How to Make Smooth Stone in Minecraft (2026 Guide)

Some blocks in Minecraft have pretty rough textures that are good for a rugged and medieval base design. But if you want something clearer and brighter, you will need blocks with light and uniform textures, allowing you to add some simplicity to your house builds. Among all Minecraft blocks, the smooth stone is one of the best choices for refined and modern builds. So, here is a complete guide on how to make smooth stone in Minecraft and the ways of using it. For more Minecraft house ideas, check out our other guides.

What is Smooth Stone in Minecraft?

The smooth stone is a refined variant of the regular stone block with a cleaner and lighter texture. While mining stone, you get cobblestone most of the time unless you are using a pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment. And there is no way to get smooth stone from mining in the game.

The smooth stone has a special crafting recipe, and it requires a furnace instead of a crafting table. This is why you couldn’t find its recipe in the crafting book.

Materials Required to Craft Smooth Stone in Minecraft

Making a smooth stone in Minecraft is quite easy and only requires the following resources:

Item	Amount	Where to Get
Cobblestone	1x or more	Mine any regular stone blocks with a pickaxe in caves or mountains
Furnace	1x	Craft using 8 cobblestone blocks on a crafting table in Minecraft
Fuel (Coal, Charcoal, Lava)	1x or more	Mine coal ores, smelt wooden logs, or get a bucket of lava from pools.

How to Make Smooth Stone in Minecraft

Can you really craft smooth stone? Well, you cannot technically craft smooth stone, but rather get it from smelting stone in a furnace.

Once you have collected the required resources, check out the crafting, or should we say, smelting recipe of smooth stone:

Smelt Cobblestone into Stone

The first step involves smelting the cobblestone to get regular stone in Minecraft. You can skip this step if you mined stone blocks using a Silk Touch pickaxe. But if you don’t have that, follow the steps below to get regular stone:

• Place a furnace on the ground and right-click on it to open its interface.
• Add fuel to the bottom slot and place a cobblestone in the top slot.
• Now wait for some time to smelt it into regular stone.

Smelt Stone into Smooth Stone

Having got a stack of regular stone, you can now follow the steps below to learn how to make smooth stone in Minecraft:

• On the same furnace block, right-click to open its UI.
• Add the Minecraft fuel source in the bottom slot on the left side.
• Then, place stone block(s) in the upper slot on the left.
• After a few seconds, the arrow in the center will start filling up, and a stone block will be smelted and turned into a smooth stone block, which appears in the right slot.
• To take the smooth stone block out of the furnace, click on it and move it to your inventory.

Where to Find Smooth Stone Naturally in Minecraft

Minecraft allows you to obtain most blocks and items in at least two different ways. That’s also the case for the smooth stone block. So, besides smelting, you can find smooth stone in the following places:

• Butcher’s houses in villages (plains, savanna, snowy plains Minecraft biomes)
• Chest in the mason’s house in the villages. Using different Minecraft villager jobs can help you trade for various stone blocks.

All Uses of Smooth Stone in Minecraft

Now that you know how to make smooth stone in Minecraft, let’s see what uses this block has in the game:

Crafting Ingredient

A full smooth stone block appears in two crafting recipes. One of them is for the blast furnace. It’s a furnace variant that smelts ores and metals twice as quickly as a regular furnace.

The catch, however, is that it can only smelt those items and nothing else. If you would like to learn how to make a blast furnace in Minecraft, go through our linked guide.

Making Smooth Stone Slabs

A smooth stone slab is the other crafting recipe that requires you to use the smooth stone block. It behaves much like other slabs in the game. You will need 3 smooth stone blocks to craft 6 smooth stone slabs. Placing them in any row of the crafting table completes the smooth stone slab recipe.

The smooth stone slab itself is part of a crafting recipe for an armor stand. Follow the link to our guide, where we explain how you can make this entity. You can also use slabs in many cool things to build in Minecraft.

If you’re going the crafting table route, you will need at least 3 smooth stone blocks to craft at least a single smooth stone slab. However, the stonecutter route is so much more efficient, as the ratio of the smooth stone blocks and smooth stone slabs is 1:2.

This means a single block of smooth stone is enough to craft its slab variant. So, when you’re working with different types of stone blocks, always use a stonecutter. Here is a quick comparison to choose the better option:

Method	Smooth Stones Required	Slabs Produced
Crafting Table	3 smooth stone blocks	6 slabs
Stone Cutter	1 smooth stone block is enough	2 slabs

Building Block & Decoration Ideas

Despite the two mentioned uses, the primary use of a smooth stone block and its slab variant is as a building block. It’s a pretty block that’s pleasant to look at. Its light and bright gray texture makes it a good option for any floor design. Moreover, it pairs nicely with the Minecraft glass and stone bricks.

Furthermore, since you make it in a furnace, it can be a good addition to the super smelter or a forge room. Due to its highly polished appearance, it can even be used as a decorative piece that’s meant to represent a thoroughly processed material. Try using it in the following use cases:

• Modern house flooring: Use smooth stone for base floors, balconies, or side porches in modern builds. This light gray tone looks good when combined with glass panes.
• Forge Rooms: The smooth stone fits perfectly with the smelter rooms and blacksmith interiors.
• Minimalist Interiors: For players who love clean interiors, using smooth stone slabs can create a sleek aesthetic when paired with concrete in Minecraft.

Above is an epic modern house built by Greg Builds using smooth stone, stone bricks, glass panes, and other utility blocks. If you’re looking for the best Minecraft seeds to start a new world with great building locations, we have you covered.

Smooth Stone: IDs & Game Information

Looking for some information on the smooth stone IDs and in-game information? Here is a table that satisfies all your needs:

Edition	Identifier	Numeric ID
Java	smooth_stone	NA
Bedrock	smooth_stone	438

Given below is a table for the breaking time required by all variants of a pickaxe in Minecraft:

Tool	Time (in seconds)
Hand/Default	10
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Copper	0.6
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Gold	0.25
Netherite	0.35

With that said, now you know how to make smooth stone blocks and how you can use them in your Minecraft builds. The slab in particular allows for some amazing designs that you should look into if you’re making a medieval stony build. For other essential items, check out guides on how to make a bed in Minecraft or how to make paper in Minecraft.