How to Make a Blast Furnace in Minecraft: Recipe, Uses & Tips
Minecraft features all sorts of blocks; some can be used in their original form while others can be ‘smelted’ to make other types of blocks. You will find that a large number of blocks will become something else or an ingredient for something else by smelting.
Blast furnace in Minecraft
A furnace is a basic crafting tool in Minecraft, and it’s easy to make. All you need is eight blocks of cobblestone, one of the most commonly occurring blocks in Minecraft. A furnace will smelt sand, stone, food, and more but it is a time consuming process.
Users who have a lot of blocks to smelt can opt for more than one furnace or, they can craft a blast furnace in Minecraft.
A blast furnace is basically a furnace that works twice as fast as an ordinary furnace. It also requires iron to build but iron is fairly common, and worth the speed it will add to the smelting process.
Create blast furnace in Minecraft
To create a blast furnace in Minecraft, you need;
- Five iron ingots
- A furnace
- Three blocks of smooth stone
To get the above though, you will need to craft other things first. We’ll break it down step by step. Make sure you have a crafting table ready, and then follow the steps below.
Craft resources for Blast furnace
- Mine iron ore with a stone pickaxe or better to collect 5 raw iron.
- Mine 2 blocks of coal.
- Mine 11 blocks of stone to get cobblestone.
- Use eight blocks of cobblestone to create a furnace. Leave the middle square empty.
- Use the furnace and smelt three blocks of cobblestone into stone.
- Put the stone back into the furnace and smelt it again to get smooth stone.
- Place the 5 raw iron into the furnace and smelt it into 5 iron ingots.
You now have iron ingots, a furnace, and smooth stone.
Craft blast furnace
To craft the blast furnace from the resources we created, follow these steps.
On the crafting table;
- Place the furnace in the middle square.
- Place smooth stone on the bottom row.
- Add iron ingots to all remaining empty squares.
- Collect the blast furnace.
Other ways to get and use a blast furnace
Crafting is not the only way to get your hands on a blast furnace. Here are two other things worth knowing:
- Find one in a village. Blast furnaces can generate naturally inside armorer houses in villages. If you spot one and want to take it, mine it with a pickaxe — this ensures it drops as a usable item rather than simply breaking.
- Use it as a job site block. A blast furnace also serves as the job site block for the Armorer villager profession. Placing one near an unemployed villager will assign them the Armorer job, which opens up armor trades and other useful gear.
Conclusion
A blast furnace smelts ores, raw metals, and metal-based tools or armor twice as fast as a regular furnace — it does not craft or create those items. If you’re looking to cook food faster, you should look into crafting a smoker. Here is what else you should know before deciding whether to build one:
- What it cannot smelt. A blast furnace only accepts ores, raw metals, and metal-based tools and armor. It cannot process food, sand, cobblestone, or other general blocks — a regular furnace handles those.
- Fuel efficiency. The blast furnace burns fuel twice as fast as a regular furnace, but since it also smelts twice as fast, the fuel cost per item works out to be exactly the same. Like a regular furnace, it accepts all standard fuel types and does not work exclusively with coal.
- Experience. A blast furnace yields less experience per item smelted than a regular furnace, so if you are farming XP through smelting, a standard furnace is the better choice.
If you plan on processing large quantities of ore or recycling metal gear quickly, a blast furnace is a worthwhile build.
