How to Craft Dried Kelp in Minecraft
Dried Kelp is made by smelting kelp. It restores 1 hunger point and eats faster than most foods.
Overview
Dried Kelp is made by smelting kelp. It restores 1 hunger point and eats faster than most foods. Dried Kelp is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid. A Furnace smelts one item at a time using a fuel slot. Coal, charcoal, dried kelp blocks, lava buckets, and any wood all work as fuel, with each piece of coal smelting eight items.
The recipe was added in Minecraft 1.13 and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Dried Kelp.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with kelp (harvest kelp from ocean floors). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Furnace placed, Dried Kelp is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.
Crafting Recipe
Dried KelpMaterials Needed
To make Dried Kelp you will gather Kelp (harvest kelp from ocean floors). Lining these up before you open the Furnace saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Open your Furnace interface.
- Place Kelp in the top input slot.
- Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
- Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Dried Kelp from the output slot.
Tips & Notes
- Fuel efficiency matters: a single piece of coal or charcoal smelts eight items, while a dried kelp block smelts twenty, making kelp blocks the cheapest renewable fuel for large batches.
- There is more than one way to obtain Dried Kelp: the alternative methods listed above can be faster depending on which materials you already have on hand.
Alternative Methods
Uses for Dried Kelp
- Quick snack restoring 1 hunger point
- Crafting dried kelp blocks for fuel
How Dried Kelp Fits Your World
Food restores hunger and the saturation that quietly regenerates your health, and different foods restore very different amounts. Bread and cooked meats are reliable staples, golden carrots and steak offer the best saturation for long expeditions, and golden apples provide absorption hearts and regeneration for emergencies. Keeping a stack of a high-saturation food on your hotbar is one of the simplest ways to survive longer. For Dried Kelp specifically, that means it is most valuable for quick snack restoring 1 hunger point and crafting dried kelp blocks for fuel.
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Dried Kelp on the Astroworld Items Database.