Smelting is a method of producing refined goods. It has the same idea as crafting: a player supplies acceptable ingredients, and receives a corresponding output. However, smelting utilizes furnaces, blast furnaces, or smokers, which have a unique interface: one input field for the object to be heated, a secondary input field for the fuel, and one output field for the final smelted product. For example, two saplings (fuel) could be used to smelt one wood (input) into one charcoal (output). Raw food items can also be smelted using a campfire, while smokers and blast furnaces can smelt certain types of items twice as fast as usual at the cost of being completely unable to smelt any other items.
Usage and mechanics
To smelt with a furnace, an input material and a fuel must be placed into the top-left and bottom-left slots of it, respectively. The furnace begins to smelt on its own and continues to work if the menu is closed and the player leaves. The player can tell whether a furnace is working or not by seeing if the furnace is lit and the fire particle effects are appearing or not. When the furnace begins to smelt, it consumes one piece of fuel and the fire gauge fills. Once a piece of fuel begins burning, it cannot be stopped, unless the furnace is broken. While the piece of fuel burns, the fire gauge slowly decreases until it is gone, and the process repeats with the next piece of fuel. When all fuel is exhausted with material remaining in the input slot, the furnace stops, and the item is not smelted. If the input material is exhausted with fuel remaining, the fire gauge continues decreasing, wasting the remaining burn time left for the piece of fuel being burned, but no further fuel is burned if the input slot remains empty.
As items smelt, an arrow icon represents the smelting progress. Each smelting operation takes 10 seconds. When it completes, the smelted item is added into the output field. If the furnace runs out of fuel before the arrow is filled up, then the input is not smelted and the process rewinds at double speed.
If the player travels far enough to unload the chunk containing a smelting furnace, the smelting process pauses until the player returns. Smelting also pauses if a player leaves the dimension in which the furnace is located. If the player sleeps in a bed while a furnace is smelting items, the furnace's progress remains the same as if the bed had not been used and no additional time had passed. This is because when a player sleeps in a bed, no time actually passes; the game simply sets the time of day to morning.
If a player removes a smelted item from the output field, that player instantly receives experience for all the items smelted in that furnace, even items that had already been pulled out by a hopper.
Items can similarly be smelted in a blast furnace or smoker. The usage and interface for smelting with both blocks is the same as those of a normal furnace; however, blast furnaces can be used only to smelt ores and metal tools, and smokers can be used only to smelt food items. In addition, both blocks smelt items twice as fast as furnaces do. Some items (such as logs) can be smelted only in a basic furnace.
Using a campfire
Items can also be smelted using a campfire. To do so, the player must use a lit campfire, with any of the food items listed in the Recipes section in their hand. Fuel is not required; the campfire is able to cook items infinitely on its own. Smelting an item takes 30 seconds, three times the amount of time it would take if a furnace were used instead. A campfire can hold up to four items at the same time. Once the campfire has finished cooking an item, it emerges from the campfire as an item entity. No experience points are granted.
Recipes
Food
| Product | Ingredient | Exp | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Cooked Porkchop |
Raw Porkchop |
0.35 | Fills 8 ( |
Steak |
Raw Beef |
0.35 | Fills 8 ( |
Cooked Chicken |
Raw Chicken |
0.35 | Fills 6 ( |
Cooked Cod |
Raw Cod |
0.35 | Fills 5 ( |
Cooked Salmon |
Raw Salmon |
0.35 | Fills 6 ( |
Baked Potato |
Potato |
0.35 | Fills 5 ( |
Cooked Mutton |
Raw Mutton |
0.35 | Fills 6 ( |
Cooked Rabbit |
Raw Rabbit |
0.35 | Fills 5 ( |
Dried Kelp |
Kelp |
0.1 | Fills 1 ( |
Processing ores and materials
| Product | Ingredient | Exp | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Iron Ingot |
Iron Ore |
0.7 | Used to craft various items. |
Gold Ingot |
Gold Ore or Nether Gold Ore [upcoming: JE 1.16] |
1 | Used to craft various items. |
