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 utility block used for the smelting of blocks and items.
Contents
Obtaining
Natural generation
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
A furnace can be mined using any pickaxe. A furnace will also drop all of its contents when broken. Mining without a pickaxe takes 17.5 seconds.
In Java Edition, a furnace mined without a pickaxe drops nothing. In Bedrock Edition, a furnace drops itself when mined by hand or with any tool.
Block | Furnace | |
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Hardness | 3.5 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[FN 1] | ||
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
In Java Edition, breaking a minecart with furnace drops both the furnace and the Minecart.
Chest loot
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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Java Edition | ||||
Furnace | Village | Snowy house chest | 1 | 9.9% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Furnace | Village | Snowy house chest | 1 | 9.9% |
Crafting
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Furnace | Any Cobblestone or Blackstone | [until JE 1.17] | |
Furnace | Any stone-tier block | [upcoming: JE 1.17] |
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
Furnaces cannot be pushed by pistons in Java Edition.
Smelting
Smelting Recipe |
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Template:Furnace |
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
Furnaces emit a light level of 13 when active, as well as smoke and flame particles.
Crafting ingredient
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|---|
Blast Furnace | Iron Ingot + Furnace + Smooth Stone |
|
Smoker | Any Log or Any Stripped Log or Any Wood or Any Stripped Wood + Furnace |
Custom name
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
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
Furnace can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.
Sounds
Generic
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
File:Stone dig1.ogg | Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block.stone.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 |
File:Stone hit1.ogg | None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.stone.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 |
File:Stone hit1.ogg | Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.stone.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 |
File:Stone dig1.ogg | Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block.stone.place | subtitles.block.generic.place | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 |
File:Stone hit1.ogg | Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.stone.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
File:Stone dig1.ogg | Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig.stone | 1.0 | 0.8 |
File:Stone hit1.ogg | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.stone | 0.4 | 1.0 |
File:Stone hit1.ogg | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit.stone | 0.37 | 0.5 |
? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.stone | 0.12 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.stone | 0.22 | 1.0 |
File:Stone hit1.ogg | Blocks | Walking on the block | step.stone | 0.3 | 1.0 |
File:Stone dig1.ogg | Blocks | When the block is placed | use.stone | 1.0 | 0.8 |
Unique
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
File:Furnace fire crackle1.ogg | Furnace crackles | ? | Plays randomly when active | block.furnace.fire_crackle | subtitles.block.furnace.fire_crackle | ? | ? | 16 |
Data values
ID
Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Furnace | furnace | Block & Item | block.minecraft.furnace |
Name | Namespaced ID |
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Block entity | furnace |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|---|
Furnace | furnace | 61 | Block & Item | tile.furnace.name |
Lit Furnace | lit_furnace | 62 | Block | tile.lit_furnace.name |
Name | Savegame ID |
---|---|
Block entity | Furnace |
Metadata
In Bedrock Edition, furnaces use the following data values: Template:/DV
Block states
Block data
A furnace has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.
