Flint and steel is a tool used to create fire or to ignite certain blocks, structures and mobs.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Ingot + Flint |
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| Damaged Flint and Steel | The durability of the two tools is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Chest loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Flint and Steel | Nether fortress | Chest | 1 | 19% |
| Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 46.4% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Flint and Steel | Nether fortress | Chest | 1 | 19% |
| Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 46.4% | |
Usage[]
Igniting[]
When used on the space above any solid top surface, on any side of any flammable block or any side of any obsidian block within a valid unlit nether portal frame regardless of if there is a solid top surface available, the flint and steel places a fire there.
Flint and steel can be used to light unlit campfires, candles and cakes with candles.
Flint and steel can be used to light nether portals, as any fire existing within an appropriate obsidian frame will instantly be replaced with nether portal blocks that occupy the entirety of the frame.
Using flint and steel on TNT ignites it. The explosion damage dealt by TNT ignited with flint and steel in this specific way counts as the player's attack. If the player is sneaking a fire is instead placed on the side of the TNT the flint and steel was used on.
A flint and steel can be used on a creeper to force it to explode. Explosions initiated in this way cannot be cancelled.
When powered, a dispenser containing flint and steel can place fires or ignite relevant blocks such as TNT or campfires in the space directly in front of it. This reduces the flint and steel's durability. A dispenser containing a flint and steel cannot detonate creepers.
Enchantments[]
Flint and steel can receive the following enchantments:
| Name | Max Level | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Unbreaking | III | |
| Mending | I | |
| Curse of Vanishing | I |
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint and Steel click | Blocks | When a flint and steel is used to place fire | item[sound 1] | subtitles[sound 1] | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Flint and Steel click | Hostile Creatures | When a flint and steel is used to light a creeper | item[sound 1] | subtitles[sound 1] | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Item breaks | Players | When a flint and steel's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | When a flint and steel is used to place fire | fire | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When a flint and steel's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flint and Steel | flint_and_steel | Item | item.minecraft.flint_and_steel |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint and Steel | flint_and_steel | 299 | Item | item.flint_and_steel.name |
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Into The Nether | Construct a Nether Portal. | Light a nether portal. | 30G | Bronze | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | We Need to Go Deeper | Build, light and enter a Nether Portal | Ice Bucket Challenge | Enter the Nether dimension. | story/enter_the_nether
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Video[]
History[]
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The specific instructions are: There is within the possible realm a different use sound from 2015-era Pocket Edition, can this be uploaded?
The specific instructions are: There is within the possible realm a different use sound from 2015-era Pocket Edition, can this be uploaded?
| Java Edition Indev | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 20100110 |  Added flint and steel.
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| Flint and steel can be used to set fire. | |||||||||||
| 20100129 |  The steel part of the texture has been brightened.
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| Flint and steel can be used alongside lava to smelt ores and cook food.[1] | |||||||||||
| 20100201-2 | Flint and steel can now sometimes be dropped as loot from killing mobs. | ||||||||||
| 20100219 |  The texture of flint and steel has been changed, due to its new crafting recipe.
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| Flint and steel can no longer drop from mobs. | |||||||||||
| Flint and steel can now be crafted from an iron ingot and the newly added flint. | |||||||||||
| Furnaces have been added to replace the cooking and smelting function of flint and steel. | |||||||||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||||||
| 1.7 | Flint and steel, along with fire itself, explosions and redstone are now the only ways to activate TNT.[2] | ||||||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | The player can now buy 1 flint and steel from farmer villagers for 3 emeralds, making flint and steel renewable. | |||||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38a | The sound when using flint and steel has been changed. | |||||||||
| 1.5 | 13w04a | Dispensers are now able to use flint and steel on the block in front of them. | |||||||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w18a | Flint and steel can now be found in the new chests in nether fortresses. | |||||||||
| 13w25a | Flint and steel now loses durability when igniting TNT. | ||||||||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Flint and steel now has a shapeless crafting recipe.
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| Using flint and steel on a creeper now causes it to explode. | |||||||||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Villagers no longer sell flint and steel, making it no longer renewable. However, if a villager selling flint and steel already exists in the world, it can be continuously traded with to obtain flint and steel renewably. | |||||||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | The average yield of flint and steel in nether fortress chests has been slightly reduced. | |||||||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 259. | |||||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of flint and steel has been changed. | |||||||||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Gravel now can be given by the piglins when bartering, making flint and steel renewable again. | |||||||||
| 20w16a | Flint and steel can now be found inside ruined portal chests. | ||||||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||||||
| v0.4.0 | Added flint and steel. | ||||||||||
| v0.7.0 | Flint and steel can now be used to set fire. | ||||||||||
| v0.7.4 | Using flint and steel on a creeper now causes it to explode. | ||||||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Added flint and steel to the creative inventory. | |||||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Flint and steel can now be used to activate a nether portal. | |||||||||
| Flint and steel can now be found in nether fortresses. | |||||||||||
| Flint and steel can now be enchanted in anvils. | |||||||||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Flint and steel can now be used inside dispensers when powered. | |||||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of flint and steel has been changed. | |||||||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Flint and steel can now be obtained by bartering with piglins. | |||||||||
| Flint and steel can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing through an anvil. | |||||||||||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | Flint and steel are no longer obtainable from bartering. | ||||||||||
| Flint and steel can now be found inside ruined portal chests. | |||||||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added flint and steel. | ||||||
| TU3 | Flint and steel, along with fire itself, explosions and redstone are now the only ways to activate TNT. | ||||||||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Flint and steel now makes sounds when igniting blocks. | |||||||
| 1.90 | The texture of flint and steel has been changed. | ||||||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||||||
| 0.1.0 | Added flint and steel. | ||||||||||
Historical sounds:
| Sound | From | to | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|
| ? | ? | ? |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Flint and Steel" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- In Adventure mode, flint and steel cannot light fires, nor can it ignite nether portals (unless it has the tag
CanPlaceOn:obsidian). However, it can still ignite TNT and creepers. - The name "Flint and Steel" may be misleading and is inaccurate considering the game doesn’t have and possibly will have steel in the game and it's crafted with iron instead. This is similar to the Old Growth Pine Taiga, as there are no pines in the game and they have Spruce Trees instead.
- In real life, Iron can’t be used as a fire striker, so Mojang had to rename it to Flint and Steel so it makes more sense. This explains why it is called Flint and Steel, but there is no steel in the game.
- Steel was mentioned by Mojang, as a “stronger” iron, but shortly rejected, and there are no currently no plans to add it to the game.
- Flint and steel cannot light end portals.
- Flint and Steel is the first item to mention another item that is not in the game.
- In the April Fools Snapshot, Java Edition 23w13a or b, one of the possible voted was “Flint and Steel can ignite any block”.