How to Craft Dried Kelp in Minecraft

Dried Kelp in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Quick snack restoring 1 hunger point.

This one is smelted rather than crafted: 1 Kelp in a Furnace, fuel below it, no grid involved. One pass through gives you 1 Dried Kelp. It puts 1 hunger back, with 0.6 saturation behind it.

Dried Kelp Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Dried Kelp is minecraft:dried_kelp. In commands the namespace may be left off, so dried_kelp works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one: /give @p dried_kelp
Give a full stack of 64: /give @p dried_kelp 64
Give it to a named player: /give Steve dried_kelp 1

Cheats have to be on for Dried Kelp to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

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.

How far back this one goes cannot be read out of the files: Minecraft 1.13 renamed hundreds of items and every recipe file with them, and the dried kelp was one of them, so the trail stops there.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with kelp (harvest kelp from ocean floors).

What A Stack Yields

Empty a stack of 64 kelp into this and 64 dried kelp come back. Craft 64 clears the box of kelp.

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
KelpKelp	1x	Harvest kelp from ocean floors

A Furnace and Kelp (harvest kelp from ocean floors): that is everything Dried Kelp asks for.

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.

Minecraft crafting recipe for Dried Kelp: 1 x Kelp in a furnace, making 1 Dried Kelp.

Tips & Notes

Shopping list: 1x Kelp. Plan the Kelp first: harvest kelp from ocean floors.
Work out the fuel before you start: eight Dried Kelp per coal, twenty per dried kelp block, and a lava bucket runs for a hundred.
There is more than one way to get Dried Kelp: the alternative methods further down this page can be quicker depending on what you already have.

Alternative Methods

Smoker

Method 2

Uses for Dried Kelp

Quick snack restoring 1 hunger point
Crafting dried kelp blocks for fuel

What Dried Kelp Goes Into

One other recipe on this site lists Dried Kelp as an ingredient.

Dried Kelp BlockCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Dried Kelp on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Dried Kelp in Minecraft?

To craft Dried Kelp you need 1 Kelp at a Furnace. Put the input in the top slot and fuel underneath, and one craft produces one Dried Kelp.

Are there other ways to get Dried Kelp?

Yes, you can also make Dried Kelp at a Smoker. The alternative methods section above shows the exact ingredients for each, so you can pick whichever suits the materials you already have.

What can you make with Dried Kelp?

Dried Kelp is an ingredient in 1 other recipe on this site, including Dried Kelp Block. The section above links to each of them.

Where do you find the materials for Dried Kelp?

The parts of Dried Kelp do not all come from one place. Kelp: harvest kelp from ocean floors.

How much Dried Kelp do you get from one craft?

The Dried Kelp recipe makes one Dried Kelp per craft.

What is the item ID for Dried Kelp in Minecraft?

Dried Kelp is registered as minecraft:dried_kelp. Commands accept the short form dried_kelp as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.

Can you farm everything you need for Dried Kelp?

Dried Kelp needs nothing you have to go find: kelp from kelp that regrows. Set those up once and you can keep making dried kelp.

What is the give command for Dried Kelp?

Use /give @p dried_kelp to put Dried Kelp in your own inventory, or /give @p dried_kelp 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.

Is the Dried Kelp recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?

Yes, the Dried Kelp recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build Dried Kelp from 1 Kelp at a Furnace, in the same layout, one at a time.

What version of Minecraft added Dried Kelp?

The dried kelp has carried this name since Minecraft 1.13, the release that renamed hundreds of items at once, and the files cannot say how much older than that it is: anything earlier is the same thing filed under a different name. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield: 1 Kelp in, 1 Dried Kelp out, Furnace. Java 26.2, 17 August 2026.
That Bedrock agrees: Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes: Present from Minecraft Java 1.13, the release that renamed it. Anything earlier carries a different name and cannot be matched to this page. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back: What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size, hunger and saturation: The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock: What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum: Counted, not played: 1 Dried Kelp per craft against the stack size.

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