Yellorium or Uranium? – Smelting Control for Extreme Reactors and Mekanism
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Take control of Yellorite smelting! Choose whether Extreme Reactors' Yellorium materials produce Yellorium Ingots or your modpack's preferred Uranium Ingots. Works with Almost Unified, Mekanism, and Immersive Engineering.
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Yellorium or Uranium? – Smelting Control
Take control of your Yellorium! Choose whether your Yellorite produces Yellorium Ingots or Uranium Ingots with a simple in-game setting.
Why was this mod created?
If you play Minecraft with Extreme Reactors, Almost Unified, and other technology mods, you may have encountered a frustrating problem.
You mine Yellorite Ore, collect Raw Yellorium, and smelt it expecting to receive a Yellorium Ingot. Instead, your furnace produces Uranium Ingots from another mod, such as Mekanism or Immersive Engineering.
Why does this happen?
Extreme Reactors registers Yellorium materials under shared uranium tags for compatibility with other mods.
Almost Unified uses shared material tags to unify resources and recipes across different mods. While this is useful for reducing duplicate materials, it can also cause Yellorium smelting recipes to produce Uranium Ingots instead.
This can be inconvenient when you specifically want Extreme Reactors' original Yellorium Ingots.
Yellorium Control was created to give that choice back to the player.
What does Yellorium Control do?
This lightweight compatibility mod adds a simple configuration option that lets you choose the output when smelting Yellorium materials.
Option 1: Yellorium (Default)
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Raw Yellorium produces Extreme Reactors' Yellorium Ingots.
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Works with regular Furnaces and Blast Furnaces.
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Protects the relevant Extreme Reactors recipes from unwanted uranium unification.
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Automatically manages the necessary Almost Unified recipe exclusions.
Option 2: Uranium
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Restores normal Almost Unified uranium unification behavior.
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Raw Yellorium produces the Uranium Ingot preferred by your modpack's Almost Unified configuration.
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In our development tests, this produced Mekanism Uranium Ingots.
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Allows players and modpack creators to retain their preferred unified uranium system.
No manual JSON editing is required.
The mod automatically manages its recipe exclusions while preserving unrelated Almost Unified settings.
How to configure
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Save and exit your Minecraft world.
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Open the Mods menu.
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Select Yellorium Control → Config → Yellorium Settings.
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Find Yellorite Ore Smelts Into.
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Select Yellorium or Uranium.
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Save your selection and reopen your world.
IMPORTANT: WORLD RELOAD REQUIRED
Changes to the smelting setting take effect after the world is reloaded.
You do not need to restart Minecraft.
The configuration menu also includes a reminder explaining this procedure.
Compatibility and tested mods
Yellorium Control was developed and tested using Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge.
Required mods
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Extreme Reactors — Provides Yellorite Ore, Raw Yellorium, and Yellorium Ingots.
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Almost Unified — Handles material and recipe unification. Yellorium Control manages the relevant recipe exclusions through its configuration.
Additional mods tested
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Mekanism — Tested successfully with Mekanism Uranium Ingots.
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Immersive Engineering — Tested alongside Mekanism and Almost Unified to resolve overlapping uranium smelting recipes.
Versions used during development
| Mod | Tested version |
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| Minecraft | 1.21.1 |
| NeoForge | 21.1.265 |
| Extreme Reactors | 2.4.28 |
| Almost Unified | 1.4.2 |
| Mekanism | 10.7.19.85 |
| Immersive Engineering | 12.4.2-194 |
Other mod combinations may also work, but have not been fully verified.
Designed for modded Minecraft players
Yellorium Control is intended for players who enjoy large technology-based modpacks but want more control over how their resources are processed.
Whether you prefer to preserve Extreme Reactors' original Yellorium Ingots or unify everything into Uranium, the choice is yours.
Your ores. Your furnaces. Your choice.
Author: sinistar26alpha
Minecraft: 1.21.1
Mod Loader: NeoForge
Initial Release: 1.0.0
CurseForge links:
These are the official projects, rather than unofficial download mirrors:
Required — provides Yellorium materials and smelting recipes
Required — recipe and material unification
Tested compatibility — uranium smelting
Tested compatibility — competing uranium recipes
One important recommendation: when you're setting up your CurseForge project's Relations / Dependencies, mark Extreme Reactors and Almost Unified as required dependencies. Mekanism and Immersive Engineering should be listed as tested compatible mods rather than required dependencies.
This description is ready to paste into your CurseForge project page. It explains the original problem, the solution we developed, and the exact configuration steps players need to follow.
Yellorium or Uranium? – Smelting Control for Extreme Reactors and Mekanism Team
