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The Crafting Compendium
In This Chapter
■ Table A.1: Essential Recipes
■ Table A.2: Useful Tools
■ Table A.3: Weapons and Defense
■ Table A.4: Food and Related Ingredients
■ Table A.5: Mechanisms and Redstone
■ Table A.6: Transport
■ Table A.7: Construction
■ Table A.8: Decorative and Miscellaneous
■ Table A.9: Enchanting and Brewing
■ Table A.10: Colors and Dyes
■ Table A.11: Fireworks
Welcome to the complete Minecraft crafting guide. You’ll find every crafting recipe here grouped by
function, from the essentials to the functional to the purely decorative.
Reading each table is easy; the item’s name is shown on the left. The next column shows the ingre-
dients required, including all possible alternatives. You’ll then see the crafting recipe and, finally, a
quick note about the crafted item’s function.
In some cases, the recipes are known as “shapeless,” meaning that the recipe ingredients can be
placed in any location on the crafting grid. I’ve indicated these with an asterisk next to the list of
ingredients.
You can create any recipe whose ingredients fit a 2×2 grid in the smaller crafting grid built into the
inventory window. All others require the 3×3 grid provided by a crafting table.
Quite a few of the recipes create variations on an object, depending on the provided ingredients. For
example, you can create a pickaxe from two sticks, and then your choice of three blocks of wood,
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stone, iron, gold, or diamond. Instead of repeating that same recipe multiple times, I’ve
simply provided a list of the different ingredient choices.
Minecraft is a constantly evolving work in progress, and at times some recipes disappear
or are simplified, and new ones pop into existence. The tables that follow contain all the
recipes from v1.6.2, as well as a few, mostly relating to color crafting, that have appeared in
early versions of v1.7.
Essential Recipes
The table that follows lists all the recipes you’ll need to get through the first few nights
and set up a decent home base. See Chapter 2, “First-Night Survival,” for a complete walk-
through.
TABLE A. Name Ingredients Recipe Description Bed Wood planks and wool
Resets your spawn point to the bed’s location and enables you to skip the night if no hostile mobs are nearby.
Chest Wood planks Creates a storage container for your items and blocks that will survive any respawn.
Crafting Table
Wood planks Expands the crafting grid to a 3×3 square, making it pos- sible to create a much larger variety of items.
Door Wood planks or iron ingots
Protects your base or house with a door. You’ll need to create a button or send another type of redstone sig- nal to open an iron door.
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Useful Tools
You can’t get far in Minecraft without the right tools for the job. The following table below
lists all those that will help you get through the game.
TABLE A. Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Anvil Iron blocks and iron ingots
Repairs tools, weapons, and armor; renames items, including name tags; applies enchant- ments from books; and combines enchant- ments. Axe Sticks and wood planks, cobble- stone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or dia- monds
Speeds up the harvest- ing of wood and many other types of block.
Bucket Iron ingots Allows you to collect and carry water, lava, and milk.
Clock Gold ingots and redstone
Provides a rough indi- cation of the time of day by showing the position of the sun and moon.
Compass Iron ingots and redstone
Points to your origi- nal spawn point but isn’t functional in The Nether or End regions.
Useful Tools (^) 5
Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Eye of Ender
Ender pearl and blaze powder*
Allows you to find dungeons by throwing in the air and following their trail. Allows you to collect ender pearls by trading with villagers or by defeating Endermen.
Fire charge
Coal or charcoal, blaze powder, and gun powder*
Like a flint and steel, can set objects on fire without consuming the fire charge itself. Load into a dispenser to shoot out one fire charge per activation. Also gives fireworks the shape of a large ball.
Fishing rod
Sticks and string Catches fish and pulls in other mobs.
Flint and steel
Iron ingot and flint Set fire to blocks and activate The Nether portal.
Hoe Sticks and wood planks, cobble- stone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or dia- monds
Tills dirt and grass to create farmland suit- able for planting crops.
Lead String and slime- ball
Ties up passive mobs (horses, cows, and so on) to prevent them from wandering away and to lead them to a new location, such as a farm.
Weapons and Defense (^) 7
TABLE A.
Name Ingredients Recipe Description Arrow Stick, feather, and flint
Used with the bow to hit mobs from a distance.
Boots Leather, gold ingots, iron ingots, or diamonds
Increase damage protection from ½ to 1 ½ points depend- ing on the material.
Bow Sticks and stones Allows you to attack other mobs from a distance (requires arrows or an infinity enchantment).
