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  "description": "Smelt cobblestone into stone, then smelt stone again to get the polished gray block.",
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  "textContent": "Smooth stone is a polished, light gray variant of the regular stone block. You cannot mine it from the ground, and you will not find its recipe in the crafting book because it is made in a furnace, not on a crafting table. The block is created by smelting, and it serves as the base material for a blast furnace and smooth stone slabs.\n\n⚡\n\nQuick answer: Smelt cobblestone into stone in a furnace, then smelt that stone a second time. The output is smooth stone.\n\n* * *\n\n## Materials needed to make smooth stone\n\nEverything you need is cheap and easy to gather early in a world. Cobblestone drops whenever you mine ordinary stone with a pickaxe, so a short mining trip covers the main ingredient.\n\nItem| Amount| How to get it\n---|---|---\nCobblestone| 1 or more| Mine regular stone blocks with any pickaxe\nFurnace| 1| Craft from 8 cobblestone on a crafting table\nFuel| 1 or more| Coal, charcoal, wood, a block of coal, or a lava bucket\n\nA single lava bucket smelts 100 items, making it the most fuel-efficient option if you are producing smooth stone in bulk.\n\n* * *\n\n## How to make smooth stone in the furnace\n\nThe process is two smelts in a row. The first turns cobblestone into stone, and the second turns that stone into smooth stone.\n\n**Step 1:** Place a furnace on the ground and open its menu. Put cobblestone in the top slot and fuel in the bottom slot. Wait for the cobblestone to finish smelting into regular stone.\n\n**Step 2:** Take the stone out and place it back into the top slot of the furnace. Add more fuel if needed and let it smelt again. The block that appears in the output slot is smooth stone.\n\nSmelting stone a second time produces smooth stone.\n\n**Step 3:** Click the smooth stone in the right slot and move it to your inventory. The block has a noticeably sleeker, lighter gray texture than the stone you started with.\n\nYou can use any furnace for this. Note that a blast furnace will not smelt stone into smooth stone, so keep the regular furnace for this job and use the blast furnace for ores.\n\n🪨\n\nCommon mix-up: If you mine stone with a normal pickaxe you get cobblestone, and that block is not smooth stone. Only the twice-smelted block, or a Silk Touch mined smooth stone block from a village, counts as the real thing.\n\n* * *\n\n## Where to find smooth stone naturally\n\nIf you would rather skip smelting, smooth stone generates in a few village structures. It appears as both blocks and slabs inside the butcher's house in plains, savanna, and snowy plains villages. You can also pull it from a mason's chest, which has roughly a 20.8% chance to contain a single smooth stone.\n\n* * *\n\n## Smooth stone uses\n\nBeyond decoration, smooth stone appears in two crafting recipes and feeds into a third through its slab.\n\n### Crafting a blast furnace\n\nA blast furnace smelts ores and metal armor at twice the speed of a regular furnace, though it consumes fuel twice as fast and gives less experience. Placing one in a village turns an unemployed villager into an Armorer. The recipe uses a furnace in the center, three smooth stone across the bottom row, and iron ingots in the remaining slots.\n\nA blast furnace needs three smooth stone, iron ingots, and a furnace.\n\n### Making smooth stone slabs\n\nSmooth stone slabs are the most flexible thing you can build from the block. There are two ways to make them, and the stonecutter is far more efficient.\n\nMethod| Smooth stone used| Slabs produced\n---|---|---\nCrafting table| 3 blocks in a horizontal row| 6 slabs\nStonecutter| 1 block| 2 slabs\nThree smooth stone blocks in a row yield six slabs on a crafting table.\n\nThe stonecutter wins on material efficiency at a one-block-to-two-slab ratio, so use it whenever you are processing larger stacks.\n\nA stonecutter turns one smooth stone block into two slabs.\n\nA smooth stone slab is itself used to craft an armor stand, alongside six sticks.\n\n### Building and decoration\n\nThe clean, bright texture makes smooth stone a strong pick for modern floors, balconies, and forge rooms. It pairs well with glass panes, stone bricks, and concrete for sleek interiors.\n\nSmooth stone combined with stone bricks and glass panes in a modern build.\n\n* * *\n\n## Smooth stone block details\n\nSmooth stone has a hardness of 2 and a blast resistance of 6, and it requires a pickaxe to drop itself. Mining it without a pickaxe yields nothing. Breaking time depends on the pickaxe tier.\n\nTool| Break time (seconds)\n---|---\nHand / default| 10\nWooden pickaxe| 1.5\nStone pickaxe| 0.75\nCopper pickaxe| 0.6\nIron pickaxe| 0.5\nDiamond pickaxe| 0.4\nNetherite pickaxe| 0.35\nGolden pickaxe| 0.25\n\nThe block uses the identifier `smooth_stone` in both Java and Bedrock editions, with the Bedrock numeric ID 438. To grab one through commands, use:\n\n\n    /give @p smooth_stone 1\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Edition and platform support\n\nSmooth stone has been around for years, and obtaining it by smelting stone became available in the 1.14 update. It is supported on most current platforms but not on the oldest console releases.\n\nPlatform| Supported (version added)\n---|---\nJava Edition (PC/Mac)| Yes (1.13)\nPocket / Bedrock Edition| Yes (1.9.0)\nXbox One| Yes (1.9.0)\nXbox 360| No\nPS4| Yes (1.86)\nPS3| No\nNintendo Switch| Yes (1.9.0)\n\nThe block was reintroduced into the modern game in the early 1.5 snapshots, and it picked up its current \"Smooth Stone\" name in 1.13, having previously been labeled as a stone slab. The idea of bringing it back as a proper obtainable block was floated by the developers years earlier.\n\n> Once you have the smelting loop set up, smooth stone becomes one of the simplest blocks to mass-produce. Keep a stack on hand for blast furnaces and armorer villagers, and lean on the stonecutter whenever you need slabs for cleaner builds.",
  "title": "How to Make Smooth Stone in Minecraft (Furnace Smelting)",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-02T18:28:02.609Z"
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