How to make a Grindstone in Minecraft (2024)

FAQs

Why can't I craft a grindstone? ›

One stone slab is needed to make a grindstone. It has to be a stone slab. You cannot use a cobblestone slab or a smooth stone slab. Finally, you will need the 3x3 crafting grid of a crafting table to make a grindstone.

There's no indication in the game but if you put two identical items in the 2x2 crafting square it'll repair them and give the repaired item bonus durability. Useful when you have 2 half broken shovels or smth, and don't want to take the time to craft a new one.

To repair without taking off enchantments, combine two of the same item in an anvil. To disenchant, craft a grindstone and put whatever item you want disenchanted in it and take it out. You can also put two of the same item in a crafting table or grindstone together to repair, but they will remove enchantments.

Experience. When removing enchantments from items, the player gains experience equal to the minimum modified enchantment level of that enchantment. The final amount is a uniformly-distributed random amount between half the resulting sum (rounded up) and the sum itself.

You can make smooth stone in Minecraft by smelting stone with any type of fuel. Smooth stone is one of the most popular construction materials in the game. You can also combine smooth stone with iron ingots and a Furnace to make a Blast Furnace.

An Anvil can repair just like the grindstone, but not only can you keep the enchantments, you can also partially repair an item by using the ore that created that item. The downside is that repairing with an Anvil costs experience, while using the Grindstone is free. Anvils also require lots of iron, over three blocks.

If you're trying to create your own village, the grindstone is the weaponsmith's job site block. You can place one in your village and an unemployed villager will turn into a weaponsmith. A rather useful profession, once it reaches Expert or Master level it will trade diamond axes and diamond swords for emeralds.

Smooth Stone is a variant of Stone that has a much lighter hue of gray, along with a visible outline. Smooth Stone does not have a crafting recipe, but rather is created by placing Stone in the top part of a Furnace.

Item repair is a feature that allows players to repair damaged tools, armor, or other items with durability by combining them in the crafting grid or a grindstone.

A grindstone can be oriented in different directions. In Java Edition it doesn't need a supporting block. In Bedrock Edition it breaks if unsupported.

Does a grindstone give you enchanted books? ›

Put an enchanted tool and book(s) in a grindstone, and the tool's enchantment(s) transfer(s) to the book(s) - one enchantment to each book, or you could put the same book back in multiple times to get multiple on it.

Enhancing the enchantment table with bookshelves. You can make the enchantment table more powerful using bookshelves. Surrounding the table with bookshelves will give you access to higher enchantment levels, up to maximum level of 30. To reach level 30, you'll need 15 bookshelves total.

While most Minecraft enchantments can be created using an enchanting table, Mending, unfortunately, cannot. This means that players have to buy, find, or loot these books instead. Fishing - Mending enchantment books can be fished up from water sources just like fish in Minecraft.

An anvil is a gravity-affected utility block used to rename items, combine enchantments and repair items without losing the enchantments.

You can craft one with two iron ingots and four planks, or steal one from a toolsmith in a village. They also occasionally spawn in trail ruins.

To disenchant an item in Minecraft, place it into a Grindstone. This creates a non-enchanted item of the same type and durability. Combine two enchanted items in an Anvil to create a new item with a new enchantment. Remove curses by placing two cursed items in a crafting table.