50 Cool Uses For The Crafter In Minecraft 1.21

The Minecraft 1.21 redstone update is here already with an amazing new block, the crafter! From automatically crafting things to secret doors to cool building tricks, theres a lot you can do with the auto crafter. Today we take a look at 50 things i've come up with!
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[@wattlesplays]

whats the first thing youre going to use the crafter for?! 👀

[@Golems_wrath]

To mass mass produce tnt so I can destroy everything. Just like MALEFOR from Spyro dotd. THE GREAT CLEANSING WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.....XD random daek reference joke XD 😜😈🔥😜

[@Random_guy82]

sugarcane farm on top of creeper farm. INFINITE ROCKETS

[@Niftyreo]

infinite kelp farm for infinite smelting

[@michael04__806]

definitely gonna use them for farms thats for sure

[@stary_kartofel2137]

Crafting

[@kittencakegamer5321]

Honestly if you think about it the auto crafter is just the Costco of crafting tables. The auto crafter makes everything so much easier, it’s aesthetically pleasing, and has a face, hands down this might be the best block in this update.

[@shaynejenkins446]

It also has a butt crack.

[@karspostema2762]

The auto crafter do be handsome

[@404-AnimationYT]

Costco lasagna update moyang please

[@bellenesatan]

​@@karspostema2762don't let r34 artists hear you

[@AtaraxianWist]

Since when does Costco have a face.....

[@NateThurlow]

The autocrafter is literally a functional cake oven. Slap a clock behind it and you've got an adorable kitchen piece

[@Bad5Wolf]

I like the crafter for compact Shulker box storage. It can store a stack of shulker material then just hit a button and you get a shulker.

[@kiwi__arts42]

That's what I have been thinking about from hermitcraft someone is always running out of shulker space but have a button to press & get like a bunch all at once would be so nice compared to having to craft say 200 by hand

[@teamrocket9378]

ive been on the same word for 10 years. What are you needing 200 shulker boxes for? 😂 the crafter is awesome don't get me wrong, but use it for things you need a lot of or to make resources in to blocks.

[@timothydodson8396]

​@teamrocket9378 I'm thinking these are a great addition to iron and gold farms, bamboo farms, ice farms, etc. I love his rocket crafting idea.

[@Random_guy82]

I needed this video. I knew the block was super useful but had no idea what I would do with it. Thanks wattles!

[@arlen7726]

Bamboo + Kelp + a moss farm + Auto-Crafters + a tree farm + a super-smelter setup + a cobble & basalt generator… automated building-material fabricator setup, anyone? Seriously, I feel like if you set enough of it up close together you could actually just have a bunch of buttons for different specific blocks and then you just wait a little bit and go do something else and it will pump out a stack or two of the material you asked for, which is kinda wild

[@vtuplus3192]

Honestly, for most of these its much easier to just craft it yourself. The only major cases I can immediately think of are gold farms (nugget to ingot to block), iron farms (ingot to block), and wheat farms (wheat to hay) to prevent inventory clutter. Types like the sugar cane one are moderately useful too but dont compact anything, so its less useful. Things like flower into dye are literally just doubling inventory clutter, so its less than useless imo

[@It-b-Blair]

It’s really handy for larger builds when you need thousands of blocks. It’d also be great to have rockets. It saves time by letting you build or explore instead of crafting the basic things you’re tired of making.

[@vtuplus3192]

@It-b-Blair i could see big builds work for that, but farming those materials will typically be 99% of the time anyways. Only saves the 1% of time the way i see it

[@connorschultz380]

Dispensers

[@vtuplus3192]

@connorschultz380 what about dispensers?

[@kennyg2987]

What about for a honey farm? The dispenser loads honey bottles into the auto crafter which makes the honey block and returns the empty bottles to the original dispenser. Then you don't need endless supplies of bottles and endless storage for bottles waiting for you to compact them into blocks.

[@virginlungs420x]

it’s lil face gon look adorable w the rest of Minecraft’s lil red stone component dudes

[@wattlesplays]

YES

[@tozv]

What if u hook the gold farm to the automatic crafter to make ingots and then it pops out into you another automatic crafter to make gold blocks?

