Make a Campfire in Minecraft (2022)

The campfire in Minecraft has a huge number of interactions with other items in the game. Use the table below to explore each of them at your convenience. Before that, let’s learn how to make a campfire and soul campfire, along with the difference between them.

What is a Campfire in Minecraft

In Minecraft, a campfire is a fire-based block that you can use to cook food, as a light source, and even send smoke signals. It looks just like a real-world campfire that uses wood to burn itself. But unlike in the real world, the campfire in Minecraft acts as an infinite source of the fire.
Moreover, Minecraft also includes a soul campfire variant. It has the iconic turquoise flames, commonly found in the nether dimension. We have covered the differences between the standard and soul campfire later in the guide.

How to Find Campfire in Minecraft

The regular variant of the campfire is naturally generated in Minecraft at the following locations: Taiga villages, Snowy Taiga villages, and Ancient Cities. You can easily break the campfire by hand or use a tool to pick it up. As for the soul campfire, it doesn’t generate naturally in the game. You can only craft it manually using the steps described below.

Trade with Villagers to Get Campfire

If you can’t find a campfire in the villages, you can also trade with villagers to obtain it. The apprentice-level fisherman villagers sell regular campfires in exchange for emeralds.

Items Needed to Make Campfire in Minecraft

You need the following items to craft a campfire in Minecraft:

3 logs3 sticksA piece of charcoal or coal (for a regular campfire)A soul soil block (for soul campfire)

Among these items, the logs are the easiest to obtain. You simply have to break a tree in Minecraft to obtain logs in no time. Then, you can use the same log to make planks, and later, sticks quite easily.
Do note that, in the crafting recipe for a campfire, you can also use stripped wood, stripped logs, and stem blocks instead of regular logs.

How to Get Coal or Charcoal

You can use our Minecraft ore distribution guide to easily find coal in Minecraft. We only need one piece of coal to craft a campfire. But if finding coal isn’t working out for you, you can smelt any wooden log inside the furnace to turn it into charcoal. Both coal and charcoal act as a source of fuel for the fire. But neither one is more effective than the other. So, feel free to use whichever one is easier to obtain for you.

How to Get Soul Soil

If you want to craft a soul campfire, you need soul soil as the fuel block. To find this block, you have to first make a Nether portal and travel to the Nether dimension. Here, with merely a few minutes of exploration, you can easily spot soul soil. The best indication of soul soil is the turquoise-colored flame burning on it.
If, for some reason, you don’t want to travel to the Nether, you can also find soul soil in the ancient city. But we won’t suggest you take such a high risk unless you know how to defeat the Warden.

Minecraft Campfire Crafting Recipe

To craft a campfire in Minecraft, you first need to place three logs in the bottommost row of the crafting area of a crafting table. As we can see below, the bottom row should be filled completely. Then, with coal or charcoal in the middle cell, place sticks on either side of it in the second row. Finally, place a stick in the middle cell of the first row, right above the piece of coal or charcoal.
Here’s what your crafting recipe should look like to make a campfire: On the other hand, if you want to make a soul campfire, place the soil sand block in the center cell of the crafting area. The rest of the recipe remains the same. Once your campfire is ready, you can use a fire charge or flint and steel to light it up.

Differences Between Campfire and Soul Campfire

Other than the visual differences, the soul campfire and the regular campfire have the following differences:

The soul campfire has a lower light level than a regular campfire. Its fire isn’t as bright.Because of the higher light level, the regular campfire can melt ice blocks. But the soul campfire cannot.If you can get a mob on top of the campfire, the soul fire does twice as damage as regular fire.The soul campfire also has an additional area effect that keeps Piglins away from it.

Uses of Campfire in Minecraft

Now that you know how to make a campfire and have possibly chosen a variant for your Minecraft house or base construction, it’s time to figure out the various uses of this block.

Cooking

Since the campfire has practically unlimited fuel, you can use it to cook raw food. Unlike a furnace, cooking food on the campfire doesn’t require any additional fuel. However, it takes slightly longer than a furnace to cook the food. But because you can cook up to 4 items at the same time with no fuel, a campfire is definitely the more effective option.

Damage and Mob Farms

Due to their ability to cause damage, you can use campfires to easily kill mobs in the right circumstances. You can make an automatic mob farm in Minecraft by placing a campfire in its killing area.

Harvest Honey from Bees

If you place a campfire under a beehive or bee nest, you can harvest honey bottles or honeycomb without irritating the bees. But make sure there is no other block between the campfire and bee’s home. Learn how to make a bee farm in Minecraft via the linked guide.

Smoke Signals

While burning, the campfire releases a smoke signal that goes up to 10 blocks before vanishing. You can place a hay bale under the campfire to make it go up to 24 blocks. However, if you place another block above the smoke signal, that block can reduce the signal height significantly.

Make and Use a Campfire in Minecraft Today

With that, you know everything you need to know about campfires and soul campfires in Minecraft. You can use our guide to teach your friends how to make a campfire in Minecraft to make it easier to find each other on these best Minecraft servers. But if that feels like too much work, you can also use our guide to teleport in Minecraft. It eliminates the need to signal each other and also makes meeting your friend quicker. On the other hand, if you are someone who wants to go all-in on the camping vibes, the best Minecraft modpacks might have a collection of mods just for camping. You just have to find the modpack you like and install Forge in Minecraft to run it. With that said, which variant of campfire do you like more? Soul campfire or regular campfire? Tell us in the comments!