Crafting Concrete Powder
Your first step to making Concrete in Minecraft is to craft Concrete Powder, which is the essential building block used to make the final resource. Concrete Powder is made from the following resources at a crafting table:
- 4 Sand
- 4 Gravel
- A Dye of any color
The sand and gravel are easy enough to acquire, as they are abundantly spread across the major biomes of Minecraft. However, the color dye is another matter. Every color of dye requires a different material to craft. For example, you can take a Cornflower or Lapis Lazuli to a crafting table to make blue dye while green dye is made from smelting a cactus. Whatever color you decide on for your concrete, you need one of them to make eight Concrete Powder. The exact recipe is shown below.
The Recipe for Concrete Powder
Once you have your Concrete Powder, find any body of water and place the Concrete Powder either in or above the water. The powder will turn into a solid block of Concrete when it touches the water source, allowing you to mine it with a pickaxe and add the Concrete block to your inventory.
Making Concrete in the Water
The most difficult part of the Concrete creation process is making the dye for the Concrete Powder. You can stockpile dozens of sand and gravel, but finding the right materials to make the color dye you want can be a true hassle. There's also the tedious process of placing the Concrete Powder in water and then mining the Concrete with a pickaxe.
You can create a Concrete farm to expedite the process, which requires a man-made water source near your base. Make a fairly large pool of water and then place one layer of blocks around the water. You can then place the Concrete Powder quickly inside the blocks, right above the water, and efficiently make Concrete that are all close to one another. Of course, you'll still have to mine all the Concrete, which takes time no matter how you set things up in Minecraft.