[@bubblesbubbly8525]

You can absolutely do that - last night, I was able to chain crafters together to go from one stage to the next back to back. My use case was going from bamboo to the bamboo mosaic blocks, because that's a lot of steps and a huge pain if you need a lot of it!

[@tozv]

nice@@bubblesbubbly8525

[@georgezp7787]

Mumbo jumbo just posted a video doing exactly that

[@tozv]

rlly ima check it out@@georgezp7787

[@haydenlacy6872]

Then you’d have the Manson Musa machine 😂

[@bubblesbubbly8525]

I was playing with the crafter last night and actually put together a bamboo farm and a series of crafters to go from regular bamboo all the way to the mosaic blocks! Also played around to make a bow crafter, but the slab portion of the bamboo one required the most adjustments for timing.

[@jamesbond3w]

How did you do it? My biggest worry with the crafter is all the dropper/redstone set up you have to do just to make like a stone sword without the crafter misplacing the items

[@bubblesbubbly8525]

​@@jamesbond3w I'm sure there's a better way than how I did it, but in short.... I connected the different crafters to hopper clocks of different durations, depending on how many items I wanted to let through before it crafts. Be aware though that crafters can be soft-powered through the next block, so place a block next to the one you're connecting and power that block with your redstone line. RaysWorks has an awesome breakdown I watched after the fact, he made different designs depending on the item requirements for each. He also included a "craft anything" design (anything single stage, you have to feed the ingredients for that item into the system, but I'm sure it could be fed by other crafter lines). The design for that one is a little bulky, but a lot simpler than I would have expected! I plan to try building that in the near future to test it out. Smart thing with that is it can't break - he put in comparator readers to lock hoppers and keep the crafter from crafting before it's full.

[@sge_2023]

How can you User it, I dort know how

[@froakiethebest5224]

12:51 When he puts the other 6 down, it looks like rail road tracks. That can be pretty cool for train stations.

[@oi_im_blake5348]

Maybe set a pressure plate on it or hook it up to a pressure plate so when you walk into a room it’ll auto craft something for you then spit it out to you.

[@PatThePauper]

I can't wait to see what scicraft does with this rizz

[@wattlesplays]

IKR

[@El_Presidente_5337]

20:34 Use crafters as cabinet decorations like you suggested earlier and invert the signal of the crafter so that the doors are only open if something is given into the crafter.

[@Captain_JungleGaming]

Wattles I’ve been watching for a while I love you ❤keep it up

[@Golems_wrath]

Yeah he’s funny and awesome and is quite creative with the way he reviews updates. and he’s sounds like an innocent guy. Hopefully no one bullies him. I get bullied for a dumb immature mistake on deviantart which I apologized for and moved on. Yeah don’t go there some mean people will assume stuff about you and harrass and lie about you for a mistake You make. oh and there’s this idiot known as korbin server in case anyone wants to go give him heck please so he lies about me constantly and I have to defend myself...XD why am I talking about myself more than wattles well because this can easily happen to him or anyone, so lesson of the day, be CAREFUL IN WHAT YOU SAY OR JOKE ABOUT. Always add a disclaimer. Because some people are sensitive about immature Spyro jokes XD sorry about the lecture and info stuff, I just want people to not make the same mistake I did and make sure your jokes have disclaimers on them. 😊❤

[@fire_dragon_1953]

I think condensing bones from a skeleton farm would be great. You’d have to filter the junk out but that is something I would use it for.

[@Craxin01]

Item sorter taking bones out, turning them into bonemeal, then taking the bonemeal and condensing into bone blocks.

[@DoodleZoo]

@@Craxin01and having a portion of those bonemeal sent to your farms

[@xAustere]

13:32 the idea of the crafters being cabinets is really cool!

[@asdf12345447]

We’re reaching the end game boys 😤😤

[@Event_Horizon69]

We're not even close🙃

[@s8nwulf]

THANK YOU.. I’ve been looking everywhere for someone to break down a simple way to turn ingots into blocks and no one up until you explained it simply!!!

[@prismdrone3475]

wish they could add a filter slot for hoppers. add the item in the filter slot and only that can go into the hopper.

