Minecraft stonecutter guide: Crafting recipe and use

Minecraft has all kinds of blocks, both decorative and functional. Though the most used functional blocks are crafting table, furnace, chest, anvil, enchanting table, etc., there are a few that are not often used, but are great in certain scenarios. One of the lesser-used functional blocks is called stonecutter.

Here is everything to know about the stonecutter block in Minecraft.

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Everything to know about the stonecutter in Minecraft

How to craft or find a stonecutter in Minecraft

Stonecutter's crafting recipe in both Java and Bedrock Editions (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Stonecutter is a fairly simple block to make in Minecraft. It requires three stone blocks and one iron ingot. However, the type of stone block changes between Java and Bedrock Edition.

First, an iron ingot can be obtained by mining iron ores and smelting raw iron, or it can be obtained by killing an iron golem.

For Java Edition, players need to get three regular stone blocks. They can either mine regular stone with a silk touch enchanted pickaxe, or mine them with a normal pickaxe and then smelt the cobblestone back into a regular stone block. In Java Edition, players can only use regular stone blocks to craft a stonecutter.

In Bedrock Edition, however, players can use any kind of stone block, like diorite, andesite, granite, etc., to craft a stonecutter.

The crafting recipe is three stone blocks placed horizontally in crafting slots, and one iron ingot placed above in the middle, as shown in the pictures above.

A stonecutter can also be found inside a mason's house in a village.

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How to use a stonecutter in Minecraft

Stonecutter can be used to convert stone blocks into other variants more efficiently (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

As the name suggests, a stonecutter is primarily used to efficiently cut any full stone block into different variants like stone slabs, stairs, and walls. The advantage of using a stonecutter to make variants is that it will fully utilize the full stone blocks, leaving no residue behind.

For example, if players want to make cobblestone stairs with a stack of cobblestone, they will get a full stack of cobblestone stairs by using a stonecutter block. On the other hand, if they use a crafting table, they will only be able to get 40 cobblestone stairs and four residual cobblestone blocks.

Stonecutter can be used to cut blocks like stone, cobblestone, smooth stone, stone bricks, granite, diorite, andesite, deepslate, deepslate bricks, tuff, tuff bricks, mud bricks, resin bricks, sandstone, red sandstone, prismarine, and much more.

Stonecutter can be used to recruit a villager as a mason (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Additionally, stonecutter can also be used as a job site block for villagers. Villagers turn into Masons when they connect with a stonecutter block. These professionals can trade all kinds of stone and brick-related items like clay, bricks, polished stone blocks, and even glazed terracotta.

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