Crafter
The Crafter is a brand new utility block coming to Minecraft in the future, announced as part of Minecraft Live 2023! Use this to automate crafting with the help of Redstone!
This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of everything we currently know about the Crafter block within Minecraft.
Crafter Details
The Crafter acts much like a Crafting Table, with the same UI layout. The difference being that once you input a crafting recipe with the necessary materials, you can power the Crafter and it'll automatically create and dispense the item for you!
Once you have put in your desired crafting recipe, with the use of a button, lever, or redstone signal you can have the Crafter automatically and repeatedly dispense that item (so long as you have the materials required inside the Crafter!).
The crafting recipe for the Crafter has yet to be revealed, but it will allow you to have a level of automation in your world that was never possible before. Have it construct you a never-ending supply of Pickaxes, Golden Apples, Bookshelves, you name it! You can even have a Crafter make a Crafter!
Toggleable Slots
It was also detailed in the Minecraft Live 2023 livestream that you can now toggle/disable slots, which is useful if you have a Hopper dispensing materials into a Crafter, so you can set up specific crafting recipes and prevent resources stacking in the wrong place, or having the wrong item be created!