Minecraft shelf guide: recipe, features, and uses

The latest preview has introduced the Minecraft shelf, a unique piece of functional furniture and decoration that adds an array of features and uses in the game. This new member of the ever-expanding list of items can be crafted with ease and allows you to store and manage items in a rather new way.

Here's everything you need to know about the Minecraft shelf.

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Minecraft shelf recipe

Follow this recipe to craft the Minecraft shelf (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

The shelf is a new item added in the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.110.20 beta and preview, adding a functional block to the game that allows you to store items and sort them in a unique way.

The shelf can be crafted from six matching blocks of any Stripped Log, Stripped Stem, or Block of Stripped Bamboo, filling the top and bottom row. Follow the recipe shown above to craft. Placing one set yields six shelves that can be placed next to each other. The following kinds of wood can be used to craft the shelf:

• Oak
• Spruce
• Birch
• Jungle
• Acacia
• Dark Oak
• Mangrove
• Cherry
• Pale Oak
• Bamboo
• Crimson
• Warped

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Minecraft shelf features

(Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

The Minecraft shelf works similarly to the frame, allowing you to place items in it as a form of vertical storage and quickly retrieve them in their hotbar. You can place up to three items on one shelf. Once placed, you can pick up and store those items in your hotbar.

Additionally, interacting with any of the three slots on its front swaps the main hand item with the content of that slot. Apart from this, the shelf can be powered by Redstone to unlock additional features.

Interacting with a single powered shelf swaps all its contents with the three rightmost items in your hotbar, while doing so with two connected shelves swaps their contents with the six rightmost items in the hotbar. Meanwhile, if you interact with three connected shelves, you swap their contents with all items in the hotbar, making it a great way to hotswap items or weapons.

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Minecraft shelf uses

Use the Minecraft shelf to hotswap and store items (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

The shelf is a great functional block to store items, expanding the limitations of the item frame and allowing you to place up to three items at once. You can stack up to three shelves next to each other and power them with redstone to hotswap all items with ease.

Apart from being a great way to store important items and claim them quickly, the shelf acts as a nifty way to hotswap rarities of weapons and items before setting out on adventures, replacing the need to manually head over to chests and do it manually.

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