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Written byNicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: May 16, 2022

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Do you need to stock up on tipped arrows, enchanted bows, and crossbows in Minecraft? To keep your bow and arrow supply high, you'll need access to fletchers for trades. An easy way to turn any unemployed villager into a fletcher is to craft a Fletching Table and place it near the villager, who will turn into a fletcher once interacting with it. This wikiHow guide will teach you how to craft a Fletching Table from simple materials, and how to use the Fletching Table to transform ordinary villagers into useful fletchers.

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What is a Fletching Table in Minecraft?

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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.

    • 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.[1]

    • 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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Craft a Fletching Table

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    Gather your materials. The recipe for a Fletching Table requires only a few basic materials:

    • 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.[2]
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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. 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.[3] 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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Turn Villagers into Fletchers

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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.

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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. 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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      This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Nicole Levine, MFA. Nicole Levine is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. She has more than 20 years of experience creating technical documentation and leading support teams at major web hosting and software companies. Nicole also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and teaches composition, fiction-writing, and zine-making at various institutions. This article has been viewed 21,063 times.

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      1.Place 2 flints in the two top-left slots of a 3x3 crafting table.
      2.Place 2 wooden planks (any kind) into the first two slots in the second row.
      3.Place 2 more wooden planks into the first two slots of the third row.

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

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      How to Craft & Use a Fletching Table in Minecraft? ›

      Fletching tables can be now crafted with 4 planks and 2 flint. Fletching tables now serve as fletcher villagers' job site block. Mojang confirmed that the fletching table is to receive functionality in an update sometime after 1.14. Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft fletching tables.

      How do you use the Fletching Table in Minecraft? ›

      Fletching tables can also be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting 1.5 items per block, and under note blocks to produce the “bass” sound. For the time being, that's all – though they might gain additional functionality in the future.

      How to get a fletcher villager? ›

      The best way to transform a jobless Villager into a Fletcher is to corner one in their home, or another cramped location, and seal up all possible exits from within. Then, place the Fletching Table anywhere and wait until the jobless Villager interacts with it.

      How to make a bow villager in Minecraft? ›

      To keep your bow and arrow supply high, you'll need access to fletchers for trades. An easy way to turn any unemployed villager into a fletcher is to craft a Fletching Table and place it near the villager, who will turn into a fletcher once interacting with it.

      What do you use for fletching? ›

      Another viable option, of course, are feathers — like the ones from Trueflight. They're super light, and if you're looking for more spin from your arrow in flight, or still shoot without a release aid, it's tough to go wrong with the original arrow fletching.

      What is the rarest villager in Minecraft? ›

      Swamp villagers are one of the rarest type of villagers in Minecraft because of how uncommon it is for a villager to naturally spawn in a swamp biome. Players can … Witch Village in the swamp, survival map.

      Can you trade feathers to a Fletcher? ›

      Feathers can now be sold to fletcher villagers. Added foxes, which can drop feathers. Feathers can now be used to craft brushes.

      How do you breed Fletcher villagers? ›

      You need enough beds for the villagers and the child they produce to be able to breed. To craft each bed, you'll need 3 blocks of wool and 3 wooden planks. Villagers need to be in close proximity and have an inventory full of food before they'll breed (either 3 loaves of bread, or 12 carrots, beetroot, or potatoes).

      How to cure a zombie villager? ›

      There is a chance that a villager becomes a zombie villager when killed by a zombie. Here's how you can cure the zombie villager: Throw the Splash Potion of Weakness at the zombie villager. Feed the villager a Golden Apple - you can do this by approaching the zombie villager and pressing the 'use' button.

      How to get villagers to breed? ›

      Check to see if the villagers are willing to breed. Each villager requires 12 food points to activate willingness, with loaves of bread worth 4 points and carrots, potatoes, and beetroots worth 1 point each. When they are willing, hearts appear over them.

      Do villagers despawn? ›

      Distance from Village: Villagers need to be within the boundaries of a village to retain their profession and avoid despawning. If a villager wanders too far from the village or gets separated from it, they may despawn. Make sure there is a valid village nearby and that the traded villagers are within its range.

      Which villager buys sticks? ›

      15 Fletcher – 32 Sticks For 1 Emerald (Novice)

      Fletchers will spawn in a village with a fletching table, which is one of the only job blocks in the game that still has no function for the player.

      How do you not get lost in Minecraft? ›

      By writing down the XYZ coordinates for every point of interest you visit, such as your home or a cool place you found, you can never get lost. Coordinates can also be used to find a friend you're playing with and have lost sight of, or to navigate out of a dungeon deep beneath the ground.

      What is the point of fletching? ›

      The fletching is used to stabilize the arrow aerodynamically. Feather fletches impart a natural spin on an arrow due to the rough and smooth sides of a feather and the natural curve, determined by which wing the feather came from.

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