Minecraft: How to Craft and Use a Smoker for Food Smelting

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Learn the recipe to craft a Smoker in Minecraft
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In Minecraft, a Smoker is a block that can smelt food twice as fast as a furnace. If you enjoy building and customization, this could add some flair to your kitchen. Here's how to make a Smoker in Minecraft on all platforms.

Crafting a Smoker to Quickly Smelt Food

To make a Smoker in Minecraft, place a Furnace at the center of a crafting grid. Place one of any Log, Stem, or Wood at the top, left, right, and bottom of the Furnace.

Section 1 of 2:

Making a Smoker

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  1. Open the crafting table . This will open a 3x3 crafting grid.
    • You'll need a Furnace and 4 of any Log, Stem, Stripped Log/Stem, Wood, Hyphae, or Stripped Wood/Hyphae. [1] This example will use Oak Wood.
  2. Be sure to place them as follows:
    • Row 1: One Oak Wood in the middle box
    • Row 2: One Oak Wood in the left box, one Furnace in the middle box, one Oak Wood in the right box
    • Row 3: One Oak Wood in the middle box
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  3. You'll see it on the right side of the crafting grid.
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Section 2 of 2:

Smoker Usages

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  1. Unlike the Furnace, Smokers can only be used to smelt Food. This allows you to smelt twice as fast.
    • To smelt food, place a food item and a fuel item into the Smoker.
  2. If there's an unclaimed Smoker in a village , it can be used to change a villager's profession to butcher.
  3. Like other Furnaces, Smokers emit light, which can help keep mobs at bay.
  4. If you're using Java Edition, you can lock the Smoker using the /data command.
  5. If you place a Smoker underneath a note block, it makes a bass drum sound.
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      References

      1. ↑ https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Furnace

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