Blast Furnace


EffectWorkplace for Armorer

A blast furnace is a block that is similar in function to a furnace, but has some differences. It is the workplace of an armorer.

The blast furnace in Minecraft is used for smelting ores and tools. Moreover, the melting rate in it is higher than in the furnace. A ready-made blast furnace can be found in the villages in the houses of an armorer villager. You can only get a blast furnace with a pickaxe.

  • Minecraft versions: 11 / 10.5.1 / 1.22 / 1.21 / 1.20 / 1.19.1 / 1.19
  • COMMAND: blast_furnace
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Modify date: 01/03/2023

Questions about blast furnace


Here you will find detailed answers to frequently asked questions about blast furnace.

Official release of Java Edition (version 1.14, snapshot 18w44a) – blast furnace added to Minecraft. It was available only from the creative mode menu. Starting from Snapshot 18w48a, blast furnace can be found in lowland villages, and from snapshot 18w50a, the blast furnace can be used by the player. In snapshot 19w11a, the blast furnace became armorer's workplace.

The blast furnace in Minecraft is a solid block, has partial transparency (during melting), has a luminosity of 13 and strength of 3.5. It can be mined with any pickaxe, but the fastest way to do it is with a golden pickaxe. It can be stacked in 64 pieces in the inventory cell.

If it is destroyed with a pickaxe, the blast furnace and its contents will fall out. If the other tool – fall out only the content.

Coal, charcoal, a bucket of lava and any other fuel that can be used in a blast furnace.

The blast furnace in Minecraft allows you to melt more parts, tools and armor more efficiently, because it works twice as fast as furnace. Minecraft players who need to melt a lot of ore at a time are strongly recommended to use a blast furnace.

The blast furnace is not intended for roasting the extracted food and for converting wood into coal. The blast furnace can only melt ore and equipment that can be melted down. The speed of ore melting in a melting furnace is 2 times greater than that of a furnace, but the rate of fuel combustion also increases by 2 times.

So, the advantage of a melting furnace over a furnace is only that half as much time is spent on ore processing.

  • Collecting roasted resources from a blast furnace, the player will gain less experience than getting them from a furnace
  • Blast furnace cannot be pushed with pistons
  • Blast furnace have the same resistance to explosions and emit light as conventional furnaces, when they are active, you can only get a melting furnace with a pickaxe

To make a blast furnace in Minecraft, you need the following components:
  • iron ingot – 5 pieces
  • furnace – 1 piece
  • smooth stone – 3 pieces
In the workbench you need to place the furnace in the center. Place three stones in the bottom row, and fill the remaining cells with iron ingots. The blast furnace is ready.

The lighting level of the blast furnace is the same as that of a furnace – 13.

You can change the name on the anvil, or change the customName tag with the /data command.

You can assign the profession of an armorer.

A block of coal is the best universal fuel source in Minecraft. It burns for almost as long as a bucket of lava, but the player can put 64 blocks of coal into the furnace at once at the same time. This allows you to add less fuel, and spend more time on mining and/or crafting.

For 0.8 blocks of coal, you can fry a whole stack of steaks. For ease of use and fuel efficiency, the coal block is recognized as the best fuel source in Minecraft.

How to craft blast furnace


There is only one recipe for how to craft blast furnace in Minecraft. Below you can see a description of this recipe: a picture with ingredients and step-by-step instructions on how to make blast furnace in Minecraft.

How to craft blast furnace in Minecraft
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Iron Ingot in Minecraft
Furnace in Minecraft
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What to craft with blast furnace


There are 46 recipes that use blast furnace in crafting in Minecraft. Below you can see a description of all the recipes: pictures with ingredients and step-by-step instructions on how to use blast furnace in Minecraft.

What can be done with blast furnace in mods


There are several recipes that use blast furnace in Minecraft mods. Below you can see the description of all recipes: pictures with ingredients and step by step instructions on how to use blast furnace in Minecraft game mods.

Video about blast furnace


There is only one video on the site which has blast furnace in Minecraft. You can watch this video below to get a better idea of what blast furnace looks like in Minecraft.

Screenshots of blast furnace


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Command to get blast furnace


There is a command that allows you to get blast furnace in Minecraft. Below you can see a detailed description of this command to learn how to create blast furnace in Minecraft.

Blast Furnace can be got using a command in creative mode. This requires:

  1. open chat (press "T")
  2. write command /give @p minecraft:blast_furnace
  3. press "ENTER"

You can also specify the number and who blast furnace will be given:

/give @p minecraft:blast_furnace 10
get 10 blast furnace
/give MinecraftMax minecraft:blast_furnace
blast furnace will be given to the player with the nickname MinecraftMax


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