10 Ways to make the Smithing Table USEFUL in Minecraft

Some changes the back end code of minecraft have allowed for the once mysterious smithing table to see greater use right now all the smithing tables used for is to turn your diamond gear into netherrite gear but what if there were more to it than that today we explore 10

Additional concepts that allow you to use your smithing table in new and different ways from storage block transferring to exciting new weaponry textures you could even stash secret items into the most random of objects this all comes in the form of mpt data transfer finally being enabled for

Smithing tables in game so let’s find out more 10 new ways to use the smithing table we start with number one tool progression alternatives now currently you’re all aware of how you get craftings with swords in game you know as it currently stands you use a crafting table who’d have thought right

Oak planks stick as you might expect drop them in the middle there you go but here’s where things change you might normally make a cobblestone sword by doing the falling recipe as you see right there but with custom smithing table recipes we can change that for example let’s upgrade our wood sword

Into a stone sword now normally you use cobblestone to make stone tools and so you’d think that this might work however with the smithing table change we can change the recipes required as well as what you can get from them so in this case stone swords using the smithing

Table now require actual stone simply place your sword in question right there and the material you want to use and you can literally upgrade your wooden sword over to a stone sword just like that yeah baby the beat down begins nah just kidding it’s still not a good sword but

Hey the progression continues and you could even upgrade that stone sword into something a little bit stronger or weaker actually yeah i’m pretty sure gold swords are weaker but anyways you can still do it so take that stone sword grab a gold ingot and just like that

We’ve changed the way you can acquire weaponry now this is gonna be more exciting for map makers than anybody else but the possibilities here are literally endless right we can continue to upgrade that into iron swords and hey we could even turn the iron sword into

Well you guessed it a diamond sword so it technically does make for a cheaper recipe because in this case it’s only using one of the materials instead of two but you could even go one step further and as you might expect turn your diamond sword well into the

Netherite that you’re used to so map makers rejoice because you now have plenty of options to modify mbt now this is just a basic example of what you could do to change a smithing table let’s get a little bit more advanced chest transfer that’s number two today because smithing tables transfer mbt

From left to right this will allow us to do some very interesting things what we’re gonna do is grab the pickaxe found in the shulker box and take note there’s a whole mess of goodies in here iron a gold sword some seeds we’re gonna go ahead and break that if you don’t know

How choker boxes work essentially they will keep all of the items found within them at a moment’s notice so that if you were to place this down you can access them once again break it and you essentially have a backpack on your hands now if you were to try this with a

Chest and drop a bunch of random items inside and then proceed to break the chest they don’t keep the items inside i mean y’all should know this by now get real y’all been playing minecraft for a while you see it all goes all over the place however using the new smithing

Table changes you can combine the shulker box with a chest so once again we see a whole mess of goodies inside there and what we’re going to do now is grab ourselves a chest as you can see this chest is currently empty but we can

Now go over to a smithing table take the shulker box that has a whole mess of goodies in it add a chest here and look at this we get a chest however what’s inside it everything you saw just like that we’ve been able to transfer the contents into

A chest that is technically a backpack until the moment you place it down because if we were to break this chest you’d see that it wouldn’t store the contents like it once did but hey this is exciting nonetheless get ready to start dumping everything you could ever want into a shulker box

So that you can instantly transfer it into any that is a diamond picture put a choker box in there and just like that all your problems are solved if if putting items into chess was your problem we’ll move on to number three custom enchantments using lore and mbt

Data you could make custom enchanted books but the only issue is anvils can’t normally transfer the mbt data anyone that’s ever used command blocks or function packs knows that if you make your own enchantment books such as lightning edge magma walker and echo sheath you can’t use them with an anvil

As much as you’d like to they just do not combine well we’ve now seen changes to that because with the smithing table we can allow me to demonstrate we’re gonna place our lightning edge right here we’re gonna also put a diamond sword right here and just like that we

Now have a lightning edge enchanted diamond sword and not only that but it actually comes with an actual enchant which we’re gonna test out right now when you hold your lightning edge sword enchantment during a thunderstorm it will teleport any nearby lightning to you which will cause entities nearby to

