How To Make A Blast Furnace In Minecraft

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a blast furnace in Minecraft,

what a blast furnace does and how to use it in the game.

A Minecraft blast furnace is used to melt metal armor, tools, and furnace-like minerals. But melt items twice as fast as an oven and use half the experience!

Available Platforms

Edition Platform Available
Java Edition Windows, Mac & Linux PC’s Yes
Bedrock Edition Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Fire OS, Windows 10 PC’s Yes
Education Edition Mac, iOs 12, Windows 10 PC’s Yes
PlayStation Edition PS3 & PS4 Yes

Materials Needed To Make A Blast Furnace

  • 5 Iron ingots
  • 3 Smooth stones
  • 1 Furnace

Steps To Make A Minecraft Blast Furnace

1. Open Your Crafting Menu

To create a blast furnace, you must first open your artboard in Minecraft. You should see the same grid as in the image below.

How To Make A Blast Furnace In Minecraft

2. Add The Blast Furnace Recipe Items To The Menu

On the workbench, add the iron blocks, smooth bricks, and oven to the rack.

You need to add the items to the grid using the same pattern as in the image below. In the 1st row, place the 3 iron blocks, 1 in each box. In the second row, place 1 iron bar in the first box, 1 oven in the second box, and 1 iron bar in the third box. Place the 3 smooth stones in the 3rd row. This is the recipe for the Minecraft blast furnace.

How To Make A Blast Furnace In Minecraft

Once you’ve added the items to the crafting grid as described above, you’ll see a blast furnace in the box on the right.

3. Move The Blast Furnace To Your Inventory

Finally, we’re going to drag the blast furnace into your inventory so you can use it.

How To Make A Blast Furnace In Minecraft

That is! A Minecraft blast furnace is used to melt metal armor, tools, and furnace-like minerals. But melt items twice as fast as an oven and use half the experience!

How To Make A Blast Furnace In Minecraft

Minecraft Blast Furnace Command

You can also command to make blast furnaces in Minecraft. The blast furnace command is available in the following editions:

  • Java edition
  • Pocket edition
  • Xbox One
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Windows 10 Edition
  • Educational Edition

To run the blast furnace command in Minecraft, open your chat window and enter the command below depending on the version you have.

Java Edition 1.13 and higher blast furnace command

/give @p blast_furnace 1

PE, Xbox One, Switch, Win 10, Education Edition

/give @p blast_furnace 1 0

FAQ’s

1. How do you use the blast furnace in Minecraft?

To use the blast furnace you’ll need to place the item and fuel onto the blast furnace to change the state to ‘lit’. The item on the blast furnace will be smelted twice as fast a regular furnace, but fuel used on the blast furnace will also be used at double the rate.

2. How do you start a furnace in Minecraft?

To open a furnace, be facing it, then right-click your mouse or press the button you use to place blocks or use other items. How do you start a smoker? To start a smoker you need to place fuel like coal or wood in the space at the bottom, then put a food item that can be cooked in the top space.

3. How do you make a furnace light in Minecraft?

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.

4. What do you put in a furnace in Minecraft?

Below Top 10 list item use  as fuel in a furnace in Minecraft:

1. Charcoal
2. Bookshelf.
3 Dried Kelp Block.
4 Blaze Rod.
5 Bamboo.
6 Logs.
7 Wooden Tools.
8 Coal.
9 Block Of Coal.
10 Lava Bucket.

5. How do you make a furnace in Minecraft survival?

To make a furnace, place eight pieces of cobblestone around the outside perimeter of the crafting GUI, leaving a blank space in the middle square. Now simply click the furnace to collect the block out of the crafting table and drag it into your own inventory. This is now a placeable and usable block.

6. How do you make a furnace world of cubes?

The Furnace can be obtained by crafting only on the Workbench. It is required 8 Cobblestone to get 1 Furnace. You should use a Pickaxe to mine Furnace or it will drop nothing!

7. Can you use lava in a furnace?

Added lava buckets. Buckets of lava can now be used to fuel a furnace for 100 smelts, consuming the lava and the bucket. This is the highest number of smelts of any single item in the game.

8. Can Redstone power a furnace?

If you send a redstone signal to a furnace, it will still be able to smelt items, no fuel required.


How To Make A Blast Furnace Video Tutorial

In this video we show you how to make a blast furnace using the recipe and how to use your new blast furnace. We even do a side-by-side comparison with an oven to show you the difference.

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