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How to Craft Crafting Table in Minecraft

Crafting Table in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. 3x3 crafting grid for all recipes. Minecraft has used the name Crafting Table since Beta 1.2.

Making a Crafting Table takes 4 Planks, and it is the one recipe you can do without a station. Its pattern is four Planks in a 2x2 square. Each attempt hands back 1 Crafting Table. It doubles as fuel at 300 ticks apiece, so 43 Crafting Tables will smelt 64 items.

Crafting Table Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

The Crafting Table provides a 3x3 crafting grid, required for nearly all recipes beyond the 2x2 inventory grid. Crafting Table uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown. A Crafting Table gives you the full 3x3 grid, which you need for any recipe larger than 2x2. You can craft one from four planks, and most bases keep one near the furnaces.

Minecraft has used the name Crafting Table since Beta 1.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with planks (craft from logs).

What A Stack Yields

16 crafts drain a stack: 64 planks become 16 crafting tables. Craft 16 takes the last planks, with nothing spare.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Planks4xCraft from logs

Collect 4x Planks (craft from logs) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    4x Planks

  2. 2

    Crafting Table

Minecraft crafting recipe for Crafting Table: 4 x Planks in a crafting table, making 1 Crafting Table.

Tips & Notes

  • This is the one recipe you can always fall back on: the 2x2 grid built into your inventory is enough to make a Crafting Table, which is how every world starts.
  • Shopping list: 4x Planks. Plan the Planks first: craft from logs.

Uses for Crafting Table

  • 3x3 crafting grid for all recipes
  • Required for most crafting

What Crafting Table Goes Into

One other recipe on this site lists Crafting Table as an ingredient.

CrafterCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Crafting Table in Minecraft?
4 Planks at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Crafting Table. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Crafting Table.
Can you craft a Crafting Table without a crafting table?
Yes, you can make a Crafting Table in the 2x2 grid built into your inventory screen, no crafting table needed. It is laid out as four Planks in a 2x2 square, which never leaves a 2x2 area.
Where do you find the materials for a Crafting Table?
The materials for a Crafting Table each come from somewhere different. Planks: craft from logs.
How many Crafting Tables do you get from one craft?
The Crafting Table recipe makes one Crafting Table per craft.
What is the item ID for Crafting Table in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Crafting Table goes by minecraft:crafting_table; crafting_table without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Crafting Table?
/give @p crafting_table gives you a Crafting Table. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Crafting Table recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Crafting Table takes 4 Planks at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
How do you unlock the Crafting Table recipe in the recipe book?
The Crafting Table recipe sits in your recipe book from the moment you enter the world in Java Edition. It is the only one of the game's recipes handed over outright; every other one waits for you to pick something up, and this one cannot, because you need it before you can craft anything else.
What version of Minecraft added the Crafting Table?
Minecraft Beta 1.2 is the earliest release that spells out crafting table. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 Planks in, 1 Crafting Table out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java Beta 1.2 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size, burn time
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 Crafting Table per craft against the stack size.

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