Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 6

Crafting with Decorative Blocks

In This Chapter

Making all sorts of decorative blocks

Creating new prismarine blocks

Soaking and drying sponges

Many blocks in Minecraft are largely decorative, with few practical uses. They enhance the creativity and visual effects of the game and allow players to design custom homes and ornate bases.

Many decorative blocks involve multiple steps, including furnace and crafting recipes. Decorative items greatly enhance the creative side of the gameplay, but can be time consuming. Many players may want to switch to Peaceful mode or Creative mode while exploring these blocks.

Placing Slabs

All stone blocks in Minecraft can be crafted into slabs. Slabs are half-blocks and can be placed upside-down, in order to put things, such as redstone, underneath them (slabs only take up ½ block space, meaning there is an empty space between them and the adjacent blocks around them). To place a slab upside-down, choose one of these methods:

• Right-click on the bottom of a ceiling block and remove the ceiling block.
• Right-click on the top half of a block ...