Campfire

Campfire

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)‌[JE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.17.30] No‌[BE only]‌[until BE 1.17.30]
Tool
Blast resistance	2
Hardness	2
Luminant	Campfire: Yes (15) when lit Soul Campfire: Yes (10) when lit
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

A campfire is a block that can be used to cook food or act as a light source or smoke signal.

A soul campfire is a variant of the campfire with light blue flames.

Obtaining

Breaking

Campfires can be mined with any tool, or without a tool, but axes are the fastest. A regular campfire drops 2 charcoal, a soul campfire drops soul soil, and either one also drops any items placed on it. If mined with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, the campfire instead drops itself as an item.

In Bedrock Edition, either kind of campfire can also be broken by pushing it with a piston or sticky piston. When broken this way, it drops 1 charcoal rather than 2. Pistons cannot move or break campfires in Java Edition.

Block	Campfire	Soul Campfire
Hardness	2	2
Tool
Breaking time
Default	3	3
Wooden	1.5	1.5
Stone	0.75	0.75
Iron	0.5	0.5
Diamond	0.4	0.4
Netherite	0.35	0.35
Golden	0.25	0.25

Natural generation

Campfires can generate in taiga and snowy taiga‌^{[BE only]} villages.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Campfire	Stick + Coal or Charcoal + Any Log or Stem or Any Stripped Log or Stem or Any Wood or Hyphae or Any Stripped Wood or Hyphae
Soul Campfire	Stick + Soul Sand or Soul Soil + Any Log or Stem or Any Stripped Log or Stem or Any Wood or Hyphae or Any Stripped Wood or Hyphae

Trading

In Bedrock Edition, apprentice-level fisherman villagers have a 50% chance of selling a campfire for 5 emeralds.

In Java Edition, apprentice-level fisherman villagers have a ²⁄₃ chance of selling a campfire for 2 emeralds.

Usage

Lit campfires emit a light level of 15 and lit soul campfires emit a light level of 10.

Campfires are lit by default when placed. Campfires can be manually lit by using or dispensing flint and steel on them, shooting it with a flaming arrow, or using or dispensing fire charges, blaze fireballs, and ghast fireballs when /gamerule mobgriefing is true. In Bedrock Edition, campfires can also be lit by using an item enchanted with fire aspect, or stepping on it while burning.

Campfires can be extinguished by waterlogging it (placing water in the same block space), throwing a splash water bottle on it, or using a shovel on it. As with torches, rain does not extinguish campfires.

Any items cooking on a campfire always drop when the campfire block is broken.

Particles and smoke signals

Campfires produce smoke particles that float up around 10 blocks before disappearing. If a hay bale is placed below, the campfire becomes a signal fire and the smoke floats up 24 blocks instead.

Campfire smoke particles can partially pass through a block directly above it, but do not pass through blocks more than one block directly above it.

Although a trap door is thinner than a slab, a trap door can block the smoke completely, preventing the smoke from floating up.

Campfires emit extra smoke particles during rain, similar to lava.

Campfires also emit occasional ember particles, similarly to lava. Soul campfires do not emit embers because they are blue.

Damage

Campfires damage mobs standing on top of them even if underwater (with exceptions such as shulkers, zombified piglins or guardians), but only if lit, campfires deal 1 and soul campfires deal 2 of damage every tick (although damage immunity reduces this to once every half-second). It also adds 160 fire ticks (8 seconds of burning).‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} In Java Edition, campfires do not cause lasting burning nor destroy items. Damage taken is considered fire damage and is reduced by armor (which loses durability), the Resistance potion effects, and the Protection and Fire Protection enchantments. The player can avoid being damaged at all, either by using a potion of fire resistance or wearing Frost Walker boots.

Regardless of height, all blocks prevent damage done to mobs or players above campfires. The campfire deals damage only to entities occupying its block.

Cooking

The player can place raw food on a lit campfire by using the food item on it. Up to four food items can be placed on a single campfire, which cooks the items simultaneously. On a campfire, foods produce small smoke particles, indicating they are being cooked. Food items take 30 seconds (600 ticks) to cook, compared to 10 seconds for furnaces or 5 seconds for smokers. Assuming that one uses all four slots to cook at once, the Campfire is, therefore, more efficient than furnaces (taking 10 seconds less per four items and no fuel) for cooking, but must be watched so as to pick up the food and refill it once it is done. It is slower than a smoker by about ten seconds, but its lack of fuel consumption could be seen as a worthwhile trade-off. Once finished cooking, items pop off the campfire. If the campfire is extinguished while cooking food, it resets as if it had not been cooked at all. Unlike other blocks that can cook food, campfires do not require any kind of fuel. Food items can be placed on an unlit campfire.

Campfires do not have an external inventory. Raw food cannot be loaded into the campfire with a hopper.

Other items can be placed on campfires using external editors, mods or add-ons.

Bees

Placing a campfire under a beehive or bee nest allows players to harvest honey bottles or honeycomb without provoking the bees. It should be noted that there must be unobstructed air between the campfire and the beehive or beenest. Smoke may travel through a solid block placed above the campfire, this will not have the desired effect on bees even though the smoke seems to reach the hive.

Piglins

Lit soul campfires repel piglins that are not currently attacking. This occurs when the piglin is within an 8 block radius of the soul campfire.

Light source

Standard lit campfires emit a light level of 15, while soul campfires emit a light level of 10. Like most other sources of light, campfires melt nearby snow and ice.

Note Blocks

Campfires can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.

