How do you get a crafting table in Minecraft?

What is a Crafting Table?

A crafting table (also called a workbench) is a block that provides an expanded 3×3 crafting grid, allowing you to craft more items than the default 2×2 player crafting grid.

With just the 2×2 grid, you can only make extremely basic items like sticks, planks, and a few tools. To craft 99% of items in Minecraft, you need to use a 3×3 grid – and for that, you need a crafting table.

Some key things you can make with a crafting table that aren’t possible otherwise:

• Better tools like pickaxes, axes, shovels
• Weapons like swords and bows
• Armor like helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots
• Advanced blocks like furnaces, dispensers, and pistons

So getting your first crafting table is an essential milestone in any new Minecraft world. But how do you craft the crafting table itself when you start with nothing?

Gather Wood

The first step is gathering wood from trees. Here’s what you need to do:

• Punch trees – Use your fist to punch wood blocks to collect basic wood blocks. No tools needed for this first step.
• Make planks – Open your inventory and craft the wood blocks into wooden planks. Place 1 wood block in each box of the 2×2 crafting grid.
• Repeat – You need at least 4 wood planks to make a crafting table, so repeat punching trees and making planks until you have enough.

Trees are abundant at the start of any Minecraft world, so collecting at least 4 wood planks does not take long at all.

Now that you have the required materials, it’s time to make your first crafting table!

Craft the Table

Follow these steps to craft a crafting table:

1. Open your inventory and crafting grid if it’s not already open.
2. Place your wood planks in the 2×2 crafting grid. You need 4 planks total, one in each grid square.The planks must fill all 4 squares, but the specific arrangement doesn’t matter.
3. The crafted crafting table will appear in the output box to the right when you have the planks correctly arranged.
4. Move the crafted crafting table into your main inventory.

And that’s it! You’ve successfully crafted your very first crafting table in Minecraft.

Use the New 3×3 Grid

Now when you open your inventory screen, you’ll notice the 2×2 crafting grid is replaced by a bigger 3×3 grid.

This works as long as you have a crafting table in your inventory or placed nearby. Try out the new crafting area by making some basic but essential items:

• Wooden pickaxe – 2 wood planks vertically on sides, 3 wood sticks horizontally in middle row
• Wooden sword – 1 wood plank on bottom middle box, 1 stick on top middle, 1 plank on middle right
• Furnace – 8 cobblestone or other stone/block in ring pattern on outer boxes
• Torches – Coal or charcoal on top middle, stick below it

Having basic tools and a furnace will help you gather resources and smelt ores much faster. Make sure to place the crafting table back down whenever you need to use it again.

Tips for Finding Trees Quickly

When starting a new world, you want to find and gather trees right away to make a crafting table ASAP. Here are some tips:

• Look around the spawn area carefully – there are usually a few trees in sight.
• If no trees are visible, pick a direction and walk until you find some.
• Trees are much more common in forest and plains biomes. If you spawned in a desert or snowy tundra, finding trees may take longer.
• Tall grass indicates you’re likely in a plains biome that should have lots of oak and birch trees nearby.
• Listen for animal sounds like chickens or sheep, as animals spawn near trees more often.
• As soon as the sun starts setting, stop searching – take shelter and sleep through the night. Resume your search at dawn.
• If desperately needed, dig into a hillside for basic shelter on the first night, then get back above ground to find trees at first light.

With a bit of searching, you should be chopping down trees and crafting a table within the first 10 minutes of any new world.

Open the Inventory screen and add items

Go to the crafting menu where you will see a crafting area that has a small 2×2 crafting grid. In order to build a crafting table, you will first need to place 4 wood planks in the 2×2 crafting grid.

The only requirement to make a crafting table in Minecraft is wooden blocks. You can use wooden blocks to make wooden planks, which you can then convert into a crafting table. 1. To get a wooden block, well, you need to punch a tree trunk in the game.