Netherite Scrap |
Ancient Debris [upcoming: JE 1.16 & BE 1.16.0] |
2 | Used to craft netherite ingot, which can be used to upgrade diamond items. |
Glass |
Sand |
0.1 | Used to make transparent structures. Also used to craft glass panes, glass bottles, stained glass, end crystals, daylight detectors, and beacons. |
Stone |
Cobblestone |
0.1 | Used as a building material. Also used for crafting stone pressure plates, stone buttons, stone bricks, redstone comparators, and redstone repeaters. |
Smooth Sandstone |
Sandstone |
0.1 | Used as a building material. Also used for crafting smooth sandstone slabs and stairs. |
Smooth Red Sandstone |
Red Sandstone |
0.1 | Used as a building material. Also used for crafting smooth red sandstone slabs and stairs. |
Smooth Stone |
Stone |
0.1 | Used as a building material. Also used for crafting smooth stone slabs and blast furnace. |
Smooth Quartz |
Block of Quartz |
0.1 | Used as a building material. |
Brick |
Clay |
0.3 | Used to make bricks and flower pots. |
Nether Brick |
Netherrack |
0.1 | Used to make nether bricks. |
Terracotta |
Clay |
0.35 | Decoration block. Also used to make dyed terracotta. |
Cracked Stone Bricks |
Stone Bricks |
0.1 | Decoration block. Also spawns in strongholds. |
Glazed Terracotta |
Dyed Terracotta |
0.1 | Decoration block. |
Green Dye |
Cactus |
1[Java Edition only] 0.2[Bedrock Edition only] |
Used as a dye. |
Charcoal |
Log Stripped Log Wood Stripped Wood |
0.15 | Used to craft torches and fire charges and as fuel in a furnace or in a minecart with furnace. Ingredient must be a log or wood, not sticks or planks. |
Popped Chorus Fruit |
Chorus Fruit |
0.1 | Used to make purpur blocks and end rod. |
Sponge |
Wet Sponge |
0.15 | Used to soak up water. Drying a sponge allows it to be reused. If an empty bucket is in the fuel slot when a wet sponge is smelted, the bucket is filled with water. |
Lime Dye |
Sea Pickle |
0.2 | Used as a dye. |
Gem ores
The following ores can be smelted, but in these cases this is unnecessary and wasteful. All of these ores yield their product freely when mined with an appropriate pickaxe and give far more experience than when smelted. The ore blocks themselves can be obtained only via the Silk Touch enchantment. Also, some of these ores may drop multiple items when mined normally, and all of them potentially drop even more when mined with a Fortune-enchanted pickaxe. Smelting these, however, always gives only a single unit of the product.
| Product | Ingredient | Exp | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Diamond |
Diamond Ore |
1 | Used to craft various items. When normally mined drops 1 diamond and 3–7. |
Lapis Lazuli |
Lapis Lazuli Ore |
0.2 | Used to enchant items and craft blue dyes and lapis lazuli blocks. When normally mined drops 4–8 lapis lazuli and 2–5. |
Redstone Dust |
Redstone Ore |
0.7 | Used in crafting, lighting redstone torches, brewing, redstone circuits, and to craft redstone blocks,. When normally mined drops 4–5 redstone and 1–5. |
Coal |
Coal Ore |
0.1 | Used as a fuel, as lighting torches, and to craft coal blocks. When normally mined drops 1 coal and 0–2. |
Emerald |
Emerald Ore |
1 | Used for trading and to craft emerald blocks. When normally mined drops 1 emerald and 3–7. |
Nether Quartz |
Nether Quartz Ore |
0.2 | Used to craft various items. When normally mined drops 1 nether quartz and 2–5. |
Tools, weapons, and armor
| Product | Ingredient | Exp | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Iron Nugget |
Tools, armor and horse armor made from iron; chainmail armor |
0.1 | Can be crafted into lanterns, or back into iron ingots. |
Gold Nugget |
Tools, armor and horse armor made from gold |
0.1 | Can be crafted into golden carrots, glistering melons, or back into gold ingots. |
A note about fractional experience values: For fractional values, first multiply this value by the number of smelted items removed from the furnace, then award the player the whole-number part, and if there is a fractional part remaining, this represents the chance of an additional experience point.
- For example, when smelting 1 coal ore and removing the coal, the value is 0.1, so this grants a 10% chance of getting 1 experience point.
- Or, when smelting 6 sea pickles and removing all 6 lime dye, the value is 0.2 × 6 = 1.2, so this grants 1 point, plus a 20% chance of an additional point.
Fuel
There are multiple fuels that can be used to smelt items. The type of fuel that should be used depends on the number of items in question.
