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To make a crafting table, open your inventory and place your wooden planks in each slot of the 2x2 crafting grid. Now simply click the crafting table and drag it into your inventory.
Crafting tables can be described as the backbone of Minecraft. They expand on the small 2x2 crafting menu players have by default and facilitate crafting almost anything in the game. This short and simple guide will tell you everything you need to know about this critical block.
Aside from the wooden planks needed in its recipe, the crafting table is typically one of the first things you will need to create in order to craft an essential survival item, such as a pickaxe.
You can use a crafting table to make anything with a crafting recipe in the game. As of writing, there are around 379 recipes within the game, making it very difficult to advance further without first understanding how the simple crafting table works.
The required materials to build a crafting table are only 4 wood planks, and these 4 planks don’t even need to be the same type of wood as each other.
If you are unsure, this is how you can craft wood planks:
Simply place 1 piece of wood in your 2x2 default crafting inventory. One block of wood will output 4 wood planks.
Here is the step-by-step pictorial guide you need to follow to make a crafting table in minecraft:
Step-1. Open your inventory and locate the 2x2 default crafting menu in the right hand corner (as highlighted in image).
Step-2 After this, place four wooden planks in each slot of the 2x2 crafting menu This creates the crafting table.
TIP: You can use any type of wood plank to make crafting table, you just need to axe down a tree
Step-3 Now that you have the crafting table made, drag it out from the crafted slot and place it inside of your own inventory.
Also Read: How to make a Furnace in Minecraft
Crafting tables are essential in any complex recipe. This means that anything that requires more than a 2x2 crafting space in its recipe will need the crafting table to be successfully created.
Crafting tables can also rather usefully be used to repair damaged weapons. This is done simply by placing two of the same tools in the crafting table, as shown below.
The in-game recipe book will teach you many vital recipes to craft a myriad of items & blocks. To access the Minecraft recipe book in-game, simply open your inventory and click the green book highlighted below.
After this, you should see a list of recipes in a layout similar to the image below. You can click on any item shown here in order to be given its recipe in-game.
To open the crafting table menu, simply place the block down on the ground and interact with it.
In the current state of Minecraft, it doesn’t matter. You can mix & match any 4 wood planks, regardless of their type, and still produce a crafting table.
Yes, crafting tables will provide enough fuel to smelt 1.5 items, however, it’s extremely inefficient to use crafting tables for this purpose. Coal or even regular wood planks would be far more cost-efficient than furnace fuel.
Interestingly enough, crafting tables are a unique wood-based block that can catch on fire, but won’t actually burn; this means they will always survive a raging fire.
Crafting tables in Minecraft are absolutely vital to core gameplay mechanics. You will find it extremely challenging to make it very far in survival mode without crafting one. The crafting table is hence one of the rare staple blocks universally seen within the base of any somewhat serious player.
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