Dried Kelp Block is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 9 items: 9 Dried Kelp. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table.
You need 9 Dried Kelp — 9 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 1× Dried Kelp Block.
Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.
It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.
Dried Kelp Block is an ingredient in 1 crafting recipe, for example Dried Kelp.