Minecraft is the sandbox game that is home to a plethora of different blocks, machines, and other buildables. It's important in the different survival modes to have plenty of good food to heal and fight off hunger. A great way to get cooking some of Minecraft's iconic food fast is to build a smoker.

A smoker is a furnace to cook food. Similar to how a Minecraft blast furnace smelts ore faster than usual, the smoker cooks food significantly faster than the regular furnace. Players can turn raw meats, raw fish, and other cookable food items into cooked food in record time. Also, the smoker is used as a job block to help turn villagers into butchers.

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Building a smoker in Minecraft is fairly simple. Players will first need to build a regular furnace. Furnaces are built with eight blocks of cobblestone, Blackstone, or any stone-tier block in any combination. Once players have a furnace, they will need to combine the furnace with four wood. The smoker is not picky about the types of wood players can use; it can be any type of log, any stripped log, any kind of wood, or any kind of stripped wood in any combination.

Smokers in Minecraft are used exactly like furnaces and blast furnaces. Players will first need to fill the smoker with some sort of fuel. Coal, wood, and coal blocks can all be used to cook in the smoker. Then players just need to add whatever items they want cooked, from raw chicken to beef found from cows in the plains biome of Minecraft, and the smoker will take care of the rest.

• While the smoker is cooking the food, it will give off level 13 light to the surrounding area, just like furnaces.
• A smoker placed in a village near a Minecraft villager with no job has a chance to turn one of the villagers into a butcher.
• When placed under a note block, the smoker creates bass notes.
• Smokers, like furnaces, are stackable.
• Smokers must be mined with a pickaxe or else nothing will be dropped.
• Since popped chorus fruit is not edible, smokers will not cook chorus fruits.
• In spite of the fact that smokers cook faster, they use the same amount of fuel per cooked item as furnaces. They just use the fuel twice as fast.

Minecraft is available on all major platforms.

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