Furniture and the Carpenter Bench: Every Piece and How to Make It

Craft a Carpenter Bench, turn wood, wool, iron and lanterns into chairs, tables, lamps and more, and place, sit on and recolor them.

Every chair, table, cabinet and lamp on this page comes out of one block, the Carpenter Bench. You craft the bench once, put wood, wool, iron or a lantern in it, and take out the pieces you want, one material each. Seats hold a player, the Cabinet holds as much as a chest, the Fridge fills your buckets and the lamps stay lit. For display cases, hanging signs and plant pots, see Display cases & decor.

Craft the Carpenter Bench

Lay the items out at a crafting table: the axe and the shears side by side on top, and four planks in two rows below them. The grid in your inventory is too small for it. Any planks work, mixed woods included. The craft uses up the axe and the shears along with the planks, so a stone axe is the thrifty choice.

The recipe book never shows this recipe, because nothing unlocks it. Lay the items out by hand and the bench appears in the result slot.

Hold the bench and place it like a block. It becomes a workbench with a chest built in, facing you. To move it, break it: you get the Carpenter Bench back, and any materials still inside come out with it.

Make furniture

The bench opens like a chest. The first two slots of the middle row take your materials, and the gray panes around them are only the frame. The rest of the chest is the menu, and it fills with every piece you can make from what you put in.

Right-click the bench to open it.
Put your main material in the first slot of the middle row.— wood, an iron block, an iron ingot or a lantern
For cushioned pieces and curtains, put wool in the slot beside it.— wood first, then wool
Take a piece out of the menu to make it.— the bench uses one material and offers the piece again

Put the wood in before the wool. If you shift-click, shift-click the wood first, since it lands in the first slot. If the menu stays empty, take both materials out and start again with the wood.

Any color of wool works. The piece always comes out white, and you dye it once it's placed.

Take your leftover materials out when you're done. Once nobody is standing near the bench, it drops whatever is left in it at the feet of the nearest player, who may not be you.

What you put in decides what the menu offers:

Put in	You can take
Planks, a log, a stripped log, wood or stripped wood of one kind (bamboo: planks, a block of bamboo or a stripped block of bamboo; crimson and warped: planks, a stem, a stripped stem, hyphae or stripped hyphae)	Stool, Chair, Park Bench, Table, Low Table, Pedestal Table, Accent Table, Cabinet, Bedside Cabinet, Throne Chair, Wall Rack: 1 wood per piece
That wood plus any wool in the other slot	Everything above, plus Armchair, Wooled Throne Chair and Sofa (1 wood and 1 wool each), Curtain and Store Curtain (1 wool each)
Any wool alone	Curtain, Store Curtain: 1 wool per piece
An iron block	Fridge, Mailbox: 1 iron block per piece
An iron ingot	Street Lamp Pole: 1 iron ingot per piece
A lantern or a soul lantern	Street Lamp, Table Lamp: 1 lantern per piece
A lantern with an iron ingot in the other slot	Street Lamp, Table Lamp, and Street Lamp Pole (the pole uses only the ingot)

Every piece

Thirteen pieces come in all 12 woods, and nine more, the bench included, have one look each. A seat holds one player. A piece marked solid fills its block, so you can't walk through it.

Pieces made in all 12 woods

Each piece is named with its wood first, for example "Birch Stool". The Wooled Throne Chair puts the wood in the middle: "Wooled Birch Throne Chair".

Piece	What it does
Stool	One seat
Chair	One seat
Armchair	One seat; the cushion takes dye
Park Bench	One seat; neighboring benches join up
Throne Chair	One seat
Wooled Throne Chair	One seat; the carpet and candles take dye
Table	Decoration; solid, and joins neighboring tables
Low Table	Decoration; joins neighboring tables
Pedestal Table	Decoration; solid
Accent Table	Decoration; solid, and joins neighboring tables
Cabinet	Storage: opens like a chest, 27 slots
Bedside Cabinet	Decoration; solid
Wall Rack	Decoration for a wall or the floor

The 12 woods:

Oak
Spruce
Birch
Jungle
Acacia
Dark Oak
Mangrove
Cherry
Pale
Bamboo
Crimson
Warped

Fixed pieces

Piece	Made from	What it does
Carpenter Bench	An axe, shears and 4 planks at a crafting table	The crafting station for every other piece
Sofa	1 wood and 1 wool at the bench	One seat; neighboring sofas join up; takes dye
Curtain	1 wool at the bench	Opens and closes; takes dye
Store Curtain	1 wool at the bench	Cycles half open, open and closed; takes dye
Street Lamp	1 lantern or soul lantern at the bench	A lamp that is always lit
Table Lamp	1 lantern or soul lantern at the bench	A dimmer lamp that is always lit
Street Lamp Pole	1 iron ingot at the bench	A decorative iron pole
Fridge	1 iron block at the bench	Right-click with an empty bucket for a water bucket, with a glass bottle for a water bottle, or with a water bucket for 1 ice and an empty bucket back
Mailbox	1 iron block at the bench	Right-click holding an item to put it in; right-click with an empty hand to take one stack back, last in first out. Anyone can empty it

Place, sit and use

Hold a piece and place it like a block. It turns to match the way you're facing, so stand where you want it to look from. To turn it another way, break it and place it again.

Right-click a Stool, Chair, Armchair, Park Bench, Throne Chair, Wooled Throne Chair or Sofa to sit down. Sneak to stand up.

Sneak and right-click a seat with an empty hand and the action bar shows Mob Sit : ON. While it's on, a mob that comes up to the seat sits in it. Do the same again to switch it off.

The Cabinet opens like any chest. The Fridge and the Mailbox work with a right-click while you hold the item, as the table above lists. Since anyone can empty a Mailbox, use it for notes and gifts rather than storage. The lamps give light day and night and have no switch.

Furniture and the bench are blocks you place, so they follow the same rules as any build. In the spawn area (x and z from -200 to 200) only members can build, so set up your bench at home or in the market, where anyone can build. The rules for both areas are on Region protection.

Change and remove furniture

Sneak and right-click a placed piece while you hold one of these:

Hold	What changes
Nothing	A Curtain opens or closes. A Store Curtain moves to half open, open, then closed
An axe	The wood turns into stripped wood, once per piece. A wooden, stone, iron, golden, diamond or netherite axe works; a copper axe doesn't
Any dye	The cushion, carpet or cloth takes that color on a Sofa, Armchair, Wooled Throne Chair, Curtain or Store Curtain. The dye stays in your hand
A log, stem, wood or hyphae, stripped or not, or a block of bamboo	The piece switches to that wood

Wool doesn't recolor a piece, so use a dye. Planks don't change the wood, so use a log.

Punch a piece to pick it up. It drops as an item you can place again, and it comes back plain: any dye or stripping is gone. Breaking a Cabinet spills what's inside it, and breaking a Mailbox drops its mail.

Pale pieces don't drop back, for now. Break a Pale piece and it's gone, with nothing to pick up. The same goes for a piece you switched to pale oak with a log. Place Pale furniture only where you mean to keep it.

On Bedrock

Furniture shows on Bedrock with the textures the server sends when you join, and seats work the same: sit down, then sneak to stand up. The bench recipe may not show in the Bedrock recipe book, so lay the items out by hand at a crafting table and the bench appears in the result slot.

Furniture & the carpenter bench