How to Make Smooth Stone in Minecraft in 4 Easy Steps

While the cobblestone is the most commonly found block in Minecraft, the smooth stone is usually preferred by most players, due to its more refined appearance. Hence, we’ll be discussing how you can craft smooth stones, and how you can use them properly.

What are Smooth Stones?

Smooth stones are essentially blocks of plain stone with a more polished and refined look. Aside from construction and crafting purposes, they have no other importance. Because of how easy and inexpensive they are to craft, and their elegant appearance, most Minecraft players use smooth stones to make their bases.

Requirements for Making a Smooth Stone

As we’ve mentioned earlier, making smooth stones is relatively simple and doesn’t require to go hunting for any rare materials. Here’s what you’ll need to craft a smooth stone:

1. A Furnace
2. Stones
3. Fuel (coal, wood, etc.) for the Furnace

Now, we’ll discuss how to get each of these components:

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1. Crafting a Furnace

Furnaces can be found in villages. But the easiest way to get a furnace is to craft one. Overall, you should have one for your base, as it helps craft much advanced materials. At any rate, here’s how to craft a furnace:

1. To craft a furnace, you should have a crafting table. Also, we recommend using any kind of pickaxe to make the mining process quicker. Once you’ve got these prerequisites down, proceed to the next step.
2. Now, we’ll need cobblestone. Cobblestone is pretty common on the surface but the most surefire way to get some is by mining underground. We’ll need a total of 8 blocks.
   

   

3. Next, open up the crafting menu. Place the cobble stones exactly as shown in the grid.
   

   

4. Place the crafted furnace in your inventory. Equip it and set it somewhere in your base.
   

   

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2. Obtaining Fuel

To operate the furnace and produce smooth stone, we’ll need some fuel. Coal and wood are the best options, as they are easy to obtain. Coal can be found alongside iron; in ravines, caves and cliffsides. Wood can be acquired from trees and can also be found in villages.

3. Obtaining Stones

Stones are found near mountains, or deep underground near the Overlord area. Another way would be to mine cobblestone with a pickaxe that has the Silk Touch. Since these methods are too troublesome, a much simpler way is to craft it using cobblestone and the furnace:

1. Open up the furnace menu.
   

   

2. Now, add the fuel you obtained earlier in the bottom slot.
   

   

3. Then, add the cobblestone in the top slot.
   

   

4. Let the smelting process finish and you’ll have a stone ready. Place the stone in your inventory.
   

   

5. Repeat this process as many times you want.

4. Crafting Smooth Stone

Finally, we’ll discuss how you can craft smooth stone. The process is very simple and similar to what you’ve done when fulfilling the requirements stated above:

1. Once again, open up the furnace menu.
   

   

2. Add the fuel to the bottom slot.
   

   

3. Place the stones you crafted earlier in the top slot.
   

   

4. Then, let the smelting process finish.
   

   

   The smooth stone should be ready as soon as the process finishes. Place it in your inventory.
5. Repeat this process as many times as you want.

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Using the Smooth Stone

The smooth stone has a more aesthetic appearance compared to the regular types of stone, but other than that, it seems to have no other function. Well, that is not entirely true. The smooth stone is an essential ingredient required to craft the Blast Furnace and the Smooth Stone Slab.

The Blast Furnace is basically a better version of the regular furnace, as it carries out the smelting process twice as fast, while consuming half the fuel. As for the Smooth Stone Slabs, they are blocks that take half the space of regular blocks and do not combine to form a single block, making them perfect for stairs.

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⤷ Crafting a Blast Furnace

To craft a Blast Furnace, follow the steps below:

1. First of all, you’ll need the following components: 5 iron ingots, 3 smooth stone and a furnace. Once these have been obtained, proceed to the next step.
2. Now, open up your crafting menu. Place the components exactly as shown.
   

   

3. Place the Blast Furnace in your inventory.

⤷ Crafting Smooth Stone Slabs

To craft smooth stone slabs, follow the steps below:

1. In order to craft a smooth stone slab, you need 3 smooth stones. Refer to the process stated in the previous section to craft smooth stone.
2. Next, open up the crafting menu and place the smooth stone as shown.
   

   

3. Place the smooth stone slab in your inventory.

Conclusion

The smooth stone is not a very useful material by itself. However, when combined with other materials, it can become the incredibly practical Blast Furnace. Therefore, one should never underestimate the value of even the most commonplace material in Minecraft, as it’s bound to have some use. Whether it’s used as a crafting component or by itself, that you’ll have to find out by yourself.