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How to make a Minecraft grindstone

Learn the Minecraft grindstone recipe, make your own, and forge new items with increased durability so you don't lose that diamond hoe.

minecraft-grindstone

What is the Minecraft grindstone recipe? The Minecraft Grindstone can naturally generate in villages, specifically in blacksmith houses. However, if you need one in a pinch to forging a new item with the replenished durability, you can also craft one.

As well as preventing your tools and weapons from breaking, you can also use a Minecraft grindstone to remove all non-cursed Minecraft enchantments from a single item. Place your enchanted item in either input slot and simply remove it, unenchanted, from the other side. It’s all quite simple once you know what you’re doing. So if you need to tinker with your items quickly, here’s a guide to crafting a Minecraft grindstone in one of the most popular crafting games around.

Minecraft grindstone recipe - the recipe for crafting a Minecraft grindstone. It requires two planks, two sticks, and a stone slab.

Minecraft grindstone recipe

To make a Minecraft grindstone, place the two sticks in the left and right corners of the top row at the crafting table, with the stone slab in the middle of the top row, and then place the two planks in the left and right of the middle row.

Here is the ingredient list for the Minecraft grindstone recipe.

  • 2 x sticks
  • 2 x wooden planks
  • 1 x stone slab

If you haven’t used stone slabs before, you can create these using cobblestones in a Minecraft blast furnace.

Minecraft grindstone uses

Grindstones are incredibly useful if you want to earn experience points without much work. Disenchant unwanted books and enchanted drops to receive experience points – you can breeze through the levels with this technique, depending on how many books and enchanted items you have to disenchant.

Minecraft grindstone recipe - Using an enchanted helmet in a Minecraft grindstone with a damaged unenchanted helmet to make a new helmet.

Minecraft grindstone vs anvil

An anvil will repair your items, but you can also combine enchantments and rename items, so if you want enchantments to remain, we recommend using an anvil. If you want to enchant away and don’t need to repair your items, the best tool for the job is an enchantment table.

And that’s how to make a Minecraft grindstone. If you want somewhere to store your shiny new grindstone, check out these cool Minecraft house ideas and Minecraft farm designs, as well as the best Minecraft seeds to find a Minecraft village for your repairing needs. Read our Minecraft ideas guide to be inspired by incredible designs if you’re entirely out of ideas. You can also check out the Minecraft 1.20 update to see everything coming soon.