How to Build a Brick Fireplace With a Chimney in Minecraft

Last Updated: June 16, 2021

While a fireplace has no specific function in Minecraft, it can add a nice touch to your home. Follow this guide to learn how to build a brick fireplace with a chimney in Minecraft.

Part 1

Part 1 of 2:
Making Brick Blocks for Your Fireplace

1
Gather clay. You can find clay in veins along the bottom of shallow rivers, swamps or inside of mason houses (plains, savanna, and desert villages).
- You can break clay blocks with your hand, but using a shovel works best.
- Breaking clay blocks always drops 4 clay balls, regardless of Fortune.
2
Turn the clay into bricks. Add a clay ball and a fuel source, like coal or planks, to your furnace, to smelt the clay balls into bricks.
- Make sure you smelt the clay balls, and not the clay block. Smelting the clay block will give Hardened Clay/Terracotta which can't be turned back to normal clay.
3
Craft the bricks. Brick items, need to be crafted into blocks first before they can be used to build with. To do this, place 4 bricks in a 2x2 square in your crafting menu.
- Bricks (the item not the block) can also be used to craft flower pots.
4
Trading with Villagers. Alternatively, you can trade emeralds for bricks with a Stone Mason villager instead of gathering the clay yourself.
- Stone Masons houses can naturally spawn as part of a village, but you can also convert an unemployed villager into a stone mason by placing a Stonecutter close to them.
- This method is recommended for large projects as less time is spent just looking for clay.
- For a smaller project like this you shouldn't need to trade with too many villagers, but for a larger build, its a good idea to invest in a trading hall.

Part 2

Part 2 of 2:
Making a Brick Fireplace with a Chimney

1
Dig out a 2 brick by 4 brick hole up to the ceiling on an exterior wall of your base.
2
Dig out the 2 bricks on the floor in the center of the hole you just made.
3
Line the hole with brick blocks. Place 2 netherrack in the floor holes and cover the rest of the fireplace 1 block deeper.
- If you want a fireplace escape route make the fireplace either 2x1x3 or 2x2x3 (these dimensions are: height x width x length/back) with a hallway that leads somewhere safe (like a hidden bunker) and a minecart behind where the flame will be.(it will work even if the fire is... flaming, but just in case dig a 1x1 hole in the hall and place a bucket of water)
4
Extend the chimney as high as you want out of the side of your base.
5
Light up the netherrack with your flint and steel to complete your fireplace.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I cook meat on a fireplace? Do I put it in front of the fire, or actually in it?

Pinrui Huang

Community Answer

You can't. You have to use a furnace, because if you use the fireplace, you will burn yourself to death.
Question

How do I make the railing?

Entity303

Community Answer

The railing is made of iron bars. If you don’t have access to that, you don’t even need a railing.
Question

What else can I use besides netherrack?

Alex Martinez

Community Answer

Nothing unless you want it to go out; netherrack burns continuously, while other blocks make the fire go out, or the fire burns down the block.
Question

Can I make a fireplace in a wooden house without it being burned by the fire?

Community Answer

The only way you can is if the fire is surrounded by brick, including the nether rack. All the other parts of the house can be wooden.
Question

Why is it not making smoke?

Bree Lutzky

Community Answer

The player who took the screenshots may have had the smoke particles turned off in order to make the game run faster.
Question

Can I use quartz instead of bricks?

Community Answer

Yes, as long as it is not flammable.
Question

Can this be made without a chimney?

Community Answer

It can, but it would burn your house down.
Question

Can use a fireplace instead of fire and netherrack?

Ashlyn Martin

Community Answer

Yes, you can. If you want the smoke to go up higher, place a hay bale underneath it.
Question

What happens if your house is too small?

ILikeSlugs

Community Answer

In that case, you need to expand your house to make room for the fireplace.
Question

Why did the fire stop?

ILikeSlugs

Community Answer

You probably weren't lighting the fire on netherrack. Netherrack is the only block that fire burns indefinitely (forever) on.

Warnings

If you have flammable blocks less than 4 blocks above the fire or above adjacent blocks, then those blocks will ignite, so make sure no flammable blocks are within this zone.

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