Smelting


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Smelting is a method of producing refined goods in Minecraft, also known as melting, baking, cooking, burning, drying, or producing. It has the same idea as crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft ; one must put in acceptable ingredients, and a corresponding output will be given. Be that as it may, smelting utilizes furnace Furnace Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Partial (when active) Luminance Yes, 13 (when active) Blast resistance 17.5 Hardness 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops minecraft blocks, which have a unique interface: one "input" field for the object that will be heated, one field for the fuel, and one "output" field for the final smelted product. For instance, two saplings Sapling Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 06 hex: 6 bin: 110 Name sapling A sapling is an item that can be minecraft (fuel) could be used to smelt one wood Wood Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 10 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same species only Flammable Yes Experience Smelted: 0.15 Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article minecraft (input) into one charcoal (output).

To smelt something, an input material and a fuel must be loaded into the furnace. It will begin to smelt on its own and will continue to work if the menu is closed and the player leaves. You can tell whether a furnace is working or not by seeing if the furnace is lit or not and if the fire particle Particles are special graphical effects in Minecraft. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Types of particles 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 Gallery Behavior edit | edit source] Particles always seem to face the player and minecraft effects are appearing or not. When the furnace begins to smelt, it will consume one piece of fuel and the fire gauge will fill up. As the input smelts, the fire gauge will slowly recede until it is gone, and then the next piece of fuel will be used. If there is no more fuel left, the furnace will be interrupted and the item will be uncooked. If fuel is burning and runs out of input, the fire gauge will continue to burn down, wasting the burn time left. Once the fire gauge is out, no more fuel will be used.

As things smelt, an arrow icon represents the cooking process. Each smelting operation takes 10 seconds and the progress will be shown on the arrow. If the furnace runs out of fuel before the arrow is filled up, then the input will not be smelted and the process will rewind at 2x speed. When the arrow fills up completely, one input item will be put into the output field as an output item.

If the player leaves a furnace while it is smelting and travels so far that the chunks Visualization of the ground portion of a single chunk. The entire chunk extends up to a height of 256. Chunks are 16 × 16 × 256 segments of the Minecraft worlds. Contents 1 Generation 1.1 minecraft unload, the smelting process will halt until the player returns. Smelting will also pause if one leaves the dimension the furnace is located in. If the player sleeps in a bed Bed Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Hardness 0.2 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable No Flammable PC: No, but catches fire from lava PE: No First appearances See minecraft while a furnace is smelting, the furnace`s progress will be 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. Instead, the game sets the time of day to morning.

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Food

Product Ingredient Exp Description


Cooked Porkchop Cooked Porkchop Type Food Restores 8 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 320 hex: 140 bin: 101000000 Name PC: cooked_porkchop PE: porkchop_cooked This page or section has been suggested minecraft


Raw Porkchop Raw Porkchop Type Food Restores 3 () Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data value dec: 319 hex: 13F bin: 100111111 Name porkchop A raw porkchop is a food item minecraft
0.35 Fills 8 (), while raw only fills 3 ().


Steak Steak Type Food Restores 8 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 364 hex: 16C bin: 101101100 Name cooked_beef This page or section has been suggested to be merged with minecraft


Raw Beef Raw Beef Type Food Restores 3 () Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data value dec: 363 hex: 16B bin: 101101011 Name beef Raw beef is a food item which minecraft
0.35 Fills 8 (), while raw only fills 3 ().


Cooked Chicken Cooked Chicken Type Food Restores 6 () Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 366 hex: 16E bin: 101101110 Name cooked_chicken This page or section has been suggested to be merged minecraft


Raw Chicken Raw Chicken Type Food Restores 2 () 30% chance of Hunger (0:30) Cookable Yes Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Experience Cooked: 0.35 First appearances See History Data value dec: 365 hex: 16D bin: 101101101 Name chicken Raw chicken minecraft
0.35 Fills 6 (), while raw only fills 2 () and raw has a 30% chance for Hunger.


Cooked Fish Fish Type Food Restores Raw fish: 2 () Raw salmon: 2 () Clownfish: 1 () Pufferfish: 1 () Nausea II 0:15 Poison IV 1:00 Hunger Cooked fish: 5 () Cooked salmon: 6 () Cookable Raw minecraft


Raw Fish Fish Type Food Restores Raw fish: 2 () Raw salmon: 2 () Clownfish: 1 () Pufferfish: 1 () Nausea II 0:15 Poison IV 1:00 Hunger Cooked fish: 5 () Cooked salmon: 6 () Cookable Raw minecraft
0.35 Fills 5 (), while raw only fills 2 ().


Cooked Salmon Fish Type Food Restores Raw fish: 2 () Raw salmon: 2 () Clownfish: 1 () Pufferfish: 1 () Nausea II 0:15 Poison IV 1:00 Hunger Cooked fish: 5 () Cooked salmon: 6 () Cookable Raw minecraft


Raw Salmon
0.35 Fills 6 (), while raw only fills 2 ().


Baked Potato


Potato
0.35 Fills 5 (), while raw only fills 1 ().


Cooked Mutton


Raw Mutton
0.35 Fills 6 (), while raw only fills 2 ().


Cooked Rabbit


Raw Rabbit
0.35 Fills 5 (), while raw only fills 3 ().

Processing ores and materials

Product Ingredient Exp Description


Iron Ingot


Iron Ore
0.7 Used to craft various items. See Iron Ingot


Gold Ingot


Gold Ore
1.0 Used to craft various items. See Gold Ingot


Glass



Sand
0.1 Used to make transparent structures. Also used to craft Glass Panes, Glass Bottles, Stained Glass, Daylight Sensors, and Beacons.


