Stonecutter

The stonecutter can be used to craft stone-related blocks in smaller and more precise quantities than crafting. It also serves as a stone mason's job site block.

Natural generation
Stonecutters can generate inside stone mason houses in villages.

Breaking
Pickaxes are the fastest tool to mine stonecutters with. Mining a stonecutter without a pickaxe is slow, and destroys the stonecutter without dropping the item.

Cutting
The stonecutter can be used as an alternative to the crafting table to craft most stone related blocks. All of its recipes require just one ingredient and produces one product (in varying quantities). It allows skipping steps to craft certain blocks: for example, a stone block can be directly turned into chiseled stone bricks, this would require multiple steps with crafting. Stairs recipes are also more efficient than their crafting counterparts (yielding 6 stairs from 6 blocks instead of 4.)

Nether brick fences cannot be crafted using the stonecutter.

Changing profession
If a village has a stonecutter that has not been claimed by a villager, any nearby villager who has not yet chosen a job site block has a chance to change their profession to a stone mason.

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Trivia

 * Even though the iron blade appears to be spinning rapidly, it deals no damage and has no hitbox.
 * Crafting four stairs using the crafting recipe needs six blocks, whereas crafting four stairs using the stonecutter only needs four blocks.