Host a Dinner Party in Minecraft

There are all sorts of meaty treats waiting to be cooked in the fields of Minecraft (don’t worry, vegetarians – I’ve included loads of meatless options in this recipe list too). Cooked chicken, rabbit or mutton simply require their raw versions to be placed in a furnace with the fuel of your choice. Bon appétit!

Planning a classy affair? I like your style! Almost as much as posh sophisticated types like chowing down on cooked salmon. You’ll need a fishing rod to catch yourself some raw salmon, then simply pop it in the furnace with any fuel for a delightfully fishy dish. Plenty more delish fish in the Minecraft seas too!

To impress even the snootiest of guests, you’ll want to serve the fruit that keeps the doctor away and gets the thieves worryingly nearby – the Golden Apple. You’ll have to craft nine gold ingots with a regular apple to gain just one of these opulent fruits. If you’re planning on serving a lot of these, make sure you’re filthy rich and really like your guests.

Cake! The food that somehow tastes even better than winning the lottery. You’ll need three wheat, an egg, two sugar and three milk. None of these ingredients are hard to obtain, and the rewards are well worth it. It’s cake, people! It’s the greatest invention since sliced bread. Actually, sliced bread sucks. Serve sliced cake instead!

Are you or your guests vegetarian? Awesome! I’d suggest serving baked potatoes, by putting a potato in a furnace with any fuel. For a veggie-friendly desert, craft a pumpkin, sugar and egg together to make pumpkin pie. Don’t serve any poisonous potatoes by mistake, and your dinner party should be a hit. Hooray! I don’t feel well!

Almost 3 am? Trying to get your guests to leave? Defeat a few zombies until they drop some rotten flesh. Best served cold. Actually, best served not at all. In fact, it’s so horrible, that I’ve just reused the image for the recipe for cake instead. Whoever came up with the phrase “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” clearly didn’t taste this horrible excuse for protein.

SMART: Politely write on the invitations that anyone who doesn’t turn up in a suit will be banned from your server for life. Thanks to a blue car for letting us use their perfect Pig Suit skin as an example of outstanding porcine dress sense and etiquette. Bravo!

CASUAL: Actually, just tell your guests to wear whatever makes them happy! Few outfits have made me as happy as this Enderman Hoodie by vampbites that looks comfy as heck from the front and makes you look like an Enderman from the back. Ingenious!

It’s even in 3D! Suck on that extra dimension, Da Vinci!

This is, without a doubt, the greatest screenshot in Minecraft.net history

A common way of building a chair we’ve seen in community builds is to use a slab as the seat and a door as the backrest! Just, er, careful leaning back…

They’re a bit more basic looking, but the various ‘stairs’ blocks are a quick way to build a makeshift chair. Purpur is comfy to sit on, right? Perhaps I’ll eat standing.

Slabs and stairs can make a pretty basic dining table. Lay down two rows of stairs back-to-back then place slabs over each one.

Volia! Table and chairs! Oh, I forgot to build a roof. Ah well, I’m sure my guest hasn’t noticed.

An excellent resource I found while researching this article is minecraftfurniture.net, a site that features loads of great ideas and tips for how to build great furniture in Minecraft!