Minecraft campfire guide - how to craft one and what materials you will need
Get warm and toasty in Minecraft.
What is it with games and campfires? They always seem so important. The Minecraft campfire is no different.
Crafting a campfire in Minecraft will help you to survive in a number of ways. You can cook food at a campfire, they produce light (perfect in a cave!), can melt snow, and can act as a guide to show you how to get back somewhere.
You can even place a campfire under a beehive or bee nest to harvest honey without getting stung.
Talk about useful.
Fortunately, making a campfire is a fairly simple process, if you know what to do and which materials you need.
Keep reading to find out how to craft a campfire in Minecraft and how to put out a campfire – you may need to extinguish one, who are we to judge?
How to craft a campfire in Minecraft
Here are the materials that you will need to gather which will then need to be placed onto your crafting table.
- Three wooden sticks
- One coal or one charcoal
- Three wooden blocks or logs
As for how you will need to set them out in the crafting table, here's the order to add them.
- Open up the grafting grid set to 3x3
- Add one stick in the top middle square, one in the middle left, and the other middle right.
- Add the coal right in the centre
- Now the three logs fill up the bottom row.
- Once the campfire is crafted, move it into your inventory section and that's it, all done!
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With regards to what you can do with a campfire, obviously, they produce light in an area which is their primary use but that's not their only reason for being. They can be used to melt snow, they can be a guide to show you how to get back somewhere, and you can even cook food on them.
How to put out a campfire in Minecraft
You can put out a campfire in Minecraft by throwing water onto it or by hitting it with a shovel. Using a shovel is probably the best way to extinguish a campfire, as you won't flood the surrounding area with water.
Over on the official Minecraft website, the development team tells us that you can "place a trapdoor (which can even be redstone-controlled) above the fire, which will block all the smoke until it opens again".
This is a good method if you want to hide your presence for whatever reason.
Check out this helpful YouTube video by MetaGreats to see how to craft and then put out a campfire in Minecraft:
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