How do you get Cobblestone in Minecraft?

Cobblestone is obtained through mining. There is no recipe for Cobblestone, but 16 recipes ask for it.

How many Cobblestone can you stack?

Cobblestone at 64 a slot, and Brewing Stand takes 3 per craft, so a full slot is 21 Brewing Stand with nothing left over. A double chest of Cobblestone comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

What is Cobblestone used for?

Cobblestone is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Brewing Stand, Cobblestone Slab, Cobblestone Stairs, Cobblestone Wall, Dispenser, Dropper, Furnace, Lever, Observer, Piston, plus 6 other items that call for it.

How long does Cobblestone take to break?

Look up Cobblestone and you get 2 hardness, with 6 blast resistance on it. It is not equally easy both ways, since the two figures on it pull apart. The game files it under a pickaxe, without a minimum tier attached to Cobblestone. Java 26.2 gives Cobblestone these numbers, and no stopwatch was held to it.

When was Cobblestone added to Minecraft?

Cobblestone was added in the early Alpha development period.

Utility Blocks

Cobblestone

The block dropped when mining stone without Silk Touch, used to craft tools, furnaces and many recipes. It can be smelted back into stone.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Cobblestone at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Cobblestone: a block out of mining. Carrying Cobblestone is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Cobblestone is also a hub ingredient, feeding 16 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. Hardness 2 is what Cobblestone is worth in the block data. For explosions the number that counts is 6. The game files it under a pickaxe, without a minimum tier attached to Cobblestone. It sits between Coarse Dirt and Cobblestone Slab in Utility Blocks, number 83 of 340 there.

Used to craft

Cobblestone is an ingredient in 16 other recipes across 4 categories, 6 of them in Utility Blocks, Brewing Stand first and Stone Sword last. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Cobblestone.

How to obtain

Mining

Notes

Smelting cobblestone produces Stone. Produced infinitely by lava-meets-water cobblestone generators.

Frequently asked questions about Cobblestone

How do you get Cobblestone in Minecraft?
Cobblestone is obtained through mining. There is no recipe for Cobblestone, but 16 recipes ask for it.
How many Cobblestone can you stack?
Cobblestone at 64 a slot, and Brewing Stand takes 3 per craft, so a full slot is 21 Brewing Stand with nothing left over. A double chest of Cobblestone comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
What is Cobblestone used for?
Cobblestone is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Brewing Stand, Cobblestone Slab, Cobblestone Stairs, Cobblestone Wall, Dispenser, Dropper, Furnace, Lever, Observer, Piston, plus 6 other items that call for it.
How long does Cobblestone take to break?
Look up Cobblestone and you get 2 hardness, with 6 blast resistance on it. It is not equally easy both ways, since the two figures on it pull apart. The game files it under a pickaxe, without a minimum tier attached to Cobblestone. Java 26.2 gives Cobblestone these numbers, and no stopwatch was held to it.
When was Cobblestone added to Minecraft?
Cobblestone was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Cobblestone is the first serious building material anyone gets, and mining produces it faster than any project can use it. It is the base of stone tools, furnaces, walls and stairs, and a single branch mine leaves most players with more of it than they will ever place.

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