Visual Furnaces v1.1.0

Live furnace information, floating labels, and custom pixel-art progress bars for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

Created by Nexium Labs.

Features

• Supports Furnaces, Blast Furnaces, and Smokers (active and idle states).
• Displays real inventory contents: input, fuel, output, and item counts.
• Shows an estimated smelting-progress bar and percentage (~).
• Floating text above nearby furnaces, or only the furnace you look at.
• Optional Action Bar HUD when aiming at a furnace.
• 14 new custom sprite glyphs and four progress-bar styles.
• Per-player settings for display, range, appearance, and visible information.
• Three easy-to-use presets: Minimal, Balanced, and Detailed.
• Limited entity counts and cached/filtered queries for multiplayer performance.

Requirements

• Minecraft Bedrock Edition 26.50 or newer (and a version that supports @minecraft/server 2.10.0 and @minecraft/server-ui 2.2.0).
• Enable both Visual Furnaces (Behavior Pack) and Visual Furnaces Resources (Resource Pack) in your world. The behavior pack references the resource pack as a dependency.
• No Beta APIs / experimental features required for supported stable versions.

Installation / Updating

1. Back up your existing world before updating an addon.
2. Open Visual-Furnaces-v1.1.0.mcaddon in Minecraft Bedrock to import both packs.
3. Under your world's Behavior Packs, activate the new Visual Furnaces v1.1.0 pack.
4. Under Resource Packs, verify Visual Furnaces Resources v1.1.0 is active as well. Remove/replace the old versions in the world's active list when appropriate.
5. Enter the world, place a furnace with ingredients and fuel, then use /vf:settings to change display settings.
6. Open Test Custom Icons in the settings menu. If the symbols show as rectangles or boxes, the resource pack is not enabled or another pack overrides glyph_E2.png.

Existing v1.0.0 settings are preserved. Because v1.0.0 disabled floating text by default, people who used that version may need to turn it on manually after updating.

Usage

• Look at any supported furnace within your action-bar view distance for a compact display at the bottom of the screen.
• With floating text enabled and Nearby mode chosen, labels appear above up to the configured number of furnaces within range. You do not have to aim at them.
• Switch to Look at Furnace mode for the lowest-overhead floating-label option.
• Each player can customize HUD appearance and opt into activating nearby labels.
• Floating text is represented by temporary world entities. A marker visible to you may also be seen by someone nearby; when preferences conflict, the first matching player's settings determine the shared marker's appearance.

Settings

Run /vf:settings (available to all players; cheats are not required). Options include:

Understanding the Smelting Estimate

The values for input, fuel, output, and quantities come directly from each furnace's inventory. The cooking-progress value is not the vanilla GUI's true cooking timer: the stable Bedrock API does not reveal it. The progress starts estimating when a lit furnace is first observed, re-synchronizes when the addon detects items completing, and is capped at about 99% if an item appears stuck. The ~ suffix signals that the percentage is approximate.

Troubleshooting

Nothing appears

• Confirm Minecraft version compatibility and both packs are active.
• Run /vf:settings, verify the addon is enabled, and activate at least one display method.
• Ensure a furnace is within range; look directly at it to test the Action Bar first.

Floating text does not appear

• Enable Floating Text in Display settings.
• Test with Nearby mode, radius 5, maximum labels 4, and show idle furnaces enabled.
• Verify the separate resource pack is enabled. The entity used for floating labels is defined in both packs.
• Leave and re-enter the world after upgrading the packs if old resources are cached.

Icons show as squares

• Run /vf:settings → Test Custom Icons.
• Enable the resource pack or move it above competing font resource packs; custom sprites use the E2 glyph atlas.
• If the issue persists, disable Custom pixel icons and select Classic Blocks or Minimal progress-bar style.

Settings are not saved

• Confirm the behavior pack and script module load successfully; player dynamic properties are required.

The progress differs from the furnace screen

• Expected behavior: the percentage is intentionally an estimate (~).

Technical & Packaging Notes

• Stable API only: @minecraft/server 2.10.0 and @minecraft/server-ui 2.2.0.
• Production archive: contains only the behavior-pack files and the required resource-pack assets.
• Preserved UUIDs: v1.1.0 retains the v1.0.0 pack header and module IDs, making it an update rather than an unrelated new addon.
• World marker limit: 48 temporary floating labels across active players, with per-player nearby limits (up to 8).
• Art: 14 original 16×16 pixel icons packed into Visual Furnaces RP/font/glyph_E2.png.

Visual Furnaces is independently created and is not affiliated with Mojang Studios or Microsoft.