Stonecutter

The stonecutter is a stone mason's job site block, which can be used to craft stone-related blocks in smaller and more precise quantities than crafting.

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

Stonecutting
The stonecutter can be used as an alternative to the crafting table to craft most stone related blocks. All of its recipes require one ingredient and produce 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 and there is no stone mason villager, any nearby villager who has not yet chosen a job site block has a chance to change their profession to a stone mason.