The Echidna Tribe

Crafting guide

Below is a complete listing of every crafting recipe in Minecraft, as well as all of the items mobs drop and blocks that change into an item when mined. Hover over an icon for its name. This list is for the latest development version of the game (currently /game/ or 'Alpha'); Some or all of the crafting recipes, blocks, et cetera may not exist in other versions.

Last updated Sept. 10th, 2010

• Mining
• Mob drops
• Inventory crafts
• Farming
• Food
• Stairs
• Tool blocks
• Block evolution
• Smelting
• Tools
  • Containers
  • Ranged weapons
  • Swords
  • Shovels
  • Pick axes
  • Axes
  • Hoes
• Armors
  • Helmets
  • Chestplate
  • Leggings
  • Boots
• Solid blocks
• Breaking solid blocks

Mining:
Digging May give gravel instead; Re-break for flint	Digging	Mining Smelt for stone
Mining Can be fuel for furnace or torches	Mining Smelt for iron	Mining Smelt for gold
Mining Valuable rare material!	Mining Use to wire things together; Breaks again if stepped on	Chopping Craft for wood; Do not burn as-is!
Breaking Plant for trees; Leaves break on their own if the trunk is removed	Bucket Move water anywhere!	Bucket Careful, it's hot; Potent fuel for a furnace.

Mob drops:
Amount is random	Amount is random; Careful not to let it explode!	Amount is random
Amount is random	Amount is random

Inventory crafts:
Good fuel for furnace; Makes sticks and wood tools	Craft into many things	Light up caves and nighttime!
Powers up any dust attached; Inverts signals sent to it through a wall.	Use this to craft larger things	Make fire anywhere!
Make fire anywhere!	Toggle-style contraption trigger
Build a brick house!

Farming:
Tilling Random chance	Tilling Reverts to dirt if stepped on or not planted	Tilling Reverts to dirt if stepped on or not planted
Planting	Harvesting Amount is random	Harvesting Don't harvest until fully grown!

Food:
Heals 5 hearts	Heals 5 hearts	Heals 2.5 hearts
Amount is random; Heals 1.5 hearts	Cooking Heals 4 hearts

Stairs:

Tool blocks:
Store things in here!	Use this for smelting!	Break holes with an explosion!
Cross the oceans quickly!	A mobile treasure chest you can ride in!	The mine cart rides on these!
Close the door to keep monsters out!	No handle on this door, use buttons!	Climb straight up and down cliffs!
Triggers things when anything is on top of it, including dropped blocks	Triggers things when walked on	Triggers things when pressed

Decorations:
Which art you get is random	Write any text you want!

Block evolution:
Building Place two chests next to eachother	Building Place two chests next to eachother

Smelting:
Used to make iron blocks and tools	Used to make gold blocks and tools	Craft into brick blocks
	Used for certain contraption triggers

Tools:

Containers:
Used for food	Carry liquid blocks!

Ranged weapons:
Shoot from a distance!	Shoot from a distance!	Consider killing skeletons

Swords:
Increase your melee damage with better materials	Increase your melee damage with better materials	Increase your melee damage with better materials
Increase your melee damage with better materials	Increase your melee damage with better materials

Shovels:
Shovel away thin blocks: sand, dirt, gravel	Shovel away thin blocks: sand, dirt, gravel	Shovel away thin blocks: sand, dirt, gravel
Shovel away thin blocks: sand, dirt, gravel	Shovel away thin blocks: sand, dirt, gravel

Pick axes:
Break through stone and mine ores	Break through stone and mine ores	Break through stone and mine ores
Break through stone and mine ores	Break through stone and mine ores

Axes:
Chop down trees with ease	Chop down trees with ease	Chop down trees with ease
Chop down trees with ease	Chop down trees with ease	Chop down trees with ease
Chop down trees with ease	Chop down trees with ease	Chop down trees with ease
Chop down trees with ease

Hoes:
Gather seeds and till the soil	Gather seeds and till the soil	Gather seeds and till the soil
Gather seeds and till the soil	Gather seeds and till the soil	Gather seeds and till the soil
Gather seeds and till the soil	Gather seeds and till the soil	Gather seeds and till the soil
Gather seeds and till the soil

Armors:

Helmets:

Chestplate:

Leggings:

Boots:

Solid blocks:
Store vast amounts of iron in a single stack of these!	Show off your wealth!	Probably the hardest block in the world!
Consider shearing sheep instead

Breaking solid blocks: