Better Smelters
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Adds a variety of improved furnaces made from ores and other materials. Each new tier smelts faster, uses fuel more efficiently, and helps you process items quicker as you progress through the game.
What's new
# Better Smelters v1.5.0
This update reworks furnace behavior, improves visuals and interfaces, expands localization, and introduces native automation compatibility with UtilityCraft Item Pipes and other compatible addons.
## HIGHLIGHTS
- Reworked all Better Smelters furnaces with safer and more efficient processing.
- Added native face-aware item automation.
- Added full UtilityCraft Item Pipe compatibility.
- Reworked furnace textures, active states, progress displays, and UI behavior.
- Added Spanish and Portuguese translations.
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## BLOCKS
### Furnaces
- Reworked the appearance and behavior of all 11 furnace tiers.
- Furnaces now use full-block models.
- Added dedicated textures for every block face in both active and inactive states.
- Furnaces now adjust their processing interval while their interface is open.
- Improved active-state light and texture handling.
## AUTOMATION
- Added static face-aware item I/O:
- The top and bottom faces accept fuel.
- The four horizontal faces accept smelting inputs.
- All six faces expose the output slot.
- Automated transfers now respect the source and destination faces of compatible containers.
- Added compatibility with UtilityCraft Item Pipes and other supported item-transfer systems.
- Existing furnaces automatically receive the new automation behavior when their world is loaded.
- Neighboring item networks now refresh their visual connections automatically when a furnace is broken.
- Breaking a furnace only drops its fuel, input, and output slots; UI-only flame and progress items are never dropped.
## PERFORMANCE
- Added separate processing intervals for open and closed furnace interfaces.
- Closed furnaces now use a slower tick interval to reduce unnecessary work.
- The Nether Star Furnace retains a faster closed processing interval.
- Reworked elapsed-time scaling so furnace speed, fuel consumption, particle chances, and Oak Furnace failure chance remain consistent across tick intervals.
- Improved output-capacity checks and batch processing when enough progress and inventory space are available.
## RECIPES AND FUELS
- Corrected furnace upgrade recipes and their furnace/ingredient requirements.
- Removed duplicated and outdated smelting entries.
- Removed obsolete recipes tied to unrelated third-party content.
- Improved compatibility with custom recipes and fuels provided by other addons.
- Corrected the Lava Bucket fuel value to `100000` and preserved the empty Bucket after consumption.
## UI/UX
- Expanded the furnace progress arrow from 17 to 23 visual stages.
- Updated progress textures.
- Improved flame and progress-slot rendering.
- Increased the floating-slot rendering area while preserving the intended size of UI-only elements.
- Fixed upgraded furnaces retaining the previous furnace name.
- Added Better Smelters attribution to furnace and upgrade item names.
- Added dedicated creative inventory groups for furnaces and upgrades.
## LOCALIZATION
- Updated English translations.
- Added translations for:
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
## BUG FIXES
- Fixed upgraded furnaces displaying their old label.
- Fixed invalid and outdated upgrade recipes.
- Fixed the Lava Bucket using an incorrect fuel value.
- Fixed UI items being exposed to compatible inventory automation.
- Fixed furnace contents and UI elements being handled incorrectly when the block was destroyed.
- Fixed UtilityCraft Item Pipes retaining their visual connection after a furnace was broken.
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