Flint and Steel

Flint and Steel

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Rarity color	Common
Durability	64
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

A flint and steel is a tool used to light fires.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Iron Ingot + Flint
Damaged Flint and Steel		The durability of the two flint and steel is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Flint and Steel	Nether fortress	Chest	1	19%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	46.4%
Bedrock Edition
Flint and Steel	Nether fortress	Chest	1	19%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	46.4%

Trading

Farmer villagers before Java Edition 1.8 would trade flint and steel for emeralds. If a world was created before this version, such a villager can be brought forward to current versions and still traded with as a renewable source of flint and steel.

Usage

Igniting

When used on top of a solid, fully opaque block or on the sides of a flammable block, the flint and steel set a fire on the surface on which it was used. Flint and steel have 65 uses. If used on a transparent block (such as glass) or an underwater block, it does not start a fire but still consumes durability. Durability is also consumed if it is used on an already existing fire.

It also can be used to light nether portals.

In both survival and creative, using flint and steel on TNT ignites it. Flint and steel can also be used to detonate creepers.

Enchantments

A flint and steel can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Max Level	Method
Unbreaking	III
Mending	I
Curse of Vanishing	I

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Flint and steel click.ogg	Flint and Steel click	?	When successfully used	item.flintandsteel.use	subtitles.item.flintandsteel.use	?	?	16
File:Random break.ogg	Item breaks	?	When durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break	1.0	0.9	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Flint and Steel	flint_and_steel	Item	item.minecraft.flint_and_steel

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Flint and Steel	flint_and_steel	259	Item	item.flint_and_steel.name

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100110			32px Added flint and steel.
					Flint and steel can be used to set fire.
		20100129			32px The steel part of the texture has been brightened.
					Flint and steel can be used alongside lava to smelt ores and cook food.
		20100201-2			Flint and steel can now sometimes be dropped as loot from killing mobs.
20100219					32px The texture of flint and steel has been changed, due to its new crafting recipe.
					Flint and steel can no longer drop from mobs.
					Flint and steel can now be crafted from an iron ingot and the newly added flint.Template:More info
					Furnaces have been added to replace the cooking and smelting function of flint and steel.
Java Edition Beta
1.7					Flint and steel, along with fire itself, explosions and redstone are now the only ways to activate TNT.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w21a			The player can now buy 1 flint and steel from farmer villagers for 3 emeralds.
1.4.2		12w38a			The sound when using flint and steel has been changed.
1.5		13w04a			Dispensers are now able to use flint and steel on the block in front of them.
1.6.1		13w18a			Flint and steel can now be found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
		13w25a			Flint and steel now loses durability when igniting TNT.
1.7.2		13w36a			Flint and steel now has a shapeless crafting recipe. Old recipe Ingredients Crafting recipe Iron Ingot + Flint
					Using flint and steel on a creeper now causes it to explode.
1.8		14w02a			Villagers no longer sell flint and steel, making it no longer renewable.
1.9		15w43a			The average yield of flint and steel in nether fortress chests has been slightly reduced.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 259.
1.14		18w43a			32px The texture of flint and steel has been changed.
1.16		20w07a			Gravel now can be given by the piglins when bartering, making flint and steel renewable again.
		20w16a			Flint and steel can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0					32px Added flint and steel.
v0.7.0					Flint and steel can now be used to set fire.
v0.7.4					Using flint and steel on a creeper now causes it to explode.
v0.8.0		build 2			Added flint and steel to the creative inventory.
v0.12.1		build 1			Flint and steel can now be used to activate a nether portal.
					Flint and steel can now be found in nether fortresses.
					Flint and steel can now be enchanted in anvils.
v0.14.0		build 1			Flint and steel can now be used inside dispensers when powered.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			32px The texture of flint and steel has been changed.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Flint and steel can now be obtained by bartering with piglins.
					Flint and steel can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing through an anvil.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Flint and steel are no longer obtainable from bartering.
					Flint and steel can now be found inside ruined portal chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	32px Added flint and steel.
TU3					Flint and steel, along with fire itself, explosions and redstone are now the only ways to activate TNT.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Flint and steel now makes sounds when igniting blocks.
		1.90			32px The texture of flint and steel has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					32px Added flint and steel.

Historical sounds:

Sound	From	to	Pitch
File:Flint and Steel old.ogg	?	?	?

Issues

Issues relating to "Flint and Steel" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• In Adventure mode, flint and steel cannot light fires, nor can it ignite nether portals (unless it has the tag CanPlaceOn:obsidian). However, it can still ignite TNT and creepers.
• The name "Flint and Steel" is inaccurate considering there is no steel in the game and it's made with iron instead.
• Flint and Steel cannot light end portals.

References

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