As soon as smelting begins, the fuel slot is decremented immediately and that unit of fuel begins burning. The number of items that a fuel source can smelt depends on the type of fuel. A furnace smelts items at a speed of one item every 200 game ticks (10 seconds) or six items per minute. A fuel source (up to one stack of fuel items) is placed in the lower slot, and the items (up to one stack) to be smelted are placed in the upper slot. Its interface can be opened by pressing the use item button on it. The main purpose of a furnace is smelting. In Bedrock Edition, a furnace drops itself when mined by hand or with any tool. In Java Edition, a furnace mined without a pickaxe drops nothing.
A furnace will also drop all of its contents when broken, including XP from smelting items that were extracted by hoppers. They also appear in ancient cities and trail ruins, and one furnace generates in every igloo.Ī furnace can be mined using any pickaxe. Furnaces also generate in some houses in snowy tundra villages, and in one of the taiga/ snowy taiga village houses. Furnaces can be found in plains, desert, and some savanna village weaponsmiths.
