How to Make a Name Tag in Minecraft

Name Tags have always been one of the most useful items in Minecraft for naming your close companions. But these were quite difficult to obtain as Name Tags are treasure items found from chests, trading, or fishing. Finally, with the upcoming Minecraft 26.1 Tiny Takeover update, things are finally changing, and now, you can craft these items. Here’s everything you need to know about how to get and use a Name Tag in Minecraft.

Materials Required to Make a Name Tag in Minecraft

The Minecraft 26.1 baby mobs drop is just around the corner, and apart from the remodelled features, we have seen the new recipes for a Golden Dandelion flower and the Name Tags. Crafting a Name Tag requires the following ingredients:

You can obtain any metal nugget from its respective ingots. To get any of these three metals, head over to the caves or simply use your pickaxe to dig down and find the ores. The Minecraft ore distribution guide will help you with the right Y levels where you can get the iron, copper or gold ore blocks.

Next, you can head over to the river banks or near the beaches to find sugarcane crops. Break these crops using your hand and place three sugarcane on a crafting table to get paper. Finally, you will need a crafting table to put all the ingredients together.

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Make a Name Tag

After having all the required ingredients in your pocket, you can perform the steps given below to craft a Name Tag in Minecraft:

• After placing the crafting table on the ground, right-click on it to open the grid.
• Place the paper on the bottom-left corner of the grid and the metal nugget in the central cell.
• The Name Tag will be available in the right slot. And, you can drag and drop it in your inventory.

How to Get Name Tags in Minecraft World

Other than crafting, the older methods to obtain the Name Tags are still valid and exist in Minecraft 26.1 update. You can get them through loot chests, fishing, and trading. That being said, here are the chances of getting a Name Tag from every method:

• Lootchests: You can get Name Tags from the loot chest of Mineshafts (42.3%), Monster Rooms (25.3%), Woodland Mansion (28.3%), and Ancient Cities (16.1%).
• Fishing: It has a 0.8% chance of getting caught during fishing.
• Wandering Trader: At times, you can find the Wandering Trader sell a single Name Tag for 1 emerald.

Right after the Minecraft baby mobs update goes live, the Librarian Villager will no longer trade Name Tags for emeralds.

Name Tag Uses and Mechanics in Minecraft

As the name suggests, you can use Name Tags for naming mobs in Minecraft. But naming the mobs requires a couple of steps, and this is how you do it:

• First, place an Anvil on the ground and right-click on it to open its UI.
• Now place the Name Tag on the leftmost cell and type a new name in the text box above.

• You will notice that renaming a Name Tag costs 1 experience point.
• If you have enough experience points, you can drag and drop the renamed Name Tag in your inventory.

The cost to rename a full stack of Name Tags (64x) is still the same, just a single experience point. To gain experience, use the best farms in Minecraft, or simply kill a few zombies or animals in the game for the time being.

Note that once you have named the mobs, they are removed from the mob number cap and will no longer despawn from your world. Moreover, if you want to name a younger mob, it will stay even after it grows up. But if you don’t want your adorable companion to grow old, consider feeding it a Golden Dandelion.

That is all about how you can craft a Name Tag in Minecraft. So, have you gone through all the other features of the Minecraft Tiny Takeover update? Tell us in the comments below.