Blast Furnace
- Namespaced ID
- minecraft:blast_furnace
- Numeric ID
- 809
- Edition
- Java
The blast furnace smelts ore blocks, metal tools, and armor twice as fast as a regular furnace, but only accepts metal/ore items. It is the Armorer villager's job site.
How to make a Blast Furnace
Full crafting guide for Blast Furnace → Step-by-step layout and ingredient sources.
What a Blast Furnace does
- •Smelts ores (iron, gold, copper) and metal gear at double furnace speed
- •Cannot cook food or smelt non-metal items — use a regular furnace or smoker for those
- •Assigns the Armorer profession to a villager
How to use the Blast Furnace
Right-click to open the blast furnace, place a smeltable metal/ore item in the top slot and fuel (coal, charcoal, lava bucket) in the bottom slot. It processes each item in ~5 seconds versus ~10 in a furnace, making it the fastest way to smelt large ore hauls.
Villager job site: Armorer — place it near an unemployed villager to assign the profession.
/setblock command
Replace ~ ~ ~ with absolute coordinates to place this block at a fixed location.
Command builder
Set the position and placement mode to generate a ready-to-paste /setblock command for Blast Furnace.
Block properties
- Hardness
- 3.5
- Blast resistance
- 3.5
- Material
- Mineable / Pickaxe
- Diggable
- Yes
- Transparent
- No
- Light emitted
- 0 / 15
- Light filtered
- 15 / 15
- Block state IDs
- 19483 – 19490
Block states
Blast Furnace has 8 blockstates from 2 properties. Set them with /setblock using [property=value], e.g. minecraft:…[facing=north]. The starred value is the default.
- facing
- north ★southwesteast
- lit
- truefalse ★
Mining time
Break time per pickaxe tier. Tools that can't harvest the block take 5× longer and won't drop the item.
| Pickaxe | Break time | Drops? |
|---|---|---|
 Wooden | 2.63s | ✓ |
 Stone | 1.31s | ✓ |
 Iron | 0.88s | ✓ |
 Golden | 0.44s | ✓ |
 Diamond | 0.66s | ✓ |
 Netherite | 0.58s | ✓ |
Drops
What Blast Furnace drops when mined with the correct tool, from the game's loot tables. Fortune-tagged drops scale with the Fortune enchantment.
| Item | Amount | Drop rate |
|---|---|---|
| Blast Furnace | 1 | Always |