
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
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as furnace-plus-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 22 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.