If you need a Minecraft blast furnace for all your smelting needs, you’ve come to the right place. To create a blast furnace, you’ll first need to craft a normal furnace, which you can do by using eight pieces of Cobblestone in the crafting grid. Now you’ve got your furnace, you can read on to find the rest of the blast furnace recipe and what you can do with it when it’s all fired up and ready to go.
Creating a blast furnace in Minecraft, one of the best PC games, is the first step towards smelting your old gear into iron ingots, which you can use to craft other items, such as a Minecraft anvil or Minecraft grindstone. You can find blast furnaces in Minecraft villages in armourer houses. If there isn’t an armourer villager already using a blast furnace as their job site block, then any villager can change their profession to armourer. Blast furnaces smelt at double the speed of a regular furnace and can be used to smelt ores, iron armour, and tools.
Minecraft blast furnace recipe
To create a Minecraft blast furnace, you’ll need the following ingredients.
- Iron Ingot x 5
- Furnace x 1
- Smooth Stone x 3
Pull up the crafting grid and place the furnace in the centre of the grid. Place two iron ingots on either side of the furnace and the remaining three in the top row. Place the three smooth stones along the bottom row, and now you’re ready to craft a blasting furnace.
How to use a blast furnace in Minecraft
You can use a Minecraft blast furnace for smelting ore blocks, tools, and armour – as well as gold or chainmail. To use the blast furnace, you’ll need to place the item and fuel onto the blast furnace to change the state to ‘lit’. The item on the blast furnace will be smelted twice as fast as a regular furnace, but fuel used on the blast furnace will also be used at double the rate. You can collect the smelted item from the block by selecting ‘use item’.
Here are some other facts about the blast furnace:
- Any villager in a village without a dedicated armourer can become one when standing nearby the blast furnace.
- You can’t smelt food. Use a normal furnace or a campfire instead.
- You will get less experience collecting items from a blast furnace than a regular one.
- You can’t push blast furnaces with pistons.
- They have similar resistances to explosions and emit a light level similar to normal furnaces when active.
- You can use a blast furnace with hoppers.
Using a Minecraft blast furnace on a block of ore will melt it down to iron ingots quickly and efficiently, so you can use it for your other crafting needs, whether using a Minecraft enchantment table or creating a Minecraft banner for your shield. The first part of the Minecraft Caves and Cliffs update is almost here! Check out our guide to see everything coming to the game when the update goes live.