Minecraft is a game that almost every gamer is familiar with and has at least seen played before. Both survival fans and players with huge imaginations are drawn to the game thanks to its addictive gameplay and limitless building potential.
The game has been on every console since the Xbox 360/ PlayStation 3 era of gaming, and new players are still finding their way to the game. Many players are now focused on the more complicated recipes in the game, and fans find tons of articles about how to make all types of high-end Redstone contraptions like automated harvesting machines. Below we focus on the essential recipes that every starting player should know.
10 Paper
Paper is an essential building block for quite a few other recipes, like the map that players tend to find themselves needing often. Paper-like, every other recipe on this list is going to be done using the crafting table. To craft paper, you will need to have three sugar cane, which generally grows alongside rivers and ponds in the game.
Open the crafting menu and place three sugar canes in a horizontal in the crafting menu. Each time you craft paper, you will receive a stack of three sheets.
9 Compass
The compass is another useful tool that is often overlooked by players. The compass has the ability to point you towards the world spawn point, which helps many players find the way back to their bases. The compass is also an essential part of crafting new maps, making it a must for those who love to explore and document their world.
To make a compass, you will need four iron ingots and one Redstone dust. Simply place the Redstone dust in the simple of the crafting blocks and put the ingots vertical and horizontal so that they all face across from each other.
8 Map
One of the top reasons that players should learn to make paper is so that they can make multiple maps. Minecraft is a procedurally generated world that players must uncover as they dig around. It’s almost guaranteed that at some point, the player will be burnt alive in lava, losing their map and everything else they’ve been working to carry back home.
To make a new map, you need to craft eight pieces of paper and a single compass. You will need to put the compass in the middle of the crafting table and surround it with paper to make a new map.
7 Flint And Steel
Being able to set a forest on fire is one of the quickest ways to clear an area for construction. Fire can also be used to burn down a Woodland Mansion and, especially if you need a way to keep Evokers and Vindicators from spawning near your camp. The easiest way to do this is by keeping flint and steel handy.
Flint and steel is incredibly easy to make and only takes a single iron ingot and a single piece of flint, which can be harvested from gravel. To make flint and steel, place the flint in the middle block of the bottom crafting row and the iron in the first block of the second crafting row.
6 Bread
Bread is an incredibly useful food that can be easily made at the beginning of the game and keep players from starving. Bread is able to restore five hunger, has a 6.0 hunger saturation, and is an important part of encouraging villagers to breed. This simple to make recipe is an inexpensive way to keep from starving while exploring cave systems.
To make bread, you should harvest wheat, which can easily be grown using a farm or found in most villages. Bread takes three wheat to make place diagonally next to each other in the crafting table.
5 Shears
Finding wool is an easy task until you kill all the sheep around you and are left hoping more spawn in, instead of getting another cow. Wool is essential for making beds so that you can save your spawn point and sleep through the night. Shears allow you to safely harvest wool from sheep and are especially useful once you develop a farm.
To make sheers, you only need to craft two iron ingots. Simply place the first ingot in the first slot of the bottom row and the second ingot in the middle of the middle row.
4 Bucket
Despite being an essential item for creating a water source in your camp, many new players don’t know how to make a bucket. The bucket is a great tool for not only creating source blocks but also handling lava that players encounter when they explore cavern systems in search of diamonds.
You won’t have to dig too deep to get the supplies to make the bucket as it only takes three iron ingots. The ingots should be placed in the first and last block of the middle crafting row and in the middle block of the bottom crafting row.
3 Anvil
The anvil is a bit more of an advanced recipe but is something players should strive to make early on. Not only does the anvil allow you to name your animals, but it can be used to repair your equipment. This keeps your use of resources low and is especially important for preparing expensive diamond armor.
To make an anvil, you need three iron blocks, which are crafted from nine iron ingots each and four iron ingots. You need to fill the top crafting row with iron blocks and the bottom with iron ingots; once that’s done, place one iron ingot in the center of the crafting blocks.
2 Cookie
The cookie is another staple food that you should strive to make early on. Unlike bread, cookies are made in stacks of eight, making them great for distribution among friends. To keep a constant supply of cookies, most players recommend growing a jungle tree at your camp to farm cocoa beans from for the recipe.
To make a cookie, you will need just two wheat and one cocoa bean. Use the bottom row of the crafting table to place the items with the cocoa bean in the middle.
1 Campfire
Getting around in the game can be tough at first, especially with your stamina running low in the middle of long missions. The best way to ensure that you are prepared for overnight journeys is to make a campfire. To do this, you will need to gather some supplies from the world around you
To make the campfire, you will need to gather some wood blocks, sticks, and coal. Once you have, what you need to place three blocks of wood across bottom row. Next place two sticks around the coal in the middle row and one stick in the middle block of the top row To finish the recipe, the piece of coal in the middle block of the top row.
