Recipe book

The recipe book is a mechanic in Minecraft that serves as a catalog of recipes and as a crafting, smelting, and banner patterning guide.
Contents
Interface[edit]
Java Edition[edit]
The recipe book can be displayed in inventory, crafting table, furnace, blast furnace and smoker. The player must enter the GUI and press the knowledge book icon; the recipe book is then open to the left.
Recipes are stored in several different tabs:
- Crafting Table and Inventory
- The first, topmost tab contains every unlocked recipe.
- The second tab contains tools, weapons, and armor.
- The third tab contains building materials.
- The fourth tab contains food items and miscellaneous things.
- The fifth tab contains redstone materials.
- Furnace
- The first, topmost tab contains every unlocked recipe.
- The second tab contains food items.
- The third tab contains building and decorative materials.
- The fourth tab contains miscellaneous things.
- Blast Furnace
- The first, topmost tab contains every unlocked recipe.
- The second tab contains redstone.
- The third tab contains refined ores.
- Smoker
- The first, topmost tab contains every unlocked recipe.
- The second tab contains food items.
Clicking on an item in the list displays its recipe in the grid. The item can then be crafted if the materials are available; otherwise, the button containing the item is highlighted red. Each click shows alternate patterns for the same crafting recipe, if there are several patterns (for example, each click on a banner crafting recipe shows all the possible banners using different colored wools). Right-click on the item shows all the alternate patterns.
Shift-clicking an item in the list puts all available materials in the crafting grid.
The button in the top right corner of the recipe book toggles between "Show all" and "Show craftable"; the latter displays only recipes for which the player has the necessary materials in their inventory. The top-left corner also contains a search bar to further narrow the list.
There are also recipes for campfires and stonecutters, but they don't have a recipe book interface.
The recipe book as it appears in the survival inventory screen.
The recipe book as it appears in the crafting table screen.
The recipe book as it appears in the furnace screen.
The recipe book as it appears in the blast furnace screen.
The recipe book as it appears in the smoker screen.
Bedrock Edition[edit]
Instead of Java Edition, the recipe book can only be displayed in inventory and crafting table. The player must enter the GUI and click on the recipe book tab.
Recipes are stored in several different tabs:
- The first tab contains building materials.
- The second tab contains tools, weapons, and armor.
- The third tab contains ore items and miscellaneous things.
- The fourth tab contains nature-related materials and food.
- The fifth and last tab contains every unlocked recipe.
Clicking on an item in the list puts all available materials in the crafting grid, displaying the recipe. The item can then be crafted if the materials are available; otherwise, the button containing the item is highlighted red. Right-click on the item automatically crafts it, and pressing ⇧ Shift crafts all items based on how many materials the player have in the inventory.
The button in the top right corner of the recipe book toggles between "All" and "Craftable"; the latter displays only recipes for which the player has the necessary materials in their inventory. The top-left corner also contains a search bar to further narrow the list.
The recipe book as it appears in the survival inventory screen.
The recipe book as it appears in the crafting table screen.
Unlocking[edit]

Recipes are unlocked upon meeting certain criteria (for instance, gathering materials, being near water, having a certain number of filled inventory slots, etc.) or by using a knowledge book. Using a crafting recipe also unlocks it, so long as /gamerule doLimitedCrafting
remains false.
Recipes can also be given or taken away by using the /recipe
command.
Crafting table recipes[edit]
Smelting Recipes[edit]
Smelting Result | Blast Furnace Recipe | Smoker & Campfire Recipe | Unlocking Criteria |
---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Have ancient debris | |
No | No | Have a cactus | |
Yes | No | Have chainmail armor, iron armor, iron axe, iron hoe, iron horse armor, iron pickaxe, iron shovel, iron sword | |
No | No | Have chorus fruit | |
No | No | Have Clay | |
No | No | Have a clay ball | |
Yes | No | Have coal ore | |
Yes | No | Have copper ore[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
Yes | No | Have diamond ore | |
Yes | No | Have emerald ore | |
Yes | No | Have gold ore or nether gold ore | |
Yes | No | Have golden armor, golden axe, golden hoe, golden horse armor, golden pickaxe, golden shovel, or golden sword | |
Yes | No | Have iron ore | |
No | Yes | Have kelp | |
Yes | No | Have lapis lazuli ore | |
No | No | Have a flammable log, wood, or stripped variant | |
No | No | Have nether bricks | |
Yes | No | Have nether quartz ore | |
No | No | Have netherrack | |
No | No | Have polished blackstone bricks | |
No | Yes | Have a potato | |
No | No | Have Block of Quartz | |
No | Yes | Have raw beef | |
No | Yes | Have raw chicken | |
No | Yes | Have raw cod | |
No | Yes | Have raw mutton | |
No | Yes | Have raw porkchop | |
No | Yes | Have raw rabbit | |
No | Yes | Have raw salmon | |
No | No | Have red sand or sand | |
No | No | Have Red Sandstone | |
Yes | No | Have redstone ore | |
No | No | Have Sandstone | |
No | No | Have sea pickle | |
No | No | Have Stone | |
No | No | Have stone bricks | |
No | No | Have respective terracotta | |
No | No | Have Wet Sponge |
Stonecutter Recipes[edit]
Stonecutter Result | Unlocking Criteria |
---|---|
Have blackstone | |
Have polished blackstone | |
Have stone | |
Have end stone | |
Have the respective block | |
Have andesite | |
Have block of quartz | |
Have diorite | |
Have granite | |
Have red sandstone | |
Have sandstone | |
Have basalt | |
Have nether bricks | |
Have purpur block | |
Have stone bricks |
Data values[edit]
Player data[edit]
- Player.dat root tag
- recipeBook
- recipes A list of all recipes the player has seen.
