Flint and Steel
A flint and steel is a tool used to light fires.
Contents
Obtaining
Crafting
Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Iron Ingot + Flint |
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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 |
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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 |
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Unbreaking | III | |
Mending | I | |
Curse of Vanishing | I |
Sounds
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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File:Flint and steel click.ogg | Flint and Steel click | ? | When successfully used | item.flintandsteel.use[1] | subtitles.item.flintandsteel.use[1] | ? | ? | 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
Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
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Flint and Steel | flint_and_steel | Item | item.minecraft.flint_and_steel |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Flint and Steel | flint_and_steel | 259 | Item | item.flint_and_steel.name |
Advancements
Video
History
Java Edition Indev | |||||||||||
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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.[2] | |||||||||||
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.[3] | ||||||||||
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.
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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 |
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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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