Minecraft Crafting Recipes & Item Guide

A crafting table allows you to create more complex items with a 3x3 crafting grid.

Torches provide light and prevent monster spawning in dark areas.

Furnaces are used to smelt ores, cook food, and create other materials through heat.

Doors are interactive blocks that can be opened and closed to control access.

The ultimate mining tool, with increased durability and mining speed.

The brush is an archeology tool used to carefully excavate suspicious blocks to find artifacts.

Anvils are used to repair items, combine enchantments, and rename items.

Grindstones are used to repair items and remove enchantments.

Shears are tools used for collecting wool from sheep, leaves from trees, and other delicate materials.

Flint and Steel is a tool used to create fire and light portals to the Nether.

Fishing Rods are tools used for catching fish and other items from water.

The Spyglass is a tool used for zooming in on distant objects and locations.

Clocks display the current in-game time by showing the position of the sun or moon.

A swift thrusting weapon introduced with the Mounts of Mayhem era. This spear recipe uses 2 sticks and a diamond in a unique angled layout.

The ultimate weapon in Minecraft, with the highest damage and durability.

Bows are ranged weapons that fire arrows, allowing players to attack from a distance.

Crossbows are advanced ranged weapons that can be loaded in advance and fired later.

Arrows are projectiles used with bows and crossbows for ranged combat.

Spectral Arrows are special arrows that cause hit entities to glow, making them visible through walls.

TNT is an explosive block that can be ignited to create powerful explosions.

Wind Charges are throwable items that create a gust of wind, pushing entities away.

The Mace is a powerful melee weapon that deals area-of-effect damage and has a special smash attack when falling.

Tridents are powerful weapons that can be used in melee combat or thrown at enemies.

Shields are defensive items that can block attacks from mobs and other players.

The strongest head armor in Minecraft, providing maximum protection and special benefits.

The strongest chest armor in Minecraft, providing maximum protection and special benefits.

Turtle Helmets provide water breathing for an additional 10 seconds when underwater.

Wolf Armor is protective gear that can be equipped on tamed adult wolves to protect them from damage.

Suspicious Stew grants a status effect based on the flower used during crafting—ranging from Night Vision to Wither.

Golden Apples are special food items that provide healing, regeneration, and absorption effects.

Cake is a placeable food block that can be eaten multiple times to restore hunger.

Pumpkin Pie is a food item that restores 8 hunger points (4 hunger bars).

Bread is a basic food item that restores 5 hunger points (2.5 hunger bars).

Cookies are small food items that restore 2 hunger points (1 hunger bar) each.

Mushroom Stew is a food item that restores 6 hunger points (3 hunger bars).

Chests are storage containers that can hold up to 27 stacks of items.

Ender Chests provide access to a personal interdimensional inventory that can be accessed from any Ender Chest in the world.

Minecarts are vehicles that travel on rails, allowing for fast transportation.

Powered Rails accelerate minecarts when powered by redstone, allowing for faster travel.

Detector Rails emit redstone signals when a minecart passes over them.

Rails are tracks that minecarts can travel on, forming the basis of rail transportation systems.

Activator Rails activate minecarts with TNT and can eject players from minecarts when powered.

Boats are vehicles that can travel on water, allowing for fast water transportation.

Carrots on Sticks are items used to control saddled pigs, making them move in the direction you want.

Warped Fungus on a Stick is used to control saddled striders in the Nether, similar to how Carrots on Sticks control pigs.

Saddles are used to ride horses, pigs, striders, and other mountable mobs.

Leads (or leashes) are used to tie mobs to fences or lead them around.

Elytra are wings that allow players to glide through the air, providing the closest thing to flight in survival Minecraft.

Maps show a bird's-eye view of the surrounding terrain, helping players navigate and mark important locations.

Compasses point to the world spawn point, helping players navigate the overworld.

Lodestones are special blocks that can be linked to compasses, allowing them to point to the lodestone instead of spawn.

