How to Make Colorful Concrete Fast in Minecraft

Last Updated: May 26, 2022

Do you want to build a house, bridge, or walkway in Minecraft that's both durable and colorful? Concrete is not only great to build because of its vibrant colors and smooth texture, but it's also non-flammable and harder than stone. To create concrete blocks, you'll first need to craft concrete powder from sand, gravel, and dye, and then mix the powder with water. We'll show you the fastest way to make concrete powder and turn it into colorful concrete blocks in Minecraft.

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Make Concrete Powder

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Open your crafting table. You'll need a three-by-three crafting grid to create concrete powder, so open your crafting table by right-clicking, tapping, or pressing the L2 or LT button on your controller.
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Place 4 sand, 4 gravel, and 1 dye into the crafting table. Because the recipe for concrete powder is shapeless, you can arrange the recipe in any order on the crafting table. This creates 8 units of concrete powder, which is enough to produce 8 blocks of concrete.
- If you don't know where to get these ingredients, read on!
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Get 4 blocks of sand. The recipe to create concrete powder (which you'll need to make concrete) calls for 4 units of sand. Dig up some sand with a shovel, mine it, and then pick it up to add it to your inventory.^{[1]
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- The best place to find a lot of sand is the desert, but you can also find sand near bodies of water.
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Mine 4 blocks of gravel. You'll need 4 gravel blocks to produce 8 units of concrete powder, so grab your shovel and start digging. You can also use your hands to dig gravel, but shovels are far more effective.
- The best place to get plenty of gravel is in an extreme hills M biome, which boasts entire mountains made of gravel.^{[2]
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Obtain 1 dye in any color. Adding dye to your concrete powder makes it possible to craft vibrantly colored concrete. You can get dye from a wandering trader or craft your own dye from flowers or plants.^{[3]
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- For example, if you want to make black concrete, you'll need to make black dye. The recipe for black dye is just 2 ink sacs, which you can get by going underwater and killing squids.
- If you want white concrete, just add 1 lily of the valley and 1 bone meal to your crafting grid to create white dye.

Part 2

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Turn Concrete Powder to Concrete

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Find some water. Concrete powder requires water to morph into concrete, but not just any type of water. Any flowing water, water source block, or waterlogged block will do.
- You won't be able to use rain or splash water bottles to turn concrete powder to concrete.
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Place the powder block into the body of water. You'll hear the placement sound of concrete as the water absorbs into the powder to produce a concrete block.
- You can also place the block of concrete powder down on a dry surface, grab a bucket of water, and pour the water over the concrete powder to form a concrete block immediately.
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Use your new concrete. Now that you have a concrete block, you can mine it with a pickaxe, or place it wherever you'd like.
- You can create stacks of concrete up to 64 blocks high.