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Minecraft (mechanics, from the Minecraft Wiki)

Game: Minecraft.

Minecraft's world is a three-dimensional grid of cubes, each holding one type of block, and most blocks can be mined by hand or with tools; a few, such as bedrock, can't be broken in Survival. minecraft/blocks

WikiGameplay · Gameplay, leadThe world of Minecraft takes place within a three-dimensional grid of cubes, with each cube being occupied by a certain type of block.Gameplay · Gameplay, leadMost of these blocks can then by mined, by hand or with tools. Some blocks cannot be broken in Survival, such as bedrock, End portal frames, command blocks, and barriers.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Today many blocks can be harvested by hand, but stone and metal blocks yield nothing without a pickaxe, and harder ones such as iron ore and obsidian need a pickaxe of a higher tier. A block's base breaking time is its hardness times 1.5 when the held tool can harvest it, and times 5 when it can't; a fitting tool then divides the time by its speed: 2 for wood, 4 for stone, 6 for iron, 8 for diamond. minecraft/hand-mining

WikiBreaking · leadAlthough many blocks can be harvested with bare hands, certain ones require the use of a tool. In particular, to obtain resources from stone or metal-type blocks, the player must use a pickaxe. For harder blocks like iron ore or obsidian, a pickaxe made from a higher-tier material is required.Breaking · SpeedThe base time in seconds is the block's hardness multiplied by: 1.5 if the player can harvest the block with the current tool; 5 if the player cannot.Breaking · Speed, tool speed table — the table below it reads No tool 1, Wood 2, Stone 4, Copper 5, Iron 6, Diamond 8If the tool helps, then it increases digging speed by a constant multiplierChecked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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The Minecraft Wiki's breaking-time table gives stone (hardness 1.5) 7.5 seconds by hand, with nothing dropped, and 1.15 seconds with a wooden pickaxe; iron ore (hardness 3) 15 seconds by hand, 7.5 with a wooden pickaxe, which also drops nothing, and 1.15 with a stone one; and obsidian (hardness 50) about 250 seconds by hand and 9.4 with a diamond pickaxe. minecraft/breaking-times

WikiBreaking · Breaking time table, header and legend — the table's columns are Block, Hardness, Tool, then breaking times for Default (by hand), Wooden, Stone, Copper, Iron, Diamond, Netherite, and Golden; the rows read Stone 1.5, 7.5, 1.15; Iron Ore 3, 15, 7.5, 1.15; Obsidian 50, JE 250.05, then 9.4 under Diamond. Which cells are "incorrect tool" is shown by colour, not textincorrect tool, drops nothingChecked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

The cell colours aren't in the pinned text, so "drops nothing" for stone by hand and iron ore with a wooden pickaxe rests on the hand-mining rule and the tiers table, not the colours.

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Today tools come in seven tiers: wood, gold, stone, copper, iron, diamond, and netherite. A pickaxe's mining level decides what it can harvest: wood 0, stone 1, iron 2, diamond 3, and netherite 4. Blocks tagged as needing a stone tool, such as iron, copper, and lapis lazuli ore, need level 1; diamond, emerald, gold, and redstone ore need an iron one, level 2; obsidian and ancient debris need a diamond one, level 3. Any other block needs level 0, and the wrong tier breaks a block without it dropping anything. minecraft/tiers

