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For the best displays, players should put their desired prize into an Item Frame so that its beauty can be both stored safely, free from despawning worries, as well as shown off in any location. Since making these simple containers is very cheap and easy, there’s no reason not to craft some with spare resources to enhance the look and feel of one’s abode.
How To Craft An Item Frame
Crafting Components & Where To Find Them
The resources needed to craft an Item Frame are very common and can be obtained even shortly after creating a new world with only a few tools and no assistance.
Sticks - These can be made by placing Wooden Planks in a crafting table (or in one’s personal 2 x 2 inventory crafting grid) in a 2-high column, which means that the grid formation for making Sticks is 1 x 2 Wooden Planks Leather - Since this comes as a drop from many non-hostile mobs, such as cows, mooshrooms, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, hoglins, and foxes, players willing to do a bit of hunting should be able to find Leather quickly, especially since it can also be fished up as junk and crafted from 4 Rabbit Hides (in a square on a crafting table or in the inventory crafting grid)
Crafting Recipe
To make at Item Frame, players will need a Crafting Table, as the recipe takes up all 9 slots. Place a Leather in the center of the crafting grid and then surround it on all sides with Sticks. The end result will be an Item Frame that one can use for their decorating needs.
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Glow Item Frame Crafting Components & Recipe
There is a variation of the Item Frame known as a Glow Item Frame, which does what it sounds like: allows one to light up things that are placed inside. To craft a Glow Item Frame, place an existing Item Frame in any crafting grid (in any configuration) with a Glow Ink Sac. The bioluminescent blue blobs are dropped from Glow Squid mobs, which spawn underwater in areas deep enough that there is no natural sunlight.
Alternative Ways To Find Item Frames
Villager Trading
Those who are actively trading with villagers will have some potential to buy an Item Frame if they level up villagers with the Cartographer job until they become an expert. When done, this monocled individual will accept a trade of 7 Emeralds for a single Item Frame. This trade can be done 12 times before it is exhausted, meaning that those with more Emeralds than Sticks and Leather could potentially acquire Item Frames this way.
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Exploring End Ships
In The End, there are mysterious and vibrant structures in the few biomes that can be found in this late-game dimension. On the sparse islands floating around the rim of various regions, there are End Cities with majestic purple towers that each have a 50% chance of spawning a bridge structure, which, in turn, has a 12.5% chance of spawning a loot-laden End Ship. These violet vessels often contain chests with rare goods as well as at least 1 or more Item Frames.
How To Use Item Frames
How To Place Item Frames
To place an Item Frame, players need to crouch and then use the Item Frame on the side of the block where one wants to put it. Item Frames can be placed in 1 of 6 possible orientations within the same 1 x 1 space, as long as its back is resting flat upon a solid surface.
How To Put Items Into Item Frames
To insert objects into Item Frames, players simply need to look at the desired frame and have their crosshair over it before using the item that is in their hand. Be careful that one is actually lined up properly, as missing will cause one to simply use the item in their hand regularly instead of placing it into the Item Frame.
How To Rotate Items Inside Item Frames
For those who want to adjust the way an item within an Item Frame is oriented, players can interact with the filled Item Frame by using an empty hand on it. There are 8 directions that one can point the item within the frame, which can result in some interesting designs for the more creative players.
Decoration Advice
Interior design and the specific details of a player’s home are only limited by their imagination. Since players can adjust the angle of an Item Frame when placing them, it is possible to do more and simply hang them on a wall to display tools and weapons of value.
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