- Polished tuff is a smooth building block players can make using four tuff blocks in Minecraft 1.21.
- Alternatively, players can use a stonecutter in Minecraft and make as many polished tuff blocks.
- As for how and where to use polished tuff, it is only a building block that can be turned into slabs, stairs, walls, and tuff bricks.
In addition to the combat challenges you face in the trial chambers, Minecraft 1.21 also brings many different building blocks to the game. In this guide, we take a look at polished tuff blocks and how to craft them in Minecraft 1.21. So, let’s get started!
Items You Need to Make Polished Tuff
To make polished tuff in the crafting grid, you need only 4 tuff blocks. However, it’s also possible to make this tuff block variant using the stonecutter.
How to Craft Polished Tuff in Minecraft
Since making polished tuff in the crafting table and the stonecutter yields different results, we have covered both ways here. First, let’s look at the steps to make it using a crafting table.
Method 1: Using Crafting Grid
- Open your inventory by pressing the E key. You can use a crafting table as well.
- Take the regular tuff blocks and fill the 2×2 crafting grid with one block in each slot. If you are using a 3×3 grid, you need to pick one corner and make the 2 x 2 square with tuff blocks.
- Either way, you will get 4 polished tuff blocks in the result slot on the right.
Method 1: Using a Stonecutter
- First, place the stonecutter in your world and right-click to open its UI.
- Then, take one tuff block and place it in the input slot on the left.
- Next, select polished tuff in the central area of the UI.
- What you’ll notice right away is that polished tuff appears on the right, which you can then move to your inventory.
The amazing thing about the stonecutter is that you can craft as many blocks as you need, unlike the crafting table that forces you to make multiples of four blocks at a time. Besides that, the stonecutter provides the same ratio.
Where Can You Find Polished Tuff
The polished tuff blocks, as well as other tuff and copper variants also generate as part of the brand-new trial chambers. They are generated underground and can be discovered in many different ways. Our tutorial on how to find trial chambers will help you with that, or you can simply make the trial chambers explorer map in Minecraft.
Now, for those wondering how you can use polished tuff, it can be used as a clean building block in Minecraft house builds. It is kind of the perfect block for ceiling or floor designs and it looks like a dark version of polished andesite, thanks to the smooth-looking texture.
In addition, polished tuff is a part of crafting recipes that yield tuff bricks, as well as stairs, slabs, and walls. Similarly to the polished tuff, those tuff block variants can be crafted using the crafting table or the stonecutter. Check out the recipes for reference below:
There you have it. Now you know how to make polished tuff in Minecraft 1.21. The extended tuff block family is the missing piece that many builders in Minecraft needed. So, what do you think about the polished tuff and its variants? Let us know in the comments below!
