How to Make an Automatic Furnace in Minecraft

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Craft a fully automated furnace in Minecraft
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Do you always get tired of waiting for your items to finish smelting while you have two or more items also needing to be smelted and you need to put in fuel every time? Well you can by making an automatic furnace to do it for you!

Quick Steps

  1. Place down your furnace.
  2. Place a hopper on each side of the furnace.
  3. Place a hopper underneath the furnace.
  4. Place a chest the hoppers beside the furnace.
  5. Place fuel in one chest and smelting items in the other.
  6. Find the smelted items in the bottom chest.

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  2. Make sure the hoppers connect properly to the furnace. [1]
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    If I put coal and a log into the chests, will the log go into the smelting area or the fuel area?
    Cros Saint
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    It will depend on which chest you put them in, the hopper on top will be smelted while the one on the side will be fuel.
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    Can you put hoppers going from a furnace to a chest?
    Cros Saint
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    That’s what happened in step 3, which shows placement of a hopper under the furnace to collect items and into a chest.
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    Do I need to put a lever for it to work?
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    No, that is a design choice. It makes it look like more realistic.
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      Warnings

      • If you place non-smeltable items in the top chests, they will stay in the top chest and not go to the bottom one.
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      • Do not place items in the bottom chest, they will not be smelted.
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      Things You'll Need

      • 3 Hoppers
      • 1 Furnace
      • 3 Chests

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      References

      1. ↑ https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Automatic_smelting#Build_instructions
      2. ↑ https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Automatic_smelting#Build_instructions
      3. ↑ https://youtu.be/iDywFVfxAUE?t=90
      4. ↑ https://youtu.be/iDywFVfxAUE?t=150

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