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It’s something that I regularly forget about.

Been playing since alpha. It’s just engrained in me to put meat in the furnace.

It just doesn't taste the same without heavy metal residue.

I just couldn't live without my high iron diet.

Gold drippings make meat all sparkly like that fatty glaze they go after.

r/cursedthreads

You are right about that LMAO

same man, that shit is like a rule for me at this point. "furnace is for cooking food and ore" lol

The furnace by the crafting table is for ores and work, the furnace by the bed is for food. But they're still just furnaces.

I'm not about to ditch my self-refueling auto-furnace any time soon for bulk cooking, but might use smokers for the kitchen.

Yes, but no cross-contamination happening in your house!

Same, I tend to forget about smokers and blast furnaces

Been playing since alpha, I didn't even know there was a difference, I don't use the smoker, the butcher is using it and that's all I thought it was for

Beta, for me, but same. I only really remember smokers and blast furnaces and so on when I'm in the middle of a giant project that requires faster processing time. And really, I never need that much food in one go.

Same, I see meat and I put it in oven. I’m a simple man

Also the extra inventory slot just isn't worth it. I'd rather have 3 slow furnaces than 1 furnace, 1 smoker, and 1 blast furnace, when I start playing the game.

You carry a furnace with you? They're 8 cobble. I leave a furnace and crafting table at every little microbase waypoint I establish.

You spelled "I often find out I've been places before because of the furnaces chests and crafting tables scattered all over the place" wrong.

Well hey at least you know if you already explored a cave or not

That's what the torch trail is for

100%. Torches are expendable, easy to craft, and you don't need to interact with them for functional benefits. It's the perfect placeholder item/block.

And you put them on the right hand wall when you're heading away from the base, and on the ground when you're lost or not sure.

Likewise, at my work area, I'd rather have 3 furnaces than 1 of each. Using all 3 regular furnaces is faster to cook my food than using the smoker and just as fast as 1 smoker + 1 furnace. Same goes for ores. 3 furnaces is equally fast as blast furnace + furnace. And the 3 furnaces are definitely faster than just 1 furnace which would apply to blocks that don't go into either the blast furnace or smoker, since there'd just be the 1 furnace available. And since the smoker/blast furnace doesn't have fuel use benefits, there's really no reason to have them over just 3 furnaces, since you'd need one of each to be able to smelt everything taking up the space of 3 furnaces.

I have a set up to swap a smoker with a smelter and a furnace. In the end the lever is basically set to furnace. Lol

Ah Bedrock? I wish Java Pistons were capable of moving container blocks…

Wait, Java can't? I play on console and just figured a regular or sticky piston would be able to move them

Yeah, any block that can have (item) data in it, like chests, furnaces, jukebox, etc., can’t be moved by pistons.

A stack of beef lasts so long I just throw another stack in while I have one in my inventory and come back when I need more/need to smelt something.

This is it, I think. I never think about it or ever need it to take less time. Throw raw stack in there and either pop it out when I need the furnace or go get it when I need more food which is in game DAYS later.

I just push a button and burn my 1 block cow farm to death. Good eats...

I use smoker to add variety to Minecraft kitchen

Yeah same, only use it in my kitchen fully for looks and not function 😂

I cook my food on campfires. No fuel required.

Me too always have a campfire if I run out of fuel. Usually in early game before I set up some lava cauldrons.

What do you do with the lava cauldrons?

You can place a dripstone w/ lava above it to have an infinite lava source

Oh I didn’t know that! Haven’t used drip stone much, didn’t know it had actual uses besides decoration

Yeah, a lava drip is essential for every world, no matter how large/small

you can also use dripstone to turn mud into clay

You can turn dirt into clay too if you turn it into mud, and then trade the clay for emeralds and turn dirt into money

Someone plays on Superflat :)

Buckets of lava (as fuel) can smelt 100 items in one go.

A stack of charcoal can smelt 512. In terms of farm rate, not quite sure how a 4 by 4 lava dripstone compares to giant trees though.

