Furnace
- Namespaced ID
- minecraft:furnace
- Numeric ID
- 196
- Edition
- Java
The furnace smelts ores, cooks food, and converts raw materials (sand to glass, logs to charcoal) using fuel. It is the general-purpose smelting block.
How to make a Furnace
Full crafting guide for Furnace → Step-by-step layout and ingredient sources.
What a Furnace does
- •Smelt ores into ingots and cook raw food
- •Make glass, charcoal, terracotta, and other processed blocks
- •Gives a small amount of XP when you collect smelted output
How to use the Furnace
Right-click to open, place the input on top and fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, lava bucket, etc.) below. Each item takes ~10 seconds. For bulk metal use a blast furnace and for bulk food a smoker — both run at double speed but are restricted to their item types.
/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 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
- 4358 – 4365
Block states
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Furnace | 1 | Always |