Every Fuel In Minecraft Ranked! 

Lava has now changed with drip stone it’s a bit easier to use

My fuel of choice is often charcoal specifically, as trees can always be replanted. Not only that, but using 1 piece of charcoal to turn 8 logs into 8 charcoal is just a plain profit as far as I'm concerned, essentially allowing me to multiply my charcoal by eight each time.

I had no idea some of those items could be used as fuel; only tried lava once & realized it wasn't for me in my world at this time; lately have gone to kelp - easier than mining/caving for coal. I convert bamboo to sticks to trade with a villager. After fishing I disenchant the bows and fishing rods then throw them into a chest/hopper-fed furnace for those items I smelt only a few at time - makes me feel like I'm recycling and helping the (Minecraft) environment, lol.

I have always used lava buckets for late game smelting systems, but I think I’ll look into a good bamboo farm fed system in the future.

The best fuels are coal block and dried kelp block but now when we can make unlimited lava sorce using pointed drip stone, lava bucket is also good

This is actually really great, you give a very constructive commentary and great in depth on all of the possible fuel, I have a blaze farm in my world so I'll take a look if its worth for a fuel. All in all, nice vid 👍

1 scaffolding =1 bamboo 1 scaffolding smelt 6 item 1 bamboo smelt .25 item.... Its really clear,,scaffolding is the best fuel....

9:29 When I need to get my first iron ingot or cooked food, I just use my old wooden tools so they don’t have to sit in my chests all the time.

When you cook with lava... you get the empty bucket back which you can refill with lava. So really you just need a few buckets and a source of lava nearby or a lava drip rig. So, I don't see the issue with iron being a problem with lava fuel use.

best fuel source if you can farm wood is pressure plates, they are worth 1.5 blocks of smelting and it is the same as planks and logs so they cost 1/8 of a log

I’d use coal blocks personally. It’s easy to find and you can also use trees and it’s also stackable. So if you mine tons of coal and stack up coal blocks or something you can definitely cook tons of items. However if I were to find bamboo and make a farm then I’d might consider bamboo. But if your to get bamboo you’ve got to find the jungle which isn’t always easy.

Good news. You can farm lava now. Just trap a lava source block and in the block below the source, place dripstone. Then place a cauldron underneath and boom. But it takes time. But yeah, you acn farm it.

Keep grinding bro im right there with ya 😊

mumbo jumbo be like I have a automatic lava farm in the 1.17🤣

Quick note that carpet is a really underrated fuel source, especially mid-late game. You can easily make a really efficient, really cheap, and really compact carpet duper, which you can hook directly to your super smelter and never have to worry about fuel ever again. The difference between this and other renewable sources is that it is extremely easy with access to slime (which you would need for a bamboo farm anyways) and it is small enough that it would be in the way and you can just have it feed directly into your super smelter.

In my opinion, Scaffolding is the best as it takes 6bamboo(u can smelt 1.5 items by that much) and 1string, most people have a source for string- spider spawners, iron farms or cat farms and bartering farms(its the most common because still some people can't find spider spawners) And with that scaffolding you can smelt 6items each, so as most people have a source for string, its the best and you can always easily get an easy source(spawner being the hardest as it takes the most time). A cat farm is easier than a villager breeder and if u have an iron farm, u still get string, if u find a spawner, its obvious that u are going to make a farm out of it and bartering farm is also a must have.

at the end of the day i am still gonna use coal lol

Anyone unfamiliar with farms, factor in Bones for Bamboo. You need to provide the Bamboo farm Bonemeal, so be ready to hunt plenty of Skellies or secure a Skellie Spawner you can convert to a bone/other items/XP(optional) farm to keep you flush with Bones (and Arrows). BlueJay's super-number-one-very-good-best-friend Prowl has a really good Skeleton Spawner farm video that includes a switch to change the farm from drop kill to one-hit kill so you can sit there and punch them for XP by leaving the button pressed and use a Looting Sword for more items, if you like. I like.

Here's the real math - one quarter stack of bamboo + a super simple bit of redstone directly over your smelting system = infinite fuel you never have to think about ever again. It's really only worth it to use lava, coal blocks or kelp blocks if you're smelting multiple shulkers of ores in a continuous feed.

Watching from a 1.17 perspective with drip stone is completely different

Really enjoyed the video! I was surprised to see there wasn’t any difference in burning planks and slabs. Since planks are half the size, I thought they burned less. I don’t use lava as fuel because most time I don’t have a lot to smelt at one time so I feel it is wasteful. I hadn’t thought about the cost in iron, it not stacking or how annoying it is to get, all good points. Looking forward to the next video! Take care.

