How To Craft Barrel Minecraft. In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3×3 crafting grid. To make a barrel in minecraft, you will need wood planks and two wood slabs placed in a crafting table.

In java edition, a barrel can be locked by setting its lock tag using the / data command. Normally, barrels hold 4,096 items (but of course, this can be changed). Finally, place oak slabs in the 1st and 2nd boxes of the second column.