How do you get Blaze Rod in Minecraft?

Blaze Rod is obtained through mob drops. There is no recipe for Blaze Rod, but 4 recipes ask for it.

What is Blaze Rod used for?

Blaze Rod is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Blaze Powder, Brewing Stand, Copper Bulb, and End Rod.

Can Blaze Rod be used as fuel?

Blaze Rod burns for 120 seconds, so a single one in a furnace smelts 12 items. Coal smelts 8, so one Blaze Rod does the work of 1.5 coal.

How many Blaze Rod can you stack?

A slot of 64 Blaze Rod burns for 768 smelted items, and that is what the stack is worth as fuel. A shulker box of Blaze Rod comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Miscellaneous

Blaze Rod

An item dropped by blazes in Nether fortresses. It is crafted into blaze powder and brewing stands.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Blaze Rod at a glance

Blaze Rod, an item out of mob drops, sits under Miscellaneous. 64 Blaze Rod fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest. It is worth 12 smelts in a furnace, 768 once a full stack burns.

Keep Blaze Rod around: 4 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. It sits between Blaze Powder and Blue Dye in Miscellaneous, number 6 of 147 there.

Used to craft

4 items take Blaze Rod on the crafting grid, Blaze Powder and End Rod among them, with Miscellaneous accounting for 2. Each link below opens that recipe with Blaze Rod in the grid.

How to obtain

Mob drops

Mobs that drop it

Killing a Blaze leaves 0 to 1 behind. Looting III turns Blaze into 4 Blaze Rod instead of 1, 1 per level.

Fuel value

Blaze Rod burns for 120 seconds (2400 ticks), which is 12 items per Blaze Rod

Notes

Required to craft a Brewing Stand. As furnace fuel it smelts 12 items.

Frequently asked questions about Blaze Rod

How do you get Blaze Rod in Minecraft?
Blaze Rod is obtained through mob drops. There is no recipe for Blaze Rod, but 4 recipes ask for it.
What is Blaze Rod used for?
Blaze Rod is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Blaze Powder, Brewing Stand, Copper Bulb, and End Rod.
Which mobs drop Blaze Rod?
Killing a Blaze leaves 0 to 1 behind. Looting III turns Blaze into 4 Blaze Rod instead of 1, 1 per level.
Can Blaze Rod be used as fuel?
Blaze Rod burns for 120 seconds, so a single one in a furnace smelts 12 items. Coal smelts 8, so one Blaze Rod does the work of 1.5 coal.
How many Blaze Rod can you stack?
A slot of 64 Blaze Rod burns for 768 smelted items, and that is what the stack is worth as fuel. A shulker box of Blaze Rod comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Building with it

Blaze rods come only from blazes in Nether fortresses, and everything in brewing runs on them: the stand itself, the fuel, and the powder for eyes of ender. That makes a blaze spawner one of the most valuable finds in any world.

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