For larger jobs, a single lava bucket or a block of coal can burn more items than can fit in the furnace—both input and output are limited to a stack of 64, but a block of coal burns 80 items, and lava can burn 100 items.
Items that can be used as fuel in furnaces
| Fuel | Burning time (seconds) [note 1] |
Number of operations per fuel | Number of operations per stack (64) of fuel [note 2] |
Seconds per log [note 3] |
Seconds per bamboo [note 4] |
Amount needed to smelt a stack (64) of items | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lava Bucket | 1000 16:40 20000 ticks |
100 | 100 | None used | None used | 0.64 | If a lava bucket is used as fuel, an empty bucket remains in the fuel slot. |
| Block of Coal | 800 13:20 16000 ticks |
80 | 5120 | None used | None used | 0.8 | |
| Dried Kelp Block | 200 3:20 4000 ticks |
20 | 1280 | None used | None used | 3.2 | |
| Blaze Rod | 120 2:00 2400 ticks |
12 | 768 | None used | None used | 5 1⁄3 | |
| Coal | 80 1:20 1600 ticks |
8 | 512 | None used | None used | 8 | |
| Charcoal | 80 1:20 1600 ticks |
8 | 512 | 70 [note 5] |
None used | 8 | |
| Any Boat | 60 1200 ticks |
6 | 6 | 48 | 2 2⁄3 | 10 2⁄3 | |
| Any Boat with Chest | 60 1200 ticks |
6 | 6 | 18 6⁄13 (~18.46) |
1 1⁄39 (~1.03) |
10 2⁄3 | |
| Bamboo Mosaic | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | None used | 3 1⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Bamboo Mosaic Slab | 7.5 150 ticks |
0.75 | 48 | 60 | 3 1⁄3 | 85 1⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| 15 300 ticks [note 6] |
1.5 | 96 | 120 [note 6] |
6 2⁄3 [note 6] |
42 2⁄3 | [Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Bamboo Mosaic Stairs | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | None used | 3 1⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Bee Nest | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | None used | None used | 42 2⁄3 | [Bedrock Edition only] |
| Beehive | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 10 | 5⁄9 (0.5) |
42 2⁄3 | [Bedrock Edition only] |
| Chiseled Bookshelf | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 2 13⁄16 (2.8125) |
4⁄9 (0.4) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Block of Bamboo or Block of Stripped Bamboo | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | None used | 1 2⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| Overworld Log or Stripped Log | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 15 | None used | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Wood or Stripped Wood | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 11.25 | None used | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Planks | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 60 | 3 1⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Wooden Slab | 7.5 150 ticks |
0.75 | 48 | 60 | 3 1⁄3 | 85 1⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| 15 300 ticks [note 6] |
1.5 | 96 | 120 [note 6] |
6 2⁄3 [note 6] |
42 2⁄3 | [Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Overworld Wooden Stairs | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 40 | 2 2⁄9 (2.2) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Wooden Pressure Plate | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 30 | 1 2⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Wooden Button | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | 20 | 1 1⁄9 (1.1) |
128 | [Java Edition only] |
| 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 60 | 3 1⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | [Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Overworld Wooden Trapdoor | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 20 | 1 1⁄9 (1.1) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Fence Gate | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 15 | 15⁄17 (~0.88) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Wooden Fence | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 36 | 15⁄22 (0.681) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Mangrove Roots | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | None used | None used | 42 2⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| Ladder | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 51 3⁄7 (~51.43) |
3 3⁄14 (~3.21) |
42 2⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| Crafting Table | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 15 | 5⁄6 (0.83) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Cartography Table | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 15 | 5⁄6 (0.83) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Fletching Table | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 15 | 5⁄6 (0.83) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Smithing Table | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 15 | 5⁄6 (0.83) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Loom | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 30 | 1 2⁄3 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Bookshelf | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 10 | 5⁄9 (0.5) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Lectern | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 7.5 | 5⁄12 (0.416) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Composter | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 17 1⁄7 (~17.14) |
