How to make 🔳 13 in Infinite Craft

How to make 🔳 13 — step by step

The cheapest known path. Craft each step in order — every ingredient is either a basic element or something you make earlier in this list.

1. Water + Water = LakeBoth Water and Water come straight from your starting elements — craft Lake first, everything else in this chain depends on it.
2. Fire + Fire = VolcanoVolcano is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
3. Lake + Volcano = IslandIf you already made Island in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
4. Fire + Wind = SmokeOne quick craft for Smoke: drag Fire onto Wind and keep the result for the chain.
5. Earth + Fire = LavaLava is only needed as an ingredient — make it once, don't farm extra copies.
6. Earth + Lava = StoneStone is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
7. Smoke + Stone = StatueIf you already made Statue in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
8. Island + Statue = Statue of LibertyOne quick craft for Statue of Liberty: drag Island onto Statue and keep the result for the chain.
9. Earth + Statue of Liberty = New YorkNew York is only needed as an ingredient — make it once, don't farm extra copies.
10. Fire + New York = 9/119/11 is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
11. Earth + Water = PlantIf you already made Plant in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
12. Plant + Wind = DandelionOne quick craft for Dandelion: drag Plant onto Wind and keep the result for the chain.
13. 9/11 + Dandelion = 9/129/12 is only needed as an ingredient — make it once, don't farm extra copies.
14. 9/12 + Earth = 1111 is a stepping stone — keep it in your inventory, later steps build directly on it.
15. 11 + Earth = 12If you already made 12 in an earlier session you can skip this one and move on.
16. 12 + Fire = 13Final craft: combine 12 and Fire to make 13. That's the whole path — 16 crafts total.

✓ Last verified October 2026 · 16 total crafts

Why this is the cheapest path to 13

We rank every known recipe for 13 by total crafts from the four starting elements, not just by the final combination. The two direct ingredients — 12 and Fire — cost 16 and 1 crafts to build from scratch, which is why the whole chain above needs only 16 crafts. The alternatives in the table below are ranked the same way: their "approx. cost" is the pricier ingredient plus one, so you can see at a glance which route actually saves you crafts — and which ones quietly waste five.

Alternative combinations for 13

Any valid combo works — pick the ingredients you already have.

What can you make with 13?

13 is a busy ingredient. In the community dataset it shows up in dozens of downstream recipes: pair it with Lake and you get Bermuda; pair it with Volcano and you get Doomsday; pair it with Swamp and you get Lucky; pair it with Kpop and you get BTS; pair it with Tsunami and you get 2013; pair it with Jason and you get Friday the 13th. Crafted items are never consumed, so one copy keeps working.

Tips for crafting 13

• Craft in one sitting. The 16-craft chain for 13 takes under two minutes once you know the route — the list above is already in dependency order, so just go top to bottom.
• Reuse your inventory. If you've played before you probably own the early intermediates (like Volcano) already — skip straight to the first step you can't do.
• Missing an ingredient? Check the alternatives table — e.g. 12 + Lake also produces 13 if that route fits your inventory better.

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