How to Gather the Ingredients for Crafting Gunpowder

Crafting your own gunpowder eliminates the danger of fighting creepers at night, but you will need to gather four specific materials from mining and exploration across dimensions.

Gathering Overworld Components

Three of the four required items come from regular underground mining in the Overworld:

• Flint: Dig gravel blocks with a shovel until a piece of flint drops.
• Coal or Charcoal: Mine coal ore found exposed in caves or mountains. If coal is scarce, you can smelt wooden logs in a furnace to obtain charcoal instead, as both fuel types work identically in this recipe.
• Redstone Dust: Mine redstone ore deep underground with an iron pickaxe or better.

Acquiring Nether Materials

The final ingredient requires a brief trip to the Nether dimension:

• Glowstone Dust: Mine yellow glowstone clusters hanging from the ceilings and overhangs in the Nether. Breaking these blocks drops the glowstone dust you need.

Once you have returned with these resources, you can combine all four ingredients in any crafting grid to produce gunpowder safely without engaging hostile mobs.