Scorched Smelters
by RealMikoto
Scorched Smelters makes furnaces, smokers and blast furnaces build heat as they run, so a smelter that is fed without pause can overheat and burn anything placed beside it.
What it does
Each smelter keeps an internal temperature that rises while it smelts. Between 0 and 100 percent the smelter works normally. Past 100 percent, when a player keeps feeding it, the temperature climbs toward 120 percent and the block overheats. An idle smelter cools down on its own, and water, ice or snow can be placed near it to lower the temperature faster. Touching a hot smelter burns whatever stands inside it.
Recipes and the fuel and output interfaces stay as in vanilla, and hoppers keep working the same way. The glow of a smelter shifts from dim to redder and brighter as its temperature climbs, which makes its state readable from a distance. With Jade installed, looking at a smelter shows its temperature. Installation covers the server and each player's game. Builds exist for Fabric and NeoForge, Fabric requires Fabric API, and the files cover 26.1 – 26.3.
Key features
Heat that builds up
Smelting raises a smelter's temperature, and longer runs without a pause push it further toward failure.
Overheating past 100 percent
Continued feeding pushes a smelter beyond 100 percent, up to 120 percent, where it can no longer be used safely.
Cooling with water, ice or snow
Placing water, ice or snow near a smelter helps keep its temperature down, and an idle smelter cools by itself.
Dangerous contact
A hot smelter burns any entity or item standing inside it, so the area around it needs care.
Jade temperature readout
When Jade is installed, the temperature of a smelter can be read from the block tooltip.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Furynace is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, server-side only, with files for 1.20.1 on Fabric and Quilt. Scorched Bottle is a Client and server mod for 1.21.1 on Fabric and NeoForge under a custom license, and it is not open source. Scorched Smelters runs on client and server with its own CC0 1.0 Universal license, which is not an open source license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scorched Smelters | Fabric and NeoForge | 26.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-26 |
| Furynace | Fabric and Quilt | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2023-07-10 |
| Scorched Bottle | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-04 |
Questions
Does Scorched Smelters need Fabric API?
Does the server need Scorched Smelters?
In the catalog
Scorched Smelters is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,235 Cursed mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Smelters were never meant to run forever. In this mod, furnaces, smokers and blast furnaces build up temperature while they smelt — the longer they burn without a break, the redder and brighter they glow... until they blow.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/scorched-smelters
- Owner
- RealMikoto
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15