Minecraft’s Blast Furnace is one of the most useful upgrades that you can have for a serious miner or crafter. This upgraded smelting station works like a normal furnace but offers a critical benefit; certain materials are processed at twice the normal speed. This device allows you to process ore as well as iron, gold, chainmail equipment and more. However, it cannot process food or material not on this specialized list. Even though the Blast Furnace speeds up the smelting process, it has the same fuel consumption and experience as a normal furnace.
How to Craft Your Own Blast Furnace
To create a blast furnace, you’ll need three items. Players must gather the following materials.
- Five Iron Ingots.
- One Standard Furnace.
- Three Smooth Stone Blocks.
Place those items in the crafting grid as per the pattern shown. Players who have gotten past early game need but a simple assembly process to upgrade their smelting ability.
Operating Your Blast Furnace Effectively
Blast Furnace is operated in much the similar way as that of any Furnace. This device takes in chalk, coal, charcoal, lava buckets, etc. When players put iron or gold equipment in the Blast Furnace, it gets converted to nuggets of that type. Iron gear gives you iron nuggets and gold equipment gives you gold nugget.
The machine efficiently processes numerous ore types. Putting iron ore in the furnace gets you iron ingots, just like a normal furnace. The same principle applies to the ores of gold, copper, coal, and lapis lazuli, meaning the Blast Furnace is versatile.
Setting Up Villager Armorers
Armorers are great trading partners because they help you trade for great armor resources. Trading with the Armorers often increases their skills and they offer better equipment.
You will need to find an unemployed villager in a village to establish a villager as an Armorer. To change a villager’s job, players must use that villager’s current job block, break the old block and place a Blast Furnace near that villager. Once the villager works at the Blast Furnace, particle effects appear around it and its clothes turn into an Armorer’s clothes.