4 Cobblestone, Iron Ingot, Redstone Dust

Pushes blocks and objects 1 space.

Sticky Piston Piston and Slimeball

Pushes and pulls blocks and objects 1 space. Pulls the block it is touching when retracted.

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Food Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Bread 3 Wheat

Heals 2.5 hearts.

Mushroom Stew Red Mushroom and Brown Mushroom and Bowl

Heals 5 hearts. The brown and red mushrooms can be switched when crafting.

Bowls 3 Wooden Planks

Holds mushroom stew. Bowls can be reused.

Golden Apple 8 Gold Blocks and Apple

Heals all 10 hearts.

Sugar Sugar Cane

Used to make cake.

Cake 3 Milk, 2 Sugar, 3 Wheat and an Egg

Heals 1.5 food points on each use and can be used 6 times for a total of 9 food points restored. Buckets are not lost in the recipe.

Melon Block 9 Melon Slices

Compact melon slice storage. Each slice restores 1 food point. Breaking a block only returns 3-7 melon slices.

Melon Seeds 1 Melon Slice

Plantable on farmland. Will produce one Melon Block each harvest.

Cookie 1 Melon Slice

Restores half a food point.

Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin

Used in farming to obtain more Pumpkins.

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Miscellaneous Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Paper 3 Sugar Cane

Used to craft books.

Fences 2 wooden planks and 2 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.

Iron Bars 6 Iron Ingots

Similar to fences, but are only counted as 1 block high instead of 1.5 blocks.

Ladder 7 Sticks

Used to climb straight up.

Book 3 Paper

Used to craft a bookshelf.

Sign 6 Wooden Planks and Stick

Displays four lines of editable text entered by the player.

Minerals Iron, Diamond, Gold or Lapis Lazuli Blocks

Separates a block into individual gems/ingots.

Painting Sticks and wool

Used for decorative purposes.

Bed 3 Wool and 3 Wooden Planks

Used to fast forward time from night to day if all the players in the world are in bed at the same time. Can only be used at night and any color of wool can be used. Changes the spawn point of the player.

Fence Gate 4 sticks and 2 wooden planks

Serves as a gate/door for a row of fencing. They are not affected by redstone and can only be opened by right-clicking.

Nether Brick Fence 6 Nether Brick

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.

Glass Pane 6 Glass

Looks exactly like glass, but can only be placed on the outer edge of a block, just like the placement behavior of a fence. Panes do not drop anything when broken.

Gold Ingot 9 Gold Nuggets

Used in Tools, Armor, Clock and Powered Rail.

Eye of Ender Ender Pearl and Blaze Powder

Used to locate Strongholds, and repair an End Portal Frame.

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Dye Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Rose Red Dye Rose

Used to dye wool red.

Orange Dye Rose Red Dye and Dandelion Yellow Dye

Used to dye wool orange.

Dandelion Yellow Dye Dandelion

Used to dye wool yellow.

Lime Dye Cactus Green and Bonemeal

Used to dye wool green.

Light Blue Dye Lapis Lazuli and Bonemeal

Used to dye wool light blue.

Cyan Dye Lapis Lazuli and Cactus Green

Used to dye wool cyan.

Pink Dye Rose Red and Bonemeal

Used to dye wool pink.

Magenta Dye Purple Dye and Pink Dye

Used to dye wool magenta.

Purple Dye Rose Red and Lapis Lazuli

Used to dye wool purple.

Light Gray Dye Ink Sack and 2 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).

Gray Dye Ink Sack and Bone Meal

Used to dye wool Gray.

Bone Meal (White Dye) Bone

Used to dye wool white. (original colour) Can also be used as fertilizer to grow crops instantly.

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Wool Recipes[]

Iron+Wool

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Red Wool Wool and Rose Red

Used as decoration.

Green Wool Wool and Cactus Green

Used as decoration.

Brown Wool Wool and Cocoa Bean

Used as decoration. Currently not available.

Orange Wool Wool and Orange Dye

Used as decoration.

Yellow Wool Wool and Dandelion Yellow

Used as decoration.

Light Blue Wool Wool and Light Blue Dye

Used as decoration.

Cyan Wool Wool and Cyan Dye

Used as decoration.

Blue Wool Wool and Lapis Lazuli

Used as decoration.

Pink Wool Wool and Pink Dye

Used as decoration.

Magenta Wool Wool and Magenta Dye

Used as decoration.

Purple Wool Wool and Purple Dye

Used as decoration.

Light Gray Wool Wool and Light Gray Dye

Used as decoration.

Grey Wool Wool and Grey Dye

Used as decoration.

Iron wool Wool and Ink Sack

Used as decoration.

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Enchantment and Brewing Recipes[]

Name Ingredients Input > Output
Glass Bottle 3 Glass

Used in Brewing.

Brewing Stand Blaze Rod and 3 Cobblestone

Used to Brew.

Blaze Powder Blaze Rod

Can be crafted together with a Ender Pearl, to create an Eye of Ender. Can also be used to craft Magma Cream.

Magma Cream Slime Ball and Blaze Powder

Has fire-resistant properties. Used in potions.

Fermented Spider Eye Spider Eye and Brown Mushroom and Sugar

All potions with Fermented Spider Eye have negative effects. Used in Potions.

Glistering Melon Melon Slice and Gold Nugget

Used in Brewing to create health restoration Potions.

Gold Nugget Gold Ingot

Used to craft Glistering Melon with Melon Slices.

Enchantment Table Book and Diamond and Obsidian

Used to Enchant Tools.

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