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

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Learn the recipe to craft a Smoker in Minecraft

Co-authored by Zac Churchill and Rain Kengly

Last Updated: March 14, 2024 Fact Checked

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Making a Smoker

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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.

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Making a Smoker

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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]
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  Research source} This example will use Oak Wood.
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Place the materials in the grid. 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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You'll see it on the right side of the crafting grid.

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Smoker Usages

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Food smelting. 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.
If there's an unclaimed Smoker in a village, it can be used to change a villager's profession to butcher.
Like other Furnaces, Smokers emit light, which can help keep mobs at bay.
If you're using Java Edition, you can lock the Smoker using the /data command.
If you place a Smoker underneath a note block, it makes a bass drum sound.