Minecraft Mud Guide: How to Make It and Where to Find It

Mud in Minecraft is not made by tossing water and dirt into a crafting grid. The process is still simple, but it uses a water bottle instead. Here is how to make mud, what it can be used for, and where it appears naturally.

How to Make Mud

Mud has no normal crafting recipe. To create it, fill a glass bottle with water, then use that water bottle on a dirt block.

Glass bottles are crafted from three glass blocks. Place one glass on the left side of the middle row, one on the right side of the middle row, and one in the center of the bottom row of a crafting table.

After crafting the bottles, right-click a water source to fill one. Then find dirt, coarse dirt, or rooted dirt and right-click it while holding the water bottle. The block changes into mud. From there, you can mine it with a shovel or leave it in place for building.

Mud Crafting Uses

As of Minecraft 1.21.4, mud is used to make two blocks. Combine one mud block with one mangrove root block to create muddy mangrove roots, or combine one mud block with wheat to create packed mud. Neither recipe requires a crafting table.

Mud can also be converted into clay. Place the mud somewhere high, then attach pointed dripstone beneath it. After enough time passes, the mud turns into a clay block. It is a slow little geology project, but it works.

Where Mud Generates Naturally

Mud blocks naturally generate in mangrove swamp biomes, trial chamber entrance rooms, and trail ruins. All three can be hard to find, and only mangrove swamps contain mud in large amounts.

Because of that, making mud by hand is usually the easier option unless you have already discovered a mangrove swamp. A few bottles and some dirt are far simpler than wandering for ages and pretending the search was part of the plan.