Pit Kiln

A pit dug in the ground and lined with packed earth, where a smouldering fire chars wood and fires your first bricks.

Size	1 block, in the ground
Max temperature	700 °C
Heats / cools	1 °C per tick / 1 °C per tick
Fuels	Light fuels only, up to 700 °C: sticks, saplings, leaves, grass, hay
Item	None: it's made with Earth Lining

How to build it

1. Craft Earth Lining:

   

2. Dig a hole 1 block deep. The floor and all 4 walls must be solid, full, non-flammable blocks, and the hole and the space above it must be free of fluids.

   

3. Use the Earth Lining on the floor of the hole.

   

If the hole isn't right, nothing gets placed, and you earn the Wrong Hole advancement.

How to use it

Open it with right-click. The lid opens while the screen is up.

The top slot takes what you want to fire, and the bottom slot takes the fuel. The fire lights by itself.

What to make first

	Charcoal: 30 s at 400 °C. You'll need it for the Bloomery.
	Bricks: 15 s at 600 °C. Everything in the next furnaces starts here.
	Terracotta: 22.5 s at 700 °C, right at the Pit Kiln's limit.

Those are base times. A kiln works up to twice as fast the closer it gets to its limit.

See every recipe in Firing Recipes. The next step is the Clay Kiln.