How to Add Fuel to a Furnace in Minecraft
This Minecraft tutorial explains how to add fuel to a furnace with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
In Minecraft, you can cook or smelt items in the game with a furnace, but first you need to add fuel to the furnace. Let's explore how to do this.
Fuels for a Furnace
These are some of the more common items you can use as fuel for a furnace in Minecraft:
Fuel Efficiency
Some fuels burn longer than others and therefore can cook/smelt more items. The following table lists some of the more common fuels, the length of time the fuel will burn, and the number of items that each fuel can cook or smelt in a furnace:
| Fuel | Length of Burn Time |
Number of Items Smelted/Cooked |
|---|---|---|
 |
1000 seconds | 1 Lava Bucket smelts 100 items |
 |
800 seconds | 1 Block of Coal smelts 80 items |
 |
200 seconds | 1 Dried Kelp Block smelts 20 items |
 |
120 seconds | 1 Blaze Rod smelts 12 items |
 |
80 seconds | 1 Coal smelts 8 items |
 |
80 seconds | 1 Charcoal smelts 8 items |
 |
15 seconds | 1 Oak Planks smelts 1.5 items |
 |
15 seconds | 1 Spruce Planks smelts 1.5 items |
 |
15 seconds | 1 Birch Planks smelts 1.5 items |
 |
15 seconds | 1 Jungle Planks smelts 1.5 items |
|
15 seconds | 1 Acacia Planks smelts 1.5 items |
 |
15 seconds | 1 Dark Oak Planks smelts 1.5 items |
 |
15 seconds | 1 Mangrove Planks smelts 1.5 items |
 |
5 seconds | 1 Stick smelts 0.5 items |
Steps to add Fuel to a Furnace
1. Open the Furnace Menu
First, open your furnace so that you have the Furnace menu that looks like this:
2. Add Fuel to the Furnace
In Minecraft, you need to add fuel to the bottom fuel box in the furnace.
In this tutorial, we are going to use coal as our fuel.
3. Cook using the Furnace
Now you can add items in the top box of your furnace to cook them.
For example, you can cook a raw chicken in a furnace and make cooked chicken.
TIP: When the fuel in your furnace is burning, the furnace will light up with flames. 
Congratulations, you just learned how to add fuel to your furnace in Minecraft.
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