Recovery Compasses point to the location of your most recent death, helping you recover your items.

A decorative metal door that oxidizes over time unless waxed.

A copper trapdoor that weathers through oxidation stages.

The Crafter is a redstone-controllable block that crafts items automatically when given a valid recipe and receives a pulse.

Daylight Detectors emit redstone signals based on the time of day, with stronger signals during daylight hours.

Redstone Lamps are light-emitting blocks that activate when powered by redstone.

Observers detect changes in the block they face and emit a redstone pulse when a change occurs.

Hoppers are blocks that can move items between containers and can be used to create item transport systems.

Dispensers are blocks that can shoot projectiles and place certain blocks when activated by redstone.

Droppers are blocks that eject items when activated by redstone, but unlike dispensers, they don't shoot projectiles.

Pistons are blocks that can push blocks and entities when activated by redstone.

Sticky Pistons are pistons that can both push and pull blocks when activated by redstone.

Redstone Repeaters can extend redstone signals, add delays, and prevent signals from traveling backwards.

Redstone Comparators can compare signal strengths, measure container fullness, and maintain signal strength.

Targets emit redstone signals when hit by projectiles, with signal strength based on accuracy.

Fire Charges are projectiles that can be used to light fires or fired from dispensers.

Jukeboxes play music discs that can be found in dungeons and other structures.

Bookshelves are decorative blocks that also enhance enchanting tables placed nearby.

Item Frames are decorative blocks that can display items and maps on walls.

Paintings are decorative items that display various artworks on walls.

Flower Pots are decorative blocks that can hold small plants and fungi.

Armor Stands are entities that can display armor and held items.

Lecterns are blocks that can hold books and allow multiple players to read them simultaneously.

Campfires are blocks that provide light, cook food, and emit smoke signals.

Lanterns are decorative light sources that can be placed on the ground or hung from ceilings.

Beacons are powerful blocks that provide status effects to nearby players when powered by a pyramid of mineral blocks.

Enchanting Tables allow players to enchant tools, weapons, and armor with special abilities.

Brewing Stands are used to create potions by adding ingredients to water bottles.

Respawn Anchors allow players to set their spawn point in the Nether, similar to how beds work in the Overworld.

End Crystals are objects that heal the Ender Dragon and can be used to respawn it after it has been defeated.

Conduits are powerful blocks that provide underwater breathing, night vision, and attack hostile mobs when properly activated.

Paper is a crafting material used for maps, books, and other items.

Books are crafting materials used for enchanting tables, bookshelves, and written books.

Netherite Ingots are the most valuable and durable material in Minecraft, used to upgrade diamond gear.

Bricks are crafting materials used to create brick blocks and other brick-related items.

Iron Ingots are versatile crafting materials used in many recipes for tools, armor, and other items.

Breeze Rods are rare items dropped by Breeze mobs found in Trial Chambers.

A dense, late‑game component tied to Trial Chambers. Combine with a Breeze Rod at a crafting table to make the Mace, a high‑impact weapon.

A smithing template used to upgrade diamond gear to netherite. It can be duplicated once you find one.

White Dye is used to color various blocks and items white, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Light Gray Dye is used to color various blocks and items light gray, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Gray Dye is used to color various blocks and items gray, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Black Dye is used to color various blocks and items black, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Brown Dye is used to color various blocks and items brown, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Red Dye is used to color various blocks and items red, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Orange Dye is used to color various blocks and items orange, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Yellow Dye is used to color various blocks and items yellow, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Lime Dye is used to color various blocks and items lime green, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Green Dye is used to color various blocks and items green, such as wool, terracotta, and glass. You have to use a FURNACE for this Dye

Cyan Dye is used to color various blocks and items cyan, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Light Blue Dye is used to color various blocks and items light blue, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Blue Dye is used to color various blocks and items blue, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Purple Dye is used to color various blocks and items purple, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Magenta Dye is used to color various blocks and items magenta, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Pink Dye is used to color various blocks and items pink, such as wool, terracotta, and glass.