[@huiyizhang3547]

I think they won't bother with it since pretty simple hopper sorters have already been made

[@BigBoyFarts666]

Hoppers filter based on placement and what's inside. If you name dirt different things and put them in some of the slots, and the slots of the hoppers below have differently named dirt, they wont sort down. Controlling flow is as easy as putting these named dirts in as many slots as needed and one of the objects youre controlling flow. Sorters exist for actual sorting of items into their own chests and they're easy to make. I wish we had bellows personally, to attach to furnaces and blast furnaces etc to speed up smelting.

[@azahel542]

I was wondering what all the hype about the autocrafter was all about, literally minutes ago lol

[@KalixTheUsurper]

Bro had me rolling with how he said “pot farm” without flinching snickering or anything.

[@humourlessjester3584]

A simple and very early game use of a crafter is just to store 64 items of each material needed for a pickaxe inside of it, and with a button dispense them one at a time. Now with one block you had effectively stored 64 pickaxes! Now imagine this small contraption at the beginning of your strip mine. If you're like me that mines until their pickaxe breaks, you've effectively 64x your output just using one block!

[@KirklandLea]

Wheat farm + mud farm = the real best use for the crafter!

[@Craxin01]

If there was a way to automatically make mud, that'd be a winning combo!

[@KirklandLea]

@@Craxin01 why can’t you make a mud farm like a big stone farm that uses tnt? Dispensers putting water on dirt, pushed by pistons to be blown up. Connect it to a wheat farm a viola!

[@Craxin01]

@@KirklandLea Bedrock user. Don't believe there's a way to automate bottle filling in Bedrock.

[@KirklandLea]

@@Craxin01 ahh. I hadn’t thought about that.

[@Craxin01]

@@KirklandLea I mean, it'd be possible to automate a good chunk of it, but you'd have to be filling bottles for a large operation. There used to be a bucket filling machine in Bedrock, but it doesn't work for bottles.

[@ultron_2v273]

Do u guys remember the early days of minecraft where u could store items in the crafting table? That gives me a bit of nostalgia with the crafter

[@wattlesplays]

Omg i didnt even play then!

[@JFD1220]

I miss when players actually had to harvest things instead of lazy ass auto farms 😂

[@ultron_2v273]

I feel old...

[@emmulah]

@@JFD1220you can still do it manually, no one took that away from ya bud. Weird that you wish the game was harder for everyone else tho

[@callumfinlayson-palmer8393]

I'm a fairly old player but I don't ever reamber that lol

[@TheAnnyParker]

Crafter leading into a decorated pot, where the recipe is one of the decorated pot recipes = very simple combo lock with tonnes of possible outcomes

[@arlen7726]

With the changes to pots and the addition of auto-crafters, anyone on a multiplayer server could start a large-scale delivery service much earlier and more easily than before!(why does it feel like Hermitcraft’s Amazon parodies are a bit on the nose now? 😂)

[@OmarGuerelElloco13]

You are Great Wattles. Amazing ideas 🚀

[@lucasryan8520]

Very happy that you sound alive unlike many other folks these days.

[@wattlesplays]

thank you 😅

[@ROO1KAT]

NO WAY, I have always wanted to make farms that work like factorio, where you basically build a factory!

[@TheHyprBeastX]

u can autocraft chests from bamboo farms, have a shulker farm nearby and have an infinite supply of shulker boxes to load up harvests from all your other farms and put those filled up shulkers in ur storage system

[@LordSimont]

I liked the building ideas, you could also use the underside of the crafter for your ceiling!!

[@jw_123_]

You could use it to craft golden carrots by connecting your gold farm to carrots moving through a nether portal where on the overworld side there is an auto carrot farm with villagers. Unlimited very good source of food

[@jakegross9428]

Definitely wasn't expecting a silent mention in my Wattles vid; top two favorite Miners ftw

[@AntimatterE]

I had dreamed of this stuff. I never thought they were gonna put it in the actual game

[@tackroachmicmoacka2348]

Never been this early to a Wattles video, I like it

[@youraveragejoeyt]

The drops from farms are going to be so much easier to handle now 🙌🏻 Especially an iron farm

[@cleryfrey]

Now I need to dig deeper in my iron farm to add this beauty of a crafter. I need this to save up storage space and to turn my iron to iron blocks.

