Crafting - E-G

Enchanted Book

Regular Books can be enchanted just like your armor, tools, and weapons. Use an Enchantment Table to put special effects onto your Books to turn them into Enchanted Books. This process can be done multiple times, adding more abilities onto the Enchanted Book each time.

When an Enchanted Book is taken to an Anvil, its powers are added to another item, and the Enchanted Book is destroyed. Any powers allowed to go onto the item type will transfer, but powers that are not allowed on the item are lost and wasted. This is a costly but useful process when you want to create extremely powerful items.

Enchantment Table

Craft an Enchantment Table once you have access to Diamonds and Obsidian. Place the table in your base, and bring items to it once your character is higher in level. You’re allowed to spend your levels to add special abilities to your items and equipment. Place the desired item into the Enchantment Table interface, and use the table on the right when deciding how many levels to invest in the object.

Surround your Enchantment Table with 15 Bookshelves to give it even more enchanting power. This lets you place much stronger enchantments on your equipment.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Book, Diamond (2), Obsidian (4)		Enchantment Table

Ender Chest

Ender Chests are more expensive than regular Chests because they require Obsidian and Eyes of Ender. However, they have a powerful special ability; all Ender Chests are connected. Anything you put inside one Ender Chest is available in every Ender Chest you own.

Place these by your remote mining operations or in the Nether and The End as a way to safely keep items whether you live or die. You can plop down an Ender Chest, load it with goodies, and then break it with a Pickaxe to keep carrying it with you. The items remain in the Ender space between worlds and still appear when you put the chest down anywhere else.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Obsidian (8), Eye of Ender		Ender Chest

Eye of Ender

Craft Eyes of Ender when you’re ready to face Minecraft’s late game. Use these items to find Strongholds (massive dungeons located in the Overworld). These dungeons are quite hard to find on their own, and following Eyes of Ender makes locating them so much easier. Trace the steps of the Eyes of Ender, pick them up when you can, and reuse them until you get to the Stronghold.

Within each Stronghold is a room with a Portal to The End. Use Eyes of Ender to activate these Portals; completing a Portal requires many Eyes of Ender, so bring as many as possible. Afterward, the Portal allows travel between the Overworld and The End. Until you kill the Ender Dragon, it’s a one-way trip, so watch out.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Blaze Powder, Ender Pearl		Eye of Ender

Fence

Fences corral animals and monsters so they can’t move around or jump over your barricade. Though Fences look like they’re one block high, they’re a tiny bit taller than that. This prevents normal jumps from clearing them.

Like Doors, you can change the visual appearance of a Fence by using different wood in its creation.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Stick (6)		Fence (2)

Fence Gate

Use Fence Gates to act as Doors into Fenced-off areas. These open and close just like Wooden Doors, so they’re easy to use. Try different types of wood when crafting a Fence Gate to change its visual appearance.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Stick (4), Wood Plank (2)		Fence Gate

Fermented Spider Eye

Craft Spider Eyes into this enhanced brewing item. Fermented Spider Eyes are used in a variety of potions, with Potions of Harming and Invisibility being two of the most fun. Potions of Slowness, combined with a well-trapped area, wreak havoc on enemy players.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Brown Mushroom, Sugar, Spider Eye		Fermented Spider Eye

Flower Pot

Flower Pots act like decorative tiles for flowers, trees, and other plant life. Though these items have no functional value, they’re nice looking when you want to create a homey look to your outdoor or indoor areas.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Brick (3)		Flower Pot

Furnace

Furnaces are easy to make because they require only Cobblestone. Make one or two of them for your base as soon as you can, and bake Wood and Sticks to make Charcoal. Use the Charcoal as a superior fuel to burn more Wood until you accumulate an ample supply of Charcoal.

Use your Furnace to prepare food and smelt raw ore from the mines. Furnaces that are burning items also provide light if you’re out of Torches and need to see what you’re doing.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Cobblestone (8)		Furnace

Glass Bottle

Craft Glass Bottles to use with your Brewing Stand. They’re required for every base potion. Use a Glass Bottle while you’re facing a supply of Water to transform the item into a Water Bottle.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Glass (3)		Glass Bottle (3)

Glass Pane

You don’t have to use Glass Blocks to make windows in your home. Instead, craft Glass into Glass Panes. You get more bang for your buck this way, because you get 16 items to work with instead of six. Cut holes in your wall and install the Glass Panes to make windows.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Glass (6)		Glass Pane (16)

Glistering Melon

Use nuggets of gold to turn regular Melon into Glistering Melon. The final product is a major ingredient in Mundane Potions and Potions of Healing.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Gold Nugget (8), Melon		Glistering Melon

Glowstone

Glowstone forms in the Nether, near that world’s massive ceiling. Create pillars to climb, and cut down the Glowstone. When you break a Glowstone block, it shatters and drops Glowstone Dust, a useful brewing ingredient.

For a powerful light source that even works underwater, use Glowstone and Redstone to make a Redstone Lamp. It’s even brighter than a Torch.

Gold Ingot

Smelt Gold Ore in a Furnace to make Gold Ingots. These ingots are used for crafting golden tools, armor, and weapons. They’re also required for Clocks, Powered Rails, Weighted Pressure Plates, and Golden Apples.

In general, golden tools aren’t very good. They’re fast to use but break much too quickly to be practical.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Gold Nugget (9)		Gold Ingot

Gold Nugget

Gold Nuggets are either made by breaking Gold Ingots or hunting groups of Zombie Pigmen. The nuggets are used when crafting Firework Stars, Glistering Melon, and Golden Carrots.

If you have more Gold Nuggets than you need, combine them back into Gold Ingots for more compact storage!

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Gold Ingot		Gold Nugget (9)

Granite

Granite is naturally occurring rock harvested like normal Stone—it just looks different. Use Granite to make a stone building or floor look brownish in color, for a southwestern feel.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Diorite, Nether Quartz		Granite
Granite (4)		Polished Granite (4)

Gray Dye

Use this dye to stain Wool, Stained Glass, Stained Clay, Leather armor, and other items a grim gray color.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Ink Sac, Bone Meal		Gray Dye (2)