There are 146 known crafting recipes in Minecraft right now.

Each type of tool, sword and armor are counted as separate recipes as well as the two recipes for mushroom soup. Chainmail is included in the count as well.

Simple Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Wooden Planks

Wood (regular, birch or pine)

Can be used as a building material, but is usually used for a wide variety of crafting recipes.

Sticks

2 Wooden Planks

Used as handles for tools and weapons as well as for ladders, signs, torches and fences.

Torches

Stick and Coal or Charcoal

Torches create light. They also have the ability to melt ice and snow.

Crafting Table

4 Wooden Planks

When placed on the ground, it provides use of the 33 crafting grid.

Furnace

Cobblestone

Provides the ability to smelt.

Chest

8 Wooden Planks

Similar to your inventory. Holds 27 stacks of items or blocks.

Block Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Ore Blocks

Gold Ingots, Iron Ingots, Diamonds and Lapis Lazuli Dye

Turn ingots or diamonds into a placeable block. Can be used for storage or to show off.

Glowstone Block

4 Glowstone Dust

Glowstone gives off more light than a torch and will melt nearby snow and ice. Breaking a brimstone block will 2-4 Glowstone Dust back.

TNT Block

5 Sulphur and 4 Sand

Causes an explosion and breaks apart blocks near it.

Cloth Block

String

Cloth blocks can also be acquired from sheep. Used as a building block.

Clay Block

Clay

Used as a building block.

Brick Block

Clay Bricks

Used as a realistic looking building material.

Snow Block

Snowballs

Used as a building material or snowball storage.

Bookshelf

6 Wooden Planks and 3 Books

Used as decoration.

Sandstone

4 Sand

Used as a building block.

Slabs

3 Cobblestone or 3 Stone or 3 Sandstone or 3 Wooden Planks

Each step is half the size of a regular block. Used to create long staircases quickly. Two slabs can be place on top of each other to make a full sized block.

Stairs

6 Wooden Planks or Cobblestone

Stairs take up less space than steps.

Jack-OLantern

Pumpkin and Torch

Acts as a torch, but emits more light. Can stay lit underwater.

Tool Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Pickaxes

Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems.

Makes mining stone-type blocks faster.

Shovels

Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems.

Makes digging dirt, snow, gravel, sand and grass faster.

Hoes

Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems.

Used on grass and dirt to acquire seeds or prepare for farming crops.

Axes

Sticks and Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems

Makes chopping wood-type blocks faster.

Bucket

3 Iron Ingots

Can hold lava, water or milk.

Flint and Steel

1 Iron Ingot and 1 Flint

Used to set fire to things.

Fishing Rod

3 Sticks and 2 String

Used to catch fish.

Compass

4 Iron Ingots and 1 Redstone Dust

Always points to your spawn point.

Map

8 Paper and 1 Redstone Dust

Used to record and find locations that you have explored. It records the areas you explore when you are holding the map in your hands.

Clock

4 Gold Ingots and 1 Compass

Tells the time of day.

Shears

2 Iron Ingots

Used to collect leaves and wool from sheep.

Weapon Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Swords

Stick and 2 of either Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron or Gold or Diamonds

Kills mobs faster than using your hands.

Bow

3 Sticks and 3 String

Allows for distance attacks using arrows.

Arrows

Flint and Feather and Stick

Shot at mobs using a bow.

Armor Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Helmets

5 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Helmets provide 1.5 base armor points.

Chestplates

8 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Chestplates provide 4 base armor points.

Leggings

7 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Leggings provide 3 base armor points.

Boots

4 of either Leather or Gold or Iron or Diamond or Fire*

Boots provide 1.5 base armor points.

*Chainmail armor can also be crafted using fire blocks. However, this can only be done by hacking Minecraft which is why the recipe isnt shown.

Transportation Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Rails

Stick and 6 Iron Ingots

Used to provide a route for minecarts.

Powered Rails

Stick and 6 Gold Ingots and Redstone Dust

Used to speed up or slow down Minecarts.

Detector Rails

Stone Pressure Plate and 6 Iron Ingots and Redstone Dust

Works like a pressure plate but can only be activated by a Minecart.

Minecart

Iron Ingots

Used for transporting players or mobs along minetracks.

Powered Minecart

Furnace and Minecart

Pushes other minecarts along tracks. Powered by fuel.

Storage Minecart

Chest and Minecart

Used to transport resources on minetracks.

Boat

5 Wooden Planks

Enables you to travel in water faster than swimming.

Mechanism Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Redstone Torch

Redstone Dust and Stick

Sends a constant electric signal. Also emits small amount of light.

Lever

Cobblestone and Stick

Sends an electrical signal when in the on position. Stays in its current state unless it is clicked.

Pressure Plates

3 Stone or 3 Wooden Planks

Sends an electrical charge when a player or mob walks on it. Wooden Pressure Plates are also be activated when something is dropped on them.