Stone


Cobblestone
0.1 Used as a building material. Also used for crafting Pressure Plates, Buttons, Stone Brick blocks, Redstone Comparators, and Redstone Repeaters.


Brick


Clay
0.3 Used to make Brick blocks and Flower Pots.


Nether Brick


Netherrack
0.1 Used to make Nether Brick blocks.


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.

Wasting ores

The following ores can be smelted, but in these cases this is unnecessary and wasteful. All these ores will yield their product freely when mined with an appropriate pickaxe. The ore blocks themselves can only be obtained with the Silk Touch enchantment. Also, these ores either produce multiple drops when mined, or they may do so when mined with a Fortune-enchanted pickaxe. Smelting, be that as it may, will always give only a single unit of the product. Mining the ore blocks will also give far more experience.

Product Ingredient Exp Description


Diamond


Diamond Ore
1.0 Used to craft various items.
When normally mined drops 1 diamond and 3–7 exp.


Lapis Lazuli


Lapis Lazuli Ore
0.2 Used as a dye, to enchant items, and to craft a Lapis Lazuli Block.
When normally mined drops 4–8 lapis lazuli and 2–5 exp.


Redstone


Redstone Ore
0.7 Used in crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft , brewing, and redstone circuits.
When normally mined drops 4–5 redstone and 1–5 exp.


Coal


Coal Ore
0.1 Used as a fuel and as lighting.
When normally mined drops 1 coal and 0–2 exp.


Emerald


Emerald Ore
1.0 Used for trading and to craft emerald blocks.
When normally mined drops 1 emerald and 3–7 exp.


Nether Quartz


Nether Quartz Ore
0.2 Used to craft various items
When normally mined drops 1 Nether Quartz and 2–5 exp.

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 back into iron ingots


Gold Nugget











Tools, armor and horse armor made from gold
0.1 Can be crafted back into gold ingots

Other smeltable items

Product Ingredient Exp Description


Cactus Green


Cactus
0.2 Used as a dye.


Charcoal







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 plain wood block, not sticks or planks.


Popped Chorus Fruit


Chorus Fruit
0.1 Used to make purpur blocks.


Sponge


Wet Sponge
0.15 Used to soak up water. Drying a Sponge allows it to be reused.

Fuel efficiency

See also: Tutorials/Choosing a fuel

Sleeping while smelting/cooking items will not speed up the process.

Note that after a piece of fuel has started burning, you cannot stop it from burning, though you can remove any unburnt pieces of fuel. If there are fewer items than the fuel can burn, some of the fuel will be wasted. Accordingly, you will usually want to smelt things in multiples of 8 (when burning lumps of coal or charcoal), or occasionally 3 (2 wooden planks). For individual smelts, you can use sticks or saplings, 2 of which smelt 1 item.

When starting a new world, burning your wooden tools (once you have stone) is a quick way to make your first lump or two of charcoal. They each still smelt a complete item even if almost used up.

For larger jobs, a single lava bucket or a block of coal can burn more items than will fit in the furnace—both input and output are limited to a stack of 64, but a block of coal burns 80, and lava can burn 100. To use lava efficiently, keep the remaining load of 36 or 16 items handy, and put it in during the middle third of the burn (after it has done that many, but before it exhausts the original stack). Remember to both refill the un-smelted items, and remove the smelted product. A despawn timer on a note block may help.

Alternately, you can use hoppers on top and bottom of the furnace. This will automatically feed and empty the furnace, but loses the experience gained by manually unloading the furnace. For larger smelting jobs, a third hopper can feed in fuel (empty buckets will go in the output hopper).

Fuel Burning time
(seconds)
Number of
operations
per fuel
Number of
operations per
stack of fuel
Amount to
light a furnace
all night
Seconds per
wood block (log)
Amount needed to
burn a stack (64) of items

Lava Bucket
1000
16:40
20000 ticks
100 100 0.54 0.64

Block of Coal
800
13:20
16000 ticks
80 5120 0.68 0.8

Blaze Rod
120
2:00
2400 ticks
12 768 4.5 5.3

Coal
80
1:20
1600 ticks
8 512 6.75 8

Charcoal
80
1:20
1600 ticks
8 512 6.75 23.7s to 80s
typ 68.6s to 70s
8






BoatsPocketedition only
60
1200 ticks
6 6 9 ? 11






BoatsJavaedition only
20
400 ticks
2 2 27 16s 32






Wood
15
300 ticks
1.5 96 36 15s 43






Wood Planks
15
300 ticks
1.5 96 36 60s 43

Wooden Pressure Plate
15
300 ticks
1.5 96 36 30s 43






Fence
15
300 ticks
1.5 96 36 36s 43

Fuel types and smelt times

Fuel Burning Time (seconds) Amount required to burn a stack (64)
Coal 80 8
Charcoal 80 8
Block of Coal 800 Less than 1
Bowl 5 128
Boat 20 (60 for Pocket Edition) 32 (11)
Wooden Button 5 128
Carpet 3.35 192
Wool 5 128
Sign 10 65
Wood 15 43
Wooden Planks 15 43
Wooden Slabs 7.5 96
Saplings 5 128
Wooden Tools and Weapons 10 64
Wooden Pressure Plates 15 43
Stick 5 128
Fence 15 43
Wooden Stairs 15 43
Daylight Sensor 15 43
Trapdoor 15 43
Wooden door 10 64
Crafting Table 15 43
Bookshelf 15 43
Chest 15 43
Jukebox 15 43
Note Block 15 43
Blaze Rod 120 6
Lava Bucket 1,000 Less than 1