Dried Kelp Block

"Kelp Block" redirects here. For the non-solid plant, see Kelp.

Dried Kelp Block

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	No

Dried kelp blocks are blocks primarily used as fuel in furnaces.

Obtaining

Breaking

Dried kelp blocks can be mined using any tool or by hand, but a hoe is the fastest way to break it.

Block	Dried Kelp Block
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Dried Kelp

Usage

Dried kelp blocks can be used to store dried kelp in a compact fashion.

Unlike hay bales, dried kelp blocks cannot be placed in every orientation, despite both being bundled dried plant matter and using the same type of model.

Fuel

Dried kelp blocks can be used as fuel in furnaces, blast furnaces, and smokers. Its burning time is 200 seconds (4000 ticks), and it is able to smelt 20 items. This is 2.5 times greater than the burn duration of coal and charcoal, and 0.25 times the burn duration of a block of coal. It is the fuel with the highest number of operations per fuel below 64 items. As the highest number of items that can be smelted without any refills or hoppers and without loss of fuel is 60 items (3 dried kelp blocks), this makes the dried kelp block very useful for unsupervised, non-automated smelting.

Crafting a dried kelp block first requires smelting 9 pieces of kelp, so its net fuel value is only 11 items. However, using a different fuel source to smelt pieces of kelp that are then crafted into dried kelp blocks, the number of operations per fuel is effectively increased. If a lava bucket were used to smelt 100 pieces of kelp that were then crafted into 11 dried kelp blocks, which can then smelt a total of 220 items, the lava bucket's initial number of operations per fuel would be more than doubled from 100 to 220.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Dried Kelp	Dried Kelp Block	9

Composting

Dried kelp blocks have a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. Composting a dried kelp block instead of 9 dried kelps is less efficient. For example, 100 dried kelp blocks would yield 7.14 bone meal on average. Crafting them into 900 dried kelp before composting would instead yield 38.57 bone meals on average.

Trading

Expert-level butcher villagers buy 10 dried kelp blocks for an emerald.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.200]	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	?	Breaking the block	dig.grass	0.5	0.8
?	?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	?	?
?	?	Mining the block	hit.grass	0.6	0.5
?	?	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	?	?
?	?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	?	?
?	?	Walking on the block	step.grass	?	?
?	?	Placing the block	dig.grass	1	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Dried Kelp Block	dried_kelp_block	block.minecraft.dried_kelp_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Dried Kelp Block	dried_kelp_block	394	tile.dried_kelp_block.name

Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Alternative Fuel	Power a furnace with a kelp block	—	20G	Bronze

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Added dried kelp blocks.
		18w07b			Dried kelp blocks are now flammable.
		18w08b			Dried kelp blocks can now be crafted.
1.14		19w03a			Placing dried kelp blocks in the new composter has a 20% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Dried kelp blocks now have a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.16		20w11a			Dried kelp blocks can now be broken faster using hoes.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added dried kelp blocks.
		beta 1.2.20.1			The texture of dried kelp blocks has now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Dried kelp blocks can now be used to fill up composters.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Dried kelp blocks can now be sold to butcher villagers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Dried kelp blocks can now be broken faster using hoes.
					Trading changed, expert butcher villagers now buy 10 dried kelp blocks for an emerald.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added dried kelp blocks.

Issues

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References

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