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 furnace is a storage block used for smelting of blocks and items, converting them into other blocks or items.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Natural generation[edit]
One furnace generates in every igloo.
Furnaces can be found in plains, desert, and some savanna village weaponsmiths. Furnaces also generate in some houses in snowy tundra villages, and in one of the taiga/snowy taiga[BE only] village houses.
Breaking[edit]
Furnaces can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Furnaces also drop all of their contents.
Block | Furnace | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 3.5 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 17.5 | |
Wooden | 2.65 | |
Stone | 1.35 | |
Iron | 0.9 | |
Diamond | 0.7 | |
Netherite | 0.6 | |
Golden | 0.45 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Entity loot[edit]
In Java Edition, breaking a minecart with furnace drops both the furnace and the Minecart.
Chest loot[edit]
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
---|---|---|---|---|
Java Edition | ||||
Furnace | Village | Snowy house chest | 1 | 9.9% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Furnace | Village | Snowy house chest | 1 | 9.9% |
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|
Any Cobblestone or Blackstone |
The lit furnace can be obtained in Java Edition only with commands such as /give @s minecraft:furnace{BlockStateTag:{lit:"true"}}
, although it does not appear lit in the inventory. In Bedrock Edition, the lit furnace block can be obtained only by inventory editing. It always stays lit, despite containing no items.
Usage[edit]
Furnaces cannot be pushed by pistons in Java Edition.
Smelting[edit]
Smelting Recipe |
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The main purpose of furnaces is to allow for smelting. Its interface can be opened by pressing the use item button on it.
Light source[edit]
Furnaces emit a light level of 13 when active, as well as smoke and flame particles.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Blast Furnace | Iron Ingot + Furnace + Smooth Stone |
||
Minecart with Furnace | Furnace + Minecart |
[Java Edition only] | |
Smoker | Any Log or Any Stripped Log or Any Wood or Any Stripped Wood + Furnace |
Custom name[edit]
By default, the GUI of a furnace is labeled "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].
Lock[edit]
In Java Edition, a furnace can be "locked" by setting its Lock
tag using the /data
command. If a furnace's Lock
tag is not blank, the 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 furnace at (0,64,0) so that the furnace cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item named "Furnace Key", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {Lock:"Furnace Key"}
.
Note Blocks[edit]
Furnace can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.
Sounds[edit]
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[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.stone.fall | None[sound 1] | 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 | |
Furnace crackles | ? | Plays randomly when active | block.furnace.fire_crackle | subtitles.block.furnace.fire_crackle | ? | ? | 16 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|
Furnace | furnace | block.minecraft.furnace |
Name | Namespaced ID |
---|---|
Block entity | furnace |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Furnace | furnace | 61 | tile.furnace.name |
Lit Furnace | lit_furnace | 62 | tile.lit_furnace.name |
Name | Savegame ID |
---|---|
Block entity | Furnace |
Metadata[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, furnaces use the following data values:
Bits | Values |
---|---|
0x1 0x2 0x4 |
A three-bit field storing a value from 2 to 5:
Invalid values default to 2. |
0x8 | Unused. |
Block states[edit]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
facing | north | east north south west | The direction the furnace opening faces. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the furnace. |
lit | false | false true | If the furnace is lit. |
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
facing_direction | 2 | 0 1 2 3 4 5 | The direction the furnace opening faces. Opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a furnace. |
Block data[edit]
A 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 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
- : An item in the furnace, including the slot tag:
- 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.
- RecipesUsed: Which recipes have been used since the last time a recipe result item was manually removed from the GUI. Used to calculate experience given to the player when taking out the resulting item.
