Confused or wondering as how to make concrete, lantern, paper, smoker or compass in Minecraft? well follow this article to learn some of the basics of Minecraft item crafting.
Minecraft is a popular three-dimensional game by Microsoft which allows you to create and break various kinds of blocks. The game has two main modes: Survival and Creative. You have a lot of unlimited resources in the Creative mode, whereas, in Survival mode, you have to find your own resources to be in the game. You also interact with some zombies-like creatures that attack you. One can break other blocks in the game. In Minecraft, you have to build various kinds of blocks that represent different kinds of materials such as dirt, stone, ores, tree trunks, water, and lava. We are going to know how you can make these kinds of blocks in Minecraft, let’s know more in detail.
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How to Make Concrete in Minecraft
Concrete is a strong and greyish-blue material that can give your creation a refreshed look. The Concrete does not explode into flame-like fleece. Concrete blocks also have a slightly higher firmness than Stone, but that comes at the sacrifice of lower blast resistance. To make concrete in Minecraft, follow the mentioned steps below:
Step 1: Open the crafting table so that you have the 3×3 crafting grid.
Step 2: You are going to build one of the two primary building blocks of concrete powder. 4 blocks of gravel have to be placed in the pattern shown below. 3 blocks should fill the last column, and the remaining one should be placed in the last cell of the middle row.
Step 3: Place Sand just like the Gravel. However, you need to ensure that the Sand remains symmetrical block by block. 2 blocks should complete the middle row where one gravel already exists, which means the first two cells will be populated by Sand. The other 2 blocks are to be placed on the 2nd and 3rd cell of the first row.
Step 4: Once you have finished placing the Sand and Gravel, one cell in the crafting grid will be left empty. You can place the position of any dye of your choice. Once you are done, a stack of 8 concrete blocks should appear on your screen.
Step 5: Following this recipe produce a concrete powder block. You have to convert the powder into concrete, don’t worry, that’s easy. Just place the Concrete Powder next to a water source and it will turn into hardened Concrete. The image below shows a player holding a concrete block and immediately after placing it near the water, it turns into solid concrete. The block transforms from grainy to a smoother, and brighter appearance.
That’s it, you have made your Concrete. You can make various kinds of Concrete with specific commands.
How to Make Lantern in Minecraft
Lantern, in Minecraft, is a source of light that can be used as the customary torch or a block of glowstone. Having a Lantern is useful for illuminating your base. It also helps in protecting your base and that’s one of the best reasons to create a Lantern in the game. To make Lantern in Minecraft, follow the mentioned steps below:
Step 1: To make a Lantern, you need to have a Torch and 8 Iron nuggets. To make a torch, you need a stick and a piece of coal. You have to place one piece of coal in the crafting GUI, mainly in the center of the 3×3 grid, with a stick underneath.
Step 2: Once you have made the torch, you need to get iron nuggets. For this, simply place one iron ingot in your crafting UI and it will turn into 9 iron nuggets. We only need 8 nuggets.
Step 3: Surround your torch with the iron nuggets.
That’s it, your Lantern is made. With the following steps, you can make a Soul Lantern that has a blue texture.
How to Make Paper in Minecraft
Paper is the core block of many different recipes which is why it’s necessary to know how to make it. Things like books, bookshelves, maps, and quite a few more items are made with paper. You can’t use Paper on its own but you can use it by adding some more blocks. To make Paper in Minecraft, follow the mentioned steps below:
Step 1: To make Paper, you should have a Crafting Table and Sugar Cane. It takes 3 sugarcane to make a paper. Sugarcane is abundant in Minecraft, you can find it easily near the river.
Step 2: Once you have collected enough sugarcane, open the GUI and place three pieces of sugarcane in a single row.
That’s it, your paper is made. Super easy! Right? Now you can make more elements with this paper.
How to Make Smoker in Minecraft
Smokers help players cook their food a lot quicker than with a plain flame. It is just another kitchen appliance in your base. It works quickly, cooking a stack of meat in half the time a regular furnace would. To make Smoker in Minecraft, follow the mentioned steps below:
Step 1: In order to make Smoker, you should have 7 logs and 8 cobblestones. The first step to make a crafting table is converting 3 logs into wooden planks. Make sure to keep 4 logs whole for crafting the smoker block later on.
Step 2: These logs will convert into wooden planks. To make sticks, place two blocks of wooden planks above each other on either the left or right side of the square, as shown below:
Step 3: You now have to make a pickaxe; this can be done by interacting with a crafting table. Now, place a row of planks along the top of the crafting GUI and place two sticks under the middle plank. It will create a pickaxe to use to collect your cobblestone—a required block for making a furnace.
Step 4: To make a furnace, place all 8 pieces of cobblestone around the outside perimeter of the crafting GUI, leaving a blank space in the middle square.
Step 5: Placing that new furnace block you just made into the center space of the crafting table and surrounding it with four wooden logs in a diamond shape will supply you with the smoker block. All four corner spaces should be empty.
Your smoker is ready now. You can now place down your new smoker and cook whatever food item you have collected in your world.
How to Make Compass in Minecraft
Making Compass is one of the longest processes in Minecraft. It takes 4 different elements to make a Compass. Compass is useful for beginners trying to remember where certain places and things are around their world. To make Compass in Minecraft, follow the mentioned steps below:
Step 1: The first thing you need to make a Compass is a crafting table. You can check how to make a crafting table in the smoker-making process. You will also require a pickaxe and a furnace.
Step 2: Find enough iron and coal. To collect iron, you need a stone pickaxe. To make a stone pickaxe, you use the same steps as stated before but replace the wood with cobblestone.
Step 3: Once you’ve found your coal, mine it, and begin to look for iron. Iron generates in the generally same locations as coal and can be found really easily both in surface caves and below the surface.
Step 4: Once you’ve found all 7 pieces of your iron, you have to smelt them. To smelt, use your furnace to smelt the iron down to ingots.
Step 5: Open the furnace GUI and fill the above slot with the iron you wish to smelt.
Step 6: Now, place coal into the bottom slot. Wait for the progress bar to fill and collect your iron.
Step 7: You have to find some Redstone now. Redstone is an abundant material that generates at lower Y levels than iron and coal, between bedrock and Y-level 16. Once you have collected Redstone, open the crafting GUI.
Step 8: Place the remaining iron ingots in a diamond shape in the center of the GUI, and place your one piece of Redstone in the middle, as shown below.
Finally, your Compass is made.
These were some of the blocks you can make in Minecraft. Till now, you have got to know that the goal of Minecraft is to make and break. You can play Minecraft on PCs, Macs and Xbox 360.
Happy Playing!
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