Blast Furnace

Blast Furnace

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3.5
Hardness	3.5
Luminant	Yes (13) (when active)
Transparent	Partial (when active)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

A blast furnace is a block that smelts ores and metal armor and tools, similar to a furnace, but at twice the rate. It also serves as an armorer's job site block.

Obtaining

Breaking

A blast furnace can be picked up by any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it does not drop anything.

Blast furnaces drop their contents when broken.

Block	Blast Furnace
Hardness	3.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	17.5
Wooden	2.65
Stone	1.35
Iron	0.9
Diamond	0.7
Netherite	0.6
Golden	0.45

Natural generation

Blast furnaces can generate in all villages variant armorer houses.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot + Furnace + Smooth Stone

Usage

Blast furnaces cannot be pushed by pistons.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Smelting

Main article: Smelting

Blast furnaces are similar to furnaces, but can smelt only ore blocks and tools/armor made of iron, gold or chainmail. Blast furnaces also serve as the counterpart to smokers, which are used mainly to cook food faster. Smelting equipment yields one iron or gold nugget from their respective materials. Once an item and a fuel are placed into the blast furnace, the block state changes to lit and the item is smelted twice as fast as a regular furnace. Fuel is also used at double the rate of regular furnaces, so the number of items smelted per fuel stays the same. The product can then be collected by using the output. Like normal furnaces, a hopper can be fed into a blast furnace and can also pick up items from it.

Light source

Blast furnaces emit a light level of 13 when active, similar to normal furnaces.

Custom name

By default, the GUI of a furnace is labeled "Blast Furnace", but this name can be customized by naming it in an anvil before placing it, or by changing the CustomName tag using the /data command.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Change profession

If a village has a blast furnace that has not been claimed by a villager, any nearby villager who hasn't chosen a job site block has a chance to change their profession to armorer.

Lock

In Java Edition, a blast furnace can be "locked" by setting its Lock tag using the /data command. If a blast furnace's Lock tag is not blank, the blast furnace cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item with the same name as the Lock tag's text. For example, to lock a blast furnace at (0,64,0) so that the blast furnace cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item named "Blast Furnace Key", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {Lock:"Blast Furnace Key"}.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16
	Blast furnace crackles	?	Plays randomly when active	block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle	subtitles.block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle	1	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Blast Furnace	blast_furnace	block.minecraft.blast_furnace

Name	Namespaced ID
Block entity	blast_furnace

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Unlit block	blast_furnace	451	tile.blast_furnace.name
Lit block	lit_blast_furnace	469	tile.lit_blast_furnace.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	?

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the blast furnace's opening faces. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the blast furnace.
lit	false	false true	If the blast furnace is lit.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing_direction	2	0 1 2 3 4 5	The direction the blast furnace's opening face. Opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a blast furnace.

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

A blast furnace has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

• Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  •  CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which appears in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
  •  Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
  •  Items: List of items in the container.
    • : An item in the blast furnace, including the slot tag:
      Slot 0: The item(s) being smelted.
      Slot 1: The item(s) to use as the next fuel source.
      Slot 2: The item(s) in the result slot.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  •  BurnTime: Number of ticks left before the current fuel runs out.
  •  CookTime: Number of ticks the item has been smelting for. The item finishes smelting when this value reaches 200 (10 seconds). Is reset to 0 if BurnTime reaches 0.
  •  CookTimeTotal: Number of ticks It takes for the item to be smelted.
  •  RecipeLocationN: N is the number of the recipe, starting at 0. The recipe name that has been used, used to calculate experience given to the player when taking out the resulting item.
  •  RecipeAmountN: N is the number of the recipe, starting at 0. How many times recipe N has been used, used to calculate experience given to the player when taking out the resulting item.
  •  RecipeUsedSize: How many recipes have been used, creates corresponding RecipeLocationN and RecipeAmountN tags, used to calculate experience given to the player when taking out the resulting item.

History

Java Edition
1.14		18w44a			Added blast furnaces.
					Blast furnaces are currently obtainable only through the creative inventory and the GUI can be accessed only through spectator mode.
		18w48a			Blast furnaces can now generate in plains village houses.
		18w50a			Blast furnaces are now functional and craftable.
		19w03a			Sounds have been added for blast furnaces.
1.16		20w06a			Added ancient debris, which can be smelted in blast furnaces.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.2			Added blast furnaces.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			A crafting recipe has been added for the blast furnace.
					Blast furnaces now generate in the new village armorer houses.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Blast furnace functionality has been added.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91					Added blast furnaces.

Issues

Issues relating to "Blast Furnace" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

See also

• Furnace
• Smoker

References

Blocks

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