Better Furnaces & Chests
Enhance your world with tiered furnaces for lightning-fast smelting and massive tiered chests featuring a modern scrollable GUI with built-in sorting, stacking, and searching functionality. Fully configurable and performance-optimized.
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About this Mod
🔥 Better Furnaces & Chests
Upgrade your survival experience with Better Furnaces & Chests! This mod introduces tiered storage and smelting solutions, allowing you to scale your production and organization as you progress through your world.
Tiered Chests
Say goodbye to cluttered basements! Our custom chests offer massive storage in a single block space, featuring a smooth, scrollable GUI that handles even the largest inventories with ease.
- Iron Chest: 45 Slots (9x5)
- Gold Chest: 63 Slots (9x7)
- Diamond Chest: 81 Slots (9x9)
- Netherite Chest: 99 Slots (9x11)
Key Features:
- Scrollable Grid: View your items clearly with our modern inventory layout.
- Chest Animations: Fully animated lids for a premium feel.
- Custom Hardness: Balanced progression. Diamond chests require diamond tools!
Tiered Furnaces
Stop waiting for your ores to smelt! Our furnaces are designed for speed and efficiency.
- Copper Furnace: 1.25x Speed
- Iron Furnace: 2.0x Speed
- Gold Furnace: 3.0x Speed
- Diamond Furnace: 4.0x Speed
- Netherite Furnace: 8.0x Speed!
Key Features:
- Dynamic Lighting: furnaces emit light and particles only when active.
- Scalable Efficiency: Save time and fuel as you upgrade.
Performance Inventory Management
Managing a 99-slot chest shouldn't be a chore. We’ve added built-in tools to keep you organized:
- Sort: instantly organize your chest by item name or count.
- Stack: Merge scattered items into clean stacks.
- Transfer: Move your entire inventory into the chest with one click.
- Take: Empty the chest into your inventory in seconds.
- Search: Real-time filtering to find exactly what you need.
Advanced Filtering (v1.3.0)
Upgrade your automation with the new Filtering System (Available for Gold, Diamond, and Netherite tiers).
- Dual-Mode Filtering: Toggle between Input and Output filters.
- 3x3 Ghost Grid: Set filters without consuming items.
- Automation Ready: Hoppers and machines will respect your filter rules perfectly.
- Smart UI: Interactive panel with tooltips and real-time syncing.
Global Support
Play in your native language! Better Furnaces & Chests now supports 20 languages with fully localized tooltips and UI elements.
- Dynamic Tooltips: Upgrade kits now tell you exactly what they do in your language.
- Fully Localized UI: Every button and label in the filtering panel is translated.
Fully Configurable
Every server is different. Customize every aspect of the mod, including:
- Smelting speeds
- Inventory rows
- Block hardness
- Tool requirements (Axe/Pickaxe tiers)
- Furnace output multiplier
Found in:
v1.1.0
config/better-furnaces-and-chests.cfg.
v1.2.0+
serverconfig/better-furnaces-and-chests-server.cfg.
Made with ❤️ by BoboTweaks.
Available Versions
How to Install Better Furnaces & Chests on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.11).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Better Furnaces & Chests". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.11, 1.20.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Better Furnaces & Chests server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.11). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Better Furnaces & Chests compatible with fabric and neoforge?
Better Furnaces & Chests officially supports fabric, neoforge for Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Better Furnaces & Chests – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Better Furnaces & Chests consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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