In order to work it needs to be placed in a specific structure. Once assembled, it works exactly like a Furnace, except it can only process its recipes, which take 50 seconds each, and can only use Rice Ash as fuel, which burns for 1 minute 20 seconds.
Construction[]
The complete structure is 3x3x3 and requires (including the Tatara):
Bamboo Slat Block· Stained Bricks· Block of Wet Soap· Chandelier· Chiseled White Stone Bricks· Cracked White Stone Bricks· Dried Adobe· Fusuma· Iron Lattice· Iron Sand· Kera· Magma Verus Block· Mossy White Stone Bricks· Oak Wood· Paper Wall· Pavement· Recessed Tatami Mat· Rusted Rail· Scaffold· Shoji· Tatami Mat· Wet Adobe· White Stone Bricks· Wooden Box· Wooden Lantern· World Scale Ore· Wrought Iron Bars· Wrought Iron Lantern· Zen Garden
Cactus· Cooked Chicken· Cooked Mutton· Cooked Porkchop· Cooked Rabbit· Egg· Enderpearl· Ink Sac· Raw Beef· Raw Chicken· Raw Mutton· Raw Porkchop· Raw Rabbit· Slimeball· Steak