Smooth Stone — Minecraft block

Overview

Smooth Stone is one of the 3 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Stone is the same shape in a different material.

Smooth Stone counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Hardness 2 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed. Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all.

Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. Put Stone in a furnace and this is what comes out.

It is used to craft Blast Furnace and Smooth Stone Slab.

About the stone set

How long it takes to break

Smooth Stone sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.

You are looking at 0.5 seconds on iron and 0.4 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.5 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	10 s	10 s	10 s
Wooden	1.5 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Stone	0.75 s	0.25 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.5 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.4 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.35 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Smooth Stone is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. It is renewable, so a single world can supply an unlimited amount of it. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe
Renewable: Yes