Hytale Furnace
The Hytale furnace is the first dedicated smelting station in Orbis and one of the most important benches you will build in the entire game. It takes raw ore from caves and zone deposits and turns it into ingots: the foundation behind every meaningful tier of tools, weapons, and armor. Without ingots, progression stalls completely. Set up your Hytale furnace early, keep it fueled, and it will carry your base from a crude camp to a fully equipped crafting hub.
Overview Hytale Furnace:
The Hytale Furnace Crafting Recipe
Before you can build a furnace, you need a workbench. Once you have it, place it in the world, and open the crafting tab. The furnace recipe is listed there:
- 6x any tree trunk + 6x any stone = 1x furnace
Once crafted, place the Hytale furnace anywhere in your base. It has no requirements for floor type or surrounding clearance. As an alternative to crafting, a pre-placed furnace occasionally appears at mineshafts, either in the elevator house on the surface or inside an outlander mineshaft. Still, crafting your own is faster and does not require you to locate a structure first.
Hytale Furnace: Interface & How to Use
The Hytale furnace interface is divided into three sections. Understanding how each one works pays off once your ore hauls grow larger and you want to run the furnace unattended.
- fuel slot: holds the burn material that keeps the furnace active
- input slot(s): holds the ore queue waiting to be processed (tier 1 accepts 2x stacks, tier 2 accepts 3x stacks)
- output slot: holds finished ingots and any byproducts once smelting completes
Smelting doesn’t start automatically. Press the button beneath the fuel slot to turn the furnace on. Fuel is only consumed once the furnace is running, so preloading everything in advance wastes nothing. The Hytale furnace always processes the leftmost non-empty Input slot first, finishes one stack entirely, then moves to the next, as long as fuel remains.
Every smelting cycle produces charcoal as a byproduct alongside the ingot, provided the fuel used is a wood-type item. If charcoal itself is used as fuel, no charcoal is produced in the output.
Tip:Place a chest next to your Hytale furnace and keep a dedicated stock of wood and ore inside it. The furnace pulls from adjacent storage automatically, so you can load up before a mining trip and return to finished ingots.
Every Hytale Furnace Fuel
Fuel controls how long the Hytale furnace stays active before needing a refill. It does not affect smelting speed. All ores process at the same rate regardless of what is burning. A higher fuel quality value simply means longer burn time and fewer interruptions during large smelting sessions.
| Fuel Item | Fuel Quality |
| any tree trunk | 9 |
| charcoal | 6 |
| tree sap | 6 |
| any wood planks | 6 |
| any wood stairs | 6 |
| stick | 4 |
| pile of sticks | 4 |
| any wood beam | 3 |
| any wood half slab | 3 |
| tree bark | 3 |
| plant fiber | 2 |
| all other items | ~1 |
In the early game, tree trunks are the most practical option: easy to gather in bulk and the highest fuel quality of any single item. As soon as your base is stable, switching to charcoal is the smarter long-term move. Charcoal is a byproduct of every wood-fueled smelt cycle, meaning it loops back into your fuel supply at no extra cost. Stockpile it deliberately and fuel management practically disappears. Plant fiber and tree bark are emergency options at best. Use them only when nothing else is on hand.
All Known Hytale Furnace Smelting Recipes
The Hytale furnace handles three categories of input:
- ore-to-ingot conversions
- cobble-to-stone block refinements
- a small set of miscellaneous recipes
Ingots
All ore conversions follow a strict 1:1 ratio, meaning 1x ore always yields 1x ingot.
| Input (1x) | Output (1x) | Approx. Smelt Time |
| adamantite ore | adamantite ingot | 20 sec. |
| cobalt ore | cobalt ingot | 18 sec. |
| copper ore | copper ingot | 10 sec. |
| gold ore | gold ingot | 10 sec. |
| iron ore | iron ingot | 14 sec. |
| mithril ore | mithril ingot | 30 sec. |
| onyxium ore | onyxium ingot | unknown |
| prisma ore | prisma ingot | unknown |
| silver ore | silver ingot | 4 sec. |
| thorium ore | thorium ingot | 18 sec. |
Onyxium and prisma ores exist in the game files but do not yet spawn naturally in adventure or explorer mode. They are accessible only in creative mode and represent confirmed future content.