- : the name of a recipe, for instance
minecraft:gold_nugget
orminecraft:gold_ingot_from_nuggets
- : the name of a recipe, for instance
- toBeDisplayed A list of all recipes the player has unlocked, but not viewed in the crafting helper yet.
- : the name of a recipe, for instance
minecraft:gold_nugget
orminecraft:gold_ingot_from_nuggets
- : the name of a recipe, for instance
- isFilteringCraftable: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has enabled the "Show Craftable" feature in the crafting recipe book.
- isGuiOpen: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has the crafting recipe book GUI open.
- isFurnaceFilteringCraftable: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has enabled the "Show Smeltable" feature in the smelting recipe book.
- isFurnaceGuiOpen: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has the smelting recipe book GUI open.
- isBlastingFurnaceFilteringCraftable: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has enabled the "Show Blastable" feature in the blasting recipe book.
- isBlastingFurnaceGuiOpen: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has the blasting recipe book GUI open.
- isSmokerFilteringCraftable: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has enabled the "Show Smokable" feature in the smoking recipe book.
- isSmokerGuiOpen: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has the smoking recipe book GUI open.
- recipes A list of all recipes the player has seen.
- recipeBook
History[edit]
Java Edition | |||||
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October 30, 2015 | Developers discussed the possibility of a recipe book during a Pocket Edition/Windows 10 Edition Q&A livestream. | ||||
September 25, 2016 | At MineCon 2016, Tommaso Checchi explained the need for a recipe book while discussing the unification of the desktop and pocket platforms. | ||||
1.12 | March 23, 2017 | Maria Lemón revealed the new recipe book feature. | |||
17w13a | Added the recipe book. | ||||
17w14a | Changed the icon on the trigger button from a standard book to a knowledge book. | ||||
Added a shift-click ability to the recipe book that puts all available materials in the crafting grid. | |||||
Added a new pop-up notification that appears when new recipes are unlocked. | |||||
Added an easter egg that appears when searching for "excited" within the recipe book. | |||||
17w15a | The icon in the pop-up notification now quickly cycles through all recipes that were unlocked. | ||||
17w17a | Optimized the recipe book. | ||||
Added the toBeDisplayed NBT tag, which stores recipe names that the player has unlocked, but not viewed in the crafting helper yet (used for the animation for new recipes). | |||||
17w18a | Optimized recipe book, fixing several issues with the "Show craftable" option. | ||||
The word that triggers the easter egg is now "excitedze" rather than "excited". | |||||
pre1 | Further optimizations to the recipe book. | ||||
pre3 | Optimized recipe searching. | ||||
pre6 | Further optimizations to searching, especially while using mods. | ||||
release | Added toast sounds.[more information needed] | ||||
1.13 | 18w06a | Recipe book icon now is a separate file, it's stored in the recipe_button.png. | |||
Added a recipe book for the furnace. | |||||
1.16 | 20w09a | Stained glass pane recipes now only unlock when the player has the same color of stained glass in their inventory. | |||
Pre-release 1 | Smithing Tables now have a recipe book with currently no function. | ||||
Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
1.17 | 20w45a | Simple firework rockets with one gunpowder can now be crafted using the recipe book. | |||
20w48a | The chiseled nether bricks recipe is now unlocked by having a nether brick slab instead of a nether bricks block. | ||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Added the recipe book. | |||
beta 1.2.0.15 | Added a button for how to use the recipe book. | ||||
beta 1.2.0.25 | Added a button to open/close the recipe book. |
Trivia[edit]
- In Java Edition, if the player searches for "excitedze" in the recipe book, the language switches to Pirate Speak.[1]
- This is a reference to "ExcitedZE", an alias used by Maria Lemón, whose avatar is a pirate.
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Recipe book" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
First look at the recipe book. Image tweeted by Maria Lemón.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Might've found the other easter egg" – u/konwboj on Reddit, April 8, 2017