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How to Craft Furnace in Minecraft

Furnace in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Smelting ores into ingots.

Bring 8 Cobblestones to a Crafting Table and you have a Furnace. In the grid that is eight Cobblestones around the edge, leaving the centre cell empty. The grid returns 1 Furnace.

Furnace Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

The Furnace smelts ores, cooks food and processes materials. It requires fuel such as coal, wood or lava buckets. Furnace uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown. A Furnace smelts one item at a time using a fuel slot. Coal, charcoal, dried kelp blocks, lava buckets, and any wood all work as fuel, with each piece of coal smelting eight items.

The furnace was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.16.2. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the furnace, so check the grid above rather than the video. It has been changed 2 times since 1.13.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with cobblestone (mine stone).

The Full Stack Sum

Counted per stack: 64 cobblestones, 8 crafts, 8 furnaces. Nothing is wasted: craft 8 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Cobblestone8xMine stone

For Furnace: 8x Cobblestone (mine stone), brought to a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    8x Cobblestone

  2. 2

    Furnace

Minecraft crafting recipe for Furnace: 8 x Cobblestone in a crafting table, making 1 Furnace.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 8x Cobblestone before you open the Crafting Table. Cobblestone: mine stone.

Uses for Furnace

  • Smelting ores into ingots
  • Cooking food
  • Creating glass, bricks and more

What Furnace Goes Into

3 other recipes list Furnace as an ingredient.

Blast FurnaceCrafting TableMinecart with FurnaceMinecart with FurnaceMinecart with FurnaceCrafting TableSmokerCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Furnace in Minecraft?
The list for a Furnace is short: 8 Cobblestones, worked at a Crafting Table. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces one Furnace.
What can you make with Furnace?
Furnace is an ingredient in 3 other recipes on this site, including Blast Furnace, Minecart with Furnace and Smoker. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Furnace?
The materials for a Furnace each come from somewhere different. Cobblestone: mine stone.
How many Furnaces do you get from one craft?
The Furnace recipe makes one Furnace per craft.
What is the item ID for Furnace in Minecraft?
Furnace is registered as minecraft:furnace. Commands accept the short form furnace as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
Has the Furnace recipe changed?
The furnace last had its recipe changed in Minecraft 1.16.2. Every release after that ships the exact grid shown above, so anything older you find elsewhere is out of date. It has been changed 2 times since 1.13.
What is the give command for Furnace?
/give @p furnace gives you a Furnace. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
What version of Minecraft added the Furnace?
The furnace was older than we can prove: already there in Minecraft Beta 1.0, and that is the oldest language file Mojang still publishes, so the trail simply stops. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Cobblestones in, 1 Furnace out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Every Java release since 1.13 was checked in order, 50 of them, and 1.16.2 is where this recipe last changed.
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 Furnace per craft against the stack size.

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