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 in Minetest Game.

Fuel

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

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

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.
Heavy Steel Bottle		Steel Ingot	Used for crafting several items.
group “sand”		Glass	Used as decoration or a building material.
32px Pile of Glass Fragments		Glass	Used as decoration or a building material.
Obsidian Shard		Obsidian Glass	Used as decoration or a building material.