Games/Minetest Game/Smelting

Smelting (also called Cooking) is the act of producing refined goods in Minetest via the Furnace. Items are smelted by adding a fuel (flammable object) into the bottom left box and an item to be smelted in the upper left box within the furnace menu.

Fuel

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

Node	Burning time (seconds)	Items smelted per block/item
Coal Block	370	123 + 1/3
Lava Bucket	60	20
Lava Source	60	20
Coal Lump	40	13 + 1/3
Mese	30	10
Bookshelf	30	10
Tree	30	10
Door	30	10
Chest	30	10
Locked Chest	30	10
Jungle Tree	30	10
Cactus	5	5
Fence	15	5
Wooden Planks	7	2 + 1/3
Sign	10	3 + 1/3
Sapling	10	3 + 1/3
Ladder	5	1 + 2/3
Apple	3	1
Leaves	1	0.5
Papyrus	1	0.5
Nyan Cat	1	0.5
Nyan Cat Rainbow	1	0.5

Recipes

Input	Furnace	Output	Description
Clay Lump		Clay Brick	Used to craft bricks.
Cobblestone		Stone	Used as decoration.
Copper Lump		Copper Ingot	Can be combined with a steel ingot to make a bronze ingot.
Flour		Bread	Used as food.
Gold Lump		Gold Ingot	Used for crafting a Gold Block.
Iron Lump		Steel Ingot	Used for crafting several items.
Sand		Glass	Used as decoration and/or building material.