What is Kelp in Minecraft?
Kelp is a very useful underwater plant in Minecraft with a few important uses. It grows in tall stalks in most ocean biomes, creating beautiful underwater forests. The primary use for Kelp is as a food source. When you harvest and then smelt Kelp in a furnace, it becomes Dried Kelp, which you can eat as a quick snack. You can then craft nine pieces of Dried Kelp into a Dried Kelp Block, which is a great fuel source for your furnace, smelting more items than coal. Kelp is also interesting because you can place it in a column of water to convert flowing water into source blocks, which is very useful for building water elevators and other water based contraptions. It is a versatile plant that is great for food, fuel, and building.
How to get Kelp in Minecraft
Getting Kelp is very easy. All you need to do is go for a swim in an ocean biome. Kelp grows naturally in most oceans, except for frozen, warm, and deep warm oceans. You will see it as long, green plants stretching up from the ocean floor. To harvest it, you can simply break any part of the stalk. Breaking a section of the Kelp stalk will break all the sections above it, so it is most efficient to break it near the bottom. Each block of Kelp that you break will drop one Kelp item. Since it grows so abundantly, you can gather a large amount of Kelp very quickly. Once you have some, you can also farm it. Just place a Kelp item on a block underwater, and it will start to grow upwards, as long as there is water above it.
How to use Kelp in Minecraft
To use Kelp for food, you first need to cook it. Place the raw Kelp into a furnace, and it will smelt into Dried Kelp. You can eat Dried Kelp to restore one hunger point. It is not very filling, but you can eat it very quickly. To use it as fuel, you need to craft a Dried Kelp Block. You can do this by filling a 3x3 crafting grid with nine pieces of Dried Kelp. A single Dried Kelp Block can smelt 20 items in a furnace, making it a very efficient and renewable fuel source if you have a large Kelp farm. For building, you can place Kelp in a column of downward flowing water to turn all the blocks into water source blocks. This is essential for creating bubble columns with soul sand or magma blocks for fast elevators.
How to craft Kelp in Minecraft
No recipes for this item.
