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How to Craft Clock in Minecraft

Clock in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Showing the current time of day.

You need 4 Gold Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust, plus a Crafting Table to assemble them on. From the top down: a Gold Ingot in the middle column; then two Gold Ingots in the outer columns and Redstone Dust in the middle column; then a Gold Ingot in the middle column. Expect 1 Clock from every craft.

Clock Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Clock is minecraft:clock. In commands the namespace may be left off, so clock works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p clock
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p clock 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve clock 1

Cheats have to be on for Clock to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

A Clock shows the current position of the sun and moon. Useful when underground to know if it is day or night on the surface. Clock uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

The clock was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with gold ingot (smelt gold ore) and redstone dust (mine redstone ore).

Counting The Stack

Stack sum: 64 over 4 is 16 crafts, times 1 is 16 clocks. Have 16 redstone dust ready as well. Nothing is wasted: craft 16 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Gold IngotGold IngotGold Ingot4xSmelt gold ore
Redstone DustRedstone DustRedstone Dust1xMine redstone ore

Gather 4x Gold Ingot (smelt gold ore) and Redstone Dust (mine redstone ore), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

4 Gold Ore makes 4 Gold Ingot, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Redstone Dust and 4 Gold Ore.

  1. 1
    4Gold IngotGold Ingot4Gold IngotFurnace, repeat 4x
  2. 2
    ClockClockClockthis page

Gather this first

Redstone DustRedstone DustRedstone Dust4Gold Ore

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Gold IngotGold Ingot4x Gold Ingot

  2. 2

    Redstone DustRedstone DustRedstone Dust

  3. 3

    Clock

Minecraft crafting recipe for Clock: 4 x Gold Ingot, 1 x Redstone Dust in a crafting table, making 1 Clock.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 4x Gold Ingot and 1x Redstone Dust. Start with the Gold Ingot: smelt gold ore.

Uses for Clock

  • Showing the current time of day
  • Useful underground or in the Nether

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Clock on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Clock in Minecraft?
4 Gold Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Clock. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Clock.
What do you need to make a Clock from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Clock comes down to 1 Redstone Dust and 4 Gold Ore. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
Can you craft a Clock without a crafting table?
You need a table for a Clock. It is laid out as four Gold Ingots and a single Redstone Dust in the centre cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Clock?
Here is where each part of a Clock comes from. Gold Ingot: smelt gold ore. Redstone Dust: mine redstone ore.
How many Clocks do you get from one craft?
The Clock recipe makes one Clock per craft.
What is the item ID for Clock in Minecraft?
The Clock item ID is minecraft:clock, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write clock on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Clock?
/give @p clock gives you a Clock. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Clock recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Clock recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Clock from 4 Gold Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Clock?
The files run out before the clock does. Minecraft Beta 1.0 is the oldest language file Mojang publishes and clock was listed in it. Today the game builds it from 4 Gold Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 Gold Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust in, 1 Clock out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Clock per craft against the stack size.

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