Chestplate Leather, gold ingots, iron ingots, or diamonds
Increases damage protection from 1 ½ to 4 points depend- ing on the material.
Helmet Leather, gold ingots, iron ingots, or diamonds
Increases damage protection from ½ to 1 ½ points depend- ing on the material.
Leather (dyed)
Leather armor and any combination of dyes*
Applies unique colors to your leather armor.
Leggings Leather, gold ingots, iron ingots, or diamonds
Increase damage protection from 1 to 3 points depending on the material.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Sword Stick and wood planks, cobble- stone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or dia- monds
Allows you to attack other mobs. Even a basic wood sword is much more effective than just fist-flailing.
*Shapeless recipe
Food and Related Ingredients
There’s plenty of food scattered around The Overworld, from passive mobs, such as chick-
ens, cows, and pigs, to naturally occurring pumpkins. All the recipes that follow turn the
naturally occurring items into something that provides more sustenance. They’re easy to
craft and worth carrying to keep the hunger bar full so your health also stays in tip-top
shape in any battle with hostile mobs. Chapter 6, “Crop Farming,” provides detailed infor-
mation on crop farming so you can keep up a steady supply of raw ingredients at all times,
and Chapter 7, “Taming Mobs,” helps you set up a mob farm.
TABLE A. Name Ingredients Recipe Description Bone meal Bone* Can quickly grow tall grass to provide seeds and can speed up the growth of other crops. It’s also used to create vari- ous lighter dye colors. Collect bone from downed skeletons.
Bowl Wood planks Used for making mushroom stew and milking a moosh- room.
Bread Wheat Allows you to gain 6 hunger points.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Hay bale Wheat Use as a compact storage for wheat and as a food to help tame horses. Can also add some nice decorative touches to a farm.
Melon block
Melon Provides a way to store melon slices but is inefficient because breaking the block on the crafting grid yields only 3–7 melon slices, not the original 9. Melon blocks can also be used for construction, according to taste. Melon seeds
Melon* Produces melon blocks when you plant the seeds. Each melon block produces 3– slices of melon, with each melon slice restoring 2 hunger points. Mushroom stew
Red & brown mushroom and a bowl*
Allows you to gain 6 hunger points.
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin, egg & sugar*
Allows you to gain up to 8 hunger points.
Pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin* Produces pumpkins for jack- o’-lanterns and pumpkin pie when you plant the seeds.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Sugar Sugar cane* Used in other recipes, for making paper, and for brew- ing potions.
*Shapeless recipe
Mechanisms and Redstone
The ability to mechanize, automate, and add electrical (redstone) systems to Minecraft can
become something of an endless fascination. Combine the items that follow in an infinite
variety of ways to produce amazing results. You can learn more about automation and red-
stone in Chapters 6, “Crop Farming” and 9, “Redstone, Rails, and More.”
TABLE A.
Name Ingredients Recipe Description Button Wood planks or stone*
Sends a redstone signal when pressed. (Smelt the stone from cobblestone.)
Daylight sensor
Glass, nether quartz, and wooden slabs
Outputs a signal propor- tionate to the current amount of daylight.
Dispenser Cobblestone, redstone, and bow
Fires out any items stored in its inventory and can dis- pense water and lava from buckets.
Dropper Cobblestone and redstone
Drops items stored in its inventory and can move them vertically between droppers.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Redstone block
Redstone Provides continuous red- stone power and is the only power source that can be moved with pistons without breaking, making it a useful circuit switch.
Redstone compara- tor
Stone, redstone torches, and nether quartz
Compares the strength of two redstone signals, pro- viding an output specific to its mode of comparison, and can relay the fullness of a container.
Redstone lamp
Redstone and glowstone
Provides a strong light source when activated by redstone power.
Redstone repeater
Stone, red- stone, and red- stone torches
Amplifies a redstone signal while adding a delay.
Redstone torch
Stick and red- stone
Creates a permanent source of redstone power and acts as an inverter.
Sticky piston
Piston and slimeball
Works just like a piston but also pulls back blocks into their original position.
Trapped chest
Chest and trip- wire hook
Sends a redstone signal when opened.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description Tripwire hook
Iron ingot, stick, and wooden plank
Emits a redstone signal when the string between two hooks is disturbed by a player or mob.
Weighted pressure plate
Iron ingots or gold ingots
Generates a redstone sig- nal whose strength varies according to the number of items on the plates.
