You can smelt cobblestone blocks to stone blocks and stone to smooth stone blocks, so why not stairs and slabs? This pack adds shortcut recipes (and corresponding recipe unlocks):
\n– Smelt cobblestone stairs into stone stairs
\n– Smelt cobblestone slabs into stone slabs
\n– Smelt stone slabs into smooth stone slabs
\n– Smelt sandstone stairs into smooth sandstone stairs
\n– Smelt sandstone slabs into smooth sandstone slabs
\n– Smelt red sandstone stairs into smooth red sandstone stairs
\n– Smelt red sandstone slabs into smooth red sandstone slabs<\/p>\n
**New!** More recipes:
\n– Convert stone blocks, stairs and slabs to their cobblestone versions with a stonecutter
\n– Convert deepslate into cobbled deepslate with a stonecutter<\/p>\n
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### License<\/p>\n
This pack is available under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) license. You have permission to modify and share this pack under the following conditions:<\/p>\n
1. You don’t use it to make money.
\n2. You give credit (by keeping credits.txt and not modifying the attribution advancements). If you publish the pack online, include a link back to the original Modrinth page.
\n3. You distribute your modified pack under the same CC-BY-NC-SA license.<\/p>\n
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_Issues? Please report them on the Planet Minecraft page or GitHub._<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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