20⁄21 (~0.95) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Chest | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 7.5 | 5⁄12 (0.416) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Trapped Chest | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 6 6⁄7 (~6.86) |
60⁄157 (~0.38) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Barrel | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 8 4⁄7 (~8.57) |
10⁄21 (~0.48) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Daylight Detector | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 40 | 2 2⁄9 (2.2) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Jukebox | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 7.5 | 5⁄12 (0.416) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Note Block | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 96 | 7.5 | 5⁄12 (0.416) |
42 2⁄3 | |
| Any Banner | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 24 | 120 | 7.5 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Crossbow | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 1.5 | no|26 2⁄3 | 1 23⁄37 (1.621) |
42 2⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | 17 7⁄9 (17.7) |
1 3⁄37 (1.081) |
64 | [Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Bow | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 1.5 | 40 | 2.5 | 42 2⁄3 | [Java Edition only] |
| 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | no|26 2⁄3 | 1 2⁄3 | 64 | [Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Fishing Rod | 15 300 ticks |
1.5 | 1.5 | 40 | 2.5 | 42 2⁄3 | |
| Overworld Wooden Door | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 64 | 20 | 1 1⁄9 (1.1) |
64 | |
| Overworld Sign | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 16 | 18 6⁄13 (~18.46) |
10⁄29 (~0.34) |
64 | |
| Hanging Sign | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 16 | 10 | 1 1⁄9 (1.1) |
64 | |
| Wooden Pickaxe | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | 10 | 4⁄7 (~0.57) |
64 | |
| Wooden Shovel | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | 20 | 1 3⁄17 (~1.18) |
64 | |
| Wooden Hoe | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | 13 1⁄3 | 10⁄13 (~0.77) |
64 | |
| Wooden Axe | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | 10 | 4⁄7 (~0.57) |
64 | |
| Wooden Sword | 10 200 ticks |
1 | 1 | 16 | 10⁄11 (0.90) |
64 | |
| Bowl | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | 26 2⁄3 | 1 13⁄27 (1.481) |
128 | [Java Edition only] |
| 10 200 ticks |
1 | 64 | 53 1⁄3 | 2 26⁄27 (2.962) |
64 | [Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Any Sapling | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | None used | None used | 128 | |
| Stick | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | 40 | 2.5 | 128 | |
| Dead Bush | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | None used | None used | 128 | |
| Azalea | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | None used | None used | 128 | |
| Any Wool | 5 100 ticks |
0.5 | 32 | None used | None used | 128 | [Java Edition only] |
| Any Carpet | 3.35 67 ticks |
0.335 | 21.44 | None used | None used | 191 3⁄67 (~191.04) |
[Java Edition only] |
| Bamboo | 2.5 50 ticks |
0.25 | 16 | None used | 2.5 | 256 | |
| Scaffolding | 2.5 50 ticks |
0.25 | 16 | None used | 2.5 | 256 |
- ↑ All times given are for fuel burned in a furnace. When burned in a blast furnace or smoker, fuel is burned twice as fast but produces the same number of items.
- ↑ Items in red are not stackable, items in yellow only stack up to 16.
- ↑ Calculated as the burning time in seconds divided by the number of logs used to make one fuel when all wood ingredients are made from logs. Items in red are not made entirely of wood.
- ↑ Calculated as the burning time in seconds divided by the amount of bamboo used to make one fuel when all wood ingredient are made from bamboo. Items in red are not made entirely of bamboo.
- ↑ 80 seconds of fuel per log, but 10 seconds are needed to smelt the charcoal, so the net time is 70 seconds.
- ↑ a b c d e f Wooden slabs have the same burn time as planks due to a bug; see MCPE-94368.
Hopper automation
The smelting process can be automated with hoppers on the top and bottom of the furnace. For larger smelting jobs, a third hopper can feed in fuel and any empty buckets come out of the bottom hopper. This automatically feeds and empties the furnace so that different materials can be smelted in the same batch with no loss.
Any experience from items smelted is saved even if the furnace is completely emptied by a hopper. If one item is later taken out of the furnace, the player receives experience for any items that were smelted.
