If not noted otherwise, it is assumed that a crafting recipe is shaped.

Most crafting recipes of the Minetest Game are shaped recipes. You need a larger one.įor a shapeless recipe, the necessary items just have to be placed on any available slots of the crafting grid. If a crafting recipe uses more space than available in the crafting grid, you are unable to craft this item with it. For example, a 2×2 recipe can be arranged on the top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right on a 3×3 crafting grid. If a crafting recipe takes up a smaller rectangle than the crafting grid, it can be moved on any part of the crafting grid. This wiki documents these patterns of Minetest Game. There are are two kinds of crafting recipes, shaped ones and shapeless ones.įor a shaped recipe, the items have to be arranged into an exact pattern. In Minetest Game, using Lava Bucket as furnace fuel does not use up the item, instead it leaves an Empty Bucket in the fuel slot. Normally, crafting one item removes exactly one item of each slot in the crafting grid.Ī crafting recipe may also replace a item with an item instead. Using a crafting guide is the preferred method, as it is more convenient to use, and the recipes in this wiki tend to become outdated or incorrect. To learn the crafting recipes for Minetest Game, you either have to install and use a crafting guide mod, or read through the articles in this wiki. Minetest Game is the big exception here, it does not have a crafting guide. Most games have a built-in crafting guide, so you easily learn all required crafting recipes in-game. The preferred way is done by using a so-called crafting guide, a GUI element which tells the player the available crafting recipes in-game. To be able to craft, you also need to know which crafting recipes are available in the first place. Minetest Game and other games and many mods make extensive use of the group system, understanding it is crucial to craft efficiently. See #Crafting recipes using groups for a detailed example. If a recipe has multiple slots which require the same group, this does not mean that you have to place the same item in all of these slots. Input items can be either concrete items (for example, Wooden Planks) or an item that is member of a group (for example, the wood group, a group where Wooden Planks and Junglewood Planks are members). It’s also possible that the inventory menu does not have a crafting grid.Ī crafting recipe consists of at least one input item and exactly one stack of output items. Mods and Minetest games may add several crafting grids in various places, not just the inventory. It can be accessed through the inventory menu and it has a size of 3×3 slots. Minetest Game has only one crafting grid. The player’s built-in 3×3 crafting grid (left). You can’t place items on an output slot, however. So a crafting grid found in your inventory menu can be used/abused as an extension of the player inventory.

The needed items in the crafting grid will be used up after every craft.Ĭrafting grids generally work like inventories.

Shift+rightclick will craft once and move the output to the inventoryĬrafting takes no time and you can use the resulting items immediately.

Shift+middleclick will craft up to 10 times and move the output to the inventory.Shift+leftclick will craft as many times as possible and move the output to the inventory.Middleclick on the crafting output to craft up to 10 times (depending on how much items are left in the crafting grid).Leftclick or rightclick on the crafting output to craft once.Next to a crafting grid there is one output slot, in which the craft appears if you arranged the items in a valid way. To craft, the items have to be arranged somehow in the crafting grid (see “Input and output”). A crafting grid consists of a number of inventory slots and you can place and move and remove items from it like you can with an inventory. To be able to craft anything at all, you need a crafting grid. The rules explained here are true for basically all mods. This section explains the basics of crafting in a very general way.

Minetest craft guide