First create a working table out of 4 wooden blocks, then build a pickax,
WOOD WOOD WOOD
STICK
STICK
... then mine some stone, get 8 blocks of cobblestone and put them in your work table
STONE STONE STONE
STONE STONE
STONE STONE STONE
Then place wood in the bottom box and for example raw pork in the top and it will cook (put cobble stone in the top to make stone!)
Smelt Cobblestone in your furnace.
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They take the same time.
There is no steel in minecraft. You're referring to iron, and you need to smelt iron ore in a furnace.
The only thing you can do with Iron Ore in Minecraft is smelt it in a furnace to get Iron Ingots.
There are no stoves yet because of the lack of thigs to smelt. When they add all items that you can smelt (such as iron & gold), they will add furnaces.
In Minecraft,in order to get iron ore out of a mined block of iron you need to smelt the iron ore block in a furnace.
Currently you can smelt the following ores:irongoldYou can also burn wood (of any tree) in charcoal which is used the same as coal).Also you can smelt sand into glass.
For one cobblestone block you will only need a single piece of coal. One coal will smelt up to eight items.
You put fuel in the bottom and a smelt-able or cookable item in the top slot.
You smelt it in a furnace, with a fuel source such as coal at the bottom and the ore at the top.
In order to to get iron ingots, you need to smelt iron ore.