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Minecraft gives you five tool types, a handful of weapons, and a few odd items like shears and flint and steel that do one job well. This page links every tool and weapon guide, plus the armor and enchantment pages you will want once you start upgrading.

Tools and weapons

  • Arrows: Every Minecraft arrow type explained: regular, spectral, and tipped arrows, how to craft each, where to find them, and which bows shoot what.
  • Axe: Every axe tier in Minecraft, how to craft each one, damage vs. swords, and the side jobs (stripping logs, scraping copper, carving pumpkins).
  • Bow: Learn how to craft a bow in Minecraft, how charge time affects damage, the best bow enchantments, and how to repair a bow before it breaks.
  • Buckets: How to craft a bucket in Minecraft, fill it with water, lava, milk, powder snow, or fish, and the gotchas that catch new players.
  • Crossbow: Learn how to craft a crossbow in Minecraft, charge it, fire arrows or fireworks, and pick the best enchantments like Quick Charge and Multishot.
  • Flint and steel: Learn how to craft flint and steel in Minecraft, light a nether portal, ignite TNT and campfires, and how many uses it has before it breaks.
  • Hoe: Learn how to craft a hoe in Minecraft, till dirt into farmland, break leaves and sculk faster, and pick the best material and enchantments.
  • Mace: Learn how to craft the mace in Minecraft from a heavy core and breeze rod, how smash attacks scale with fall distance, and the best enchantments.
  • Pickaxe: Learn how to craft every pickaxe tier in Minecraft, what blocks each one can mine, how durability works, and the best enchantments to add.
  • Shears: Learn how to craft shears in Minecraft, shear sheep for wool, harvest leaves and honeycomb, carve pumpkins, and which enchantments work on them.
  • Shield: Learn how to craft a shield in Minecraft, raise it to block attacks and arrows, repair it, add a banner design, and which mobs can disable it.
  • Shovel: Learn how to craft a shovel in Minecraft, which blocks it digs fastest, how to make dirt paths, and the best enchantments for it.
  • Totem of Undying: Learn how the Totem of Undying works in Minecraft, where to find one, the effects it grants, and the deaths it can't save you from.
  • Trident: Learn how to get a trident in Minecraft from drowned, throw it, and use the Loyalty, Riptide, Channeling, and Impaling enchantments.

Armor and armor trims

  • Armor trims: Learn how Minecraft armor trims work, where every smithing template drops, what each material color looks like, and how to duplicate trims.
  • Chainmail armor: Chainmail armor in Minecraft can't be crafted in survival. Here's how to get it from villager trades and mob drops, plus its stats and best uses.
  • Diamond armor: How to craft diamond armor in Minecraft, repair and enchant it, and upgrade to netherite without losing enchantments.
  • Gold armor: Learn how to craft gold armor in Minecraft, its armor points and low durability, why piglins ignore you, and when golden armor is worth it.
  • Iron armor: Learn how to craft iron armor in Minecraft, how much protection each piece gives, how to repair and enchant it, and where else to find it.
  • Leather armor: Learn how to craft leather armor in Minecraft, how much protection each piece gives, how to dye it any color, and whether it's worth wearing.
  • Netherite armor: Learn how to make netherite armor in Minecraft by upgrading diamond gear, where to find ancient debris and the upgrade template, plus stats.

Transport and navigation items

  • Boats and chest boats: How to craft boats and chest boats in Minecraft, every wood type, how to steer them on water and ice, and the fastest way to travel long distances.
  • Clock: Learn how to craft a clock in Minecraft, where to find one, how the sun and moon display works, and why it spins in the Nether and End.
  • Compass: Learn how to craft a compass in Minecraft, why it points to world spawn instead of your bed, and how to bind one to a lodestone or echo shard.
  • Elytra: Elytra in Minecraft: How to Find, Use, Repair, and Fly Faster
  • Ender pearl: Learn how to get an ender pearl in Minecraft, how throwing and teleporting works, the damage and cooldown, and how to craft it into an eye of ender.
  • Eye of Ender: How to craft an eye of ender, throw it to track down a stronghold, and fill the End portal frame so you can reach the End.
  • Firework rockets for elytra: Learn how to craft firework rockets for elytra in Minecraft, how flight duration sets your boost, and why travel rockets should skip firework stars.
  • Lead: Learn how to craft a lead in Minecraft, which mobs you can leash, how to tie them to a fence, and how to get free leads from wandering traders.
  • Map: Learn how to craft a map in Minecraft, fill it in, zoom it out at a cartography table, copy it, lock it, and mark spots with banners.
  • Minecart types: Learn every minecart type in Minecraft, including chest, hopper, TNT, and furnace carts, how to craft each one, and when to use them.
  • Name tag: Learn how to get a name tag in Minecraft, rename it on an anvil, use it on mobs, and the secret names like jeb_ and Dinnerbone.
  • Spyglass: Learn how to craft a spyglass in Minecraft with copper and amethyst, zoom in to scout terrain and structures, and where it works best.

Food

  • Enchanted golden apple: Learn how to find the enchanted golden apple in Minecraft, the effects it gives, the best chest loot to look in, and whether you can still craft one.
  • Food: Learn how food works in Minecraft, how hunger and saturation differ, which foods restore the most, and how eating keeps your health going.
  • Golden apple: Learn how to craft a golden apple in Minecraft, what its effects do, and how the enchanted golden apple differs from the regular one.

Upgrading your gear

  • Enchanting: Learn how enchanting works in Minecraft: building the table, lapis and level costs, bookshelves, enchanted books, and removing enchantments.
  • Smithing and netherite upgrade: Learn how to use the smithing table to upgrade diamond gear to netherite in Minecraft, find ancient debris, craft ingots, and duplicate the template.
  • Anvil repair and combine: Learn how anvil repair and combine works in Minecraft: XP costs, the prior work penalty, merging enchantments, and the Too Expensive cap.
  • Mending: Learn how Mending works in Minecraft, where to get it from villagers, fishing, and loot, and which tools and armor it repairs with XP.
  • Unbreaking: Unbreaking in Minecraft gives your gear a chance to skip durability damage. Learn how the three levels work and which items benefit most.