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How to Craft Dried Kelp Block in Minecraft

Dried Kelp Block in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Fuel source (smelts 20 items).

With a Crafting Table placed, 9 Dried Kelp is what a Dried Kelp Block needs. Its pattern is nine Dried Kelp filling every cell. Each attempt hands back 1 Dried Kelp Block. Dried Kelp Blocks double as furnace fuel: 4000 ticks each, so 4 of them smelt a full stack of 64.

Dried Kelp Block Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Dried Kelp Blocks are an efficient fuel source that smelts 20 items, more than coal (8 items). Dried Kelp Block uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

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 block was one of them, so the trail stops there. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.17. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the dried kelp block, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with dried kelp (smelt kelp).

What A Stack Yields

7 crafts drain a stack: 64 dried kelp become 7 dried kelp blocks. That leaves 1 dried kelp with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Dried KelpDried KelpDried Kelp9xSmelt kelp

To make Dried Kelp Block you will gather 9x Dried Kelp (smelt kelp), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

9 Kelp makes 9 Dried Kelp, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 9 Kelp.

  1. 1
    KelpKelp9Dried KelpDried Kelp9Dried KelpFurnace, repeat 9x
  2. 2
    Dried Kelp Blockthis page

Gather this first

KelpKelp9Kelp

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Dried KelpDried Kelp9x Dried Kelp

  2. 2

    Dried Kelp Block

Minecraft crafting recipe for Dried Kelp Block: 9 x Dried Kelp in a crafting table, making 1 Dried Kelp Block.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 9x Dried Kelp. Start with the Dried Kelp: smelt kelp.

Uses for Dried Kelp Block

  • Fuel source (smelts 20 items)
  • Compact kelp storage

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Dried Kelp Block in Minecraft?
Bring 9 Dried Kelp to a Crafting Table and you can make a Dried Kelp Block. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Dried Kelp Block.
What do you need to make a Dried Kelp Block from scratch?
Gather 9 Kelp and you have everything a Dried Kelp Block needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Can you craft a Dried Kelp Block without a crafting table?
The inventory grid is too small for a Dried Kelp Block, so you need a table. It is laid out as nine Dried Kelp filling every cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Dried Kelp Block?
The materials for a Dried Kelp Block each come from somewhere different. Dried Kelp: smelt kelp.
How many Dried Kelp Blocks do you get from one craft?
The Dried Kelp Block recipe makes one Dried Kelp Block per craft.
What is the item ID for Dried Kelp Block in Minecraft?
The Dried Kelp Block item ID is minecraft:dried_kelp_block, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write dried_kelp_block on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a Dried Kelp Block?
Dried Kelp Block needs nothing you have to go find: dried kelp from kelp. Set those up once and you can keep making dried kelp block.
Has the Dried Kelp Block recipe changed?
The dried kelp block last had its recipe changed in Minecraft 1.17. Every release after that ships the exact grid shown above, so anything older you find elsewhere is out of date.
Is the Dried Kelp Block recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 9 Dried Kelp at a Crafting Table gives you a Dried Kelp Block, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
How many times do you repeat each step for a Dried Kelp Block?
Most steps for a Dried Kelp Block are a single craft, but Dried Kelp has to be made 9 times to reach 9 Dried Kelp. The chain section shows the totals per step.
What version of Minecraft added the Dried Kelp Block?
The dried kelp block 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. The current release still makes a Dried Kelp Block exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
9 Dried Kelp in, 1 Dried Kelp Block out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The trail stops at Minecraft Java 1.13, where hundreds of items were renamed at once. Older releases call this something else entirely. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Compared release by release across 50 Java releases since 1.13; the last change to what it takes was in 1.17.
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, burn time
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 Block per craft against the stack size.

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