What the mod does
Smelt as you mine
Drops with a matching recipe are smelted on the spot: raw ores → ingots,
cobblestone → stone, sand → glass. Uses smelting and
blasting recipes, including recipes for modded drops.
Mine a whole vein
Breaking one ore block clears connected blocks of the same type (up to 64 blocks). Durability accounts for every block broken, and Fortune applies to the drops.
Toggle smelting
Shift + Right-click turns smelting off; repeat to turn it back on. The state is stored on the pickaxe. Vein mining stays active.
Already enchanted
The recipe includes Efficiency II and Unbreaking II. The mod maintains them even on pickaxes obtained from the creative inventory or a command.
Silk Touch comes first
Silk Touch bypasses smelting, preserving the normal block drops instead of converting them into smelted items.
No configuration
No configuration file and no commands. Drop one jar into your
mods folder: the NeoForge and Forge builds need nothing besides the loader,
the Fabric build also requires Fabric API.
Crafting
Use three raw iron across the top, two sticks down the center, and two coal on either side of the upper stick.
iron
iron
iron
Result: smeltertools:smelter_pickaxe + components: minecraft:enchantments { minecraft:efficiency: 2, minecraft:unbreaking: 2 }
Controls
| Action | Input | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Mine ore | Left-click with the pickaxe | Clears the connected vein; matching drops are smelted when smelting is on |
| Disable smelting | Shift + Right-click | “Smelting disabled” above the hotbar; drops are no longer smelted |
| Enable smelting | Shift + Right-click again | “Smelting enabled” above the hotbar |
| Check the mode | Hover over the pickaxe | The tooltip shows “Smelting: on” or “Smelting: off” |
Versions and loaders
Four builds exist: three for Minecraft 1.21.1 — NeoForge, Forge and Fabric — and one for Minecraft 1.21.2 on NeoForge. Every other Minecraft version is planned, not released: the mod has to be recompiled against changed vanilla APIs, so a loader having a build for a game version does not mean a compatible mod build exists.
| Minecraft | Loader | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1.21.1 | NeoForge 21.1.266 | Built — Smelter Tools 1.0.0, Java 21 |
| 1.21.1 | Forge 52.1.21 | Built — starts on a dedicated Forge server |
| 1.21.1 | Fabric 0.16.14 + Fabric API | Built — starts on a dedicated Fabric server |
| 1.21.2 | NeoForge 21.2.1 | Built — starts on a dedicated NeoForge server |
| Other Minecraft versions | NeoForge / Forge / Fabric | Planned — not released; compatibility unverified |
Source code
Browse the released NeoForge 1.21.1 source and text resources. Java sources are included in every
build jar under
sources/ and in smeltertools-1.0.0-sources.jar.
The Forge and Fabric builds share the pickaxe class, recipe, model, texture and lang files; registration and
event handling are written per loader. The 1.21.2 build keeps its own adjusted copies of the item, recipe lookup
and crafting JSON, because vanilla moved tool tiers, recipe results and ingredient formats.
File contents are preserved as written, including Russian comments and translations.
License
MIT allows use, modification, redistribution and inclusion in modpacks, including closed-source projects. Keep the copyright and permission notice in all copies or substantial portions of the software. See the full LICENSE in the source browser.
Copyright (c) 2026 chern — Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software…
Support the mod
Smelter Tools is free and MIT-licensed, and the sources ship inside the jar. If the pickaxe saved you furnace time, you can back development with any amount, one-time or monthly. Donations go toward Forge and Fabric ports and new-version test builds.
Donate via PayPalThe link opens PayPal’s donation page with an amount field and a monthly option; the e-mail address of the author is not part of the link. Donors may be asked to sign in to PayPal — completing a payment without an account has not been verified, so treat card-only donations as best-effort.