WikiTiers · TiersThere are currently seven tiers in the game: wood, gold, stone, copper, iron, diamond, and netherite.Tiers · Tiers, table — the table's mining-level column reads Wood 0, Stone 1, Iron 2, Diamond 3, Netherite 4; Gold's and Copper's cells are empty in the pinned textMining levelTiers · Mining levelA block with the tag minecraft:needs_stone_tool[note 1] requires a mining level of 1 or higher, a block with the tag minecraft:needs_iron_tool[note 2] requires a mining level of 2 or higher, and a block with the tag minecraft:needs_diamond_tool[note 3] requires a tool with mining level 3 or higher. If a block has no mining level tags, it can be mined with a mining level of 0.Tiers · Notes 1 to 3Includes iron ore, copper ore, lapis lazuli oreTiers · Notes 1 to 3Includes diamond ore, emerald ore, gold ore, redstone oreTiers · Notes 1 to 3Includes ancient debris, obsidianPickaxe · Usage, BreakingFor example, while stone can be mined with any pickaxe, gold ore must be mined with an iron pickaxe, diamond pickaxe, or netherite pickaxe, or else the player harvests no item.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Tool tiers arrived during Indev in 2010. Pickaxes were added on 10 January, mining stone 400% faster than a hand; wooden, stone, and diamond pickaxes joined the existing one, now the iron pickaxe, on 28 January; wooden, iron, and diamond pickaxes could be crafted from build 20100129-1447, and the stone one, because of a bug, only from the next build, 20100129-2332. On 1 February higher-tier pickaxes became required for harder materials, and the tiers page says that before then blocks and ores could be broken by hand. minecraft/tiers-history

WikiPickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100110Added pickaxes. They are used to gather stone materials 400% faster than by hand.Pickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100128-2200Tools now have tiers. Wooden, stone, and diamond pickaxes have been added.Pickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100128-2200The texture of the existing pickaxes, now known as iron pickaxes, has been shifted down slightly.Pickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100129-1447Wooden, stone, iron, and diamond pickaxes can now be crafted.Pickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100129-1447Due to a bug, stone pickaxe can be crafted only in next versionPickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100129-2332 — the next build after 20100129-1447 in the historyAdded the golden tier of tools. Golden pickaxes have been added.Pickaxe · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100201-2227Higher tier pickaxes are now required to mine harder materials.Tiers · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100201-2227Added mining levels. Before this update, blocks and ores could be broken by hand.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

Dates are the build names, which are dates.

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Each pickaxe is crafted from two sticks and three of its tier's material (by the tiers table's repair items: planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, diamonds), and each tier's ore takes a pickaxe of the tier below: any pickaxe for stone, a stone one for iron ore, an iron one for diamond ore. minecraft/pickaxe-recipe

WikiPickaxe · Obtaining, CraftingWooden, golden, stone, copper, iron, and diamond pickaxes are crafted using two sticks and three of the tier’s material.Tiers · Tiers, table, repair item column — the table's repair items are Planks for wood, Cobblestone (and Cobbled Deepslate, Blackstone) for stone, Iron Ingot for iron, and Diamond for diamondCobblestoneTiers · Notes 1 to 3Includes diamond ore, emerald ore, gold ore, redstone oreTiers · Notes 1 to 3Includes iron ore, copper ore, lapis lazuli orePickaxe · Usage, Breakingwhile stone can be mined with any pickaxeChecked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

The materials are each tier's repair item in the tiers table; the pickaxe page's recipe grid is an image.

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The player crafts by laying items out on a grid to match a recipe: a 2×2 grid in the inventory for small recipes such as planks, sticks, torches, and the crafting table, and a 3×3 grid at a placed crafting table, made from four planks, for every recipe. Most recipes are shaped: the ingredients must sit in the right places relative to each other, though the pattern may slide and be flipped left to right. Some are shapeless and take their ingredients anywhere on the grid. minecraft/crafting-grid

WikiCrafting · Crafting system, Manual craftingPlayers craft by arranging items in the crafting grid to match a given recipe. Small crafting recipes that are at most 2×2 can be made there, including wooden planks, sticks, crafting tables, and torches.Crafting · Crafting system, Manual craftingThe crafting table can be made by filling the 2×2 grid with any type of wooden planks. This brings up an interface with a larger 3×3 crafting grid in which the player can use to craft any crafting recipe in the game.Crafting · Crafting system, Manual craftingMost recipes must have their ingredients placed in the correct relative positions on the crafting grid. These are commonly known as "shaped" recipes. Ingredients in shaped recipes can be moved up, down, left, or right. They can also be flipped horizontally, but not vertically.Crafting · Crafting system, Manual craftingSome recipes don't require their ingredients to be arranged in a specific way on the crafting grid. These are commonly known as "shapeless" recipes.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Crafting became a proper feature in Indev on 29 January 2010, with recipes for sticks, pickaxes, torches, swords, and axes, and the same day's later build added the inventory's 2×2 grid and the workbench for the 3×3 grid. Shapeless recipes came in Beta 1.2, and 1.12 added a recipe tab that shows how to craft items crafted before. IGN's 2011 review said Minecraft had no documentation at all. minecraft/crafting-history

