How to Build a Brick Fireplace With a Chimney in Minecraft

Last Updated: April 20, 2022

While a fireplace has no specific function in Minecraft, it can add a nice touch to your home. Follow this guide to learn how to build a brick fireplace with a chimney in Minecraft.

Part 1

Part 1 of 2:

Making Brick Blocks for Your Fireplace

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Gather clay. You can find clay in veins along the bottom of shallow rivers, swamps or inside of mason houses (plains, savanna, and desert villages).
- You can break clay blocks with your hand, but using a shovel works best.
- Breaking clay blocks always drops 4 clay balls, regardless of Fortune.
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Turn the clay into bricks. Add a clay ball and a fuel source, like coal or planks, to your furnace, to smelt the clay balls into bricks.
- Make sure you smelt the clay balls, and not the clay block. Smelting the clay block will give Hardened Clay/Terracotta which can't be turned back to normal clay.
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Craft the bricks. Brick items, need to be crafted into blocks first before they can be used to build with. To do this, place 4 bricks in a 2x2 square in your crafting menu.
- Bricks (the item not the block) can also be used to craft flower pots.
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Trading with Villagers. Alternatively, you can trade emeralds for bricks with a Stone Mason villager instead of gathering the clay yourself.
- Stone Masons houses can naturally spawn as part of a village, but you can also convert an unemployed villager into a stone mason by placing a Stonecutter close to them.
- This method is recommended for large projects as less time is spent just looking for clay.
- For a smaller project like this you shouldn't need to trade with too many villagers, but for a larger build, its a good idea to invest in a trading hall.

Part 2

Part 2 of 2:

Making a Brick Fireplace with a Chimney

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Dig out a 2 brick by 4 brick hole up to the ceiling on an exterior wall of your base.
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Dig out the 2 bricks on the floor in the center of the hole you just made.
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Line the hole with brick blocks. Place 2 netherrack in the floor holes and cover the rest of the fireplace 1 block deeper.
- If you want a fireplace escape route make the fireplace either 2x1x3 or 2x2x3 (these dimensions are: height x width x length/back) with a hallway that leads somewhere safe (like a hidden bunker) and a minecart behind where the flame will be.(it will work even if the fire is... flaming, but just in case dig a 1x1 hole in the hall and place a bucket of water)
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Extend the chimney as high as you want out of the side of your base.
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Light up the netherrack with your flint and steel to complete your fireplace.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I cook meat on a fireplace? Do I put it in front of the fire, or actually in it?

Pinrui Huang

Community Answer

You can't. You have to use a furnace, because if you use the fireplace, you will burn yourself to death.
Question

How do I make the railing?

Entity303

Community Answer

The railing is made of iron bars. If you don’t have access to that, you don’t even need a railing.
Question

What else can I use besides netherrack?

Alex Martinez

Community Answer

Nothing unless you want it to go out; netherrack burns continuously, while other blocks make the fire go out, or the fire burns down the block.

Warnings

If you have flammable blocks less than 4 blocks above the fire or above adjacent blocks, then those blocks will ignite, so make sure no flammable blocks are within this zone.

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