Make Tools in Minecraft

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When you play Minecraft, you live and die by the tools you craft. Without tools, it is nearly impossible to make mines, build a house or even kill mobs. Tools are essential for survival - for instance, if you fall in a cave without tools, your game is basically over. This tutorial will show you how to make some of the many tools in Minecraft. See Step 1 below to get started.

Steps

Making Useful Items

  1. Craft sticks. The most essential ingredients in crafting tools are sticks. To craft sticks, you will need to collect wood from any tree. Then, using your mini crafting box (found in the inventory), craft wooden planks from the collected wood. Place the wooden planks vertically in the mini crafting box and collect the sticks.
  2. Craft an axe. Axes are used to cut down trees much faster than if you use your hands. To craft an axe, you will need two sticks and three pieces of a material (wooden planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds).
  3. Craft a pickaxe. The pickaxe is used to mine and collect materials you need for tools, building, etc. To craft a pickaxe you need will two sticks and three pieces of a material (wooden planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds). To crafts sticks, see step 1.
  4. Craft a shovel. The shovel is used to collect dirt, grass, sand, etc. This is much faster than digging with your hands. To craft a shovel you need two sticks and one piece of a material (wood, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds). To make sticks, see step 1.
  5. Craft a hoe. The hoe is used to turn grass into farmland for planting seeds. To craft a hoe you need two sticks and two pieces of a material (wooden planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds). To make sticks, see step 1.
  6. Craft a sword. Swords are used for killing mobs and destroying certain blocks. To craft a sword you will need one stick and two pieces of a material (wooden planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamond). To craft sticks, see step 1.
  7. Craft a bow. Bows are used to attack mobs by shooting arrows. To craft a bow, you will need three sticks and three pieces of string. To craft sticks see step 1. String is acquired from killing spiders or breaking cobwebs, and is also found in dungeons.
  8. Craft arrows. Arrows are used as ammunition for the bow. To craft a stack of four arrows you will need one flint, one stick and one feather. Flint is occasionally dropped when you mine gravel. To craft sticks see step 1. Feathers are dropped by chickens when you kill them. To craft the arrows, put the flint on the middle top square, the stick directly below it and the feather goes in the bottom middle square.
  9. Craft flint and steel. Flint and steel is used to start fires and it can help you get to the Nether later on in the game. To craft flint and steel you will need an iron ingot and flint. You will have to mine for both. You get iron ingots from smelting iron ore, and flint is occasionally dropped when you mine gravel.
  10. Craft a bucket. Buckets are used to carry lava, milk, and water. To craft a bucket you will need three iron ingots. You get iron ingots by smelting iron ore.
  11. Craft a compass. Compasses are used to direct the players' to their spawn point. To craft a compass you will need four iron ingots and one piece of redstone dust. You must mine for both.
  12. Craft a clock. Clocks are used to tell the time of day. To craft a clock you need four gold ingots and one piece of redstone dust.
  13. Craft a fishing rod. Fishing rods are used to catch fish. To craft a fishing rod you will need three sticks and two pieces of string. To craft sticks see step 1. You can get the string by killing spiders and breaking cobwebs, and it is also sometimes found in dungeons.
  14. Craft shears. Shears are used to collect wool, leaves, vines and tall grass. To craft shears you need two iron ingots. You get iron ingots by smelting iron ore.
  15. Craft a map. Maps are used to navigate areas by walking around them whilst holding the map. To craft a map, surround a compass with 8 pieces of paper.

Making a Crafting Table

  1. Gather wood . The instructions above all assume you already have a crafting table (also referred to as a "workbench"). If you don't, you'll have to craft this block before proceeding. The crafting ingredients for the crafting table are four wooden planks - any type will suffice. Obtain a block or two of wood from trees in the environment - you won't need much.
  2. Access your inventory. Once you've accumulated a few blocks of wood, access your inventory screen (press "E"). If you've just started playing, you should get the achievement "Taking Inventory".
  3. Convert a wooden block to wooden planks. In your inventory screen, drag a wooden block to the 2x2 crafting grid in the top right corner. Place the wood anywhere within the grid. Your raw wood should be converted to wooden planks, which will appear in the box to the right of the 2x2 grid. Drag these back into your main inventory. If you wish, you can continue to do this for all of your raw wood.
  4. Place four of your wood planks in the crafting grid. When you have four wood planks, place one in each square of the crafting grid. A crafting table (workbench) block should pop up in the space to the right of the grid. Drag this back into your inventory. Your crafting table is complete!
  5. Place your crafting table in the world and start crafting. Now that you have a crafting table, you can begin to craft tools, which in turn will help you gather resources and craft new items. From 4 humble wood planks, you can eventually build amazing, high-quality gear which will allow you to explore and master the world around you!

Tips

  • You can find detailed crafting guides online.
  • All of the tools (only pickaxes, swords, hoes, axes and shovels) can be made with other materials as well, such as wood, cobblestone, iron, gold and diamonds. All of these materials can vary the strength and durability of your tool, wood being the weakest and lasting the least time, and diamond being the strongest and lasting the longest. There is one exception for this, which is gold. Gold is the strength level below diamond but the durability level goes down at the same rate as wooden tools do.
  • Wood is possibly one of the most important blocks in Minecraft.
  • Gold tools have small durability but mine faster.
  • For iron tools, you will need to mine iron ore with a stone pickaxe or above and smelt it. Then, you can mine gold and diamond ore and craft tools out of those.
  • You can guess the crafting recipe by looking at the shape and color of the tools.
  • Later in the game it can be a good idea to make lots of stone or iron pickaxes and mine for a long time in order to get diamonds.
  • You can make torches out of coal and sticks. They are handy in survival as they help keep hostile mobs away. Redstone torches, however, function as power for redstone, and don't work well as a light source.

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