WikiCrafting · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100129-1447Crafting is now implemented as a proper feature. Early recipes include sticks, pickaxes, torches, swords, axes, in addition to diamond, gold and iron blocks.Crafting · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100129-2332Added the 2×2 crafting grid to the player’s inventory. Added workbenches, which are now required in order to access the 3×3 crafting grid instead of a keybind.Crafting · History, Java Edition Beta 1.2Added shapeless recipes.Crafting · History, Java Edition 1.12, 17w13aThe crafting GUI now includes a recipe tab, allowing players to know how to craft previously-crafted items, automatically fill in the recipe and filter out the recipes to what they can make from their inventory.Minecraft Review · review bodyMany games have poor documentation, but Minecraft has none at allChecked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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The crafter, a block that crafts any crafting-table recipe when it gets a redstone signal and can be fed by hoppers, made automated crafting possible in the base game. It was added in snapshot 23w42a, which the wiki files under 1.21. minecraft/crafter

WikiCrafting · History, 1.20.3 Experiment, Update 1.21, 23w42aAdded the crafter, making automated crafting possible.Crafting · Crafting system, Automated craftingThe crafter can craft anything that a normal crafting table can. Crafters require a redstone signal to activate.Crafting · Crafting system, Automated craftingThe simplest way to do this is for the player to add the items for the crafting into the crafter manually, however this process can itself be automated using hoppers.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

The history entry sits under the 1.20.3 experimental toggle and Update 1.21.

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Today a furnace takes fuel in its bottom slot and the items to smelt in the top one, and in the Java Edition smelts one item every 200 game ticks (10 seconds). A piece of coal burns for 80 seconds, enough for eight items, and keeps burning to the end once lit, even if nothing is left to smelt. minecraft/furnace

Value: 10 seconds per item

WikiFurnace · UsageA fuel source (up to one stack of fuel items) is placed in the bottom slot, and the items to be processed (up to one stack) goes in the upper slot. A furnace runs at a speed of one item every 200 game ticks (10 seconds) or six items per minute.Furnace · UsageFor example, a piece of coal burns for 80 seconds and can process eight items, but if only one item is processed (or if the item is pulled out before the process is complete), the coal still continues burning for the full 80 secondsChecked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

The 10 seconds is the Java Edition figure the wiki gives for the plain furnace.

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The furnace was added in Indev on 19 February 2010. Before it, the only way to smelt ores was to drop them on the ground and set them alight with flint and steel. minecraft/furnace-history

WikiFurnace · History, Java Edition IndevPrior to the addition of furnaces, items could be smelted by dropping them on the ground and then burning them with flint and steel. This was the only way to smelt ores.Furnace · History, Java Edition Indev, 20100219Added furnaces.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Minecarts arrived in Infdev on 18 June 2010 as containers that couldn't be ridden, and on 24 June became rideable and lost their storage. From Alpha v1.0.14 a minecart was an ingredient in the recipes for the minecart with chest and the minecart with furnace. Beta 1.5 added powered rails, which move minecarts automatically, and detector rails, which detect them; Beta 1.6 ended "boosting", a glitch that sped up two carts running side by side. minecraft/minecart-history

WikiMinecart · History, Java Edition Infdev, 20100618Minecarts are not rideable but instead are used to store things in.Minecart · History, Java Edition Infdev, 20100624The minecart mechanics have been changed to being rideable, removing their ability to store items.Minecart · History, Java Edition Alpha v1.0.14Minecarts are now used to craft minecart with furnace and minecart with chest. A glitch creates a new method of speeding up minecarts, known as "Boosting." Placing two minecarts parallel to each other and moving in the same direction increases the speed of both carts.Minecart · History, Java Edition Beta 1.5Powered rails have been introduced, which enables minecarts to move automatically. The detector rails have been introduced for use in detecting minecarts.Minecart · History, Java Edition Beta 1.6, Test Build 3Boosters no longer work.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Today powered rails speed up a minecart when they carry a redstone signal; without them a cart slows gradually, faster uphill, though it needs none to roll downhill. In the Java Edition minecarts pushed together merge and move as one, like a train, and keep their speed on straight track without powered rails. minecraft/powered-rails

