Recipe book

	“	The recipe book, together with the advancements system, will help new players to learn the game and give advanced players a new challenge.	„
		— Maria Lemón on advancements and recipe books

The recipe book is a mechanic in Minecraft that serves as a catalog of recipes and as a crafting guide.

Interface

	“	The way it works in vanilla survival* is that you either "discover" a recipe by crafting it manually, or some other condition where we think "okay now you have sticks, we'll teach you how to make a pickaxe". After a recipe is "discovered" it's available in this recipe book, an optional thing you can click to in a crafting screen. From there you can see all the recipes you've discovered and how to craft them, so you don't need to google for the shape and ingredients. *I say vanilla survival because this is customizable. For example, a custom map could require you to only craft things they've given you, and nothing else. In vanilla survival this is purely a tool to help remember recipes you don't use much, or teach you about new ones that you may not have known about.	„
		— Dinnerbone on using the recipe book

The open recipe book, as it appears in the survival inventory screen.

The recipe book as it appears in the crafting table screen.

The recipe book can be displayed in either the 2x2 (inventory) or 3x3 (crafting table) grids. Simply enter the crafting GUI and press the button with the knowledge book; the recipe book will then be displayed to the left.

Similar to Bedrock Edition's MATTIS system, the recipe book contains a list of all available crafting recipes.

Recipes are stored in several different tabs:

• 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.

Clicking on an item in the list will display its crafting recipe in the nearby 2x2 or 3x3 grid. The item can then be crafted if the materials are available; otherwise, the button containing the item will be highlighted red. Holding the click button will show alternate patterns for the same crafting recipe (for example, holding click on a banner recipe will show all the possible banners using different colored wools). 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 of which displays only recipes for which you have the necessary materials in your inventory. The top-left corner also contains a search bar to further narrow the list.

Note that the 2x2 recipe book will only display recipes that can be crafted in the 2x2 grid; if you want to see every possible recipe, you must use the 3x3 recipe book.

Obtaining

The notification that pops up when new recipes are unlocked.

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 will also unlock it, so long as /gamerule doLimitedCrafting remains false.

Recipes can also be given - or taken away - by using the /recipe command.

Data values

Player data

• 
  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 or minecraft:gold_ingot_from_nuggets
    • 
       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 or minecraft:gold_ingot_from_nuggets
    • 
       isFilteringCraftable: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has enabled the "Show Craftable" feature in the recipe book.
    • 
       isGuiOpen: 0 or 1 (true/false). True if the player has a GUI open.

History

Java Edition
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.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			build 1		Added the recipe book.
			build 5		Added a button for how to use the recipe book.
			build 8		Added a button to open/close the recipe book.

Trivia

• If you search for "excitedze" in the recipe book, your language switches to Pirate Speak.
  • This is a reference to "ExcitedZE", an alias used by Maria Lemón, whose avatar is a pirate.

Issues

Issues relating to "Recipe book" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  First look at the recipe book. Image tweeted by Maria Lemón.

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  Using the "show craftable" option.

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  Using the search feature to narrow the list to items only containing "stone".

References

Gameplay

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