To craft a Smithing Table in Minecraft, place two iron ingots in the top-left and top-middle slots of a crafting table, then fill the four slots directly beneath them with any wood planks in a two-by-two square. This essential workstation is used to upgrade diamond gear to netherite and customize armor with decorative trims.
Crafting Recipe and Required Materials
Building a workstation requires gathering basic resources from the Overworld before assembling them in the crafting menu. The raw materials needed for this project include:
- 2 Iron Ingots
- 4 Wooden Planks
The specific layout for the three-by-three crafting grid ensures the correct block output.
| Row | Left Column | Middle Column | Right Column |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top | Iron Ingot | Iron Ingot | Empty |
| Middle | Wooden Plank | Wooden Plank | Empty |
| Bottom | Wooden Plank | Wooden Plank | Empty |
Upgrading Diamond Gear to Netherite
Right-click the table to open the modified interface, which features three input slots and one output slot. Unlike using an anvil, upgrading gear here costs zero experience points, maintains your current durability, and preserves all active enchantments. Players who have already mined Ancient Debris and alloyed it into Netherite Ingots must arrange the items from left to right:
- Slot 1 (Left): Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template
- Slot 2 (Middle): Diamond tool, weapon, or armor piece
- Slot 3 (Right): 1 Netherite Ingot
Duplicating Smithing Templates
Because smithing templates are consumed upon a single use, crafting copies of them at a crafting table prevents the need to raid dangerous structures repeatedly. You will need to gather seven diamonds, your template, and a specific block associated with that template’s origin. Many players secure the required diamonds by mining deepslate layers at optimal diamond coordinates in the Overworld.
The physical duplication pattern in the crafting table uses the top-center slot for the template, the exact center slot for the material block, and the remaining seven slots for diamonds. The requirements for duplicating each available template depend strictly on its specific design.
| Template Name | In-Game Location | Source Container | Drop Rate | Duplication Block or Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherite Upgrade | Bastion Remnant | Treasure Room Chest | 100% | Netherrack |
| Sentry Armor Trim | Pillager Outpost | Outpost Chest | 25% | Cobblestone |
| Vex Armor Trim | Woodland Mansion | Loot Chest | 50% | Cobblestone |
| Wild Armor Trim | Jungle Pyramid | Pyramid Chest | 33.3% | Mossy Cobblestone |
| Coast Armor Trim | Shipwreck | Any Shipwreck Chest | 16.7% | Cobblestone |
| Dune Armor Trim | Desert Pyramid | Pyramid Chest | 14.3% | Sandstone |
| Wayfinder Armor Trim | Trail Ruins | Suspicious Gravel | 8.3% | Terracotta |
| Raiser Armor Trim | Trail Ruins | Suspicious Gravel | 8.3% | Terracotta |
| Shaper Armor Trim | Trail Ruins | Suspicious Gravel | 8.3% | Terracotta |
| Host Armor Trim | Trail Ruins | Suspicious Gravel | 8.3% | Terracotta |
| Ward Armor Trim | Ancient City | City Chest | 5% | Cobbled Deepslate |
| Silence Armor Trim | Ancient City | City Chest | 1.2% | Cobbled Deepslate |
| Tide Armor Trim | Ocean Monument | Elder Guardian Drop | 20% | Prismarine |
| Snout Armor Trim | Bastion Remnant | Standard Bastion Chest | 8.3% | Blackstone |
| Rib Armor Trim | Nether Fortress | Fortress Chest | 6.7% | Netherrack |
| Eye Armor Trim | Stronghold | Library Chest | 100% | End Stone |
| Spire Armor Trim | End City | End City Chest | 6.7% | Purpur Block |
| Bolt Armor Trim | Trial Chambers | Standard Vault or Chest | 6.3% | Block of Copper |
| Flow Armor Trim | Trial Chambers | Ominous Vault | 22.5% | Breeze Rod |
In Bedrock Edition, Dune trims also accept smooth, cut, or chiseled sandstone; Tide trims accept prismarine bricks or dark prismarine; and Spire trims accept purpur pillars. In both editions of the game, the Flow Armor Trim is a mechanical exception that requires a Breeze Rod instead of a solid block to duplicate.
Finding Bastion Remnants and Netherite Upgrade Templates
Locating Bastion Remnants to obtain your first Netherite Upgrade Template is the most significant progression bottleneck in survival mode. These structures generate in all Nether biomes except Basalt Deltas, typically appearing at an altitude between Y-levels 55 and 65.
On servers with cheats enabled, locate the closest structure instantly by entering a console command. On Java Edition, type /locate structure minecraft:bastion_remnant in the chat window. On Bedrock Edition, open the chat console and input /locate bastionremnant.
In vanilla survival mode where commands are disabled, the Java Edition Debug Screen (F3) can be used to scan for entities through solid walls. Set the entity distance to 500% and render distance to 20 chunks in your video settings, then open the F3 screen and locate the entity counter line starting with E. Spin your character slowly in a horizontal circle; if the second E value spikes by 30 or more, a dense cluster of Piglins is loaded in that direction, signaling a Bastion.
Alternatively, toggle the Profiler Pie Chart by pressing Shift and F3 simultaneously. Navigate through the categories by pressing the number keys for tick, level, and entities. If a piglin_brute appears on the loaded entity list, reduce your render distance chunk by chunk until the entry disappears to pinpoint the exact boundary of the Bastion.
Toolsmith Villager Jobs and Trading
Placing a smithing table near an unemployed villager instantly turns them into a Toolsmith. You must trade with the villager at least once to lock in their profession and available trades. Breaking the block before trading resets their job, whereas breaking it after trading leaves their profession locked. Toolsmiths are highly valuable for survival bases, accepting raw ores like coal and iron in exchange for emeralds, and selling high-tier enchanted tools at higher trade tiers.
Updated: Jul 24, 2026 03:33 pm