Recipes
Buy the finished item, or buy the parts and make it. Both sides priced at what you would actually pay, by sweeping the real book.
Pricing every recipe…
Buy the finished item, or buy the parts and make it. Both sides priced at what you would actually pay, by sweeping the real book.
Recipes
54
crafting and enchanting
Both sides priced
20
parts and product both buyable
Enchanting routes
32
derived from the catalog
Dearest anvil step
12
cheapest order, in levels
| Parts | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Elytra · maxAnvil | 8.65◇ | 50.96◇ | build 83% | 46.08◇ | — | 6 lv | |
 Paper×3 | 0.023◇ | 0.050◇ | build 54% | 0.040◇ | +0.017◇ | — | |
 Tnt | 0.119◇ | 0.156◇ | build 24% | 0.120◇ | +0.0011◇ | — | |
 Golden Carrot | 0.073◇ | 0.094◇ | build 22% | 0.082◇ | +0.0094◇ | — | |
 Glass | 0.025◇ | 0.031◇ | build 20% | 0.026◇ | +0.0014◇ | — | |
 Stone | 0.012◇ | 0.015◇ | build 20% | 0.013◇ | +0.0004◇ | — | |
 Diamond Helmet · maxprotAnvil | 28.97◇ | 35.67◇ | build 19% | 30.24◇ | — | 27 lv | |
 Diamond Sword · maxnokbAnvil | 43.49◇ | 52.00◇ | build 16% | 44.26◇ | — | 44 lv | |
 Ender Chest | 0.332◇ | 0.395◇ | build 16% | 0.336◇ | +0.0042◇ | — | |
 Diamond Pickaxe · maxsilkAnvil | 19.50◇ | 23.09◇ | build 16% | 19.20◇ | — | 21 lv | |
 Bow · maxmendingAnvil | 28.28◇ | 31.20◇ | build 9% | 25.92◇ | — | 26 lv | |
| Diamond Pickaxe · maxfortuneAnvil | 21.17◇ | 23.19◇ | build 9% | 19.68◇ | — | 23 lv | |
| Bow · maxinfinityAnvil | 30.81◇ | 33.28◇ | build 7% | 27.84◇ | — | 29 lv | |
 Diamond Chestplate · maxprotAnvil | 14.53◇ | 15.60◇ | build 7% | 13.92◇ | — | 13 lv | |
 Diamond Boots · maxprotAnvil | 30.82◇ | 31.20◇ | build 1% | 27.17◇ | — | 30 lv | |
 Deepslate | 0.016◇ | 0.016◇ | buy 1% | 0.013◇ | −0.0029◇ | — | |
 Diamond Leggings · maxprotAnvil | 14.53◇ | 12.69◇ | buy 15% | 10.56◇ | — | 13 lv | |
 Diamond Shovel · maxsilkAnvil | 19.50◇ | 16.02◇ | buy 22% | 13.73◇ | — | 21 lv | |
 Iron Block | 1.23◇ | 0.088◇ | buy 1288% | 0.081◇ | −1.15◇ | — | |
 Packed Ice | 0.454◇ | 0.026◇ | buy 1646% | 0.021◇ | −0.433◇ | — | |
 Quartz | — | 0.100◇ | — | 0.087◇ | — | — | |
| Iron Block | — | 0.088◇ | — | 0.081◇ | — | — | |
 Copper Block | — | 0.274◇ | — | 0.245◇ | — | — | |
 Coal Block | — | 0.253◇ | — | 0.227◇ | — | — | |
 Bone Block | — | 0.091◇ | — | 0.083◇ | — | — | |
 Glass Bottle×3 | 0.094◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
 Stick×8 | 0.081◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
 Polished Tuff×4 | 0.183◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
 Tuff Bricks×4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
 Shulker Box | 0.065◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
 Firework Rocket×3 | 0.021◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Firework Rocket · flight_3×3 | 0.028◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
 Hopper | 0.097◇ | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Diamond Boots · UMPAnvil | 14.53◇ | — | — | — | — | 13 lv | |
| Diamond Chestplate · PossibleWeedleAnvil | 28.97◇ | — | — | — | — | 28 lv | |
| Diamond Helmet · UMPAnvil | 14.53◇ | — | — | — | — | 13 lv | |
| Diamond Leggings · maxblastAnvil | 16.32◇ | — | — | — | — | 17 lv | |
| Diamond Helmet · ProperCanidBassAnvil | 21.92◇ | — | — | — | — | 20 lv | |
 Diamond Axe · ChillyWalrusAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 5 lv | |
| Diamond Pickaxe · IntenseQuailAnvil | — | 2.16◇ | — | 1.84◇ | — | 7 lv | |
| Diamond Chestplate · unbreaking_2Anvil | — | — | — | — | — | 2 lv | |
| Diamond Leggings · CoolHornetAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 5 lv | |
| Diamond Pickaxe · silk_touchAnvil | 3.45◇ | — | — | — | — | 4 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · ShallowRatAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 3 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · efficiency_1Anvil | — | — | — | — | — | 1 lv | |
 Netherite Chestplate · TallGoatSwiftAnvil | 14.53◇ | — | — | — | — | 13 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · efficiency_2Anvil | — | — | — | — | — | 2 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · unbreaking_1Anvil | — | — | — | — | — | 1 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · IncWeezingWildfowlAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 7 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · ProperKrabbyPigeonAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 8 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · CharmingEeveeAnvil | 10.03◇ | — | — | — | — | 8 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · JollyArbokAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 8 lv | |
| Diamond Axe · ExoticMarlinFerretAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 4 lv | |
| Diamond Pickaxe · SacredDoduoHalibutAnvil | — | — | — | — | — | 22 lv |
Priced as a standalone good, ranked by what a book actually sells for
