How to Make a Crafter in Minecraft 1.21

Oct. 21, 2023

Besides the adventurous trial chambers,Minecraft 1.21also brings the unbelievable, superior, and magical crafter that undoubtedly revolutionizes vanilla Minecraft forever. So, in this guide, we will discuss this game-changing block, right from how to make a crafter and use it in Minecraft.

Resources You Need to Make a Crafter

The crafting recipe for the crafter is pretty heavy on resources. Those include:

After you acquire these resources, follow the steps below explaining how to make a crafter. Your first crafter will have to be crafted using the crafting table.

And voila! Your crafter is now ready. The crafter can be broken with a stone pickaxe or higher.

Now, let’s go over the process of using a crafter block. Follow the steps below to auto-craftbamboo blocksand thencherry woodblocks in the game.

Next, let’s create a simple activation system. You canplace a buttonon the crafter itself by right-clicking and sneaking. Every time you press the button, the crafter will make and shoot out an item, which will be picked up by the hopper. You will see aparticle cloud every timethe crafting is completed.

Youcan also use a leverinstead of a button. When you turn it on, the crafter will function and shoot out a crafted item. However, the crafter won’t work constantly when the lever is on (more on this below). Instead, you’ll need to keep flicking the lever on and off and as soon as it gets powered, the crafter will get activated.

Since no player wants to stand next to a crafter at all times and keep flicking a switch, we will be making a simpleredstone clockto, as you might have guessed,automate the process. It will automatically trigger the crafter with every redstone signal, crafting the item without any interference. Here’s how to go about it:

So, there you have it. A very simple crafter setup that automatically creates blocks of bamboo. Let’s now see what this would look like if you want to make cherry wood blocks.

One of the highlights of the crafter block in Minecraft 1.21 is that you can disable the slots in the crafting area to trigger specific recipes that don’t require you to use the whole space. And we have demonstrated the same with this cherry wood block crafting recipe.

The crafter is a highly advanced redstone block, but regardless of that, the way you use it is intuitive and can be learned with no issues. With that said, let’s see all the features and properties of the new crafter block.

As you will realize, you cannot manually craft items in the crafter. Even though its UI looks similar to the crafting table’s, you can only place the ingredients inside it, but not take out the resulting item yourself. So yeah, the crafting table still has a place in your Minecraft base.

Unlike the crafting table, the crafter is a container block. This means you can place the items inside it and close the crafting UI completely. The items will stay in this block, thus, allowing you to craft whenever you want. This means other players onMinecraft serverscan see the items you put in the crafter and perhaps help out with the recipe.

To make the usage of crafter simple and better, Mojang has implemented a straightforward way of programming this block. By clicking on a slot of the crafter, you can toggle it between disabled and enabled state. When a slot is enabled, the items can be placed into it and vice versa.

This will allow you to set up an auto-crafting station that crafts only the specific item, even if it’s a bit more complex.

In order to craft anything in the crafter, you’ll need to provide it with a redstone signal. The crafter will only execute a crafting action if it has received power, meaning from a single pulse. This means that the crafter will not work it’s continuously powered as if you placed a redstone block attached to it. In this sense, it works similarly to adispenser in Minecraft.

If you place a redstone block attached to a dispenser, it triggers just once even though it’s powered by the block continuously. So, to make the crafter craft anything, you need to preferably hook it up to a clock. This way, it will every once in a while receive the power and spit out an item.

Also, every time the crafter receives a redstone signal, redstone lamps on its texture will light up, regardless of whether it crafted something or not. If it succeeds in crafting an item, its red grid on the top will light up as well.

While we are on the topic of spitting out items, the crafter’s rotation is also important. This block can be placed in different ways, allowing the front side (which looks like a face) to appear in all directions. But why is that important?

Well, the crafter will spit out items only through the front side. When that happens, you’ll see the “mouth” of the face open and the item(s) will get shot out.

If the recipe produces more than one item, all of them get spat out at once. Moreover, some smoke particles will appear in the direction the items flew and the lever on the side texture will flip. If you are looking for moreuses of the crafter, follow the linked guide.

So, there you have it. If you reached the end of this guide, you have learned how to make and use the crafter block in Minecraft 1.21. So, what are your thoughts on the crafter? How much do you use it in your Minecraft world? Tell us in the comments below!

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