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How to Make Concrete in Minecraft

Craft Concrete Powder from 4 Sand, 4 Gravel, and 1 Dye, then place the powder next to or in water so it hardens into solid Concrete.

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Yields: 8 Concrete Powder per craft → 8 Concrete once hardened

1
Craft Concrete Powder
In a crafting table, combine 4 Sand, 4 Gravel, and 1 Dye of your chosen color. This makes 8 blocks of Concrete Powder.
2
Place the powder against water
Set the Concrete Powder so it touches a water source or flowing water. The block instantly hardens into solid Concrete.
3
Mine the Concrete
Break the hardened Concrete with a pickaxe to collect it. Mining without a pickaxe drops nothing.

Concrete Powder obeys gravity like Sand — only the powder falls, hardened Concrete does not.
Pour water over a wall of placed Concrete Powder to harden a large batch at once, then remove the water.
The dye color sets the final concrete color — all 16 dyes are available.

It only hardens on contact with water. Rain does not work — the powder must actually touch a water block.

Concrete Powder is the soft, gravity-affected craft. Concrete is the hard, vibrant block you get after the powder touches water.