Smelter Triage

Find the furnaces that need attention without opening every furnace in the room. /smeltertriage scan counts empty, working, invalid-input, needs-fuel and output-blocked vanilla furnaces, blast furnaces and smokers, then lists the nearest eight actionable positions and reasons.

Features

• Uses actual cooking recipes and output stack data, not a hardcoded ore list.
• Radius 4–16, default 8; current dimension and loaded chunks only.
• Marks partial results when chunks are unavailable.
• Read-only: no item movement, refueling, cooking-tick changes or chunk loading.
• Operator permission level 2 and a five-second per-player cooldown protect inventory privacy and bound repeat scans.

Usage

/smeltertriage scan [4..16]

In single-player, enable cheats. Working means burning or ready with fuel, not measured progress or an estimated finish time. This is not hopper diagnosis, modded-machine support or claim/protection integration. Forge 1.20.1 and newer NeoForge output matching follow their respective vanilla furnace rules.

Installation

Install on the server, or in the single-player mods folder, then restart. Choose exactly one matching build: Forge 1.20.1 / Java 17; NeoForge 1.21.1 / Java 21; NeoForge 26.3 / Java 25. No third-party mod dependencies or custom client interface.

Beta notice

This mod is new and not fully bug-proof. Core logic and exact-JAR installed-server functional tests passed; graphical client testing is incomplete. Back up your worlds and report problems in comments with Minecraft and loader versions.

Original code and artwork by RickCode. MIT license. No telemetry. Unofficial project, not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.