 Enchanted BookPower 5 | 5.00◇ | 5 lv | 2 |
| Enchanted BookUnbreaking 3 | 5.00◇ | 3 lv | 22 |
| Enchanted BookRespiration 3 | 5.00◇ | 6 lv | 2 |
| Enchanted BookFeather Falling 4 | 5.00◇ | 4 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookThorns 3 | 5.00◇ | 12 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookSweeping Edge 3 | 4.00◇ | 6 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookLooting 3 | 4.00◇ | 6 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookSharpness 5 | 3.75◇ | 5 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookProtection 4 | 3.00◇ | 4 lv | 8 |
| Enchanted BookFortune 3 | 2.50◇ | 6 lv | 2 |
| Enchanted BookFlame | 2.50◇ | 2 lv | 2 |
| Enchanted BookPunch 2 | 2.50◇ | 4 lv | 2 |
| Enchanted BookBlast Protection 4 | 2.50◇ | 8 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookFrost Walker 2 | 2.50◇ | 4 lv | — |
| Enchanted BookSilk Touch | 2.00◇ | 4 lv | 4 |
| Enchanted BookEfficiency 5 | 2.00◇ | 5 lv | 3 |
| Enchanted BookInfinity | 2.00◇ | 4 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookFire Aspect 2 | 2.00◇ | 4 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookKnockback 2 | 2.00◇ | 2 lv | — |
| Enchanted BookAqua Affinity | 2.00◇ | 2 lv | 2 |
| Enchanted BookDepth Strider 3 | 2.00◇ | 6 lv | 1 |
| Enchanted BookMending | 1.56◇ | 2 lv | 17 |
| Enchanted BookSwift Sneak 3 | no asks | 12 lv | — |
| Enchanted BookSoul Speed 3 | no asks | 12 lv | — |
| Enchanted BookLoyalty 3 | no asks | 3 lv | — |
Enchantments quoted on one side and not the other
Sold as a book, but no listed tool carries it
Frost Walker 2 · Knockback 2 · Loyalty 3 · Soul Speed 3 · Swift Sneak 3
On a listed tool, but no book supplies it
A tool whose enchantment has no book cannot be built from parts at any price, so it never appears in the buy-or-build table above. The absence is the answer.
Finished tool price, less the books it carries — the base item is assumed already owned, as in the table above
| Elytra · max | 6.56◇ | — | 49.00◇ | +42.44◇ 647% | 6 lv |
| Diamond Sword · maxnokb | 20.31◇ | — | 50.00◇ | +29.69◇ 146% | 44 lv |
| Diamond Helmet · maxprot | 16.56◇ | — | 34.30◇ | +17.74◇ 107% | 27 lv |
| Bow · maxinfinity | 17.00◇ | — | 32.00◇ | +15.00◇ 88% | 29 lv |
| Bow · maxmending | 16.56◇ | — | 30.00◇ | +13.44◇ 81% | 26 lv |
| Diamond Boots · maxprot | 16.56◇ | — | 30.00◇ | +13.44◇ 81% | 30 lv |
| Diamond Pickaxe · maxsilk | 10.56◇ | — | 22.20◇ | +11.64◇ 110% | 21 lv |
| Diamond Pickaxe · maxfortune | 11.06◇ | — | 22.30◇ | +11.24◇ 102% | 23 lv |
| Diamond Chestplate · maxprot | 9.56◇ | — | 15.00◇ | +5.44◇ 57% | 13 lv |
| Diamond Shovel · maxsilk | 10.56◇ | — | 15.40◇ | +4.84◇ 46% | 21 lv |
| Diamond Leggings · maxprot | 9.56◇ | — | 12.20◇ | +2.64◇ 28% | 13 lv |
| Diamond Boots · UMP | 9.56◇ | — | — | — | 13 lv |
| Diamond Helmet · UMP | 9.56◇ | — | — | — | 13 lv |
| Diamond Leggings · maxblast | 9.06◇ | — | — | — | 17 lv |
Enchantment value comes from the book listing plus a residual, not from regressing tool prices on their enchantment sets: with this many enchanted listings against this many distinct enchantments the regression is underdetermined, and its coefficients would be noise. The residual therefore absorbs everything the books don't explain — experience, anvil work, convenience, and any mispricing.
Every leg is costed by walking the real ask side for the quantity the recipe needs, so a part with a thin book costs what depth actually charges rather than a mid that nobody could trade at. If any leg cannot be filled, the build has no total at all — a partial sum would read as a real answer, and a cheaper one.
Crafting and smelting recipes are hand-written game knowledge and are the one place here where a wrong number would be confidently wrong rather than missing; only deterministic conversions are included, so ore is smelted rather than mined. Enchanting recipes are derived from the catalog instead — every listing carrying enchantments becomes its plain base item plus one book per enchantment — so they cannot drift out of step with upstream.
Anvil cost is the cheapest combining order, found by searching them rather than assuming one. Order matters a great deal: every item remembers how often it has been worked and the penalty doubles each time, so applying five books one after another can cost half again what merging them in pairs first does, and can hit the 40-level wall that survival refuses.
Experience is priced as bottles at the live experience_bottle price, assuming the mean yield of 7 per bottle, and each anvil step is costed as the experience needed to afford it from a standing start. A player already at a high level pays differently — this is a stated convention, not a precise figure. Smelting fuel is not modelled, so smelting recipes understate the true cost slightly. The books these prices are swept from reproduce the official best bid and ask on 181 of 181 listings.