Games/Minetest Game/Smelting

Smelting – also called Cooking – is the act of producing refined goods in Minetest via the Furnace. See this page for more informations about the furnace.

This page contains the available fuels and smelting recipes.

Fuel

The following can currently be used as fuel. Most items in the vanilla Minetest game take 3 seconds to be smelted.

	Block	Burning time in seconds	Items smelted per block/item
	Coal Block	370	123​⅓
	Lava Bucket – bucket is not destroyed	60	20
	Lava Source	60	20
	Coal Lump	40	13​⅓
	Bookshelf	30	10
	Tree	30	10
	Jungle Tree	30	10
	Pine Tree	30	10
	Acacia Tree	30	10		Chest	30	10
	Locked Chest	30	10
	Cactus	15	5
	Fence	15	5
	Sign	10	3​⅓
	any Sapling	10	3​⅓
	group “wood”	7	2​⅓
	Ladder	5	1​⅔
	Torch	4	1​⅓
	Apple	3	1
	Jungle Grass	2	⅔
	Grass	2	⅔
	Dry Grass	2	⅔
	group “leaves”	1	0.5
	Papyrus	1	0.5
	Nyan Cat	1	0.5
	Nyan Cat Rainbow	1	0.5

Recipes

Input	Furnace	Output	Description
Flour		Bread	Can be eaten to restore health.
Cobblestone		Stone	Used as decoration.
Mossy Cobblestone		Stone	Used as decoration.
Desert Cobblestone		Desert Stone	Used as decoration.
Clay Lump		Clay Brick	Used to craft bricks.
Copper Lump		Copper Ingot	Can be combined with a steel ingot to make a bronze ingot.
Gold Lump		Gold Ingot	Used for crafting a Gold Block.
Iron Lump		Steel Ingot	Used for crafting several items.
Steel bottle		Steel Ingot	Used for crafting several items.
group “sand”		Glass	Used as decoration or a building material.
32px Glass fragments		Glass	Used as decoration or a building material.
Obsidian Shard		Obsidian Glass	Used as decoration or a building material.