Tinkers' Melting: The Aether
Tinkers' Melting: The Aether adds Aether gloves and armor pieces to the Smeltery, letting players melt them into molten metal.
What it does
Tinkers' Melting: The Aether adds Smeltery recipes for several Aether-related items, so players can melt gloves and chainmail boots into molten metal. Chainmail Gloves melt into 120 mB of Molten Iron, Iron Gloves into 180 mB of Molten Iron, and Golden Gloves into 180 mB of Molten Gold. Diamond Gloves and Netherite Gloves need Blazing Blood before they can be melted, and they yield Molten Diamond and Molten Netherite.
The mod is server required and client optional. Servers must run it for the recipes to exist, while players may add it to their own clients. It is available as a Forge, Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt build, plus a data pack variant, all for 1.20.1. The Smeltery recipes depend on the smeltery system of the crafting mod they extend, and Blazing Blood must be present for the Diamond and Netherite entries.
Key features
Aether glove recipes
Gloves from the Aether can be melted down in a Smeltery, giving metal back in fixed amounts.
Chainmail Boots output
One Smeltery recipe turns Chainmail Gloves into Chainmail Boots, adding a result beyond raw metal.
Data pack option
A data pack version applies the same recipes without installing a mod jar, for servers that prefer that setup.
Damaged item scaling
Damaged items yield proportionally less metal, following how the host melting system handles damage.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Tinkers' Enchanting is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 that is server required and client optional, released under the MIT License and open source. Expanded and Recycled Recipes is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 that needs both client and server, and is not open source. Aether Affinity is a Fabric mod for 1.20.1 that needs both client and server, and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tinkers' Melting: The Aether | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.1 | Server required, client optional | 2025-03-16 |
| Tinkers' Enchanting | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Server required, client optional | 2025-07-21 |
| Expanded and Recycled Recipes | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-17 |
| Aether Affinity | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-10-05 |
Questions
Does Tinkers' Melting: The Aether need another mod to add its Smeltery recipes?
Do players need the mod installed to join a server?
Why do the Diamond and Netherite gloves need Blazing Blood?
In the catalog
Tinkers' Melting: The Aether is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,052 Adventure mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Adds more Tinker's Construct Smeltery recipes for The Aether Because Tinker's Construct is cool and they coded everything to use data packs, you will automatically get proportionally less metal from damaged items.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/tinkers-melting-the-aether
- Owner
- EliteMasterEric
- Published
- 2025-03-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-03-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15