How to Craft & Use a Fletching Table in Minecraft (2024)

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Last Updated: July 16, 2024Fact Checked

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   A Fletching Table is a job site block that turns unemployed villagers into fletchers. Fletching tables occur naturally inside of fletcher houses, but you can also craft them to encourage more villagers to become fletchers.^[1]

   • The Fletching Table looks like a tan block with a bow and arrow on one side, and a target on the other.
   • Fletching Tables are available in all current versions of Minecraft beginning with 1.14 (Java Edition) and 1.11.0 (Pocket Edition & Windows 10). You won't find Fletching Tables on Xbox 360, PS3, or WiiU.
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   Create a Fletching Table if you want more fletchers to trade with. By making your own Fletching Table with a few basic materials, you can get better trades, as fletchers are some of the best villagers to trade with—you can trade for emeralds, bows, crossbows, enchanted crossbows, and tipped arrows.^[2]

   • Fletching Tables can also be used as furnace fuel—they can smelt one and a half items per block.
   • You can also place Fletching Tables under note blocks to make bass sounds.

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   Gather your materials. The recipe for a Fletching Table requires only a few basic materials:^[3]

   • 4 wooden planks of any type, including oak, dark oak, spruce, birth, jungle, acacia, crimson, and warped planks.
   • 2 flints, which you can acquire by mining gravel.^[4]
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   Open your crafting table. You can open the crafting table by standing in front of it and right-clicking or tapping it.^[5] If you're playing on a console:

   • PS4: Press L2.
   • Xbox One: Press LT.
   • Nintendo Switch or Wii U: Press ZL.
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   Place 2 flints in the top-left two slots. Leave the third slot on the top row blank.

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   Place 2 planks into the first two slots on the second line. These can be two planks of any type.^[6] Leave the third slot on the second row blank.

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   Place 2 more planks into the first two slots on the third row. This recipe produces a Fletching Table, which you can now drag down into your inventory.

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   Place the Fletching Table in a cramped area. If you need a quick way to produce more fletchers in a village, you can coerce jobless villagers into interacting with a Fletching Table by placing the table in a villager's home or anywhere near the villager.^[7]

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   Seal off the area once a villager is near the Fletching Table. If the villager doesn't interact with the table on their own, you can block off any exits to speed along the process.

   • By preventing the villager from exiting the area with the Fletching Table, they'll have no choice but to interact with it.
   • Once a villager interacts with the table, you'll see green stars around their head, and they'll suddenly be wearing a brown hat.
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   Level up the fletcher by buying and selling. When the fletcher is a novice, you can only trade for emeralds, arrows, and flints. By continuing to trade with one fletcher, you'll eventually turn them into a Master Fletcher who can get you tipped arrows.^[8] Here are all of the trades you can do with a fletcher at different levels:

   • Novice
     • 32 sticks for 1 emerald.
     • 1 emerald for 16 arrows.
     • 1 emerald and 10 gravel for 10 flints.
   • Apprentice
     • 26 flints for 1 emerald.
     • 2 emeralds for 1 bow.
   • Journeyman
     • 14 strings for 1 emerald.
     • 3 emeralds for 1 crossbow.
   • Expert
     • 24 feathers for 1 emerald.
     • 7 to 21 emeralds for 1 enchanted bow.
   • Master
     • 8 tripwire hooks for 1 emerald.
     • 8 to 22 emeralds for 1 enchanted crossbow.
     • 2 emeralds and 5 arrows for 5 tipped arrows.

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