Crafting Bench Recipes

Simple Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input >> Output
Wooden Planks	Wood (regular, birch or pine)	Can be used as a building material, but is usually used for a wide variety of crafting recipes.
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	Torches create light. They also have the ability to melt ice and snow.
Crafting Table	4 Wooden Planks	When placed on the ground, it provides use of the 3×3 crafting grid.
Furnace	Cobblestone	Provides the ability to smelt.
Chest	8 Wooden Planks	Similar to your inventory. Holds 27 stacks of items or blocks.

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 2-4 Glowstone Dust back.
TNT Block	5 Sulphur and 4 Sand	Causes an explosion and breaks apart blocks near it.
Cloth Block	String	Cloth blocks can also be acquired from sheep. Used as a building block.
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 or 3 Brick or 3 Stone Brick	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 or Brick or Stone Brick	Stairs take up less space than steps.
Jack-O-Lantern	Pumpkin and Torch	Acts as a torch, but emits more light. Can stay lit underwater.

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 as well as wool from sheep.

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 your 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.

Armor Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input >> Output
Helmets	5 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.

*Chainmail armor can also be crafted using fire blocks. However, this can only be done by hacking Minecraft which is why the recipe isn’t shown.

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	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.

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 or 6 Iron Ingots	Wooden Doors can be activated by right-clicking on them or by sending them an electrical signal. Iron Doors can only be activated by 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.

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 hearts and can be used 6 times.
Melon	9 Melon Slices	Drops 3-7 melon slices when destroyed. Each slice replenishes 1 hunger point.
Melon Seeds	1 Melon Slice	Can be planted to grow a melon stem which produces melons. They can also be found in abandoned mine shaft chests.
Cookie	2 Wheat and Cocoa Bean	Restores half a food point.

Miscellaneous Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input >> Output
Paper	3 Reeds	Used to craft books.
Fences	6 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.
Ore	Iron, Diamond, Gold or Lapis Lazuli Blocks	Separates a block into individual gems/ingots.
Painting	Sticks and Cloth	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.
Fence Gate	4 Sticks and 2 Wooden Plans	Serves as a gate/door for a row of fencing. They are not affected by redstone and can only be opened by right-clicking.
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 cannot be picked up once destroyed.

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.

Wool Recipes

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.
Black Wool	Wool and Ink Sack	Used as decoration.