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How to Craft Smooth Stone in Minecraft

Smooth Stone in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Crafting blast furnaces and smooth stone slabs. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.14.

Smooth Stone comes out of a Furnace, not out of a crafting grid: 1 Stone in the top slot and fuel below it. Out the other side: 1 Smooth Stone.

Smooth Stone Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Smooth Stone is made by smelting stone (which itself is smelted from cobblestone). It has a polished appearance. Smooth Stone is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.14, and not in the release before it.

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

The Full Stack Sum

Per craft 1 stone buys 1 smooth stone; per stack 64 buys 64. Craft 64 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Stone1xSmelt cobblestone

Gather Stone (smelt cobblestone), then take the lot to a Furnace.

The Full Chain

1 Cobblestone makes 1 Stone, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Cobblestone.

  1. 1
    StoneFurnace
  2. 2
    Smooth Stonethis page

Gather this first

Cobblestone

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Stone in the top input slot.
  3. Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
  4. Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Smooth Stone from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Smooth Stone: 1 x Stone in a furnace, making 1 Smooth Stone.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 1x Stone. Start with the Stone: smelt cobblestone.
  • Dried kelp blocks are the cheapest way to make Smooth Stone in bulk, at twenty smelts per block against coal's eight.

Uses for Smooth Stone

  • Crafting blast furnaces and smooth stone slabs
  • Building material

What Smooth Stone Goes Into

One other recipe on this site lists Smooth Stone as an ingredient.

Blast FurnaceCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Smooth Stone on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Smooth Stone in Minecraft?
Bring 1 Stone to a Furnace and you can make Smooth Stone. Put the input in the top slot and fuel underneath, and one craft produces one Smooth Stone.
What do you need to make Smooth Stone from scratch?
Counting all the way down, Smooth Stone comes to 1 Cobblestone, spread over 2 crafts.
What can you make with Smooth Stone?
Smooth Stone is an ingredient in 1 other recipe on this site, including Blast Furnace. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for Smooth Stone?
Here is where each part of Smooth Stone comes from. Stone: smelt cobblestone.
How much Smooth Stone do you get from one craft?
The Smooth Stone recipe makes one Smooth Stone per craft.
What is the item ID for Smooth Stone in Minecraft?
Smooth Stone is registered as minecraft:smooth_stone. Commands accept the short form smooth_stone as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Smooth Stone?
Use /give @p smooth_stone to put Smooth Stone in your own inventory, or /give @p smooth_stone 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Smooth Stone recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Smooth Stone recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build Smooth Stone from 1 Stone at a Furnace, in the same layout, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added Smooth Stone?
Minecraft 1.14 is where the smooth stone starts. The recipe sits in that release and is missing from the one before, across every Java version Mojang still hands out. Today the game builds it from 1 Stone, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Stone in, 1 Smooth Stone out, Furnace. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.14 describes this recipe and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
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 Smooth Stone per craft against the stack size.

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