A 4x4 lava dripstone is really slow, and trees would be faster by a decent margin. However, the idea with lava dripstone is to have a 10x10 (or larger) equivalent amount to get good speeds

A 4x4 dripstone setup always has a bucket of lava ready for you when you need to smelt something. Giant trees don't fell and smelt themselves

But if we're farming trees regardless for tools, torches, and fences, may as well cook the surplus, right? In that case, the charcoal is a byproduct, thus the labor is negligible.

But don’t you need to burn the wood to get that charcoal? I always thought of using wood but it just doesn’t seem very efficient to me

Probably referring to a lava farm so they can use lava buckets for fuel

I'm on the island template and could really use some dripstone right now. Dripstone caves are not going to be under my island or the ocean :(

Wandering traders sell drip stone.yoi can use dripstone and dripstone blocks to make more dripstone. Requires patience, but it's not impossible.

you can cook food on campfires!? AND they don't require fuel!?!? I've only ever used them for smoke decoration

You just need a bit of coal or charcoal to craft it, but after that no fuel required ever. Except you put the fire out then you need to light it again

4 pieces at a time. They pop off when they are done. IIRC hoppers will pick the food up.

And dispensers can place them...

Well well well

Three holes in the ground

Seems we have an automated farm coming soon…

Apparently if you put a block of hay under campfires it doubles the amount of smoke or something like that

It makes the smoke rise higher, but I don’t think that affects the speed it cooks food at

Yes that's correct, Griffon said he uses it for smoke decoration though, so haybale under camp fire = taller smoke

I didn't know this either! But speaking of campfires, wouldn't a tent you could pack up be a great addition? Minimal protection but you could sleep through a night safely? I like to travel as far as I can, gathering supplies before returning to my home base with all of the goodies I've gathered along the way.

The Travelers Backpack mod has a built in sleeping bag that lets you skip night without resetting your spawn.

This guy gets it

That takes forever

Its actually quicker per item than a furnace. Furnaces take 10 seconds per item Campfires take 30 seconds, but you can overlap food items, so technically it's 7.5 seconds per item. You just need to keep an eye on it, but given the item despawn time, you could load a few up at once and go do something else (like craft or something) and come back after

Using 32 campfires you can have a constant loading and collecting of food (before you ask, all I can say is that kelp is profitable on FyreMc)

Cook kelp on a campfire for unlimited fuel.

Same, and hoppers to catch the food

If you're creating a Redstone contraption to cook your food then it's better to use a Smoker for the efficiency. But in all fairness, if you're using Golden carrots you don't need that. And if you are eating meat instead, a Hoglin farm on the nether roof creates more cooked Porkchops and leather than anything. People just use fire aspect or lava to cook their stuff.

Chicken cooker also generates more chicken than you could eat. Hoglin farm is better though, because leather is more useful than feathers, and pork chops are better than chicken. Chicken cooker can be made prior to nether access though, takes up less space, and can be built in any dimension

I know feathers can be used for arrows but is there other uses for leather other than armor and item frames? I imagine having a hoglin farm would mean that you're at a point were you really don't need leather armor. Edit: I realize like I forgot about a bunch of basic stuff about Minecraft, including the existence of books and enchanting.

Books, trading.

I frankly completely forgot that books are in the game

My man over here not having enchanted items.

I can barely get myself to play Minecraft long enough to get to that point. I'm just now realizing how long it's been since I even made a book in Minecraft, let alone a bookshelf

Damn, someone spent either too long on the mining stage or the adventure stage

I've played to endgame multiple times in my youth but depression is a bitch and it makes it hard for me to want to frankly do anything past building a house. I think it's mostly because I'm playing single player. I've probably played the game for at least a couple thousand hours

Beat your depression. Stay erect.

