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Discover how to craft a stonecutter in Minecraft and use it for your next building project for ease and efficiency.
The stonecutter is a handy utility block in Minecraft, especially for players planning to use a lot of stone materials for building. Placing any type of stone block in the stonecutter—like sandstone, stone, bricks, deepslate, basalt—will show you all its crafting possibilities, like stairs, slabs, brick, cut, polished, wall, etc. Unlike the crafting table, crafting these variants will not require any recipes. You can simply click on the item you want and obtain it directly.
Furthermore, the stonecutter is more efficient, using fewer resources while crafting stone materials. Whether you’re exploring the crafting possibilities it offers or seeking to save resources in a large project, learning how to make and use a stonecutter can significantly level up your building game.
Ingredients Needed To Craft a Stonecutter in Minecraft
Creating a stonecutter isn’t resource-heavy, but it does require access to a furnace and a bit of iron. Here’s what you’ll need:
- 1 Iron Ingot:
Find iron ore underground, usually between Y=16 and Y=54. Mine it with a stone pickaxe or better. Then, smelt it in a furnace using fuel (like coal or wood) to produce an iron ingot.
- 3 Stone Blocks:
Mining stone blocks gives you cobblestone. Smelt cobblestone in a furnace to turn it into stone blocks once again. You can also use a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe to mine stone directly, skipping the smelting process.
Stonecutter Crafting Recipe
Once you have your ingredients, open your crafting table. Place the iron ingot in the center slot. Below that, fill the entire bottom row with the three stone blocks. This layout will yield one stonecutter, which you can place and use immediately. Stonecutters can also be commonly found in villages in a stonemason’s workshop.
How To Use the Stonecutter in Minecraft
The stonecutter is primarily used for transforming stone-related and copper blocks with more control and less waste. For example, instead of crafting four stone stairs from six stone blocks in a crafting table, the stonecutter lets you make six stairs for six stone blocks, one per block. This means no unnecessary leftovers or overcrafting, which streamlines the process.
The stonecutter also works faster than a crafting table—there’s no need to arrange items manually, just select and craft. It’s a small time-saver that adds up in big building projects. Just place any compatible stone-like or copper block into the stonecutter’s leftmost slot, and it will show you all the crafting options. Select the item you want and craft as many as you need. Here are all the blocks you can use in a stonecutter:
- Andesite
- Basalt
- Blackstone
- Bricks
- Cobblestone
- Copper
- Dark Prismarine
- Deepslate
- Diorite
- End Stone
- Granite
- Mossy Cobblestone
- Mud Bricks
- Nether Brick
- Prismarine
- Purpur Block
- Quartz
- Red Nether Brick
- Sandstone
- Stone
Variations of the abovementioned items can also be placed in the stonecutter. For example, smooth stone and stone bricks for stone, polished granite for granite, cut sandstone for sandstone, etc.
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