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Smooth Stone in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Smooth Stone is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4 that requires Wooden Pickaxe or better to mine, dropping Smooth Stone.

What is Smooth Stone?

Smooth Stone is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe material group. It has a hardness of 2 and a blast resistance of 6. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a solid, opaque block. Smooth Stone does not emit light. Smooth Stone filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:smooth_stone. Command: /give @p minecraft:smooth_stone 1.

How to mine Smooth Stone

Smooth Stone requires one of the following tools to drop its item — mining with a lower tier or by hand destroys it:

Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):

  • With the correct tool: approximately 3 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 10 seconds

Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.

Smooth Stone drops

When broken, Smooth Stone drops:

Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.

What Smooth Stone is used to craft

Smooth Stone appears as an ingredient in 2 known Minecraft recipes:

Block tags & properties

  • Opaque
  • Requires Tool
  • Crafting Material

Smooth Stone technical properties

  • Flammable: No
  • Burns from lava: No
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Emits light: No (luminance 0)

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Smooth Stone (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:smooth_stone
  • Material family: mineable/pickaxe
  • Hardness: 2
  • Blast resistance: 6
  • Stack size: 64
  • Transparent: No
  • Blocks light: 15
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:smooth_stone 1

Overview

Smooth Stone is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Prerequisites and materials

  • Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Smooth Stone with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  • Expect to collect Smooth Stone once it breaks.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Smooth Stone with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  2. Expect to collect Smooth Stone once it breaks.
  3. With the correct tool this takes about 3s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 10s.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:smooth_stone 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
  • Carry a spare tool of the correct tier - breaking with the wrong one wastes the drop.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 1-5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Smooth Stone?

You need one of: Wooden Pickaxe, Stone Pickaxe, Golden Pickaxe, Iron Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Netherite Pickaxe. Mining with a lower tier tool (or by hand) will break the block without dropping its item.

What does Smooth Stone drop when mined?

Breaking Smooth Stone drops Smooth Stone.

How hard is Smooth Stone to mine?

Smooth Stone has a hardness value of 2. That works out to roughly 3s with the correct tool or 10s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

What is Smooth Stone used to craft?

Smooth Stone is used as an ingredient in 2 other recipes.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Smooth Stone?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:smooth_stone, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.

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