Achievements[edit]
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Hot Topic | Construct a furnace out of eight cobblestone blocks. | Pick up a furnace from a crafting table output. | 15G | Bronze | |
![]() | Smelt Everything! | Connect 3 Chests to a single Furnace using 3 Hoppers. | Be within the range of three chests connected to a Furnace with 3 Hoppers. | 15G | Bronze |
Advancements[edit]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Namespaced ID |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot | Getting an Upgrade | Have an iron ingot in your inventory. | story/smelt_iron
|
History[edit]
Java Edition Indev | |||||
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0.31 | 20100129 | Prior to the addition of furnaces, items could be smelted by dropping them on the ground and then burning them with flint and steel. This was the only way to smelt ores. | |||
Minecraft Indev | 20100219 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
20100223 | Cobblestone can now be smelted into stone. | ||||
Java Edition Infdev | |||||
Minecraft Infdev | 20100227-1 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
20100313 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
20100325 | Furnaces are now fully functional. | ||||
20100327 | The smelting time of furnances has been reduced from 8 seconds to 4 seconds. | ||||
20100330 | The smelting time of furnances has been increased from 4 seconds to 8 seconds per item. | ||||
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
v1.0.1 | Burning furnaces now drop a regular furnace when mined. | ||||
v1.0.14 | Furnaces are now used to craft minecarts with furnaces. | ||||
v1.2.0 | ? | Furnaces now face toward the player when placed,[1] rather than away. | |||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.2 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | Furnaces take much shorter time to destroy, and the breaking time depends on the pickaxe's material. | |||
1.2.4 | release | Cats now try to sit on active furnaces. | |||
1.2.5 | pre | ⇧ Shift + clicking can now be used to put items into furnaces more easily. | |||
1.3.1 | 12w18a | Wooden tools now work in furnaces as one full furnace use. | |||
12w22a | Smelting various ores in furnaces now reward players with experience points. | ||||
When using lava as fuel inside a furnace, the player now recovers the bucket. | |||||
1.4.2 | 12w39a | Previously, furnaces lit up blocks all around them, this snapshot has made furnaces light up blocks only in front of them.[2] (images showing difference) Its light value has remained as 13, but the light is emitted only from the block's front surface. | |||
12w40a | The previous change to furnaces has been reverted until the new lighting system can be optimized. | ||||
1.4.6 | 12w49a | When holding sneak, the player can now place blocks and items (like redstone, repeaters, and levers) directly onto furnaces. | |||
1.5 | 13w02a | Furnaces renamed using an anvil now display the new name in their GUI where the normal name used to appear. | |||
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1.8 | 14w02a | When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress now pauses instead of resetting. | |||
14w04a | When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress now reverses at twice the speed of smelting. | ||||
14w06a | ![]() | ||||
14w10a | ![]() | ||||
14w18a | ![]() | ||||
14w25a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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14w26a | Furnaces now allow only fuel or a single empty bucket in the fuel slot. | ||||
1.9 | 15w31a | ![]() | |||
15w43a | A furnace now generates inside of igloos. | ||||
15w49a | The item form of the lit_furnace has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world. | ||||
15w50a | Added a sound to furnaces: block.furnace.fire_crackle | ||||
1.13 | 17w47a | The different block IDs for the furnace has been merged into one ID. | |||
A lit block state for furnaces has been added. | |||||
Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 61 and 62. | |||||
18w06a | A recipe book has been added for smelting using furnaces. It can be used only for the input slot. | ||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
18w50a | Furnaces can now be used to craft blast furnaces and smokers. | ||||
1.16 | 20w15a | Blackstone can now be used to create furnaces instead of cobblestone. | |||
20w17a | Furnaces now drop experience from within from processed items.[3] | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.3.2 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
With the addition of furnaces, every available block and item can now be gathered, crafted or smelted into (no more unlimited items). | |||||
v0.9.0 | build 1 | Furnaces now naturally spawn in villages. | |||
v0.11.0 | build 3 | Furnaces now drop one stack for each item instead of splitting them up. | |||
v0.15.0 | build 1 | Furnaces can now be moved by pistons. | |||
v0.16.0 | build 1 | A better description (Input, Fuel, Result) has been added to furnaces for devices that do not use a controller. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | A furnace now generates inside of igloos. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Furnaces can now be used to craft smokers and blast furnaces. | |||||
Furnaces now generate in the new villages. | |||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Furnaces can now be found in snowy tundra village house chests. | |||
1.16.20 | beta 1.16.20.50 | Furnaces now drop experience from within from processed items.[4] | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
TU12 | Cats now try to sit on active furnaces, making them unusable. This is intended to annoy the player. | ||||
TU14 | 1.04 | Wooden tools now work in furnaces as one full furnace use. | |||
When using lava as fuel inside furnaces, the player now recovers the bucket. | |||||
TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | When a furnace runs out of fuel, the smelting progress now reverses at twice the speed of smelting. | |
Furnaces now allow only fuel or a single empty bucket in the fuel slot. | |||||
TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | More items can now be used as fuel in a furnace. |
1.90 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Furnace" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- Furnaces function as multiple real-world devices combined into one block: bloomeries and blast furnaces (for smelting ores), ovens (for baking and cooking), charcoal pits (for the charring of wood) and kilns (for baking of clay).
- Tamed cats often sit on top of lit furnaces.
- A lava bucket is the most effective fuel to use, smelting 100 items, although a block of coal is the best renewable fuel, smelting 80 items.
Gallery[edit]
Naturally occurring furnaces in a village.