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Utility BlocksCraftable

Polished Granite

A smooth, refined version of granite with a clean pink-red appearance for modern builds. It can be cut into stairs and slabs.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.8

Item ID

polished_granite

Polished Granite at a glance

Polished Granite comes from crafting and Stonecutter, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. A slot of Polished Granite holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Breaking Polished Granite works against a hardness of 1.5. Blast resistance sits at 6. A pickaxe is the right tool for Polished Granite, and any tier of it collects the block. It sits between Polished Diorite and Polished Tuff in Utility Blocks, number 247 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
GraniteGranite
GraniteGranite
GraniteGranite
GraniteGranite
Polished GranitePolished Granite4
Checked against Java Edition 26.2.

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Stonecutter

Notes

Crafted from 4 Granite in a 2x2 square (yields 4), or cut from Granite at a stonecutter.

Frequently asked questions about Polished Granite

  1. Granite going into Polished Granite, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Polished Granite in Minecraft?

    Polished Granite is crafted from Granite at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4. It also comes from Stonecutter, not just the recipe above.

  2. Polished Granite on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Polished Granite used for?

    A smooth, refined version of granite with a clean pink-red appearance for modern builds. It can be cut into stairs and slabs.

  3. 64 Polished Granite drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Polished Granite can you stack?

    64 Polished Granite fill one slot, and filling it costs 64 Granite, since each one returns 4: 16 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Polished Granite comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  4. Polished Granite as a block, next to the pickaxe its 1.5 hardness asks for

    How long does Polished Granite take to break?

    Mining Polished Granite works against 1.5; explosions on it work against 6. The two numbers on Polished Granite are not the same, so mining and blowing it up are separate jobs. A pickaxe is the right tool for Polished Granite, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 stores Polished Granite with those figures unchanged, so it reads the same here.

  5. Polished Granite coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.8

    When was Polished Granite added to Minecraft?

    Polished Granite was added in version 1.8.

Building with it

Four granite give four polished granite, and the polish turns the speckled pink into a smooth one. It sits well next to acacia and next to red terracotta, so savanna and desert builds tend to use more of it than anything else.