Achievements
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Advancements
History
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 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added furnaces. | |||
20100223 | Cobblestone can now be smelted into stone. | ||||
Java Edition Infdev | |||||
Minecraft Infdev | 20100227-1 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Furnaces no longer have a face. | |||
20100313 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Furnaces now have faces again. | ||||
20100325 | Furnaces are now fully functional. | ||||
20100327 | The smelting time of furnaces has been reduced from 8 seconds to 4 seconds. | ||||
20100330 | The smelting time of furnaces has been increased from 4 seconds to 8 seconds per item. | ||||
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
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 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The models of furnaces have been changed. Now use their own top texture on top face. | ||||
1.8 | Pre-release | Furnaces now generate in village blacksmiths. | |||
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. | |||
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. | ||||
14w25a | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The top texture of the furnace now rotates according to the direction it faces. | ||||
14w26a | Furnaces now allow only fuel or a single empty bucket in the fuel slot. | ||||
1.9 | 15w43a | A furnace now generates inside of igloos. | |||
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 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The texture of furnaces has been changed. | |||
18w49a | Added snowy tundra villages, where many of the houses contain furnaces indoors. | ||||
Furnace items can now be found in chests in snowy tundra village houses. | |||||
18w50a | Furnaces can now be found in one type of taiga village houses. | ||||
The updated taiga village weaponsmiths no longer contain furnaces. | |||||
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] | ||||
Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
1.17 | 21w07a | Furnaces can now be crafted with grimstone. | |||
21w08a | Furnaces are now crafted with cobbled deepslate instead of grimstone. | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.3.2 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added furnaces. | ||||
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 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The texture of furnaces has been changed. | |||
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] | |||
Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.16.230 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Deepslate can now be used to craft furnaces. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added furnaces. |
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 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The texture of furnaces has been changed. | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added furnaces. |
Lit furnace "item"
Java Edition Indev | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Minecraft Indev | 20100219 | 32px Lit furnaces have an unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID, which uses the normal furnace appearance. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 62. | |||
Currently lit furnaces can be obtained as items simply by mining the furnace when lit. | |||||
Java Edition Infdev | |||||
Minecraft Infdev | 20100611 | 32px The lighting on blocks in the inventory has changed, changing the appearance of the lit furnace item as a result. | |||
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
v1.0.1 | 32px The left side of block items has been darkened, changing the lit furnace item as a result. | ||||
Lit furnaces can no longer be obtained as items by breaking a lit furnace. | |||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
1.0 | The item is called Furnace. | ||||
1.2 | 32px The furnace model changing has affected the lit furnace item. | ||||
1.6 | Test Build 3 | 32px Block items have changed in this version to be brighter and mirrored from their prior appearances. | |||
Lit furnace items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 4th slot of the 3rd chest from the left, and the 15th slot of the 6th chest from the left. | |||||
release | Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing lit furnace items from being obtained this way. | ||||
1.8 | Pre-release | 32px Block items are now far brighter than before. | |||
Added endermen, which can pick up any block including lit furnaces. Such endermen could be killed from 15w31a to 15w47c to drop the lit furnace as a block. | |||||
Pre-release 2 ;) | Added pick block functionality. This will change the currently selected slot to any containing a lit furnace item, but will not allow it to be obtained if not already in the hotbar. | ||||
release | Endermen no longer pick up lit furnaces. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Lit furnaces can be obtained with the Silk Touch enchantment by breaking a block with an appropriate tool enchanted with it. | |||
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | Lit furnaces can no longer be obtained via Silk Touch. | ||||
RC2 | 32px Block items are now more shaded again. | ||||
1.2.5 | pre | Pick Block will now always return a normal furnace. | |||
1.3.1 | 12w16a | Lit furnace items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID. | |||
12w22a | 32px Block items have been flipped back to their pre-Beta 1.6 orientations. | ||||
1.4.2 | 12w34a | 32px Block items have been brightened to an almost unnoticable degree. | |||
1.5 | 13w02a | 32px The item form of the lit furnace now has no face due to texture storage reforms. | |||
1.8 | 14w06a | 32px The item form of the lit furnace now correctly displays its face as lit. | |||
14w10a | 32px The item form of the lit furnace now displays its top/bottom texture. | ||||
14w18a | 32px The item form of the lit furnace now correctly displays its face as lit again. | ||||
14w25a | 32px The item form of the lit furnace now has missing textures. | ||||
1.9 | 15w31a | 32px The model of the lit furnace block's item form is now missing. | |||
Endermen now drop their held block, allowing those holding lit furnaces to drop lit furnaces as items. | |||||
15w49a | The direct item form of lit furnaces has been removed from the game.[5] It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block. | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
? | Lit furnaces exist as an item. | ||||
Unknown | |||||
? | The lit furnace item is called tile.lit_furnace.name. | ||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
? | 32px Lit furnace items now look like this. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Furnace" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- 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.
- In Bedrock Edition, the lit furnace block was legitimately obtainable by mining a furnace that is smelting an item while the pickaxe has Silk Touch. When highlighted in the inventory its name was 'lit_furnace'.
See also
Gallery
- Furnaces in Village.png
Naturally occurring furnaces in a village.
- Furnace GUI.png
The furnace GUI for Java Edition.
References
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