Campfire

A campfire is a block that can be used to cook food, pacify bees, or act as a spread-proof light source, a smoke signal, or a damaging trap.

Obtaining

Breaking

Campfires can be mined with any tool or by hand, but axes are the fastest. A regular campfire drops 2 charcoal. If mined with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, the campfire instead drops itself as an item.

In Bedrock Edition, a campfire can also be broken by pushing it with a piston or sticky piston. Pistons cannot move or break campfires in Java Edition.

Natural generation

Campfires can generate in taiga and snowy taiga‌ villages.

Campfires can generate in camps inside ancient cities, beneath a pile of blue, light blue and cyan wool blocks. Campfires can also generate in trail ruins.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
	Stick + Coal + Any Log orStem or Any Stripped Log orStem or Any Wood orHyphae or Any Stripped Wood orHyphae
	Stick + Charcoal + Any Log orStem or Any Stripped Log orStem or Any Wood orHyphae or Any Stripped Wood orHyphae

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Apprentice Fisherman	67%	50%	2 × Emerald

Usage

Lit campfires emit a light level of 15. Unlike regular fire, a campfire's fire does not spread under any circumstances.

Campfires are lit by default when placed. A campfire can be manually lit by using flint and steel on it (either by player or by dispenser), using a fire charge on it, shooting it with a flaming arrow, or using or dispensing fire charges, blaze fireballs, and ghast fireballs when /gamerule mobGriefing is true. In Bedrock Edition, campfires can also be lit by using an item enchanted with Fire Aspect, or stepping on it while burning.

A campfire can be extinguished by waterlogging it (placing water in the same block space), throwing a splash water bottle on it, or using a shovel on it. Campfires cannot be extinguished from their bottom face.‌^[1] In Bedrock Edition, campfires can also be extinguished by placing a water source or allowing water to flow in the space above the campfire. As with torches, rain does not extinguish campfires.^[2]

Using flint and steel on the side of a waterlogged or lit campfire sets the adjacent air block on fire instead.

Particles and smoke signals

Campfires produce smoke particles that float up around 10 blocks before disappearing. If a hay bale is placed below, the campfire becomes a signal fire and the smoke floats up 24 blocks instead.

Campfire smoke particles can partially pass through a block directly above it, but do not pass through blocks any higher than that.

Although a trapdoor is thinner than a slab, a trapdoor can block the smoke completely, preventing the smoke from floating up.

Campfires emit extra smoke particles during rain, similar to lava.

Campfires also occasionally emit ember particles, similar to lava.

Damage

If lit, campfires damage mobs standing on top of them, even if underwater (with exceptions such as shulkers, zombified piglins, or guardians). Campfires deal 1HP every tick (although damage immunity reduces this to once every half-second). Campfires do not cause lasting burning or destroy items. Damage taken is not considered fire damage, so armor itself does not reduce damage caused by campfire; to do so, the player needs the Resistance potion effect, or the Protection or Fire Protection enchantments. The player can avoid being damaged at all, either by using a potion of Fire Resistance or wearing Frost Walker boots.

Regardless of height, all blocks prevent damage done to mobs or players above campfires. The campfire deals damage only to entities occupying its block.

Cooking

The player can place any of the following food items on a lit campfire by using the food item on it.

• Raw Beef
• Raw Chicken
• Raw Rabbit
• Raw Porkchop
• Raw Mutton
• Raw Cod
• Raw Salmon
• Potato
• Kelp

Up to four food items can be placed on a campfire, which cooks the items simultaneously. Unlike other blocks that can cook food, campfires do not require any kind of fuel to cook. On a campfire, foods produce small smoke particles, indicating they are being cooked. Food items take 30 seconds (600 ticks) to cook, compared to 10 seconds for furnaces or 5 seconds for smokers. Assuming that one uses all four slots to cook at once, campfires are more efficient than furnaces (taking 10 seconds less per four items and no fuel) for cooking, but must be watched so as to pick up the food and refill it once it is done. It is slower than a smoker by about ten seconds, but its lack of fuel consumption could be seen as a worthwhile trade-off. Once finished cooking, items pop off the campfire. If the campfire is extinguished while cooking food, the remaining cooking time quickly counts back up. Food items can be placed on an unlit campfire. Any items cooking on a campfire always drop when the campfire block is broken.

Other items can be placed on campfires using external editors, mods, or add-ons.

Hoppers

Campfires do not have an external inventory. Raw food cannot be loaded into the campfire with a hopper.

A hopper placed directly underneath a campfire pulls through any items dropped into the campfire. Any drops from a mob that dies in the campfire get pulled into the hopper.

Bees

Placing a campfire under a beehive or bee nest allows honey bottles and honeycomb to be harvested without provoking the bees.

There must be unobstructed air between the campfire and the beehive or bee nest. Carpets are an exception.‌

Light source

Standard lit campfires emit a light level of 15. Like most other sources of light, campfires melt nearby snow and ice.

Note blocks

Campfires can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.

Piston interactivity

In Bedrock Edition, pushing a campfire with a piston or sticky piston breaks it, dropping two charcoal. Campfires cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.