[@DoginSuit]

Wattles you should design and build an auto crafter wall that makes every possible cobblestone stone and smooth stone block in the game. Use furnaces to smelt then craft. So you can get all the stone items when you input cobble to the system or if you put in smooth stone or stone it goes straight to their spot

[@JoshuaBuhl-qb2ie]

Iron farm + autocrafter, turn iron to blocks, 9 times the storage

[@DoodleZoo]

Automatic anvil crafter

[@zombielizard9383]

You know? I always saw comments of minecraft mods in KZbin, Twitter, even Curseforge, where someone mentions that a modded feature could go really well with the game, only for someone else to be that guy and say that mojang won't add it, and most of those comments that say the mod feature won't be added because it's not "Vanilla Friendly" or that the devs in the past said they won't add that stuff Mods that introduced auto-crafting before this had those comments, which just brings me to a conclusion There's no such thing as non-vanilla friendly features, just external features that don't accommodate with minecraft's normative and artistic principles Or in short: "Vanilla Friendly features done wrong" Anything can be added, just when mojang chooses to

[@jonathanwarren8178]

Silent whisperer is goated at red stone mad respect that wattles watches him too

[@Aries657]

Hey I’d love to see how you managed to make that hopper auto crafting machine. I feel like if that process could be done with swords and tools and stuff like that. It’d be a big game changer

[@nokkturtle]

As soon as i saw it gave a redstone signal i immediately knew i wanted to use it as a number pad for a secret door

[@PatThePauper]

The crafter will be a legit powerhouse. It'll be the doja cat of redstone.

[@wattlesplays]

👀

[@Golems_wrath]

@@wattlesplays 😈🔥 The great cleansing cannot be stopped wattles. Without plot armor MALFOR would have won. XD so better run. Worlds gonna go boom 💥..XD I mean Minecraft world totally not this real world, 😈😜

[@SirAroace]

You can make a fully automatic stick production: Piston farm = Bamboo --> Block --> Planks --> Sticks

[@jw_123_]

This is a very good idea but remember u can turn bamboo directly into sticks

[@GamingOnInsulin]

Wattles it has an output face if you point it downwards into a barrel the item goes into a barrel no need for the hopper at 2:42

[@hiddentidesgaming]

Wild idea, throw it back old school and make a minesweeper game with them!

[@thepigvillage1197]

#51: Hook it up to a bunch of automatic farms and craft crafters with a crafter

[@slimygamer_MC]

For the record,this first fact got me unprepared.

[@Im_A_Potato_guy]

The Sye game mentioned in the 9th minute could be used for an auto wool farm for every wool. All you would need is either the most inhumane sheep farm or a spider spawned or two.

[@americanmade175]

Crafting is part of the magic of Minecraft and auto crafting is far from what original Minecraft is, it's auto crafting first then before you know it players will have nothing to do because everything will be automated

[@StevoPero]

I believe the best addition in version 1.21 is the auto-crafter. Minecraft should also introduce an auto block placer and miner; that would be really cool. Imagine a block where you could place your pickaxe, and it would automatically break the block in front of it with the power of the pickaxe. If it has efficiency 3, it would break it faster. Additionally, an auto block placer could be introduced where you put the block you want to place, and it will be automatically set in it's position.

[@sanderrandmets4571]

That thing is so good with farms OMG!!!

[@Craxin01]

For the major farms, it'd be great. I can already see myself making a skeleton farm, breaking the bones down into bonemeal, then condensing the bonemeal into bone blocks for storage. Taking the gold farm and smelting down gold swords into nuggets, combining them with nuggets dropped from zombified piglins, condensing them into ingots, then finally into gold blocks for storage. Finally, taking all the iron ingots from my iron farm and automatically condensing them into iron blocks. So much better storage.

[@milohobo9186]

It can be used to showcase different recipes and especially useful for showing custom recipes.

