Stone

"This grey stalwart is one of the original Minecraft blocks, added alongside dirt and wood planks on [May 16, 2009], while the game was in its very earliest stages of development. In fact, it's almost as old as the name "Minecraft" itself – before that date, the game was simply known as "Cave Game", while afterwards it became "Minecraft: Order of the Stone"."

- Duncan Geere

Stone is a block found underground in the Overworld or on mountains.

Smooth stone is a variant of stone made by smelting regular stone.

Natural generation
Stone makes up the majority of the solid blocks generated. When chunks generate, stone can be found under 1-5 layers of grass and dirt in most biomes.

When the world is generating new chunks, some stone becomes mineral veins, and almost every cavern and mineshaft generates at stone level.

Smooth stone generates inside some houses in plains, savanna, and snowy tundra villages.

Post-generation


Stone can also be made by lava flowing on top of water. The water is replaced by stone.

Obtaining
Stone requires a pickaxe to be mined, in which case it drops cobblestone. When mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. If stone is mined with a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe, it drops itself.

Smelting
Smooth stone can be smelted from stone.

This recipe awards 0.1 experience.

Repairing
Even though cobblestone is used to craft stone tools and weapons, stone must be used to repair stone equipment on the anvil.

Silverfish
Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in stone, creating an infested block.

Trading
Apprentice-level stone mason villagers offer to buy 20 stone for an emerald.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, stone uses the following data values:

Trivia

 * Smooth Stone is the one of three blocks with a slab equivalent, but without a stairs equivalent.