Small tweaks

A few small helpers that save trips and guesswork. None of them change how the game plays; they just make everyday things easier.

Commands

• /portal works in the overworld and the Nether. Build your portal at the coordinates it gives and the two portals link up.
• Worn-out warning. When a tool, weapon or armor piece drops to its last tenth of durability, a warning shows under your crosshair with what's left. /durabilityping lets you move it to the action bar, chat or a title, add a sound, or turn it off.
• /workstationhighlight helps when a villager won't restock or keeps walking off: it shows which block it thinks is its workstation.

Around the world

• Silence a mob. Name it Silence Me with a name tag and it stops making sounds. Handy next to a farm.
• Lecterns flip back to the first page when nobody is reading them.
• Axolotls also breed with a plain tropical fish, not only a bucket of one.
• Wandering traders. When one arrives within 64 blocks of you, chat lets you know.

Recipes

A few shortcuts for everyday blocks. The full list of added recipes is on Crafting and recipes.

• Back to blocks. 4 matching stairs make 3 full blocks, and 2 matching slabs make 1 block.
• Split a block. 1 stone, sandstone, cut copper or similar block makes 2 slabs. Planks don't.
• Carpet to wool. 3 carpets of one colour make 2 wool of that colour. Moss and pale moss carpet go back to their blocks the same way.
• Unpack. 1 wool gives 4 string, 1 packed ice gives 9 ice, 1 blue ice gives 9 packed ice, 1 nether wart block gives 9 nether wart, and any quartz block, pillar, bricks or chiseled block gives 4 quartz.
• Re-dye. 8 wool, concrete powder, terracotta, glazed terracotta, stained glass or glass panes of any colour around 1 dye make 8 in the dye's colour. A bed and a dye make a bed of that colour. A coloured terracotta, glass or pane with 1 ice gives the plain one back.
• Dispenser. A dropper and a bow make a dispenser. So does a dropper with 3 sticks and 3 string laid around it in a bow shape.
• Chests from logs. 8 logs in a ring make 4 chests. Stripped logs, wood blocks and different trees can be mixed.
• No exact shape. 3 wheat make bread, 3 sugar cane make 3 paper, and 2 shulker shells with a chest make a shulker box, in any order, even in your inventory's 2x2 grid.
• Smelting. Concrete powder smelts into stained glass of its colour in 5 seconds. Raw iron, gold and copper blocks smelt into iron, gold and copper blocks in a furnace or blast furnace.

On Bedrock

The commands and the worn-out warning work the same. The extra recipes may not appear in the Bedrock recipe book yet; laying the items out in the crafting grid by hand works.

See also

• Repair with XP — spend experience on Mending gear
• Quality of life — more everyday helpers