What is Kelp in Minecraft?
Kelp is a tall, green, underwater plant that grows in most ocean biomes. It looks like a long ribbon of seaweed that can grow all the way from the ocean floor to the surface. The main purpose of kelp is to be a food source and a crafting ingredient. When you smelt kelp in a furnace, it turns into dried kelp, which you can eat. It is also the key ingredient for making a dried kelp block, which is a very efficient fuel source. Players use kelp to create large, automated farms that provide an endless supply of food and fuel. It also adds a lot of life and atmosphere to the underwater world, making oceans feel more like real ecosystems.
How to get Kelp in Minecraft
Getting kelp is very easy. It generates naturally in huge underwater forests in almost all ocean biomes, except for frozen, warm, and deep warm oceans. You can find it growing from the seabed all the way up to the surface. To collect it, you can simply break any part of the kelp stalk. When you break a piece of kelp, the entire stalk above it will also break and float to the surface as items, making it very easy to harvest large quantities quickly. You do not need any special tools to break it. You can also buy kelp from a Wandering Trader. Once you have one piece of kelp, you can plant it on most underwater blocks to start your own kelp farm. It will grow upwards as long as there is water above it.
How to use Kelp in Minecraft
The main use for kelp is to smelt it into dried kelp. You can do this in a furnace, smoker, or over a campfire. Dried kelp can be eaten to restore a small amount of hunger, and you can eat it very quickly, making it a good snack for when you are on the go. The most powerful use for kelp is to craft nine pieces of dried kelp into a dried kelp block. This block can be used as fuel in a furnace and can smelt 20 items, which is more than a block of coal. This makes automated kelp farms an amazing source of renewable energy. Kelp can also be placed in a composter to create bone meal. For builders, kelp is a great decorative block for aquariums and underwater builds.
How to craft Kelp in Minecraft
No recipes for this block.
