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A blast furnace is a type of furnace that smelts metal ores with coke and air. Learn how it works, what products it produces, and how it evolved over time.
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A blast furnace is a block that smelts ores, raw metals and metal armor and tools twice as quickly as a furnace but cannot smelt anything else. It also serves as an armorer's job site block.
Breaking
A blast furnace can be picked up using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it does not drop. Blast furnaces drop their contents when broken. 1.Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Natural generation
Blast furnaces can generate in any armorer house; these can be found in a village. They can also generate in trail ruins.
Smelting
Blast furnaces are similar to furnaces, but can smelt only raw ore, ore blocks and tools/armor made of iron, gold or chainmail. Blast furnaces serve as the counterpart to smokers, which are used mainly to cook food faster. Smelting equipment yields one iron or gold 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 a blast furnace and can also pick up items from it.
Changing profession
If a village has a blast furnace that has not been claimed by a villager, any nearby villager who has not chosen a job site block has a chance to change their profession to armorer.
Light source
Blast furnaces emit a light level of 13 when active, similar to normal furnaces.
Generic
: 1.a b MC-177082
Unique
: 1.a b MC-179832 2.a b c MC-98316 — Wrong subtitles caused by missing distinction
ID
: : 1.ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons. 2.Available with /give command. 3.a b The block's direct item form has the same id as the block. 4.Unavailable with /give command
Block states
: : Name Metadata Bits Default value Allowed values Values for Metadata Bits Description facing_direction (Deprecated)0x1 0x2 0x4 3 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 The direction the blast furnace's opening faces. •2: facing north •3: facing south •4: facing west •5: facing east
Block data
A blast furnace has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block. : •Block entity data •Tags common to all block entities •BurnTime: Number of ticks left before the current fuel runs out. •CookTime: 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 BurnTime reaches 0. •CookTimeTotal: Number of ticks It takes for the item to be smelted. •CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which appears in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears. •Items: List of items in this container. •: An item in the blast 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. •Tags common to all items •Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string. •RecipesUsed: Recipes that 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. •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.
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A blast furnace is a block that smelts ores, raw metals and metal armor and tools twice as quickly as a furnace in Minecraft. It also serves as an armorer's job site block and can generate in villages and trail ruins.
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