In addition to lighting up your base, Campfires can be used for cooking and collecting honey.

Chop down trees to get Wood blocks.

Any key in of wood will work (Oak, Spruce, Jungle, etc.).

Chopping down Oak blocks in Minecraft

Place 2 Wood Planks in the crafting grid to get sticks.

To make Wood Planks, place a Wood block in the crafting grid.

Use 4 Wood Planks to build a Crafting Table.

Sticks in the Minecraft crafting grid

Use a Pickaxe to mine Coal blocks, which can usually be found just below the surface.

To make Charcoal,use a Furnaceto smelt a Wood block.

Open your Crafting Table and put Coal in the center box.

Charcoal in a Furnace in Minecraft

Finally, place 3 Wood blocks in the bottom row.

To make a Soul Campfire, replace the Coal with Soul Sand or Soul Soil.

Soul Campfires are dimmer and cause more damage with their flames.

A Campfire in a Crafting Table in Minecraft

To use your Campfire, equip it and place it on the ground.

What Can You Do With a Campfire?

Every base needs a Campfire as a source of light at night.

A campfire in Minecraft

Most importantly, Campfires can be used for cooking.

To skip through the night in Minecraft,make a bedto sleep in until morning.

you’ve got the option to add up to four items at a time.

Raw Chicken cooking on a Campfire in Minecraft

After about 30 seconds, you could collect the cooked food.

What Is the Recipe for a Campfire in Minecraft?

No, food that’s cooking on a campfire will not burn.

Smoke columns from campfires placed on top of a hay bale can get up to 24 blocks high.