How To Make Smooth Stone In Minecraft With or Without Silk Touch

Smooth stone is a clean building block in Minecraft that makes houses look modern. Players use it a lot for floors and walls in their builds. You can't find this block anywhere while mining or exploring - you need to know how to make smooth stone yourself. This guide will show you all the steps to create one and the different ways to use it in your builds. No matter if you just started playing or have been building for years, you'll know everything about smooth stone by the end of this guide.

Part 1. How to Make Smooth Stone In Minecraft

Smooth stone is one of the best building blocks in Minecraft, and many players want to get their hands on it. The way to make it isn't hard once you know the steps.

Getting the Basic Materials for the Furnace

To make a smooth stone, you need to start with 8 regular stone blocks around the parameter of the crafting GUI. These aren't the same as the stones you mine directly - those actually give you cobblestone. You need to smelt cobblestone in a furnace first to get regular stone. But don't forget to leave a space open for the stone in the middle.

The Smelting Process

Making smooth stone takes two smelting steps. First, put cobblestone in a furnace with fuel to get regular stone. Then, take that regular stone and smelt it again in the furnace with more fuel. This second cooking turns your regular stone into smooth stone.

Simply put the stone in the top box of the furnace. To be sure of it, make sure you see the flames cooking the stone.

Coal works great for smelting because one piece can smelt eight items. If you need to make lots of smooth stone, lava buckets work even better since each bucket can smelt 100 items. This saves time when you're working on big building projects.

If you need tons of smooth stone, set up multiple furnaces side by side. This way, you can smelt more at once instead of waiting for one furnace to be finished. You can even use hoppers to automatically feed cobblestone and fuel into the furnaces.

Shifting Into Inventory

The last step is to move the stone to the inventory, and that'll do it.

Practical Uses in Different Builds

Smooth stone looks great in modern houses, underground bases, and lab-style builds. The clean texture works perfectly for kitchen counters, floors in tall buildings, and paths in garden areas. On top of that, many players also use it as trim along the tops of walls or as separation between different building materials. The best part is that the neutral gray color makes it easy to match with almost any other block in your inventory.

Part 2. How Do You Get Smooth Stone in Minecraft Without Silk Touch?

You don't need a silk touch enchantment to get smooth stone. The only way to get it is through the double-smelting process. Mine the cobblestone, then smelt it once to get stone, and smelt that stone again to get smooth stone. This method works for all players regardless of what tools they have.

The Double-Smelting Method Explained

Getting a smooth stone always requires following the same steps. First, mine a stone with a pickaxe to get cobblestone. Next, put that cobblestone in a furnace with fuel to turn it into a regular stone. After that, take the regular stone and put it back in the furnace with more fuel. The result is smooth stone - no special tools are needed at all.

Setting Up Furnace Arrays

For faster production without silk touch, set up two rows of furnaces if you have the resources to build them. The first row turns cobblestone into stone, and the second row turns stone into smooth stone. This assembly-line style setup speeds up the process a lot. You just need to move the stone from the first row to the second after the initial smelting is done.

Part 3. Can You Turn Smooth Stone Back Into Stone?

No, you can't turn it back into regular stone once you've made smooth stone. The smelting process only goes one way in Minecraft. If you made too many smooth stones by mistake, you must make new regular stones by smelting cobblestone again.

Using Smooth Stone in Crafting

Smooth stone has crafting uses that regular stone doesn't. You can make smooth stone slabs by putting 3 smooth stone blocks in a row on a crafting table. You can also use a stonecutter to save materials - one block gives you two slabs this way.

Smooth Stone for Blast Furnaces

One important use for smooth stone is making blast furnaces.

To craft a blast furnace in Minecraft, you need 3 smooth stones along with 5 iron ingots and 1 furnace with 8 cobblestones. The blast furnace helps smelt ores twice as fast as regular furnaces, which saves lots of time when processing metal.

Part 4. The Role of Cobblestone Generator and How to Make One for Smooth Stone

Cobblestone generators let you get cobblestone forever, and that's exactly what you need first to make smooth stone. They save tons of time when you're working on huge builds that need loads of smooth stone blocks.

Basic Cobblestone Generator Design

You only need three things to make a simple generator: water, lava, and blocks that don't catch fire like stone or dirt. Put water on one side and lava on the other with a one-block gap between them. When these two meet in the middle, they make cobblestones right before your eyes. Mine it, and it forms again - pretty cool how it never runs out.

Safety Tips When Building Generators

Lava burns you and destroys items, so be careful when building your generator. Always place the water first, then the lava. Keep your valuable items in a chest away from the build area. It's also smart to bring a bucket of water to put out any fires.

