Crafting - H-M

Hay Bale

A full Crafting Table of Wheat makes a single Hay Bale. Feed these bales to your Horses, Donkeys, or Mules to heal them from injuries. Or break the Hay Bale in a crafting window to make it back into nine Wheat. Store large amounts of excess Wheat in a compact space by leaving it in Hay Bales.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Wheat (9)		Hay Bale

Hopper

Hoppers pull items from containers above them and push the items down into anything below them. Put a Hopper under a Furnace to immediately have cooked/smelted items fall into your Hopper. Similarly, Hoppers above a Chest or Furnace fill those objects with whatever you put into the Hopper.

Brewing Stands and Furnaces can also be fed from their sides. A Hopper beside these objects loads their fuel/ingredient slots. It’s pretty neat.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Iron Ingot (5), Chest		Hopper

Iron Bars

Iron Bars let you wall off an area without restricting your view. They’re nice when you need to secure a compound and give the appearance of a jail or fortress.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Iron Ingot (6)		Iron Bars (16)

Item Frame

An Item Frame stores an object inside it. Make the frame and place it somewhere in your home. This locks the Item Frame onto a wall, Fence, tree, or whatever else is appropriate. Then slot one of your items and interact with the empty Item Frame to put the object inside it.

There, you have something nice hung in your house. Use this with Clocks to see the time when you’re walking around your home. Maps and weapons are fun, too. To get your item back, attack the Item Frame to knock the object out of it.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Stick (8), Leather		Item Frame

Jack-o-Lantern

Use spare Pumpkins as bright light sources by adding a Torch to them. These blocks make your home safer yet add a spooky air when you’re in a holiday mood. Perfect for Halloween.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Pumpkin, Torch		Jack-o-Lantern

Jukebox

Jukeboxes play Music Discs to add fun ambient music to your home. Music Discs are found in special Chests, or are gained by causing Skeletons to shoot Creepers to death. Once you have these discs, hold them in your hand and interact with the Jukebox to turn it on.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Wood Plank (8), Diamond		Jukebox

Ladder

Craft quite a few Ladders when you plan to work on pillars, ravines, mineshafts, and other vertical surfaces. Install Ladders on the sheer walls of these areas so your character can safely climb up or down from them.

If you fall near a Ladder, push toward it. Your character catches the Ladder and stops his or her fall without taking damage. This is a useful trick.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Stick (7)		Ladder (3)

Lead

Leads are great for pulling animals back to your home. Using food to lure creatures is acceptable for the same task, but it takes a very long time to entice the animals. They sometimes lose interest. Leads are much more efficient. Walk up to the animal that you want to guide, and use the Lead on it. Once you’re tethered, walk back toward home. Use additional Leads to gather even more animals as you go.

Leads can be attached to Fences to tether your animals while you’re away.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
String (4), Slimeball		Lead (2)

Lever

Levers create power as an on or off switch. Pull them to activate their power and channel it through nearby machines or Redstone Dust, and turn off the power with a second flip of the switch.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Stick, Cobblestone		Lever

Light Blue Dye

Stain Leather armor, Sheep, Wool, and various other objects to a sky blue color.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Blue Orchid or Bone Meal and Lapis Lazuli		Light Blue Dye

Light Gray Dye

Use this to stain Leather armor, Sheep, Wool, Clay, and Glass a mild gray color.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip		Light Gray Dye
Gray Dye, Bone Meal		Light Gray Dye (2)
Ink Sac, Bone Meal		Light Gray Dye (3)

Lime Dye

Use Lime Dye to stain Leather armor, Sheep, Wool, Clay, and Glass a bright green color.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Cactus Green, Bone Meal		Lime Dye (2)

Magenta Dye

Magenta Dye stains Leather armor, Sheep, Wool, Clay, and Glass a darker, saturated pink color.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Allium or Lilac		Magenta Dye

Magma Cream

Magma Cream is either crafted or found when you kill Magma Cubes in the Nether. It’s used as an ingredient in Mundane Potions and Potions of Fire Resistance. The latter is a powerful defensive potion when battling in the Nether.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Blaze Powder, Slimeball		Magma Cream

Melon Block

Combine a full set of Melons to make a Melon Block, or break Melon Blocks to get Melons. Either way, these blocks grow from Melon Seeds and are similar to Pumpkins in terms of their farming methods.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Melon (9)		Melon Block

Minecart

There are several types of Minecarts in the game, and all of them are useful at different times. The base Minecart is a means of transport that rides along Railways both above ground and underneath it. Use downward slopes or occasional Powered Rails to keep your Minecarts moving at high speed, traveling from one end of the track to the other as quickly as possible.

Minecarts with Chests give you storage options. Place items in the Minecart and send it on its way using a Powered Rail system. Because the cart is full, you can’t ride along in it. Either use another Minecart to follow, or use another means of transport.

Minecarts with Hoppers are pretty cool. They grab any items along the Railway as they travel (unless they hit an Activator Rail). Set up areas where monsters are slain and farmed for items, and run your Minecart with Hopper through it to collect your treasure.

Minecarts with TNT are mobile explosives that detonate if they touch an Activator Rail—very nice.

Minecarts with Furnaces push other carts ahead of themselves. Add fuel to make them work, and its full speed ahead for your new train of Minecarts.

Recipe

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe	Result
Iron Ingot (5)		Minecart
Minecart, Chest		Minecart with Chest
Minecart, TNT		Minecart with TNT
Minecart, Furnace		Minecart with Furnace
Minecart, Hopper		Minecart with Hopper