Recycle Iron
by exline
Recycle Iron lets players smelt iron items back into ingots, adding a recycling route to the vanilla Fabric game.
What it does
Items made from iron, such as buckets, rails and iron bars, can be smelted down into iron ingots, and gold items can be smelted into gold ingots and nuggets. Vanilla removed some tool and armor smelting recipes, and this mod restores that path for many items. Each recycled item returns at least one ingot or nugget. Because the environment is client and server, both the server and every player need the mod. Files cover 1.20 – 1.21 on Fabric under the MIT License, and the mod is not open source.
Key features
Iron item recycling
Iron tools, buckets, rails and iron bars can be smelted down to return iron ingots.
Gold item recycling
Gold items and blocks smelt down into gold ingots and nuggets.
Restored smelting recipes
Recipes that vanilla dropped for tool and armor smelting are added back for recycling.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Recycle Iron need Fabric API?
Do servers need Recycle Iron?
In the catalog
Recycle Iron is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,201 Technology mods for Fabric. 15,770 mods support Minecraft 1.21.
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What the author says
This mod allows you to smelt down items that have been made of iron or gold ingots. Vanilla Minecraft has added some of these features, so I removed the tool and armor smelting recipes. You can now smelt down other things like buckets, rails, iron bars, or anything made with at least one iron ingot and get an ingot…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/recycle-iron
- Owner
- exline
- Published
- 2024-03-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-06-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15