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Utility blocks do something when you use them: craft, smelt, enchant, brew, store, sleep, or set your spawn. This page lists every one of them, from the crafting table you place on day one to the beacon you build after the Wither. If you want to know what a block is for and how to craft it, start here.

Crafting and job blocks

  • Anvil: Anvil in Minecraft: Recipe, Uses, Repair Costs, and Pro Tips
  • Blast Furnace: Minecraft Blast Furnace Guide: Recipe, Uses, and Best Smelting Tips
  • Cartography table: Learn how to craft a cartography table in Minecraft, zoom out maps, lock them, clone copies, and assign cartographer villagers.
  • Crafter: Learn how the Crafter works in Minecraft, how to craft and power it, set up auto-crafting farms, and use slot disabling to lock recipes.
  • Crafting table: Learn how to make a crafting table in Minecraft, where it spawns, how the 3×3 grid works, and tips to keep one in your hotbar at all times.
  • Enchanting table: How to craft and use the enchanting table in Minecraft, including bookshelf placement, lapis costs, and tips for getting stronger enchantments.
  • Fletching table: Learn how to craft a fletching table in Minecraft, use it to turn a villager into a fletcher, and trade sticks for arrows, bows, and emeralds.
  • Furnace: Learn how to craft a furnace in Minecraft, what fuels last longest, what you can smelt, and how XP and smelting time work.
  • Grindstone: How the Minecraft grindstone works: repair two tools into one, strip enchantments back into XP, and turn a villager into a weaponsmith.
  • How to Make and Use a Brewing Stand: How to Make and Use a Brewing Stand in Minecraft
  • Lectern: Everything about the lectern in Minecraft: how to craft it, assign it to a librarian villager, and use it for redstone signals.
  • Loom: Learn how to craft the loom in Minecraft, apply banner patterns, and use it as a shepherd job site without wasting dye on the crafting table.
  • Shield patterns: Learn how to put a pattern on a shield in Minecraft: build a banner in the loom, then combine it with a shield in a crafting grid.
  • Smithing table: Learn how to craft a smithing table in Minecraft, upgrade diamond gear to netherite, apply armor trims, and turn a villager into a toolsmith.
  • Smithing templates: Learn what smithing templates are in Minecraft, where to find every type, and how to use them to make netherite gear and trim armor.
  • Smoker: Learn how to craft a smoker in Minecraft, cook food twice as fast as a furnace, fuel it, and use it to turn a villager into a butcher.
  • Stonecutter: Learn how to craft a stonecutter in Minecraft, use it to cut stone into stairs, slabs, and walls with less waste, and assign a mason villager.

Storage

  • Barrel: Minecraft Barrel: Recipe, Uses, Villager Jobs, and Smart Storage Tips
  • Bookshelf: Minecraft Bookshelf Guide: How to Craft, Use, and Max Out Enchanting
  • Chest: Learn how to craft a chest in Minecraft, make a double chest, fix an unopenable chest, and use chest boats and trapped chests.
  • Chiseled bookshelf: Learn how to craft a chiseled bookshelf in Minecraft, store up to six books inside, and use a comparator to read its redstone signal.
  • Decorated pot: Learn how to craft a decorated pot in Minecraft, where to find pottery sherds, and how the single-slot inventory works in 1.21.
  • Ender chest: Learn how to craft an ender chest in Minecraft, how its shared per-player inventory works, and the best ways to use it on Java and Bedrock.
  • Shulker box: Learn how to craft a shulker box in Minecraft, dye it any color, and move 27 stacks of items at once since it keeps its contents when broken.
  • Trapped chest: Learn how to craft a trapped chest in Minecraft, wire it to redstone, set up detection traps, and tell it apart from a regular chest.

Everything else you interact with

  • Banner: Minecraft Banner Guide: How to Make, Customize, and Use Banner Blocks
  • Beacon Block: Minecraft Beacon Block Guide: Crafting, Effects, and Best Setups
  • Bed: Minecraft Bed Guide: How to Craft, Use, and Master Beds
  • Campfire: Learn how to craft a campfire in Minecraft, light it with flint and steel, cook up to four raw foods at once, and keep bees calm during honey runs.
  • Cauldron: Learn how to craft a cauldron in Minecraft, fill it with water, lava, or powder snow, wash banners, and use it as a leatherworker job site.
  • Cauldron with lava: Learn how to fill a cauldron with lava in Minecraft, use it as a light source or trash incinerator, and empty it back into a bucket.
  • Cauldron with powder snow: Learn how to fill a cauldron with powder snow in Minecraft, freeze mobs, build traps, and scoop the snow back out with a bucket.
  • Cauldron with water: Learn how to fill a cauldron with water in Minecraft, wash dye off leather armor, remove banner patterns, fill bottles, and empty it back to a bucket.
  • Conduit: Learn how to craft a conduit in Minecraft, build the prismarine frame, and use Conduit Power for underwater breathing and faster mining.
  • Glow item frame: How to craft a glow item frame in Minecraft, what it does in dark builds, and the best ways to use it for storage labels and map walls.
  • Hanging sign: Learn how to craft a hanging sign in Minecraft, where you can place it, how to edit the text, and how it differs from a regular sign.
  • Head blocks: Learn how to get every head block in Minecraft, from wither skeleton skulls to player heads, plus how to wear them and animate them on note blocks.
  • Item Frame: Learn how to craft an item frame in Minecraft, rotate items, use maps in frames, read comparator output, and label clean storage rooms.
  • Jukebox: Everything to know about the Minecraft jukebox, from the crafting recipe to using a comparator to detect which song is playing.
  • Ladders: How to craft Minecraft ladders, place them correctly, and use them for fast vertical travel, mob farms, and hidden builds.
  • Lodestone: Learn how to craft a Minecraft lodestone, link a compass to it, and use it to mark spots in the Nether, Overworld, or End across any distance.
  • Respawn anchor: Learn how to craft a respawn anchor in Minecraft, charge it with glowstone, set your spawn in the Nether, and why it explodes in other dimensions.
  • Scaffolding: Learn how to craft scaffolding in Minecraft from bamboo and string, climb up and down, build towers fast, and tear them down in one block.
  • Signs: Learn how to craft signs in Minecraft, place them on walls or the ground, write on both sides, dye the text, and make it glow.
  • Soul campfire: Learn how to craft a soul campfire in Minecraft, why piglins flee from it, how much damage it deals, and how to cook food on one.
  • TNT: How to craft TNT in Minecraft, the five ways to light it, what its blast actually does, and how to use it for mining and traps without losing your stuff.
  • What Does a Bell Do: What Does a Bell Do in Minecraft? Full Bell Guide for Villages and Raids