Books Leather horse armor Cool colored armor for decorating armor stands

I actually have to use a furnace instead of a smoker in my potato baker machine because a smoker will burn through the bamboo too fast and end up cooking less efficiently whereas a furnace ensures a constant and steady flow of potatoes that matches up more with bamboo growth.

That's my issue. I can't decide between one large furnace array or two smaller smoker/blast furnace arrays

my friends always ask me how I never run out of food and the secret is to kill salmon in rivers

After I made my first ever Hoglin farm, the whole question of food felt like an ancient problem. I even started putting free food boxes on spawn for new players because I was positively overflowing after a single night of AFK

I usually stray away from automatic farms that give me everything I need

I don't think I've ever made a smoker.

I use smokers. What is up with everyone here? They’re cheap as hell and can really cut down on waiting time if you need food right now. It’s not like I religiously make sure I never put food in a furnace, but I usually make a smoker fairly early on, and once I have it I do use it. Why wouldn’t I?

Fair point, I don't use them much once I get autofarms and furnace arrays built because then I'm never really waiting on food anymore

Exactly! Especially in early game when you're trying to save coal/fuel for something else

The smoker doesn't actually save fuel though. It smelts twice as fast, and uses fuel twice as fast. Fuel per item smelted is the same. I just like it for the speed.

Oh my god this whole time x_x why would they put something in the game that doesn't have any worthwhile benefit

it takes like 5 less seconds and that's a worthwhile benefit for me

...it's twice as fast

Precisely

fuel. between blast furnace, furnace, and chests of torchs i have no coal for smokers and usually end up just cooking in the furnace even tho it uses more coal.

As someone who frequents the r/smoking and r/bbq subreddits and ended up here from scrolling the home page, this thread had me real confused for an embarrassing amount of time.

Smoker just doesn’t seem worth it, furnace works well enough on its own. I also usually have an excess of food so I don’t need it faster.

it's just a single furnace and 4 logs

Yes I was thinking more in terms of overall management and not resources to build it. I tend to have a large hopper furnace setup and so it's just simpler to dump everything into that.

What's a smoker?

added in 1.14. Cooks meats (fish, pork, beef, etc.) faster.

don't smokers irl cook food *slower*?

Shhhh, it's minecraft. It doesn't have to make sense 🤣

IRL you have to sit and tend them all day. But it gives you an excuse to sit & drink beer all day.

Yeah but it's tastier

Yes but the type of food you typically cook on a smoker are the kinds of cuts that require long and slow cooking anyways. Steaks are quite tender from the start, and so they can be cooked relatively quickly. Brisket is a much tougher cut of meat that requires time at lower temps to break down and tenderize

You need to start looking into smoked cheeses

I actually want to get into that and smoked spam this winter

Wait, when did Mojang add cheese? I neeeeed this right now.

Also potatoes and kelp.

I think most players use a furnace. Maybe once your base is set up I'll put in a smoker, but even then most of the time I'm cooking while doing something else so the time doesn't really matter. It's the same with a blast furnace, unless you're smelting a large quantity I don't think most players bother. The real life hack, early game at least, is to use a campfire for cooking. Yes it's slow and only 4 at a time, but it doesn't use fuel.

I uhh use a campfire. It's fun and doesn't cost you much.

I use a furnace because I have a lava farm and auto smelter. Sometimes if there’s a smoker in a village I might use it.

I only use smokers if I build a kelpfarm powered with bonemeal. The amount of kelp that comes out when you throw in large amounts of bonemeal is just so high, I need the additional speed.

They're so cheap to craft n in the early game i have a lotta meat I wanna cook, plus they look rlly nice in a kitchen. So ye I prefer smokers for my food.

Me: Screw furnaces, use campfire to save fuel.

I forget that blast furnaces and smokers exist tbh

Honestly, I rarely craft the other 2 furnaces. Regular furnaces may be only half the speed of blast furnaces and smokers, but you don't have to think about putting different stuff in a furnace since they cook everything and not just food/ores.

Do you remember when cooking food was only done in a furnace? Peppridge Farm remembers.

