Furnace

A furnace is a block with two functions: it can be used for either smelting or cooking, by placing fuel and an appropriate item inside together.

Obtaining

Breaking

A furnace can be picked up using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it does not drop itself.

Furnaces drop their contents when broken, including XP from processed items that were extracted by hoppers.

Natural generation

Furnaces can be found in plains, desert, and some savanna village weaponsmiths. Furnaces also generate in some houses in Snowy village, and in one of the taiga and snowy taiga‌ village houses. They can also generate in ancient cities and trail ruins, and one furnace generates in every igloo.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
	Village	Snowy house chest	1	9.9% { "item": "Furnace", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0989873657501581, "structure": "Village", "container": "Snowy house chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any stone-tier block		Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably.

The lit furnace can be obtained in Java Edition only with commands such as /give @s minecraft:furnace[minecraft:block_state={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.

Processing items

or

The purpose of a furnace is to process items by heating them up in order to change them into other items. Its interface can be opened by pressing the use item button on it. A fuel source (up to one stack of fuel items) is placed in the bottom slot, and the items to be processed (up to one stack) goes in the upper slot. A furnace runs at a speed of one item every 200 game ticks (10 seconds) or six items per minute.

The number of items that a fuel source can process depends on the type of fuel. As soon as the process begins, the fuel slot is decremented immediately, and that unit of fuel starts burning. The fuel continues burning until fully consumed, regardless of whether the upper slot has any items remaining to process. For example, a piece of coal burns for 80 seconds and can process eight items, but if only one item is processed (or if the item is pulled out before the process is complete), the coal still continues burning for the full 80 seconds, wasting seven items’ worth of processing. After it burns out, no additional fuel is decremented from the fuel slot if the upper slot is empty. If the fuel slot is empty and the burning fuel is consumed before an item completes processing, the process stops, the item is unchanged, and the process must be restarted with new fuel.

Smelting recipe

Light source

Furnaces emit a light level of 13 when active, as well as smoke and flame particles.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Blast Furnace	Iron Ingot +  + Smooth Stone
Minecart with Furnace	+ Minecart		‌
Smoker	Any Log orStem or Any Stripped Log orStem or Any Wood orHyphae or Any Stripped Wood orHyphae +

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.

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

A furnace can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	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

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Furnace crackles	Blocks	Randomly while lit	block.furnace.fire_crackle	subtitles.block.furnace.fire_crackle​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Chest locked[sound 1]	Blocks	When a player attempts to open a furnace locked using the [NBT Compound / JSON Object] lock tag	block.chest.locked​[sound 1]​	subtitles.block.chest.locked​​[sound 1]​	1.0	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Randomly while lit	block.furnace.lit	3.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Furnace	furnace	Block & Item	block.minecraft.furnace

Name	Identifier
Block entity	furnace

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Furnace	furnace	61	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.furnace.name
Lit Furnace	lit_furnace	62	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 4]	Identical[i 3]	—

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Furnace

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the furnace's opening faces. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the furnace.
lit	false	false true	If the furnace is lit.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
minecraft:cardinal_direction	Not Supported	south	east north south west	Unsupported	The direction the furnace's opening faces. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the furnace.

Block data

A furnace 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

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100129-1447				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.
20100219							Added furnaces.
20100223							Cobblestone can now be smelted into stone.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							Furnaces no longer have front faces.
20100313							Furnaces now have front faces again.
20100325-1545							Furnaces are now fully functional.
20100327							The smelting time of furnaces has been reduced from 8 seconds to 4 seconds.
20100330-1203							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_01							Furnaces now face toward the player when placed,[1] rather than away.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Furnaces now have a unique top texture instead of reusing the one for Stone.
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 ore blocks in furnaces now rewards 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				Hoppers can now be used in conjunction with furnaces, allowing for automatic smelting.
							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				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			18w06a				A recipe book has been added for smelting using furnaces. It can be used only for the input slot.
			18w09a				When the output of a furnace is extracted with a hopper, the experience now accumulates inside the furnace, and is released the next time a player takes the output.[3]
1.14			18w43a				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				Breaking a furnace now drops the experience accumulated from smelting.[4]
1.17			21w07a				Furnaces can now be crafted with grimstone.
			21w08a				Furnaces are now crafted with cobbled deepslate instead of grimstone.
1.19			22w13a				Furnaces now generate as part of ancient cities.
							Furnaces no longer drop when breaking a minecart with furnace.
1.20			23w12a				Furnaces now generate in trail ruins.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.2							Added furnaces.
							With the addition of furnaces, every available block and item can now be gathered, crafted or smelted into (no more unlimited items).
v0.3.3							Furnaces now requering 8 cobblestones instead of 5
v0.9.0			build 1				Furnaces now naturally spawn in villages.
v0.11.0			build 1				Crafting descriptions are no longer displayed in furnaces.
			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				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.[5]
1.17.0			beta 1.16.230.52				Deepslate can now be used to craft furnaces.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Furnaces drop themselves only if mined using a pickaxe, matching Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added furnaces.
TU5							Added quick move to the furnace.
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	1.22	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.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		A furnace generates inside igloos.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added crackling sounds for lit furnaces.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	More items can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
			1.90				The texture of furnaces has been changed.
			1.91				Furnaces can now be moved by pistons.
							Furnaces now generate in the new villages.
							Furnaces can now be used to craft blast furnaces and smokers.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added furnaces.

Data history

Java Edition
1.8			14w06a				Furnaces now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.
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.
1.21.4			Pre-Release 2				Renamed CookTime to cooking_time_spent. Renamed CookTimeTotal to cooking_total_time. Renamed BurnTime to lit_time_remaining. Added the field lit_total_time representing the total time the furnace should be lit.
Bedrock Edition
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.30.20				Furnaces now use the minecraft:cardinal_direction block state instead of facing_direction.

Issues

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

Gallery

Renders

Java Edition

• 
  Facing south
• 
  Facing south, lit
• 
  Facing west
• 
  Facing north
• 
  Facing east
• 
  Facing east, lit

Bedrock Edition

• 
  Facing south
• 
  Facing south, lit
• 
  Facing west or north
• 
  Facing west or north, lit
• 
  Facing east
• 
  Facing east, lit

Screenshots

• 
  Naturally occurring furnaces in a village.
• 
  A furnace in a leatherworker house.
• 
  A furnace emitting light from its front.
• 
  A furnace not emitting light from its back.
• 
  A furnace emitting light from its back, before 1.4.
• 
  An auto-smelter under construction.
• 
  Another auto-smelter.
• 
  Efe standing around an ominous hoard of furnaces.^[6]
• 
  A player using a furnace to smelt Stone Bricks.
• 
  In game encyclopedia entry on Furnace
• 
  In game encyclopedia entry on Food

In other media

• 
  Ari putting a salmon into a furnace; note the perspective of the block compared to the characters.
• 
  A furnace as it appeared in Minecraft Earth.
• 
  A furnace as it appears in Minicraft.
• 
  The Survival Pack, an action figure pack containing Alex and a furnace.
• 
  Two furnaces as seen in A Minecraft Movie.

See also

• Blast Furnace
• Smoker
• Minecart with Furnace

References

External links

• Block of the Week: Furnace – Minecraft.net on September 15, 2017

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