Bloomery

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Bloomery chimney
Grid Bloomery Chimney.png
Material Ceramic
Stackable 1
Drops 2-4 Fire bricks
Blocks

Bloomery base
Grid Bloomery base.png
Material Ceramic
Stackable 1
Drops 4-8 Fire bricks
Blocks

The bloomery is a functional block that can be used in the advanced stages of the game for smelting glass and metals like iron that require temperatures that cannot be obtained using the firepit . It accepts most coal fuels, except brown coal (though it does accept charcoal ), and boosts their temperature to be able to smelt quartz and iron ore.


Crafting

The complete bloomery consists of two blocks: the base and the chimney. The separate bloomery blocks must be assembled as a unit to use. Crafting both blocks requires a total of 12 fire bricks and is carried out in the player's crafting grid:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







 


 

 

 


 

 








Once these two blocks are crafted, place the base on a solid surface, then place the chimney on the top of the base to complete the bloomery. A complete bloomery is shown at right.

Usage

Smelting items in a bloomery requires high temperature fuel and the desired item to process. A bloomery holds enough ore nuggets to make a maximum of 6 iron blooms (or other metal ingots) from 120 nuggets, or 12 glass blocks from 24 quartz, along with up to 6 pieces of fuel. The bloomery does not have to be completely filled to fire it, but both the ores to be smelted and the fuel to complete the smelting process must be added to start the process. The bloomery does not have a GUI. A player may read the description of the items currently in the bloomery by aiming the white crosshairs at the base block. The interface window should display any currently loaded contents when the block info GUI is enabled (press B, by default).

  1. Loading the bloomery: Aim at the bloomery base and

place the item, e.g. quartz, into the base. Be sure to add fuel as well, but only after the ores or quartz. Sneaking while loading items allows players to place multiple items (5 at a time) into the bloomery base.

  1. Firing the bloomery: To ignite the bloomery and begin smelting,

use a torch /fire starter on the base. After a few seconds smoke particles should begin to rise from the chimney, and the hole in the base block will glow and spark.

  1. Harvesting the bloomery: After 10 hours the smelting process is completed; break the bloomery blocks to gather the product. Breaking the bloomery does not require a tool and will drop some fire bricks to be used in crafting another bloomery.

Note: You will recover 6–12 bricks when breaking the bloomery, on average about 9. Expect to spend 3 bricks per bloomery run for large-scale operations.

  Protip:
Since version 1.12.10, the bloomery  automatically prevents you from inserting more fuel than necessary and refuses to ignite if there is not enough.
The bloomery accepts charcoal, black coal and anthracite - or generally any fuel that burns with at least 1200°C, for at least 30 seconds.


Game Versions

  • Before version 1.12, the bloomery produced iron ingots.
  • Starting from version 1.12, the bloomery produces iron blooms, which must be heated and worked on an anvil with a hammer or helve hammer to produce iron ingots.


Ores, metals and minerals
Guides Ore Deposits Metals
Metals Copper Iron Meteoric iron Gold Silver Lead Tin Zinc Bismuth Titanium (Ilmenite)
Alloys Bronze (Tin bronze, bismuth bronze, black bronze) • Steel Brass Solder (Lead solder, Silver solder) • Molybdochalkos Cupronickel Electrum
Minerals Alum Borax Cinnabar Coal Halite (Salt) Lapis lazuli Quartz Saltpeter Sulfur Sylvite (Potash)
Tools Pickaxe Hammer Prospecting Pick Crucible Forge Ore blasting bomb Quern Anvil Bloomery Helve hammer Pulverizer
Other Gemstones
Related mechanics Panning Mining Clay forming Casting Smithing Steel making



Blocks
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Ore  Alum Anthracite Black coal Bismuthinite Borax Cassiterite Chromite Cinnabar Native Copper Corundum Fluorite Galena Graphite Halite Hematite Ilmenite Kernite Lapis lazuli Brown coal Limonite Magnetite Malachite Meteoric iron Pentlandite Phosphorite Quartz Rhodochrosite Sphalerite Sulfur Uranium
Plants  Bamboo Berry bush Cactus Crops Grass Fern Flowers Hay Mushroom Lace lichen Leaves Log Reed Sapling Seaweed Waterlily Wild vine
Liquids  Ice Lava Snow block Water
Miscellaneous  Ancient segment Bony ribcage Carcass Chicken egg Crystal Glow worms Locust nest Loose boulders Loose flint Loose ore Loose stick Cracked vessel Pile of junk metal Sea shell Stones Termite mound Wild bee hive
Crafted
Structural  Debarked log Drystone Glass ( Glass panes) •  Hardened clay Metal block Mudbricks Planks Plaster Polished rock Refractory brick Roofing Shingle block Slab Stairs Stone brick Strewn straw Support beam Translocator
Decorative  Carpet Chair Chandelier Clay brick chimney Display case Dry stone fence Fence Flowerpot Linen Painting Planter Plaque Sign Signpost Stone coffin Stone path Wallpaper Wooden path
Lighting  Torch Torch holder
Storage  Barrel Bookshelf Crock Curd bundle Jug Shelf Storage vessel Tool rack Vertical rack Wooden bucket
Functional  Anvil Archimedes screw Armor stand Base return teleporter Bed Bloomery base ( Bloomery chimney) •  Boiler Bowl Clay oven Condenser Chute Cooking pot Crucible Door Farmland Fence gate Fruit press Forge Henbox Ingot mold Ladder Lightning rod Quern Resonator Rift ward Skep Straw dummy Table Terminus teleporter Tool mold Trapdoor Trough
Mechanical  Angled gear Brake Clutch Helve hammer base Large wooden gear Pulverizer Transmission Windmill rotor Wooden axle Wooden toggle
Creative only  Command block Creative blocks Creative glows Creative lights Creative rotor Paper lantern Teleporter base
Unused/Unreleased  Altar Stove Workbench


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