Crafting

The player's built-in 3×3 crafting grid.

Crafting is the way in which blocks and items are made in Minetest. To craft something, the player must move items from their inventory into the 3×3 crafting grid. The player must then arrange the items into the pattern representing the item(s) they wish to create. The horizontal orientation at which the items are placed does matter (except for stairs).

Many additional player created recipies are available through mods.

Basic Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output	Description
Wooden Planks	Tree	4	One of the most basic building materials, can be crafted into many things.
Stick	Wooden Planks	4	Used in crafting torches, signs, ladders, fences and as handles for tools and weapons.
Torch	Stick + Coal Lump	32px 4	Used to create light. Torches can be placed on any wall, floor or ceiling.
Furnace	Cobblestone		Allows the player to smelt various items.
Chest	Wooden Planks		Used to store blocks and items inside.
Locked Chest	Wooden Planks + Steel Ingot		The same as a regular chest, except it can only be accessed by the player that placed it.

Tool Recipes

Tools can be repaired by putting two tools of the same material and type in the crafting grid. This gives a 2% durability bonus.

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output	Description
Pickaxe	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Steel Ingots or Mese + Sticks		Required to mine stone-based blocks.
Axe	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Steel Ingots + Sticks		Used to cut wood-based blocks quicker than by hand.
Shovel	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Steel Ingots + Sticks		Used to dig Dirt, Sand, Grass Blocks and many other blocks quicker than by hand.
Sword	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Steel Ingots + Sticks		Used to deal more damage to mobs and players than by hand.
Bucket	Steel Ingots		Used to hold and transport water and lava.

Block Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output	Description
Steel Block	Steel Ingot		Decorative block, can only be mined with a steel or Mese pickaxe. Cannot be reverted to steel ingots.
Clay	Clay Lump		Can be used as decoration or compact storage. To revert into clay balls, must be mined.
Brick Block	Clay Brick		Used as building material. Gives 4 clay bricks when mined.
Sandstone	Sand		Used as building material. Only gives 1 sand when mined.
Bookshelf	Wooden Planks + Books		Used as decoration.
Slab	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Stone or Brick Blocks or Sandstone	3 3 3 3 3	Can be used for long staircases.
Stair	Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Stone or Brick Blocks or Sandstone	4 4 4 4 4	Can be used for compact staircases.

Misc Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output	Description
Ladder	Sticks		Used to climb vertically. Can placed on any wall, floor or ceiling.
Fence	Sticks	2	Used as a barrier, can be jumped over.
Sign	Wooden Planks + Stick		Shows text entered by the player.
Wooden Door	Wooden Planks		Opened and closed by right-clicking, can be passed through while open.
Paper	Papyrus		Used for crafting books.
Book	Paper		Used for crafting bookshelves.
Rail	Steel Ingots + Sticks	15	Decorative block, can be inclined on slopes.

See also

• Smelting
• Blocks
• Items
• Item Codes