Block of the Month: Fletching Table

Wander around a village for a while, and you’ll see all kinds of interesting things; iron golems patrolling the perimeter, cats sunning themselves, or a wandering trader strolling about aimlessly, without purpose – much like my Minecraft.net editor, Per Landin! If you’re particularly unlucky, you might even see an illager raid.

But most of all, you’ll see villagers working hard – as farmers, blacksmiths, armourers, cartographers, butchers, clerics, fishermen, leatherworkers, masons, shepherds, toolsmiths, librarians, weaponsmiths, and fletchers. It’s this last profession that we’re most interested in today, because our block of the month is the fletching table!

Fletching tables became a part of Minecraft in the Village & Pillage Update, which added the concept of job site blocks that unemployed villagers can use to become specialists of different kinds.

No rush, Adrian. Take your time and don't let me bother you!

In the real world, people who make arrows are known as fletchers too – and it’s a common last name in English-speaking countries. Fletchers have been around for a very long time – the earliest evidence of arrow-making dates all the way back to Africa in the midst of the Stone Age – about 70,000 years ago.