How To Make a Lighter/ Flint and Steel in Minecraft: GUIDE
Everyone needs light — even NPCs and avatars in Minecraft.
The flint and steel or Lighter in Minecraft is a fire-lighting tool that is an important source of light as they journey through the world of Minecraft.
A lighter is important to make fireballs from far away places and also to protect yourself from hostile mobs.
When you right-click the lighter, it ignites as if it were a block.
Players can light a fire on solid blocks and opaque blocks and sides of flammable blocks. So, when you light a fire on a stone from the underworld, it will never fizz out, even if it starts raining.
This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft a lighter with step-by-step instructions.
To make a lighter in Minecraft – Open your Crafting Table and drag 1 flint and 1 iron ingot from your inventory to any of the nine squares in the crafting grid. Press your interact button to start a fire on the block and craft a Flint and Steel.
| Item | Description (Minecraft ID Name) | Minecraft ID | Data Value | Stack Size | Platform | Version(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint & Steel | Flint and Steel (minecraft: | 259 | 0 | 1 | Java Edition (PC/Mac) | 1.8 – 1.12 |
| Flint & Steel | Flint and Steel (minecraft: | 259 | 1 | Java Edition (PC/Mac) | 1.13 – 1.19.3 |
Required Materials to make a Lighter
- 1 Flint
- 1 Iron Ingot
Flint:
Flint is a Raw Material in Minecraft that can be found by digging Gravel. Every time you mine a gravel block, there’s a 10% chance to find Flint.
It is recommended to use a shovel for digging.
Continue digging up gravel until a flint float on the ground.
Iron Ingot:
Iron ingots are versatile metal ingots that are used for crafting and can be acquired from their base elements.
To make Iron In a Nutshell:
Get Some Iron ore and place the iron ore in the top cell in the furnace GUI. Fill the lower cell with coal or wood and wait for the arrow in the middle to fill. Right Click on the item and drag it into your inventory.
How to Make a Lighter/ Flint and Steel in Minecraft?
Once you got the required items,
Step 1: Open the Crafting Table
Step 2: Add Flint and Iron Ingot
In the 3×3 crafting menu, drag and drop 1 flint and 1 iron ingot.
Unite both objects on the crafting grid by pressing your interact button (Right click on PC) to start a fire on the block and you will get a flint and steel.
The Lighter will appear in the box to the right.
Step 3: Move the New Flint and Steel to Inventory
Congratulations, you have crafted Lighter in Minecraft!
Benefits of Flint and Steel/ Lighter in Minecraft
- Lighter can be used to ignite a fire.
- Create portals.
- Set creatures on fire.
- Lit campfires and candles.
- Burn off flammable blocks (like wood)
- Usage on the underwater block or a transparent block will consume durability
- Detonate abyssal portals
- Light up creepers.
- Cook Pigs, cows, chickens, sheep, and rabbits.
- Light a TNT.
Minecraft Lighter/ Flint and Steel Variants
There are a few varieties of lighter available. One is an Enchanted Lighter and the second is a Wolfgang lighter, which uses sunlight and the third is a gold lighter.
Enchanted
The enchanted flint and steel is a variant of the flint and steel that glows and give an abnormal color such as light blue and lime, creating unique three-block-high flames.
When it is struck, it can activate portals to other worlds or the portal network.
Wolfgang’s Flint and Steel/ Lighter
Wolfgang Lighter requires a unique brass lighter in Bolting for the sunlight. Players can use this tool to start a fire and ward off mobs from jumping down their home chimney.
Gold Lighter
The gold Flint and Steel is made of gold and lit extremely hot blue fires that will spread (normal non-blue fires) to other blocks rapidly.
However, one downside of this particular variant is that the gold lighter only has 64 uses.
Summary:
As mentioned before, it’s quite simple to craft flint and steel, you just need to get the required materials of iron, and flint and craft them together.
The world of Minecraft can be dangerous after the sun goes down, and you’ll quickly find yourself in the dark filled with hostile animals and creatures.
In Minecraft, lighter is one of the many tools absolutely necessary for many reasons which are all described above.
Hopefully, this helps!
