How to Make a Campfire

One campfire cooks four meals at once, no fuel, free smoke signal on top.

The recipe

Sticks on top, coal or charcoal in the centre, logs along the bottom.

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Grab the grid on Astroworld crafting or look up coal and sticks.

What it cooks

Right-click raw food on top; it cooks free, no fuel, four at a time.

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The soul campfire

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Swap the centre coal for soul soil or soul sand and it burns blue: more damage, and it frightens piglins, useful near a Nether base.

Good to know

Quick answers

What is the recipe?

Three sticks across the top, a piece of coal or charcoal in the centre, and three logs of any wood along the bottom.

How do I cook on it?

Right-click raw food onto the campfire. It cooks slowly, about thirty seconds, with no fuel needed, and the cooked food pops out on top.

How many things at once?

Up to four. A single campfire is a free, hands-off cooker for a whole batch, perfect for an early base.

What is the smoke for?

It rises as a signal you can spot from far off. Put a hay bale directly under the campfire and the smoke shoots up much higher.

Is a soul campfire different?

Yes. Built with soul soil or soul sand it burns blue, does more damage, and scares piglins away in the Nether.

How do I put it out?

Hit it with a water bottle or splash it, or use a shovel to snuff the flame. Right-click again with flint and steel to relight it.

Coal or charcoal, which?

Either works in the same slot and gives the same campfire. Charcoal comes from smelting any log in a furnace, so you never have to mine coal first.

How much damage does it do?

A lit campfire deals 1 damage (half a heart) per tick to anything standing in it. A soul campfire deals 2 damage (one heart) per tick. Crouch to interact with it safely.

Can I cook fish on it?

Yes. Raw cod and raw salmon both cook on a campfire, along with porkchop, beef, chicken, mutton, rabbit, potato, and kelp. It only cooks foods, not ores.

Why is my campfire unlit?

Mining a campfire with anything but Silk Touch drops 2 charcoal and breaks it. If it shows no flame in the world, it was doused; relight it with flint and steel.

Does it work as a light source?

Yes, light level 15 while lit, equal to a torch or glowstone. An unlit campfire gives no light, so douse it only if you want it dark.

Placement and timing tips

Small details that trip up new players.

• One campfire cooks every food item on it at the same rate, so load all four slots at once instead of feeding it one item at a time.
• Cooking takes 30 seconds per item. A furnace cooks one item in 10 seconds, so use furnaces for a big haul and campfires for free, hands-off batches.
• Crouch (Shift) before you right-click food on, or you take fire damage while reaching in. Standing in the flames burns you for 1 damage (half a heart) per tick.
• Put a campfire under a beehive or bee nest to harvest honey and honeycomb without angering the bees. The smoke calms them; place it 5 blocks below the nest.
• Mining a campfire without Silk Touch drops 2 charcoal, not the campfire itself. Use a Silk Touch tool to pick the block back up intact.
• A campfire counts as a full light source (level 15) for stopping mob spawns nearby, so a couple of them can keep a small base lit instead of scattering torches everywhere.

Light it with flint and steel, compare it to a furnace for bulk cooking, or look up the campfire and coal in the items database.