We now have the skills to make almost any type of Minecraft mod we want! You can add blocks, items, tools, entities, dimensions and even GUIs! You’d think we’d have covered it all by now ...

This week, we’re going to look at creating something new – a fuel element. What does this mean? In Minecraft, fuel is an item you use to smelt something in a furnace. Some examples are wooden planks, coal, charcoal, a lava bucket and pretty much any wooden tool. You can burn all of these things as fuel in a furnace.

To start, we want to create the item which we’ll use as fuel. To do this, create a normal item element, just as you’ve done hundreds of times before. We want this item to look like coal, but be bright purple instead!

Then, create a block from this fuel item. The crafting recipe for the block should be; the whole crafting table filled with the item i.e. 3 x 3

Now we need to turn both the fuel item, and the fuel block into fuel. To do this, we create a new element, but this time select “Fuel”. Then we need to select our fuel item, and choose a fuel power of 1000. This means the fuel will burn for 50 seconds.

We then repeat the process for our coal block. But this time the fuel power will be 9000. This means it will last 450 seconds. After all, it is 9 coal items, so it should last 9 times as long.