In Java Edition, pistons do not interact with campfires. Campfires neither move nor break when pushed or pulled by pistons.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e wood sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e wood sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Campfire crackles	Blocks	Randomly while lit	block.campfire.crackle	subtitles.block.campfire.crackle​	0.5-1.5	0.6-1.3	16
	​Flint and steel click	Blocks	When a campfire is lit with a flint and steel	item.flintandsteel.use	subtitles.item.flintandsteel.use​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Fireball whooshes	Blocks	When a campfire is lit with a fire charge	item.firecharge.use	subtitles.item.firecharge.use​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Fire extinguishes	Blocks	When a campfire is extinguished with water	entity.generic.extinguish_fire	subtitles.entity.generic.extinguish_fire​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Fire extinguished	Blocks	When a campfire is extinguished	block.fire.extinguish	subtitles.block.fire.extinguish​	0.5	2.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Randomly while lit	block.campfire.crackle	0.5-1.5	0.6-1.3
	Blocks	When a campfire is lit	fire.ignite	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures‌ Hostile Mobs​	When a campfire is lit with a fire charge	mob.ghast.fireball	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When a campfire is extinguished	random.fizz	0.5	1.8-2.4

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Campfire	campfire	Block & Item	campfires	block.minecraft.campfire

Name	Identifier
Block entity	campfire

Bedrock Edition:

Campfire	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Block	campfire	464	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.campfire (Numeric: -209)	tile.campfire.name
Item	campfire	589	Item	—	tile.campfire.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Campfire

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the campfire is facing. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the campfire.
lit	true	false true	Whether the campfire is lit.
signal_fire	false	false true	Whether the campfire has a hay bale below it.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this campfire.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
extinguished	0x4	false	false true	0 1	Whether the campfire is put out.
minecraft:cardinal_direction	Not Supported	south	east north south west	Unsupported	The direction the campfire is facing. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the campfire.

Block data

A campfire has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Advancements

Trivia

An early campfire texture can be seen in the Legacy Console Edition Minigames when the Player's being a "Camper".

History

There is an associated page listing all historical changes related to the appearance and/or sounds associated with this block in further detail than below; see /Asset history.

September 26, 2018							Campfires are announced to be part of the biome vote at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018							Campfires are showcased at MINECON Earth 2018.
September 29, 2018							Taiga wins the biome vote, meaning campfires are to be added to the game in 1.14.
Java Edition
1.14			19w02a				Added campfires.
			19w03a				The model and texture of the campfire have been changed.
							Lit campfires now produce spark particles.
							The light level of campfires has been changed from 9 to 15.
							Campfires are now directionally placed.
							Lit campfires produce smoke plume particles more often.
			19w04a				Campfires now spawn in taiga villages on the ground and inside chimneys.
							Crouching on a campfire no longer prevents the player from taking damage from it.[3]
			19w08a				Campfires can now be extinguished by splash water bottles.
			19w11a				Fisherman villagers now sell campfires for 2 emeralds.
1.14.1			Pre-Release 2				Campfires can now be lit by flaming arrows.
1.14.2			Pre-Release 1				Flaming arrows can no longer light waterlogged campfires.
1.15			19w34a				Campfires under bee nests and bee hives now prevent bees from aggravating toward players who harvest them.
			19w37a				Campfires can now be extinguished using a shovel.
			19w42a				Campfires can now be lit by small fireballs.
1.16			20w11a				Campfires can now be lit by any burning projectile.
			20w13a				Campfires can now be crafted using stems and hyphae.
			20w22a				Campfires now drop the food being cooked when they are put out with a shovel or water bottle.
			Pre-release 3				Food can now be placed on unlit campfires. However, due to a bug,[4] food pops off of campfires when extinguished.
1.17			20w46a				Food no longer pops off of campfires when extinguished.
1.18			21w41a				Changed campfire textures as items.
1.19			22w13a				Campfires now generate in camps inside ancient cities.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			1.19.4-pre1				Cherry logs, wood, and their stripped variations can now used to craft a campfire.[5]
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.10.0.3				Added campfires.
							Campfires are available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Campfires have been fully implemented.
							The model and texture of the campfire have been changed.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Campfires can now be bought from fishermen villagers.
1.13.0			?				Campfires now emit embers similar to lava.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Campfires under bee nests and beehives now prevent bees from aggravating toward players who harvest them.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.30.23				Campfires are now stackable in the inventory.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.22				Campfires now drop 2 charcoal instead of 1 when broken by a piston or explosion.[6]
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.20				Changed campfire textures as items.
1.19.60			Preview 1.19.60.23				Campfires no longer set players and mobs on fire.
1.19.80			Preview 1.19.80.22				Campfires now damage mobs standing on top of them.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Decreased the hardness and blast resistance campfires from 5 to 2.
1.20.60			Preview 1.20.60.21				Campfires now drop 2 charcoal when mined, rather than 4.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91							Added campfires.
							Campfires can be bought from fishermen villagers for 2 emeralds.
							Campfires are not stackable.

• 
  Cooking with a campfire in Java Edition 19w02a

Data history

Bedrock Edition
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.30.20				Campfires now use the minecraft:cardinal_direction block state instead of direction.

Issues

Issues relating to "Campfire" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A few naturally generating campfires in a taiga biome village
• 
  A comparison between a campfire with a hay bale below it (left) and one without (right)
• 
  The number of particles depends on the height of the top block.
• 
  Cooking porkchops with a campfire

Mojang screenshots

• 
  Campfire smoke coming out of a cozy cabin.
• 
  Campfire near a cozy cabin
• 
  A campfire amidst a sheet of ice.

In other media

• 
  Steve, Alex, Sunny, Noor, and Efe around a campfire.
• 
  Several monsters in front of a campfire.
• 
  An arctic fox beside a campfire.
• 
  The campfire texture as it appears in Minecraft Plus!.
• 
  A classic styled Campfire texture using sticks as seen in the Minecraft Minigames result screen

References

External links

• Taking Inventory: Campfire – Minecraft.net on March 19, 2020

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