What is Superior Smelting?

Superior Smelting is an expansion of Minecraft's vanilla smelting mechanics. Ever thought that a golden chestplate smelting down into a single gold nugget was a ripoff? Well, now you get an ingot! Have you ever bulk crafted an inventory full of diamond helmets on accident? Now you can smelt some of those down in the blast furnace to get your diamonds back! Or have you ever wanted to smelt a cobblestone stair into a stone stair? Well now you can do that, too! And, of course, there's built-in compatibility for all your favorite mods!

See below for a closer look into the two main features:

⛏️Metal Smelting

Save Space

Smelt your raw ore blocks DIRECTLY

Melt Back Into Ingots (or nuggets)

Get something out of your junk.

In general, if the item is crafted with 3 or more ingots, you get an ingot back. Otherwise, you get a nugget.

Blast Your Good Gear

Use a blast furnace to smelt down diamond and netherite gear

🪨Stone Smelting

Smooth Out That Stone

There's some stone variants that should be able to smelt into their smooth versions. And now they can

You can also directly smelt stairs and slabs into their smooth variants

Burn The Moss Away

Throw mossy blocks into a furnace to get rid of the moss

Miscellaneous

More will come over time, but here's what's added so far:

Glass Blasting

Use a blast furnace to make glass twice as fast

Chorus Fruit Smoking

Use a smoker to make popped chorus fruit twice as fast

Mod Compatibility

Complete

Deeper and Darker

Friends & Foes

Horseshoes

Planned

Netherite Extras

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Various Inspirations

Burning moss off of stone is inspired by the Remove Moss from Stone datapack. If you just want this feature, I suggest checking it out. It also supports lower MC version than I do currently.

notblue also made several other metal recycling and stone shortcut datapacks that I took ideas from. Highly recommend checking them out.