How to Make Concrete in Minecraft: Complete Beginner’s Guide

Minecraft is a very enjoyable and relaxing game to play. This game allows you to craft different unique items like a Pickaxe, swords, golden carrots, and whatnot. But sometimes you need a shelter above your head to protect you from mobs in the dark of night. The more durable your structure is, the more protected you are. That's where concrete blocks come in. They are the most reliable material for making a new structure or a house as they have more durability and strength to protect you from the outside environment.

In this guide, we'll show you how you can make concrete for your use using specific tools and what you need to add in your inventory.

What is concrete in Minecraft?

Concrete blocks are building materials that provide more durability and texture than any other material. These solid blocks can be made in any type of color, which gives a different look to your new structure. There are currently 16 colors to choose from to make your building look more vibrant. Concrete is made from concrete powder and can be mined using the pickaxe tool.

Why Use Concrete in Minecraft?

Although you have the option to use wood and Stone, Concrete has a higher hardness level than any other building material in Minecraft. This gives a higher protection value to the structure you're building. It also means you will be safer from different hostile mobs. The hardness of Concrete blocks is 1.8 compared to that of wood, which is 1.35.

Concrete is also much more aesthetic in appearance and presents colorful structures that are appealing to the eye. By using different gradients, you can also experiment with the texture and make the surface smoother.

Materials needed to make concrete

You need six materials to make concrete blocks, namely:

• 4 Sand blocks: obtained from any regular sand on beaches or desert.
• 4 Gravel blocks: These are generally mined from Mountains or riverbeds.
• 1 Dye (any color): Obtained naturally from different flowers or places.
• A Crafting Table: Made with wooden planks
• A water source: From any river or ocean.
• A Pickaxe: Made from wood on the crafting table.

Gather Resources

For making concrete blocks, you'll have to make Concrete powder first. These are made from sand blocks and Gravel blocks along with the dye. To make the sand and gravel blocks, you'll have to mine in the Desert Biome or the Highlands Biome for sand and Gravel. Here's how you can start your concrete-making process.

How to collect sand

To collect sand blocks, you'll have to look in the desert biome. Therefore, you can go to any beach or desert to collect the sand. You'll need 20 to 32 sand blocks to make concrete.

How to collect gravel

You can collect gravel in the riverbeds, caves, or on mountains. You'll need to be careful mining these, as you can sleep in these conditions. However, you can also use special enchantments to give you more ease.

How to make dye

You can make dyes by combining some of the natural colors, like beetroots and roses for red, lapis lazuli and cornflowers for blue, dandelions and sunflowers for yellow, or craft a cactus smelting to have a green color. Similarly, you can make 16 dye colors.

How to Make Concrete Powder?

To make concrete powder, use 4 blocks of sand, 4 blocks of gravel, and 1 dye of your choice on the 3x3 crafting table in any order. These will give about 8 concrete blocks of the particular color you used. To make a different color, just change the color of the dye.

How to Turn Concrete Powder into Concrete?

To make the concrete block, you just have to place the concrete powder into the place you want to make the block and pour water over it. The powder will automatically turn into Concrete.

Tips for Making Concrete in Bulk

You can follow these tips to make it more the process more efficient:

• Try to mine near waterbeds since it's easy to collect water from nearby. Don't use the powder underwater, it slows up the process.
• You can also build a 1 block wide trench so you can shovel the powder into the water more easily.
• For crafting the powder, use a crafting table and shift+click to speed up the process.
• Start making the powder in large stacks by increasing the grids.
• Use a pickaxe to mine faster. Use efficiency and haste to boost the speed.

All Concrete Colors in Minecraft

There are more than 16 Colors you can get for concrete. In the table below, you can see how to obtain these colors.