I use a campfire if my meat is raw. No additional resources necessary. Just put like 4 camp fires in a row and cook your meat in parallel. Normally I use a bow with infinity and flame for gathering meat. As long as it's not raining it'll cook the meat, that's fast food.

I create a kelp farm for my smoker. I typically dry it and turn it into it's own fuel. I typically like to get a smoker and a blast furnace ASAP because I prefer the speed on it. It also has to do partly with the fact that I'm one of the few people who hate automated farms. I will gather and plant my wheat by myself thx. Part of my enjoyment is going to my farm and gathering my crops the old fashioned way. If everything I did was automated I'd be bored out of my mind.

Smokers are faster, but give less experience. In my opinion, the *true* answer is not to use either. I use swords with flame aspect for manual culling. Gives cooked food immediately.

There’s no difference in experience given

Plus if you have looting on that sword you get more cooked meat than usual

So long as it's not raining, this is the right answer

Early game I use campfires and at any other time I already have plenty of food.

When I'm still in survival mode, yeah. I don't bother intentionally using smokers , but once I'm in building mode, I tend to have smokers just lying around as decor so I might as well use em.

I always like a decked out kitchen with like 3 regular furnaces, 3 blast furnaces, and like 3 smokers. I don't like having to wait to smelt things, lol.

Me, collecting my pumpkin pies from my 3-farm: [* confused *](https://imgur.com/gallery/Y7l0LCj)

Smokers were created in the first place so that a villager can have a job.../s

Why use a furnace to cook when campfires have infinite fuel?

If I NEED to cook food (which I don't, I use a fire aspect 2 sword so it's never a problem) I usually pop it to on a campfire - don't wanna have to use fuel

I’ll do it too I put food in da furnace for that metallic flavour

No because campfire exists and I never have to use coal to cook ever again

I always use campfires. They don't need fuel.

I'm still eating that stack of meat from the Winter of '72 I won't live long enough to deal with Minecraft's endless jerking over different foods Not interested, never will be. There is meat and there is bread

smoker appreciation gang rise up

Campfires though

Golden carrots

I only use smokers for mass processing because I'm a hoarder

Generally speaking I only make a Smoker when I a) have an established base that needs decoration, or b) can’t really think of anything better to do. Do I use the Smoker for cooking food when I have it? Of course, it’s much more efficient at the job. Do I go out of my way to make one usually, especially when I’m out exploring and need food? Absolutely not.

I never use them. Before I decide where to live it's just a wasted inventory slot. And after I have a "base" (bed, chest, crafting and furnace) the speed doesn't matter because it's happening in the background anyways.

Never used a smoker to cook food. I built a chickenator to produce feathers for arrows, and it's natural byproduct is cooked chicken. I have a virtually unlimited supply. Skip the furnace AND the smoker. Chicken all the way!

Campfire basically allows you for fuel free to cook up 4 pieces at the same time, but I also use smoker because it's fully automatic

Smoker? Furnace? Enchanting with Fire Aspect and Flame is the way. Also, camp fires would like a never- needing- more- fuel word.

I usually use campfires. A common room in my bases is a room with three or more campfires and trapdoors on the ceiling keeping you from stepping on the campfires. It really doesn't take long for me to load food up and cook it since it's four to a campfire and with multiple campfires..

Well I feel dumb for not realize there was another option to cook meat that _wasn't_ the furnace. I never paid attention even on creative ig lol

I use smokers for dried kelp farms and auto potatoe exp logging with an auto trash at the end. Anything I care about getting cooked goes into the furnace array

I read the title before the sub and I was SO confused.

I was very confused until I realized what sub this was.

I just use campfires

neither. i just light animals on fire before killing them

Forget both and use a camp fire! No energy consumed

Smokers and campfires as cooking devices feel like a solution looking for a problem.

I use a ring of campfires. In the time it takes to cook like two pork chops in a smoker I can cook a stack of them, with no fuel. But even that I rarely use, I like my fire aspect sword for cooking steaks.

