Smelting

Smelting is the way you cook, melt, and burn items in Minecraft. Before the furnace appeared, smelting was accomplished by creating a fire and dropping the ores into it. The furnace, when right-clicked, has its own smelting menu where smelting operations can be done. It consists of one field for the object that will be smelted, one field for the fuel and one field for the output object. Each smelting operation takes 9.25 seconds. Smelting will work when the smelting menu is closed, as long as there are still objects to smelt and there is enough fuel. The fire icon diminishes to represent the fuel burn time. When the fire icon diminishes fully, another fuel item is consumed and the heat is refilled. If all objects are smelted, the furnace will stop using additional fuel. If there is no fuel left, the furnace will become inactive. If a smelting process was running, it will be cancelled and must be redone.

Smelting Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output	Description
Iron Ingot	Iron Ore + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used to craft various items.
Gold Ingot	Gold Ore + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used to craft various items.
Glass	Sand + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used to make transparent structures, like windows. Also used to craft Glass Panes and bottles
Stone	Cobblestone + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used as a building material, also for crafting Stone Brick blocks
Cooked Porkchop	Raw Porkchop + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Fills , while raw only fills .
Steak	Raw Beef + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Fills , while raw only fills .
Cooked Chicken	Raw Chicken + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Fills , while raw only fills .
Clay Brick	Clay + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used to make Brick (Block).
Cooked Fish	Raw Fish + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Fills , while raw only fills .
Charcoal	Wood + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used to craft Torches and as fuel in a Furnace or in a Minecart with Furnace.
Cactus Green	Cactus + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used as a Dye.
Diamond	Diamond (Ore) + Fuel	Template:Grid/Furnace	Used to craft various items. Note: You can only get Diamond ore through the Silk Touch enchantment.

See also

• Brewing
• Crafting
• Enchanting