Minecraft:Stonecutter

Template:Infobox block A stonecutter is a Minecraft:block used to easily Minecraft:craft many stone and Minecraft:copper blocks, and is cheaper than normal crafting for Minecraft:stairs and copper variants. It is also a Minecraft:job site block for Minecraft:mason Minecraft:villagers.

Obtaining

Breaking

A stonecutter can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Stonecutters can generate inside mason houses in Minecraft:villages.

Usage

Cutting

File:Stonecutter GUI Stone.png

Interface for the stonecutter Template:In, cutting a stone into two stone slabs.

The stonecutter can be used as an alternative to the Minecraft:crafting table to craft most Minecraft:stone-related Minecraft:blocks. All of its recipes require just one ingredient and produce one product (in varying quantities). It allows skipping steps to craft certain blocks; for example, a stone block can be directly turned into Minecraft:chiseled stone bricks, something that requires multiple steps when Minecraft:crafting. It can also be used to cut Minecraft:brick related Minecraft:blocks, such as Minecraft:resin bricks.

Unique to the stonecutter is the ability to cut Minecraft:stone into Minecraft:cobblestone and its slab, stairs, and wall variants, and Minecraft:deepslate into Minecraft:cobbled deepslate, Minecraft:polished deepslate, Minecraft:deepslate bricks, Minecraft:deepslate tiles, and their slab, stairs, and wall variants.

Stonecutting is also more efficient than crafting for certain recipes. Crafting Minecraft:stairs is more efficient with a stonecutter than a crafting table, as 6 full blocks are crafted into 4 stairs, while stonecutter yields 1 stair per full block. The recipe for Minecraft:cut copper is even more efficient: with stonecutting, 1 block of copper turns into 4 blocks of cut copper, allowing the amount of copper blocks to be quadrupled.

The GUI contains a block selection menu that is empty. The menu is populated with blocks that can be crafted from that particular material, only if a block is inserted into its input.

Profession

Template:Main If a stonecutter has not been claimed by a Minecraft:villager, any nearby unemployed villager has a chance to change their profession to a mason and claim the stonecutter as their Minecraft:job site block.

Note blocks

Stonecutters can be placed under Minecraft:note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

ID

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Block states

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History

Trivia

• Even though the iron blade appears to be spinning rapidly, it deals no damage and has no hitbox.
• The stonecutter was most likely based on the old stonecutter from Minecraft:Bedrock Edition, as it has similar functionality.

Gallery

• The old stonecutter compared to the new one.
  The old stonecutter compared to the new one.
• First image of the new stonecutter.
  First image of the new stonecutter.

External links

• Block of the Week: Stonecutter – Minecraft.net on February 18, 2021