Suffer horrendous lightning oh i didn’t have the sword on me missed out on that yes any lightning bolts that end up striking nearby will instantly be teleported nearby as you can see there lightning just struck down on this cow now you’ll want to be careful because you are now essentially

Holding a sword that acts as a conductor rod right it’s a little bit dangerous for the experience but with any luck we can turn this villager into a witch nearby come on down villager oh okay well he turned into a blacksmith i suppose that’s for the best huh would the lightning strike

Please some there we go ahaha and as you can see right there oh my gosh yo that fire was going nuts this is gonna open up a world of opportunities for all you map makers out there let’s take another example magma walker apply them to these diamond boots i mean

You’ve seen this concept on the channel before but it’s always worth highlighting check this out down we go into the lava area and now you have the ability to enchant near by well i don’t say enchant nearby lava but you can turn nearby lava into the new basalt blocks as an example that

Came out in the nether update and it acts very similarly to the frost walker boots that you’re already used to in game or how about echo sheath our third enchantment we have for today’s example this will allow your blade to flash with a flash or something and the moment you equip it

Well all nearby mobs nearby instantly die it’s kind of overpowered let’s check out number four a new way of crafting remember how we use stone to upgrade a wooden sword before if you don’t allow me to give you a little bit of a reminder it was just like that

You guys got bad memory or something come on well using some data merge and custom model data tricks you can now craft a sewn sword by using more than just regular stone end stone granite and so much more and so what we’re going to do is mine up some of this end stone

Mine up some of the granite we’ve got some andesite we got some diorite on display i mean it’s all beautiful stuff really and what we’re going to do is grab a couple of these wooden swords and essentially upgrade them as you saw before except now we’ll use some

Different okay you guys can put it the other direction let’s see check it out stone sword granite flavor beautiful we can even get an andesite sword just like that hey you want an end stone sword yes we can do that as well even diorite which is actually my

Favorite of the ugly blocks just like that we now have a whole series of different types of stone swords it’s not just your plain old stone sword anymore you’ve got a granite sword an andesite sword an end stone sword and a diorite sword and they all work the same all

Attack the same everything else but now you’ve got ultimate fashionista mode go picture me walking down the walkway with these things on my side maybe not here’s another concept worth exploring secret storage remember that shulker box thing from earlier it’s not just limited to chess believe it or not

We’re gonna take the shulker box and put it into an unassuming stick yes that’s right we’re literally just gonna take everything in this shulker box and apply it to a stick it’s simple enough all you gotta do is take the shulker box put any item you want we’ve

Chosen a stick this time and now we have a stick but check it out it’s not just any plain old stick it technically works like a stick you could literally take that stick and make a sword with it but i would not recommend you do that because there’s a whole mess of goodies

Inside that stick map makers can use this system to create hidden items as well as a key system to unlock the stick so we’ve got some gold nuggets here and they’re going to act as the unlock ability so check this out that stick combined with a gold nugget will give us

The shulker box once again just like that the reward is nice here for the taking and again it works for any item so right here we’ve got a diamond sword and as you might expect it works exactly as a diamond sword would work you suck get back here even when damaged

You can take that sword unlock it with a gold nugget to get your shulker box filled with tons of hidden goodies i’m not finished with you ah number six is a shield and banner converter you ever find an old damage shield hmm i have maybe i don’t remember exactly but

Anyways you might like the pattern on it but you’re not sure how it was made well using the smithing table you can turn useless shields back into banners for example we’ve got a whole mess of them right here look at these these are so i mean look just fancy wow especially that

One very cool yellow shield uh-huh well now you have the ability using smithing table and custom mbt data modification to remove the design from the shield you’ll need to do some special movements first for example you’ll need to start with the appropriate banner type so the banner you use should have the same

Color as the shield for example we’ve got this green shield lime login and green roundel if you didn’t know how to make that all you need to do now is take a banner that matches and just like that we’ve turned that shield into a banner same story take the yellow

Shield place on a yellow banner you can now turn it into the banner with the actual design on it that you were just looking at and the list goes on and on blue sign is at the yep yep yep yep yep well okay that’s not the right color banner but

That’s why you’ll want to start with the appropriate color one so we won’t change that one that would be bad news but we can start with blue actually i don’t think i have a anyway let’s start with what we do have green there we go yeah that’s why you’d want to make sure

