How do you get Dried Kelp in Minecraft?

Smelt kelp in a furnace, smoker or campfire - kelp grows fast in any ocean, and one harvest session gives stacks Craft a dried kelp block back into 9 dried kelp Buy 10 for 1 emerald from fisherman villagers

What is Dried Kelp used for?

Snack speedrun: only 1 hunger, but it eats in 0.8 seconds - twice as fast as any other food in the game Craft dried kelp blocks: fuel that smelts 20 items per block (2.5x better than coal) plus compact storage Self-fueling farm: kelp blocks can power the very furnaces drying your kelp

Dried Kelp

Material Stack: 64 Since 1.13 (Update Aquatic)

Quick answer: Smelt kelp in a furnace, smoker or campfire - kelp grows fast in any ocean, and one harvest session gives stacks.

How to get it

Smelt kelp in a furnace, smoker or campfire - kelp grows fast in any ocean, and one harvest session gives stacks
Craft a dried kelp block back into 9 dried kelp
Buy 10 for 1 emerald from fisherman villagers

Uses

Snack speedrun: only 1 hunger, but it eats in 0.8 seconds - twice as fast as any other food in the game
Craft dried kelp blocks: fuel that smelts 20 items per block (2.5x better than coal) plus compact storage
Self-fueling farm: kelp blocks can power the very furnaces drying your kelp

Renewability

Fully renewable: kelp is one of the fastest-growing plants in Minecraft.

Java vs Bedrock

Different saturation: 0.6 on Java but only 0.2 on Bedrock. The 0.8-second eat speed is the same on both.

Related: Cooked Cod Cooked Salmon Honeycomb

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