Most Minecraft tips and tricks focus on the early game. Everyone knows the basics of how to make a bed, where to find diamond, and maybe even how to make a portal. Smokers are not the most advanced or difficult item to make in Minecraft, but it does take quite a few steps and some preparation. Once you have one, it can be a major help in keeping your character alive and makes preparing for dangerous excursions, like fighting the Ender Dragon, much easier. While it is possible to find a smoker randomly in the world, it is much easier and faster if you know how to make one yourself. Here are all the steps required for how to craft a smoker in Minecraft.
How to craft a smoker
The Minecraft smoker recipe isn't all that complex, but it can't be made immediately upon starting up a new game. There are a few things you will need to gather first. Here's what you need to do:
Step 1: Start or resume a game of Minecraft in survival mode.
Step 2: Collect eight cobblestones either with your hands or, more ideally, with a pickax of any quality.
Step 3: Make a Crafting Table using four wooden planks.
Step 4: Place the Crafting Table down and interact with it.
Step 5: Place all eight cobblestones along the outside squares, leaving the middle square empty. This will create a furnace.
Step 6: Take the furnace and use the Crafting Table again.
Step 7: Place the furnace in the center square and place with one wood log directly above, below, and on either side of it.
Step 8: Pull out your brand new smoker and place it wherever you like!
What does a smoker do?
Smokers serve a very similar function to furnaces, only they can cook all food items you put in them twice as fast as a furnace. However, it also burns your fuel source twice as fast, so it will take the same amount of fuel to cook in the smoker as a regular furnace, only you will wait for half as long.