The sapling the sitck and the wardrobe

Thanks for the video! I'll use slabs for early game

With a high output bamboo machine and the new auto-crafter, you can turn 153 bamboo into 17 blocks, 34 planks, 66 slabs and smelt 99 items using a little redstone magic..

Just starting up again after not playing for many years. Thanks! :]

So this is the hard way but surely worth it. :- Make a pumpkin farm. Attach the collecting chest to an auto composter. Attach the bonemeal collected to a dispenser system to a kelp farm. Atach auto smelter to it with fuel being bamboo(if you think why not directly use bamboo then. It's because it might work good for small things but for a big system like a super smelter you need a loads of them. (1 kelp block=80 bamboos). Collect dried kelp blocks And now you have the best possible auto fuel farm which is stackable and damn efficient :). Works good for me. Now I don't have to roam around for smelting things.

You can just make a CARPET Farm

10:58 making me thankful for the surface level lava pool that spawned in my ice world.

Carpet is best if u wanna use duper wich gives 30k carpets an hour

i think bamboo is one of the worst fuel sorces because even though it is renewable, so is charcoal, if you have a tree farm, automatic or not, you can get alot more uses for it. To smelt the charcoal u dont need crazy farms that are not worth it.

This seams like a heavily opinionated topic. My answer depends on what and how much I'm smelting. If I have a project that requires 5 stacks of stone bricks, then I will use lava if I'm able to, and can get that lava back. But if I'm cooking a stack of steak, then 8 Charcoal will be just fine. But I use materials I can always get back somehow easily, or have plenty of. In my current world, I'm using Coal, Charcoal and Coal Blocks, but I have a lot of iron and one of my next projects is a lava generator. Once that's finished, I can reserve coal and charcoal for other things like torches.

I guess lava farms didnt exist when you made this video oof, still uses tons of iron, but theres always starter iron farms :P

You forgot the elytra because i always use elytras to smelt my items😂

You can make a coal farm using wither skeletons

very informative video! thank you.

Lol I like how I’ve been playing since like 2012 or 2011 and never even considered that you might be able to put a block of coal in a furnace…

Just a side note u can get coal from wither skeletons if you manage to make a farm

imagine using a lava bucket to cook 3 beef

9:42 his top 10 fuel list.

I like to trade the coal to villagers. Also unlimited cooked food from campfires (rack em and stack em).

10 auto matic carpet farms makes more than 2 times as much as a bamboo farm and it's easier to build

After I use that wooden pick to get 19 cobble I usually smelt it

A carefully engineered loading/storing system favours the the lava bucket approach & buckets are reusable. Your style of play & what aspects of the game you favour the most also affect the situation cos lava buckets work perfectly for miners over builders & farmers. As a miner/farmer over everything else, it's dig down for ore's & grab the lava, eventually set up a minecart system (harvesting track from old mines) & that works a lot better, for me. Just always keep your furnace system stacked & smelt anything of value for XP - fill your system & real world time it & then you know when you need to get back to reload it, unless you've got a massive set up & your furnaces burn for 8-10hrs real world times. Lava buckets for the win!!

Okay if Im stuck in the nether naked and afraid, use ladders. Got it!

My smelting project would require 680000 bamboo XD

yea especially when im making a kelp exp + food source farm bamboo is really good for it

Thanks...This video is helpful for me 😁👍

i didnt know that you could use so many things as fuel in minecraft

Your voice gives me chills

0:04 why is there just a cow there

It seems like Bamboo, Kelp, and Wool are the only Auto-Farmable Fuel Source. I mean, Wood is Farmable, but you need to use Duplicating-TNT to Auto-Farm them, so it's loud and dangerous and you need to be in the Nether to Auto-Farm Blaze Rods. So, I'll go with the first 3.

Why would someone burn ladder? Nether furnace goes brrr

We can also use nuggets as fuel It's waste 😂😂 10 for 1 item

HI Buddy nice video love from India

Lava buckets I love them if you have an iron farm it’s always better to use lava buckets than coal I use my coal as torches early to mid game coal is the best but it always depends on the situation like I went to the forest and thought I am tired of doing back and forts for wood so I destroyed the whole forest and got many sapling I planted 2 stacks of them and burned the rest as fuel so it depends on the situation and I am constructing a huge bamboo farm already and this video puts the last nail in the coffin coal I recommend use for torches just get 4 or 5 lava buckets you will be fine it will be worth walking then losing all your stuff in a maze underground just use lava then build a bamboo farm later save your coal for torches

Just make an infinite lava source. Bam, infinite fuel.