[@rolandverde8771]

My concept of using Water streams and really tall skyscrapers to create farms for trading with villagers will get a lot more interesting now 😭 imagine one building makes kelp, one building feeds it bamboo to efficiently smelt the kelp and then the kelp is packaged up to trade with butchers. Beautiful. Lossless. Profits.

[@CollinSimon413]

They should make more items collapsible into blocks. Turning paper into "ream" blocks, for example.

[@calebschultz9935]

today Saturday Dec 9 2023 I just got access to the auto crafter in the experimental section! Really excited for all the possibilities! 😁

[@Austin1990]

Nobody realizes how this changes the paradigm of Minecraft?

[@knucklehead83]

Condensing all blocks into their condensed form. Iron ingots into Iron blocks, hay into hay blocks, diamonds into diamond blocks, etc. Cheaper storage in the long run. The next OP thing Minecraft should introduce is auto block placers. Creative would be obsolete.

[@user-px1fs9mg2c]

Minecraft has officially entered the industrial revolution.

[@emmulah]

This video has my brain flowing and I don’t know how to stop the leak

[@kaiser1829]

To me auto smelter which doesn't need fuel by using kelp blocks is awesome I don't even have to collect lava and also use them in honey farms you wouldn't need a billion bottles cause they will be reusable. Edit: Dunno but a machine to equiptan army of wolf with armadillo armor sounds great xD

[@kaelhate1791]

Is there a 1 block Redstone clock or Metronome? If not thats what the game needs next for tinkering. Would help beginners get into simple redstone without ot the complex redstone understanding.

[@PrzemysawSech]

I think you could fill it like the brewer to get the correct order. Since the auto-crafter can inject into the chest, can it inject into another auto-crafter? 🤔🤯 Nuggets to ingots to blocks in one pipeline.

[@milanvujcich]

So many people are completely downplaying this block. This allows you to literally create production lines, and the amount of time you will save will be insane

[@thomblueart8448]

wouldnt it be easier using a item frame connected to a comparator for subtraction, i believe that outputs a redstone of level 8 when you put an item and turn it to the highest amount, it seems easier then using a composter to me.

[@JeremyBearimyofCrimsonForest]

Maybe a wool farm with every color of sheep could use this by automatically crafting shears so that it will really run forever.

[@liammadden7572]

By my math any system with 160 iron/hr or more will be able to feed 16 dispensers with adequate shears.

[@widdershinnz]

I wanna see a machine that auto crafts the chests for the hoppers then autocrafts the autocrafter 😄 this thing is so cool. Hook the machines up to an auto tree farm and your iron farm, continuous automation. Its so sicccck!

[@Duppioo]

I will be hooking it up to gaurdian farm for see lanterns.

[@rskoop4121]

Integrate the crafter into a storage system which sees which items you take out so it fills the items back up. Take out 40 oak stairs? Crafter gets a signal and creates 40 new ones.

[@Zogg1281]

I've been wanting this so badly for like a year!!!! Really excited....... but I was kinda hoping for a bit more from Mincraft Live. A new structure, a mob and a load of new blocks are pretty cool but they aren't a new biome..... or an End Update😢 Maybe it's for the best because I have the coolest ideas for the End, which means it's not too late to gift wrap them and send them off to Mojang. 😅

[@MZTGold-bw5fl]

I made a whole machine where using an auto smelter at the start to smelt sand into glass you funnel that into the crafter for glass bottles, had to add an item filter because it runs on lava buckets then the bottles get stored in chests until a minecart and chest come along and are loaded up with the bottles that lead to another area where i have my bee farm which then loads into said bee farm and fills them with honey creating honey bottles and from there storing them down below the farm itself in barrels for later use

[@channelnotfound403]

Gold Farm - I used 2 crafter setups to turn the Nuggets into Bars, then those (and the normal Bar drops) get funneled into a second crafter that turns all that into Gold Blocks. Now there is way less manual maintenance in my Gold Farm.

[@Calvodecria559]

You know that you can just put a crafter in front of this other crafter right?

[@channelnotfound403]

⁠@@Calvodecria559you still need a circuit to trigger the second one when it fills up with 9 items. Not helpful to just have one sitting in front of the other filling up with no trigger. But for now it's already built and works for my needs.

