Recipe book

From Minecraft Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
This article is about the GUI system for crafting. For the item, see Knowledge Book.
The crafting recipe book, as it appears in the survival inventory screen.

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

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 then opens 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.
Interacting an item in the recipe book shows all the patterns.

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]

Book and Quill JE2 BE2.png
This section needs to be rewritten. [discuss]
Please help us by rewriting it.
Reason: furnace/smoker/blast furnace/campfire recipes; bedrock "unlock" system
Information icon.svg
This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.
The notification that pops up when new recipes are unlocked ‌[Java Edition only]

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]

Crafting recipe result Unlocking criteria
Have an iron ingot
Have a gold ingot
Have a diamond
Have redstone dust
Have the appropriate block or item
Have blackstone or cobblestone
Have nether quartz
Have a stick
Have string
Have a minecart
Have an amethyst shard‌[upcoming: JE 1.17]
Have blaze powder
Have a book
Have glass
Have leather
Have a melon slice
Have planks
Have the appropriate planks
Have a prismarine shard
Have a rail
Have a slimeball
Have the appropriate colored wool
Have bamboo
Have a beetroot
Have black dye or white dye
Have a blaze rod
Have a block of iron
Have a block of quartz, a chiseled quartz block, or a quartz pillar
Have bone meal
Have a brick
Have cocoa beans
Have the appropriate copper block‌[upcoming: JE 1.17]
Have a copper ingot‌[upcoming: JE 1.17]
Have diorite
Have an eye of ender
Have a gold nugget
Have glowstone dust
Have gunpowder
Have a honey bottle
Have a honeycomb
Have an iron ingot or an iron nugget
Have lapis lazuli
Have nether wart
Have a netherite ingot
Have an oxeye daisy
Have paper
Have polished blackstone
Have a popped chorus fruit
Have a snowball
Have stone
Have sugar cane
Have wheat
Have wooden slabs
Be in water
Have ten slots occupied in the inventory
Have an allium
Have andesite
Have an azure bluet
Have basalt
Have blackstone
Have a block of coal
Have a block of diamond
Have a block of emerald
Have a block of gold
Have a block of netherite
Have a block of redstone
Have a block of quartz
Have blue dye, pink dye, or red dye
Have blue dye, red dye, or white dye
Have blue dye or green dye
Have blue dye or red dye
Have blue dye or white dye
Have a blue orchid
Have a bone
Have a bone block
Have a bow
Have a bowl, mushroom, or mushroom stew
Have a candle or the appropriate dye‌[upcoming: JE 1.17]
Have a carrot
Have a carved pumpkin
Have a carved pumpkin or pumpkin
Have charcoal, coal, or a stick
Have chiseled red sandstone, cut red sandstone, or red sandstone
Have a clay ball
Have coal
Have cobblestone
Have a compass
Have a copper block‌[upcoming: JE 1.17]
Have a cooked rabbit
Have a Cornflower
Have a creeper head
Have crying obsidian
Have a dandelion
Have dried kelp
Have a dried kelp block
Have the appropriate dye or a glass pane
Have the appropriate dye or a white carpet
Have an egg
Have a emerald
Have an enchanted golden apple
Have end stone
Have a feather or flint
Have flint
Have flint or obsidian
Have a furnace
Have glowstone
Have granite
Have gravel
Have gravel or sand
Have gray dye or white dye
Have green dye or white dye
Have a hay bale
Have a heart of the sea or nautilus shell
Have a honey block
Have a honeycomb or string
Have ice
Have an ink sac
Have an iron ingot, stick, string, or a tripwire hook
Have an iron nugget
Have a lapis lazuli block
Have a lilac
Have a lily of the valley
Have the appropriate log or stem
Have an item from the appropriate log or stem item tag.
Have magma cream
Have mossy cobblestone
Have a mushroom or mushroom stew
Have a nether brick
Have nether bricks
Have nether brick slab
Have a nether star
Have netherite scrap
Have obsidian
Have an orange tulip
Have packed ice
Have a peony
Have pink dye or purple dye
Have a pink tulip
Have a poppy
Have prismarine crystals
Have a pumpkin
Have a purpur block
Have a rabbit hide
Have red dye or yellow dye
Have red dye or white dye
Have red sand
Have red sandstone
Have a redstone torch
Have a red tulip
Have a rose bush
Have sand
Have sandstone
Have a sandstone slab
Have a scute
Have a shulker shell
Have a slime block
Have smooth stone
Have a smooth stone slab
Have a soul torch
Have soul sand or soul soil
Have a spider eye
Have the appropriate stained glass
Have a stick, soul sand, or soul soil
Have stone bricks
Have a stone pickaxe
Have a stone slab
Have the appropriate stripped log or stripped stem
Have a sunflower
Have terracotta
Have a tripwire hook
Have vines
Have warped fungus
Have a water bucket
Have a white bed
Have a white tulip
Have white wool
Have a wither rose
Have a wither skeleton skull
Have wool

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 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 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.

History[edit]

Java Edition
October 30, 2015Developers discussed the possibility of a recipe book during a Pocket Edition/Windows 10 Edition Q&A livestream.
September 25, 2016At MineCon 2016, Tommaso Checchi explained the need for a recipe book while discussing the unification of the desktop and pocket platforms.
1.12March 23, 2017Maria Lemón revealed the new recipe book feature.
17w13aAdded the recipe book.
17w14aChanged 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.
17w15aThe icon in the pop-up notification now quickly cycles through all recipes that were unlocked.
17w17aOptimized 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).
17w18aOptimized recipe book, fixing several issues with the "Show craftable" option.
The word that triggers the easter egg is now "excitedze" rather than "excited".
pre1Further optimizations to the recipe book.
pre3Optimized recipe searching.
pre6Further optimizations to searching, especially while using mods.
releaseAdded toast sounds.[more information needed]
1.1318w06aRecipe book icon now is a separate file, it's stored in the recipe_button.png.
Added a recipe book for the furnace.
1.1620w09aStained glass pane recipes now only unlock when the player has the same color of stained glass in their inventory.
Pre-release 1Smithing Tables now have a recipe book with currently no function.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.1720w45aSimple firework rockets with one gunpowder can now be crafted using the recipe book.
20w48aThe chiseled nether bricks recipe is now unlocked by having a nether brick slab instead of a nether bricks block.
21w03aThe chiseled polished blackstone crafting recipe is now unlocked by having a polished blackstone slab, instead of polished blackstone.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0beta 1.2.0.2Added the recipe book.
beta 1.2.0.15Added a button for how to use the recipe book.
beta 1.2.0.25Added 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.

  • Using the "show craftable" option.

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

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Might've found the other easter egg" – u/konwboj on Reddit, April 8, 2017

Gameplay

View at: Template:Gameplay/content [edit]
Retrieved from "https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Recipe_book?oldid=1849536"