Converting soul sand to soul soil

Soul campfires can be used to convert soul sand into soul soil. If a soul campfire is crafted using soul sand, placed, and then broken without Silk Touch, that soul campfire drops soul soil.

Piston interactivity

In Bedrock Edition, pushing a campfire or soul campfire with a piston or sticky piston breaks it. Unlike other methods, breaking with a piston drops only one charcoal instead of two. Campfires cannot be pulled by a sticky piston.

In Java Edition, a campfire cannot be pushed by a piston nor pushed nor pulled by a sticky piston.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.wood	1.0	0.8

Unique

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Campfire crackles	Blocks	Randomly when lit	block.campfire.crackle	subtitles.block.campfire.crackle	0.5 - 1.5	0.6 - 1.3	16
	Flint and steel click	Blocks	Lighting with flint and steel	item.flintandsteel.use	?	1	0.75 - 1.0	16
	Fireball whooshes	Blocks	Lighting with fire charge	item.firecharge.use	subtitles.item.firecharge.use	?	?	16
	Fire extinguished	Blocks	Extinguished with shovel	block.fire.extinguish	subtitles.block.fire.extinguish	0.5	2	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Block tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Campfire	campfire	campfires	Block & Item	block.minecraft.campfire
Soul Campfire	soul_campfire	campfires piglin_repellents	Block & Item	block.minecraft.soul_campfire

Name	Resource location
Block entity	campfire

Bedrock Edition:

Campfire	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Normal block	campfire	464	Block	tile.campfire.name
Normal item	campfire	720	Item	item.campfire.name
Soul block	soul_campfire	545	Block	tile.soul_campfire.name
Soul item	soul_campfire	801	Item	item.soul_campfire.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Campfire

Metadata

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, campfires use the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	East facing lit campfire
	1	West facing lit campfire
	2	South facing lit campfire
	3	North facing lit campfire
	4	East facing unlit campfire
	5	West facing unlit campfire
	6	South facing unlit campfire
	7	North facing unlit campfire

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the campfire is facing.
lit	true	false true	Whether the campfire is lit.
signal_fire	false	false true	Whether the campfire has a hay bale below it.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether the campfire is waterlogged

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
direction	0	0 1 2 3	The direction the campfire is facing.
extinguished	0	0 1	Whether the campfire is put out.

Block data

A campfire has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

See also: Block entity format

• Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities
  •  CookingTimes: How long each item has been cooking, first index is slot 0, etc.
  •  CookingTotalTimes: How long each item has to cook, first index is slot 0, etc.
  •  Items: List of up to 4 items currently cooking.
    • Tags common to all items

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms
		Bee our guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees.	—	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Bee Our Guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees	Husbandry	Use a glass bottle on a beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside.	husbandry/safely_harvest_honey

History

September 26, 2018					Campfires are announced to be part of the biome vote at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018					Campfires are showcased at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018					Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning campfires are to be added to the game in 1.14.
Java Edition
1.14		19w02a			Added campfires.
		19w03a			The model and texture of the campfire have been changed.
					Lit campfires now produce spark particles.
					The light level of campfires has been changed from 9 to 15.
					Campfires are now directionally placed.
					Lit campfires produce smoke plume particles more often.
		19w04a			Campfires now spawn in taiga villages on the ground and inside chimneys.
		19w08a			Campfires can now be extinguished by splash water bottles.
		19w11a			Fisherman villagers now sell campfires.
1.14.1		Pre-Release 2			Campfires can now be lit by flaming arrows.
1.14.2		Pre-Release 1			Flaming arrows can no longer light waterlogged campfires.
1.15		19w34a			Campfires under bee nests and bee hives now prevent bees from aggravating toward players who harvest them.
		19w37a			Campfires can now be extinguished using a shovel.
		19w42a			Campfires can now be lit by small fireballs.
1.16		20w11a			Campfires can now be lit by any burning projectile.
		20w13a			Campfires can now be crafted using stems and hyphae.
		20w15a			Added soul campfires.
		20w22a			Campfires now drop the food being cooked when they are put out with a shovel or water bottle.
		Pre-release 3			Food can now be placed on unlit campfires. However, due to a bug, food pops off of campfires when extinguished.
1.17		20w46a			Food no longer pops off of campfires when extinguished.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added campfires.
					Campfires are available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Campfires have been fully implemented.
					The model and texture of the campfire have been changed.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Campfires can now be bought from fishermen villagers.
1.13.0		?			Campfires now emit embers similarly to lava.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Campfires under bee nests and beehives now prevent bees from aggravating toward players who harvest them.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Added soul campfires.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Soul campfires now emit light level of 10.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.54			Soul campfires now deal double the damage that normal campfires deal.
					Soul campfires now drop Soul Soil instead of Charcoal when mined.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.17.30		beta 1.17.30.23			Campfires are now stackable in the inventory.
Legacy Console Edition
		1.91			Added campfires.

Issues

Issues relating to "Campfire" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• If the campfire is waterlogged, already lit, or something flammable is adjacent to the nearby air block, using the flint and steel on the side of the campfire sets the adjacent air block on fire instead.

Gallery

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  A few naturally generating campfires in a taiga biome village.

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  A comparison between a campfire with a hay bale below it (left) and one without (right).

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  The number of particles depends on the height of the top block.

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  Cooking porkchops with a campfire.

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  Cooking with a campfire on Java Edition 19w02a.

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  A pig being "roasted" on a campfire, using commands.