How do you make a crafting table in Minecraft?
Short answerPlace four wooden planks in a 2x2 square in your inventory crafting grid to make a crafting table.
Materials You Need
To make a crafting table, you need four wooden planks of any wood type. Planks come from turning logs into planks in your inventory crafting grid: one log yields four planks.
Any wood works—oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, or bamboo. You can mix plank types if you want, but the recipe just needs four planks total.
- 1 log = 4 planks
- 4 planks = 1 crafting table
- Any wood type works
- No tools required
How to Craft It
Open your inventory (default key E). In the 2x2 crafting grid, place one plank in each slot to form a square. Then drag the crafting table from the result slot into your inventory.
Once you have the crafting table, place it on the ground and right-click (or use your interact button) to open a 3x3 crafting grid. This unlocks most recipes in the game.
- Open inventory
- Fill all four slots in the 2x2 grid with planks
- Take the crafting table from the result slot
- Place it down and right-click to use
Common mistakes
- Thinking you need a crafting table to make a crafting table—you don't; the 2x2 inventory grid is enough.
- Using logs instead of planks—logs won't work; you must craft them into planks first.
- Placing the planks in a line instead of a square—the recipe requires a 2x2 square.
