How to Craft Campfire in Minecraft

Campfire in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Cooking food (up to 4 items at once). The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.14.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 3 Sticks, 1 Coal, and 3 Logs and you can make a Campfire. The top row is a Stick in the middle column, the middle row two Sticks in the outer columns and Coal in the middle column, and the bottom row three Logs. One go makes 1 Campfire.

Campfire Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Campfire is minecraft:campfire. In commands the namespace may be left off, so campfire works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one: /give @p campfire
Give a full stack of 64: /give @p campfire 64
Give it to a named player: /give Steve campfire 1

Cheats have to be on for Campfire to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Campfires cook up to 4 food items at once without fuel. They produce smoke signals visible from far away. Campfire uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown. A Campfire slowly cooks up to four food items at once with no fuel required, which makes it a hands-off way to cook early-game meat while you do other things nearby.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.14, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with stick (craft from planks), coal (mine coal ore), and log (chop trees).

The Stack Arithmetic

Bring 64 logs, leave with 21 campfires, after 21 rounds of 3 for 1. On top of that: 63 sticks. Left over: just 1 log.

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
StickStick	3x	Craft from planks
CoalCoal	1x	Mine coal ore
Log	3x	Chop trees

To make Campfire you will gather 3x Stick (craft from planks), Coal (mine coal ore), and 3x Log (chop trees), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Coal, 3 Log and 2 Planks.

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2Stick4Stick
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Gather this first

Coal3Log2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

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Stick3x Stick
2
CoalCoal
3
3x Log
4
Campfire

Minecraft crafting recipe for Campfire: 3 x Stick, 1 x Coal, 3 x Log in a crafting table, making 1 Campfire.

Tips & Notes

Shopping list: 3x Stick, 1x Coal, and 3x Log. Plan the Stick first: craft from planks.

Uses for Campfire

Cooking food (up to 4 items at once)
Light source with level 15
Smoke signal for navigation

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Campfire on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Campfire in Minecraft?

a Campfire asks for 3 Sticks, 1 Coal and 3 Logs, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Campfire.

What do you need to make a Campfire from scratch?

Starting with nothing, a Campfire costs 1 Coal, 3 Logs and 2 Planks. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.

Where do you find the materials for a Campfire?

A Campfire draws its parts from several different places. Stick: craft from planks. Coal: mine coal ore. Log: chop trees.

How many Campfires do you get from one craft?

The Campfire recipe makes one Campfire per craft.

What is the item ID for Campfire in Minecraft?

In Java 26.2 the Campfire goes by minecraft:campfire; campfire without the namespace does the same job in a command.

Can you farm everything you need for a Campfire?

Campfire needs nothing you have to go find: stick from planks, coal from wither skeletons, and log from trees you can replant. Set those up once and you can keep making campfire.

What is the give command for Campfire?

The command for Campfire is /give @p campfire. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p campfire 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.

Is the Campfire recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?

Yes, the Campfire recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Campfire from 3 Sticks, 1 Coal and 3 Logs at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.

What version of Minecraft added the Campfire?

The campfire first appears in Minecraft 1.14: that release ships the recipe file and the one before it does not, out of every Java version Mojang still publishes. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield: 3 Sticks and 1 Coal and 3 Logs in, 1 Campfire out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, 17 August 2026.
That Bedrock agrees: Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 3 ingredients.
How far back it goes: Present in Minecraft Java 1.14, missing from the release immediately before. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back: What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size: The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock: What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum: Counted, not played: 1 Campfire per craft against the stack size.

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