A blast furnace is just like a furnace that has more power and capacity to burn things and items at a much faster rate. Now if you have used a furnace before then you will really be amazed to see how powerful and quick this blast furnace is in smelting various items and extracting something from it. Most of them all it doesn’t take much time to smelt an item or thing in Minecraft.
Well, you might have heard or seen your friends or some influencer use the blast furnace to extract metal or something from it. You can also easily smelt various things using a blast furnace in Minecraft by following this simple and interesting guide given below.
How to use a blast furnace in Minecraft
Before we move to the process of smelting an item in the blast furnace, let us consider some things that require to be considered. It will be really nice to know of the efitions if Minecraft that support the process of smelting the items in blast furnace.
So that you don’t have to find at the end if the process is not supported by your edition of Minecraft.
The editions of Minecraft that do support the process of smelting the items in the blast furnace are;
Java Edition
Pocket Edition
Xbox One
PS4
Nintendo Switch
Education Edition
Windows 10 Edition
So these are the editions of Minecraft that do support the process of smelting the items in the blast furnace.
Now that we have known the editions that allow us to smelt the items in a blast furnace, let us move into the actual process.
- Set up the blast furnace
The very first step towards using the blast furnace to smelt the items and extract the final product is to set the blast furnace at the first place.
You need to locate or find the exact place where you think to set up the blast furnace in your gameplay.
After you have selected the place where you want to place the blast, you should follow the steps in your respective editions to set it up.
Select the blast furnace icon from the bar present on the bottom of the screen in Minecraft. Then point to the place where you want to add the blast furnace. And place the blast furnace box there itself by following the respective step for doing so in your edition of Minecraft.
Thereafter the blast furnace will appear in the place where you pointed the plus sign on Minecraft.
Now that you have successfully added the blast furnace to the point where you wanted to add it.
You now need to set up the blast furnace there.
The different editions of Minecraft do have different steps and processes to set up the blast furnace in a particular place.
Let us follow the steps required to set up a blast furnace in some place in different editions of Minecraft.
Java Edition
For setting up the blast furnace you need to click on the right button on the mouse while pointing the plus sign at the blast furnace box.
Pocket Edition
In order to set up the blast furnace in the Pocket Edition, you need to tap on the blast furnace box.
Xbox One
For setting up the blast furnace in the Xbox One edition of Minecraft, you need to press the key LT on your controller while holding the plus sign at the blast furnace box.
PS4
For setting up the blast furnace in the PS4 edition of Minecraft, you need to press the key L2 on your PS4 controller while pointing the plus sign arrow at the blast furnace box.
Nintendo Switch
In order to set up the blast furnace in the Nintendo Switch edition of Minecraft, you need to press the key ZL on your controller while holding the plus sign at the blast furnace box.
Windows 10 edition
For setting up the blast furnace in Windows 10 edition, you need to press the right button on your mouse while holding the arrow at the box.
Education Edition
In order to set up the blast furnace in Education Edition, you need to right click on the blast furnace box that you have placed in the above process.
So these were the steps for setting up the blast furnace box in the different editions of Minecraft.
Thereafter you will see the blast furnace table open up on your screen.
The blast furnace screen also has two columns just like the crafting table. The first one is where we add the required material for smelting and obtaining an extracted metal. The other part is where we obtain that finished or extracted metal.
The first part has just two blocks where we need to put the required materials for smelting a metal in a blast furnace.
Now that you have set up the blast furnace box, you need to start the process of smelting the items.
2. Smelting items
After that you have set up the blast furnace, it’s time that we start the process of smelting items in the blast furnace.
For smelting the items in the blast furnace, we need to add the fuel to heat up the blast furnace.
Add the fuel to the second block below the first one, so as to heat up the blast furnace.
Follow the respective gesture or steps in your respective editions of Minecraft, to add the fuel to the second block in the blast furnace table.
Thereafter you will need to place the item or metal that you want to smelt.
Suppose you want to smelt a gold metal, so place the gold metal from the inventory to the blast furnace table.
You need to follow the respective steps or gesture in your respective edition of Minecraft to add the gold metal in the first block in the blast furnace table.
After some time you will notice a smelted gold metal appearing in the second part of the blast furnace table.
Here, you have successfully smelted the gold metal in Minecraft.
Yet you need to follow one last step so as to use this smelted metal in your gameplay.
Now that you have smelted the metal successfully, still you cannot see in your gameplay.
3. Adding the smelted metal
You need to add the smelted metal to your gameplay, so bad to access it there.
For adding the smelted metal to the gameplay, you need to add it to the inventory then it will show up in your gameplay.
Follow the respective process in your edition of Minecraft to add the smelted item to your gameplay.
After that you will be able to see it in the bar, present on the bottom of the Minecraft screen.
Here you have successfully added the smelted metal to your gameplay.
So that was all about adding the smelted metal to the gameplay in Minecraft.
Follow the below given links to get a similar guide for using various other features in Minecraft.
