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A grindstone is a block that repairs tools and can remove enchantments from them. This wikiHow teaches you how to make a grindstone in Minecraft. You will need an existing Minecraft account and have the game installed. To craft a grindstone, you'll need 2 sticks, 2 blocks of wood (any wood blocks will work, including oak, dark oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, crimson, and warped), and 1 stone slab.

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    Get at least 8 wooden planks of any kind. Wooden planks are primarily obtained by turning logs into planks. Chop down a tree until you have at least 2 logs, then open your survival inventory and place the logs in your 2x2 crafting grid to turn them into planks.[1]

    • Wooden planks can also be obtained by breaking ones that generate as part of other structures, like mineshafts, villages, strongholds, shipwrecks, swamp huts, underwater ruins, woodland mansions, and pillager outposts.
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    Craft sticks. Sticks can be crafted using 2 of the wooden planks you got previously. Open your survival inventory and place 2 planks vertically in one of the columns so they are directly above and below each other. This will make 4 sticks.[2]

    • Sticks can also be obtained by breaking leaves or dead bushes, fishing, killing witches, or looting chests in villages.

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    Make a crafting table. If you already have one, you can skip this step. A crafting table can be made using 4 wooden planks. Open your survival inventory and fill all 4 of the crafting slots with wooden planks to make a crafting table.[3]

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    Get 3 stone blocks. The easiest way to get stone blocks is by smelting cobblestone in a furnace. However, if you have a silk touch pickaxe, you can mine stone blocks you find naturally generated to get stone instead of cobblestone from them.[4]

    • Stone blocks can also be found inside chests in villages.
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    Craft a stone slab. Open your crafting table and place the 3 stone blocks all in a row. This will make 6 slabs, but you only need 1 per grindstone.[5]

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    Open your crafting table. Face the crafting table and right click it. A 3x3 grid will appear.[6]

    • If you're playing on Pocket Edition, tap the crafting table.
    • If you're playing on a console or with a controller, press the right trigger.
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    Place a stick, the stone slab, and the other stick in the first row. It is important that your first cell is a stick, the second cell is a slab, and the third cell is another stick or you will not be able to craft a grindstone.[7]

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    Place a block of wood in the first cell, skip the middle cell, then place the last block of wood in the last cell. Remember, you can use any type of wood in these cells. If you placed them correctly, you'll see a grindstone appear in the cell on the right.[8]

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    Move the grindstone to your inventory. The cells you filled will empty as you move the grindstone to your inventory since they were used up in the making of that block.[9]

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    Place the grindstone. Hold the grindstone in your hand, face the block you want to place it on, and right click it.

    • If you're playing on Pocket Edition, tap the block to place it.
    • If you're playing on a console or with a controller, press the right trigger.
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    Disenchant items. Open the grindstone then take the enchanted item you want to disenchant and place it in one of the first slots in the grindstone. A non-enchanted version of the item should appear in the output slot on the right. Take the non-enchanted item from the output slot and place it in your inventory. This will get rid of all enchantments on the item and give you some experience in return.[10]

    • Curses cannot be removed from items using a grindstone.
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    Repair items. Open the grindstone and place 2 items of the same type and material in the first 2 slots. A non-enchanted version of the items will appear in the output slot. This new item will be non-enchanted and will have the sum of the durabilities of the first 2 items, plus 5% of the maximum durability of those items.[11]

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    Change a villager's profession. Go to a village and check for unemployed villagers. They will look like regular villagers and won't have any trades available. You can place the grindstone in a village with unemployed villagers to change their profession to that of a weaponsmith, enabling them to trade with you.[12]

    • Nitwit villagers won't be able to get a profession even if you place the grindstone nearby. You can identify nitwits by the green robes they wear.
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      This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Darlene Antonelli is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. Darlene has experience teaching college courses, writing technology-related articles, and working hands-on in the technology field. She earned an MA in Writing from Rowan University in 2012 and wrote her thesis on online communities and the personalities curated in such communities. This article has been viewed 103,352 times.

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      1. Open your crafting table.
      2. Place a stick, the stone slab, and the other stick in the first row.
      3. Place a block of wood in the first cell, skip the middle cell, then place the last block of wood in the last cell.
      4. Move the grindstone to your inventory.

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