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How to Make Concrete in Minecraft?

Concrete in Minecraft

One of the most enlightening and non-violent games of this era is Minecraft. It was released in 2011. Since then, it has become much prevalent among the masses. Minecraft can be described as a Sandbox game. You don’t have to achieve any specific goals. Hence, it gives the players plenty of liberty to interact with their environment. They can also alter it.

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The only purpose of Minecraft is to explore and to create or break several types of blocks in three-dimensional spaces. A player can excavate, break, craft, and enchant objects. The player seeks the building resources. You can deposit the items in several containers like chests or shulker boxes. Using these building materials, one can create different things on a crafting table. 

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Recipe How to Make Concrete in Minecraft?

Concrete is a building block found in Minecraft. You can use it to craft slabs, staircases, walls, etc. To make concrete, firstly, you’ll have to produce the concrete powder. The ingredients that you require to make concrete powder include the following

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  • Sand
  • Gravel
  • Any dye of your choice. Such as gray, cyan, white, black, or pink.

The process to make concrete is explained as follows. Open the crafting table. Combine 4 x sand blocks, 4 x gravel blocks, and a dye of your choice on the crafting table in any order you may want. This step will give you concrete powder. The recipe to turn concrete powder into concrete is fundamental. Whenever the concrete powder comes in contact with a flowing water body, it’ll turn into solid concrete of the dye used while crafting.

White dye in Minecraft

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The water used cannot be from water bottles, cauldrons, or rain. Find a natural body of water like an ocean or a river using a map. There you can place the concrete powder to get concrete blocks. Use a pickaxe to mine the concrete block; otherwise, you’ll lose its materials. You can make concrete blocks in all the 16 colors of dyes available; a few examples are mentioned below.

How to Make White Concrete in Minecraft?

The player has to find skeletons, kill them. Then place a bone acquired from the killed skeletons on any of the nine slots of the crafting grid. It will produce the bone meal. Or other than that, the player has to obtain Lily of the valley, a flower found in the flower forest biome.

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Now open the 3 x 3 crafting table and place 1 x bone meal or 1 x Lily of the valley on any nine available slots. This way, you will get a white dye. You can store it in the inventory. Then open the crafting table again. Combine 4 x sand blocks, 4 x gravel blocks, and the white dye on the crafting table. You can open it in any order you may want. It will give you white concrete powder. You can store it in the inventory. Place this white concrete powder next to a water body or drop it in one. You’ll get a white concrete block.

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How to Make Black Concrete in Minecraft?

For this, the player has to find and kill the squids. These squids are found all over the game’s biomes and natural water bodies, such as oceans and rivers. You’ll get an Inc Sac after killing the squid.

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Open the 3 x 3 crafting table and place 1 x Inc Sac on any nine available slots to get a black dye. Then open the crafting table one more time. Combine 4 x sand blocks, 4 x gravel blocks, and the black dye on the crafting table in any order you may want; this will give you black concrete powder. Place this black concrete powder next to a water body or drop it in one. You’ll get a black concrete block.

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Final Verdict

In Minecraft, concrete is considered to be a durable building material. It can be made vibrant by combining different dyes, giving you an option to customize your building. It is non-combustible and immune to the laws of gravity but is less blast resistant. Now, you have all the sufficient information required to make a hunk of concrete in Minecraft. So switch the tabs and start crafting!