Crafting Refinements: Blast Buff

The mod is part of a series that refines recipes found in Minecraft, keeping them balanced, consistent and convenient. Its new blast furnace recipes smelt raw blocks of gold, copper and iron, and red sand and sand can be smelted into glass faster in the blast furnace. Raw blocks give the same experience as smelting their nine raw items one at a time, and smelting a block takes eight times the work of a single raw item, so the recipes are more fuel efficient.

Specialized stations such as the stonecutter and the blast furnace follow the same logic as the rest of the series: crafting results stay proportional to their inputs, with some loss accepted, and recipes resemble their final product. Crafting results can grant an overabundance of materials, and blocks made from nine items of one material in a 3x3 grid or four in a 2x2 grid cannot be unpacked. Brewing recipes use full blocks, tools and armor as ingredients. The mod runs on the latest Minecraft version, even where its metadata has not been updated yet.

Blast Buff is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and is open source. Its files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 26.3 only. Where it runs, the server needs it, and a player's client works either way, so a client may leave it out. Publication dates are 2026-09-17 for the first release and 2026-09-18 for the latest update.