Guess what: You can now farm lava using five blocks of your choice, a lava source block, dripstone, cauldron and a bucket.

try watching this with CC on...there are many parts in the subtitles that make no sense whatsoever and has nothing to do with the subject of the video lol

I wasted soooo many sapplings before seeing this😂😭

Apparently, the best fuel is AXOLOTL!

i know that daylight detector is a fuel

I exclusively use jukeboxes as a fuel source

mining 2 coal ores with fortune 3 is better than a lava bucket Pretty efficient

Even though I got to take it out of the furnace and craft it into it block form I like to use kelp blocks as my fuel

no way he said blaze rods are better than lava bucket, when they have a much lower drop rate than just grabin lava first try

Slabs are better than their full version

I have always used charcoal late game as a flex personally

My goto is to make a kelp farm and use dried kelp as the fuel

I did not know you could use hardly any of that stuff as fuel. I kept hearing that people were using jukeboxes for fuel and I could not understand why and got to wondering if it was even true or if it was a joke? Apparently it is true LOL I knew that you could use coal, lava bucket, bamboo and dried kelp. I didn't know you can use any of the rest so I'm pretty stunned. My personal favorite is the lava bucket but I got lucky and I have lava pretty much in my backyard. There was a little lava pit. It's just enough to where you can get lava out and it replenishes without ever going empty and I've even been thinking about filling up enough lava buckets and putting them in my third floor basement LOL that way I don't even have to go to my backyard, just down into my underground base

Good thing I have a string farm ( spider and afk fish farm) I have unlimited string for wool, which is for fuel and building. Edit: But I think it is much better that I find a jungle biome for bamboo.

The most efficient fuel is actually overworld wood slabs

I use dried kelp block because my xp farm is using kelps and have this stuff like crazy and i have basically an unlimited kelp farm

Weird how a fishing rod burns longer than a pickaxe despite having less wood

I'd say ranking isnt accurate due to the situation uses. For example, lava buckets for a full double chest which took 162 iron (After 2 medium size caves I have 2 double chest full and 2 hoppers plus the furnace slot for a total of 357 iron. I still have 3 full stacks of iron blocks. Yes mining can be difficult but is very rewarding when you dont skip everything) can smelt for about 8 hours, very useful for exp storing and huge smelting projects. For single stacks I like using coal, or even replacing the lava with the coal (this may seem weird, but I am a coal addict. I mine it as much as any other ore and will even use fortune 3 on it because of how much I use it. If it wasnt for lava I'd probably be out by now and I have a row and a half of full coal blocks). Bamboo is good for making auto smelters, and for bedrock I believe there is a way for scaffolding to be used for big smelts as well (late game, needs redstone) Over all, I'd say charcoal specifically is the best full source as it doesnt require a jungle or an ocean or a cave or the nether to get and is pretty much always available as long as you have logs to burn. (With 1.17 charcoal will even be there in the caves due to mineshafts which will make it available there too, and with 1.16 it is also available in the nether due to the two wood biomes)

If you buy a bucket of cod from a fishing villager for like the price of I believe 3 emeralds you get unlimited buckets without having to craft any when I was trying to lock in some of my fishing villagers trades and trying to Level them up I had to buy so many buckets from some of my fishers and I have over half a double chest of buckets 😂

No, in my opinion: 4. Blaze, 3. Bamboo, 2. Coal, 1. Block of coal

BING BING BING BING 100% VOLUME RU-vid BING WAY TOO LOUD

Carpet is actually pretty good cause carpet dupers

I have made a carpet duper as an infinite fuel source .

Bro, good video

this guy hates lava with a passion

the best one is carpet you can have infinite carpet with a glitch

Dripstone makes lava the best.

bro how is kelp kinda low at 5 kelp should be at number 1 since u can basicly get infinite

Which is best

Lava is now best because you can make an infinite lava source with dripstone, pretty early game too.

Iron and lava farm. Little effort and sustainable.

Blaze rods

Is this guy a joke? Lava bucket, kelp block, blaze rod are the top 3 wtf if he talking about

Carpet can be duped

I think kelp is best one

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I USED SLAB

F, the server I am in it on 1.12

You can't use wool

Carpet farm

Hi Jay

Wool doesn't burn

Why is my lava bicket is Over in 6 beef??

Lol mentions it’s a bedrock video midway……