How to Make an Automatic Furnace in Minecraft

Last Updated: July 1, 2021

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!

Steps

1
Place your furnace
2
Place a hopper on both sides. Make sure the hoppers connect properly to the furnace.

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3
Place a hopper underneath the furnace, and place a chest under it.
4
Place chests on the other two hoppers.
5
Place fuel in the chest on one side, and the items you want to smelt on the other.
6
Look for your items in the chest on the bottom, smelted.

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Community Q&A

Question

If I put coal and a log into the chests, will the log go into the smelting area or the fuel area?

Cros Saint

Community Answer

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.
Question

Can you put hoppers going from a furnace to a chest?

Cros Saint

Community Answer

That’s what happened in step 3, which shows placement of a hopper under the furnace to collect items and into a chest.
Question

Do I need to put a lever for it to work?

Ashlyn Martin

Community Answer

No, that is a design choice. It makes it look like more realistic.

Warnings

Do not place items in the bottom chest, they will not be smelted.

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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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