How do I install Better Smelting?

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. Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.

What Minecraft version does Better Smelting work with?

The listing gives Minecraft 26.2. This is the version stated by the author or source site, not something we verified ourselves.

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Better Smelting

Java mod listed for Minecraft 26.x. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.

by KeincraftTV · on Modrinth

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Better Smelting

What is Better Smelting?

Better Smelting improves smelting recipes like smelting raw ore blocks directly into thier material blocks.

WHY is Better Smelting?

Furnaces and its variants lack of some recipes that would perfectly fit into Minecraft. And here are the recipes.

Made by KeincraftTV, CatfishStudios

Quick facts

Edition: Minecraft Java
File type: .jar
Minecraft version listed: 26.2
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.

File checked by MCModsHub

Ships as bettersmelting-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
Download size: 10 KB
Download link checked 4 Oct 2026 — working

These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.

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