*Shapeless recipe
Transport
For some players, transportation systems become the raison d’etre for playing Minecraft.
You can read all about transport in Chapter 9.
TABLE A. Name Ingredients Recipe Description Activator rail
Iron ingots, red- stone torch, and sticks
Starts the fuse on a minecart with TNT, creating a more powerful explosion the faster the minecart travels. Also turns on the hopper in a min- ecart with a hopper and can execute the stored command in a minecart with a command block. Boat Wood planks Moves rapidly over water.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description Powered rail
Gold ingots, red- stone, and stick
Speeds up a minecart when powered with redstone and slows it down when not.
Rail Iron ingots and a stick
Creates tracks for minecarts.
Construction
The table that follows lists all the blocks that are craftable, but construction usually
includes these and other blocks obtained directly from The Overworld and The Nether
regions—everything from wood blocks to cobblestone and more. You can read more about
creative construction techniques in Chapter 8, “Creative Construction.”
TABLE A. Name Ingredients Recipe Description Block of quartz
Nether quartz Used where white blocks are required and need to be fire- proof, unlike white wool.
Bricks Brick, stone, or Nether brick
Obtained by smelting clay in a furnace or Nether brick from fortresses in The Nether.
Chiseled quartz block
Quartz slab Have an interesting, decora- tive texture.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Chiseled sandstone
Sandstone slab
Has the appearance of two large sandstone bricks stacked atop each other.
Clay block Clay Used for construction or for making hardened clay by smelting the clay block in a furnace. Clay is usually found in shallow water; dig it up with a shovel.
Cobblestone wall
Cobblestone or moss stone
Acts like a fence and is useful for decoration.
Fence gate Sticks and wood planks
Creates an opening through a fence, but can be used anywhere. Gates work like doors, opened manually or via redstone.
Fence panels Sticks or Nether brick
Creates a barrier 1.5 blocks high, impervious to all mobs except spiders and jumping equines.
Glass block (stained)
Glass blocks and dye
Used for construction and for making stained glass panes (Minecraft v1.7 and above).
Glass pane Glass Creates window panels. Obtain glass by smelting sand in a furnace. Stained glass blocks become stained glass panes of the same color.
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Name Ingredients Recipe Description
Slabs Wood planks, cobblestone, stone, sand- stone, bricks, Nether brick, quartz blocks, and stone bricks
Creates a block ½ the nor- mal height. Used to create long staircases and ceiling cornices, hide redstone wir- ing, and many other decora- tive purposes.
Smooth sandstone
Sandstone Has a smoother texture than regular sandstone.
Snow block Snowballs Used for construction and creation of snow golems. Collect snowballs by digging up snow cover with a shovel.
Stairs Wood planks, cobblestone, stone, sand- stone, bricks, Nether brick, quartz blocks, and stone bricks
Allows you to run up stairs without having to jump. Also serves many decorative purposes, such as adding more interesting profiles to a building’s walls.
*Shapeless recipe
Decorative and Miscellaneous
Many of the items in the following table serve a functional and decorative purpose. You
can also create many other decorative items such as furniture, fountains, larger plants, and
so on by combining multiple regular items in different ways. Minecraft v1.7 has also intro-
duced new plant species such as rose bushes, tulips, sunflowers, peonies, and more that
can add enormous character to a garden. Clipping trees with shears also provides a variety
of leaf blocks that work well both for construction and decoration. See Chapter 8 for more
construction and decoration ideas.
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TABLE A. Name Ingredients Recipe Description Beacon Nether star, glass, and obsidian
Placed atop a pyramid of iron, gold, emerald, or diamond blocks, emit a beam into the sky. When supplied with an emerald or a diamond gem or a gold or an iron ingot, provide various potion effects. Nether stars are dropped by a defeated wither. (See the fol- lowing “Withering Heights” Note.) Blaze powder
Blaze rod* Creates various potions and is required for Eyes of Ender.
Book Paper and leather
Allows you to make a book- shelf that can empower an enchantment table.
Book and quill
Book, feather, and ink sac*
Allows you to add your own text to the game with the book and quill. Most useful in Adventure and Multiplayer worlds or for storing your own notes in-game. Bookshelf Wood planks and books
Used as a decorative item or for increasing the effectiveness of an enchantment table.
Carpet Wool Used as a decoration on almost any surface. Use dyed wool (by dying sheep directly and then shearing, or by dying a wool block in the crafting grid) to create different col- ored carpet.