Improving Your Generator Design

Basic generators work fine, but they can be annoying to use. The cobblestone forms in hard-to-reach spots, and you might accidentally break the water or lava flow. Adding walls and a safe mining spot makes the generator much easier and safer to use.

Semi-Automatic Generator Designs

More advanced players use pistons and redstone to push the cobblestone out automatically. This makes mining faster and easier. You still need to smelt the cobblestone twice afterward, but getting the raw material becomes much less tedious.

Maintaining Your Generator Long-Term

Generators sometimes break when blocks update around them or when the chunks unload. To keep yours working, build it in an area you visit often. Put signs or item frames nearby to mark it clearly. Check it regularly for any strange block updates or missing water/lava sources. In multiplayer servers, hide your generator or put protection blocks around it so others don't mess with it.

Part 5. Why Can't I Craft Smooth Stone?

Smooth stone can't be crafted on a crafting table - this is a common mistake new players make. The only way to get it is through the smelting process. You have to smelt cobblestone into stone, then smelt the stone again to get smooth stone.

Checking Your Game Version

Some older versions of Minecraft didn't have smooth stone at all. The block was added in the 1.14 update, so make sure your game is updated if you can't seem to make it. The crafting and smelting recipes sometimes change between versions.

Mistaking Stone for Smooth Stone

The textures for regular stone and smooth stone look similar, especially in lower graphics settings. Check your inventory carefully - regular stone has a slightly rougher texture, while smooth stone has a completely flat, clean surface with faint horizontal lines.

Part 6. Can Smooth Stone Be Infested?

Smooth stone can't be naturally infested with silverfish, unlike regular stone found in extreme hills or mountain biomes. However, if you're playing creative mode, you can place infested blocks that look like smooth stones but contain silverfish.

Understanding Infested Blocks

Infested blocks hide silverfish that pop out when you mine them. They look identical to regular blocks until broken. In survival mode, only naturally spawning stones in certain biomes can be infested, not player-made smooth stones from the smelting process.

Dealing with Silverfish

If you accidentally break infested blocks, the silverfish will attack you, and breaking blocks near them can release more silverfish.

The best way to deal with them is by using area-effect weapons or running away until they burrow back into blocks.

Part 7. Can Smooth Stone Be Reused?

Smooth stone blocks stay in your inventory until you place or use them. Once placed, you can mine them again with a pickaxe and get the full block back. Unlike glass or some other blocks, smooth stone doesn't break when mined, so you can reuse it endlessly.

Tools Needed for Mining Smooth Stone

Any pickaxe works for mining smooth stone, but wooden and golden pickaxes break quickly. Stone pickaxes or better are recommended. If you want to collect smooth stone fastest, use an iron or diamond pickaxe with the Efficiency enchantment.

Breaking Speed Comparison

Diamond pickaxes break smooth stone fastest, followed by iron, stone, and wooden pickaxes.

Without enchantments, a diamond pickaxe breaks smooth stone in 0.6 seconds, while a wooden one takes 1.5 seconds. This time adds up when mining lots of blocks.

Inventory Management for Large Projects

When working with lots of smooth stones, inventory space becomes an issue. Bring Shulker boxes or ender chests to store extra blocks. Also, empty your inventory of other items before mining. It is a good idea to stack your smooth stone in neat 64-block stacks. Another tip is to label chests clearly if you're storing smooth stones for later.

This planning saves time running back and forth to your storage area.

Part 8. Can You Resurface a Smooth Stone?

You can't "resurface" smooth stone to change its appearance in vanilla Minecraft. If you want a different look, you need to craft the smooth stone into something else, like slabs, or use a completely different block. The texture of the smooth stone is fixed.

If you want variety in your builds, try mixing smooth stone with other similar blocks like polished andesite, stone bricks, or concrete. These blocks have similar colors but different textures, creating subtle visual interest in walls and floors.

Resource packs can change how smooth stone looks without changing its in-game properties. By installing a resource pack, you can make smooth stone look however you want while keeping all its crafting uses and behavior the same.

Part 9. FAQs of How to Make Smooth Stone

Conclusion on How to Make Smooth Stone

Smooth stone gives Minecraft buildings a clean, modern look that many other blocks can't match. That's why you need to know how to make smooth stone. The process to make it isn't complicated - just remember the double-smelting technique. Start with cobblestone, smelt it once for stone, then smelt it again for smooth stone. Set up multiple furnaces if you need a lot. With the tips in this guide, you'll have plenty of smooth stone for all your building projects, from small houses to massive castles and modern cities.