[@victoriacharles4652]

I can't wait for them to add the breeze to snapshots 💨

[@ruralkracken3000]

The autocrafter can replace the composter for signal strength.

[@jacksondynamite]

Even just thinking about wood crafting. You could have a rail system with a minecraft and chest moving back and forth. A hopper that stops it to load logs... under neath the rails hoppers taking those logs into auto crafters that are making all the wood block types. A wood factory. I love this addition to the game.

[@Evilduckblood]

I'm just getting back into mincraft with my gf and brother after years of not playing. I used to use a lot of Redstone but I'm just curious, why is the compost bin on the side of most of these? What purpose does it serve?

[@chriswillis2181]

Have a tree farm feed underground to your mine area (Hopper to dropper straight down to hopper) into an autocrafter fed by stone storage. You could autocraft cobblestone pickaxes while you mine. If only there was a way to have enchanting tables, anvil, etc. interact directly to either the autocrafter or hopper. Then you could automate enchanting, repairing, etc. Imagine setting up a storage system that autocrafts and enchants items for you. Or throw a half broken pickaxe and it cycles through the anvil (repair), then into an enchanting table (enchant), then dispensing it back to you. If you have all the materials fed into it, I don't see why not. You could set the enchanting up to use what level by a lever that puts out a 1 to 3 output (redstone or comparator) for what level enchantment you want.

[@kennyg2987]

You can combine tools/armor in the crafting grid too, if you don't need to keep the enchantment.

[@PurpleGuyMemes]

Factory Update

[@Golems_wrath]

The great cleansing update. May MALFOR destroy the pathetic world and everyone on it....or just ruin it greatly and be king XD🤓😈🔥😉 idk I wanted to make dark bad ending references of Spyro dotd so I might as well have fun. Teasing you folks, if it’s not “mean” to anyone XD

[@cujo80676]

Lantern crafting farm for all the light you'll ever need

[@orkboy59]

Bamboo farm ---> Bamboo blocks --> Bamboo planks --> Chests

[@toothless7046]

You could use it for an automatic honey block farm

[@mond2440]

this will be the single most overpowered redstone component in the game

[@CZpersi]

Combine with furnaces to create a multistage brick wall farm.

[@BebroOfficial]

For me it seems to be useful for automatic creation of items that need only 1 specific material. Let's say i want an automatic fabric of books. How do i tell this block to first put a piece of paper, and as the 4th put leather?

[@geraudfelicia8672]

Emerald farm gonna be good with this

[@meandmybuddy3389]

7:27 bro we know that u put fortune lvl 250 on that pic dont lie

[@aidansaris8590]

Tbh, the recipe was something I was not expecting! 🪙🪙🪙 🪙🪵🪙 ⚡️🔫⚡️ 🪙= iron ingot ⚡️= redstone 🪵= crafting table 🔫= dropper

[@oaksparoakspar3144]

You don't need to use composters - important for Bedrock folk if villagers are without range. You can use anything with a signal of 9 - lectern/book has the same villager issues as the composter. The best answer I have seen so far was Mumbo's - just use another crafter with all nine blocks locked out. In fact, the crafter is a perfect dial-in signal strength machine from 0 to 9.

[@johnjohns2338]

Autocrafter isn't game changing but definitely will change the way I play. I can't wait till this things genuinely in the game.

[@blaineishere3851]

these are so much more complicated than just selecting the item and hitting a single button a few times lmao i genuinely don't get it.

[@atanasijebikar5875]

My boy is becoming Mumbo Jumbu

[@futurepotato4288]

The Noah Kahan reference made me smile so big

[@leKitsu]

What I would use it for is defo for recycling loot and old items. You know. Auto smelter for tools, from which nuggets get transported to autocrafter and craft iron or gold ingots. Maybe its not that useful but its better than wasting those items by putting them in lava.

[@erniemiller1953]

I might have missed it, but did you mention you can use the autocrafter to make autocrafters?

[@DavideEnricoAssandri]

Minecraft Is slowly becoming satisfactory

[@neorazorwolf5684]

Infinite Fuel would be amazing!

[@co-jt6gd]

So basically, 1.21 is Redstone Update 2.0? Etho’s gonna have some fun with this!