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Stone, also known as Smooth Stone or Natural Stone is a type of block. It uses the same texture on all six sides of the block. Stone appears abundantly on naturally generated maps, and (besides Air) has the most blocks in a normal map.

Creative Mode

Stone is available for use in Creative mode. The Stone layer of a Creative map contains Caverns, Ore and underground pools of Water and Lava.

When there were not many block types, Stone was an often-used building material. Currently, Stone is an all-around block used in buildings, basements, tunnels, roads, paths and many other things.

Survival Mode

In Survival mode, Stone is a useful resource. Stone can only be successfully mined with a Pickaxe and will drop Cobblestone, which is used in many crafting recipes and as a sturdy building material. As of Beta 1.9pre4 Stone can also be successfully mined with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch I and will then drop one stone block. If it is not mined with a pickaxe, then it will not drop anything. Cobblestone can be smelted into Smooth Stone again. Stone can be used as a building material as well and can be used in several crafting recipes.

As of Beta 1.9pre1, Stone can be made by having lava flow on top of water. In previous versions the lava would replace the water and continue falling. Later, Beta 1.9pre5 changed the texture of Stone.

Smelting

Ingredients Input » Output
Cobblestone Template:Grid/Furnace

As a Crafting ingredient

Ingredients Input » Output
Stone Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Stone,
Redstone Torches,
Redstone Dust
Template:Grid/Crafting Table

Retired Modes

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The side of a Cavern, made of Stone

  • Survival Test - Explosion resistant, drops Cobblestone when mined.
  • Indev - Acted similarly to Beta, cannot be crafted into anything.
  • Infdev - Acted similarly to Beta, cannot be crafted into anything.
  • Alpha - Same as Beta but couldn't be crafted into stone bricks or redstone repeaters.

Trivia

  • Next to air, stone is the most common block found in a generated map.


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