- In order to make smooth stone blocks in Minecraft, you'll need a furnace, fuel of your choice and regular stone blocks.
- Place the fuel in the bottom cell of the furnace and add stone blocks above it. After a few seconds, they will smelt into smooth stone blocks.
- Smooth stone is part of the blast furnace and smooth stone slabs recipes. They are generally used as building blocks.
Some blocks in Minecraft have pretty chaotic and rough textures. On the opposite end, there are several blocks with light and uniform textures, allowing you to add some simplicity to your house builds. So, we will talk about one such block in Minecraft – the smooth stone block, from how you can make it to how to use it.
Items You Need to Create Smooth Stone
In order to make smooth stone you will need the following resources:
Minecraft Smooth Stone: Smelting Recipe
Once you have collected the required resources, check out the crafting, or should we say, smelting recipe of smooth stone:
- First things first, put the furnace block in your hot bar and right-click to place it.
- Right-click on the furnace to open the smelting UI.
- Add the fuel in the bottom slot on the left side.
- Then, place a 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 get smelted and turned into a smooth stone block, 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 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 villages
- Trail ruins
Best Uses of Smooth Stone in Minecraft
Now that you have obtained smooth stone, let’s see what uses this block has in the game:
1. Crafting Ingredient
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 blast furnace in Minecraft, go through our linked guide.
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 a part of a crafting recipe for an armor stand. Follow the link to our guide where we explain how you can make this entity.
2. Stonecutter Ingredient
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.
3. Building Block
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.
Furthermore, since you make it in a furnace, it can be a good addition in the super smelter or a forge room. Due to its highly polished appearance, it can even be used as a decoration piece that’s meant to represent a thoroughly processed material.
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.
If you’re looking for smooth stone in the crafting recipe list, you won’t find it. That’s because you have to smelt stone to get smooth stone. No crafting recipe produces smooth stone.
A fairly common misunderstanding in Minecraft is that players call regular stone smooth stone. This block isn’t smooth stone, but just stone. It makes up a huge portion of the Minecraft world.
You need to have silk touch on your pickaxe in order to mine smooth stone successfully. You may also simply smelt cobblestone in order to obtain it. On the other hand, smooth stone block can be mined without silk touch and it generates extremely rarely only in the above-mentioned locations.
