Smelting is a crucial part of Minecraft survival. This is how you cook food, make ore ingots, and produce other resources. In this guide, we’ll discuss all the different types of furnaces, fuels, and explain how smelting works in Minecraft.
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How smelting works in Minecraft
Smelting in Minecraft allows you to place a material and fuel into a furnace in order to cook food, make ore ingots, turn sand into glass, refine stones, and more. To smelt, you first need to build a furnace.
Minecraft furnace types
There are three different types of smelters you can build in Minecraft.
