Grind up ores into dust and smelt it!

 

 

Place the grinder with the handle on top

As seen below, put in ore and use the grinder with your empty hand

Then the dust is smelted in a furnace

Full compatibility with JEI for grinding recipes https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/jei

 

Customize the recipes in a data pack
https://github.com/Lothrazar/PlainGrinder/tree/trunk/1.16/src/main/resources/data/plaingrinder/recipes

 

 

Example Config

https://github.com/Lothrazar/PlainGrinder/blob/trunk/1.16/plaingrinder.toml