How to Make Concrete Powder & Blocks in Minecraft (2024)

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Written byNicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: May 18, 2024Fact Checked

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   Open your crafting table. You'll need a three-by-three crafting grid to create concrete powder, so open your crafting table by right-clicking, tapping, or pressing the L2 or LT button on your controller.^[1]

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   Place 4 sand, 4 gravel, and 1 dye into the crafting table. Because the recipe for concrete powder is shapeless, you can arrange the recipe in any order on the crafting table. This creates 8 units of concrete powder, which is enough to produce 8 blocks of concrete.^[2]

   • If you don't know where to get these ingredients, read on!

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   Get 4 blocks of sand. The recipe to create concrete powder (which you'll need to make concrete) calls for 4 units of sand. Dig up some sand with a shovel, mine it, and then pick it up to add it to your inventory.^[3]

   • The best place to find a lot of sand is the desert, but you can also find sand near bodies of water.
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   Mine 4 blocks of gravel. You'll need 4 gravel blocks to produce 8 units of concrete powder, so grab your shovel and start digging. You can also use your hands to dig gravel, but shovels are far more effective.^[4]

   • The best place to get plenty of gravel is in an extreme hills M biome, which boasts entire mountains made of gravel.^[5] You can also mine lots of gravel in the Nether between y-levels 63 and 65, and at the bottom of any ocean biome.
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   Obtain 1 dye in any color. Adding dye to your concrete powder makes it possible to craft vibrantly colored concrete. You can get dye from a wandering trader or craft your own dye from flowers or plants.^[6]

   • For example, if you want to make black concrete, you'll need to make black dye. The recipe for black dye is just 2 ink sacs, which you can get by going underwater and killing squids.
   • If you want white concrete, just add 1 lily of the valley and 1 bone meal to your crafting grid to create white dye.

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   Find some water. Concrete powder requires water to morph into concrete, but not just any type of water. Any flowing water, water source block, or waterlogged block will do.^[7]

   • You won't be able to use rain or splash water bottles to turn concrete powder to concrete.
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   Place the powder block into the body of water. You'll hear the placement sound of concrete as the water absorbs into the powder to produce a concrete block.^[8]

   • You can also place the block of concrete powder down on a dry surface, grab a bucket of water, and pour the water over the concrete powder to form a concrete block immediately.
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   Use your new concrete. Now that you have a concrete block, you can mine it with a pickaxe, or place it wherever you'd like.^[9]

   • You can create stacks of concrete up to 64 blocks high.

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