Smelting

Smelting is a system that allows the player to modify items, such as cooking food and making glass.

Requirements

Crafting a furnace

In order to smelt, the player must use a furnace. A furnace can be crafted using 8 pieces of cobblestone in the crafting table. This method is similar to crafting a chest, in that the center crafting square is left empty.

Fuel

In order to smelt something, fuel is also needed. The most easily obtained fuel is charcoal because it is made very easily from smelting wood first, requiring not much mining, apart from the cobblestone used to make the furnace. Other items that can be used as fuel include regular coal. Some wooden items, such as sticks or wooden planks, can be used as a fuel also. Bamboo and blaze rods can also be used as fuel. Certain fuel sources last longer than others. For instance, a bucket of lava will power the furnace ten times longer than charcoal.

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.

Input:	Output
Raw porkchop	Cooked porkchop
Raw bacon	Cooked bacon
Raw chicken	Cooked chicken
Egg	Cooked egg
Raw beef	Steak
Raw mutton	Cooked mutton
Raw rabbit	Cooked rabbit
Raw fish	Cooked fish
Raw salmon	Cooked salmon
Sugar	Caramel

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

TNT

Attempting to smelt TNT in a furnace results in an explosion with the same radius as regular exploding TNT.

History

Version	Date	Changes
First 30 days	Day 12	Added furnace Cobblestone > stone recipe Sand > glass recipe
First 30 days	Day 13(speculated)	Iron ore > iron ingot recipe Gold ore > gold ingot recipe
First 30 days	Day 14	Fixed furnaces giving 2 for the first item
First 30 days	Day 20	Clay > Brick recipe
1.25	May 11, 2013	Netherrack > nether brick recipe

See also

• Crafting
• Coal