Limestone

| Type | Block |
|---|---|
| Replaces | Stone |
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Resource location | minecraft:stone |
| Defined in | stone_from_blasting_smooth_stone.json |
Limestone is the Overworld's most common rock. It is the vanilla stone block under a new name; its texture, generation and hardness are unchanged. What changes is how it is processed: limestone is baked in a mud kiln instead of an oven, and a blast furnace breaks it back down into cobblestone.
Obtaining
Breaking
Limestone drops cobblestone when mined with a pickaxe, and itself when mined with Silk Touch, as in vanilla. A tool with the adamant tool intrinsic smelts it as it is mined and drops smooth stone instead.[1]
Cooking and crafting
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Limestone | 2 × Stone Slab | matcha:crafting/stone_from_stone_slabs |
Cooking
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Limestone | Cobblestone or Stone Bricks | Mud Kiln · 5 s, 0.1 XP matcha:kiln/stone |
Blasting
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Limestone | Smooth Stone or Cracked Stone Bricks | Blast Furnace · 5 s, 0.1 XP matcha:blast/stone_from_blasting_smooth_stone |
The vanilla recipe that smelts cobblestone into stone in a furnace is removed, so cobblestone must be fired in a mud kiln.[2] The kiln also bakes stone bricks back into limestone, and a blast furnace turns smooth stone and cracked stone bricks back into limestone. Two stone slabs can be crafted back into a block of limestone.
Trading
The Mason sells 4 bulk limestone for 1 obol at the novice level; each unpacks into 64 limestone.[3]
Usage
Limestone is used in the vanilla recipes that call for stone, including the stonecutter, electric repeater and electric comparator. In the stonecutter it also gives 4 stone buttons or 4 stone pressure plates, more than the crafting recipes.
A blast furnace turns limestone into cobblestone, which can then be blasted into gravel and sand (see Gravel).
History
| 1.12.1-alpha | Stone can no longer be smelted in an oven; it is only kilned. Recipe unlocks for stone blasting and kilning were fixed. |
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