How to craft and use a Clock in Minecraft? (Super Easy Guide)

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: May 2, 2025, 13:31 IST

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Crafting a clock in Minecraft is simple and requires gold ingots and redstone dust. This handy tool displays the time of day through a rotating animation, indicating sunrise, sunset, daytime, and nighttime. Clocks can also be found in shipwrecks, ruined portals, or obtained through villager trades, proving invaluable for mining, avoiding mobs, and redstone contraptions.

How to craft and use a Clock in Minecraft? (Super Easy Guide)

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Want to keep track of time without peeking at the sky every five minutes? A clock in Minecraft is your answer, especially if you spend most of your time mining underground or building inside. It’s easy to craft, super useful, and can even save your life by helping you avoid nighttime mobs. Here’s how to make it and use it the smart way.

What You Need to Craft a Clock

To craft a clock, you only need two ingredients—but they’re slightly precious:

4 Gold Ingots
1 Redstone Dust

You’ll also need a Crafting Table.

Gold Ingots can be obtained by:

Smelting raw gold or nether gold ore.
Crafting from 9 gold nuggets.

Redstone Dust can be:

Mined from redstone ore (usually found below Y-level 16).
Bought from Cleric Villagers.

How to Craft and Use a Clock in Minecraft! | Easy Minecraft Tutorial

How to Craft a Clock in Minecraft?

Open the Crafting Table (3x3 grid).
Place the Redstone Dust in the center square.
Surround it with the Gold Ingots in a diamond shape:
- One above
- One below
- One to the left
- One to the right

You’ll see a shiny clock icon appear in the result box. Drag it into your inventory—and done!

How Does the Clock Work in Minecraft?

The Minecraft clock doesn’t show a number or countdown. Instead, it has a rotating background animation that reflects the position of the sun and moon in real time.

Yellow half = Daytime
Dark blue half = Nighttime
When the needle crosses from light to dark or vice versa, it’s either sunset or sunrise

Or, trade with an Expert-level Librarian Villager—though it’ll cost a few emeralds.
A Minecraft Clock might not seem flashy, but once you start using it, you’ll wonder how you ever explored caves without it. It’s easy to make, doesn’t wear out, and always keeps you in the loop—literally. Now go craft one and never walk into a zombie ambush again.

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