Workstation

A workstation is any block that a player or villager can use to produce items. Some of these blocks can only be used by players, and some can only be used by villagers. A player spends or combines ingredients in a workstation to produce items. A villager uses a workstation as a job site to restock its trades, without using any ingredients.

Usage

The table below describes each workstation, the way players can use it ("Player usage", if any), and its corresponding village profession (if any).

Station	Player usage	Villager profession	Primary items	Description
Crafting Table Crafter	Crafting	None	Most items	Grid crafting, either using the grid in a player's inventory or using a crafting table. The crafter is an automatic version of the crafting table, controlled by redstone.
Stonecutter	Cutting slabs, stairs, and blocks made of stone materials	Mason​	Stone-based blocks	Cutting is instant and upto 1 stack of blocks can be cut at a time.
Loom	Embroidering[note 1]	Shepherd	Banners, Banner Patterns, and dyes	Adding patterns to banners, using a loom.
Cartography Table	Cartography	Cartographer	Maps	Modifying a map using a cartography table.
Furnace Blast Furnace Smoker	Smelting Blasting Smoking	None Armorer Butcher	Fuel, raw ores, and food	Using fuel to smelt items in a furnace, blast ores in a blast furnace, or smoke foods in a smoker.
Smithing Table	Smithing	Toolsmith	Smithing templates, materials tools, armor,	Upgrading diamond equipment to netherite, and adding armor trims to any tier of armor.
Anvil	(Anvil mechanics) Applying enchantments, renaming, repairing, and combining	None	Tools and armor	Grid crafting, either using the grid in a player's inventory or using a crafting table.
Enchanting Table	Enchanting	None	Tools, armor, books, and lapis lazuli	Enchanting tools, armor, and books with new enchantments. Can only enchant unenchanted items.
Grindstone	Grinding and disenchanting	Weaponsmith	Tools and armor	Removing the enchantments on equipment, and repairing equipment by combining pieces of the same type.
Fletching Table	None[1]	Fletcher	–	–
Barrel	Storage	Fisherman	All items	The barrel is a storage container that stores upto 27 stacks (or slots) of items. It cannot produce, construct, or combine items – it simply stores them. Fishermen and other villagers do not use the barrel for storage, and a fisherman's trades are not affected by any items stored in the barrel it uses as its jobsite.
Lectern	Reading books	Librarian	Written books, and book and quills	–
Composter	Composting[note 2]	Farmer	Food, crops, and plant-based items	Converts some organic items to bonemeal.
Cauldron	Dyeing armor[note 2]‌ Filling bottles	Leatherworker	Bottles, dyes, and some dyed items	In Bedrock Edition, dyes can be used on a cauldron with water in it to dye the water. Then leather armor, leather horse armor, or wolf armor can be used on the cauldron to dye the armor. A cauldron with undyed water in Bedrock Edition or water in Java Edition can be used to remove the dye from armor or shulker boxes, or to remove the top banner pattern from a banner.
Brewing stand	Brewing potions	Cleric	Water bottles, potions, splash potions, blaze powder, and potion ingredients.	A potion ingredient can be placed into the top slot, blaze powder can be placed in the fuel slot, and 1 to 3 bottles or potions can be placed in the bottom 3 slots. If used correctly, the player can brew potions.

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