Trapdoors (Hatch)

6 Wooden Planks

Functions as a horizontal door over a single block hole. Can be activated by right-clicking it or with redstone wire.

Doors

6 Wooden Planks or 6 Iron Ingots

Wooden Doors can be activated by right-clicking on them or by sending them an electrical signal. Iron Doors can only be activated by an electrical signal.

Stone Button

Stone

Sends an electrical signal when pressed. Charge lasts for approximately one second.

Jukebox

8 Wooden Planks and 1 Diamond

Plays records.

Note Block

8 Wooden Planks and 1 Redstone Dust

Plays a note when used. Right click it to change the pitch of the note. A different instrument is played depending on the type of block it is placed on.

Dispenser

7 Cobblestone and Bow and Redstone Dust

Dispensers can store 9 stacks of items or blocks in a 33 grid. When powered by Redstone Dust, it ejects the items in random order. Snowballs, eggs and arrows are fired out as projectiles.

Redstone Repeater

3 Stone and Redstone Dust and 2 Redstone Torches

Used in redstone circuits as a diode, a repeater or a delayer.

Piston

3 Wooden Planks, 4 Cobblestone, Iron Ingot, Redstone Dust

Pushes blocks and objects 1 space.

Sticky Piston

Piston and Slimeball

Pushes and pulls blocks and objects 1 space. Pulls the block it is touching when retracted.

Food Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Bread

3 Wheat

Heals 2.5 hearts.

Mushroom Stew

Red Mushroom and Brown Mushroom and Bowl

Heals 5 hearts. The brown and red mushrooms can be switched when crafting.

Bowls

3 Wooden Planks

Holds mushroom stew. Bowls can be reused.

Golden Apple

8 Gold Blocks and Apple

Heals all 10 hearts.

Sugar

Sugar Cane

Used to make cake.

Cake

3 Milk, 2 Sugar, 3 Wheat and an Egg

Heals 1.5 hearts and can be used 6 times.

Miscellaneous Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Paper

3 Reeds

Used to craft books.

Fences

6 Sticks

Used as a barrier that players and mobs cannot jump over, with the exception of spiders and spider jockeys. It is 1 blocks high for mobs and players, but only 1 to other blocks.

Ladder

7 Sticks

Used to climb straight up.

Book

3 Paper

Used to craft a bookshelf.

Sign

6 Wooden Planks and Stick

Displays four lines of editable text entered by the player.

Ore

Iron, Diamond, Gold or Lapis Lazuli Blocks

Separates a block into individual gems/ingots.

Painting

Sticks and Cloth

Used for decorative purposes.

Bed

3 Wool and 3 Wooden Planks

Used to fast forward time from night to day if all the players in the world are in bed at the same time. Can only be used at night and any color of wool can be used.

Dye Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Rose Red Dye

Rose

Used to dye wool red.

Orange Dye

Rose Red Dye and Dandelion Yellow Dye

Used to dye wool orange.

Dandelion Yellow Dye

Dandelion

Used to dye wool yellow.

Lime Dye

Cactus Green and Bonemeal

Used to dye wool green.

Light Blue Dye

Lapis Lazuli and Bonemeal

Used to dye wool light blue.

Cyan Dye

Lapis Lazuli and Cactus Green

Used to dye wool cyan.

Pink Dye

Rose Red and Bonemeal

Used to dye wool pink.

Magenta Dye

Purple Dye and Pink Dye

Used to dye wool magenta.

Purple Dye

Rose Red and Lapis Lazuli

Used to dye wool purple.

Light Gray Dye

Ink Sack and 2 Bone Meal

Used to dye wool light gray. Can be made using an ink sac and two bonemeal or gray dye and bonemeal. Combining gray dye with bonemeal is better because you make 4 light gray dye from every ink sac (instead of 3).

Gray Dye

Ink Sack and Bone Meal

Used to dye wool Gray.

Bone Meal (White Dye)

Bone

Used to dye wool white. (original colour) Can also be used as fertilizer to grow crops instantly.

Wool Recipes
Name Ingredients Input >> Output

Red Wool

Wool and Rose Red

Used as decoration.

Green Wool

Wool and Cactus Green

Used as decoration.

Brown Wool

Wool and Cocoa Bean

Used as decoration. Currently not available.

Orange Wool

Wool and Orange Dye

Used as decoration.

Yellow Wool

Wool and Dandelion Yellow

Used as decoration.

Light Blue Wool

Wool and Light Blue Dye

Used as decoration.

Cyan Wool

Wool and Cyan Dye

Used as decoration.

Blue Wool

Wool and Lapis Lazuli

Used as decoration.

Pink Wool

Wool and Pink Dye

Used as decoration.

Magenta Wool

Wool and Magenta Dye

Used as decoration.

Purple Wool

Wool and Purple Dye

Used as decoration.

Light Gray Wool

Wool and Light Gray Dye

Used as decoration.

Grey Wool

Wool and Grey Dye

Used as decoration.

Black Wool

Wool and Ink Sack

Used as decoration.