Smelting
| Smelting | |
|---|---|
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| Type: | Block, solid |
| Mine with: | Pickaxe |
| Drops: | Itself |
| Stackable: | Yes, 64 |
| Flammable: | No |
| Physics: | None |
| Identifier: | furnace |
Smelting is a system that allows the player to modify items, such as cooking food and making glass.
Contents
Requirements
Crafting a furnace
To cook, the player must use a furnace. A furnace can be crafted using 8 pieces of cobblestone on the crafting table. This method is similar to crafting a chest, simply swapping out the wood for cobblestones.
Fuel
Cooking also requires fuel. One of the easiest fuels to obtain is charcoal because it is made by smelting wood, which doesn't require much mining other than the cobblestone used to make the furnace. Other items that can be used for fuel include coal, some wooden items such as stick or wooden planks. Bamboo and lava can also be used as fuel. Certain fuel sources last longer than others. For example, a bucket of lava will light the furnace ten times longer than coal.
| Fuel source: | Items smelted: |
| Stick | 0.5 |
| Wooden Planks | 1 |
| Wood | 1 |
| Coal | 8 |
| Charcoal | 8 |
| Coal Block | 80 |
| Bucket of Lava | 100 |
Recipes
Cooking Food
Cooking food items usually makes it edible or heal more hunger points. Cooked meat can be obtained from animals if they die while on fire.
Smelting Resources
| Input: | Output |
| Cobblestone | Stone |
| Sand | Glass |
| Clay balls | Brick |
| Iron ore | Iron ingot |
| Gold ore | Gold ingot |
| Netherrack | Nether brick |
| Wood | Charcoal |
| Cactus | Green dye |
History
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| First 30 days | Day 12 |
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| First 30 days | Day 13(speculated) |
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| First 30 days | Day 14 |
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| First 30 days | Day 20 |
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| 1.25 | May 11, 2013 |
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Trivia
- Attempting to melt TNT in a furnace, results in an explosion with the same radius as the normal TNT explosion.
