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Minecraft Concrete is a great building material, with various colors available, and is often brighter than other comparable materials like Wool or Terracotta.

The path to creating concrete in Minecraft is difficult and requires multiple steps, similar to real life. Here’s how to make and use Concrete and Concrete Powder in Minecraft Survival.

How to Make Concrete Powder

First of all, it's important to know that regardless of whether you are playing on Bedrock or Java, the method to create Concrete Powder and Concrete are the exact same, with no alternative methods of creating it. To begin with, collect 4 Sand, 4 Gravel, and a Dye of any color. Bring them to a Crafting Table and put them in any configuration to craft 8 Concrete Powder, colored with whichever dye you put in.

How to Make Concrete From Concrete Powder

With that Concrete Powder, head to any body of water. The Concrete Powder block will solidify into Concrete upon contact with water, so place it directly into water or place it above water (Concrete Powder acts the same as Sand and Gravel and will fall when exposed to gravity). Other sources of water like Water Bottles, rainfall, or filled Cauldrons won’t work as methods to change the block.

Once you place the Concrete Powder in water, note that the block visually changes into Concrete, and you’ll need to harvest it with a Pickaxe. Concrete can be used as construction material in any of your builds, and are particularly effective when creating colorful patterns.

How to Make Concrete Fast

If you're wanting a fast way to create a large amount of Concrete, you can use the method mentioned above and exaggerate it tenfold. Build a large platform of dirt hanging over a body of water (be it a river or the ocean), and place all of your Concrete Powder on top (only 1 block high, no stacking). Have a platform 1 block below the dirt layer surrounding it, and from there you can quickly destroy the Dirt and create a lot of Concrete efficiently. Unfortunately harvesting the blocks is something that will still take you some time, dependent on the scale of the platform of course.

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