Crafter

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A crafter is a low-capacity storage block that can use its contents to craft items when given a redstone signal, ejecting the results into the world or into a container it is facing. Its inventory slots can be individually locked so hoppers and similar blocks cannot fill them, while not affecting crafting recipes.

Crafters can be mined with anything, but pickaxes are the quickest.

In Java Edition, crafters cannot be moved by pistons.

A crafter has nine slots of inventory space, arranged in a 3-by-3 grid like a crafting table. Its GUI can be accessed by using it.

A slot can be enabled or disabled, which can be toggled by clicking on it when empty. Disabled slots cannot have items put in them.

Hoppers, droppers and other crafters interact with crafters by inserting items into its inventory. Hoppers can remove ingredients as well. When an item is added:

• The crafter will look for an empty slot to insert that item into. It searches in standard reading order.
• It searches the slots row by row, from left to right.
• Only enabled slots are checked.
• If the crafter has all enabled item slots filled, then the item is added to the lowest count item stack of the same type. If there is a tie, it uses the same reading order described before.^[1]

Hoppers and droppers can interact with all sides of the crafter, and added items follow the rules described above.

When a crafter receives a redstone signal, it waits for 4 game ticks (0.2 seconds) before ejecting one crafted item using the ingredients from the nine inventory slots. The crafted items are subsequently ejected from the front of the crafter. If the front of a crafter is facing a container (including another crafter), the crafted items are transferred into the container. If the container it is facing is full, or the item cannot be inserted into the container, the crafter ejects the item instead. Crafters interact with containers similar to droppers. If a recipe has byproducts (e.g. empty bottles for honey blocks or empty buckets for cake) those are ejected after the crafted item.

For shaped recipes, the position of the items in the inventory matters. Because disabled slots prevent items from entering the slot, crafters can be used to craft any item in the game automatically without any input from the player, using a series of hoppers and/or droppers and the correct configuration of disabled slots for the recipe.

A hopper placed below a crafter collects the ingredients from the crafting grid, not the resulting item.

In Java Edition, unlike dispensers and droppers, crafters aren't affected by quasi-connectivity.^[2]

Comparators can emit a redstone signal when reading from a crafter. The signal strength is equal to the number of crafting slots that are either disabled or occupied by an item. ^[3] The stack size of the item has no effect on the comparators output signal e.g. having 1 stick in a slot vs having 64 sticks in that same slot both output the same comparator signal. An empty crafter with no disabled slots does not output any signal through a comparator. A crafter with every slot being disabled or containing an item (of any stack size) outputs a signal strength of nine through a comparator.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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A crafter has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Issues relating to "Crafter" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 A crafter activating and ejecting a cherry hanging sign.
  
  A crafter activating and ejecting a cherry hanging sign.
• 👁 Two crafters in a Trial Chamber hallway, with one of the crafters being freshly mined and floating as an item.
  
  Two crafters in a Trial Chamber hallway, with one of the crafters being freshly mined and floating as an item.
• 👁 Sunny using a crafter in a jungle.
  
  Sunny using a crafter in a jungle.
• 👁 A villager farmer stands by a crafter.
  
  A villager farmer stands by a crafter.
• 👁 Crafter automation.
  
  Crafter automation.
• 👁 "A Redstone contraption in a Village made of Glass and Crafters that turn Gold Nuggets into Gold Ingots, which are then turned into Gold Blocks. These Gold blocks are then broken down again, feeding into another crafter, that perpetually continues the cycle."[5]
  
  "A Redstone contraption in a Village made of Glass and Crafters that turn Gold Nuggets into Gold Ingots, which are then turned into Gold Blocks. These Gold blocks are then broken down again, feeding into another crafter, that perpetually continues the cycle."^[5]
• 👁 "An automated rail Crafter is producing rails. Makena is collecting the rails and Noor is building a railway."[6]
  
  "An automated rail Crafter is producing rails. Makena is collecting the rails and Noor is building a railway."^[6]

• 👁 The crafter's GUI when it is triggered and with all of its slots disabled
  
  The crafter's GUI when it is triggered and with all of its slots disabled

• 👁 Crafter UI being developed.
  
  Crafter UI being developed.
• 👁 Different angle.
  
  Different angle.
• 👁 Crafter UI tested with different items.
  
  Crafter UI tested with different items.
• 👁 A crafter as seen in its reveal.
  
  A crafter as seen in its reveal.
• 👁 Slots may be disabled by clicking on them, which is useful for automating shaped recipes.
  
  Slots may be disabled by clicking on them, which is useful for automating shaped recipes.
• 👁 A screenshot of two crafters facing each other posted by a developer, using their old textures.
  
  A screenshot of two crafters facing each other posted by a developer, using their old textures.

• 👁 Efe crafting cakes with a crafter.
  
  Efe crafting cakes with a crafter.
• 👁 Alex using various crafters.
  
  Alex using various crafters.
• 👁 An armadillo passing by several crafters, in A year in blocks.
  
  An armadillo passing by several crafters, in A year in blocks.

• 👁 Crafter concept art.
  
  Crafter concept art.
• 👁 Crafter concept art.
  
  Crafter concept art.
• 👁 Early crafter texture.
  
  Early crafter texture.

• "Crafting with the crafter" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, June 6, 2024.