You’re starting with the appropriate banner type oh you’re gonna get in trouble again these are all concepts so they’re not fully fledged out but these are things you’ll be able to do if you are a map maker or command block engineer number seven secret messages everybody’s favorite

This is kind of similar to the chess storage thing you can maybe use it for a puzzle map or something similar you can write a written book and store it into a die or again any item of your choice so what we have here is a lovely book and quill subscribe subscribe

From there you just click sign and we’ll go ahead and say secret secrets sign and close that thing now check this out what we’re gonna do is put in the green dye put in the secret and then switch them because i put it in the wrong order and now we’ve got some

Secret green dye beautiful but the book information is literally stored within this die so now what we can do is take a plain old book that you might have in your world and we can combine it with the smithing table y’all ready for this to unlock what was put into it and just

Like that we’ve got sacred once again and inside oh yeah subscribe and become a member to support the channel directly shout out to all our logged up zip channel members by the way you could even use it for less sell-out means here’s another example here we’ve

Got a book and we’ve got the green dye in question adding these together and you’ll get secret stuff courtesy of ethan secret loot at ooh hold on a second yo we gotta go find that stuff ugh really ethan you gonna make me go to the bottom of the ocean just to find

This ridiculous hmm but with any luck oh oops i’m dumb it’s like literally like right around here somewhere i accidentally went too far worst guy ah here it is yo perfect what do we got really you’ve even added new ways to do existing things such as number eight

Here tipped arrows another way to craft them using the smithing table since it transfers mbt data you can now transfer potion information simply place your potion and arrow in question right here and you can turn your instant health 2 potion into an instant health 2 arrow at

A moment’s notice we’ll be able to try this with numerous different types of potions they all work yes you can literally even make an awkward arrow so we’re going to drop our arrows in right here you can see we’ve got instant damage too from our potion of harming slowness arrows we can

Make strength arrows we can even make tipped arrows with no effects at all it’s kind of awkward number nine here allows us to have nbt data that’s custom transferred since all kinds of mbt can be stored we could now store data to spawn in a creeper using a

Spawn egg now the string is like dna in this example so what we have here is string and some raw pork chop placing the string in here alongside a raw pork chop results in a pig spawn egg but is it really a pigspawn egg no because we’ve transferred the mbt data to be

Something else oh boy yes thank goodness for this sheath sword that could have been bad further examples of it right here we’ve got a whole bunch of different string this is this is string theory right isn’t this science isn’t this how this works we’re putting pork chops i want to get in what

Looks like a whole bunch of pig spawnings but as you’ll see in just a second here that is not the case at all doesn’t look like a pig to me oh well i mean how about these other three boom armor stand boom not a pig boom enderman all

Right with the silverfish uh thank goodness for the sword that is just making my life so much easier okay interesting this is just string that the spider itself dropped i wonder what this will turn into let’s see oh okay these are just regular pigs well that’s what happens we don’t have any

Custom data there and number 10 would be enchantment transfer as a potential feature for the smithing table this is probably one of the most useful ways that comes to mind the smithing table acts as a custom recipe transfer here so maybe you’ve got an iron sword with some great enchantments

But it’s iron so you can’t really use it for anything meaningful well imagine if you were to able to use this with a smithing table as you would have guessed it doesn’t work it never has but now you can use a or anvil i was talking about the anvil

But now you can use it with a smithing table and you can literally transfer over from different materials just like that we now have all the enchantments that were on the iron sword placed onto the diamond sword beautiful love it you can even use this to put enchantments

From low-grade gear like a wooden sword onto the diamond sword so we’ve got some sweeping edge we’ve got another plain old diamond source so from time to time you’ll come across loot or mobs or drops that have just awesome enchantments right maybe get one from a zombified

Piglet but it’s gold so you’re really gonna use it well now you might be able to just like that moving those enchantments over love it so my friends i ask you would you like to see any of these features come to the smithing table we obviously threw these together ourselves but you

Can let us know in the comments below which feature was your favorite and hey subscribe for more awesome concepts that we have on the channel all the time thanks for leaving a like and uh okay bye