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Crafting is a major method by which blocks, tools, and other resources are created in Minecraft. It is a function only available in Indev, Infdev and Alpha modes.
In order to craft something, the player must move items from their
inventory into the crafting grid, then arrange them into the correct
pattern for the item they wish to create. While some recipes require a
degree of trial and error to discover, most can be found through common
sense.
The player has access to a 2x2 crafting grid - located in the
inventory screen - at all times. Simple things can be crafted there,
like wood planks, sticks and workbenches. To craft with a 3x3 grid, the player must first place a workbench block into the game world, then right click on it.
When crafting items with limited uses (tools, armor, and weapons),
each improvement in building material roughly doubles the number of
times the item may be used prior to breaking as well as increasing its
speed or power. Once an item breaks, it disappears from the inventory.
The formula for the number of uses is 2^(5+n)+1.
"n" is the durability of the material being used, and the values for
each are on the above list. Incrementing n by 1 nearly doubles the
number of uses.
Regardless of what item is being used, a use counts as either the
complete deletion of a block or a single strike at an enemy, but an
incomplete attempt to delete a block (stopping in the middle) does not
qualify as a use. If a tool is used inappropriately, such as using a
pickaxe to attack mobs, each use will have the equivalent of 2 proper
uses.
[edit] Recipes
| Name
| Input » Output
| Description
|
| Workbench
|  | Allows for use of the 3×3 crafting grid.
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| Furnace
|  | Allows for the smelting of ores and cooking of food.
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| Planks
|  | Used as a building material and can be crafted into many things.
|
| Sticks
|  | Used for torches, arrows, signs, ladders, and as handles for tools.
|
| Torches
|  | Used to generate light. Torches also melt snow and ice.
|
| Chest
|  | Stores stacks of items inside. Two chests make a large chest when you put one next to another.
|
| Name
| Input » Output
| Description
|
| Ore Blocks
|  | Allows bars to be crafted into placeable blocks. Full blocks can also be crafted into 9 bars again.
|
| Cloth Block
|  | Used as a building material. Cloth can also be obtained from Sheep.
|
| TNT Block
|  | Used to cause explosions. Gunpowder can be obtained from Creepers or from chests in Dungeons.
|
| Steps
|  | Used for half block steps. Two half blocks on top of each other create a full-sized block.
|
| Stairs
|  | Used for full block stairs.
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| Snow Block
|  | Used for storing snowballs or as building material.
|
| Clay Block
|  | Used to store clay and as an alternative to Stone.
|
| Brick Block
|  | Used as a building material.
|
Note that Chainmail armor is also craftable, but only by hacking Fire blocks into your inventory and crafting them.
| Name
| Input » Output
| Description
|
| Helmet
|  | Head armor, gives 1.5 armor points.
|
| Chestplate
|  | Chest armor, gives 4 armor points.
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| Leggings
|  | Leg armor, gives 3 armor points.
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| Boots
|  | Foot armor, gives 1.5 armor points.
|
| Name
| Input » Output
| Description
|
| Minecart
|  | Used to transport the player along Minecart tracks.
|
| Powered Minecart
|  | Used to push other Minecarts along Minecart tracks.
|
| Storage Minecart
|  | Used to transport goods along Minecart tracks.
|
| Minecart Tracks
|  | Used to direct Minecarts.
|
| Boat
|  | Used to travel in water quicker than by swimming. When crashed you receive 3 planks and 2 sticks.
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[edit] Miscellaneous
