To make a blast furnace in Minecraft, you need the following materials:
- 5 Iron Ingots
- 1 Furnace
- 3 Smooth Stone
Steps to craft a blast furnace:
- Craft a Furnace : Use 8 pieces of cobblestone arranged in a square around the crafting grid, leaving the center empty, to make a furnace.
- Make Smooth Stone : Smelt regular stone in a furnace to get smooth stone. To get regular stone, either mine stone blocks with a Silk Touch pickaxe or smelt cobblestone in a furnace.
- Craft the Blast Furnace : Open the crafting table and place the furnace in the center slot. Place 5 iron ingots around the furnace (two on each side and one on top). Place the 3 smooth stones in the bottom row.
This arrangement will give you one blast furnace
Additional info:
- The blast furnace smelts ores, iron/gold tools and armor, and chainmail armor twice as fast as a regular furnace but consumes fuel twice as fast.
- It cannot be used to cook food.
- It also serves as a job site block for villagers to become armorers.
- Fuel options include coal, charcoal, and lava buckets.
This crafting process and usage make the blast furnace a valuable mid-game upgrade for efficient smelting of ores and metal items
