Armor is essential when it comes to surviving in Minecraft. Although you may have heard of the cool diamond armor, it is best to start of with something simple and easy, especially if you’re a beginner (or playing early in the game). If you don’t know how to craft some leather armor, then this article is the best place to find out how!
Steps
Part 1
Part 1 of 5:
Getting Wood
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Find some trees. You will need some wood in order to craft a crafting table before crafting the leather armor. A crafting table is a table that has more space, or a bigger grid, for crafting. Look for a small forest. It doesn’t matter what kind of tree it is, as long it it has plenty of wood.
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Break and collect the tree wood. In order to obtain the tree wood, you’ll need to hit and break the wood. To do this, point your cursor at the wood block you want to break. To hit and break it, click and hold the left side of your mouse. Eventually, the wood will break and fall to the ground.
- If you already have an axe, you can use it to chop up wood faster.
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Collect the wood. Go to it, and it should go into your inventory. You will need at least four blocks of wood to create the crafting table.Advertisement
Part 2
Part 2 of 5:
Getting Some Leather
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Find some cows. When cows are killed, they drop either leather or raw beef. To find a cow, look for an open field. Cows often spawn there. You can also check some small forests. You will need 24 pieces of leather and, since cows mostly drop beef instead of leather, you will need up to 100 cows in order to craft your full leather armor.
- A more effective way to get leather is to make a cow farm. It's a faster way to get leather.
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Kill the cow. To kill a cow, get close to one. Point your cursor at the cow. To hit and kill it, click and hold the left side of your mouse. Be aware that when the cow gets hit, it’ll try to run away. You may have to catch it and keep hitting it some more. Eventually, from all of the hits, it’ll die and either drop beef, or leather. If it drops beef instead instead of leather, that’s okay. Find another cow and hope for it to drop some leather.
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Collect the leather the cows drop. If it drops leather, go to it, and it will go into your inventory. Your leather should appear in the result box. Put it into your inventory.Advertisement
Part 3
Part 3 of 5:
Making and Setting Down Your Crafting Table
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Open your crafting area. Your crafting area is where you will craft your crafting table. To open up your crafting area, press E on your keyboard. You should see a 2x2 grid on the top right. Above the grid, it should say the word “Crafting” on top. This is your crafting area.
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Find the wood in your inventory. At the bottom, you should see a variety of boxes, with some of them holding some items. This is your inventory, where all of the items you collect in Minecraft go. Your wood blocks should be in one of the boxes.
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Craft some oak planks. To craft your crafting table, your first need to craft some wood planks. Go down to your inventory, and select the wood blocks you want by clicking the left side of your mouse. Drag the wood to your crafting area. Put down the wood in one of the 2x2 grid boxes by clicking the left side of your mouse. Your wood planks should appear in the result box on the right side of your grid.
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Craft your crafting table. Take your wood planks to your crafting area. Click on your wood planks, and drag them from the result box and into the 2x2 grid. Left-click on each of the boxes to put down one wood plank in each of the boxes. Your crafting table should appear in the result box.
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Put your crafting table in your slot bar. In the very bottom, you will see a straight line of boxes. This is your slot bar. Left-click on your crafting table, and bring it down to one of your empty slot bar boxes. To place the crafting table in, left-click on the box you want it in.
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Set your crafting table on the ground. Exit out of your crafting area by pressing E . You will see your crafting table in your slot bar. Select your crafting table if you haven't already. Find out which box your crafting is in, then find out the number of the box your crafting table is in (counting from right to left). Press that same number on your keyboard. Your crafting table should appear in your hand. Find a place with lots of space, then right-click your mouse to set it down on the ground.Advertisement
Part 4
Part 4 of 5:
Crafting Your Leather Armor
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Open up your crafting table. Point your cursor at the crafting tables, then right-click your mouse. You should be in your crafting table. At the bottom is your inventory. Your leather should be in one of the inventory boxes.
- Notice the difference between the crafting table and your crafting area: your crafting has a 3x3 grid instead of a 2x2 grid; there is more space, which is necessary in order to craft your armor (and many other items).
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Craft your leather helmet. Select your leather from your inventory, and bring it to your 3x3 grid. To make a leather helmet, place three pieces of leather in the top row of your crafting grid. Put one leather piece in the box to the left in the middle row, and one in the box to the right in the middle row. Your leather helmet should appear in the result box. Put it into your inventory.
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Craft your leather breastplate. Select your leather again, and place them in all but the box in the middle of the top row of the grid. Your leather breastplate should appear in the result box. Put it in your inventory.
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Craft your leather leggings. Select your leather again, and put them in all but the box in the middle of the middle row, and the one in the middle of the bottom row in your grid. Your leather leggings will appear in the result box. Put it it in your inventory.
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Craft your leather boots. Select and put your leather materials in the top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right boxes of your crafting grid. Your leather boots should appear in your result box. Put it into your inventory.Advertisement
Part 5
Part 5 of 5:
Putting On your Leather Armor
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Exit the crafting table. To exit, press ⇧ Shift on your keyboard.
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Open your crafting area again. Now to you’ve crafted all of your leather armor, it is time to put it on. To do this, open up your inventory by pressing E on your keyboard.
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Put on your leather helmet. Next to your 2x2 grid, you should see an image of you, with four boxes next to it. Those boxes are where you will equip your leather armor. First, you’ll need to equip your leather helmet. To equip your leather helmet, clicking on it. It will be located in your inventory (the bottom). Once you’ve selected your leather helmet, drag it to your boxes next to the image of you. Put the leather helmet in the top box. In the image of you, you should be wearing the all-new leather helmet.
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Put on your leather breastplate. Select your leather breastplate in your inventory. Then, drag it to your boxes, next to the image of you. Put the breastplate in the box below the one with the leather helmet. The image of you should now be proudly wearing its new leather breastplate, along with the leather helmet.
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Put on your leather leggings. Select your leather leggings from your inventory. Then, drag it to your boxes and put under the box holding the leather breastplate. Your image should now have the leather leggings.
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Put on you the leather boots. This is the last piece of leather armor you need to put on! Select your leather boots from your inventory. Then, drag it to the boxes. Put it in the last box available, which is the bottom one under the box holding the leather leggings. Your image should be now proudly wearing the leather armor you crafted.
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Have some fun! Exit out of your inventory by pressing E on your keyboard. Above your hearts, armor symbols should appear. This means that you have your armor officially on. With your armor, you take less damage when attacked. Have fun with your armor!Advertisement
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- Instead of using the crafting area to put on your armor, you can also use your crafting table.Thanks
- To kill a cow faster, use a sword.Thanks
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