How to make a campfire in Minecraft

Aakrit Sharma
A Minecraft character walking towards a campfire

Campfires can help you cook food and create some of the most amazing mechanisms in Minecraft. Here’s a quick guide to making a campfire in Minecraft with just wood and coal.

Minecraft beginners as well as veterans can make the most of campfires. This is because the item has a wide range of uses that include cooking, decoration, collecting honey, and even dealing damage to mobs.

Creating campfires in Minecraft isn’t a tedious task as you can easily collect the ingredients from the Overworld and add them to the crafting table.

On that note, here’s everything to know about making a campfire in Minecraft.

Minecraft dungeon village with creepers

How to set up a campfire in Minecraft

You need sticks, coal, and wooden blocks to craft a campfire in Minecraft. All these ingredients can be collected in the Overworld and with a little bit of crafting. Before jumping to the crafting recipe for campfires, it’s important to collect the desired items.

How to make sticks in Minecraft

You obviously need wood to make sticks in Minecraft. Head over to any biome with trees and collect some logs. Now, put these logs into a crafting table and they’ll turn into wooden planks.

The next step is to add two wooden planks to a crafting table vertically and you’ll get sticks:

Crafting recipe for sticks in Minecraft

Where to find coal in Minecraft

Minecraft players can easily find coal in the form of coal ore on mountain faces in mountain biomes and underground. It is abundantly available and is one of the only two ores that are present above sea level.

Major sources of coal in Mojang’s sandbox game are:

  • Dungeons
  • Woodland mansion chests
  • Strongholds
  • Igloos

Mining coal ore with any pickaxe drops one piece of coal and you can increase this output by using enchantments like Fortune. It is worth noting that coal is also used to make torches and lanterns.

Coal ore underground in Minecraft

Crafting recipe for a campfire in Minecraft

After obtaining three wooden sticks, coal, and wooden blocks, add them to a crafting table. Fill the bottom row with wooden blocks and put a piece of coal in the central slot. The three sticks should surround the piece of coal and you will finally get a campfire in Minecraft:

Crafting recipe for campfire in Minecraft

Now, you can use the campfire like a block and cook food with it. It also acts as a light source or a smoke signal that can help in navigation.


This was everything you need to know about making campfires in Minecraft. For similar content, check out how to make an Iron Golem in Minecraft, the best enchantments for Minecraft swords, and how to tame a cat in Minecraft.

Image Credits: Mojang