How to Make a Crafting Table in Minecraft

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Last Updated: December 21, 2024 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to build a crafting table in Minecraft. While your inventory can be used to craft anything that fits on a four-box grid, crafting tables give you a three-by-three grid of crafting space which allows you to build most of the advanced items in the game. You can make a crafting table on the Pocket, desktop, and console editions of Minecraft. If you're using the "Bedrock Edition" version of Minecraft on a desktop or console platform, follow the Pocket Edition steps.

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To create a crafting table, you'll need four wooden planks, which can be crafted with one block of wood from a tree. Trees are in most areas of Minecraft, so just look around.
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Collect one block of wood. Tap and hold a piece of the tree's trunk until it breaks, then walk over the block to pick it up.
- You don't need any tools to break wood, though using an axe will expedite the process.
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Open your inventory. Tap ⋯ in the lower-right corner of the screen.
- If you're following this method for Bedrock Edition on a non-mobile platform, use the key or button that you would usually use instead.
This brick-shaped icon is in the upper-left corner of the window.
It's in the main section of the "Construction" tab. This will add your wood block to the crafting section that's on the right side of the screen.
Tap the stack of four wood planks below the crafting section to add them to your inventory.
It's a bed-shaped icon on the left side of the window.
You'll find this block in the main "Items" window.
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Select the crafting table. It's below the crafting section. Doing so will automatically add the crafting table to your inventory.
- If you want to place the crafting table, select it in your equip bar and then tap the ground on which you want to put it.

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To create a crafting table, you'll need four wooden planks, which can be crafted with one block of wood from a tree. Trees are in most areas of Minecraft, so just look around.
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Collect one block of wood. Left-click and hold a block in the tree trunk until it breaks, then walk over the block to pick it up.
- You don't need any tools to break wood, though using an axe will expedite the process.
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Open your inventory. Press E to do so. Your inventory window will pop up.
- If you change the key that you use to open the inventory, press that key instead.
Click the block of wood in your inventory to add it to your mouse pointer, which will allow you to drag the block around your inventory.
The crafting section is in the upper-right side of the inventory window. Clicking any one of the four squares in the crafting area will add your wood block to it, prompting a stack of four planks to appear below the crafting section.
Click the stack of four wooden planks that appears below the crafting section.
Right-click each of the four squares in the crafting grid. You should now have one plank in each section of the grid.
It's below the crafting section.
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Move the crafting table to your inventory. Click a space in your inventory or equip bar to do so.
- If you want to place the crafting table, click a space in your equip bar at the bottom of the inventory, then close the inventory, select the crafting table, and right-click a space in which you want to place it.

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To create a crafting table, you'll need four wooden planks, which can be crafted with one block of wood from a tree. Trees are in most areas of Minecraft, so just look around.
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Collect one block of wood. Face the tree trunk that you want to break, hold down the right trigger until it breaks, and then walk over the block to pick it up.
- You don't need any tools to break wood, though using an axe will expedite the process.
Press X (Xbox) or square (PlayStation) to do so.
This is usually the tab that opens immediately; it has an image of a wood plank on its tab, which is at the top of the menu.
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Create wood planks. Select the "Wood Plank" option, scroll down until you find your version of wood, then press A (Xbox) or X (PlayStation).
- For example, if you collected birch wood, you would scroll down until you found the Birch Wood Planks option.
Scroll over until your cursor is selecting the crafting table icon.
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Create the crafting table. Press A or X to do so. The crafting table will automatically be added to your equip bar if there's room for it; if not, it will go to your inventory.
- You can place the crafting table on the ground by selecting it in your equip bar, facing a block on which you want to place the crafting table, and pressing the left trigger.

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Right clicking on a stack in your inventory separates the blocks.

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How do you make this using the flat world?

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The default flatland world doesn't spawn with trees, but if you spawn inside a village, you can use the wood from the houses; the crafting table that naturally generates in the libraries (if you have a library in your village); or sometimes, tree saplings can generate inside blacksmith chests.

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That would not be possible unless you add a mod, so try looking around for a mod that will allow this.

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The most recent version of Minecraft is the "Bedrock Edition", which has the same interface on desktop, mobile, and consoles. However, the traditional Java edition of Minecraft is still more popular on desktop and console platforms.

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Once you have a crafting table built and placed, you can easily craft tools to help you build and keep you alive.

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Crafting tables also spawn naturally in libraries and witch huts, as well as in some villages.

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Crafting, whether in your inventory or in a crafting table, does not pause your game. Always mind your surroundings when crafting.

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