Smart Furnaces

Smarter smelting, better fuel usage, and real-time insights — all in a vanilla-friendly package.

Smart Furnaces enhances Minecraft’s furnaces, smokers, and blast furnaces with intelligent fuel scaling and detailed tooltips that help you understand exactly how your fuel performs.

No automation. No complexity. Just better information and smarter fuel behavior.

Features

Intelligent fuel scaling

All fuels — including wood, planks, sticks, charcoal, lava buckets, and modded fuels — automatically affect smelting speed based on their burn time.

• Better fuels cook faster
• Weaker fuels cook slower
• Works with all furnace types

Real-time smelting insights
Hover the furnace UI to see:

• Fuel can smelt X items
• Per-item cook time
• Time remaining for the queue
• Speed multiplier (color-coded)
• Fuel efficiency (items per fuel)

Works everywhere
-Furnace
-Smoker
-Blast Furnace
-Modded fuels supported automatically

Configurable
A config file is generated at:

config/furnace-plus.json

You can adjust:

• Speed curve strength
• Min/max speed limits
• Reference fuel balance
• Per-fuel overrides
  Reload in-game with:
  /furnaceplus reload
  (OP or console only)

Vanilla-friendly design

Smart Furnaces is designed to feel like a natural extension of vanilla:

• No new blocks
• No automation
• No progression changes
• Pure quality-of-life improvements
  Perfect for Vanilla+, survival, and modpacks.

Multiplayer compatible

• Works in singleplayer & servers
• OP-only config reload
• Clients automatically see tooltips

Why use Smart Furnaces?

Minecraft gives you burn times — but not insight.

Smart Furnaces helps you:

• Choose the best fuel
• Estimate smelting time
• Understand efficiency
• Optimize resource usage