CRAFTING TABLE

The Crafting Table (or Workbench) is one of the most essential blocks in Minecraft. It has a grid on top and tools on the side faces, and shares the bottom texture with Wooden Planks. Crafting Tables can naturally occur in NPC Villages.

Right-clicking on a crafting table (on the ground, not while in your inventory) will open the 3�3 crafting grid which allows you to craft more items than with the crafting grid in your inventory. A crafting table is essential in order to advance at all in the game, and the first step in Minecraft's "tech tree". This is one of the most important blocks in the game as starting tools cannot be created without it.

Holding shift when clicking on an item to be retrieved from the crafting table will craft as many items as can be made from the given ingredients, and move them to your inventory. However, there is a special effect here when crafting a Map: If and only if the map is claimed with Shift-Click, it will be a clone of the first map made (map_0), even if the original map has been destroyed. If the map is instead mouse-dragged from the crafting table, it will be a new map centered on your current location (not the table's).

Items left in the crafting table spaces will fall out when the crafting menu is closed, and drop in front of you. The same will happen if you don't have enough inventory slots for the new items (perhaps you made too many of a non-stackable item).

Crafting tables in numbers can be used for decorative patterns on floors, featuring the visible grid on the top. Note that a table embedded into a wall or floor is still usable. Excess tables can be burned as fuel in a furnace. A crafting table can be mined with any tool or none, but mining it with an axe is most efficient.

When on a long journey or mining deep, it's sometimes worthwhile to carry along a crafting table in your inventory (you can mine it and carry it away after use). However, if you have easy access to wood, remember that you can always make a new table from a single block of wood.