Blast Furnace

Blast Furnace

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

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Item description‌[BE only]	Smelt metal faster
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3.5
Hardness	3.5
Luminous	Yes (13) (when active)
Transparent	Partial (when active)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	11 STONE
Note block instrument	Bass Drum

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A blast furnace is a block that smelts ores and metal items twice as quickly as a furnace, but cannot smelt anything else. It also serves as an armorer's job site block.

Obtaining

Breaking

A blast furnace can be picked up using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it does not drop itself.

Blast furnaces drop their contents when broken.

Block	Blast Furnace
Hardness	3.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)
Default	117.5 (JE) 17.5 (BE)
Wooden	12.65 (JE) 2.65 (BE)
Stone	11.35 (JE) 1.35 (BE)
Copper	11.05 (JE) 1.05 (BE)
Iron	10.9 (JE) 0.9 (BE)
Diamond	10.7 (JE) 0.7 (BE)
Netherite	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (BE)
Golden	10.45 (JE) 0.45 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Blast furnaces can generate in any armorer house; these can be found in a village. Blast furnaces can also generate in trail ruins.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot + Furnace + Smooth Stone

Usage

Blast furnaces can be pushed by pistons.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Smelting

The GUI for the blast furnace, same as the ordinary furnace's.

Blast furnaces are similar to furnaces, but can smelt only raw metal, ore blocks, ancient debris and tools/armor made of iron, gold, chainmail, or copper. Blast furnaces serve as the counterpart to smokers, which are used mainly to cook food faster. Smelting equipment yields one iron, gold or copper nugget from their respective materials. Once an item and a fuel are placed into the blast furnace, the block state changes to lit and the item is smelted twice as fast as a regular furnace. Fuel is also used at double the rate of regular furnaces, so the number of items smelted per fuel stays the same. The product can then be collected by using the output. Like normal furnaces, a hopper can be used to feed items into or collect items from a blast furnace.

Profession

If a blast furnace has not been claimed by a villager, any nearby unemployed villager has a chance to change their profession to armorer and claim the blast furnace as their job site block.

Light source

Blast furnaces emit a light level of 13 when active, similar to normal furnaces.

Custom name

By default, the interface of a blast furnace is labeled "Blast Furnace", but this name can be customized by naming it in an anvil before placing it, or by changing the CustomName tag using the /data command.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Lock

In Java Edition, a blast furnace can be "locked" by setting its lock tag using the /data command. If a blast furnace's lock tag is not blank, the blast furnace cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item with the same name as the lock tag's text. For example, to lock a blast furnace at (0,64,0) so that the blast furnace cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item named "Blast Furnace Key", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {lock:{components:{"custom_name":"Blast Furnace Key"}}}.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.37	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Blast furnace crackles	Blocks	Randomly while lit	block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle​​	subtitles.block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle​​​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Armorer works	Friendly Mobs	Randomly while an armorer is working	entity.villager.work_armorer	subtitles.entity.villager.work_armorer​	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
	​Chest locked​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When a player attempts to open a blast furnace locked using the [NBT Compound / JSON Object] lock tag	block.chest.locked​​	subtitles.block.chest.locked​​​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​​Blast Furnace crackles	Blocks	Randomly while lit	block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle	subtitles.block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle​	3.0	0.6
	​​Blast Furnace crackles	Blocks	Randomly while an armorer is working	block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle	subtitles.block.blastfurnace.fire_crackle​	3.0	0.6

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Blast Furnace	blast_furnace	Block & Item	block.minecraft.blast_furnace

Name	Identifier
Block entity	blast_furnace

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Unlit block	blast_furnace	451	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -196)	tile.blast_furnace.name
Lit block	lit_blast_furnace	469	Block & Ungiveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -214)	tile.lit_blast_furnace.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	BlastFurnace

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the blast furnace's opening faces. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the blast furnace.
lit	false	false true	If the blast furnace is lit.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
minecraft:cardinal_direction	Not Supported	south	east north south west	Unsupported	The direction the blast furnace's opening faces. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the blast furnace.

Block data

A blast furnace has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  • Tags common to all objects that can be renamed see Template:Nbt inherit/nameable/template
  • Tags common to all containers that can be locked see Template:Nbt inherit/lockable/template
  • [NBT List / JSON Array] Items: List of items in this container. Represents the minecraft:container component.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object]: An item in the furnace, including the slot tag:
      Slot 0: The item(s) being smelted.
      Slot 1: The item(s) to use as the next fuel source.
      Slot 2: The item(s) in the result slot.
      • An item stack in a container slot see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • [Short] lit_time_remaining: Number of ticks left before the current fuel runs out.
  • [Short] cooking_time_spent: Number of ticks the item has been smelting for. The item finishes smelting when this value reaches 200 (10 seconds). Is reset to 0 if lit_time_remaining reaches 0.
  • [Short] cooking_total_time: Number of ticks it takes for the item to be smelted.
  • [Short] lit_total_time: Represent the total time the furnace should be lit.
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] RecipesUsed: Which recipes have been used since the last time a recipe result item was manually removed from the GUI. Used to calculate experience given to the player when taking out the resulting item. Is not preserved when removed.
    • [Int] recipe ID: How many times this specific recipe has been used. The recipe ID is the identifier of the smelting recipe, as a resource location, as used in the /recipe command.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.14			18w44a				Added blast furnaces.
							Blast furnaces are currently obtainable only through the Creative inventory and the GUI can be accessed only through Spectator mode.
			18w48a				Blast furnaces now generate in the updated villages in plains.
			18w49a				Blast furnaces now generate in the updated villages in savannas and the new villages in snowy tundras.
			18w50a				Blast furnaces now generate in the updated villages in deserts and taigas.
							Blast furnaces are now functional and craftable.
			19w03a				Sounds have been added for blast furnaces.
			19w11a				Blast furnaces now serve as armorer villagers' job site block.
1.16			20w06a				Added ancient debris, which can be smelted in blast furnaces.
1.17			21w14a				Added raw metals, which can be smelted in blast furnaces.
1.20			23w12a				Blast furnaces now generate in trail ruins.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.9.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.9.0.2				Added blast furnaces as part of Experimental Gameplay.
1.10.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.10.0.3				A crafting recipe has been added for the blast furnace.
							Blast furnaces now generate in the new village armorer houses.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Blast furnaces are now functional.
							They are no longer available only behind Experimental Gameplay.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Blast furnaces drop themselves only if mined using a pickaxe, matching Java Edition.

PlayStation 4 Edition

PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91							Added blast furnaces.
							Blast furnaces can smelt sand and red sand.

Data history

Bedrock Edition
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.30.20				Blast furnaces now use the minecraft:cardinal_direction block state instead of facing_direction.

Gallery

Renders

Java Edition

• 
  Facing south
• 
  Facing south, lit
• 
  Facing west
• 
  Facing north
• 
  Facing east
• 
  Facing east, lit

Bedrock Edition

• 
  Facing south
• 
  Facing south, lit
• 
  Facing west or north
• 
  Facing west or north, lit
• 
  Facing east
• 
  Facing east, lit

Screenshots

• 
  A blast furnace, smoker and barrel

In other media

• 
  Zuri resting on top of a blast furnace.
• 
  Blast furnaces as seen in A Minecraft Movie

Issues

Issues relating to "Blast Furnace" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

See also

• Furnace
• Smoker

External links

• Block of the Week: Blast Furnace – Minecraft.net on September 10, 2020