ViOres
by Vo1odyamorT
ViOres replaces vanilla smelting with a system built around campfires and cauldrons, where the combination of stations sets the result of each recipe.
What it does
ViOres switches off vanilla smelting. Furnaces, blast furnaces and smokers stay craftable as furniture, but none of their smelting recipes remain. Items that used to pass through a furnace now pass through a campfire instead, and the mod handles the default furnace recipes for raw iron, raw copper, coal, charcoal and similar materials. Dropping an item on a campfire's cooking slot returns the finished material after a short wait.
Results depend on which station is built. A plain campfire with a cauldron covers the basic cases. Placing an empty cauldron above a lit regular campfire, then dropping ingredients underneath, yields a finished alloy after about 10 seconds, with a sound cue and particles. Gold needs ordinary fire underneath, and a soul campfire will not trigger the basic alloy station. The mod adds metallurgy stations for bronze, iron-copper composite, steel and other alloys, and the setup needs five stations, exactly what is needed to build one.
Key features
Campfire smelting
Ores and raw materials are processed on a lit campfire, replacing the furnace step of vanilla recipes.
Cauldron stations
An empty cauldron placed over a lit campfire becomes a station, and the fire type decides which alloy it produces.
Alloys
Bronze, steel, titanium and other alloys are made from combinations of ingredients on the stations.
Sounds and particles
Each finished process adds a sound cue and particles, along with custom mechanics for the stations.
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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
Age Of Metallurgy runs on Fabric and NeoForge only, requires client and server, is released under All rights reserved and is not open source, covering 1.21.1 – 26.3. Nice Campfires is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and covers 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 on the four loaders.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ViOres | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.9 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-08-28 |
| Age Of Metallurgy | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-12 |
| Nice Campfires | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Server required, client optional | 2025-04-08 |
Questions
Does ViOres need to be installed on the server?
Which game versions does ViOres cover?
Is ViOres available for Fabric and NeoForge?
In the catalog
ViOres is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Furnaces don't do much around here anymore. Need an ingot? Go find a campfire and a cauldron. ViOres switches off vanilla smelting entirely and replaces it with its own system built around campfires and cauldrons. The furnace, blast furnace and smoker are all still in the game and still craftable, but they're…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vi-ores
- Owner
- Vo1odyamorT
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