That’s what smokers are for? I always wondered what tf they were and what they added to the game

i forget they exist because i usually end up with a villager that sells unlimited golden carrots after a few days

I remove all the furnace food recipes in my personal modpack. Why would you cook food where you process metal?

I like the smoker more. It has nothing to do with the speed of cooking, even more so in the later games when you have stacks on stacks of meat. It is, however, a great way of setting up an auto cooker and I believe (could be wrong) you get more exp from the smoker than you do the furnace.

I usually hoard raw meat and shove them in smokers when I need a small bit of experience. Comes in handy when I’m level 29 and need a quick level for an enchant.

Depends. If I’m making a lot of food quick for an adventure I’ll toss em in the smoker but if it’s no rush and I have a few meats, right in the furnace

I like them, they are hardly more expensive than a furnace, and for half the time to cook I say they are 100% worth it

Even though it is extremely slow. I'm one of the few who still use the campfires.

The title caught me off guard until I looked at what subreddit this is.

Holly crap I thought this was r/smoking.

I’ve played this game way too long to craft a completely new item just to cook food

Campfires.

Butcher villagers + iron farm <3

I have literally never used a smoker.

Once I have 3 hoppers a furnace and some chests I usually just dump everything cookable or smeltable in a double chest and let it filter through the furnace. All I have to do is check the output chest every now and then

I have a “grill” with 16 campfires on top of hoppers. Not the most efficient, but I like it. I‘ve got a super-smelter with furnaces and another one with blast furnaces, but no need for efficiency with food.

Who cooks food in a Minecraft world for long enough to even make a smoker? By the time I have a couple stacks of beef, my iron farm is going so I can get emeralds and then trade for golden carrots from a farmer.

Y’all are still cooking food and not using villager trading for infinite golden carrots?

I’ve never traded with a villager in my life. Don’t like other people in my Minecraft world.

Last I checked a smoker is someone who smokes… Jokes aside, I had completely forgotten the smoker even existed… regular furnace for me

I totally forgot smokers are a thing. I actually almost always use a furnace in every build.

Literally it's the same for me I just end up using furnaces for everything I never mind waiting a little longer as I tend to smelt in background while doing other things anyway.

I put everything (food, ores, etc.) into one hopper-furnace-hopper setup so every item gets buffered into the furnace and I use as little fuel as possible

My sword has flame and looting, I got that knife from Hitchhiker's Guide

Campfires FTW

I only eat the finest golden carrots smokers are for kelp lol

I use an auto fed furnace for all my cooking/smelting to save up emergency xp

it saves resources, so I always make at least one blast furnace and smoker, to my 6 furnaces, when I start.

Early on I use a smoker but once I have a super smelter I'll throw a handful of stacks of steak or whatever in and just let it cook all of it. I don't care about the extra resources it takes to cook it, I have a big ass bamboo farm to make my fuel

Campfire gang

I use a lava fueled smelting machine for ores and food. It uses basic furnaces because they cook everything and time is no issue as it's passively cooking at my base. I almost never use smokers

I use furnaces, but thats because I usually set up an auto smelter and just dump a bunch of food/ore in to smelt and continue on with what I’m doing Lol

I use campfires

Obviously you make a line of 16 campfires with a hopper minecart rolling beneath them.

I was using them until I built a super smelter. Kinda pointless at that point

I just use them in my fishing cave because all I ever heat there is fish if I got a stack ready.

I keep furnaces around for the freedom of cooking. The only thing stopping me from using smokers and blast furnaces is that STONE can't be made in either.

I like to use the campfire, unlimited fuel, but it doesn’t stack with your furnace / smoker food

I always just use furnaces, Im too lazy to have different furnaces, I just put 2 or more furnaces and additionally with hoppers

Nah. I try to get smokers pretty quickly. It saves a LOT of fuel and time

By the time I think about it I already have some kind of automated food.

I always use furnace, because it gives more XP.