Blocks
Stone variants can be produced by smelting their cobble forms. The ratio here is 2:1, meaning 2x cobble yields 1x finished stone block. Re-smelting a finished block back is technically possible but not recommended: you lose material in the process.
| Input (2x) | Output (1x) |
| aqua cobble | aqua stone |
| basalt cobble | basalt |
| gold ingot (2x) | gold brick |
| marble cobble | marble |
| quartzite cobble | quartzite |
| red sandstone cobble | red sandstone |
| sandstone cobble | sandstone |
| shale cobble | shale |
| slate cobble | slate |
| snow (2x) | snow brick |
| volcanic cobble | volcanic rock |
| white sandstone cobble | white sandstone |
Smelt times for block recipes are not yet documented in official sources.
Known Bug:Marble cobble and marble smelt instantly and halve the input stack rather than converting correctly.
Miscellaneous
Until now, there aren’t many recipes for this category. In fact, there is only one known:
- 1x any sand = 1x empty potion bottle
Hytale Furnace – Tiers & Upgrade
The furnace starts at tier 1 and can be upgraded to tier 2 once you have the required ingots. The cost is intentionally steep. Reaching it means you have already pushed into the mid-game and smelted ore from multiple zones.
These are the tier 2 upgrade requirements:
- 5x copper ingot
- 5x iron ingot
- 5x thorium ingot
- 5x cobalt ingot
Upgrading unlocks two improvements:
- smelting time reduced by 30%, which proportionally reduces fuel consumption as well
- input queue expanded from 2x to 3x stacks
The tier 2 Hytale furnace is most valuable once you are running multi-ore trips from Zone 3 or Zone 4. Three input slots mean you can load different ore types in a single session and leave the furnace running while you handle other tasks. For early copper and iron smelting, tier 1 is entirely sufficient: don’t rush the upgrade at the expense of your weapon and armor crafting.
FAQ
Simply put 6x any tree trunk and 6x any stone in a basic workbench. It will yield 1x Hytale furnace and you can start smelting.
Load fuel into the fuel slot and ore into the input slots, then press the button beneath the fuel slot. The Hytale furnace doesn’t start automatically, but you have to turn it on manually each time.
Tree trunks are the best early-game option due to their high fuel quality of 9. In the mid and late game, Charcoal is the better long-term choice. It is produced as a byproduct of every wood-fueled smelt and loops back into your fuel supply for free.
No, all ores smelt at a fixed rate regardless of fuel type. Fuel quality only determines how long the furnace stays active before the fuel runs out.
No, once the furnace is running, you can leave and return when smelting is done. Place a chest of ore and fuel next to it before a mining trip and collect the ingots when you get back.
A pre-placed furnace can occasionally be found at mineshafts: either in the elevator house on the surface or inside an outlander mineshaft. Availability is not guaranteed in every world.
Upgrade once you are regularly returning from mining trips with stacks of cobalt and thorium ore. The 30% speed reduction and third input slot become genuinely useful at that point. Don’t upgrade early at the cost of better gear.
Charcoal as a byproduct only appears when wood-type items are used as fuel. Using charcoal itself breaks the loop by design.
All Fired Up With the Hytale Furnace
The Hytale furnace is not a complex machine. It is a straightforward station with a clear job. Mine ore, load it in, keep the fuel stocked, and collect ingots. But the discipline around it (running tier 1 efficiently, timing the upgrade, building a charcoal loop) is what separates smooth progression from constant bottlenecks. Master the furnace early and the rest of your crafting pipeline runs itself. Once your ingots are flowing and your weapons and armor are stacking up, the next step is taking the fight to Orbis’s more dangerous zones. The best way to do that is with your own Hytale server: your world, your rules, your pace. Ready to take on Orbis on your own terms? Start your own Hytale server with GPORTAL – instant setup, full control, low latency. And lots of fun!
