Furnace XP Storage
by Nischhelm
Furnace XP Storage makes furnaces hold experience the way later Minecraft versions do, so smelting XP stays inside the furnace until a player takes it.
What it does
On 1.12.2 vanilla furnaces give their experience out directly when an item is smelted. This Forge mod backports the later behavior, so the XP is kept inside the furnace block itself. A player collects it by opening the furnace and extracting the smelted item, and a hopper pulling output items from the furnace does not collect the XP.
Breaking a furnace that still holds stored experience spawns the XP as orbs, so nothing is lost when a furnace is removed. The mod is a lightweight backport: it changes only how furnaces store and release experience. Installation needs FermiumBooter, which is a required dependency. Furnace XP Storage is server-side only, so the server needs it and players join without installing anything. It is released under the MIT License and is open source; files are published for 1.12.2 only.
Key features
XP kept in the furnace
Smelting adds experience to the furnace's internal store rather than dropping it as orbs at the moment the item is produced.
Extraction by the player
The stored XP is collected when a player takes the smelted item out of the furnace, matching the later Minecraft behavior.
Hoppers do not take the XP
Funneling smelted items out of a furnace with a hopper moves the items only, and the experience remains inside the block.
XP released on break
Breaking a furnace that holds stored experience spawns XP orbs, so the stored amount is not destroyed with the block.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
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Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Chest Furnace is a Forge mod for 1.20 – 1.21.11 under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, not open source, and it is client and server. EnerGizeXP is an MIT License open source Forge mod for 1.12.2 that runs on client and server. Hopper+ is client-side only for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 and is licensed under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furnace XP Storage | Forge | 1.12.2 | Server-side only | 2025-12-14 |
| Chest Furnace | Forge | 1.20 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-02-26 |
| EnerGizeXP | Forge | 1.12.2 | Client and server | 2025-07-26 |
| Hopper+ | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client-side only | 2025-10-08 |
Questions
Does Furnace XP Storage need FermiumBooter?
Does the server need Furnace XP Storage?
Can a hopper collect the experience from a furnace?
In the catalog
Furnace XP Storage is one of 8,016 Management mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,698 Management mods for Forge. 2,920 mods support Minecraft 1.12.2.
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What the author says
Furnaces in MC 1.12.2 and before do not store XP. Instead, players get XP when they extract the smelted items out of the furnace. Due to this behavior, breaking furnaces does not drop XP. And when you funnel out the output items with a hopper, you also do not get any XP.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/furnace-xp-storage
- Owner
- Nischhelm
- Published
- 2025-12-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-14
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15