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.
Materials needed to make smooth stone
Everything 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.
| Item | Amount | How to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Cobblestone | 1 or more | Mine regular stone blocks with any pickaxe |
| Furnace | 1 | Craft from 8 cobblestone on a crafting table |
| Fuel | 1 or more | Coal, charcoal, wood, a block of coal, or a lava bucket |
A single lava bucket smelts 100 items, making it the most fuel-efficient option if you are producing smooth stone in bulk.
How to make smooth stone in the furnace
The process is two smelts in a row. The first turns cobblestone into stone, and the second turns that stone into smooth stone.
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.
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.
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.
You 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.
Where to find smooth stone naturally
If 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.
Smooth stone uses
Beyond decoration, smooth stone appears in two crafting recipes and feeds into a third through its slab.
Crafting a blast furnace
A 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.
Making smooth stone slabs
Smooth 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.
| Method | Smooth stone used | Slabs produced |
|---|---|---|
| Crafting table | 3 blocks in a horizontal row | 6 slabs |
| Stonecutter | 1 block | 2 slabs |
The stonecutter wins on material efficiency at a one-block-to-two-slab ratio, so use it whenever you are processing larger stacks.
A smooth stone slab is itself used to craft an armor stand, alongside six sticks.
Building and decoration
The 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.
Smooth stone block details
Smooth 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.
| Tool | Break time (seconds) |
|---|---|
| Hand / default | 10 |
| Wooden pickaxe | 1.5 |
| Stone pickaxe | 0.75 |
| Copper pickaxe | 0.6 |
| Iron pickaxe | 0.5 |
| Diamond pickaxe | 0.4 |
| Netherite pickaxe | 0.35 |
| Golden pickaxe | 0.25 |
The block uses the identifier smooth_stone in both Java and Bedrock editions, with the Bedrock numeric ID 438. To grab one through commands, use:
/give @p smooth_stone 1
Edition and platform support
Smooth 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.
| Platform | Supported (version added) |
|---|---|
| Java Edition (PC/Mac) | Yes (1.13) |
| Pocket / Bedrock Edition | Yes (1.9.0) |
| Xbox One | Yes (1.9.0) |
| Xbox 360 | No |
| PS4 | Yes (1.86) |
| PS3 | No |
| Nintendo Switch | Yes (1.9.0) |
The 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.
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.