Phantom Membranes are late‑game utility drops: repair Elytra in an anvil and brew Potions of Slow Falling when combined with an Awkward Potion.

Smelt Ancient Debris to obtain Netherite Scrap. Combine 4 scraps with 4 gold ingots to craft a Netherite Ingot for upgrading gear at a Smithing Table.

Ancient Debris is a rare nether ore smelted into Netherite Scrap, a component of netherite gear progression.

Sniffer Eggs are incubation items that hatch into the Sniffer—an ancient mob that digs up exclusive seeds (torchflower & pitcher pod). They tie together archaeology, warm ocean ruins exploration, and passive mob breeding progression.

Goat Horns play one of several unique sounds depending on the variant and are used for signaling or role-play.

Disc Fragments (5) are pieces found in Ancient City chests; 9 combine in a crafting grid to form Music Disc 5.

The Enchanted Golden Apple (sometimes called a Notch Apple) cannot be crafted and provides powerful absorption and resistance buffs.

Hearts of the Sea are rare items used to craft conduits, which provide underwater breathing and vision.

Nether Stars are rare items dropped by the Wither boss, used to craft beacons.

The Dragon Egg is a unique decorative block that appears on the exit portal after defeating the Ender Dragon for the first time.

Name Tags are used to name mobs, preventing them from despawning and giving them custom names.

Nautilus Shells are rare items used to craft conduits, which provide underwater breathing and vision.

Scutes are items dropped by baby turtles when they grow into adults, used to craft turtle shells.

Wither Skeleton Skulls are rare mob heads used to summon the Wither boss by placing three atop a T‑shaped soul sand or soul soil frame.

Echo Shards are Deep Dark relics found in Ancient City chests. Combine 8 with a compass to craft a Recovery Compass that points to your last death.

Totems of Undying prevent death when held in either hand, granting a second chance at life.

Trial Keys are single‑use items that open standard reward vaults inside Trial Chambers. They’re core to the new dungeon‑style progression introduced with Tricky Trials.

Opens Ominous Vaults—harder variant vaults with significantly better loot. Tied to the ominous state of Trial Spawners.

Firework Rockets are used for Elytra flight propulsion and can also create visual explosions when combined with Firework Stars.

Cartography Tables are used for cloning, locking, and scaling maps, and for applying map decorations.

A Stonecutter allows precise conversion of stone blocks into stairs, slabs, and other variants with no material waste.

Looms are used to apply banner patterns quickly and cheaply, supporting special pattern items.

Barrels are storage blocks that function like chests but can open when blocked above and emit comparator signals.

Smokers cook food items twice as fast as furnaces but cannot smelt ores or non-food items.

Blast Furnaces smelt ores and metal equipment twice as fast as furnaces but cannot cook food.

Fletching Tables assign the fletcher profession to villagers; crafting functionality is currently unused in Java.

Smithing Tables upgrade diamond gear to netherite and apply armor trims using smithing templates.

A lattice-like copper decorative block that oxidizes.

A carved copper variant formed by stacking two copper slabs.

The Sentry Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique sentry pattern.

The Shaper Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern.

The Silence Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern.

The Spire Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern.

The Tide Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique oceanic pattern.

The Vex Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern inspired by the vex mob.

The Ward Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern.

The Wayfinder Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern reminiscent of exploration.

The Wild Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern inspired by the jungle.

The Rib Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern reminiscent of skeletal structures.

The Raiser Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern.

The Bolt Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a lightning-inspired pattern.

The Coast Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a wave-like pattern.

The Dune Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a pattern inspired by desert dunes.

The Eye Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with an eye-like pattern.

The Flow Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a flowing pattern.

The Host Armor Trim allows you to customize your armor with a unique pattern.