WikiMinecart · Usage, powered railsPowered rails powered by redstone give minecarts a boost of speed. Speed is gradually decreased if there are no powered rails to assist its movementMinecart · Usage, powered railsThe speed decreases at a faster rate when going uphill, compared to when moving horizontallyMinecart · Usage, powered railsA minecart does not need powered rails to assist its movement down a hill.Minecart · Usage, mergingIn Java Edition, two or more minecarts can be merged by pushing them into each other so that they overlap. Merged minecarts move as a collective, like a train, and can be useful for long-distance transport because while moving in a straight line, they do not need powered rails to keep their speed.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Redstone is Minecraft's loose analogue of electricity: some blocks make a signal, others act on one, and players combine them into circuits for farms, item sorters, and flying machines. A signal has a strength from 1 to 15 that drops by 1 for each block of redstone dust it crosses, so dust alone carries it 15 blocks; repeaters and comparators carry it farther. The strength doesn't change how a mechanism acts: a piston pushes the same at 1 as at 15. minecraft/redstone

WikiRedstone mechanics · leadRedstone is Minecraft's loose analog to electricity. There are a variety of blocks that are able to create a redstone signal or perform unique actions when provided with a redstone signal. Redstone-related blocks can be used in combination to create circuits and complicated mechanisms that can be used to make automatic farms, item sorters, flying machines, and more.Redstone mechanics · Redstone signalA redstone signal has a "signal strength", which is an integer between 1 and 15. The strength of a signal does not affect how redstone mechanism components operate. For example, a piston extends the same length and at the same speed regardless of whether it receives a redstone signal of 1 or 15.Redstone mechanics · Transmission, redstone dustRedstone dust transmits power to adjacent redstone dust, but the signal strength decreases by 1 for every block of redstone dust that the signal travels. Redstone dust can thus transmit a signal up to 15 blocks by itself. The signal can be extended farther using other transmission components such as a redstone comparator, or a redstone repeater.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Redstone dust was added in Alpha v1.0.1, either fully on or fully off, and was used to craft redstone torches. Beta 1.3 shaded the wire darker with distance from its source, where before it stayed fully on until its limit, and brought redstone repeaters; Beta 1.5 used redstone for powered and detector rails, and Beta 1.7 for pistons. minecraft/redstone-history

WikiRedstone Dust · History, Java Edition Alpha v1.0.1Redstone dust as a placed block has two power appearances; either completely on, or completely off. Redstone dust is used to craft redstone torches.Redstone Dust · History, Java Edition Beta 1.3Redstone wire gets darker the farther away it is from a source of power, using a dedicated tint system. Previously, it was fully on until it reached its limit.Redstone Dust · History, Java Edition Beta 1.3Redstone is now used to craft redstone repeaters.Redstone Dust · History, Java Edition Beta 1.5Redstone is now used to craft powered rails and detector rails.Redstone Dust · History, Java Edition Beta 1.7Redstone can now be used to craft pistons.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

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Minecraft's pickaxe chain is a gate: a wooden pickaxe mines stone for a stone one, which mines iron ore for an iron one, which mines diamond ore for a diamond one, and the wrong tier gets nothing from a hard block. Factorio's early wooden, stone, and iron picks, which Friday Facts #266 calls "clearly Minecraft affecting our ideas", were cut to iron and steel picks and then removed in 0.17; the post doesn't say whether Factorio's picks gated any resource the way Minecraft's tiers do. minecraft/pickaxes-vs-factorio