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot | Pick up an iron ingot from a furnace output. | 15G | Bronze | ||
| Delicious Fish | Catch and cook a fish! | Pick up a cooked cod after cooking it in a Furnace, Smoker, Campfire, or Soul Campfire. Doesn't work if the block used is hooked up to a hopper, as the player is not getting the item directly from the output. | 15G | Silver | ||
| Pork Chop | Cook and eat a pork chop. | — | 10G | Bronze | ||
| Renewable Energy | Smelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal. | Smelt a wooden log with charcoal as the fuel. | 10G | Bronze | ||
| Rabbit Season | Cook and Eat Rabbit Meat | — | 15G | Bronze | ||
| Dry Spell | Dry a sponge in a furnace | — | 15G | Bronze | ||
| Super Fuel | Power a Furnace with Lava | — | 20G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Acquire Hardware | Smelt an Iron Ingot | Getting an Upgrade | Have an iron ingot in your inventory. | story/smelt_iron
|
Video
History
| indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 2010-01-29 | Flint and steel can now be used to smelt ores and cook food.[1] | |||
| Indev | 2010-02-19 | Furnaces have been added to replace the cooking/smelting function of flint and steel. | |||
| 2010-02-23 | The first smeltable item has been added, cobblestone, which can be smelted into stone. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w18a | Wooden tools now work in furnaces as one full furnace use. | |||
| 12w22a | Smelting various ores in furnaces now reward players with experience points. | ||||
| When using lava for fuel, the player can now get the bucket back. | |||||
| 1.8 | ? | When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress now rewinds at double speed. | |||
| 1.13 | 18w06a | The smelting GUI now includes a recipe tab, which allows players to know how to smelt previously-smelted items, automatically fill in the item to be smelted and filter out the recipes to what they can make from their inventory. | |||
| Custom recipes are now loaded from data packs in data/(namespace)/recipes/(name).json. | |||||
| Turning off the vanilla data pack now also removes all recipes. | |||||
| 18w07a | Dried kelp blocks have been added as a new fuel. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Added bamboo, which can now be used as a fuel. | |||
| Dead Bushes can now be used as a fuel, smelting .5 items. | |||||
| 18w45a | Added scaffolding, which can now be used as a fuel. | ||||
| 18w50a | Ores can now be smelted using a blast furnace and food using a smoker. | ||||
| 19w02a | Items can now be smelted using a campfire. | ||||
| 1.15 | 19w37a | Boats used as fuel now smelt 6 items instead of 1. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.3.2 | Furnaces have been added, which means that every available block and item can now be gathered, crafted or smelted into (no more unlimited items). | ||||
| 0.8.0 | ? | Wooden tools can now be used as fuel. | |||
| Lava buckets can now be placed to smelt items (100 items). | |||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Added boats and fishing rods, which can now be used as fuel. | |||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added blaze rods, which can now be used as fuel. | |||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Added note blocks and daylight sensors, which can now be used as fuel. | |||
| 0.16.0 | ? | The furnace's interface has been changed. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Added new furnace UI for classic UI. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Added jukeboxes and banners, which can now be used as fuel. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Added stripped logs, which can now be used as fuel. | |||
| beta 1.2.14.2 | Added dried kelp blocks, which can now be used as fuel. | ||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Added bamboo and scaffolding, which can now be used as fuel. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Dead bush can now be used as fuel. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Items can now be smelted using a campfire. | |||
| Signs can now be used as fuel. | |||||
| Ores can now be smelted using a blast furnace and food using a smoker. | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 1.1.06 | Smelting various ores in furnaces now rewards players with experience points. | ||||
Trivia
- It takes 10 minutes and 40 seconds to smelt a stack of 64 items in a single furnace, although this time can be reduced by splitting the load between multiple furnaces or by smelting the items in a blast furnace or smoker.
- Burning logs or wood with planks to make charcoal is over 4 times (×4.57) more efficient than using the log or wood itself as fuel. It is just over 11⁄4 times more efficient than using planks.
- The most efficient fuel to make charcoal is charcoal itself.
- Turning coal into blocks of coal is slightly more efficient (×1.11) than using the coal itself as fuel. For 9 coal, you get 80 smelts instead of the usual 72.
- If the player wants to use wooden tools as fuel, the most efficient way is to use it until its durability reaches 1, then use it as a fuel afterwards.
- Melting down used iron – or golden – tools and armor for nuggets and crafting the same tool out of them afterwards is a more efficient strategy in the case of shovels, swords and hoes (the latter two just barely). Otherwise, the player can get far more durability for their iron by [[Item repair|combining the items] in the crafting grid or a grindstone.
- "Smelting" is a pretty broad term in the context of Minecraft while in the real world, smelting has a more precise definition.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ "Crafting and Mining in Minecraft" – Nizzotch on YouTube, January 29, 2010
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Furnace" – Minecraft.net, September 15, 2017
