What is Dried Kelp in Minecraft?
Dried kelp is a food item and crafting material in Minecraft that you get from cooking kelp. As a food, it is a bit of a strange one. It does not restore much hunger, but you can eat it very, very quickly, much faster than any other food in the game. This makes it a decent emergency snack if you need to heal up fast. However, the most important use for dried kelp is to craft it into dried kelp blocks. These blocks are an excellent and easily renewable fuel source for your furnaces, making dried kelp a very valuable resource for players who do a lot of smelting.
How to get Dried Kelp in Minecraft
The only way to get dried kelp is by cooking raw kelp. You can get kelp from the ocean. It grows in tall stalks from the ocean floor in most ocean biomes except for warm ones. You can break it to harvest it. Kelp is very easy to farm, as you can just place it in water and it will grow upwards. Once you have raw kelp, you can cook it in a furnace, a smoker, or a blast furnace. A smoker will cook it the fastest. Each piece of kelp you cook will give you one piece of dried kelp. Because kelp farms can be made to be fully automatic, you can produce a massive amount of dried kelp with very little effort.
How to use Dried Kelp in Minecraft
You can use dried kelp as a quick snack. Hold it in your hand and right click to eat it. It only restores one hunger point, but you can eat it almost instantly. The main and most important use for dried kelp is crafting. You can combine nine pieces of dried kelp on a crafting table to create one dried kelp block. A dried kelp block is a fantastic fuel source. It can smelt twenty items in a furnace, which is more than a block of coal. Since kelp is so easy to farm, this makes dried kelp blocks one of the best and most sustainable fuel sources in the game. You can also put dried kelp into a composter to help make bone meal.
How to craft Dried Kelp in Minecraft
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Campfire
Furnace
Smoker