WikiTiers · Mining levelA block with the tag minecraft:needs_stone_tool[note 1] requires a mining level of 1 or higher, a block with the tag minecraft:needs_iron_tool[note 2] requires a mining level of 2 or higher, and a block with the tag minecraft:needs_diamond_tool[note 3] requires a tool with mining level 3 or higher.Pickaxe · Usage, Breakingor else the player harvests no item.Friday Facts #266 - Cleanup of mechanics · Pickaxe removalIn the ancient times, you first had to create a wooden pick, to create a stone pick, to mine basic resources, to make iron, so you can make an iron pick. Yes... this was clearly Minecraft affecting our ideas. … So we kept only the iron/steel pick to streamline things. … So the change for 0.17 is that we completely removed mining tools from the game.Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

Factorio's side is factorio-lineage/minecraft-pickaxes.

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In Minecraft the player crafts by laying out a recipe's pattern on a 2×2 or 3×3 grid; the crafter, a late addition, made automated crafting possible in the base game. In Factorio the player asks for an item by its recipe: handcrafting runs at crafting speed 1, a recipe's time is its seconds at that speed, missing parts that can be crafted are queued first, and the player can handcraft only the "crafting" and "hand-crafting" categories, which leaves out the furnaces' smelting recipes. minecraft/crafting-vs-factorio

WikiCrafting · Crafting system, Manual craftingPlayers craft by arranging items in the crafting grid to match a given recipe.Crafting · History, 1.20.3 Experiment, Update 1.21, 23w42aAdded the crafter, making automated crafting possible.Factorio Prototype API, version 2.1.23 (machine-readable JSON) · RecipePrototype.energy_requiredEquals the number of seconds it takes to craft at crafting speed `1`.Time · Crafting timeThe player always crafts at speed 1 while assembling machines have different crafting speeds.Crafting · Manual craftingMaterials that you don't have but you can craft will be highlighted in orange text, and will be chain-crafted to reach the product you selected.factorio-data: Factorio's Lua prototype definitions, version 2.1.23 · base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua#L715crafting_categories = {"crafting", "hand-crafting"},factorio-data: Factorio's Lua prototype definitions, version 2.1.23 · base/prototypes/recipe.lua#L1442-L1458name = "iron-plate", categories = {"smelting"},Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

Factorio's side is factorio-production/handcrafting, handcrafting-speed, and crafting-speed-rule. Mods filled Minecraft's gap long before the crafter: BuildCraft's thread title in November 2012 lists "Autocrafting".

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In the Java Edition a plain Minecraft furnace smelts one item every 200 game ticks (10 seconds). Factorio's stone furnace smelts at crafting speed 1, so an iron plate takes its recipe's 3.2 seconds, and the steel and electric furnaces, at speed 2, take 1.6 (computed). Factorio's stone and steel furnaces burn fuel, as Minecraft's does. minecraft/furnace-vs-factorio

WikiFurnace · UsageA furnace runs at a speed of one item every 200 game ticks (10 seconds) or six items per minute.factorio-data: Factorio's Lua prototype definitions, version 2.1.23 · base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua#L1073-L1081crafting_categories = {"smelting"}, … energy_usage = "90kW", crafting_speed = 1, … type = "burner", fuel_categories = {"chemical"},factorio-data: Factorio's Lua prototype definitions, version 2.1.23 · base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua#L4858-L4866crafting_categories = {"smelting"}, … energy_usage = "90kW", crafting_speed = 2, … type = "burner", fuel_categories = {"chemical"},factorio-data: Factorio's Lua prototype definitions, version 2.1.23 · base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua#L4399-L4413crafting_categories = {"smelting"}, … crafting_speed = 2,factorio-data: Factorio's Lua prototype definitions, version 2.1.23 · base/prototypes/recipe.lua#L1442-L1458name = "iron-plate", categories = {"smelting"}, … energy_required = 3.2,Checked by claude, 2026-10-26 — found each quote in the pinned capture; read the table cells named in the notes

The times are computed from the recipe time and the crafting speeds (factorio-production/crafting-speed-rule). Factorio's side, with the steel and electric furnaces and the plate recipe's time, is factorio-production/furnaces.

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